MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Police arrested a reputed drug lord who played host to Michael Jackson and Spike Lee when they shot a music video in a Rio slum. The 24-member special police unit arrested Marcio Amaro de Oliveira on Sunday in the 13,000-resident slum, the newspaper Jornal do Brasil reported. Jackson and Lee came to Dona Marta on Feb. 11 to tape a video sequence for Jackson's song about poverty, "They Don't Care About Us." Rio politicians complained that the project drew bad publicity. Police fumed over reports that the film crew paid the slum's kingpin to provide security. Lee said producers paid ''somebody'' for permission to film in Dona Marta, but said he didn't know if that person was a drug trafficker.
50 years ago — 1971
What's his goal? Vice President Agnew, repeatedly needled about his wayward golf shots, threatened yesterday to take up basketball. Arriving in Indianapolis, to address a conference on revenue sharing, he was handed a box from the fifth grade of Wilbur Wright School at New Castle. It contained golf balls, marshmallows and a note: "Marshmallows for Indiana; golf balls elsewhere." But Agnew had another game in mind. He pulled a basketball from behind the podium and asked, "Anyone for basketball?"
75 years ago — 1946
Carrying flares and shouting "We want football," 200 Memphis State students last night again protested the no-football policy announced by President Jennings B. Sanders. Interrupting the dance after the Southwestern-memphis State basketball game, the students marched from the gymnasium to President Sanders' home on the campus demanding that he appear and make a statement on his policy. After several unsuccessful attempts were made to rouse the president, the crowd marched to the girls' dormitory with cries for Dr. Nellie Angel Smith, dean of women, to appear. Dr. Smith declined to speak.
100 years ago — 1921
Within the next 24 hours Memphis and the entire South will be in the grip of a cold wave, according to last night's forecast. The temperature is expected to drop to as low as it has gone this winter. During last night the snowstorm, which for 48 hours has gripped the southland, was expected to continue, followed by sleet. Sunday is expected to be fair, although the cold wave will continue.
There is nothing so startling in the present weather. But conditions prevailing before the snowstorm and cold wave were unusual and the change from spring-like temperatures may cost the southland heavily in the loss of fruit. The snowstorm was expected to be beneficial to spring crops.