Saturday, August 29, 1964
The Chattanooga Federal Savings and Loan Association will establish its second branch office, President W. Arnold Chambers, announced Thursday after permission for a facility on Hixson Pike was received from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The site is just south of Highland Plaza Shopping Center. Construction will begin within about 30 days.
Southern Coach Lines will begin its 1964-65 program of school bus service on the first day of classes, Sept. 8, to transport some 3,000 students per day to and from schools within the city limits, John L. Williams, Coach Lines president, announced.
Sunday, Aug. 30
Plans for a much larger, ultra-modern Eckerds in the heart of downtown Chattanooga in the same block as the present store were announced Saturday by Harry T. Weddle, general manager here for Eckerd Drug Stores. A long-term lease has been taken on the four-story building at 710-12 Market Street. Eckerds has been in its present location for 35 years.
The new Moccasin Bend Gun Club, the sixth in a nationwide network of public trap and skeet facilities franchised by the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., opened Saturday. The organization is owned by 100 local stockholders. Gordon Street, Jr., is president of the club.
Monday, Aug. 31
Sam I. Yarnell, chairman of the board of the American National Bank and Trust Co., speaking at a Junior Achievement luncheon meeting Monday said the only real opportunity for the future of America lies in the capitalistic economy way of life, and that the Communist threat to the American way of life can be defeated by the religious and economic factors in our society.
William J. Dorn, a Chattanoogan who graduated first in his class at the University of Tennessee Law School in March 1963, will be added to the City’s legal staff as law agent, effective Sept. 1, it was announced Monday.
Tuesday, Sept. 1
The board of directors of the Moccasin Bend Girl Scout Council Tuesday authorized awarding the principal contracts to construct the $325,000 Girl Scout Camp on Lookout Mountain. Mrs. Charles A. Scott, Jr., president, announced that W. M. Mabry, Jr. had been selected as the general contractor and the Brown Pool and Gunite Co. named as the swimming pool contractor.
Wednesday, Sept. 2
Dr. James S. Cheatham took over his duties as superintendent of the Moccasin Bend Psychiatric Hospital Tuesday, succeeding Dr. Nat T. Winston, the hospital’s first superintendent, who has been appointed deputy commissioner to the Tennessee Department of Mental Health.
Thursday, Sept. 3
An appropriation of $10,000 was voted Wednesday by the Hamilton County Council to finance a program of opening libraries in 11 county schools for one night a week during the coming school terms. Judge Frost said the action was necessitated by recent decision by city public library board that a fee would be charged residents of the county living outside the city for use of the Chattanooga Public Library.
Friday, Sept. 4
Para-rescue team members of the Air Force’s worldwide Air Rescue Service will give a demonstration of air-water rescue techniques Sunday at 2 p.m. at Loret Villa on Chickamauga Lake in conjunction with a visit of more than 60 boats that will bring members of the Redstone Yacht Club on a cruise from Huntsville, Ala., to Chattanooga.
The Zella Armstrong Fellowship for Advanced Music Study has been awarded to Miss Gwen Manchey of Signal Mountain, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lavan Manchey. The award was announced by Hugh O. Macclellan, president of the Cotton Ball Association, which sponsors the scholarship. Miss Manchey, a graduate of the University of Michigan with a bachelor of music degree, will begin organ studies in Frankfort, West Germany this fall. She will study under one of the world’s most renowned organists and teachers, Helmut Walcha, at the Staatliche Hochschule for Music.