MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1995

New York – Two champions of the political left and right teamed Thursday to denounce Time Warner Inc. for selling rap music whose lyrics they say celebrate the rape, torture and murder of women. Former Education secretary William Bennett, now co-director of the conservative group Empower America, and C. Delores Tucker, of the National Political Caucus of Black Women, said they will release a television advertisement urging Time Warner music subsidiaries and affiliates to clean up the material they market.

50 years ago — 1970

Memphis State University’s College of Business Administration has joined the select group that bears the “accredited” label of the Collegiate Schools of Business. The school is now one of 147 such programs accredited in the country, among more than 900 schools of business. Dr. H.J. Markle is dean of the business college.

75 years ago — 1945

Military and civilian personnel will be limited to six packages of cigarettes per week, beginning June 3, in accordance with a rationing plan outlined for sales at military installations in Army regulations received by Memphis Army Service Forces Depot yesterday.

100 years ago — 1920

Mayor Paine told a meeting of doctors and prominent citizens at the University of Tennessee Medical School yesterday that he intends to find an expert to head the board of health. Someone who would not only be a doctor, but a sanitary engineer. We could run malaria out of the South in three years, typhoid in five and tuberculosis in 15 years, if money is spent on public health, the mayor said. 125 years ago — 1895

The generous treatment Gov. Mckinley has met on his Southern speaking tour has impressed on him as he has never been impressed, he said, and his wife has been treated as a queen. The governor should not delude himself, however, in the belief that the same Southern hospitality will be shown him at the ballot box.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL The zoo was crowded on May 19, 1954, with visitors from throughout the Mid-south, many of them youngsters who already had started their summer vacation from school. One of the main zoo attractions was Mae, the giraffe, who craned her neck to find out what Jimmy Wayne Crabtree, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Estle Crabtree of Saffell, Ark., was holding in his hand.