MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
BALTIMORE — While President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton promoted the benefits of health care reform here Thursday, administration officials in Washington admitted that the President’s plan would raise premiums for 40 percent of Americans who now have insurance. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala told the Senate Finance Committee that the increases would range from $100 to $500 a year. Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) warned of the political consequences.
50 years ago — 1968
Criminal Court Judge W. Preston Battle yesterday ordered witnesses in the James Earl Ray murder case not to read, listen to or watch news accounts of the case, beginning when testimony starts in the trial. Meanwhile, despite Judge Battle’s order to control pre-trial publicity, a national magazine, Look, presented yet another version of a possible conspiracy to kill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the Look first-of-a-series titled “The Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King,” author William Bradford Huie says Ray wrote in notes to him from his Shelby County Jail cell that he was tempted out of a Canadian hideout before the killing by a $12,000 offer to make a mystery mission to Birmingham.
75 years ago — 1943
“Women in War Work,” will be the theme tomorrow of the annual Josephine Circle charity luncheon. Among those in skits will be the Misses Peggy Rush, Ina Barton, Edith Snowden, Natalie Latham and Mary Clayton Martin, Mrs. James W. Moore, Mrs. Lovick P. Miles Jr. and Mrs. W. Groom Leftwich.
100 years ago — 1918
Grover McCormick yesterday resigned his position as assistant to the attorney general to enter officers’ training camp at Camp Zachary Taylor in Kentucky. This is the second time that Mr. McCormick has resigned an official position to enter military service. During the Mexican trouble, he was assistant city attorney but resigned to go to the border as color sergeant of the Chickasaw Guards.
125 years ago — 1893
For the second time the America’s Cup defender, Vigilant, has defeated the British challenger, Valkyrie. The second race between the yachts was sailed today on the course from Sandy Hook. In the finish, the American craft was three miles ahead and greeted by cheers of thousands.