MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration is planning to use the economic meeting in Tokyo this week to announce new aid to Russia for economic reforms. Clinton has been personally telephoning world leaders in a last-ditch effort to assemble an aid package that could be announced this week. The $500 million that the allies have agreed to provide includes a $125 million commitment from the United States, $120 million from Japan and $80 million from Germany, administration officials said. The balance of the contributions is expected to come from Britain, Italy, France and Canada, whose leaders will all be present at this week’s meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
50 years ago — 1968
NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into an order for the purchase of a three volume set on the American presidency by a man who gave his name as Eric Starvo Galt, an alias used by James Earl Ray, accused as the killer of Dr. Martin King Jr. A typewritten order for the boxed set, The American Heritage History of the Presidents of the United States,” was received late last April — presumably after the name “Galt” had been publicized — by the Fulfillment Corporation of America in Marion, Ohio. The order was processed by computers and the books were sent to the return address, the Lorraine Motel of Memphis, Tenn., where Dr. King was shot on April 4. The books were confiscated by the FBI.
75 years ago — 1943
The sixth season of the Memphis Open Air Theatre will get underway at 8:30 tonight at the Overton Park Shell. The opening presentation will be “Spring Maid,” starring Yola Galli and William Horne.
100 years ago — 1918
LITTLE ROCK — The state constitutional convention adopted a resolution yesterday giving women equal suffrage and all other political rights, including the right to hold office. The vote was 66 to 3.
125 years ago — 1893
From an editorial — It is a most reassuring sign of the times that many colleges and universities have thrown their doors open to women for the first time this year. Yesterday the trustees of the University of Alabama voted to admit women to the sophomore class and above. We may disagree with the wisdom of coeducation, but prejudice against women must pass if they are to have a full share in the blessings of this generation.