Saturday, Aug. 25
A two-year agreement between Combustion Engineeringm and its guards and watchmen has been signed, allowing for improved insurance and vacation plans and a four-cent pay hike for the first year. A seven-cent pay increase is to take effect Sept. 1, 1963.
Dr. Dumas Malone of the University of Virginia, regarded as the greatest living authority on
Thomas Jefferson, was the commencement speaker at the University of Chattanooga summer graduation exercises. There were 114 in the graduating class.
Miss Kathleen Pound Caldwell and H. Clay Evans Johnson were crowned queen and king of the 30th annual Cotton Ball Friday night at Memorial Auditorium. Ninety-two belles were presented at the ball.
Sunday, Aug. 26
Six more concerns have taken leases in Eastgate Center, increasing the number of businesses to 25, Mose Lebovitz, president of Independent Enterprises, owners of the development, reported.
Sunday was designated “Law and Order Day” in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, when area ministers were asked to speak from their pulpits for a peaceful and orderly desegregation of city and county schools.
Monday, Aug. 27
Eastern Air Lines, now operating partial flight service in metropolitan American cities, plans to resume its full flight schedule in Chattanooga on Sept. 13.
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Across-the-board salary and pay increases of 5 percent have been given to employees of the Hamilton County government who work under supervision of the county council.
U.S. District Judge Leslie R. Darr has been designated to sit as a member of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals at its opening session, which starts October 1. There is an unfilled vacancy on that appellate court caused by the death of U.S. Circuit Court Judge John D. Martin in Memphis.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
The Chattanooga city schools opened with registration of an estimated 26,000 pupils today. It also marked the start of limited desegregation in the first three grades of selected schools under order of the federal district court.
The first phase of Lovell Field improvement will start in October. This work will consist of new concrete aprons, taxiways, taxiway lights and other improvements to cost an estimated $500,000.
County Judge Frost has filed an application for Hill-Burton funds to aid in construction of a $1,746,000 nursing home on county property at Silverdale. Federal funds would provide 52 percent of the total cost.
Thursday, Aug. 30
Elementary schools in Hamilton County opened on a desegregated basis today in grades 1, 2 and 3 following the pattern set by the city system.
Friday, Aug. 31
Developers of a proposed 50-unit “luxury” apartment project received a conditional building permit from the county appeals board. Some 50 homeowners in the Altamont Road area where the proposed building will go opposed the project.
The Rev. Carl R. Athearn, 68, a retired Methodist minister widely known in this area, died Wednesday in a local hospital.