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.
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ARMY SECRETARY FLIES IN JET PLANE—Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray (left) prepares
to take oif for flight in a T-33 two-place jet-propelled “Shooting Star.” Mr. Gray witnessed demonstrations
of the latest developments in air-ground operations staged by Brigadier General W. R. Wolfinbarger’s
tactical air force for students of the Nation’s service schools. At Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the
Secretary’s pilot, Lieutenant G. P. Humphries (right), demonstrated the versatility of jet aircraft in
ground attack by actual strafing.
Veteran’s Discharge
Is Very Important
Document Should Be
Available For Use
During Lifetime
-
How valuable is a military discharge?
Probably no document of a personal
i nature is as important to a veteran
during his lifetime as the piece of pa->
> 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.
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Officers’ Wives Club
Holds Regular Meet
The Officers’ Wives Club of the
Edenton Marine Corps Air Station
had its regular monthly luncheon on
Tuesday, December 6, at 1:15 o’clock
at the Commissioned Officers’ Club.
The hostesses for the occasion were
Mesdames Ursula Feldmeir, Pat Cos
tello, Lee Woten and Dorlene Franks.
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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.
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