Saturday, November 10
Attorney Robert Summitt, past state commander of the American Legion, was the principal speaker at the Veterans Day ceremony on Patten Parkway Saturday. Robert C. Lahiere, general chairman of the Veterans Day observance, presided. Commander Charles K. Peacock of Post 14 read a proclamation.
The annual Pecan Sale of the Chattanooga Boys Choir got underway Saturday morning. The project is the chief means by which their summer tour is financed. The pecans are the same price as last year: $1.60 per pound.
Sunday, November 11
The Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad Company will move its freight agency office to Alton Park and will make its property at East 10th and Newby Streets available for occupancy by the Senior Neighbors of Chattanooga, D.E. Hedges, president of TAG, announced. Mrs. George Power, president of the board of directors of the Senior Neighbors, praised the railroad for its cooperation and generosity.
Some $10,000,000 in cash and securities was transferred Saturday as the Pioneer Bank completed its removal from the McClellan Building to its own new building at Broad, West 8th and Chestnut Streets.
Monday, November 12
The new six-story Pioneer Bank Building opened Monday for business after a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony when Betsy Cotter, daughter of Pioneer Bank President E.R. Cotter, cut the ribbon. Board chairman George M. Clark, Sr., E.R. Cotter and Rev. John Bonner, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, participated in the brief ceremony. Several hundred attended the opening.
Tuesday, November 13
Carl A. Drake, Jr., was announced as 1963 Heart Fund chairman at a luncheon meeting of the Chattanooga Area Heart Association’s executive committee Monday.
Combustion Engineering has announced an agreement with the Chattanooga division of the W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company plant for the purchase of the idle Dickey site on Tennessee River. The purchase will add about 21 acres to the huge industry’s present holdings in Chattanooga, bringing its total industrial area to about110 acres.
Wednesday, November 14
Lew Oehmig, well known in golfing circles, will become president and chief executive officer of First Flight on January 1. The company manufactures golf equipment. Oehmig will succeed Jack Harkins, who will become chairman of the board. For the past 12 years, Oehmig has been a director and vice-president of Fleetwood Coffee Company, a subsidiary of Duncan Coffee Company out of Houston, Texas.
James R. Chamberlain, a leading Chattanooga realtor, was elected to a three-year term as a director of the National Association of Real Estate Boards at the annual convention in Detroit Wednesday.
Thursday, November 15
The Tennessee Products & Chemical Corporation will delay for at least one year the removal of its general offices from Nashville to Chattanooga, Rolland O. Baum, president, announced Wednesday. Previous plans were to erecton its Alton Park plant property a new office building to cost about $250,000 early in 1963.
Friday, November 16
Christmas Savings Club members will receive an estimated $966,806 from Chattanooga banks beginning next week, according to an announcement by the Chattanooga Clearing House Association. The total will go to 14,146 members.