MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1998 MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – For 15 years, while law students at West Virginia University crammed, Regina Jennings cleaned. The students would chat with her while she mopped floors. Now the school is cleaning up: Jennings, who retired in 1989 making $10,000, has donated $93,000 to the school. School officials said they were "simply stunned." In 1995, Oseola Mccarty, a laundry woman, donated $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi. 50 years ago — 1973
A former POW, who a year ago was sitting in a North Vietnamese prison camp "looking forward to one of our two half-decent meals a year," arrived here yesterday as the honored guest of the
Liberty Bowl. Air Force Lt. John A. Dramesi, who spent about five years as a POW, said he is really looking forward to tomorrow night's football game between North Carolina State and Kansas University.
75 years ago — 1948
Last of the contracts needed to complete the new Mississippi Bridge project were awarded by the Memphis and Arkansas Bridge Commission yesterday afternoon. A $196,422 error by a Nashville contractor in his bid to build two new railroad overpasses on Pennsylvania was discovered by highway engineers in tabulating five proposals for this job. This resulted in W.L. Sharpe Contracting Co. of Memphis receiving the contract to build the overpasses and
rebuild Pennsylvania between the two overpasses. The price was $404,531. It was first believed that Marion Construction Co. of Nashville was the low bidder with a $351,631 proposal, but tabulation showed the error.
100 years ago — 1923
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – More than 50 percent of the subscriptions to the Centenary movement of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which has a financial objective of $55,000,000, have been collected, according to reports made today at the semi-annual meeting here of the College of Bishops of the church by Dr. W.G. Cran and Dr. John Edgerton of Nashville, who are in charge of the general offices of the movement.