Saturday, May 4
H. Thurman Webster has been named convention salesman for the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was announced Friday by Paul Mathes, Bureau president. He will assume his duties Monday.
After 39 years in the same location, 910 Market Street, Globe Clothing will move to 827 Market Street next to T.H. Payne, Harry Daneman, owner of Globe Clothing, announced.
Sunday, May 5
Mayor Ralph Kelley and Frank Orend, assistant manager of the Industrial Committee of 100 of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, left Sunday morning for New York to join about 30 other Tennesseans in the first 1963 industrial development trip sponsored by the State of Tennessee.
Chattanooga’s Regional Science Fair finalists – Miss Diane Grob, 17, a senior at Red Bank High School and girls’ sweepstakes winner in the regional competition, with her teacher, Mrs. M.A. Caballero; and Brian Delano, 16, Tullahoma High School and senior boys sweepstakes winner, with his teacher, James Kemp – went by plane Saturday to Albuquerque, N.M., to enter their exhibits in the National Science Fair International, to be held May 6 to 11.
Monday, May 6
Appraisal of some 210 separate tracts involved in clearing the freeway cut through Missionary Ridge are now being made by a four-man State Highway Department team. Negotiations for acquiring the first parcels might start within 30 days.
An expansion program which will triple the size of Rossville Federal Savings and Loan Association at a cost of $200,000 was announced Monday by David C. Scarborough, executive vice-president of the firm.
Tuesday, May 7
Mrs. Ariel Stevenson McMillin, widow of Col. Douglas N. McMillin, a widely-known artist and accomplished musician, died at her home on Lookout Mountain Monday night.
Rep. William E. Miller, 43rd chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be the principal speaker at a GOP $25-per plate fund-raising dinner to be held May 27 at the Read House. Rep. Bill Brock III will introduce the speaker, David F.S. Johnson, dinner chairman, announced.
Wednesday, May 8
Samuel H. Carter, Sr., retired contractor, died Wednesday morning in a Bradley County hospital after a long illness. He was superintendent of streets and sewers under former Mayor Ed Bass and served as superintendent of buildings for the Hamilton County School Board.
Bankers and law enforcement officials met in Chattanooga Wednesday for a discussion of bank robbery problems. The session was sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Thursday, May 9
William Virgil Beene, 81, retired teacher, died Wednesday after a long illness. Prof. Beene taught in Hamilton County Schools for nearly 50 years. He has been the first principal of Red Bank High School. He had recently published his teaching memoirs in a book, In Retrospect. He had been a member of the First Baptist Church over 50 years.
Centenary Methodist Church’s governing body Wednesday night approved a proposal to purchase property adjoining its presently developed site sufficient to give it almost complete ownership of the block bounded by McCallie Avenue, Lindsay, Oak and Houston Streets.
Friday, May 10
Penn-Taylor of Toronto and Newark is planning to establish a manufacturing plant and distribution center in Chattanooga that eventually will employ at least 100 workers. The former Archer Paper, 1124 Market Street, is the site for the new facility, and will be purchased by the company from Southland News.