Saturday, June 2
Air conditioning is to be installed on city buses. Southern Coach Lines, Inc., has begun tests of a new type of air conditioning unit on one of its late-model GMC buses, with an eye toward adapting similar units to other vehicles in its fleet if tests prove successful. The bus on which the new unit has been installed is already in operation, with the unit cooling passengers through ducts built into the busts for ventilation. The vehicle is being alternated on several routes.
Miss Barbara Lou Nolting, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. DeWayne Nolting, Peace Corps trainee, flies to Kingston, Jamaica June 12 to become a catalog librarian at the University of the West Indies. Miss Nolting is a reference librarian at Emory University in Atlanta.
The board of commissioners of the Chattanooga Housing Authority Friday re-elected Ed Steiner, chairman, and Ray Smith, vice chairman, at the annual meeting at the CHA office. Mayor Olgiati has appointed K.W. Alexander to a five-year term as a commissioner.
Sunday, June 3
Robert Taylor, coordinator of adult and vocational education, Saturday was appointed assistant superintendent of city schools for general administration by the city school board on the recommendation of Supt. Bennie Carmichael. Taylor succeeds Dr. Joe Goss.
Monday, June 4
Four additional Guerry professorships have been established at the University of Chattanooga, President LeRoy Martin announced Monday night at Commencement: Dr. Wilbur K. Butts, professor of biology; Dr. James W. Livingood, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history; Dr. Culver H. Smith, professor of history; and Miss Terrell Tatum, professor of modern languages.
State Senator Z. Carter Patten, cited as “unmistakably one of Tennessee’s leading citizens,” received an honorary doctor of civil laws degree from the University of the South at Sewanee Monday morning during the commencement exercises.
Tuesday, June 5
Mitchell Crawford, Chattanooga attorney and civic leader, has been appointed coordinator for the re-election campaign of Congressman James B. Frazier, Jr., it was announced Wednesday. He will coordinate campaign activities in the entire 11-county Third Congressional District. Campaign headquarters will open Thursday morning at the Read House Motor Inn on Broad Street.
Catalogs for the 1962 Chattanooga-Hamilton County Fair have been distributed. The 1962 Fair is dedicated to the memory of the late Mrs. Maude H. Atwood, executive secretary for almost 50 years. A.T. Atwood has been elected secretary and administrative assistant of the Fair Association, and Miss Olive Atwood Taliaferro assistant secretary, by the Board of Directors.
Wednesday, June 6
The Industrial Committee of 100 of the Chamber of Commerce honored all Chattanooga Metropolitan Area Manufacturers Wednesday with a luncheon at Hotel Patten. Luther Masingill was master of ceremonies of the affair, which was part of the week-long “Salute to Industry Week.” The American National Bank & Trust Co., Interstate Life & Accident Insurance Co., Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co., and Volunteer State Life Insurance Co. were co-hosts for the luncheon.
Thursday, June 7
Paul Kruesl, retired industrialist and founder of American Lava Co. here, was honored for his 60 years of significant service to the industrial development of Chattanooga with a plaque at the “Salute to Industry” luncheon Wednesday at Hotel Patten. He was described as “the best representative of all Chattanooga area industrialists.”
Promotion of Baxter C. Davis to assistant vice-president in the correspondent bank department of the Hamilton National Bank was announced by J.E. Whitaker, chairman of the board, following a meeting of the board Wednesday. Davis formerly was assistant secretary and credit manager of the Peerless Woolen Mills.
Friday, June 8
Thirty members and leaders of the Chattanooga Area Heart Association are to attend the 9th annual meeting of the Tennessee Heart Association at the Riverside Hotel in Gatlinburg Friday and Saturday. Dr. David P. McCallie will be installed as president of the state association to succeed Dr. J.E. Acker of Knoxville.
Preston P. Jordan, district manager for Southern Bell Telephone Co., pointed out today that many persons “unknowingly” are putting their own and perhaps other telephones out of service every day by not replacing the receiver properly when through talking. When a person continues to get a busy signal, the caller usually notifies the telephone company that the phone is out of order. The phone company may then send a repairman out on a service call, only to discover the phone is off the hook.