MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Shelby County Mayor Jim Rout will announce plans today to build a 258acre recreational complex in southeast Shelby County that will include 16 regulation soccer fields and a 5,000-seat tournament stadium. The stadium could host the University of Memphis men's and women's soccer teams next fall. Michael Rose, chairman of the Promus Hotel Corporation, and Rout are scheduled to speak at the press conference, which will be held at the Shelby County Mayor's Office. They will discuss the funding and a timetable for the initial phase of the project. Rose is making an undisclosed commitment. Not only would the addition of the soccer fields facilitate hosting large youth tournaments — and provide a substantial economic impact — they would provide a showcase for the U of M soccer program.
50 years ago — 1971
BILOXI, Miss. – Independent oil operators representing about 20 state and regional trade groups voted Sunday to ask President Nixon's Price Commission to authorize higher prices for crude oil. The resolution passed by the liaison committee of Cooperating Oil and Gas Associations did not mention a specific figure but was adopted after advice that a special study indicates Texas prices will have to increase about 5.9 percent over the next 15 years if oil supplies are to keep pace with demand.
75 years ago — 1946
A brash youth by the name of Lindley Armstrong Jones has arranged an evening of musical mayhem at Ellis Auditorium for the approaching Sabbath evening, and the outgoing trains, buses, jalopies and jeeps are jampacked with partisans of the arts bent upon taking refuge in the distant hills. Anything is likely to occur with Lindley Armstrong in our midst, and the lovers of the good, the true and the beautiful are risking no chances on being within earshot when Mr. Jones is unleased by the Early Maxwell Associates.
100 years ago — 1921
Mayor Rowlett Paine and the party of local businessmen who spent Sunday with Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison at Muscle Shoals, Ala., declared last night that they are not worried over the reported statement of Mr. Ford that he did not favor long-distance transmission of power from the power plant for industrial uses.
125 years ago — 1896
J. S. Menken will build a palatial residence at Linden and Wellington on ground known as ''Bethel Place.''