Saturday, February 16
The YMCA has submitted to the Chattanooga Housing Authority an offer of $184,000 for a tract in the Golden Gateway on which it proposes to build a new downtown YMCA. Howard C. Morland, general secretary of the Y, revealed.
Merger of Sam Chester & Co. and Braddock Insurance Agency, to form the Chester-Braddock-Smotherman Agency, Inc., was announced Saturday by officials of the widely known general insurance concern.
Sunday, February 17
The Chattanooga Gas Co. sold 57 percent more gas during the month of January than it did during the entire year of 1949, S.V. O’Lenic, president, said Saturday.
Richard H. Houck has been elected a trust officer of the American National Bank and Trust Co., and will assume his new duties Monday, Sam Yarnell, chairman of the board of directors, announced Saturday.
The property at Sixth and Market, across from Sears, has been leased by Eleanor Shops, a women’s and misses apparel chain, with a total of 187 units over the South and Southeast. The new store is expected to open in time for the pre-Easter buying season.
Monday, February 18
The Chattanooga Engineers Club opened the national observance of Engineers Week here with its luncheon meeting Monday in Hotel Patten. Dr. R. Philip E. Hammond, director of the Saline Water Conversion Reactor Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was the principal speaker. Arnold Palmer, “Mr. Golf” and America’s leading player, has purchased two lots in the Valleybrook Golf and Country Club residential development here, it has been announced by Valleybrook manager Clyde Abernathy. Palmer is president and a major stockholder in the Arnold Palmer Co., whose national headquarters is in Chattanooga.
Tuesday, February 19
Work will begin March 1 on the new $16.5 million lock at Guntersville, Ala., the TVA announced Tuesday. This will be the third of a series of projects on TVA to speed freight traffic on the Tennessee waterway from the Ohio River to Chattanooga.
J. Marshall Johnson, chief of the steam-electric generation branch of TVA, retires February 28 after 24 years service. Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were honored at a reception in the Edney Building.
Wednesday, February 20
The Park Hotel in the heart of downtown Chattanooga has been leased to Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Auerswald for conversion into a retirement hotel, it was announced Wednesday. The Auerswalds have taken a five-year lease with option to buy the nine-story brick, fire-resistant, 89-room hotel at 117 East 7th Street.
The Girls’ Club of Chattanooga, which was organized in 1961, now has its own new clubhouse at 709 South Greenwood Ave., Mrs. G. Munce Sherrill, president, announced this week.
Thursday, February 21
David A. Schrom, manager of manufacturing and industrial relations for the DeLaval Separator Co., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., addressed the Chattanooga Engineers at their annual banquet Thursday night in observance of National Engineers Week.
The Chattanooga Junior Chamber of Commerce and the United Church Women are sponsoring a two-day conference on “Community Approaches to the Problem of Alcohol” Thursday night and Friday. Dr. Leonard Morgan, Jr., consultant in psychological service to the Tennessee Department of Mental Health addressed the Thursday night dinner at Hotel Patten.
Friday, February 22
The low bid of Chase Manhattan Bank and Associates on $4,000,000 in Hamilton County bonds was accepted Wednesday by the County Council. The bid calls for an average interest rate of 2.79 percent.
Claude Joiner, Jr., manager of the cotton division of Standard-Coosa-Thatcher Co., will visit Sudan March 3-15 to receive first-hand information on the cotton situation there. He will be a guest of the government of Sudan and a representative from the United States.
The Chattanooga Chapter, American Institute of Architects, has established a speakers bureau to provide programs for local organizations to use, Alan Derthick, member of the institute and a member of the firm of Derthick and Henley, Architects, said today.
Morris Jenkins, Game and Fish officer from Soddy, has completed a two-day course in water pollution at the Game and Fish offices in Nashville.