Saturday, January 12
The Red Food Store will build a $300,000 neighborhood shopping center in the triangle formed by the intersection of Shallowford and Wilcox Boulevard, announced Grady Parham, company president.
Chattanooga led the state during 1962 in the number of new factories obtained and in the expansion of existing industrial facilities, the state’s Department of Conservation and Commerce reported Saturday. Chattanooga obtained 30 new factories, and 36 existing factories were expanded, during the year.
Sunday, January 13
Wallace S. Miller, Sr., a former chairman of the Hamilton County School Board, was killed in an automobile accident Sunday morning. He was the county’s first traffic fatality of 1963.
The Moccasin Bend Girl Scout Council cookie committee has set 100,000 boxes of cookies as goal for the annual sale. The young scouts will conduct a door-to-door selling campaign January 25 through February 2. Deliveries will be made February 15 through 23.
Plans have been approved for a $500,000 expansion program at the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home on Lee Highway, it was announced Tuesday by Dr. Carl B. Allen, pastor of Woodland Park Baptist Church and chairman of the local advisory committee to the board of managers.
Monday, January 14
George T. Richardson, 1962 general chairman of the Greater Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee of 100, has been named chairman of its new Chattanooga Area Industrial Development Week Division.
Some 60 leading businessmen met Monday to launch a $25,000 fund drive for support of the Junior Achievement program here. Forrest E. Tugman of United Hosiery Mills, president of Junior Achievement of Chattanooga, explained there are some 425 high school boys and girls participating in the program.
Tuesday, January 15
The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga Tuesday paid the Tennessee Valley Authority $1,333,558.86 for power it purchased for its customers in December. S.R. Finley, EPB general manager, said the bill was the largest ever received from TVA by the board for one month, and represented the purchase of 314,581,000 kilowatt hours.
Wednesday, January 16
Commissioner Dean Peterson Wednesday became the first to qualify as a candidate in the city election to be held March 12. He presented the qualifying petition at the Hamilton County Election Commission office as a candidate for re-election as education and health commissioner.
William O. Steele, Signal Mountain author of adventure stories for younger readers, is this year’s recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison award for “excellence in portraying America’s past for young people today.” Miss Quintard Steele, a freshman at Barnard College in New York City, accepted the award honoring her father’s latest book, “Westward Adventure,” at a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Thursday, January 17
The Hamilton County Board of Education voted Wednesday to buy 52 acres along Highway 58 in the Volunteer Ordnance Works as a future site for high and junior high schools. The 52 acres is across the highway from Harrison Elementary School.
The Industrial Committee of 100 of the Greater Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce has begun its 1963 promotional advertising with an ad in the January 14 Eastern and Midwestern editions of the Wall Street Journal.
Friday, January 18
John F. Crabtree, president of the Chattanooga Board of Realtors, at the board’s first meeting of 1963 Wednesday at Wimberly Inn appealed to the board to “face 1963 with optimism.” A resolution paying tribute to the late Web C. Brown was read by A.C. Bryan and accepted by the Board.