MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
The director of a movie about the early life of Davy Crockett is looking for financial backing from people in the Tri-cities area since negotiations broke down with a Nashville promoter. Bill Naud, who directed the television series “Captain Kangaroo”, came up with the idea 30 years ago and wrote the script for “Young Davy Crockett”. The feature-length movie is to be filmed beginning in April in the Bristol area. Naud hopes to cast stars like Peter O’toole, Maximilian Schell and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in roles. ”It would be a real boon to the area economy,” said Kacky Johnston of Bristol, a coproducer who is trying to help raise money for the movie. ”What we’re trying to do is get people interested in the project. We’ve got some hurdles to cross, but this can’t do anything but bless the entire region.”
50 years ago — 1970
For 30 years Tulane waited in anxious anticipation of a bowl trip but yesterday, when the grand hour for travel arrived, the Green Wave had to wait a little longer. The flight which was scheduled to bring Tulane to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl was to take only an hour. It actually only took an hour — but that doesn’t include about three hours of unforeseen complications in between which left the Green Wave stranded in New Orleans International Airport. A dense fog smothered the New Orleans airport, forcing Tulane’s jet to circle the field while waiting for the fog to clear. But shortly before the fog lifted, the plane ran low on fuel and had to go to Mobile, Ala., for refueling.
75 years ago — 1945
The Perry Como Supper Club, heard on WMC, The Commercial Appeal station, at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, will celebrate its first anniversary on the air on the program this evening. Screen star Gene Tierney will be the guest. Tomorrow Jo Stafford joins the program as a regular member of the cast and will be heard each Tuesday and Thursday hereafter.
100 years ago — 1920
OWENSBORO, Ky. – Five hundred tobacco growers of the dark tobacco district of Western Kentucky marched this afternoon on the seven loose leaf houses in Owensboro, the largest dark tobacco and next-to-the-largest tobacco market in the state, to force the managers to close their houses and refuse to receive any more tobacco until conditions warrant the paying of better prices. The action, which followed the opening of the market the first of the week, when prices were the lowest since 1915, has caused fear of resumption of the troubles that marked a similar condition 12 years ago, when the district was terrorized by night-riders.