Saturday, Aug. 15, 1964
A new Winchester Franchise Gun Club will be opened in Chattanooga Sunday, Aug. 30. The new installation built, owned, and operated by the Moccasin Bend Gun Club, Inc., represents a significant addition to the Chattanooga metropolitan area recreational facilities.
Wann Funeral Home has leased James Craig Lodor Post 148 of the American Legion in St. Elmo and will move, following remodeling, into the new location in about three weeks. A chapel, designed by Selmon T. Franklin Associates, Architects, will be added to the building. The present location of Wann’s on McCallie Avenue has been leased by the Tennessee Department of Public Welfare. The building will be converted into a modern office building.
Sunday, Aug. 16
The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga will mark its 25th Anniversary beginning today with a program of advertising and publicity to show the public just what has been accomplished in the quarter-century of its operation here.
Miss Karolyn Kosanke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kosanke of Belinda Drive, has been awarded a $2,000 DuPont Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Virginia. She is a June graduate of Mississippi College at Clinton, a Baptist liberal arts institution. Her father is minister of education at First Baptist Church here.
Monday, Aug. 17
Construction has been started on the first phase of the City Water Company’s $1.4-million project involving the laying of nearly three miles of 30-inch pipeline leading to a pair of new 2.5-million gallon storage tanks on the side of Missionary Ridge.
Tuesday, Aug. 18
The Chattanooga Housing Authority Monday rejected the Heftler Construction Company bid of $319,000 for five parcels in the Golden Gateway, where it proposed to build 370 housing units at an estimated cost of $14,112,600. The rejection was caused by a lack of definite commitment by Heftler as to when construction would begin.
The Electric Power Board presented engraved gold watches to 82 of its employees to mark their 25 years of service to the Board. The presentations were made Monday night at a dinner in the Provident Building cafeteria.
Mrs. Susie Eakin, Young Democratic State Committee woman from the Third Congressional District, will serve as hostess to Tennessee’s delegation at the National Convention in Atlantic City.
Wednesday, Aug. 19
Mayor Ralph Kelley said Tuesday if the Hamilton County government does not provide financial support to the Chattanooga Public Library, it will lose $19,423 in state aid. The money available to this county will be divided among Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis, if it is not used here, Kelley said.
Lou Williams, vice president of the Hamilton National Bank, has been named chairman of Group 4 of the United Fund’s fall drive, DeSales Harrison, campaign chairman, announced.
Thursday, Aug. 19
William Bailey Price, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Price, 9 North Lynncrest Dr., has been awarded a freshman scholarship to the University of Tennessee for the 1964-65 school year. He is a graduate of McCallie High School.
Plans were revealed by County Judge Chester Frost for a new $2.5-million county jail. At the meeting Wednesday of the County Council, councilmen agreed to begin negotiations with the city commission to get Chattanooga to share the cost of the project.
Friday, Aug. 20
Covenant College, formerly of St. Louis, Mo., will officially open in its new location, the “Campus in the Clouds,” atop Lookout Mountain, September 16. The college purchased the site and building of Lookout Mountain Hotel last Fall.
Four new high schools are in the proposed construction program recommended by the Hamilton County School Board. There would be a new Central High School on Highway 58 outside the city limits and a new high school in Hixson, Ooltewah, and the Lookout Valley – Tiftonia area.
A new civic group called “Friends of the Library” was organized Wednesday with Felix G. Miller elected chairman. Mr. Miller said the primary mission of the group will be to help the library strengthen its facilities, expand its resources, and do an even greater-than-before job for the entire community.