COMING ATTRACTIONS

It had to happen. Down in Memphis, Tenn., a Florida man named John Ferguson is undertaking a one-man lobbying effort for a “national day of recognition” for Elvis Presley. Every morning at 9 a.m., guests at the Days Inn on Brooks Road are rousted by howling electronic feedback and Sousa marches blaring over loudspeakers set up in the courtyard by Ferguson, who wants to “get some spirit into the Elvis world (of the late singer’s fans) for this thing. We know we’d never get a full holiday, (just) a national day of recognition.” Ferguson brought several members of his Presley-Ites fan club in Zephyrhills, Fla., to drum up support for Elvis Day--which Ferguson wants established on Jan. 8, the King’s birthday.