Saturday, Sept. 1
Plans for a $1,500,000 luxury apartment development in Brainerd were announced Friday by Emanuel Schatten, president of Schatten-Cypress of Nashville. Site of the 160-unit apartment complex is a 10-acre tract at Audubon, Germantown and Vista Roads south of the shopping center.
Company B 114th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division, World War I, is holding a two-day reunion at Hotel Patten. It will be the 46th annual roll call for this unit since its organization in 1917, Sam P. Diamond, reunion chairman, announced.
Sunday, Sept. 2
National Posters will expand its operations into a new plant and office building under construction in the Industrial District of Stone Fort Land, just off Amnicola Highway, officials announced Saturday. T.A. Lupton, Jr., land company president, said this is the third building to be erected for concerns in the new Industrial District.
Recently elected state and county officials took their oaths of office Saturday in a brief but colorful ceremony in Circuit Judge James F. Morgan’s courtroom at the Courthouse. County Judge Chester L. Frost presided and swore in many of the officials.
Monday, Sept. 3
Cord H. Link, Sr., widely known professional photographer, died late Saturday at his home on Bird’s Mill Road.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
The appointment of Max M. Beasley as executive vice-president of Singer-Cobble was announced Tuesday. Beasley will now be responsible for all Singer-Cobble domestic operations.
Collins & Hobbs has been awarded the general contract to build the Brainerd Branch of the Chattanooga Federal Savings & Loan Association on a low bid of $119,695, W. Arnold Chambers, Chattanooga Federal president, announced Tuesday. The branch will represent a total investment of $215,000 including land, equipment and site beautification.
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Desegregation began at six previously all-white city elementary schools Wednesday without incident.
Thursday, Sept. 6
Southern Coach Lines on Wednesday petitioned the City Commission to increase adult bus fares by five cents, school tokens by four cents and to charge five cents for transfers, requesting that the fares become effective September 24. Mayor Olgiati said that the City Commission will conduct a public hearing on the petition and that a date for the hearing will be set at the Commission meeting next Tuesday.
Mrs. Minnie Forbess, a teacher in the Hamilton County school system for 51 years, died Wednesday in a local hospital. Her husband was the late W.J. Forbess, Hamilton County Agricultural Agent from 1915 until his death in 1939.
Mrs. John F. Hasenkamp of 1535 Rugby Place is the only finalist in Tennessee in the Pillsbury Company’s Grand National Bake-Off contest to be held September 16 through 18 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Mrs. Hasenkamp is already the winner of an electric range and mixer and a $100 cash prize for the peach-pineapple pie recipe she entered in the contest earlier this year. She will receive an all-expense paid trip to New York to compete in the bake-off.