Saturday, April 6
Some 1,700 manufacturers in a 34-county tri-state area are being invited to display the thousands of products their plants turn out in an Industrial Exposition in Warner Park Field House October 20-26. C. Bert Osborne is exposition chairman. George T. Richardson is chairman for the week, which is sponsored by the Industrial Committee of 100 of the Greater Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce.
Sunday, April 7
The first worship service was held in the new First Cumberland Presbyterian Church sanctuary on North Moore Road Sunday. The beautiful building described by the architects as modified English Gothic is built of East Tennessee sandstone. Dr. J. Fred Johnson has been pastor since 1933.
Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut, who has attained international recognition as a militant foe of communism and Nazism, will be the guest speaker at Chattanooga’s annual Armed Forces Day luncheon and parade May 17, S.V. O’Lenic, civilian chairman of the armed forces committee, announced Saturday.
Monday, April 8
Tom Jones was elected president of the Chattanooga Sales and Marketing Executives Club, succeeding Abe Koblentz at the monthly meeting of the club Monday night in Hotel Patten. Thomas O. McDavid, vice president of Commercial Credit of Baltimore, was the principal speaker at the dinner meeting.
Tuesday, April 9
The Moccasin Bend Girl Scout Council will conduct a capital fund drive in May to raise some $325,000 to construct a camp on the 750 acres of land it owns on Lookout Mountain, six miles south of the Trenton-LaFayette highway, Mrs. Charles A. Scott, Jr., president of the Council, announced. She also announced the appointment of John P. Wright, bank and civic leader, as general chairman of the campaign.
Wednesday, April 10
Summers-Whitehead Post 14 of the American Legion Wednesday presented a certificate to Mayor Olgiati in recognition “of his outstanding character and leadership as a citizen, public official, legionnaire, and his singleness of purpose in promoting the progress and welfare of our community.” The presentation was made by Commander Charles K. Peacock of Post 14.
Thursday, April 11
The next $5 city auto stickers for automobile windshields will be labeled “All America City” instead of the picture of the Civil War engine General, as has been customary, the city commission decided Wednesday.
The University of Chattanooga has received a grant of $500 from the Home Builders Association of Chattanooga and the Home Builders Association of Tennessee to make an investigation of home requirements in the Chattanooga area. Similar grants have been made to the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Memphis State, and East Tennessee State University.
Friday, April 12
Entry blanks for artists who will submit work in the Chattanooga and Area Artists Exhibition, to be shown in the Tivoli Theatre during the May Arts Festival and later at Hunter Gallery, are now available at the gallery, director Russell Thornton announced. The deadline for entries has been extended to Sunday, April 28.