Saturday, January 26
Councilmen David M. Eldridge, Jr., Jim Turner and Jack Mayfield will accompany County Judge Frost and County Manager Raymond Proctor to the second annual County Urban Congress in Washington February 6 through 9.
Final plans for a $3,000,000 office building and shopping center in the Golden Gateway will be submitted to the Chattanooga Housing Authority by February 10. Construction will begin about March 1, Earle W. Kozis, vice-president of Helmsley-Spears in New York said Friday.
Sunday, January 27
The doors of the Tivoli Theater will officially open March 5 with a concert by the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra inaugurating the new era of the big theater, which has been closed almost 19 months after 40 years of operation.
R.A. Strauss, manager of Sears, Roebuck & Company, announced Saturday that construction will start immediately on a 430-car capacity, multi-level parking deck adjacent to the Sears store. The five-story building, costing more than $500,000, owned and operated by a private developer, will be completed in about six months. Mark K. Wilson Co. is the general contractor and Selmon T. Franklin is the supervisory architect.
Monday, January 28
Adoption of a council-manager form of metropolitan government for Chattanooga and Hamilton County was recommended Monday by attorney Jac Chambliss and Dr. Frank W. Prescott, political science professor at the University of Chattanooga.
Miller Bros. Co. is among 438 firms selected this year as finalists in the Brand Name “retailer of the year” competition sponsored by Brand Names Foundation.
Tuesday, January 29
Ben L. Miller, Jr., a supervisor at the local Du Pont plant, Tuesday announced his candidacy for the office of commissioner of public utilities. Mr. Miller was a former outstanding athlete at Central High and the University of Chattanooga.
Chester O. Stephens has been named by the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. as 1963 Man of the Year in the E.E. Brown, Jr., Agency here, on recognition “of his able and conscientious service to his policy holders as well as his underwriting achievement.”
Wednesday, January 30
Miss Charlotte Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Foster C. Yates, 505 Titkin Drive, a senior of the Baroness Erlanger Hospital, was elected Miss Student Nurse of Tennessee Association of Student Nurses, District Four (southeast Tennessee) in a contest held at Erlanger Hospital Monday.
Ross Jones, retired manager of the Chattanooga plant of American Brake Shoe Co., died Wednesday in a local hospital. Mr. Jones had been with the Brake Shoe Company 50 years at the time of his retirement.
Thursday, January 31
Floyd Delaney, 1963 president of Greater Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, presided at his first board meeting Wednesday. The Chamber will study effects of Clement’s proposed tax increases on the economy here.
W. Lester Owens, executive secretary of the Industrial YMCA, was honored Wednesday night by the Sertoma Club as the recipient of its Service to Mankind Award for 1962. Charles M. Tallent, Sertoma president, presented the award.
Friday, February 1
A warming trend toward the end of the week is expected to bring the Chattanooga area relief from the freezing weather of the past week..