"Old times there are not forgotten"
In Germany, the Soviets cut off Allied access to Berlin via highways and rail lines. The Allies started flying supplies to support military and civilian neccessities alike in a test of wills, technology and logistics that became known as the Berlin Air Lift. President Harry S. Truman who had assumed the presidency upon the death of Fanklin Delano Roosevelt won a term as president of the United States in his own right.
New book titles: Crusade in Europe, The Naked and the Dead, Raintree County , and The Young Lions.
At the movies: Hamlet, Johnny Belinda, Key Largo and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Television premiers: Candid Camera, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, News and Views (ABC), Nightly News (CBS) and Saturday Night Jamboree.
In Beckley, we were surrounded by heros, but we knew them only as dads, brothers, uncles, cousins and neighbors. Tommy Ison's father would never return, except for burial. Neither would some older brothers including, Dillard Earehart. The Kinzer family who lived on South Kanawha Street never would learn what happened to their son Charles, who had been lost on a air mission over Europe.
September 7
As third graders, Kay Weikle, Ray McManamay, Agnes Rae Bowling, John Luther Maddy, Teresa Hensley, Robert Hancock, Pauline Bailey, Corky Lively, Carolyn Smith, James Bays, Nancy Smith, Larry Kesler, Eugene Chappo and Larry Martin were students at Teel School.
November
Woodrow Wilson High School won the West Virginia football championship completing an undefeated season.