MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1999
This card has its privileges. Travel to sunny Southern California, the ski slopes of Idaho and the bright lights of Las Vegas. Stay in expensive hotels. Dine in nice restaurants. This is no ordinary credit card. It has an $18,000 limit and was issued to a fictitious company whose name City of Memphis officials will not reveal. The covert account was set up by undercover drug investigators. But an examination of records by The Commercial Appeal shows it is available to numerous members of the Memphis Police Department . . . (who) are paid with money seized from drug dealers.
50 years ago — 1974
Hugh Stanton Sr., the Shelby County public defender for more than 31 years before his retirement March 1, died at 9:45 last night at Baptist Hospital apparently after a heart attack. He was 78. 75 years ago — 1949
LITTLE ROCK – There would have to be a "very good reason" to change the relocation of Highway 61 from Marion to the approach of the Mississippi River bridge, Highway Director J.C. Baker said here Sunday. Mr. Baker pointed out that once a specific project is programmed for construction, "the funds are pretty definitely earmarked for that project." Relocation of Highway 61 was revealed
last Friday when the State Highway Commission announced it planned to build a superhighway from Marion to the approach of the new bridge.
100 years ago — 1924
In a movement of civic and public interest, The Commercial Appeal in cooperation with the retail merchants of Memphis will put on a "Better Homes" educational exhibit starting the first part of May and continuing for a period of 10 days. The exhibit will be on a large and elaborate scale. Three houses will be loaned by real estate concerns, varying in price, and these houses will be furnished in a style suitable to their size and cost.