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Hawaii: subtropical archipelago of 20 volcano-born islands (only eight are inhabited), 2,400 miles west of San Francisco, 6,435 sq. mi. in area (size of Rhode Island and Connecticut together), spread over 1,600 mi. of the mid-Pacific. Included in the 50th state: inhabited islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Kauai, Niihau. Mean temp. 74°, annual precipitation ranging from a low of 14 in. on the moonlike volcanic coast of the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the U.S.'s highest of 471 in. on the lush island of Kauai. Agricultural economy ($302 million...
Only a day behind the Senate, the House voted overwhelmingly to make Hawaii the 50th state...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--A bill to make Hawaii the 50th state moved one step forward yesterday by getting a 5-4 vote of approval by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...
...Said the President as he signed: "Well, that is a historic thing." And at ceremony's end he noted to the special guests, Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Alaska Senators-elect E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, that a 50th star-for Hawaii-could be added to the national flag quite simply by putting eight stars in the middle...
This year, the University of Missouri School of Journalism-the oldest, biggest and most celebrated undergraduate J-school in the nation - is marking its 50th anniversary of helping good smart kids. Missouri has turned out some 6,500 graduates, including U.P.I. Vice President and Washington Manager Lyle Wilson, Publisher Jack Flynn of the New York Daily News, and the late sportswriter Bill Corum of the Hearst papers...