Arnold Miller

West Virginia State Board of Education adopted flag-salute regulations

Florence Blanchfield was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel

Construction on the Bluestone Dam began

Alonzo Brooks returned to French Creek

Log lodge, two framed dormitories, swimming pool and bathhouse constructed at Camp Washington-Carver

Brandon Hass sold the property now known as Cathedral State Park to the state

The Charleston Ordnance Center received the coveted Army-Navy "E" production award

Carl Rutherford learned to play in same tunings as others

Julia Davis wrote The Sun Climbs Slow

U.S. Farm Security Administration came to an end

Ken Hechler was drafted as an infantry private

Two separate groups of Italian POWs were imprisoned in West Virginia

The first and largest contingent of Italian POWs arrived to build Camp Ashford

Andrew Gardner Jackson died

Gordon L. Bennett was the first executive secretary of the Library Commission

The Linsly School became known as the Linsly Military Institute

The Lost World Caverns cave was discovered as the Grapevine Cave

Frank McEnteer arrived in the Middle East

Kermit McKeever became superintendent of Lost River State Park

J. Kemp McLaughlin was assigned to the 92nd heavy bombardment group of the Eighth Air Force

Mercer County's miners produced 3,500,000 tons of coal

Okey Mills enlisted in the army as paratrooper

The Civilian Conservation Corps was terminated

Calvin W. Price received an honorary law degree from West Virginia University.

Dyke Raese coached the West Virginia University men's basketball team to a major sports national championship.

The Schoolhouse Cave survey was completed

Hugh Shott served in U.S. Senate

Hubert Skidmore wrote Hill Lawyer

Sam Snead had won 29 tournaments

President of UMWA District 17 Van Bittner resigned

CCC Camp Watoga was closed

Wertz Field Airport closed

Only 212 students enrolled at West Liberty State College

Phil Conley re-acquired the West Virginia Review

Antonia Modarelli became director of the Charleston Civic Orchestra

The Works Progress Administration ceased operation

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

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

WJLS added an FM affiliate

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

Artist Helen Chilton was born in Pennsylvania

Muriel Dressler published "Appalachia"

Easton Roller Mill was willed to the Monongalia Historical Society

Ann Flagg died in Illinois

Jack Fleming became sports director of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh

Jack Fleming became announcer for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association

Ruth Ann Musick published Green Hills of Magic

Fort Ashby was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Population of Grant County was at 8,607

Alberta Pierson Hannum's book Spin a Silver Dollar radio play was published as The Blue House by U.S. Information Agency

The National Park Service opened the Harpers Ferry Center, to serve National Park units nationwide

Frank Haymond received the American Bar Association's ABA Medal

Henry Clay Furnace was added to the National Register of Historic Places

James Dickey's novel, Deliverance, made the term "hillbilly" sinister

Every Ohio River county except Jackson had at least one chemical plant

Sam Huff ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Alice Moore was elected to the Kanawha County Board of Education as an opponent of sex education

Kanawha Records stopped recording

Kenova population peaked at 5,000

Maryat Lee moved to Powley Creek

Everett Lilly moved back to Raleigh County following son's death

Alex Mahood died

Joe Manchin graduated from WVU with a bachelor's in business administration

The tannery in Marlinton closed

Paul Marshall became a registered architect

Irene McKinney received her master's from WVU

The Meadow River Lumber Company was sold to Georgia-Pacific

Alan Mollohan began a Fairmont law firm

Ona presented four NASCAR Grand National races

Mylan Pharmaceuticals incorporated in Pennsylvania as Mylan Laboratories

Justin B. Roberts became president of Ohio Valley College (now University)

Squire Parsons graduated from West Virginia Institute of Technology

The Penn Central Railroad corporation entered bankruptcy

Frank Beyer purchased the Philippi mummies

The first VHF non-commercial station in the state, WSWP-TV, started in Grandview

Rock Springs Park shut down and was purchased by the Department of Highways.

The first indication of Jay Rockefeller's intention to run for governor came when he spoke out against strip mining

The Ruffner Hotel closed and was demolished for a parking lot

David Selby earned a doctorate in drama from Southern Illinois University

The Meadow River Lumber Company closed

Jim Comstock republished Hubert Skidmore's Hawks Nest

Ada "Bricktop" Smith recorded her only recording, "So Long, Baby," with Cy Colemen

The South Charleston Mound was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

State Police department headquarters relocated to new facilities

Jerry West led the NBA in scoring

The Folklore Society met at WVU

The Highlands Conservancy worked to make cranberry backcountry a federal wilderness area

Federal Highway Act passed allowing tolls to be retained

Bob Wise received a B.A. from Duke University

Bill Withers moved to Los Angeles

WSAZ changed to WGNT

An addition was added to the Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport

Tommy Thompson started the Red Clay Ramblers with fiddler Bill Hicks and mandolinist Jim Watson

Arnold Miller defeated Tony Boyle in a special election as Miners for Democracy took control of UMWA

Dreamland pool began operation by the city of Kenova

Cartoonist Irvin Dugan donated a collection of 500 originals to Marshall University

Ruins of commercial wine production were acquired by Dunbar, to establish Wine Cellar Park

East River Mountain Tunnel was constructed

Fairmont State Community and Technical College was established

Patrick Gainer wrote the "Music" chapter in B. B. Maurer's Mountain Heritage

"Catfish" Gray was featured in Appalshop documentary film, Catfish: Man of the Woods

The first Great Bend Tunnel was closed

Senators Randolph and Byrd initiated the legislation that expanded Harpers Ferry National Historic Park's boundary to 2,000 acres

Holly Grove was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Hot Rod Hundley became a radio announcer for the NBA's Utah Jazz

West Virginia's municipal courts were left unchanged in the Judicial Reform Amendment

John Knowles wrote Spreading Fires

Lakin State Hospital changed name to Lakin Hospital by an act of the legislature

Tom Miller series in the Herald-Advertiser discussed concentrated and absentee land ownership

The League of Women Voters began including male membership

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine was established at the former Greenbrier Military School

Congress designated Mail Pouch signs as National Historic Landmarks

Marshall University began an era of unprecedented growth

Governor Rockefeller decided to build Mountaineer Field

Don Nehlen became assistant coach at Michigan

The WOAY-TV Saturday Night Wrestling show stopped being aired

E. Keith Stotts became president of Ohio Valley University

North Fork area acquired modern dial telephone service

Joe Powell was elected president of Wet Virginia Labor Federation.

Nick Rahall entered Congress as its youngest member

Cecil Roberts was elected vice president of UMWA District 17

The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston purchased the St. John's Chapel property adjacent to Sweet Springs resort in Monroe County

Remodeling and expansion of St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg was completed

Leon Sullivan initiated the original Sullivan Principles

Live-in caretakers began living at the Twin Falls pioneer farm

The University of California Press issued The Complete Uncle Abner

Uncle Homer Walker was the subject of the film, Banjo Man

Donald Dishinger became conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

Governor Rockefeller gave Roy Lee Harmon emeritus status s poet laureate

The Huntington Advertiser ceased publication and merged into the Herald-Dispatch

Boar hunting began in West Virginia

The Allegheny Indian Council and Cultural Center was founded in Phillipi

The court ruled that unequal per pupil funding among West Virginia counties violated the state constitution's mandate for a "thorough and efficient" school system in Pauley v. Kelly

Maryat Lee wrote John Henry

The military program was discontinued at Linsly School

Jack Maurice became a contributing editor and columnist to the Charleston Daily Mail

Jon McBride became an astronaut

Louise McNeill was appointed poet laureate by Governor Rockefeller

State Supreme Court ruled on Morningstar v. Black and Decker, which held that the court had the ability to create common law

State Supreme Court ruled on Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co., where the court abolished the comparative negligence rule

A second Mormon "stake" was organized in Fairmont

Deadly riots prompted Arthur Recht to place Moundsville Penitentiary under judicial control

The WVU Personal Rapid Transit system was completed

Jayne Anne Phillips published Black Tickets

Gov. Jay Rockefeller persuades legislature to gradually eliminate the 3% sales tax on food

Jim Sprouse was appointed a judge of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by President Jimmy Carter

Building C was added to the state police academy

Sam Church Jr. became president of UMWA

Marshall Buckalew was elected president of the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation

The West Virginia Historical Society ceased publication of West Virginia History

West Virginia Independence Hall was opened as a museum by the Department of Culture and History (now Arts, Culture & History)

The West Virginia Juried Exhibition was first held at the Cultural Center

Mack Samples began serving as festival president of the West Virginia State Folk Festival

The Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Meredith Sue Willis wrote A Space Apart

Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff, celebrating Chuck Yeager

Virginia Maw Brown left the Interstate Commerce Commission

Actor Bob Denver married Dreama Perry of Bluefield