Saturday, December 8
Thomas A. Lupton, Jr., was elected president of the Law Enforcement Commission of Chattanooga-Hamilton County at a meeting Friday at Read House. Lupton succeeds R.R. Murphy, who has served as president since the Commission was formed in August 1961.
Representative-elect William E. Brock on Friday announced the appointment of two members of his Washington staff. William E. Timmons, who has served as office manager for Hamilton County Republican Committee, was named administrative assistant. Mrs. Mildred Basinger of Bells, Tenn., who has served as an aide to Congressman J.B. Frazier, has been appointed as one of three aides to work under Timmons.
Sunday, December 9
Eight members of the contact and sales group of the Industrial Committee of 100 of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce will be in the New York City area this week to contact prospects for new business and industry for Chattanooga. Warren Hardy, president of Chattanooga Belting & Supply, is chairman of the group.
A 16-member committee of engineers and architects set up “to see that the people of this community have all the facts, good and bad, and an understanding of questions of a technical or scientific nature,” has been appointed by Paul Shoun, president of the Chattanooga Engineers Club.
Monday, December 10
Castle in the Clouds, a Lookout Mountain resort hotel, has been sold to a Georgia investment corporation and will be converted early next year to a residential hotel for retired people, Joe Simmons, Albany, Ga., Realtor and businessman who is president of Retirement Hotel Homes, a Georgia corporation, announced.
Beverly Hixson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hixson, senior at Hixson High School, was crowned Chattanooga Junior Miss at the Jaycette-sponsored pageant Saturday night in Brainerd High. Miss Hixson will compete in the Tennessee Junior Miss pageant in February at Red Bank.
Tuesday, December 11
Scott L. Probasco, Jr., vice chairman of the board of American National Bank & Trust on Monday was elected chairman of the new metropolitan government charter commission. The 10-member commission, in an organizational meeting at Hamilton National Bank, chose Jack Whitaker as its vice-chairman and Mrs. Jean Livingston as secretary.
Dr. Fred Ballard, Jr., has received notice he has been certified as a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. M.F. Langston, president of the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society, announced Monday.
Wednesday, December 12
Reporting a loss of $16,313 for the first 11 months of 1962, Southern Coach Lines went back to court Wednesday in a new attempt to put higher bus fares into immediate effect.
Mrs. Stella Connor Robinson, widow of Fred Robinson, Sr., died Monday afternoon in a local hospital. Mrs. Robinson was a devoted member of the Northside Presbyterian Church, Riverview Garden Club, Oak Ridge Manor Association and North Chattanooga Book Club.
The 11th annual Chattanooga Regional Science Fair will be held March 27, 28 and 29 at the University of Chattanooga, Mrs. Martha Davis and Robert J. Sudderth announced.
Thursday, December 13
Professional Golf will increase its production of clubs 300 percent as a step in a program to make Chattanooga “the golf capital of the world,” Jack Harkins, chairman of the board, announced Wednesday.
Friday, December 14
George C. Hudson, Sr., a member of the city school board since 1957, has asked that he not be considered for re-appointment when his term expires in February. Mr. Hudson, president of the Hudson Printing and Lithographing, is active in civic, fraternal and church affairs.