Saturday, April 7
Some 68,600 automobiles and trucks were registered in Hamilton County during the 31-day licensing period, which ended March 31, County Clerk David M. Ramsey reported.
The University of Chattanooga has received a grant of $13,630 from the National Science Foundation, Dr. LeRoy A. Martin, president of UC, announced Thursday.
Hodding Carter, the Pulitzer-prize winning owner and editor of the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat-Times, spoke Friday at McCallie School in the first installment of the James Allen Vann Lecture series.
Sunday, April 8
An increase in sales taxes rather than property taxes would be a more equitable means of raising additional money for county schools, County Judge Frost said on a television program Sunday, because it would be levied because it would be levied primarily “on those persons who are earning more” while a property tax increase would be an excessive burden on older home owners living on retirement income.
Editor-in-Chief Kazo Norita, of Too Nippo Press, Amori, Japan, was guest at a dinner meeting Saturday night at the Read House tendered to him by city officials and civic leaders.
Monday, April 9
Dr. William J. Sheridan, prominent Chattanooga surgeon, is the new president of the Tennessee State Medical Association, and Mrs. W.E. Van Order, wife of Dr. Van Order, well-known pediatrician of Chattanooga, is the president-elect of state association’s Women’s Auxiliary.
Tuesday, April 10
John Guerry, a vice-president of American National Bank and Trust, has been named public relations chairman of the United Fund for the Greater Chattanooga area for 1962.
The appointment of Sebert Brewer as chairman and Miss Catherine Koskos as co-chairman of the promotions and publicity division of the Salute to Industry Week was announced Tuesday by George T. Richardson, general chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee of 100, which is sponsoring the program, which will include a display of Chattanooga-made products in Warner Park Field House June 5-9.
Wednesday, April 11
Jaycee president Ismail Akbay on Wednesday presented Carl W. Borden, manager of DuPont’s Chattanooga Nylon Plant, a Chattanooga Junior Chamber of Commerce “certificate of appreciation” for his community service.
New York City resident Reginald Armour, president of Dorsey, the parent company of Chattanooga Glass, was in Chattanooga Wednesday to attend ceremonies that marked the formal opening of the new all-electric glass furnace – the first of its type in the United States. J. Frank Harrison, president of Chattanooga Glass, presided.
Thursday, April 12
An open house will be held at the $1,500,000 Read House Motor Inn from 3-6:30 p.m. Friday. Albert Noe III, president and managing director, and Albert Crouch, manager of Read House, invite patrons and friends of Read House to attend. The open house will occur on the 90th anniversary of the opening of the first Read House in 1872.
Six courthouse officials for the seven-month period ending March 31 put some $312,000 in excess fees into the Hamilton County treasury. Trustee Joe W. Richardson set an all-time high for his office with $210,845 in excess fees. Circuit Court Clerk Lucile Hixson turned in a total of $24,098 in her first excess fee report for Circuit Court. Sessions Court Register Dorothy Brammer reported $42,628, County Court Clerk David M. Ramsey reported $29,365, Criminal Court Clerk Clyde M. Sanders reported $4,407, and Clerk and Master Carl Baker reported $2,000.
Friday, April 13
Chattanooga’s Brainerd Road, located east of the McCallie Avenue tunnel, is one of the three busiest streets in Tennessee. In an actual traffic count done during an average 24 hours in 1961, the highway department reported 34,640 motor vehicles passing along Brainerd Road. Knoxville’s Broadway and Memphis’s Union Avenue ranked ahead by small margins.