MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1994 Los Angeles – Prosecutors opened their murder case against O.J. Simpson in a contentious preliminary hearing Thursday, as his lawyers sought to suppress a bloodstained glove and other evidence police found at his house a few hours after his ex-wife and a male friend were stabbed to death. Police reported in an affidavit finding the glove, which they said closely matched a glove discovered outside the condominium 2 miles away where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed on June 12. They also found bloodstains on Simpson’s driveway and a nearby curb, in his master bedroom and bathroom, and on the driver’s door and seat, floor, steering wheel and instrument panel of his Ford Bronco. 50 years ago — 1969 A $12 million Whitehaven apartment development of more than 1,000 units, the largest in the history of Shelby County, is planned on 57 acres at the southeast corner of Millbranch and Winchester west of Memphis International Airport. The development will be called Windsor community and will be in the “semi-luxury” class, Morris H. Mills said last night. 75 years ago — 1944 Descending in force on Lauderdale County, Tenn., yesterday, West Tennessee law enforcement officers and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation smashed a tire, tube and battery “black market,” which had been fed the past 10 months by thefts from interstate shipments of the Memphis branch of Railway Express Agency Inc. 100 years ago — 1919 Washington – Daylight Saving Time, inaugurated as a war measure, was voted out of existence by an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress Tuesday. The ruling becomes effective at the end of this summer’s daylight saving period, Oct. 26. 125 years ago — 1894 We are glad to announce to our readers that with the newspaper consolidation that takes effect this morning, Edward Ward Carmack, one of the finest young writers the South has ever produced, formerly editor of The Commercial, takes the reins this morning of what is destined to be the greatest newspaper in the South.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL Rufus Thomas performs at the WDIA Starlite Revue at the Mid-south Coliseum on July 1, 1972. Thomas roused the audience of 12,000 with his performance.