MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1998
Prosecutors and Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown are sparring anew over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, this round focusing on the arrest of a man who claims knowledge of a murder plot. James C. Green was pulled over by Memphis police this week and arrested on a fugitive charge unrelated to the King case as he was driving to meet a CBS network news crew doing a piece on the 1968 assassination. Green, 51, of Springville, Tenn., claims — despite conflicting evidence — that he was hired to kill confessed assassin James Earl Ray moments after King was shot April 4, 1968, at the
Lorraine Motel.
50 years ago — 1973
City attorneys filed a motion in federal court yesterday citing the loss of about 7,000 public school students this year as justification of withholding $255,000 from the city school budget. The allotted funds have been withheld from the Memphis Board of Education since Oct. 17, 1972, when the board signed a school busing contract at that cost.
75 years ago — 1948
Add Old Sol to the list of missing persons. Memphis has been short-changed out of 65 percent of the sunshine it could have expected this month,
Weather Bureau records showed yesterday. Since Feb. 1, the sun has shone only 96 hours out of a possible 272 hours, or 35 percent.
100 years ago — 1923
Game Warden J.E. Perry yesterday inspected the Memphis Cold Storage plant and found 473 wild ducks, two geese and 350 quail put in storage by Memphis huntsmen.
125 years ago — 1898
L.P. Miles, The Commercial Appeal’s staff correspondent in Havana, Cuba, reports everything quiet in Havana. Divers are taking out bodies from the wrecked battleship Maine.