Mayor calls it a day

25 years ago: 1988

Brother Theodore Drahmann, whose contract as president of Christian Brothers College has been extended through 1992, will be honored tonight at a reception. About 800 people, including County Mayor Bill Morris and City Mayor Dick Hackett, are expected to attend the reception that begins at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Brother Theodore’s current term would have ended next year, but the board of trustees voted in June to extend his contract. He has been president since 1980. The 62-year-old Minnesota native will be honored for his years of community service.

50 years ago: 1963

Mid-South Fair officials, their backs to the wall in a last- ditch fight to relocate the multi-milliondollar football stadium away from its livestock exposition area, underscored a parking paradox yesterday. The only hard-surfaced parking area on the entire Fairgrounds is at the proposed stadium site. If the City Commission sticks to its decision, all stadium parking on the Fairgrounds will be on sodded areas only. Howard Tayloe, member of the Mid-South Fair Association’s board of directors, yesterday proposed the stadium be moved about 1, 500 feet south of the present location, into a triangle bounded by Southern, Hollywood and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks.

75 years ago: 1938

Leslie M. Stratton Sr. has been named general chairman of the annual Community Fund campaign for the fourth consecutive year, Edward F. Barry, president, announced yesterday.

100 years ago: 1913

Open air services at Court Square last night were attended by several hundred worshippers. The Rev. C.M. Collins, pastor of the Court Avenue Presbyterian Church, conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. H.S. Johnson, the Rev. William Crowe, the Rev. J.H. Ehlers and the Rev. Ross Lynn. Mrs. T.R. Easley was the soloist, Miss Blanche Evans, organist, Henry Mullen, violinist and Cornelius Whitaker, cornetist.

125 years ago: 1888

Chief of Police Davis has been entrusted with a two-month-old boy and a six-month-old girl to be disposed of to proper persons.

Aug. 13, 1946 — Memphis Mayor Walter Chandler, who led the city through World War II, finished a term of five years and nine months when his resignation became effective at midnight on this date. Mr. Chandler returned to private law practice with his...