Saturday, August 22, 1964
Both the Hamilton County and the Chattanooga school systems scheduled Tuesday, Sept. 1 as registration day to avert a loss in average-daily attendance funds from the state, County Sup’t Sam P. McConnell said. The 1964-65 county school term officially opens when teachers report Monday, Aug. 31.
John M. Woodall of Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company has been named chairman of Group 5 of the United Fund campaign to be held this fall.
Sunday, Aug. 23
A $50,000 health education scholarship fund has been created with surplus donations to the recent Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine program conducted here in February, March, and April, the Chattanooga–Hamilton County Medical Society announced.
Chattanooga has a new tennis champion. Fifteen-year-old Zan Guerry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Guerry, won the State Closed Tennis tournament in Nashville Saturday when he defeated the state’s No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, Gavin Gentry.
Monday, Aug. 24
Competition from privately owned jitneys is the major problem facing Chattanooga’s transportation, John Williams, manager of Southern Coach, Inc., said Sunday.
Miss Margaret Rawlings, daughter of Col. and Mrs. James Rawlings of Lookout Mountain, has been appointed an instructor in Auburn University’s department of English. She will begin her teaching duties in September.
Miss Marsha Moore, daughter of Mrs. Mary Moore of Sunset Avenue, has been awarded a $3,000 National Institute of Mental Health scholarship to finish her work toward a master’s degree in correctional psychology at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Tuesday, Aug. 25
The Hamburg Machinery Co., of New York, was the high bidder on the sale and removal of the 40-year old steam-electric generating plant at Hales Bar Dam. The plant was acquired by TVA from the Tennessee Electric Power Co. in 1939. It was built by TEPCO and placed in operation in 1924 at a cost of about $5,000,000.
A new IBM computer, reported to be the second 1401G built, is slated for installation on the third floor of the City Hall building in about one week. The federal government is said to have purchased the first such computer built.
Wednesday, Aug. 26
W.T. Bales Sr., 89, for 20 years manager of the home office mailing department of Interstate Life and Accident Insurance Co., died early Tuesday at his home following an extended illness.
Thursday, Aug. 27
Sebert Brewer, member of the board of trustees of Erlanger and Children’s Hospitals, has been named vice chairman of the newly organized Hospital Councils of Tennessee, it was announced following an organizational meeting in Nashville Wednesday.
H.E. Collins Contracting Co. Wednesday received another contract for construction at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tullahoma, Tenn., bringing to five it has at the Center. The contract was for $116,512, and is for building two structures for use in connection with J-4 and J-5 rocket test cells, it was announced by Col. R.C. Marshall, U.S. Army District Engineer at Mobile, Ala.
Friday, Aug. 28
The Chattanooga Area Beekeepers Association will hold its “Short Course in Beekeeping” in the Agriculture Building at Cleveland today and Saturday. Guest speakers will be L.H. Little, state apiarist, and Glenn Card, Hixson High School agriculture teacher.