Discrimination against blacks in state's public places continued, according to West Virginia Human Rights Commission, including in the coal mines.
West Virginia purchased an additional 44 acres
A flood claimed 22 lives in West Virginia
A 65-site campground opened at Blackwater Falls State Park
The Army Corps of Engineers completed a dam on Elk River at Sutton
Marshall College became a university
Charleston's Davis Child Shelter orphanage closed
W. E. "Ned" Chilton III became publisher of the Charleston Gazette
Accident classified as a "disaster" changed from when 5 died to 3 or more
Bruce Crawford retired from the West Virginia Advertising Company
Phyllis Curtin made her Metropolitan Opera debut
Julia Davis wrote Legacy of Love
Douglass High School closed in Huntington
Joanne Dru was featured on Guestward Ho!
Ann Flagg moved to Chicago
Grafton National Cemetery reached its capacity of 2,119 graves
Charles Haden began practicing law with his father in a firm, Haden & Haden
Elizabeth Hallanan became a member and chairman of the Public Service Commission
Charles Hodel was named the Charleston Gazette's "man of the year"
Joseph Hodges was appointed coadjutor bishop with the right of succession to Archbishop John Swint of the Diocese of Wheeling
The gate house at the Huntington State Hospital entrance was removed
The coal seam at Kaymoor was worked out
Sam Mallison published Let's Set a Spell
Kyle McCormick left the position of state historian
Howard Gray passed presidency of the Meadow River Lumber Company to his son
Morgantown Glassware Guild made a line of elegant stemware for the White House for the Kennedy administration
Milan Puskar started Mylan Pharmaceuticals
Okey Patteson married Dorothy R. "Bebe" (Reuter) Warden.
The Omar riverboat was given to West Virginia
Eleanor Roosevelt began serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations
St. Francis Nursing School in Charleston closed
David Selby appeared in Honey in the Rock
The Salvation Army sold the Sunrise mansions and grounds to the Sunrise Foundation
The New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was established
Cyrus Vance was named general counsel for the Department of Defense
Charleston baseball joined the AAA International League
The Hinton Jaycees turned the water ski show into a full festival
WSAZ was sold out-of-state
Leonard C. Nelson became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology
Matthew Reese joined the Democratic National Committee as deputy chairman
Billy Cox met James "Jimi" Hendrix at the service club in Fort Campbell
