Ready to march 25 years ago: 1990
SEPT. 1
A firm hired Friday will conduct the first-ever private recruitment of candidates for president of Memphis State University. The Board of Regents also appointed a search committee Friday that will hold its first meeting on Sept. 14. Vice Chancellor Harry Wagner said the board expects to hire a new president by March to replace Dr. Thomas Carpenter, who plans to retire next spring when he turns 65.
50 years ago: 1965
Increased demand for supplies because of the Vietnam situation is keeping Defense Depot Memphis “going full steam,” Col. Shelby L. Gillette, depot commander, reported yester- day. Colonel Gillette said about 200 persons have been added to the workforce in the past two months, making a total of about 1,800. They are classified as temporary employees but are working full time, he said. The depot on Airways operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
75 years ago: 1940
Trial bus service to Highland Heights and Berclair will begin this morning with 35-passenger buses operating as an extension of the Glenview-Faxon line that ends at University and Tutwiler. Also beginning this morning, gas-bus service will take the place of trolleys on the Walker line, the Street Car Co. announced yesterday.
100 years ago: 1915
Within two degrees of the coolest morning ever known in August, Memphis shivered yesterday in a combination of straw hats, Palm Beach clothes, overcoats, woolens and heavy wraps despite the bright sunshine. It dropped to 55 degrees here yesterday morning, only two degrees higher than the record, causing fires to be built in most stoves and grates in Memphis homes.
125 years ago: 1890
On the request of Dr. Rogers of the Health Department, the Legislative Council has passed a sanitary law regulating water closets in new houses. Hereafter, no water closet shall connect with a bedroom or sitting room or open within three feet of one. All such closets from now on must be ventilated through the roof and have a window at least two by six feet.