MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1997
Barbara Pretti, 60, enjoyed retirement, but there was something she missed more. Money. The former Holiday Inn products manager wasn’t looking for something to match her old salary, just a job to make ends meet. Though she was nursing a broken ankle last year, she decided to hobble into Senior Services to find a job. Pretti had never been in sales, but the counselors at Senior Services felt she’d like that type of job. They were right. Davis is working as a sales representative for Stacey Map Corp., the business that sells Handy Map street maps. Pretti is part of the graying trend in America’s workforce. More people at or near retirement age are deciding to forgo their lazy sunshine years and continue the daily work grind. More people are living to retirement age and beyond, according to John Carroll, vice president of marketing development at Senior Services.
50 years ago — 1972
The 1972 Cotton Carnival yesterday began to shift into high gear for its grand weekend finale. The highlight of yesterday’s Carnival activities was the crowning of the king and queen of the Cotton Makers’ Jubilee last night at the Chisca Plaza Motor Hotel. High on the list of events today is the 35th annual Mid-south Mayors’ Luncheon. Ninetyfive mayors and their wives are expected to attend the lunch, which follows a Mayors’ Day Breakfast aboard the Memphis Queen on the Mississippi River.
75 years ago — 1947
EL PASO – A wild horse rode the heavens between Mexico City and El Paso. The crazed animal, attempting to kick a hole in the side of a four-engine cargo ship, terrorized the plane crew for two hours before the craft made an emergency landing here.
100 years ago — 1922
Tyree Taylor, confessed bribe taker,
conspirator and grafter, is asking the United States to pardon the sins he committed against society back in the winter of 1918-19. So far as present information goes, the former deputy marshal who made a huge success of his scheme of levying tribute on whisky shipments floated down the river from Caruthersville and landed in Memphis, has not yet
filed his formal application with Attorney General Daugherty.
125 years ago — 1897
The annual meeting of the St. Francis Levee Board will be held today in West Memphis. H.P. Rodgers is a candidate for re-election as president; Captain Harry N. Pharr is the Board’s chief engineer.