Saturday, February 9
Donald Mayre of New York City arrived in Chattanooga Friday to direct the next play for Chattanooga Little Theatre. Mr. Mayre served as director here from 1934 until the end of the 1937 season.
E.Y. Chapin, III, president of Rock City Gardens, former president of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, and civic leader, was nominated Thursday for presidency of the Rotary Club for 1963-64. He would succeed Hugh Huffaker, Sr.
Sunday, February 10
Linda Gail Stalsworth from Knoxville was named Tennessee’s Junior Miss of 1963 in Chattanooga Saturday night in a competition with 20 contestants. The talented honor student at Fulton High School succeeds Miss Suzy Durham of Chattanooga.
Plans to erect a $475,000 office building on East Third Street opposite Erlanger Hospital were announced Saturday by four widely known Chattanooga neurological surgeons – Drs. Augustus McCravey, Walter E. Boehm, Robert A. Waters, and Edwin F. Chobot, Jr.
Monday, February 11
H. Clay Evans Johnson, president of the Hamilton County Memorial Hospital Association, and Sister Marie Victoria, hospital administrator, participated in the ground breaking ceremonies Monday for the new hospital wing, which is to cost approximately $1,400,000. The new addition will consist of a full basement and six floors.
Dr. Willard Steel, Sr., received the “Boss of the Year” award at the recent “Boss Night” banquet of the Chattabwa Chapter, American Business Women’s Association, for “service to Chattanooga for over a period of 50 years in the traditional high ideals of the medical profession.”
Tuesday, February 12
Canon Bryan Green, internationally known rector of Birmingham, England, and famed evangelist, spoke at Memorial Auditorium Tuesday night to an audience of 3,500 or more. Chattanoogans of many denominations attended the meeting. Canon Crowson led a 150-voice choir assembled from churches in Cleveland, South Pittsburg and Sewanee.
The City Commission Tuesday adopted a resolution agreeing to join with the County government in purchasing Engel Stadium for $250,000 from the Chattanooga Baseball Co. and Minnesota American League baseball club. The city will pay $125,000 of the purchase price.
Wednesday, February 13
The County Council, at its regular meeting Wednesday, voted to pay $50,000 to help make up a deficit at Erlanger Hospital. The City of Chattanooga has already appropriated $50,000 as its share in helping defray the cost of the deficit.
Thursday, February 14
More than 20 leaders from nearby communities joined representatives of the Industrial Committee of 100 of the Greater Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon Wednesday to plan “Area Industrial Development Week,” tentatively set for October 20-26. George T. Richardson, chairman of the event, presided at the meeting, which was held at Wimberly Inn.
J. Gilbert Stein, general chairman of the Industrial Committee of 100, Wednesday told the Chattanooga Board of Realtors that $16,000,000 had been spent on new plants and industrial expansion involving 1,800 additional jobs here during 1962.
Friday, February 15
Freight traffic over the Tennessee River set an all-time high of 13.1 million tons in 1962, exceeding the previous record of 12.7 million tons in 1957 and exceeding 1961 tonnage by 13 percent, TVA reported.