Passerby stops assault of teen

Eighty-five Memphis girls boarded a Frisco train on the morning of Aug. 15, 1955, for two wonderful weeks of Fresh Air Fund camping at the YMCA camp at Mammoth Springs, Ark. Parents and friends crowded the station platform to wish the girls well. The Fresh Air Fund camp is sponsored by The Commercial Appeal. city hall were delivered to the City Commission by architect A. L. Aydelott yesterday with a request that they be promptly approved in order that bids on the project can be asked. The commission delayed action until Mayor Henry Loeb, who now is vacationing, has an opportunity to inspect the plans. The six-story building’s exterior appearance will be similar to that of the new Federal Building. It will be built in the block south of the Federal Building, bounded by Main, Front, Adams and Washington. two are college graduates, six have two years of college education and three, one year. Four of the 76 firemen appointed in the same period have college degrees.

Memphis police reported that the sexual assault of a teenage girl in South Memphis on Tuesday morning was halted when a passerby intervened.

Officers responded to South Main and South Parkway about 7:15 a.m., where they were told that a 17-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted while walking to an apartment complex in the area.

The assault ended when a passerby stopped to intervene and the suspect fled, according to police reports.

Officers located a 25-year-old suspect in the area shortly thereafter and arrested him.

Charges had not been filed in the attack. Further details were not released, and an investigation was ongoing.

Scott Carroll