MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Kansas City, Mo. – As they passed one another in the catacombs of Kemper Arena Thursday, the tall young man in droopy red shorts slapped hands with the ones in baggy blue britches. They laughed and bantered and had fun … schoolkids at recess, heading out to shoot some hoops. Tonight they get serious. The Arkansas Razorbacks (29-6), the ones in red, will tangle with the Memphis Tigers (24-9), who prefer blue, at 7 tonight in the semifinals of the NCAA basketball tournament’s Midwest regional.
50 years ago — 1970
Washington – President Nixon sent the first of 2,500 unarmed federal troops into New York City to help cope with mountains of mail Monday after declaring the fiveday-old strike a national emergency. “The survival of a government based on law,” is the crucial issue in the illegal strike, Nixon said. For the moment troops were being sent only to New York, although the president said he would not hesitate to use them elsewhere if necessary.
75 years ago — 1945
The City of Memphis, in testimony given by City Commissioner D.C. Miller before the Commerce Committee of the Senate, has pledged to match funds in a gigantic $3 million postwar Memphis Municipal Airport program, which, if carried out, would provide a field large enough to accommodate “the largest airliners contemplated by manufacturers at the present time and in perfect safety and in proper sequence.”
100 years ago — 1920
Constantinople – This city has been occupied by allied forces under Gen. Sir George Milne of the British Army. A long looked-for military demonstration by the Allies against Turkey, it was carried out without incident.
125 years ago — 1895
J.L. Adams, whose shop is on the corner of Main and Broadway, has come into possession through circumstances too complicated to recount of the giant mummy that was exhibited at Jackson Mound Park last summer. Mr. Adams keeps it in back of his shop in a box with a glass top and will show it to all visitors, of which there are quite a few.