Pepperoni Rolls

The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (WCHS)

A new city council was seated in Hinton

Guyan Valley High School was built in Pleasant View

Kyle McCormick became publisher of the Princeton Observer

A granite monument marking Zackquill Morgan's grave was erected

Lawrence Nuttall donated his plant collection to the WVU Herbarium

The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South Parkersburg

1,099 cases of smallpox were reported in West Virginia

The state's milk control program began

The federal court case United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidation Coal and Coke Company affirmed the use of injunctions against union organizing efforts

Blind Alfred Reed wrote "The Wreck of the Virginian"

Walter Reuther moved to Detroit

Frederick H. Rhead joined the Laughlin Company

The boundaries of the Monongahela National Forest were extended to include the Smoke Hole

Legislature acted to acquire additional areas for state parks

Festus Summers studied at Columbia University

The William Byrne Elk River tales began a regular feature in the West Virginia Wild Life Magazine, and were later published as Tale of the Elk

Sam Taylor ended his state police career after losing a leg in an on-duty motorcycle accident

W.W. Trent became president of Alderson-Broaddus College

A planing mill in Parson became a woolen mill

Consolidation Coal Company became the largest independent bituminous mining company in the nation

Ernest T. Weir took over as chief executive officer of National Steel

I. C. White stopped serving as first director of the West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey

Lenna Lowe Yost became the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees

Gas leak and fire destroyed much of the glass factory, but the company resumed a year later

Vernon Johnson was reelected as Speaker of the House of Delegates

Emile Hodel became editor of the Beckley Post-Herald

Michael Benedum built the Bridgeport Civic Center

Reorganization transferred state mental health and penal institutions to Department of Mental Health and the Commissioner of Public Institutions

Weirton Steel purchased Browns Island for $40,000

S. Maude Kaemmerling willed 3,135 acres of land in Canaan Valley to West Virginia for recreational use

FMC developed new source of brine at Bens Run

City National Bank opened its doors under President Donald Shonk

Bishop mine explodes again

Jim Comstock founded the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly

Deer restocking program ended

Roy Bird Cook received the Award of Merit from the West Virginia Library Association

Little Jimmy Dickens left the Grand Ole Opry

Irvin Dugan retired as newspaper artist

Donald Duncan's sons took over the Duncan Yo-Yo Company

Fairfax Stone dedicated as state historic monument and became state park

Gunner Gatski played football one year for Detroit

The Knights of the South Branch was organized to revive medieval jousting

Roy Lee Harmon wrote Unto the Hills

Logan High School and its field house and athletic fields were constructed on Hatfield Island

Ken Hechler moved to West Virginia to teach at Marshall College (now University)

The first interstate highway construction contract in the state was awarded on I-64 for a bridge across a road in Cabell County

Jean Lee Latham was awarded the Boys' Clubs of America Junior Book Award for Trail Blazer of the Seas

The McClains were approached by WVU professors who feared that early West Virginia histories would be lost if not reprinted

Kyle McCormick wrote The Story of Mercer County

John Norman served on the aircraft carrier Saratoga

A group from West Virginia and Ohio purchased land to establish a college with an independent board of trustees, now Ohio Valley University

Marbon Chemical is built

The announcement of plans to merge the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central System was made

The Division of Disease Control began a statewide polio vaccination program

The Kanawha River bridge was opened in Winfield

Red Ribble stopped photographing southern West Virginia

Otis Rice began teaching at West Virginia Institute of Technology

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company company stores were sold

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company coal reserves were leased to the Island Creek Coal Company

Jay Rockefeller went to the International Christian University in Tokyo

Shenandoah Downs purchased land north of Charles Town Race Track for night harness racing

WVU Rod Hundley became All-American in basketball

Jim Sprouse began practicing law

Beckley radio station WAJR increased to 5,000 watts

Ernest T. Weir died

The last high school basketball was played under the African-American West Virginia Athletic Union

Benjamin Starks founded the Beacon Journal in Charleston

The Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council agreed to combine as the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

West Virginia State College lost its federal land-grant status

Stanley H. Martin became president of West Virginia Wesleyan College

The Whipple mine shut down and the company store closed

The Winfield bridge was completed

WSAZ radio switched affiliation to NBC

Huntington Galleries changed its name to the Huntington Museum of Art

State lost $300 million in stock market when A. James Manchin was treasurer

Comprehensive state gazetteers were published by the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

Vitro Agate ceased operations

John Sayles wrote Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan

Jon McBride was assigned as assistant administrator for congressional relations at NASA

David A. Raese became publisher of the Dominion Post

Joe Mullins won the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial design competition

Swami Bhaktipada of New Vrindaban was arrested and charged with racketeering and accused of ordering the murders of two Krishna devotees

Henry Payne began syndication with United Feature Syndicate

Jayne Anne Phillips published Fast Lanes

The Pittston Coal Company withdrew from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association

The Ohio Valley Refining Company was closed

Swami Bhaktipada was expelled from ISKCON