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...first time in the history of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 73,703), a Negro took office last week as a member of the city council. What made it more unusual was the fact that, though Greensboro is 23% Negro, Dr. William Milford Hampton, 38, got so many white votes that he didn't even need the large majority he rolled up in the Negro districts. "Further tribute to the evolution of interracial relations," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News. After the swearing-in, fellow Councilman John Van Lindley said: "I held the same Bible with him, and I was perfectly happy...
...Jersey-born Councilman Hampton got his medical training at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, moved to Greensboro in 1940. "You live better in the South," he said...
...some of the South's best newspapers. From North Carolina, for instance, came Jack Riley, recently Sunday editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and now journalism professor at the University of North Carolina; George McCoy, managing editor of the Asheville Citizen; Henry Coble, telegraph editor for the Greensboro News; and LeGette Blythe, onetime college pal of the late Thomas Wolfe and former Charlotte newspaperman. Blythe has just published his sixth book, a Biblical novel entitled Tear for Judas. He took time off from the convention to sign copies of it for Atlanta bookstores...
Even a landlubber who only goes down to the sea in books knows that the first seamen to board a ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
Under the nose of two other Esso tankers, which had spent the day hunting survivors, the Virginia, owned by National Bulk Carriers, Inc., moved in after dark. Her men boarded the Greensboro while flames still flickered and began the slow tow to port. Last week the Virginia reached Galveston with its prize, and captain & crew got ready to put in their claim on the $2,000,000 tanker and about 100,000 barrels of oil cargo in six compartments which the fire failed to reach...