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Front Page - Monday, November 26, 2012

50 Years Ago ...


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1962?



Saturday, November 24

Twenty-four Tennessee legislators were overnight guests in Chattanooga Friday night, meeting for a discussion of legislative issues at Lakeshore Lodge. Members of the Hamilton County delegation were host to the visitors.

Lovemans will have a $2,000,000 store in a $7,000,000 addition to Eastgate Center, Chattanooga’s “Miracle Mall” development. The new department store containing 50,000 to 65,000 square feet of space will be on one level for maximum customer convenience, Richard L. Moore, president of Lovemans, announced.

Sunday, November 25

Mrs. Sheila Haywood, one of England’s three top women architects and landscape specialists who holds the important title of “Town Planner,” has been spending the Thanksgiving holidays as the guest of Mrs. S.P. Long and Miss Nelsie Long.

Monday, November 26

The Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Cross is outlined in lighted windows across the front of the Volunteer State Life Insurance building on Georgia Avenue at Ninth Street.

A sports appreciation banquet honoring the three undefeated, untied football teams of the greater Chattanooga area – Brainerd, Central and Rossville – will be held December 11 in the Provident Building dining room. Attorney W.D. “Bill” Spears, former All-American football player at Vanderbilt and the first Chattanoogan to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, will be honored at the dinner.

Tuesday, November 27

The appointments of Joseph W. Thatcher as manager of manufacturing, Edwin H. Norman as manager of product development, and C. Elroy Rollins as assistant manager of manufacturing for Standard-Coosa-Thatcher were announced Monday by R.C. Thatcher, Jr., president.

Mrs. Madge Clouse Anderson, wife of I.A. Anderson of Signal Mountain, died Monday night. She was a leader in the Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church and active in various civic organizations.

Wednesday, November 28

David J. Reynolds, secretary and treasurer of Kaye Oil, died Wednesday morning after a brief illness.

The Chattanooga Junior Chamber of Commerce Wednesday honored the coaches and co-captains of Central High and Brainerd Senior High football teams, which have gone undefeated this year.

Thursday, November 29

Southern Universal Textile Processors of St. Louis, a fabric processing plant to employ 30 to 35 persons, initially will be placed in operation January 1 in a section of the former Peerless Woolen Mills, Bert Brown, Rossville Development president announced Wednesday.

Chancellor Clifford Curry declined Wednesday to enjoin the City Commission at this time from preventing higher fares on Southern Coach Lines buses, but directed that city government file with the Court a full record of proceedings in Southern Coach’s recent attempt to get a new rate schedule.

Friday, November 30

Dr. Marion M. Young, health officer for Cumberland, Bledsoe, Sequatchie and Rhea counties, has been named director of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department effective January 1, it was announced by Commissioner Petersen and County Judge Frost. Dr. Young will succeed Dr. Paul Golley, who retired last June for reasons of health.