MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1997

The yell ''I want my digital TV!'' hasn't rung out across the land yet, but it might within the next few years. Then again, it might not. Digital television is the first significant advancement for television pictures since the introduction of color television. What will you get when the TV world goes digital? Digital televisions will look different, for one thing. They will be wider than current TVS, and look more like small-scale movie screens. The pictures on those TVS will look different, also. The television screen will have more than twice the lines of resolution current TVS have, providing sharper, clearer pictures with no ghosts or shadows. Digital sound also will be sharper, more like CDS than albums. And some programming will be presented in high definition television, a digital process that provides even crisper pictures than a usual digital signal.

50 years ago — 1972

ATLANTA – The price tag on a $10 Confederate bill in a coin shop Wednesday: $15.

75 years ago — 1947

KOSCIUSKO, Miss. – In open defiance of union orders and pickets, telephone operators and linemen of the Kosciusko Exchange have returned to their jobs. Switchboard operators announced Friday morning they would immediately relieve the paralyzing effect of the telephone strike in Kosciusko. Shortly afterwards, 12 of the operators offered to resign from the union "which has gone too far."

100 years ago — 1922

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – City voters defeated a proposition to open moving picture theaters on Sunday by a vote of 1,898 for and 2,779 against.

125 years ago — 1897

DICKSON, Tenn. – Fire late yesterday destroyed the Dickson Foundry and Machine Shops.

COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES THE April 20, 1951: These members of the 4-H Club at Capleville School really had something to talk about. They have just been presented with a dozen baby chicks by the Agriculture Committee of the Memphis Kiwanis Club, which annually distributes 10,000 chicks along with enough feed to get them off to a good start as future fryers and egg producers. Admiring a handful of the chicks just passed out by A.C. Peterson, right, member of the Kiwanis Agriculture Committee, are, from left, Wanda Wilson, Dixie Connor and Ann Miller.