MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1998

Molly Meisenheimer, who turned the annual Race for the Cure cancer awareness event into one of the biggest fundraisers in the Mid-south, has been selected as the 1997 Citizen of the Year by the Germantown Lions Club. In 1993, Meisenheimer, a breast cancer survivor, founded the local Race for the Cure, held in October. The annual event is an all-female 5K and a 1-mile family fun run to promote breast cancer awareness and raise funds for education, treatment and research.

50 years ago — 1973

GATLINBURG, Tenn. – Gov. Winfield Dunn will spell out details of his no-fault automobile insurance plan at a Tennessee Jaycee board meeting here Saturday night. The governor is expected to ask the Jaycees to adopt the proposed legislation as one of their major projects. Sources close to Dunn said the no-fault plan probably will include a 15 percent guaranteed premium reduction for policies covering private passenger automobiles registered in Tennessee.

75 years ago — 1948

First steps to obtain necessary real estate for the $18,000,000 Tennessee Chute project expanding the Mississippi River Harbor here, have been completed, Mayor Pleasants announced yesterday. A resolution approving contracts for the six pieces of land, totaling about 775 acres, is scheduled to be voted on by the City Commission this afternoon. The land contracted for includes four pieces of property on the Tennessee, or Memphis, mainland and two on Presidents Island, according to J.R. Surrency, city and county real estate agent.

100 years ago — 1923

WMC broadcasting station last night put on the air the show, “Down in Dixie,” featuring Ned Courtney, Miss Mary Louise Armstrong, Fritz Lawless, Charles Strehl, Eddie Traylor, Halle and Bob Miller.

125 years ago — 1898

Charles “Kid” Mccoy, the pugilist, is in Memphis today, accompanied by

“Doc” Payne. Mccoy will appear tonight in a stage performance at the Auditorium Theater, Linden and Main.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES Feb. 17, 1951: Snowden, a cat adopted by Anne Louise Brown’s third-graders at Snowden School in the fall of 1950, was awarded a medal. The class received the Puss ’n’ Boots Bronze Award for elevating the cat “as man’s friend, loyal companion, vigilant protector.” Brown holds the citation while Ann Adams holds the medal and Snowden.