Saturday, October 13
Paul Bush Romero, author, Mexican big game hunter, underwater expert in Caribbean waters and prominent Mexico City businessman, was the principal speaker at the Tennessee Archaeological Society banquet in the Read House Saturday night. Mr. Romero is the guest of attorney Charles Coleman.
Chattanooga’s income from the travel industry was up 17 percent in the past season to total $40,000,000 a year, Richard C. Borden, Convention and Visitor’s Bureau president, told the Rotary Club Thursday at Hotel Patten.
Chattanooga’s United Fund campaign Friday reported gifts and pledges amounting to $824,486, which is over 66 percent of the $1,238,406 quota for 1962, at the first report meeting of volunteer workers.
Sunday, October 14
The Junior League Charity Horse Show at Warner Park Field House drew capacity crowds for their five session, three-day event. Mrs. Patricia Thuss of Birmingham won top honors.
The 16th annual Plum Nelly Clothesline Art Show Saturday and Sunday set attendance and sales records. Miss Fannie Melton, founder of the show, reported 12,050 persons attended the two-day event. The 13 participating artists sold 197 paintings.
Thirty-five high school and junior high bands participated in the tri-state band competition at Chamberlain Field Saturday night. Chattanooga High, Emma Sansom, Cleveland, Maryville and Red Bank High Schools took division one superior honors in the Class “A” category.
Monday, October 15
Cadet James Calvin Morgan III, captain of Baylor’s football and track teams and president of the senior class, has been selected for the Army and Navy Legion of Valor Bronze Cross Award. Cadet Morgan, son of Dr. and Mrs. James C. Morgan, Jr., of West Point, Ga., is one of six in the United States in the National Defense Cadet Corps to receive the award.
The board of directors of the Southeastern Capitol Corp. held its quarterly meeting in Chattanooga Monday. Jack E. Whitaker, chairman of the board of the Hamilton National Bank and a director of the corporation, was host. Lee Davis of Nashville, president and board chairman, presided.
Tuesday, October 16
The City Commission has tentatively agreed to negotiate a two-year lease for use of the Tivoli Theater as a public facility and seek federal funds for improving the Memorial Auditorium. The city will pay $22,000 for a two-year period and have an option to extend the least for another five years.
Preston P. Jordan, District Manager of the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., was elected president of the Chattanooga Automobile Club Monday at a meeting at Hotel Patten. Mr. Jordan succeeds Martin Ochs.
Wednesday, October 17
The Borg Fabrics division of Amphenol-Borg Electronics Corp. will establish a plant in Rossville to manufacture quality deep-pile fabrics for women’s coats, rugs and other uses. Bert Brown, president of the Rossville Development Co., announced at a news media conference Wednesday that the company had leased a former Peerless Woolen Mills building containing 115,000 square feet of floor space.
A beautification project which will “involve sandblast cleaning of the Hamilton County Courthouse and landscaping of the Courthouse grounds with new shrubs and flowers,” was disclosed Wednesday by County Judge Chester L. Frost.
Thursday, October 18
Miss Susan Hackett of Chattanooga will leave New York Monday for 21 months in Brazil as a member of the Peace Corps. Miss Hackett, an x-ray technician for Dr. F.F. Reisman, Jr., before entering the Peace Corps, will be connected with a TVA type of development on the Sao Francisco River in the northeast section of the country.
Friday, October 19
Alex Guerry, Jr., co-author with John Stophel of the Guerry Report on use of the Tivoli Theater and Memorial Auditorium, said he hopes the Tivoli will be ready for use by the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra for its January concert.
The Hamilton County Board of Education authorized an application Wednesday to the General Services Administration for a 258-acre tract declared surplus in the Volunteer Ordnance Works area. Sup’t Sam P. McConnell said the county has no immediate plans for school construction in the sector but that the land may be required under a plan which permits development to be deferred as long as eight years.
Preston P. Jordan, District Manager for Southern Bell Telephone Co. this week announced that centralized information centers are now in operation whereby the telephone subscriber can dial direct to the information office in a distant city by dialing”1” plus the area code and 555-1212.