MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1995

Goals for Memphis board member Larry Papasan has been named chairman of the Goals for Memphis annual fundraising campaign. Papasan, president of Smith & Nephew Richards Inc., serves on the boards of Lemoyneowen College, the Mid-south Minority Purchasing Council and the Plough Foundation. He is also past chairman of the United Way of Greater Memphis and past president of the Memphis Kiwanis Club and Junior Achievement of Memphis. The annual campaign kicked off Jan. 12 and runs through March 31. This year's goal of $140,000 will come from local corporations, foundations and individuals. Goals for Memphis attempts to involve citizens in establishing and achieving goals for positive change in Memphis. In 1994 the group tackled the issues of race, education and Downtown development.

50 years ago — 1970

Children who enroll in nursery schools, kindergartens and first grades in Tennessee this fall will be required to show proof of vaccination against rubella, or German measles. Dr. William H. Armes, state deputy commissioner of public health, said yesterday the state health department ordered the action to try to head off an epidemic. Local health departments were notified this week of the amendment to the initial regulation, passed in 1967, which required that children be immunized against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, smallpox, polio and red measles.

75 years ago — 1945

Expansions made by the Memphis Park Commission during 1944, which included taking over of supervision of concessions at the Fairgrounds from Midsouth Fair Inc., placed the commission in the “big business” category, developments in the City Commission session yesterday indicate. The City Commission authorized a $550,000 budget for the Park Commission for 1945, which is $54,000 more than originally approved for the Park Commission last year.

100 years ago — 1920

Washington – Nationwide prohibition by constitutional amendment — the dream for years of those opposed to the sale of liquor — became effective at midnight last night, with the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the two governmental agencies entrusted with enforcement of this new law, ready to take drastic action against all violators.

125 years ago — 1895

The Board of St. Peter's Orphan Asylum yesterday elected the Rt. Rev. Bishop Byrne chairman after John K. Speed withdrew his name.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL The motor hotel addition to the Chisca Plaza Hotel, left , announced on Jan. 17, 1959, will require tearing out the two stores that extend from the hotel to the corner of Main and Pontotoc. The entire Chisca block is owned by J. Bayard Snowden and Robert Galloway Snowden, his son.