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State legislature passed and county residents endorsed Sunday racing at Mountaineer Race Track

A baccalaureate degree in Bible was added at Ohio Valley College (now University)

William Price McNeel became editor of the Pocahontas Times

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel began construction of continuous caster

State ex rel. Board of Education v. Rockefeller changed the financing of public schools

Union Carbide headquarters moved to Danbury, Connecticut

The elecro-metallurgical plant at Alloy was sold to the Elkem Company

Legislature gave the governor the authority to appoint the director of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

Jim Comstock sold the West Virginia Hillbilly to South Charleston Publishing Company

Mike Shott became general manager of WHIS radio

Meredith Sue Willis wrote Higher Ground

Margaret Workman was appointed to an unexpired term on the Kanawha Circuit Court by Governor Rockefeller

4 to 8 inches of rain had fallen

A great flood ripped through the Trough

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history occurred when river rose more than nine feet above flood stage

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history hit

Timber and Watershed Lab at Fernow Forest was severely damaged by the flood

Greenbrier River crested at 23.95 feet, more than nine feet above flood stage, killing 47 people

Record flooding occurred in central and eastern West Virginia, killing 47 people

High water reached 13 ft above flood stage at Glenville

Major flood caused great damage to Marlinton

There was a major flood in Parsons

Cheat River crested at 24.3 feet, more than eight feet above flood stage

Raging flood waters killed 16 people in Pendleton County

West Fork at Weston crested at 24.10 feet, more than seven feet above flood stage

The Philippi mummies were damaged in the flood and were treated by a local funeral home