MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1998
In the lineup for the Mid-south Music Festival, announced in a Sunday press conference, several names stand out. First, there are the legends who’ll be playing the April 24-26 festival on the grounds of the Mid-south Coliseum: John Lee Hooker, John Fogerty, Joan Baez and former Stax star Mavis Staples. Then are the classic rockers, bringing their guitars and their anthems: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick and Robin Trower.
50 years ago — 1973
County commissioners yesterday approved a $55,240,000 five-year capital improvement program for county roads — including $19,026,000 for 1974 — but Commissioner Lee Hyden
said the sum “is still probably not ambitious enough.”
75 years ago — 1948
WASHINGTON – Warning that “the hour is far more fateful now than it was a year ago,” Secretary of State Marshall said Monday this country must act “with calm determination” to prevent the further spread of Communism in Europe. The State Department took one action immediately. It served notice that Italy, down for a large share of United States aid under the Marshall program, will not get a cent if she goes Communist.
100 years ago — 1923
In a decision rendered yesterday at Washington ordering an equalization of intrastate and interstate freight rates on
certain lines out of Memphis, the Interstate Commerce Commission automatically opened a new trade territory west of the Mississippi River for shippers of Memphis, at the same time putting them on an equal rate basis with shippers of St. Louis operating the same territory.
125 years ago — 1898
NASHVILLE – Preparations for the proposed industrial convention continue with unabated interest by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. At the weekly meeting of the committee, reports were made by various subcommittees, showing that by the time of the preliminary convention — March 24 — everything will be in splendid form, so far as that body is concerned.