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Delaware is split. Except for one school district (Dover), the two southern counties have done little toward desegregation. Eight school districts in New Castle, the state's northern county, have varying plans to end segregation gradually. Wilmington pupils in the first six grades will be mixed this month; in nearby Newark, only the junior high and high school will be integrated...
...overwhelming vote of their stockholders, the only two remaining independent automakers last week gave up their independence. In Detroit, Packard stockholders voted 89.9% to join forces with Studebaker; at the same time in Wilmington, Del., Studebaker stockholders voted 99% to merge with Packard. The new company (official name: Studebaker-Packard Corp.) will have a full line of low-to high-priced cars for the competitive battle ahead. Its combined assets: $251 million. But Studebaker-Packard's biggest asset is the opportunity to compete better by pooling the resources of the two old independents...
...balls of yarn. Properly jailed in January 1862, she was pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died for her cause: trying to get to Confederate headquarters with desperately needed gold, she was flung from a rowboat in a heavy sea off Wilmington, N.C. as she tried to make shore from a blockade-runner. Weighted down by the gold she had hidden in her clothes, she drowned...
Those elected are Paul L. Scher of Thayer South and Glencoe, III.; William R. Shane of Thayer South, and Indiana, Pa.; and Richard Williams of Matthews South and Wilmington...
...Wilmington, Calif., the U.C.L.A. crew, going three miles for the first time (in 18:45.3), whipped Stanford's crew by 15 lengths through choppy water...