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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1961
Page
29
Hollywood icon Frank Sinatra emerges as a complex figure with both charm and feuds. The piece highlights his cooperation with peers, tense set dynamics, clashes with press, career rebound after From Here to Eternity, and his alleged “clan” of powerful friends.
An AP dispatch notes Wallace Betts posts a notice in the Jeffersonian that his barber shop will close every Thursday until noon during quail season in Atoka Oklahoma. The item highlights a local business adjusting hours for hunting season.
A large crowd gathers at the scene of a road incident where Samuel Taylor lies badly injured with a fractured skull after a fall from a fruit truck. Pete Barlage, his brother in law and partner, explains he swerved to avoid a car, causing Taylor to be ejected over the tailgate. officials suspect the event may not be a simple accident.
The last mule barn in Memphis, once the world’s biggest mule market, is being converted to cattle. Wade H. Tribble, head of the barn firm, cites dwindling mule demand as farmers switch to tractors. In 1943 the market moved 10,000 mules monthly, but Thursday only six mules remained, with half destined for a dog food plant in Hamilton.
A nine year old Florida boy named Leonard McKenzie was shot while walking his dog near his home in Jacksonville. Detectives said a large caliber bullet entered his shoulder and exited his neck, causing an apparent instant death. His grandfather Dan Elliot found him missing longer than usual and located the boy.
The program lists multiple film runs at PARAMOUNT THEATER and TAR HEEL DRIVE-IN including CinderFella with Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti in Technicolor, Esther and the King with Joan Collins and Richard Egan, Swiss Family Robinson with John Mills and Dorothy McGuire, Journey to the Lost City with Debra Paget, The Wizard of Baghdad with Dick Shawn, All The Fine Young Cannibals with Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, and others, The Story of Ruth, Hercules Unchained, Boy and the Pirates, The Magnificent Seven, The Blue Angel, Tall Story, Brides of Dracula, and other titles across Sunday to Saturday showings with various formats and color processes.
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