Saturday, December 22
Architect Mario Bianculli exhibited and discussed drawings of the modernistic Lovell Field to-be in the office of Mayor Olgiati. Commissioner of Public Works Bender reported that the $3 million expansion project is scheduled for completion in 1963. “When this expansion is completed,” said Olgiati, “Chattanooga will have one of the finest airports in the South.”
The Kennedy administration has approved a $5.7 billion space budget. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports that 75 percent of the funds are earmarked for the project to land men on the moon.
H.C. Lillard, owner of Lillard’s Confectionery on 11th Street, reported to police that $65 was taken at gunpoint during an armed robbery in his store.
Sunday, December 23
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Waterhouse have as their guests for the holidays Mrs. Waterhouse’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Gelsthorpe, of Weekapaug, R.I.
Miss Helen Miller and Sebert Brewer, Jr., who will repeat their marriage vows December 28, will be the guests of honor today at a brunch to the held at Fairyland Club. Hosts for the pre-nuptial courtesy will be Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Randolph, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Goodrum and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mathews.
Monday, December 24
Federal District Judge William E. Miller ordered a special grand jury investigation into alleged improper attempts to influence the jury during the James R. Hoffa conspiracy trial in Nashville, which ended in a mistrial.
Dr. and Mrs. C. Lentz Reynolds, Jr., have moved into their new home on Red Riding Hood Trail on Lookout Mountain.
Tuesday, December 25
Approximately three inches of snow fell over much of the Chattanooga area Monday afternoon, raising the prospect of a white Christmas here for the first time since 1909.
Capt. A. Wallace Moore, 74, a retired officer of the Chattanooga Fire Department, died Monday afternoon.
Wednesday, December 26
Dr. and Mrs. Alex Rhoton have moved from Memphis to their newly purchased home on Alta Vista Drive. Dr. Rhoton recently graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. Mrs. Rhoton is the former Miss Patricia King of Chattanooga.
Thursday, December 27
Sponsors of bills creating a city traffic court have presented copies of two proposed acts to the City Commission. One of the bills would set up a second division in Chattanooga’s city court and the other would provide that a juvenile judge in any Tennessee city with a traffic court could waive a motoring charge against a driver under 18 to the traffic court.
The Chattanooga Housing Authority formally accepted the city’s $13,500 offer for property in the Golden Gateway, on which a $250,000 firefighting center is planned.
Misses Betsy Gamble, Pat Tobias and Gail Carter will be hostesses Friday night at a dance for members of the teenage set. The party will take place at the Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club. Mr. and Mrs. John Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Tobias and Mr. and Mrs. William Carter, parents of the hostesses, will be chaperones.
Friday, December 28
The appointment of Ray W. Evans, vice president of Chattanooga Medicine, as jury commissioner for the Chattanooga division of the U.S. District Court, was announced Thursday by Judge Frank W. Wilson.
Thomas C. Ervin, retired industrialist, has been elected chairman of the board of air pollution control to succeed the late Harry Miller.
Burch C. Allison, 88, prominent Rossville, Ga., merchant before his retirement, died Thursday morning at his home.