Saturday, August 24
Emanuel Schatten, Nashville realtor and property developer, has purchased Brainerd Center, a business area fronting 360 feet along Brainerd Road, for $235,000. The property, located at 3617 through 3635 Brainerd Road, comprising about 3.5 acres of land, extending 460 feet to Cherryton Drive, was owned by Mendooga Properties, a New York City investment concern.
Sunday, August 25
Abe Koblentz, local business and civic leader, has been named chairman of the business professional and industry committee for Area Salute to Industry Week October 20-26, Seth Sizer, chairman of industry appreciation activities, announced. On Mr. Koblentz’s committee will be T. Grady Parham, Richard A. Strauss, and A. Cave Richardson.
Congressman Bill Brock Saturday said he would not seek either of Tennessee’s two Senate seats in next year’s election.
Monday, August 26
Ismail Akbay, prominent young civic leader and past president of the Jaycees, who is presently a research engineer for Combustion Engineering, will join Hayes International Corp. in the Huntsville branch August 30 as a senior engineer.
About 2,000 families drove through the new Sears Parkade Sunday in an open house from noon to 6 p.m. The multilevel building opened for business Monday morning with ribbon cutting ceremonies at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, August 27
Four major courthouse offices are to be filled by appointment within the next several weeks. They are the posts of grand jury foreman, county attorney, county purchasing agent, and chancellor of Part I Chancery Court.
The cost of school bus tokens has been reduced from 25 for $3.75 to 25 for $3.50, Dyer Butterfield, Jr., president of Southern Coach Lines, announced Monday. The transfer charge of five cents will not be imposed on students who must ride two buses going to and from school.
Wednesday, August 28
Ten of the city’s 33 elementary schools were quietly integrated through the first four grades Wednesday in the second of a seven-year court-ordered desegregation program.
The second phase of a $13,000,000 expansion program has been announced by Combustion Engineering in New York, calling for an $8,000,000 expenditure to be divided between company plants in Chattanooga and St. Louis for expansion and modernization. Only recently, Combustion officials announced an outlay of $5,000,000 for expansion of heavy nuclear component manufacturing facilities in Chattanooga.
Thursday, August 29
Garrison Siskin, Chattanooga philanthropist and businessman, Wednesday asked the Junior Chamber of Commerce to join the 365 Club in sponsoring an annual football bowl, with proceeds going toward the establishment of an in-patient clinic in the Siskin Center’s Operation Crossroads program.
Theodore Webb, well-known Chattanoogan, died Wednesday in a local hospital. A graduate of McCallie School and the University of Chattanooga, he was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain and the Half Century Club.
Friday, August 30
A building permit for a 20,000-square foot warehouse here has been obtained by the DuPont. The estimated value listed on the application was $80,200.