MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Everything fell for Harding Academy’s Clint Allen Saturday night, including two Shelby-metro three-point records. Allen broke the career threepoint record as he also set the singlegame three-point record, scoring 46 points in a 100-56 basketball victory over First Assembly Christian School at Harding. The 5-11 senior guard hit 14 three-pointers, bringing his career total to 268. Allen, who averages 17.6 points per game, was 15-of-24 from the field, including 9-of-11 three-pointers in the first half, when he broke the career three-point record of 262 set by Bartlett’s Brian Rankin last season. Rankin broke the previous record of 251 by former Treadwell standout and NBA all-star Anfernee Hardaway.
50 years ago — 1971
Sun-seekers in south Florida awakened yesterday to foot-long icicles, ice-encrusted bird baths and bonechilling winds. Thousands of New Yorkers flooded city offices with complaints of lack of heat, New Englanders bundled up against temperatures far below zero. The West, in contrast, was unseasonably mild. While tourists in Miami shivered in a record 35-degree chill and a bitter wind, early-morning readings in Montana were in the 40s and Thermal, Calif., had a balmy 63. Temperatures in central Florida’s citrus belt dipped below freezing for about six hours, but a low humidity and high wind that prevented frost from forming apparently averted major crop damage.
75 years ago — 1946
SAN FRANCISCO – Six members of Congress returned Sunday by plane from Honolulu after conducting hearings on Hawaii’s petition for statehood and said they would report Thursday to the full Committee on Territories in Washington. Rep. Henry D. Larcade Jr. (D., La.) said following the hearings that the subcommittee, of which he is chairman, “is convinced ... the people of the Territory of Hawaii have demonstrated ... their capacity to assume the responsibility of statehood.”
100 years ago — 1921
Inauguration of a fight for lower freight rates on low-grade hardwood lumber and adoption of resolutions pledging preference for American bottoms for export lumber were featured at the annual meeting of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association in Hotel Gayoso yesterday. About 250 lumber shippers attended the session.