MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1999

Grandpa was a Stubby. Dad was a Stubby. And so from birth, Stubby was a Stubby. “I had no choice,” says Richard “Stubby” Clapp, who at 5-8 lives up to his name. Just four games into his life as a Memphis Redbird, we know our Stubby is a little guy who plays big. Stubby hit a home run the other night, but that’s not what we mean. He plays big because he believes big, because he loves the game big.

50 years ago — 1974

Attorney Lewis R. Donelson III’S proposal for a 408-room Hilton Hotel was

recommended yesterday by a joint citycouncil committee studying convention hotel construction. The hotel would rise at the northeast corner of Main and Market and cost between $15 million and $20 million. The selection is subject to approval by the City Council and the County Court.

75 years ago — 1949

A delegation of 50 emissaries of King Cotton returned to Memphis last night convinced that Mississippi will be wellrepresented at the 1949 Cotton Carnival, May 8-15. During a goodwill bus tour into the Mississippi Delta yesterday,

the Memphis group received rousing receptions and an evidenced interest in the welfare of cotton at 10 neighboring communities.

100 years ago — 1924

After sending a message to his lieutenants in the Chamber of Commerce membership campaign to go ahead with their work just as if nothing had intervened in their plans, J.P. Norfleet, chairman of the working capital programme, went to the Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital at 3:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon to undergo an operation for appendicitis.

BARNEY SELLERS/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL April 12, 1953: Whitehaven High School and Whitehaven Elementary School are seen in this aerial photograph. Elvis Presley Boulevard is visible running diagonally at bottom portion of image. Whitehaven Baptist Church is seen at far right center. The photograph is taken looking toward the northwest.