“Pages of history” features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News, the Every Evening, the Evening Journal and the Journal-Every Evening.
Aug. 22, 1959, Wilmington Morning News
Hawaii proclaimed state; Old Glory given 50th star
The enchanting islands of Hawaii became the 50th state Aug. 21 and another star was emblazoned on Old Glory.
The seven stripes of red and six of white remain unchanged as they have for more than a century. But the new 50-star field will have nine rows, five with six stars each and four with five stars each, in place of the present seven staggered rows of seven each adopted when Alaska was welcomed into the Union last January….
