WJLS

The Short Ballot Amendment was rejected by voters

Jazz singer Jennie Smith was born

Report by Paul A. T. Noon and Mildred W. Sandoe showed 88% of West Virginia were without library services

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers began at WHIS radio in Bluefield

Pare Lorentz was appointed head of the U.S. Film Service by President Franklin Roosevelt

Upton Sears made a special crosscut saw to cut the famous Mingo Oak

Jack Maurice joined the staff of the Charleston Daily Mail as a reporter

Howard Gray became president of the Meadow River Lumber Company

The federal prison camp at Mill Point opened

Congress approved construction of flood-control reservoir on the Mud River

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was incorporated

The New York Central merged with the K&M, K&WV and other railroads

The Greenbrier County Museum Committee was created

The wooden deck of the Philippi Covered Bridge was removed and replaced with a concrete deck supported by steel girders and new intermediate concrete piers

Pinnacle Rock State Park opened

The first annual "Feast of the Ramson" was held in Richwood

Ruth Rohde served on the advisory board of Alderson's Federal Reformatory for Women

Hubert Skidmore published Heaven Came So Near

Ada "Bricktop" Smith made radio broadcast in France

The West Virginia Department of Mines first reported production figures for surface mining

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Tygart Dam

Clint Thomas suffered an ankle injury

An area for an arboretum was set aside in Watoga State Park

The dental hygiene department opened at West Liberty State College

A West Liberty State College branch campus opened in Wheeling

The state was divided into four regions for the West Virginia Athletic Union basketball tournament

WVU had 3,500 students and 150 faculty

Patty Willis exhibited her work at the Society of International Artists in New York

Fairmont radio station WMMN increased to 5,000 watts

Grote Reber confirmed that radiation at radio wavelengths was reaching the earth from outer space

A brick school building began serving the children at Tygart Valley Homesteads

Oscar Nelson commissioned Walter F. Martens to design the United Carbon headquarters

Sculptures by Annie Latham Bartlett was exhibited at the New York World's Fair

Andre Van Damme was recalled to military service during mobilization

West Virginia's share of the antebellum Virginia state debt was retired

Ground school courses and flying lessons were offered at Wertz Field as part of the National Civilian Pilot Training Program

Wheeling Dollar Saving & Trust acquired Citizen Mutual

Only 325 students enrolled at West Liberty State College

West Virginia Annual Conference of Methodists discontinued ties with Morris Harvey College

WHIS affiliated with NBC network

Patty Willis exhibited her work at the World's Fair

Aunt Jennie Wilson was widowed

Stanley Bender enlisted in the Army

Katherine Johnson married James Francis Goble

Chu Berry died in a car crash in Ohio

United Mine Workers of America established a Welfare and Retirement Fund

Ashford General Hospital closed

Wood County Airport, Parkersburg, built

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport, at Wiley Ford, built

The Bailes Brothers moved to KWKH Shreveport

Bluefield joined the Appalachian Rookie League in baseball

Van Bittner directed the abortive drive to organize southern industrial workers

Everett Ferguson sold Browns Island to Weirton Ice and Coal Supply Company

Lew Burdette signed his first professional contract with the New York Yankees

Col. E. G. Via died

Camden Park was sold to James P. Boylin

Jim Comstock founded the Richwood News Leader

Samuel Cooper attended the World Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland

Bruce Crawford founded the West Virginia Advertising Company

Phyllis Curtin appeared at Tanglewood Music Center

Davis & Elkins College received full accreditation

Dolores Dowling left the Army Nurse Corps as a first lieutenant

Joanne Dru starred in her first film, Abie's Irish Rose

Proposed amendment to make the Board of Education a constitutional body

First consulting forester in West Virginia began work

Patrick Gainer became professor of English at WVU

Joseph C. Gluck, eventually dean of students, vice president for student affairs and special counselor to students, began work at WVU

The third floor of the Governor's Mansion was added

Alberta Pierson Hannum's book Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play

Governor Meadows reappointed Roy Lee Harmon as poet laureate of West Virginia

Hawkshaw Hawkins began working on the Wheeling Jamboree broadcast from WWVA

Johnnie Johnson began performing in Chicago

The village of Lilly was razed due to construction of the Bluestone Dam

Pare Lorentz was awarded the Legion of Merit

A new dining hall was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

Jack Maurice returned to the Charleston Daily Mail

Arnold Miller returned home from WWII

The UMWA Health and Retirement Funds were created

Ruth Ann Musick began teaching mathematics and English at Fairmont State College (Fairmont State University)

Eldora Nuzum was made managing editor of the Grafton Sentinel

Molly O'Day was signed to Columbia Records contract by Fred Rose

American Cyanamid established plant at Willow Island

The West Virginia Broadcasters Association was organized

Louis Jordan made "Salt Pork, West Virginia" a best-selling recording

The Secondary Schools Activities Commission appointed a full-time executive secretary to the board

Raymond Hayes made a trip to Fayette County

Meredith Sue Willis was born

Sam Snead won the British Open

Buddy Starcher cut his first recordings on Four Star

An appropriation of $60,000 was obtained for the West Virginia State Police Academy during the legislative session

Storer College was accredited as a baccalaureate institution

A constitutional amendment providing educational reforms was defeated

Joe Stydahar won another championship with the Chicago Bears

Festus Summers became a full-time professor at WVU

The rubber plant at Institute was closed

DuPont's Belle Works ceased production of nylon

Frank Thomas built Fayette Airport

The United Brethren merged with the Evangelical Association forming the Evangelical United Brethren Church

There were 261 United Brethren churches in West Virginia

Hobert Skidmore died

The current West Virginia Historical Society was incorporated

The West Virginia Review was sold again

There were 6,000 students enrolled in WVU

Irvin Stewart became president of WVU

George Smith died

American neurologist Walter Freeman adapted a variation of the surgery called the transorbital lobotomy

Artist Helen Chilton was born in Pennsylvania

Southern tract of present Calvin W. Price State Forest was sold to the state by New River Company

Carr China Company went out of business

Statewide circulation of the Charleston Gazette peaked at 86,000

Consolidated Bus Lines employed 337 individuals and operated 100 buses

Phoebia Moore died

Phyllis Curtin made her debut with New York City Opera

John Warren Davis retired as president of West Virginia State

Julius DeGruyter wrote The Kanawha Spectator: History of the Kanawha Valley

The Dunbar-South Charleston Bridge opened as a toll bridge

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

Perry Gresham became president of Bethany College

Perry Gresham wrote Disciples of the High Calling

John Ailes became editor of the Hampshire Review, Hampshire County

Hardy County Heritage Weekend began at Mill Island

Another 400 acres was added for the Harpers Ferry National Monument

Ken Hechler became the associate director of the American Political Science Association

Jean Lee Latham wrote The Story of Eli Whitney

The Library Commission moved to Charleston from Morgantown

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers left West Virginia

A fire damaged the Martinsburg Journal building

"Speedy" Estep was killed racing a stock car in Columbus, Ohio

Davis Grubb wrote Night of the Hunter

A trail at the WVU Arboretum was named in honor of Lawrence Nuttall

Eldora Nuzum joined the Elkins Inter-Mountain

The West Virginia State Poultry Association annual meeting moved to Moorefield

Distribution of Salk polio vaccine

Chuck Ripper moved to Huntington as art director for the Standard Printing & Publishing Co.

Rat Rodgers was admitted to the College Football Hall of Fame

Eleanor Roosevelt stopped serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations

Alex Schoenbaum's restaurant chain was named Shoney's

WVU played in the Sugar Bowl

West Virginia became one of the first sates to finance development of park facilities by selling bonds

WKNA TV when on air in Charleston as channel 49

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Kanawha Valley was established

Oscar Nelson died

The initial accreditation attempt for Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) failed

The Baptist State Convention began to meet at Hilltop

William J. Wallace became president of West Virginia State College

Enrollment at West Virginia State College was at 837 students

William B. Axtell became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology

Katherine Johnson began working with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a “computer” doing complex analysis and calculations

Toni Stone joined the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League

An addition was added to Ruby Memorial Hospital

William R. Haden announce retirement from presidency of West Virginia Wesleyan College

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel entered a relationship with the Severstal North America

WHIS radio was owned by Triad Broadcasting

Jesco White lived in isolation in Boone County

Don Whitlatch lived in Parkersburg

The Public Service Commission approved three projects

Bob Wise accepted a job in Washington

Bill Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

George Connard Wolfe lived in Standard

Woody Williams was West Virginia's last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from WWII

Charles Bayless became president of WVU Institute of Technology

Major renovations took place at Yeager Airport