"Old times there are not forgotten"
The Berlin Air Lift continued into May when the Soviets reopened roads and railroads leading to Berlin, Germany. The crisis passed into a continuing competition of political systems Capitalism vs.Communism. Six million cars and trucks rolled off American assembly lines and an Air Force XB-47 jet bomber flew transcontinental in 3 hours, 46 minutes.
New book titles: Peace of Soul, The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Man With the Golden Arm.
At the movies: All the King's Men, The Heiress and Twelve O'Clock High.
Television premier: Hopalong Cassidy.
In Beckley, the economy in the Smokeless Coal Capitol was booming. No small part of this boom was the contribution of the area's coal miners. Darol Brewster, Terry Fitzpatrick, Martha Kershner, James Kilpatrick, Mary Belle Lyons, Fred Maddow, and Eddie Phipps were but a few classmates whose fathers brought home a livelihood earned on coal mine payrolls.
April 10
Sam Snead, a West Virginia native won the Masters Golf Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia.
September 6
Fourth grade for the future Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1958. Larry Belcher, JoAnn Chambers, Cecilia Conner, Virginia Cox, Janice Curtis, Frankie Ferro, Tamara Harrah, Sue Hedrick, Brenda Holliday, Barbara Riddick, William Oliver, Jeanette Premo, Sue Redden and Florence Thomas attended Mabscott School.