Saturday, January 20 Mrs. Anne Hayes Nicklin, widow of Col. Benjamin Patton Nicklin, prominent Chattanoogan, died Saturday afternoon in a local hospital. After Col. Nicklin retired from the Army in 1928, they built a lovely home, “At Ease,” on Signal Mountain. After Col. Nicklin’s death several years ago, Mrs. Nicklin continued to live in the home.
Marion L. Davis, advertising manager of Provident Life and Accident Insurance, was honored for completing 25 years service with the company, and received an emblem denoting his service from Robert L. MacLellan, Provident president.
Sunday, January 21
Edward D. Raht, member of a prominent Chattanooga family and long time manager of the Provident Building here, died Sunday after being ill for several weeks. Mr. Raht retired in September as building manager, having served since its construction. A graduate of Baylor School and the University of Illinois, he was the son of the late William Eckhardt and Alice Edmiston Raht.
A local-option sales tax is not the answer to raising the amount of money spent per pupil in Tennessee education, Dr. Joe Goss, assistant superintendent of the Chattanooga school system, said on a television program here Sunday. “I think we must solve this problem at the state level, not by turning a tax option over to local communities.”
Monday, January 22
President Kennedy will nominate Harry D. Mansfield, Chattanooga insurance broker, for U.S. Marshall from the Eastern District of Tennessee Tuesday.
At a $30,000 fund drive kick-off luncheon at Hotel Patten Monday, the importance of widespread support of the Junior Achievement program by area businessmen was stressed. Stanyarne Burrows reported that $8,400 has been donated or pledged in advance. Preston Jordan, district manager of Southern Bell Telephone, is the campaign manager.
Tuesday, January 23
The City Commission Tuesday adopted a resolution accepting the offer of Mrs. Mary M. Hughes to sell 20.73 acres on Shallowford Road near Wilcox Boulevard for $80,000 for a site for a Junior High School for the North Brainerd area.
An influenza epidemic in Chattanooga and Hamilton County (saw one of) the sharpest rises in the history of the health department when 474 cases were reported over the weekend.
Wednesday, January 24
William H. Steen, resident of Chattanooga for 40 years and a retired railroad man, died early Wednesday in a local hospital. Mr. Steen was a traveling freight and traffic agent for 48 years with the Southern Pacific Railroad before his retirement. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Alhambra Shrine, and the Chattanooga Traffic and Transportation Club, and a 32nd degree Knight Templar.
Dr. Irvine W. Grote, Guerry professor of chemistry at the University of Chattanooga, will leave February 3 on a two-week lecture tour of the Midwest and southwest under the auspices of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Grote has headed UC’s chemistry department since 1942, and has been active in the work of the American Chemical Society and American Pharmaceutical Association. He is listed in American Men of Science and Who’s Who in America.
Thursday, January 25
The Southern Association, the oldest Class AA league in baseball, suspended operations Wednesday after 61 years at a meeting in Charlotte, N.C. President George Trautman of National Association of Professional Leagues announced that the Class A South Atlantic League had invited Chattanooga and Nashville into an expanded “Sally League” of 10 teams for 1962 season.
The 1962 drive to finance research and clinical work in cardiac and vascular diseases made an auspicious start Thursday when three specialists, Dr. William Likoff of Philadelphia, Dr. W. Sterling Roberts of Birmingham and Dr. Sam Proger of the New England Center Hospital, addressed the Symposium. Dr. Maurice Rawlings, Chattanooga cardiologist, is chairman of the Symposium, which the Chattanooga Area Heart Association and the Chattanooga Hamilton County Medical Society are sponsoring.
Friday, January 26
The promotion of Frank Orend to assistant manager of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee of 100 was announced Wednesday by De Sales Harrison, Chamber president, and George T. Richardson, general chairman of the committee. Mr. Orend will assume his new post February 1, becoming assistant to James W. Hunt, manager of the Committee 100.