MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Nine years in the making, technology that would give Americans supersharp TV pictures and Cd-quality sound stepped out of the lab in its first broadcast Monday. Using a special transmitter, CBS affiliate KLAS broadcast in high definition, a digital format developed specifically for U.S. television. KLAS viewers continued to get their regular programming in the existing analog format. But those at the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention here got to look at the super sharp TV. Broadcast engineers gave it rave reviews. Westinghouse Electric Corp. chairman Michael Jordan called the broadcast ''an important technical step and an important symbolic step'' toward making high definition a reality for TV viewers.
50 years ago — 1971
HOLLYWOOD - George C. Scott, who scorned the Academy Awards as contrived and degrading, was named best actor of 1970 Thursday night for his powerful portrayal of a fighting World War II general in "Patton." He has said that if they sent him an Oscar, he'd send it back. The academy said the golden statuette will be held for him if he wants it.
75 years ago — 1946 WASHINGTON – Housewives crowded into Capitol corridors Monday demanding that the Office of Price Administration be continued without crippling amendments. The women, gathered from many states, presented to members of Congress a petition one of their leaders described as three city blocks long, bearing an estimated 1,000,000 signatures asking for a full year's new lease on life for price controls.
100 years ago — 1921
NEW YORK - Magistrate Corrigan decreed today that a barber who presented a bill of $6.15 to a customer desiring only a shave should spend five days in the workhouse. Harry Rose, the barber, tried to justify his charge by saying he had given the complainant a haircut, shave, shampoo, massage and "steams" and had liberally anointed him with tonics and aromatic waters. "No more fines for you fellows," broke in the court, "the limit of the law is what you'll get."