Saturday, October 20
The Tennessee Association of Real Estate Boards, meeting in connection with a national association convention of realtors in Lexington, Ky., named Fletcher Bright of Chattanooga as president of the state organization.
Pledges and gifts obtained in the 1962 campaign for the United Fund of Greater Chattanooga now total $988,843, which is 79.9 percent of the $1,238,406 goal. The report was made Friday by volunteer workers at a luncheon meeting in Hotel Patten.
Sunday, October 21
P.J. Zondervan, president of Zondervan Publishing, past president of Gideons International and chairman of the extension committee, was the speaker at the morning service of First Baptist Church.
County Judge Frost and Mayor Olgiati have given their official endorsement to the proposed $8,000,000 bond issue for city and county schools. In a statement, they termed approval of the bond issue “vital to the continuance of quality education in city and county schools.”
Monday, October 22
Sixteen Interstate Life & Accident Insurance Company cashiers from 87 district offices in nine Southeastern states will hold their 1962
triennial convention in Chattanooga Monday and Tuesday. T.L. Montague, Jr., Interstate vice president and secretary, announced plans for the convention program.
Tennessee Valley Authority’s new $2,500,000 power service center north of Chickamauga Dam will be dedicated November 1.
Tuesday, October 23
Combustion Engineering, Dixie Mercerizing and three Sweetwater businessmen offered high bids totaling $760,805 on eight different tracts of the former Cramet titanium plant in East Chattanooga Tuesday in Atlanta. Combustion headed the list with a bid of $640,000 for Tracts 7, 8 and 9. Dixie Mercerizing bid $87,500 for Tract 10. A.R. Smith, chief of the real property division of General Services Administration, said the agency would study the proposals and submit them to Washington for final action.
Wednesday, October 24
The Girls’ Preparatory School was presented a bronze plaque Wednesday by General Electric in recognition of the school’s role “in the development of June Milton, one of 12 scholarship winners in the 1962 GE essay contest.” Miss Milton, the winner of a $6,000 GE Scholarship, is now attending Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Civil Defense office is expecting notification Thursday or Friday from the Army Corps of Engineers in Nashville on what building spaces here meet the minimum requirements for protection under nuclear attack, Ed Morrison, deputy CD director, said Wednesday.
Thursday, October 25
Jac Chambliss, Chattanooga attorney, addressed the annual meeting of the Chattanooga Manufacturers Association Thursday night at Read House. Mr. Chambliss substituted for Donald J. Harenbrook, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, who was scheduled to speak but is remaining in Washington because of the Cuban crisis.
Chattanooga will have eight delegates at the annual meeting and scientific sessions of the American Heart Association in Cleveland, Ohio, October 26 through 30. Those attending are: Mouzon Peters, president of the area association; Dr. David P. McCallie, president of Tennessee Heart Association, and Mrs. McCallie; Miss May Archibald, executive secretary of the Chattanooga chapter; and Dr. Merrill F. Nelson, Mrs. Philip H. Livingston and Mrs. Frank Peerson, chairman of the nurses committee of both the state and area Heart Associations.
Friday, October 26
The current international crisis and the need to remain in New York for consultations about recent developments caused Clark M. Eichelberger, executive director of the American Association for the United Nations, to cancel his plans to visit Chattanooga. He was scheduled as principal speaker at a luncheon sponsored by the AAUN Thursday.