Saturday, July 13
H. Clay Evans Johnson, president of Interstate Life and Accident Insurance Co., has submitted his resignation as chairman of the Golden Gateway Committee to Mayor Kelley. Mr. Johnson was named to this committee by former Mayor Olgiati on Nov. 15, 1961.
Zan Guerry defeated George Taylor, 13-year-od Houston Junior High student, Saturday morning for the 14-and-under division championship of the fourth annual U.S. Tennis Tournament at Manker Patten Tennis Center. Zan, a 14-year old Baylor student, is unbeaten this year.
Sunday, July 14
The Rev. L.B. Crantford, veteran Baptist clergyman, was elected Pastor Emeritus of East Lake Baptist Church.
The American National Bank and Trust Co. will open its East Brainerd office Wednesday morning, it was announced Saturday by Sam I. Yarnell, chairman of the board.
Monday, July 15
Richard B. Davies, a chartered life underwriter and former Chattanoogan, has been appointed to head the general agency of the local branch of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Walter O. Menge, president, announced from company headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind. Davies succeeds William H. Eiland, Jr., who has been transferred to head the general agency in Birmingham, Ala.
Tuesday, July 16
The City Commission, after a 30-minute discussion Tuesday, voted unanimously in an informal meeting to set a new tax rate at $2.70 per $100 evaluation, an increase of 40 cents, and authorized preparation of the new budget for passage. The new budget calls for a total of $18,065,116, an increase of $2,065,116 over last year.
About 200 members of Summers-Whitehead Post, American Legion, voted Tuesday night to accept the state of Tennessee’s offer to take over a portion of the Post’s headquarters for use of the claims office of the Tennessee Department of Employment Security.
Wednesday, July 17
A proposal for a $1.5 million Downtowner Motel and restaurant to be built at 9th and Carter Streets in the Golden Gateway has been accepted by the Chattanooga Housing Authority on recommendation of the CHA’s technical advisory committee, Herbert Banks, executive director, said Wednesday. The development will be built by Dr. William C. Pallas and leased to Downtowner Corp. of Memphis.
The American Manufacturing Co. of Chattanooga offered the apparent high bid of $125,000 for four tracts of the subdivided former Cramet plant property, it was revealed Wednesday when bids were opened in Atlanta. H.C. Robinson, president of American Manufacturing, said his company had no definite plans, but made its bid to obtain property for future expansion.
Thursday, July 18
T. Walter Fred, former Chattanooga co-founder of Davenport Hosiery Mills, died Wednesday morning in an Arlington, Va., hospital of injuries received some days earlier in an automobile accident. His home was in Middleburg, Va.
Cap’t P.D. Garland, former head of the state highway patrol’s Chattanooga division Wednesday was reassigned as field representative for the safety department’s drivers license division. Garland was relieved of his Chattanooga assignment Monday and replaced by Melvin Hutsell.
Friday, July 19
Cast for Floret Qui Laborat – The Story of John Ross, a pageant developed around the life of the last principal chief of the Cherokee nations in the East, under the direction of Miss Betty Peruchi, is rehearsing for two performances to take place August 9 and 10, weather permitting. The Rossville Arts Association and Mrs. O.L. Miller, general chairman, are sponsoring the pageant. Its title, He Prospers Who Labors, is taken from the Ross family’s coat-of-arms.