"Old times there are not forgotten"
The Census Bureau set the population of the United States at 150,697,361. The new enemy was Communism. Communist North Korea invaded Democratic South Korea. President Harry Truman sent American troops to fight the North Koreans and later the "Red Chinese" under the auspices of the United Nations.
New book titles: The Cardinal, The Disenchanted and The Wall.
At the movies: All About Eve, Born Yesterday, Cryano de Bergerac and Harvey.
Television premier: What's My Line
The first American casualty of the Korean Conflict was Pvt.Kenneth Shadrick whose parents lived at Skelton, near Beckley. A noble but unrewarding first for West Virginia.
September 5
The future Class of 1958 entered fifth grade. William Lee Ball, Marvin Bostic, Sherry Evans, James Ballard Hatcher, Linda Henson, Judith Kobelia, Sandra Ann Peraldo and Kenneth Zemerick attended Sprague School.