Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Colonel Milton B. Ochs, 91, vice president of the Chattanooga Times Printing Company, and the last of a trio of newspaper-publishing brothers (others: Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, George W. Ochs of the Philadelphia Public Ledger); in Chattanooga...
From the State Times's new air-conditioned building, 32 editorial staffers (average age 32) work under Editor Norman Bradley, 42, former associate editor of the Chattanooga Times. Politically, the new daily, says Editor Bradley, is "Democratic by persuasion, independent by nature, middle-of-the-road but slightly more on the liberal side than most Mississippi papers." Its syndicated features include everyone from Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence to Walter Lippmann, the Alsop brothers, Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson and the Washington Post and Times Herald's Fair-Dealing Cartoonist Herblock. Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen...
...increasing out-of-state milk purchases except during a severe shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient mass production and distribution methods, claims it could deliver fresh milk in Manhattan for 11.2? a quart wholesale (almost 1? less than the New York price...
Promptly the FBI arrested two car thieves, charging them with murder. The accused: George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, Va. and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of Washington. D.C. Later, the FBI added a third inmate to its list of suspects, another car thief named Lewis Cagle, 17, of Chattanooga...
RAILROAD MERGER between the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway will result in the South's second biggest road (5,780 miles of track), just behind the Southern Railway. Reason for the merger: competition from trucks, buses, and planes has cut the roads' revenues...