MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1997
Dan Campbell, general manager of the WKNO-FM radio stations for the past nine years, is leaving next month for a similar job in Wilmington, N.C. Campbell, 49, has presided over growth at WKNO, which offers a mix of classical music, news and entertainment from public radio sources. During his tenure, he signed on three satellite stations in Senatobia, Miss.; Jackson, Tenn., and Dyersburg, Tenn. Income has nearly quadrupled, from $286,000 to $1.1 million a year, and the cumulative weekly audience has doubled, to 100,000 people. Campbell also brought a number of public radio programs to Memphis for live performances. Radio humorist Garrison Keillor has been here three times. Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know? has been here once, as has the financial-advice program Sound Money.
50 years ago — 1972
NEW YORK – “For the first time in his professional career,” Bill Russell, the astute analyst, was saying a few days ago, “Bill Bradley is playing like he played in college.” Although it's normally an insult to accuse any professional of performing like an amateur, Russell's words were laced with admiration and his meaning was unmistakable. It especially hit those Bradley adherents who could remember his campus heroics. Some even had been wistfully yearning for him to give them some instant replays as a pro.
75 years ago — 1947
NEW YORK – It was established officially Thursday that a 1943 copper penny will not buy a new Ford car. C.J. Seyffer, Northeastern regional manager for Ford, said the company had been swamped with thousands of phone calls (despite the strike), letters and telegrams by people wanting to exchange a 1943 copper penny for a new car. He said he was at loss to explain how the rumor started but said it was nationwide. Seyffer pointed out that no copper pennies were minted in 1943 anyway.
100 years ago — 1922
Competent married women teachers in the Memphis schools will be retained, regardless of the extent of any income other than their salary as teachers. A desire to obtain a man principal who could administer corporal punishment if necessary to obtain discipline, was voiced in the resolution preferring charges against Mrs. Frances C. Landis, principal of the A.B. Hill school. There the chief developments of the maelstrom into which the city board of education was plunged last night and in which the members of the board took little part.
125 years ago — 1897
BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. – Buffalo gnats are reported killing a great many livestock in Tippah County.