MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
The season of fun in the sun has arrived for most students, but not for the city school board. In their own brand of summer school, board members and school administrators will pull out their notebooks and pencils at a board meeting today to begin fine-tuning plans that could result in several changes for students, parents and teachers next school year. Topping the agenda will be a review of plans to partially carry out recommendations for curbing school violence. Board members will review a report on how the school district will bolster parental and community involvement in school decision-making.
50 years ago — 1968
KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee will be reorganized with a central administrative staff and chancellors at each of four campuses, the UT Board of Trustees announced Thursday. The board also announced a 104million-dollar expansion to be completed in 1973 and commended UT students for “especially praiseworthy” behavior during a year when students caused serious disruptions at other major institutions. The board warned that conduct that disrupts the educational process will not be tolerated at the University of Tennessee.
75 years ago — 1943
WASHINGTON — Bargaining between the United Mine Workers and operators of coal mines was unsuccessful yesterday and, as the strike truce expired, a general work stoppage by 500,000 workers began.
100 years ago — 1918
WAYNESBORO, Miss. — The district Methodist conference met here yesterday and heard Bishop DuBose deliver several stirring discourses. A resolution was passed “severely condemning all motion pictures” as the most insidious, dangerous and demoralizing institution in the land.
125 years ago — 1893
One of the most interesting conferences to be held this summer in connection with the World’s Fair in Chicago will be the conference on aerial navigation. There have been many new experiments in the last few years which may lead to the development of a flying machine.