From The Smyrna Times,
Feb. 25, 1960
Smyrna voters to seat Councilmen, Treasurer in Monday election
Voters go to the polls here Monday in Smyrna’s annual municipal election for two councilmen, a treasurer, and three assessors. Contests have been assured in both the races for council and treasurer, four candidates having filed for the council seats and two for the treasurer’s post.
Howell H. Barnes is the solo aspirant for the assessor’s office.
Seeking three-year terms as councilmen are Glenn W. Busker, 215 Mt. Vernon St.; Robert G. Davidson Sr., North and High Sts.; Guy M Edmonson Jr., Mt. Vernon St.; and Stanley M. Middleton, 35 Mt. Vernon St.
Filing applications for the upcoming election closed Feb. 19.
Police probing weekend robbery of Laundromat
Smyrna Police are continuing their investigation today of the weekend robbery at Smyrna Laundromat on South Main Street next to the post office.
Thieves entered the 24-hour laundry facility sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and robbed approximately $100 from a coin changer machine within the building.
In their haste to escape, the vandals dropped nearly $10 in quarters on the laundry floor.
The robbery was discovered by a Sunday customer who found the money lying on the floor near the machine as she entered. She notified William Kruchen, owner of the business, who in turn summoned Smyrna police. An immediate investigation was launched.
Police said that the vandals were apparently not amateurs. The jimmied the lock of the coin machine and lifted the lid to gain entrance to the change.
‘My True Security’ competition won by Lidia Kitschik
At an assembly of junior and senior students at the John Bassett Moore High School held here last week the winners of the “My True Security-The American Way” contest, sponsored by the Smyrna-Clayton Junior Chamber of Commerce, were presented and delivered their essays which had been judged best of those submitted by eight contestants.
Lidia Kitschik was declared the winner, and Patricia King and JoAnn Craig, runners-up.
The judges, who had selected the winners after hearing their essays over a loud speaker in the morning, included Mrs. Lawrence C. Ellery, Mrs. J. D. Niles. Jr., the Rev. J. Howard Link, and Francis B. Gebhart, Theodore R. Parsell, acting principal, presided at the program.
Martin Golden, state president, Jaycees, told the students that their true security was within themselves, and that the Bill of Rights allows them to be anything according to their abilities.
Traveling nuclear science teacher captivates pupils
More than 500 students of Grades 7-12 at the John Bassett Moore High School were captivated during an hour-long lecture and demonstration Monday by Miss Marie A. Bonner, “traveling science teacher”, who is spending this week in Smyrna, and will continue each day with lectures in classrooms.
The school had requested the program, arranged by the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The purpose of the program is to stimulate the interest of students in science, and they were fascinated by the serious-humorous lecture.
