Pete Everest

James Brockus enlisted in the West Virginia State Police

Construction began on two styrene units at Institute

West Virginia had purchased 311 acres for Audra State Park

Lew Burdette learned to pitch with American Viscose Rayon Company Team

A community board, which helped raise funds to build Charleston Memorial Hospital, was formed in home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ziebold Sr.

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation established by Michael and Sarah Benedum

Committee began searching for church camp site to honor the Peterkins

Smokey Bear was introduced by the Wartime Advertising Council

"Biggie" Goldberg served in the U.S. Army for two years

Davis Grubb's first published story was "The Lollipop Tree" in Good Housekeeping

The GI Bill of Rights provided generous educational benefits to WWII veterans

The Jones Diamond was first displayed at the Smithsonian

Jean Lee Latham received a Silver Wreath for her work training Signal Corps inspectors for the War Department

The first meeting of the West Virginia League of Women Voters was held

Ned Cline died

Kermit McKeever became superintendent of Watoga State Park

A summer youth camp began at Minnehaha Springs

The Monongahela Power & Railway Company was completely out of the streetcar business

Eleanor Steber sang at the Democratic National Convention

Increasing pressure to install a black administration at Storer College led to the forced retirement of President Henry T. McDonald

Institute produced 131,000 tons of butadiene

W.W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of Schools

The government began selling the Tygart Valley Homesteads to settlers

The United Carbon Building appeared on the cover of Pencil Points architectural magazine

The nursing school at Welch Community Hospital ceased operation

Only 118 students enrolled at West Liberty State College

Cornelius Charlton moved with his family to New York City

The end of private education at Storer College in Harpers Ferry

New campus for Appalachian Bible Institute opened in Bradley

Gray Barker wrote his best-known book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers

Blackwater Lodge opened at Blackwater State Park

Boundary dispute between West Virginia and Virginia involving Monroe, Giles, and Alleghany Counties

Chauncey H. Browning was Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court

Cabell Huntington Hospital first opened for business

Lodge at Cacapon State Park was completed with a restaurant and banquet hall

The "golden" trout was spawned with regular rainbow trout at state fire hatchery

Charles Town Opera House was condemned

City National Bank was organized in Charleston

Roy Clarkson joined Department of Biology at WVU

Mine at Bishop exploded

Chapman Revercomb last Republican to be elected to the Senate in West Virginia

Associated Dry Goods bought the Diamond Department Store

Elizabeth Drewry helped pass constitutional amendment allowing women to serve on juries in West Virginia

Pete Everest flew the X-2 at Mach 3

Ruel Foster wrote Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American Novelist

Charleston's Garnet High School closed

The state Board of Education authorized the construction of the student center, Pioneer Center, at Glenville State College

Joseph C. Gluck became pastor of the Forks-of-Cheat Baptist Church

The U.S. Government approached the C&O with proposal to build an "emergency relocation center" at the Greenbrier for reassembly of Congress

Davis Grubb wrote Shadow of My Brother

Minnie Buckingham Harper's second husband John B. Paterson died

Hazel Atlas Company operated 12 plants across the U.S.

Chuck Howley was named the Southern Conference Athlete of the Year

Sam Huff played with the New York Giants to win a championship game

The peak patient population at the Huntington State Hospital was 1,460

The federal Interstate Highway Act was passed

Jean Lee Latham won the Newbery Award for Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham won the Newbery Award for Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The Library Services Act by Congress enabled the Library Commission to acquire federal funding for public libraries in West Virginia

Clagg and Britton produced an atlas of West Virginia emphasizing historical factors and statewide economic data

Camden Eli "Cam" Henderson died

William Marland tried to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat

G. Ogden Nutting started his newspaper career as a reporter and news editor for the Martinsburg Journal

Mason College of Music and Fine Arts merged with Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

Thomas Miller graduated from the WVU College of Law

The West Virginia Mountain State Gospel Singers Corporation was chartered

Alfred Knobler opened the new Pilgrim Glass plant on Walker Branch Road in Ceredo

The community of Port Amherst received that name

The Pruntytown Industrial School for Boys was reintegrated

The N&W was West Virginia's last steam powered railroad

Mary Lee Settle wrote O Beulah Land

The Mann's Creek Railroad line closed

Planning for Sutton Dam continued

Direct distance telephone dialing was introduced in Wheeling and Moundsville

The Greenbrier art colony was reopened with the work of Gladys Tuke and Jeanne Eleanore Coyne

Cecil Underwood became a leading spokesman for the Republican Party

A silicones products plant was built in Sistersville

Andre Van Damme founded the Charleston Ballet

Jerry West led East Bank High School to the state basketball championship

The West Virginia Publishing Company changed name to West Virginia Education Foundation

The timber flooring of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge was replaced with open steel grid

West Virginia Institute of Technology was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Katherine Johnson's first husband died of a brain tumor

Ellie Schaul moved to West Virginia

Development of West Virginia's Appalachian Corridor highways began

Appalachian Regional Commission established by Congress

President Johnson's War on Poverty began

Charleston joins Morgantown and Huntington as alternating site of state high school basketball tournament

George Hodel became president of Beckley Newspapers

Bens Run Earthworks officially recorded by the Archeology Section of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

W. E. Blackhurst published Of Men and A Mighty Mountain

E. J. Scrafford became interim president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Weldon Boone wrote A History of Botany in West Virginia

Maurice Brooks published The Appalachians

Harry F. Byrd retired from the Senate

Governor Smith signed bill to end death penalty in West Virginia

Franklin Cleckley earned a J.D. from Indiana University

Arden Cogar exhibited his wood chopping at New York World's Fair

Diamond Department Store built a $1 million addition to its Charleston building

African-American State Farm and Homemakers Council voted to join the West Virginia Homemakers Council

Gertrude Humphrey left WVU Extension work

One-volume edition of Flora of West Virginia was published

Ruth Ann Musick published The Telltale Lilac Bush

Ruel Foster wrote Jesse Stuart

Per capita personal income in West Virginia was 76% of national average

The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation made its first discretionary grant, to Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

State Route 150, the Highland Scenic Highway, began construction

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) was established

Hope Natural Gas Company and New York State Natural Gas Corporation merged to form Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation

Hopemont Sanitarium became a personal care center

Blasingame Report recommending improved library service was completed

The West Virginia Library Commission launched an ambitious library construction project

A joint committee was created to study and survey matters of government, finance, and claims against the state and make recommendations to the full legislature

The Logan Banner was sold to a Tennessee publishing company

Marco mascot first began showing up at Marshall University events

Dan Maroney was elected a vice president in the Amalgamated Transit Union

Paul Marshall stopped working at Libbey-Owens-Ford in Kanawha City

Morgantown Glassware Guild was purchased by Fostoria Glass

Mount Storm Lake was built to supply water for steam generation at coal-fired power plant

Mylan Pharmaceuticals moved to Morgantown

The last coke-making operation in the New River Gorge closed at Sewell

Delf Norona became the first recipient of the Sigfus Olafson Award for his outstanding contributions to the West Virginia archeology

E. Lewis Case became president of Ohio Valley College (now Ohio Valley University)

Ohio Valley College (now University) was accredited by the state of West Virginia

Congress created the 100,000 acre Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area.

Jack Rollins moved to Cincinnati

The Soupy Sales Show first debuted nationally

Burl Sawyers resigned as state roads commissioner under indictment

Charles Town Race Track installed lighting

Smoke Hole became part of the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area

Red Sovine wrote "Giddyup Go"

Miles Stanley was selected as personal assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany

Fred Torrey made a bust of John F. Kennedy

U.S. combat troops first deployed in the Vietnam War

The War on Poverty was scaled back due to the escalation of the Vietnam War

Don West came to West Virginia and established the Appalachian South Folklife Center

Charles Schiff became conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

Muriel Dressler published first collection of poetry, Appalachia, My Land

Public kindergartens were mandated

The federal Endangered Species act was passed

Reynolds Memorial Hospital was given to the community

Clyde Ware filmed When the Line Goes Through

Denise Giardina received a B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan

Tom Screven helped launch the Hearth and Fair magazine

Governor Moore proclaimed West Virginia's first observance of Grandparents Day

The Overseas National Airway changed the name of the Greene Line to the Delta Queen Steamboat Co.

Hal Greer retired from basketball

Research was published tracing the origin of some West Virginia Guinea families to specific biracial and triracial unions

A study of the Hammons family resulted in a double recording from the Library of Congress and a Rounder Records release