Post Office At Kitty Hawk Will Be Busiest In NationOn Dec. 17 Tons of Letters Com memorating Conquest Os Air Cancelled Tons of envelopes and cachets bearing the special six'cents airmail stamp commemorating man’s conquest over the air and honoring the memory of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two brothers who successfully flew the first plane and its return to the United States last year from England, will be cancelled in the tiny Fourth Class Postoffice operated by Mrs. Hattie M. Baum at Kitty Hawk on December 17, the 46th anniversary of the birth of flight. As a result, Mrs. Baum’s little postoffice in the pictur esque Dare Coast village will be the busiest in the nation on December 17. Roland Garrett, .postmaster at Eliz abeth City, where the special enve lopes and chachets are being stamp ed at present prior to their arrival at Kitty Hawk for the first day of is sue reported this week that a mini mum of 350,000 letters would be stamped. More than 99 per cent of the letters or cachets on the first day if issuance will go to stamp col lectors and philatelist dealers. In all, according to Garrett, there will be ap proximately 15,000 pounds of mail cancelled at Kitty Hawk and it will take 1,500 mail pouches to carry the mail. Special planes will be employed to help deliver what is believed will be the greatest air mail commemorative first day of issue event in America. All of the letters now being stamp ed in Elizabeth City, and there are many thousands of them, will be act ually cancelled at Kitty Hawk. Two electric powered automatic cancelling machines have been received to do the job. The two machines will cancel about 1,000 letters per minute. Sponsored by the Kill Devil Hill Memorial Association, the Air Force Association and the N. C. Division of National Postmasters Association, will be a special celebration starting at the site of historic Kitty Hawk’s postoffice at 9:45 o’clock on the morn ing of December 17. This celebration which will feature music by the Eliza beth City High School, and speeches by Congressman Herbert C. Bonner and others will precede a gigantic celebration on Kill Devil Hill an hour later. j(tt /f ;3fc I SMIRVSfW I LW > per separating him honorably from ; service with his country, i A multitude of services and a wide l variety of opportunities are afforded a war veteran, as well as his depend l ents, and the discharge certficate is i the ready instrument to call forth any : one of several benefits. Claims for , hospitalization or compensation, em ; ployment opportunities, civil service, i death benefits, education for both the - veteran and his children, scholarships i and old age pensions are but a few of the things for which a discharge i is needed and required. • Many veterans are unaware that in : time of emergency a delay in locating • the discharge certificate may result in unnecessary inconveniences. Others THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1949. who have lost their discharge certifi cates and have not applied for a sub stitute may penalize themselves with out justification. Lalws in North Carolina provide for the recording of a discharge by the County Register of Deeds without charge. Federal laws permit veterans who have lost their certificates to ap ply for a certificate listing their war service. Certified or photostatic cop ies should be used whenever possible, thus iliminating the risk of losing the original. Every veteran or the de pendents of a veteran should keep the original discharge certificate in a safe place so that when an emergency does arise it is readily accessible. District Service Officers of the N. C. Veterans Commission and County Veterans Service Officers are ready to assist veterans in obtaining dis charge certificates in lieu of those lost or stolen, or to have them proper ly recorded. Edenton Students On Air December 19th Two students from Edenton are members of the Hampton Institute Choir, which will appear in a con cert Monday, December 19 in Ogden Hall at the Institute. The concert Will be aired over the National CBS network at 4:35 P. M., E. S. T. The students are Miss Sybil V. Parker, junior, and Miss Rosalind L. Small, sophomore. Both are enrolled in the Division of Education. SAYS? “VERY PLEASANT, EFFICIENT DENTIFRICE” OLAG S2BTS . 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WILL BE IN EDENTON AND VICINITY Within 24 Hours After Receipt of Coupon To Have a SINGER REPRESENTATIVE CALL JUST FILL OUT AND MAIL THE COUPON | NAME 1 ' I I ADDRESS... : 1 • I 2 I Direction If Rural ( ) Rent a SINGER Electric Portable . ** ! ( ) Buy a new SINGER I WISH ( ) Have my machine repaired ( ) See a SINGER Vacuum Cleaner or Cleanei I TO ( ) Sell my SINGER I 1_ _ _ 1 V - "" EJIP 1 MEM MEH I'M TRYIN6 NOT TO, OFFICES p ——- Each person present was presented . with a Christmas corsage tied with • bright green or red ribons. Several guests were present, among whom were Mrs. David Holton, Mrs. Jimmy Earnhardt, Mrs. J. W. Davis, . Mrs. William Rosevear and- Mrs. Thomas Wood. After a delightful luncheon the • ladies enjoyed an hour of bingo in the . card room. ■ THE OWNER JUST HAD IT i OVERHAULED AND PAINTED AT ALBEMARLE MOTOR CO. and you know mow they can SLICK UP A CAP TO LOOK AS > CiOOD AS IT DID NEW AND ) PERFORM BETTER -—, IT DID NEW L PAGE ELEVEN COME ON- \ LOOKINj’J^^S