Saturday, September 12, 1964
The T.H. Payne Co., Chattanooga’s oldest business firm, will begin a full-scale remodeling project at once to completely modernize and beautify both the Market and Broad Street fronts, according to Thomas P. Howell, president. T.H. Payne is located at 821 Market Street.
Sunday, Sept. 18
Plans by the Krystal Co. to carry out a $430,000 expansion program in Chattanooga were announced Saturday by R.B. Davenport, III, president of the company. The program included the addition of a third floor to the headquarters office building at Cherry and East Seventh Streets, a new Krystal site on Brainerd Road, and another on McCallie.
R.E. Lorentz, Jr., Chattanooga metallurgical engineer with Combustion Engineering, Inc., here will be one of the featured speakers on the program for the 19th annual Petroleum Mechanical Engineers’ Conference in Los Angeles, Sept. 20-23.
Monday, Sept. 14
Monday morning, a new Hamilton County grand jury was selected to serve during the fall term of Criminal Court. Six-year old Rip Rohen, son of Deputy Criminal Court Clerk, drew the names of jurors as Judge Tilman Grant looked on.
Paul J. McMillan, residential customer supervisor for the Chattanooga Electric Power Board and president of the International Association of Electrical Leagues, will address the league at its 29th annual conference in New York on Sept. 21-25.
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Joseph H. Davenport, Jr., president of the volunteer State Life Insurance Co. of Chattanooga and East Tennessee Chairman of the Radio Free Europe Fund, is among 50 American business and civil leaders currently touring Radio Free European facilities.
Wednesday, Sept. 16
C. Melbern Wilcox, executive vice president of Fillauer Surgical Supplies, Inc., was nominated Tuesday as 1965 President of the Chattanooga Kiwanis Club.
Hugh Tobin, traffic manager for Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, was guest speaker Wednesday night at Hotel Patten for the Chattanooga Traffic and Transportation Club’s annual Railroad Night meeting.
Thursday, Sept. 17
The Chattanooga Housing Authority Wednesday was offered $409,500 for the Golden Gateway block on Chestnut Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets, on which a three-and-a-half story parking garage with space for a minimum of 275 cars would be built by a corporation associated with Pioneer Bank.
Friday, September 18
The East Brainerd community will welcome a new business enterprise this Friday and Saturday with the formal opening of Brainerd Hills Pharmacy at 6330 E. Brainerd Rd. Allen Bullard, well-known in pharmaceutical circles, is the proprietor and is also owner of the Annex Drug Co., 1718 Bailey Avenue.
The Dorsey Corporation has launched the Chattanooga phase of its four-year, $8.6-million expansion program with the beginning of construction on a modern, 46,600 square foot building that will increase by 30 to 40 percent the warehouse capacity at its Chattanooga Glass Co. plant in Alton Park, announced J. Frank Harrison, president of Dorsey and board chairman of its Chattanooga Glass Co. subsidiary. The new one-story building will front 520 feet along Oakland Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets, he said.