MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
There could be a little something extra in the pay envelope for a University of Central Arkansas employee who buys a home in the area surrounding the school. UCA President Winfred Thompson on Friday outlined a program to help maintain the surrounding neighborhood. Thompson said UCA might offer subsidized loans or salary increases for faculty and staff who purchase and improve property in the targeted area.
The University of Delaware announced a similar program in February. It offers $5,000 loans to university employees who buy houses in targeted areas. With some restrictions, the loans are to be forgiven at the rate of $1,000 per year if the employee maintains the house as a primary residence. “We want to maintain a safe neighborhood, the kind of neighborhood attractive for university faculty, staff and students,” Thompson said.
“The purpose of the program is to help maintain the family residential nature of selected neighborhoods in the city,” John T. Brook, vice president for government and public relations at the University of Delaware, wrote in a memo.
50 years ago — 1971
NEW YORK – Now it can be told — Howard Hughes is not only alive but has spent the last year touring the Western Hemisphere and transcribing his autobiography on tapes for publication next March. Mcgraw-hill Book Co. announced Tuesday it has acquired world publishing rights to Hughes’ 230,000-word manuscript and will bring it out in book form March 27. Prior to hardcover publication Life magazine will publish three 10,000-word installments.
75 years ago — 1946 WASHINGTON – Okinawa, site of the last major battle of World War II, is being unionized. The National Federation of Federal Employees, an independent union, reported Saturday that a charter has been granted for a local on Okinawa to include civilian employees of the Army Engineers.
100 years ago — 1921
All the forces that aided in making the recent acreage reduction campaign a success are lining up for for the convention to be held in Memphis Dec. 12 and 13. It is fully agreed, not only by the authorities but by those who have given the situation close study, that a cotton crop of 10,000,000 bales in 1922 would cause a reversal in the South to the desperate conditions which prevailed at about this time last year.
125 years ago — 1896
Removal of bodies from the old St. Peter’s Cemetery to Calvary Cemetery began today so construction of the Memphis City Hospital can be started.