MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1993

BIRMINGHAM — Tied, and then tongue-tied. So it was for the University of Tennessee and University of Alabama football teams, who played a 17-17 game Saturday afternoon then struggled with their emotions. Did they feel good? Bad? A little bit or a lot of both? “When you tie, that’s almost as bad as a loss,” said Volunteers quarterback Heath Shuler, “but not as bad as a loss.” No. 10ranked Tennessee could feel good that its seven-game losing streak to Alabama — No. 2 ranked and defending national champions — had ended. But the circumstances — allowing a touchdown and two-point conversion in the game’s final half minute — left the Vols frustrated.

50 years ago — 1968

The National Institutes of Health announced yesterday the development of a vaccine that effectively prevents German measles, the primary cause of birth defects in the United States. It was announced that the widest field trial yet of a vaccine against rubella (German measles) has shown the vaccine to be 90 per cent effective. As a result, NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said children in nine United States communities will soon take part in further field trials. The effort is an attempt to avert a recurrence of the 1964-65 German measles epidemic which produced an estimated 30,000 abnormal pregnancies in the U.S.

75 years ago — 1943

John McGregor has been named to head the commercial division of the Memphis and Shelby County War Chest and Welfare Fund. On his committee are Wallace Johnston, Russell Reeves, T.R. Douthit, Martin Zook, John Murdock, Frank Grout, Virgil Aldridge, Morrie Moss, James Davenport and Ira Lichterman.

100 years ago — 1918

WASHINGTON — President Woodrow Wilson has responded to German Chancellor Maximilian’s peace proposal by demanding that the Germans withdraw immediately from all invaded soil as a show of good faith before peace talks begin.

125 years ago — 1893

The Appeal-Avalanche is receiving many condolences from its esteemed compatriots in the journalistic world. Along with our sincere thanks we have given them assurance that there is no cause for grief. Their concern arose when it was announced that our newspaper has executed a $54,000 mortgage and canceled $200,000 worth of bonds. However, we shall retire the mortgage in a short time.

APPEAL FILES THE COMMERCIAL Jack The Taylor works just behind the Big Top at the circus, but he never bothers to go inside. His real name is William J. Whikehart and he’s the man who repairs all the costumes and uniforms of the men in Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was in town, doing his thing with the circus on 17 Oct 1950.