MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1999

What started as an academic study at the University of Memphis is on its way to becoming a line of products to benefit athletes and casual exercisers. Dr. Robert Klesges has been awarded a patent based on his discovery that athletes lose calcium when they sweat. The result can be lower bone density and higher likelihood of stress fractures.

50 years ago — 1974

Wayne Yates officially accepted the job of head basketball coach at Memphis State University yesterday morning

and then allowed himself very little time to savor his new role at "the greatest basketball school in the United States." "It's time to get on the road and get things done," the 36-year-old Yates said. The Commercial Appeal had learned late Monday night that Yates would be elevated from assistant coach to fill the vacancy created by Gene Bartow's resignation last Saturday.

75 years ago — 1949

Somewhere in that far-off astral realm where all good captains go, Capt. John Cannon, who skippered the Steamer Rob't E. Lee in her historymaking

New Orleans-st. Louis race with the Steamer Natchez 79 years ago, probably was chuckling to himself last night. And Capt. Cannon had a right to smile behind his thick black beard. For the Federal Barge Lines' Harry Truman, the most modern of the Mississippi River's modern towboats, had failed to beat the record his romantic old sidewheeler set in 1870.

100 years ago — 1924

Mrs. Samuel Preston Davis, president of the Daughters of 1812, arrived in Memphis today to be a guest of Mrs. Homer Sloan of Union Avenue.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES March 13, 1968: For the third year in a row, Henry Loeb appeared at Central High School to meet and talk with students. This time, he appeared as their mayor. There weren't any babies around to kiss, but Loeb found plenty of hands to shake, especially those of future voters.