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Editorial


Front Page - Friday, November 28, 2014

50 YEARS AGO


What was going on in Chattanooga in 1964?



Saturday, September 26, 1964

Three large building projects involving investments totaling $1,536,500 will begin soon in the Chattanooga area. The largest is the Continental Apartments at 2400 Hixson Pike, for which a $950,000 permit was taken out, a new Seventh Day Adventist Church in Collegedale permit for $464Saturday, Nov. 28

Robert Pegram Harrison, young Chattanooga attorney and son of Mr. and Mrs. DeSales Harrison, has joined the New York City law firm of Royal, Koegel & Rogers. He has been associated with the firm of Miller, Martin, Hitchings, Tipton and Lenihan of Chattanooga.

Sunday, Nov. 29

Station B, a postal facility which has served South Chattanooga for nearly half a century in the Main Street Branch of Hamilton National Bank, will close Monday and open Tuesday on a contract basis next door at Cox & Moore Furniture Co., 25 E. Main St.

Monday, Nov. 30

Charles J. Gearhiser, who has been a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Frank W. Wilson for the past 19 months, has been appointed assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, announced U.S. Attorney J.H. Reddy. The appointment will be effective Dec. 15.

Orin F. Reynolds, executive vice-president of the Chattanooga Gas Co., and Emry G. Petering, financial vice-president, have been presented special awards by the company in recognition of their completion of 40 years of service. S.V. O’Lenie, president of Chattanooga Gas, presented the awards.

Tuesday, Dec. 1

A three-alarm fire caused heavy damage late Monday night to the Fountain Square Pharmacy at 610 Georgia Ave. and the eight-unit Claridge Apartments over the drug store.

A proposed new look for a three-block area of Market Street, as a pilot plan for downtown renovation, was revealed to about 100 city leaders Monday at a luncheon meeting in the Continental Room of the Read House. Alan Derthick, Chattanooga architect, representing the Chattanooga Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, outlined the program in detail.

Wednesday, Dec. 2

The County Council went on record as favoring the location of a State Junior College in Chattanooga. The resolution noted that Chattanooga is 100 miles away from the nearest state college and the farthest distance of any county seat from a state educational institution.

Thursday, Dec. 3

Dr. Walter E. Boehm, director of the Birth Defects Center at Erlanger Hospital, will represent the Hamilton County Chapter of the National Foundation March of Dimes at the National Conference on Birth Defects in San Diego, Calif., Dec. 6-9.

Friday, Dec. 4

Richard Strauss, manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Chattanooga store and president of Chattanooga Retail Merchants Association, has been named director of the 1965 fund drive for the Chattanooga Area Heart Association.

Walter L. Weaver, long time Chattanooga attorney, died Wednesday night from injuries received about two hours earlier when he walked into the side of a taxi cab while crossing the street in front of Erlanger Hospital.