Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campaign. In Chattanooga, running for district constable, Pleasant Hixon announced: "The office of constable is an obsolete institution ... If elected, [I will] take this obsolete office out of circulation...
...FIGHT is shaping up over who will boss TVA when Gordon Clapp's term expires in May. To support their plea to keep Clapp, a delegation of TVA area residents headed by S. (for States) R. (for Rights) Finley of Chattanooga, handed President Eisenhower a stack of petitions bearing 60,321 signatures. But Eisenhower wants an administrator with a less New-Dealish background. Likeliest candidate: Chattanooga egg dealer and longtime GOPolitician, Harry C. Carbaugh...
Musically, the picture offers a reminiscent run-through of almost all the old Glenn Miller favorites (In the Mood, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Pennsylvania 6-5000, Tuxedo Junction, Little Brown Jug), though Louis Armstrong, playing a pie-eyed piper in one scat session, may make the audience wish for a few wild minutes that this were Armstrong's story and not Miller...
...Chattanooga Times, Harry Carter, executive assistant to Tennessee's education commissioner, reeled off a startling statistic. Of the state's Negro high-school graduates, 34% go on to college. The whites' record...
Also, the South has cheap power, largely because of "the influence" of federal programs. "The man who wants to start a moderate-size industry," writes Kennedy frankly, "would pay an annual electric bill in Boston of $26,800, but in Chattanooga only $11,000 [for the identical electric consumption]." New England, he points out, has not obtained a single federal hydroelectric project...