The Mixsons
1957
Family gathering and events
Right: Brenda, Larry, Barbara holding Larry, Betty; Left: Janice, Karen, boy, girl Billy
Left: Gary; Right: Fred & Waive, man, Barbara (and other aunts & uncles)
Larry, front row, second from left
Janice, Timmy, David, Larry, Brenda, Karen
In September and Brenda started first grade and I started kindergarten both going to J. J. Finley School. The one thing I remember about kindergarten was one day at recess I slid down the slide on the playground which happen to have water in the dip at the bottom causing the bottom of my shorts to get wet and I started crying. They could not get a hold of Mom right away, so they got Brenda out of her class, and she came and comforted me until I got dry shorts. Mom commented in my baby book that I “Always very good in kindergarden. Minded the teacher very well and never talked. Would not sing very well tho.” The teacher said I did good on my reading test, one of the highest in the class.
On October 4th 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite
Sputnik 1 into orbit around the Earth starting the space race between
the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Three months later Explorer 1 became the
first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was
sent to space on January 31, 1958. A quick response to the Soviet
Union's launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1's success marked the beginning
of the U.S. Space Age.
In November I got the Mumps and had to stay home for school for several days.
For my fifth birthday I had a party which Corky, Tommy Hewlette, Bryan Vaughan, Sammy and Rick, Douglas Lynes, Mark McLauarin all came. We had cake and ice cream and I then opened my presents.
At the close of the year Morris and Barbara had an income of $5473.89 of which $847.75 Morris made working for Fred Junior and $526.16 was made by Barbara at the bus station. I find it interesting that Barbara made in two months at the bus station, 60% of what Morris did working all year weekday nights and Saturdays repairing checkwriters for Fred.
Updated: 05-29-2023