ARLINGTON HIGH SPORTS FROM 2013
25 years ago — 1998 Visitors and parishioners at Grace-st. Luke’s Episcopal Church will get some extra help this Lenten season visualizing Christ’s final hours. Sculptures, paintings, mixed media and other artworks depicting key events in the final hours of Christ will be displayed in the Midtown church through Easter Sunday, April 12. “The 14 Stations of the Cross,” the church’s first juried art exhibition in recent years, was installed last week and opened with a reception Sunday.
50 years ago — 1973
PETIT JEAN MOUNTAIN, Ark. – Those who knew and liked former Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, came to the mountain by the thousands Sunday to pay their last respects. He was eulogized in a solemn ceremony atop this mountain where the prominent and the common man sat side by side. Inside the Museum of Automobiles the thousands sat quietly as words were spoken of the New Yorker who adopted Arkansas as his home 17 years ago.
75 years ago — 1948 Several thousand motorists who park downtown are going to get “traffic tickets” tomorrow, but they’ll be the kind that prevent arrests. An estimated 8,000 yellow and black “29” stickers, a symbol of the month-long safe driving campaign sponsored by the Memphis Insurers Exchange and The Commercial Appeal, will be distributed by Boy Scouts of Troop 5. The stickers, affixed to rear windows, signify that the driver has pledged not to travel faster than 29 miles an hour on Memphis streets, against the legal speed limit of 30.
100 years ago — 1923
M.W. Crump, M.D. Patterson, J.P. Hogan and F.D. Denton have been named delegates from Memphis to the Confederate Reunion at New Orleans, April 11-15, 1923.
125 years ago — 1898
The Memphis Board of Health will build two crematories for disposing of city garbage, says Dr. Heber Jones, Health Department president.