MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Piece by piece, Mayor W.W. Herenton is putting together a campaign that, five months from the city election, is beginning to resemble a juggernaut. He plans fundraisers in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville and Little Rock to help build a campaign fund of up to $500,000. He has the solid support of major corporate leaders. He believes most black voters, who remain a clear majority of the city’s electorate, continue to back him. Herenton said in an interview that he is confident he will hold his current support through the election.
50 years ago — 1970
Opposing student groups distributed literature on the Memphis State University campus yesterday in preparation for a referendum today in which students will be asked to voice their opinions about U.s./asian policies and the future of the Reserve Officer Training Corps on campus. The voting, which grew out of proposals made last week by a self-styled Student Steering Committee after memorial services for four Kent State University students, will be on three questions: “Do you support Dr. C.C. Humphreys’ request to the state board of education to make ROTC voluntary?” “Do you agree with U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia?" And a third question asks for a statement of preferences in Asian policy.
75 years ago — 1945
As enthusiastic as the boys who will put on the show, members of the Kiwanis Club Boy Scout Committee met Friday at The Peabody to discuss progress in plans for the Boy Scout Circus at Crump Stadium June 1. “This circus will be the biggest event in Chickasaw Council’s history,” Gordon Morris, Scout executive, told the group.
100 years ago — 1920
London – The fashion of cutting women’s hair short is waning and scores of short-haired women are searching West End hairdressing shops for locks to replace those shorn a few months ago during the “bobbing” craze. This has led to an abnormal demand for hair of all colors. There is some irony in the fact that many London women who paid five or six shillings a few months ago to have their locks shorn are now spending anxious hours searching shops in a futile matching-up endeavor.
125 years ago — 1895
A Republican journal grows cheerful over the thought that the solid South is broken and congratulates the Southern people upon the evidence that they are breaking away from passions and prejudices that have held them in bondage. This sort of talk from a Republican organ is cool impudence. We are aware of the undesirable consequences of a one-party system, but it is a necessary evil, a matter of self-preservation. And as for the prejudice, the Northern people vote their prejudice against the South more vehemently than any prejudice is expressed by Southerners.