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Front Page - Friday, July 18, 2014

50 Years Ago


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1964?



Saturday, July 18

Beef and Liberty, Inc., has taken over management and operation of Lakeshore Restaurant and the motel and vacation cottages under a contract with Lake Chickamauga Resort, Inc., owner of the lake facilities, it was announced Friday.

Sunday, July 19

A new plant representing an investment of more than $250,000 to manufacture glycine is nearing completion at the Chattem Chemical Division of the Chattanooga Medicine Co., Alex Guerry, Jr., president of the manufacturing concern, announced Saturday.

Monday, June 20

Miss Joyce Lewis, Miss Chattanooga of 1964, left Monday for Jackson, Tenn., where she’ll compete in the state-wide Miss Tennessee contest.

Al S. Barger has resigned as an assistant city attorney, effective August 1, and reportedly will accept an appointment as register-at-large of the Hamilton County election commission.

Tuesday, June 21

County residents will have to pay for use of the Chattanooga Public Library when their current library cards expire, the library board decided Tuesday at the regular July meeting. The charges will be $5 annually for persons 14-years of age and over, $2 for those under 14.

An addition to cost $125,000 for the State Highway Headquarters on Cromwell Road has been approved by State Highway Commissioner David R. Pack, according to V.L. Perkinson, local division engineer. Bids will be taken on the new project August 18. Harrison Gill is the architect.

Wednesday, June 22

S. H. Jackson, president of the Monarch Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Fort Oglethorpe, offered the high bid of $110,000 for two East Chattanooga buildings and five adjacent lots, the property of the Jackson Manufacturing Co., which recently moved to the Jackson plants in Cleveland, Tenn., headquarters of the concern.

The City Commission Tuesday approved the appointment of the city’s first “meter maids,” naming three women to tend parking meters in the downtown areas. They are Mrs. Frances McCoy, Mrs. Barbara J. Clay, and Mrs. Vera Deen. A fourth might be hired before they assume their duties August 1.

Thursday, June 23

Mrs. Midge Dewees Selman, widow of Thomas O. Selman, and former well-known Chattanoogan, died Wednesday in Knoxville. Mrs. Selman was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S.T. Dewees.

Friday, June 24

The present schedule for establishment of the Chattanooga State Technical Institute calls for letting the contract by September 1, with completion of the facility on Moccasin Bend in 10 months, a Chamber of Commerce committee was told. Charles O. Whitehead, director, said he expected the school will be in operation by the fall term of 1965.

More than 2.1 million persons in Tennessee have received all three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine since the first county program was inaugurated last October, Dr. R.A. Calandruccio of Memphis, chairman of the Tennessee Medical Association’s Communications and Public Service Committee, has announced. This figure represents approximately 60 percent of the state’s population, which, according to the 1960 census, was just over 3.5 million persons.