Saturday, March 30
Tom Crutchfield became president of the Chattanooga Bar Association and John Stophel was chosen president-elect at the association’s annual meeting Saturday morning at the courthouse. Crutchfield succeeds Robert Kirk Walker.
Dinah Shore will sing in Chattanooga for the first time when she will present a benefit performance at 8:15 p.m., Sunday, April 28 at Memorial Auditorium in behalf of the 365 Club of the Siskin Memorial Foundation Rehabilitation Center for the Physically Handicapped.
Plans for an expansion program, which will more than double the size of the Fischer-Evans Jewelers, Inc., store and give it frontage on Market Street at West Eighth, were announced by Carter Evans, president of the firm.
Sunday, March 31
S. Brown McLendon, Jr., former executive director of United Fund of Greenville, S.C., will assume his new duties Monday as assistant director of the United Fund of the greater Chattanooga area. He will fill the position formerly held by Thomas W. Jordan who left Chattanooga to become executive director of United Fund of Raleigh, N.C.
Monday, April 1
Grand opening of the Seaboard Allied Milling Corp’s new flour mill on the Tennessee River here will be held May 1, the company announced Saturday in invitations sent out from its operating headquarters in Kansas City.
W.S. Gardner, founder of one of the largest and oldest manufacturers’ representative concerns in the southeast, announced Saturday he will retire from active participation in the business effective April 1. The concern will be incorporated and placed in charge of his sons Warren S. Gardner, Jr., as president and treasurer, and Thomas A. Gardner, vice president and secretary.
Tuesday, April 2
John T. Lupon, Tuesday, received the Silver Keystone award, highest honor of the Boys Club of America, in a surprise presentation at the Chattanooga Kiwanis Club luncheon. He is the second Chattanoogan to receive the national award. Kiwanian Floyd Delaney was the first. Frank N. Wade, regional director of the Southern Region Boys Club of America for the past 20 years, presented the citation.
The 1962 Christmas Seal Campaign of the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Association officially closed March 31 with total receipts of $33,908, B. Lamar Rankin, campaign chairman, announced.
Wednesday, April 3
R. Roscoe Jones, property manager for E. Cecil Phillips Agency, has been elected Exalted Ruler of Chattanooga Lodge No. 91 to succeed Kenneth A. Early, Jr.
The University of Chattanooga has launched its campaign to raise $1,500,000 for a much needed multi-purpose athletic center. Dr. James L. Fowle, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and U.C. trustee, is general chairman of the campaign.
Thursday, April 4
Use of Frawley Field as the site for a combined city-county school administration center and warehouse area was authorized by the County Council Wednesday.
The City collected $5,460,022.17 in current property taxes through March, City Treasurer Earl Counts said Wednesday. The total represents 98.13 percent of the amount budgeted from current property taxes for the fiscal year.
Friday, April 5
Hamilton County’s 223-acre lake front park on Dallas Bay has received a AAA rating from the Southeastern Park and Recreational Directors’ Association. Park Sup’t John Morgan was advised of the honor at the association’s annual meeting last week at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C.
A new, lower-pitched dial tone and busy signal are greeting Southern Bell subscribers in certain exchanges in the company’s nine-state area, according to Preston P. Jordan, District Manager here. “The new development is geared to a long-range program which will eventually see push-button telephones (Touch-Tone Calling) introduced in Southern Bell,” Jordan said.