MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Amanda Walls jogs three times a week on a trail in the Sea Isle Park in her East Memphis community. “It’s important for people to have something to do,” Walls said. “Going to the park is also a family thing.” The Parks Commission wants to examine the usage of the city’s community centers, golf courses and parks such as Sea Isle to determine if more services are needed. “Based on what would be the ideal thing for us to have and what we have now, you say, ‘What do we have to do to get from where we are now to where we would like to be?’ ” said Parks Commission board chairman John Malmo. The answer is expected to come from a $200,000 master plan on parks and centers requested in the division’s $10.3 million capital improvement budget proposal. The master plan also could settle a lingering question over whether the city will try to purchase the privately owned Whitehaven Golf Course.
50 years ago — 1971
The University Club is going to be turned into a miniature Disneyland for the club’s Cotton Carnival party Friday night, always one of the best parties of the week. Norbert Barruel, the manager of the club, said he has ordered many great-looking props from Disneyland in California. The party, a supper dance, will be out on the tennis courts as usual. It’s in honor the club royalty, Princess Lane Wilson and Prince Tom Wellford.
75 years ago — 1946
Methodist ministers from six states, representing churches which did not join in the merger of Northern and Southern Methodist churches in 1939, formed a new church to be known as the Evangelical Methodist Church here last night. The church will attempt to bring together the various fundamental, independent Methodist groups throughout the nation, leaders said. The meeting here represented about 3,000 church members with a “potential membership” of 500,000. 100 years ago — 1921 WASHINGTON – Unless development of Alaska is stimulated, depopulation will reduce its inhabitants to Eskimos and Native Americans, J.L.
Mcpherson, a civil engineer who has spent 23 years in the territory declared today before the House territories committee. He urged passage of Chairman Curry’s bill to create a board of five members to administer affairs of the territory. Despite its wealth in natural resources, Mr. Mcpherson said the population of Alaska is less than in 1910 and at that time was less than in 1900.