MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1999
How important is the name of a school? Just ask the kids at Bug Breath Middle School. Crosswind Elementary fifth-grader Sherie Byrd understands that. She and her twin sister, Sheryl, will leave Crosswind next year for the still unnamed middle school under construction at Schilling Farms in Collierville. There’s no Bug Breath Middle within the Shelby County School system, but who knows what the name of Collierville’s new school will be.
50 years ago — 1974
Heavy fog added to the weather woes of Memphis yesterday and, according to Memphis International Airport officials, caused several commercial flights to bypass Memphis and land in other cities. Some flights landed by instrument on the airport’s two primary runways. Airport officials said smaller craft and noncommercial planes were landing here on instrument approach because many of the smaller airfields in the Mid-south were closed by the fog.
75 years ago — 1949
NASHVILLE – Revealing the educational program he will recommend to the Tennessee Legislature, Gov.-elect Gordon Browning said Thursday night the administration will undertake to provide $8,000,000 more per year for public education without increasing taxes.
100 years ago — 1924 Commendation of the board of censors for their action in barring from the Memphis theaters, Mabel Normand’s film following the latest Hollywood scandal, Bishop E.D. Mouzon yesterday afternoon compared the life in the California Mecca of the movie world to the decadent days that preceded the fall of Rome. Applause greeted the bishop’s denunciation of scandals reported from Hollywood, which came as part of his address yesterday at the Y.M.C.A. meeting in Court Avenue Presbyterian Church.