MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
NEW YORK — A lawyer for radical cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to many suspects in the World Trade Center bombing, filed notice Monday that she will appeal a government deportation order. The attorney, Barbara Nelson, said she expects the Second Court of Appeals to hear arguments in the case in about two months. A lower court judge had ruled last week that the government acted properly in ordering the cleric deported for allegedly lying on his immigration papers in 1990.
50 years ago — 1968
The Tennessee Aeronautics Commission has approved a grant of $56,000 for hangars and ramps at Shelby County Airport, County Court Chairman Charles Baker announced yesterday. Mr. Baker said the money is 50 per cent of an estimated $112,000 cost for construction of a long hangar which would house 10 private airplanes, enlarging the existing parking ramp for aircraft, and adding to the auto parking area. The airport, at Fite Road and Raleigh-Millington Road, will be almost doubled in its parking and hangar capacity by the project.
75 years ago — 1943
The Memphis Little Theatre’s annual membership drive will open Aug. 31 at the Variety Club. Last years’s drive netted 1,625 new members. M.A. Lightman is president of the theater. Drive chairmen are Mrs. Rudolph Jones and Miss Josephine Allensworth.
100 years ago — 1918
NASHVILLE — Lt. John W. Overton of this city was killed in action in the Battle of the Marne July 19, according to news just received by his parents. He was the champion one- and two-mile runner of the world. Mr. Overton, a first cousin of Will T. Overton of Memphis, was namesake and descendant of John Overton, one of Memphis’ founders.
125 years ago — 1893
WASHINGTON — Tennessee postmasters named today were I.J. Blount at Maple Creek, in Carroll County, and Mrs. I.M. Crawford at Raleigh, Shelby County.