04 Jan 1960
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1960
Page
1
Snow expected tonight across the Great Lakes while the southern Plains and lower Mississippi valley face rain. Central Plains may see sleet or freezing rain and the western central Rockies are forecast to turn wintry. Temperatures drop in the east.
The forecast notes cloudiness and cold weather across the Carolinas. Temperatures will be near normal at times with highs near 50 along the coast and in the 30s to 50s inland, with nightly lows in the 20s inland and around 30 on the coast. Temperatures are expected to average about four degrees below normal, with precipitation possible and increasing cloudiness midweek and again by Saturday in South Carolina.
In Atlanta a husband killed the man he despised after catching him with his estranged wife and 7-year-old son. Raphael Kaminskas, 38, jailed without bail on murder charges after admitting the shooting. Evelyn Kaminskas, 30, beaten and hospitalized in fair condition. the couple had been estranged for about a year.
The report lists diverse city weather across the nation with conditions from clear to snowy. Temperatures range from the mid teens to the seventies in cities including Albany Anchorage Dallas and Miami. The piece includes a two line human interest insert about a Wilmington shooting case and a detective’s statements.
A scrambled TV grid lists programs like Devotions Second Breakfast What’s Cooking Red Rowe Show On The Ge I Love Lucy December Bride Love Of Lie Secret Hor Tomorrow Guiding Light Life of Riley Worse Turns Better or Worse and Art Linklater, hinting at a nostalgic midcentury lineup.
Daily lineup lists multiple programs from 3:00 to 11:05 pm including Millionaire Brighter Day Secret Storm Edge of Night Married Joan Superman Amos and Andy Reporter Weatherman Manhunt U S Marshal The Texan Father Knows Best Danny Thomas Ann Sothern Hennesey June Allyson Weather News Sports and an 11:05 pm movie.
A fragmentary TV schedule lists Wells Fargo and Peter Gupn programs, theater, Steve Allen, and News at eleven, with multiple time blocks from 6:30 to 10:00. Includes sports, court program, world history, math, and education segments.
Los Angeles AP report says wealthy surgeon Dr. R Bernard Finch 41 and Carole Tregoff 23 face murder and conspiracy charges in the July 19 killing of Finch’s wife Barbara 43. A sixteen member jury was impaneled. the prosecution warns the case may take a month.
In Dunn North Carolina AP report Indian school teacher Joseph H Brewington says his life was threatened to deter him from driving a bus to Clinton area schools. A separate dynamite blast damaged Brewington's home and a bus earlier, amid protests by Indian parents over long student travel.
In Charlotte an elderly man, William A. Taylor, 76, died from burns after three youths argued with him over a TV program and hurled kerosene, setting him aflame. Gus Parker Jr., Theodore Gill, and Clarence McCullough Jr. were charged with murder as neighbors rescued Taylor from the burning bed.
In Upson County a freak electrical storm is blamed for a house fire that killed two elderly women. Sheriff E T Bray said lightning struck a frame house eight miles west of Thomaston, burning it to the ground. Trapped inside were Mary Traylor, 90, and Mary Chambless, 73.
New Hanover County Commission plans a jail staffing shakeup after a meeting. Dave Rivenbark will become warden while Herbert Rivenbark relinquishes jail duties but remains head of other related activities. Some inmate allegations prompted changes to reduce escapes, though officials said some statements were taken with a grain of salt.
AP writer notes early 1950s TV politics surge with DNC chair Paul Butler and RNC chair Thruston Morton on networks as JFK features a half hour. Sunday talk shows shift from highbrow to politics and variety. CBS NBC and others debut new programs. The piece critiques Sunday entertainment drift and mentions upcoming topics and shows.
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