MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Washington – Marlboro Country got a little smaller Tuesday. Philip Morris Inc. agreed to stop placing cigarette ads in stadiums and arenas where they can be telecast during pro sports events. Government lawyers claimed the signs were designed to circumvent the 1971 ban on televised cigarette advertising. The company denied it violated or intended to violate the ban. But it agreed to move ads for Marlboros and its other cigarette brands away from the sidelines, player entrances and other areas routinely televised during pro baseball, football, basketball and hockey games.
50 years ago — 1970
Unless Congress does something between now and Nov. 2, the Delta Queen, the last real packet on the Mississippi river system, gets the ax from Uncle Sam. The reason is ridiculous. A government agency has decreed that the “safety-at-sea” regulations, which outlaw any ship carrying more than 50 overnight passengers if it is not built entirely out of steel, must apply to river boats as well. For four years the Delta Queen has been operating under a temporary congressional reprieve. The Queen’s hull is steel. But its superstructure, in the tradition of river boats, is wood.
75 years ago — 1945
Lansing, Mich. – A Japanese bomb balloon landed in Michigan several months ago and was found before injury resulted, Capt. Donald Leonard, director of the Michigan Office of Civil Defense, announced Wednesday night. Leonard said it could not be disclosed where the balloon landed.
100 years ago — 1920
Chicago – Frank Lowden, Calvin Coolidge and Will Hayes are the most probable presidential candidates being considered by the Republican National Convention.