Renewed Lustre To
First Plane Flight
Orville' Wright’s Own
Story Appears In Har
per’s Magazine
North Carolina’s renown as the cra
dle of flight is given lustre with the
appearance of the never-before-pub
lished story in Orville Wright’s own
words of how he and his brother flew
the world’s first airplane from the
sands' of Kill Devil Hill.
The June issue of Harper’s Maga
zine carries the article in connection
with this year’s Fiftieth Anniversary
of Powered Flight Celebration.
The long-forgotten document by
Wright, had lain in the musty files
of the U. S. Department of Justice for
over 30 years, when it was recently
discovered by Fred C. Kelly, the
Wrights’ official biographer. It was
part of a deposition Wright made in a
patent claim brought by another per
son against the Federal Government.
Wright tells the detailed story of
how he and his brother Wilbur in
vented and built the first plane. They
first became interested in flight as
children when their father brought
home a toy “actuated by a rubber
string which would lift itself into the
air.” They built copies of it which
flew successfully but a large scale
modeTfailed to work so well.
The Wrights began experimenting
in earnest in 1899, but it was only af
ter many trials and failures that they
perfected the machine that flew at
Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Here are Orville Wright’s own
words describing that immortal flight:
“The first attempt to fly. this ma
chine was made on the 14th of Decem
• ber, but through a mistake in handling
it at the start the machine was bro
ken slightly, so that repairs had to
be made before another attempt could
be undertaken. Five men from the
Kill Devil Life Saving Station were
present when this test was made. The
next trial was made on the 17th of De
cember, in a wind blowing 20 miles,
and four more flights were made. The
first of these covered a distance of
about 100 feet, measured from the end
of the track, and had a duration of
about 12 seconds. The second and
third flights covered about 175 feet,
and the fourth flight 853 feet. This
last flight had a duration of 59 sec
onds. *
“The first of these flights on the
17th of December was the first time
in the history of the world that a ma
chine carrying a man and driven by a
motor had lifted itself from the
ground in free flight.
“Witnesses of this flight, besides
my brother and myself, were John T.
Daniels, W. S. Dough, A. D. Eth
eridge, from the Kill Devil Life Sav
ing Station; W. C. Brinkley, of Man
teo; and Johnny Moore, a boy from
Nags Head, North Carolina.”
Orville Wright died in 1948, his bro
ther Wilbur in 1912.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES
Services at the First Christian
Church have been announced as fol
lows by the pastor, the Rev. E. C.
Alexander:
Bible School, Sunday morning at 10
o’clock; morning service at 11 o’clock;
evening service at 7:80 o’clock. Wed
nesday Evening Bible Class meets at
7:30 o’clock. Everyone is welcome to
young people’s meeting at 6:30 P. M.;
all services.
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What Price Accidents? How are
they caused—Accidents cannot be
eliminated entirely, but they can be
reduced. They have been reduced in
industry and they can be reduced in
the home. By safety measures and
first aid measures, and by continuous
effort in the home, the accident fa
tality and injury rate likewise can
be substantially reduced.
Home falls occur most frequently
on stirways and steps that are clut
tered with objects (toys, clothing,
household utensils), poorly lighted or
in need of repair. They frequently oc
cur from high places—from porches
and windows, from chairs, and other
substitutes for ladders.
Falls also occur on smooth, slippery
surfaces—in bath tubs and showers on
wet or icy walks, on highly polished
floors, on wet or greasy linoleum.
They result from tripping over objects
—tools and toys on the floor, skates
on the front porch, and so forth.
Accidents May Be Prevented If—
Stairways, steps, and doorways are
kept clear at all times, adequately
lighted, in good repair.
Ashes, sand or salt should be scat
tered on icy walks; wet leaves should
be promptly removed from porches
and sidewalks; rubber bath mats
should be used in shower baths and
bathtubs and the latter provided with
hand grips; rug anchors should bej
placed under small rugs which should!
never be used in hazardous places such j
as at the tops and bottoms of stairs.
Closets, drawers, or shelves should
be provided for the utensils and toys
in frequent use by all members of the
family, and each individual trained to
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 11, 1953.
place articles in their designated place.
Each home should have a step lad
der, strong for safety and small
enough to be easily moved.
William H. Stokley
Dies In Vets* Hospital
Relatives and friends were shocked
Friday when it was learned that Wil
liam H. Stokley, 41, died in the vet
erans hospital at Chincoteague, Va.,
where he was a patient for only eight
days. Mr. Stokley had been complain
ing for some time and drove to the
hospital for observation, where an X
ray was taken. He suddenly turned
for the worse and passed away Friday
morning.
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County, but lived most of his life in
Edenton. He was an infantryman in
World War II and was captured by the
Germans, spending eight months in a
concentration camp, at one time be
ing reported missing. He was a mem
ber of the Methodist Church and the
American Legion, and shortly after his
return from overseas, he was employ
ed as a clerk in the Edenton Post Of
fice.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie
Ruth Stokley; two sons, William Rob
ert Stokley and Joseph Edward Stok
ley; a daughter, Ruth Jackson Stok
ley; his father, Rufus W. Stokley; a
brother, Erwin Stokley of Gastonia.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the Willi
ford Funeral Home, with the Rev. E.
B. Edwards, pastor of the Methodist
Church, officiating, assisted by the
Rev. R. N. Carroll, pastor of the Bap
tist Church. Interment was made in
Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Sidney Campen,
Willie Spruill, Bill Goodwin, Parker
Helms, Charlie Swanner and Nathan
Dail.
Watering Systems Help
Boost Vegetable Crops
In ordinary seasons a well-watered
kitchen garden produces at least 50
per cent more than one that depends
entirely on rainfall. And during very
dry seasons, regular watering may
mean the difference between good
batches of high-quality vegetables and
little or no crop at all.
This extra production, according to
C. W. Overman, county agent from the
North Carolina State College Agri
cultural Service, may pay for the
costs involved in installing the neces
sary watering equipment.
Farmers who plan to install water
ing equipment in their vegetable gar
, dens this year should consider how
much garden can be watered efficient
ly and economically by their present
well and pump system.
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that the ground should be wet to full
root depth in each watering. Other
wise, shallow rooting is encouraged.
One inch of whter applied over a per
iod of several hours will usually be
sufficient to soak the ground to the
proper depth. Water should never be
applied at a rate faster than the
ground can soak«it up.
If a garden watering system has not
been used before, Mr. Overman rec
ommends a check on the capacity of'
the well. To apply the equivalent of
one inch of water to a half-acre gar
den plat on 24 hours of pumping re
quires a pump with a capacity of
about 550 gallons an hour, Mr. Over
man says.
Farmer Finds Only One
Fault With Hot Bed
Myer Levin, sweet potato shipper
of Williamston, says the only thing
wrong with his electric hot bed is that
“I didn’t build more.”
One day last week when Henry
Covington, horticulture specialist;
Howard Ellis, in charge of engineer
ing, and J. P. Woodard, peanut spec
ialist, all of the State College Exten
sion Service, stopped by Levin’s new
farming operations at Everetts, his
tenants were busy pulling plants for
the 35 acres that he devotes to sweet
potatoes.
This year, for the first time, Levin
had constructed an electric hot bed,
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30 by 6 feet, at a lost of $75. He likes
everything about it except that it is
too small to supply plants for a cem
mercial venture. Next year he hopes
to remedy this.
Water is the big problem to Levin
now, and the plants were beginning
to show their thirst. Levin has to
bring water in large tanks, mounted
on a wagon, to his plant beds. Ellis
thinks he might solve his problem
by sinking points about his beds in
such away as to assure an adequate
awter supply *nd still permit rotation
of the beds. Pitcher pumps might be
used to bring the water up.
Covington and Ellis told Levin that
there was little to the old theory about
watering at night. The only thing
you might save by this is a little wa
ter, but the cost of keeping labor up
at night wipes out even this, they
said.
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