Saturday, August 3
Faced with the virtual impossibility of completing its work by the September 10 deadline, the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission voted without dissent Friday afternoon to ask the City Commission and County Council for a six-month extension of the time allowed for preparation of a charter for consolidated city-county government.
The seven DuPont plants in Tennessee last year put more than $64,300,000 into the state’s economy including over $20,000,000 pumped into the local economy in the same 12 months by the campaign’s Chattanooga nylon plant through payrolls and the purchase of goods and services.
Sunday, August 4
More than 250 horses and riders will participate in the Third Annual Chattanooga Charity Horse Show at Warner Park Field House, August 29-31, sponsored by the Junior League of Chattanooga, it was announced Saturday. Trophies, ribbons and prizes amount to $6,000.
A count of 388 bankers and their wives representing financial institutions throughout seven southeastern states and Puerto Rico concluded the 29th Annual Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Institute of Banking Saturday night at the Read House.
Monday, August 5
Fletcher R. Morgan, veteran Chattanooga attorney who managed President Kennedy’s 1960 campaign in Hamilton County, assailed the president’s stand on civil rights Monday and announced he will oppose Kennedy next year.
George C. Bruce has been appointed manager of a newly organized corporate insurance department for the Nopco Chemical Co., which has headquarters in Newark, N.J. and operates an installation in Chattanooga.
Tuesday, August 6
Reforestation planting in the Tennessee Valley during the 1962-63 season increased to end several years of decline. TVA said Tuesday that 64,552 acres of land were planted in trees during the past season in 125 valley counties. This was 3,650 more acres than in the 1961-62 planting season.
The appointments of William C. Thomasson as city tax attorney and Harlan Whitfield as director of purchasing were announced Tuesday at the City Commission meeting. Both appointments will be effective August 15. Harry Pierce will remain in the purchasing department as Whitfield’s assistant.
Wednesday, August 7
The Family Service Agency today announced it will build a new building on the corner of East Fourth Street and High Street adjacent to the site of its present building. Selmon T. Franklin & Associates have been retained to design modern quarters for the agency.
J.E. Whitaker, chairman of the board of Hamilton National Bank, Wednesday announced the following promotions: Baxter C. Davis from assistant vice-president to vice-president; C. Marion Gaston, assistant trust officer; J. Robert Potts to assistant auditor, and Philip E. Davis to assistant cashier.
Thursday, August 8
The Law Enforcement Commission of Chattanooga and Hamilton County Wednesday adopted a resolution expressing “deep and sincere gratitude” to William O. Hubbuch for his services as grand jury foreman. It was presented to Hubbuch by Robert Kirk Walker at the monthly meeting of the commission in the Read House and signed by T.A. Lupton, Jr., chairman, and attested to by Dixie T. Smith, executive secretary.
Specifications for a bookmobile system that will include two trailers and a hauler unit are being prepared for the city purchasing agent, Miss Elizabeth Edwards, librarian of the Chattanooga Public Library, said Wednesday.
Friday, August 9
Hobart Guy Cawood, a native of Middlesboro, Ky., has been named historian at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and has assumed his duties there, succeeding Rock Comstock who has been promoted and transferred. Cawood will work under the direction of John Cook, superintendent of the park.