MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
Making ice cream is a very personal business to John Klinke. “When I’m in a grocery store and I see someone pick up a half-gallon of our ice cream, I want to hug them,” said Klinke, 59, president of the family-owned Klinke Brothers Ice Cream Corp., as he watched containers of Angel Food praline pecan and cherry vanilla roll off the production line. His sons, Russell, 32, and Preston, 34, help him run the company, but make fun of him for occasionally trying to persuade shoppers to put a competitor’s product back in the freezer and pick up Angel Food or Klinke Bros.
50 years ago — 1968
County Assessor George C. LaManna moved to an easy victory in his bid for a third term yesterday, and John B. Maxwell, attorney and former legislator, had a slim lead last night over developer Tracy Rainey in a hotly contested race for the City of Memphis seat on the County Court. Sheriff William N. Morris Jr., winning a third two-year term, rolled over his only opponent, former Asst. City Atty. Dan H. Bell, by an almost 10-to-1 margin. Sheriff Morris will be entering his final term since sheriffs are prohibited from seeking a fourth term in succession. Without opposition, Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth Turner was elected to a six-year term as judge of the consolidated city-county Juvenile Court.
75 years ago — 1943
War correspondents are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the war in the Pacific. Says one: “Not only will we not beat the Japanese in 1943, we won’t beat them in 1944, and I’ll be surprised if the war ends before 1950.”
100 years ago — 1918
With most of the city and county precincts in, there is little doubt that the entire Crump-Walsh ticket was elected in yesterday’s balloting.
125 years ago — 1893
If you have not seen the ladies’ new walk, then you have something to live for. It has come in with the Victorian ruffles and the triple-tiered skirt and is known as the “corkscrew wiggle.” It replaces the “kangaroo droop” on the fashionable scene. The beflounced and ruffled damsel of 1893 can best be observed doing the new walk at the opera, at a ball or on a Sunday promenade. From head to toe, the whole body twists as she walks, and every flounce of her gown is set into a writhing twitter. This latest female eccentricity is said to have originated in Vienna and is truly worth seeing.