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VoL XVII Manteo, N. C., Friday, December 21, 1951 No. 26
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Without the cheer and good will that prevails at Christ
mas time, it would be a long and dreary existence in today’s
helter skelter world. We are thankful for this magnificent
season which reaches into the hearts of nearly everyone
and 1 sends a ray of cheer and a reminder of the gratitude
and graciousness we owe our fellowman.
To all the readers of this Coastland newspaper who
have helped uST carry on we extend our deepest appreciation,
and our thanks for the patronage that has been given us
through this year and other years. We wish for them a
Merry and Joyous Christmas and a most happy and pros
perous Ney Year.
We always hope from year to year to do a little better
job in the production of a newspaper to still better serve
our territory. We have never wavered in the faith for our
region and our people. We shall strive to serve them to the
fullest that our abilities and resources will permit, during
the coming year.
May we work united in behalf of the best interests of
all the people of our wonderful coastland throughout 1952.
May we forget selfish interest, and strive more fully for
the common good, ever bearing in mind that what we do
well for the public good will profit us many fold more in
every way, than if our entire ffeorts are expended in
achieving mere personal ambition.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
COLLOSSAL INDUSTRIAL ACHIEVEMENT.
This week, in one of America’s 375 steel plants, the
100,000,000th ton of steel for 1951 will be poured. In fact,
while you were reading this far, regardless of the hour of
the day or night, the industry poured three more tons.
Disregarding the five million more tons the industry
is expected to produce before the end of the year, this is
more steel than has ever been turned out before, anywhere
in the world, in a single year. It is estimated to be three
times the 1951 production of Russia, and equal to the com
bined output of the rest of the world.
What we need moat now is a little iron in U. S. back
bones. •.
AROUND THE WORLD IN SEVENTY MINUTES
Washington, D. C., December 1951.—0 n his arrival at
the Washington Airport from Key West last Sunday evening,
President Truman delivered a rather remarkable speech.
He said: “I don’t want a lot of fuss made over this. There
is nothing wrong. There is no emergency. I don’t want a lot
of people to get it in their minds that the world is coming
to an end.”
In the morning papers that reported this greeting was
the day’s official list of Korean casualties. For 68 more
Americans the end of the world had come. But there was
still no official word on whether 6,123 American prisoners
of war had been murdered by the enemy, as reported by
Col. Hanley, or 8,000 as reported by Gen. Ridgway later
said could be verified.
Mr. Truman went on to explain that he had returned
because it was easier for him to do that than for the Chiefs
of Staff and their aides to come to Key West. The Monday
morning meeting was attended by Robert A. Lovett, Sec
retary of Defense, Under-Secretary of State James E. Webb
(Secretary Acheson is in Paris) as well as the Joint Chiefs
and their chairman, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley.
Presidential Secretary Joseph Short told newsmen that
the conference lasted 70 minutes and canvassed “the world
situation,” but that “no policy decisions were made.”
Meanwhile, wire stories from Panmunjom indicated
that the Korean Truce story had shifted from the circus
tent to the White House. The UN truce team had accused
the Reds of blackmail, in holding captured men, not as
prisoners of war but as hostages to enforce Red truce
terms; and had demanded immediate talks on the return of
prisoners. But it was reported that the “next step” might
be waiting for instructions from Washington.
At the White House Mr. Short admitted that “Korea
was among he subjects discussed,” bu that the meeting was
“not confined to that subject.”
Perhaps, by the time this gets into print, you will know
what happened at this meeting. Newsmen are plainly fear
ful they may be missing a big story. It could be an ultima
tum to the Reds, demanding a truce on our terms, or else , .
. or else all-out war, including Manchurian bombing . . .
the full MacArthur treatment.
MORE ROYALTY FOR WASHINGTON.
President Truman, as this is written, should be about
over Hampton Roads, Va., and beginning to gather up his
things to leave the presidential plane, Independence, and
drive home to Blair House, having cut short his pre-winter
vacation, from five weeks to four.
In Washington, meanwhile, the early return is a cause
of speculation. But perhaps those who are wondering do
not know that he is to receive a call from another princess.
Her Highness is six year old Pearl Itigiah, Princess of the
Athabascan Eskimos of upper Alaska. Like most visiting
royalty, Pearl will be here pn business. She is quite frank
about it. She wants the president to tell the Civil Aeronau
tics Board to let the air-freighters fly more fresh food in to
the kids back home. She said she would see some senators
too, if necessary, to , get the CAB to relax its recent restricr
tion of Alaska freight flights.
We don’t know whether she brought her crown, or
even has one. But we think the president and those sena
tors, and the CAB too, will recognize a princess whfen they
see one. '
SAME OLD STORY.
Discovery of the headwaters of the Orinoco, 1600 weary
Venezuelan miles from the sea, pretty well cleans up the
list of places no white man has ever been. But perhaps it’s
just as well. Exploring is likely to be a disenchanting busi
ness. In this ultimate wilderness the explorers found Stone
Age aborigines who go around raw and have no permanent
shelters . . . but they are modem enough to have divided
themselves into two tribes sb they can devote themselves
to killing each other. They can’t split atoms, but they make
do with wooden skull-busters.
Above all, there is no art without rational thinking.—
Heinrich Mann.
[ OTHER EDITORS 1
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GOLD-PLATED CASH
REGISTER
(Meyersdale, Pa., Republican)
To anyone who has read Ed
ward Gibbon’s famous work, the
decline and fall of the roman em
pire, the striking parallel between
what happened in Rome and what
is happening in the United States
today must be frightening indeed.
Gibbon begins his story when the
emperors were destroying the Re
public and the story of the decline
of America could begin when the
New Deal began its destructive
work in the United States.
In Rome, the emperors, through
many guises and rushes, kept the
country in a continual state of tur
moil and crisis while they bled
the citizens with high taxes and
at the same time recklessly dis
tributed huge amounts of corn to
the gang of ruffians that support
ed them. They openly bought votes
on the streets of Rome and al
though they paid tribute to the
Senate, it was a tribute of hypocri
cy because the Senate was not
only powerless, but under the com
plete control of the emperors.
The emperors continued to en
croach on the rights of the people
until the economy of the country
was destroyed and the people sub
ject to the idiotic whims of a man
named Nero.
Since the beginning of the New
Deal in the United States, a simi
lar process has been going on. The
men that brought the New Deal
brought also many promises of a
glorious future, but it seems that
only those in power can see any
thing glorious about the future or
the present for that matter.
Within a few years of the ad
vent of the New Deal, World War
II broke out and since then the
country has been kept in a state
of emergency by those who wish
only to grab more power for them
selves.
We have seen the Korean War
draggin gon an don while the poli
ticians squeeze every ounce of po
litical hay out of the situation.
They have used it as a lever to
pry increasing amounts of money
but of the taxpayers. The crown
ing blow came last week when
Congress voted a $5.6 billion tax
raise.
When the tax bill was first pre
sented to the House, it was defeat
ed, but it was taken to the Senate
and after a few minor and insig
nificant changes it was returned
to the House. This time the Presi
dent whipped up furor by threat
ening the House with a special
session if they jdid not pass the
bill and the bill was passed.
Within a few weeks the govern
ment will be spending over a bil
lion dollars a week and a large
portion of this will be going to
supporters of the administration
in the form of subsidies which is
nothing more than a legal way of
buying votes.
Ramifications of this wild spend
ing spree are beginning to show
up in other places. The President
wants to allow government agen
cies to censor their releases so
that nothing that will prove em
barrassing to them will get to the
press. The embarrassing incidents
probably occur as a result of
spending money so fast that now
and then a slight error that wastes
a dirty old billion or two of the
taxpayers’ money is uncovered.
The time has come to stop the
gluttony of government and to put
men in the government who will
take positive steps to correct the
damage that has already been
done to our national institutions.
If not, students of history in the
future may well read the story
of the decline and fall of the Unit
ed States and the last chapter may
read, “While the city of Washing
ton and the Nation was consumed
by atomic fires, Harry S. Truman,
the last of the Presidents, enter
tained a few close friends on his
palatial yacht with a wild und
frenzied version of the Missouri
Waltz played on a gold-plated cash
register.”
GUILTY ON SEVEN COUNTS
(Rutherfordton, N. C., News)
Here are seven symptoms of a
Socialistic State: Rise in number
on the Government payroll; Con
centration of Federal Power; High
er and Higher Taxes; Dependency
on the Federal Treasury; Increas
ing Federal Departments; Infla
tion of the dollar and the Federal
Government in business.
This country is guilty of all
seven of these symptoms. We have
over six million people on the
Federal payroll; we are certainly
concentrating power in Washing
ton and taxes are going “higher
and higher.” We have too many
people depending on “Uncle Sam”
for a “hand-out.” Some have the
idea of "getting something for
nothing” from Washington. This
is false and fatal.
country.
Our National debt now is about
256 billion dollars, or SIBOO for
every living human beings in this
The dollar certainly is Inflated
and going more “inflated.” It is
worth about 47< now as compared
to ten years ago.
The Federal Government is in
the , power, banking, . building
houses and many other businesses
that should be carried on by pri-
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER
United States Senator
Eleven of a Series
Cleveland Area: 'Middletown' ofCrime
Moe Kleinman’s story is pretty much the story of the whole
Cleveland mob—from rum-running to gambling to a noisy, fussy
show of surface respectability.
During a single bootlegging year, 1929, Morri? (Moe) Klein
man is said to have grossed almost $1,000,000. There were gang
wars then, with beatings, bribery, shakedowns, and unsolved kill
ings, and more than a few of the victims were Kleinman’s foes.
One of the former pug’s proteges—a dubious honor —was Mickey
Cohen, now of the Los Angeles police files.
Eventually, Kleinman served a sentence for income tax evasion.
Now he is esteemed by many honest people in his community. He
disavows any link with ill-doing;
his contributions to charity are gen
erous. However, the Senate crime
committee gathered evidence which
plainly proved that he still is deep
in the gambling combine.
This mold which Kleinman and
others in Cleveland fit so tidily—
the picture of gangsters shifting,
when prohibition ended, from il
licit liquor to illicit gambling—was
one we found everywhere. Yet,
crime-wise, Cleveland is a city of
dazzling inconsistencies, a sort of
Middletown of crime.
First off, the area has been plun
dered for years by as vicious and
powerful a congregation of crim
inals as the committee spotlighted
anywhere. But, ironically, the city
is a cheering sample of what good
local and state governments can
attain when they really lash out at
the underworld.
The ex-FBI man who now is the
city’s public safety director, Al
vin J. Sutton Jr., listed for us the
main members of the Cleveland
gambling syndicate Kleinman,
Thomas Jefferson McGinty, Samuel
(Gameboy) Miller, Louis Rothkopf,
Moe Dalitz, and Samuel Tucker.
The Big Three in prohibition whis
ky, he said, had ben Kleinman, Dal
itz and Rothkopf.
Rothkopf is a marked-down model
of Kleinman and, like him, served
time for income tax fraud. The two
hid out from the committee for
months.
Finally apprehended, they made
a great display of refusing to test
ify. They would not look at our
counsel when being interrogated
or, finally, even voice the stock “I
refuse-to-answer” refrain. Kleinman
sat mute when we confronted him
with a printed card from the Bever
ly Hills Country Club, one of the
Kleinman-Rothkopf enterprises. The
card read:
“Open Sunday, April 1. Beverly
Hills Country Club, Southgate, Ky.,
Route 27. This card admits bearer
to gaming room. This card has been
mailed to only privileged custom
ers. Keep it, and do not pass on.
If you do not wish to use it, de
stroy it.”
Moe Dalitz, who never has been
convicted of a crime, is a prosper
ous laundryman and, with other ex
bootleggers, owns a substantial
share of the Detroit Steel Co. On
the side, he also is a partner in
gaming casinos with Kleinman and
others, his accountant told us.
After repeal, Cleveland was
glutted with gambling. But honest
officials—among them Gov. Frank
Lausche and Mayors Harold Bur
ton and Thomas A. Burke—cracked
down. Gradually, the wide-open
gambling clubs were driven out
The syndicate already had
mapped its strategy: it simply
moved into the counties outside
of Cleveland where local police
were more pliant. To make up for
the inconvenience of locations, the
gamblers arranged transportation
for out-of-town and out-of-state cus
tomers, hauling them to the clubs.
How did they operate? Tommy
McGinty, a stocky, triple-chinned
man who looks like the movie ver
sion of an old-time bartender, la
conically told us that when he ran
his Pettibone Club in Geauga coun
ty he made regular contributions,
solicited by the county clerk, to help
the county buy fire engines, trac
tors, or whatever the clerk said was
needed.
• • •
He also described how he oper
ated an illegal race track in the
county without molestation: he ran
under what he called "the contribu
tions system” which he said he
thought was “legal.” He gave 5
per cent to the county. “They took
it as a tax,” he explained.
When Governor Lausche moved
into the state capital, he found four
particularly flagrant gambling ca
sinos, all dominated by the Cleve
land gang, running full-blast in
rural counties.
Local sheriffs ignored his orders
to shut them, so the governor
plastered the points with violations
of such workaday laws as fire,
liquor control, unemployment com
pensation, building, and workmen’s
compensation. The casinos closed.
vate industry.
VERY DISGUSTING, INDEED
(Columbus, Ohio, State Journal)
One of the interesting, disgust
ing and alarming features of all
the scandal relating to alleged
bribery and favoritism in the In
ternal Revenue Bureau and the Re
construction Finance Corp has
been the attitude of the highest
officials in Washington with re
gard to the developments.
Tor several years past there
After he made even the counties
too hot for them, the Cleveland
syndicate moved its operations
across the Ohio river into wide
open northern Kentucky communi
ties in Campbell and Kenton coun
ties. Covington and Newport, just
across from Cincinnati, became the
big gambling centers. There the
casinos were so unconcerned with
police that they advertised openly
in Cincinnati newspapers, and
placed streamers on automobile
windshields,
The syndicate became so rich
that when Gambler Wilbur Clark
needed more than $1,000,000 to com
plete his luxurious Desert Inn in
Las Vegas, be obtained the money
from Cleveland gamblers who, in
turn, acquired a 60 per cent in
terest in his gambling.
Some members also branched out
to Florida. Gameboy Miller, for
one, was a partner in Miami's
swank Island Club.
Cleveland itself, Safety Director
Sutton said, has erased virtually
all traces of gangdom. “Racketeers
still may make their headquarters
here,” he declared, "but they have
to set up shop somewhere else if
they are going to make any
money."
We ferreted out the case of a
racketeer who set up shop some
where else, and made money. He
was a Cleveland hoodlum who got
his start in gambling and bootleg
ging, amiable Alfred (Big Al) Po
-11771
• • •
Big Al loudly announced, in about
1940, that he was going straight.
He had plenty of money. He had
been dabbling in Florida real estate
with Arthur (Mickey) Mcßride, the
Cleveland millionaire who founded
the Continental Press racing news
service. Then, too, there was the
money he had made in breweries
and, of course, from his illegal ac
tivities.
He went straight, all right,
straight to prison on a black mar
ket whisky charge. Once freed, he
moved to Miami Beach. He became
a partner in a construction com
pany there and in a plush hotel, the
haunt of visiting mobsters.
Tanned and dapper, Big Al was
the picture of propriety in his ap
pearance before us. He gestured
with his horn-rimmed glasses and,
when I asked him one question,
cried: “Well, goodness! I don’t
know.” He primly apologized when
he was forced to use the word
"hell” in quoting someone else.
• • •
What bothered us, however, was
Polizzi’s association with his old
gang-mates. He confessed that his
construction company partner had
sponsored the parole of extortionist
James Licavoli. Al had visited New
York (“to see the fights”) with his
old pal, Moe Kleinman, and around
his hotel fraternized with other
known gangsters.
"I don't butt into other people’s
business,” he argued.
In Cleveland, we also unfolded
the strange story of Alvin Giesey,
former internal revenue agent and
now a thriving public accountant.
It was Giesey’s gumshoeing which
sent Moe Kleinman to prison in 1933
on an income tax count Oddly,
when Kleinman was freed, he per
suaded Giesey to resign from the
government and take over his own
tax and accounting problems.
Giesey went further. He also took
over the tax problems of such shad
owy figures as Polizzi, Dalitz, and
Rothkopf, and became secretary of
the “real estate” phase of two
gambling clubs.
“What is the inducement to you?”
Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley
asked him in awe. “Why do you
do these things?”
The ex-treasury man blurted
back: “For the almighty dollar!
The same as you're doing, the job
you’re doing right now . . .”
Next week: Detroit; Where Un
derworld and Business World
Merge.
Condensed from the book, "Crime In
America." by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1851.
Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Diet Genera.
Features Corp.—WNU.
have been recurrent rumors of
what has been going on behind
the closed doors of the tax bu
reaus and the RFC administration
—rumors which have now come out
into the open and in several in
stances have resulted in criminal
indictments. But all that time,
nothing was done—virtually noth
ing is being done about it now.
“Wh|t this country needs is not
so much a good five-cent cigar as
a nickel that is worth five cents."
—Wall Street Journal.
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RODANTHE
(Continued from Page One)
Capt. Midgett’s plans carry
through. Old Christmas will again
be celebrated at Rodanthe—come
January 5.
CONTEST
(Continued from Page One)
Three ribbons will be given for
the best decorations: a blue one
for Ist place, red for 2nd place
and a yellow ribbon for 3rd place.
These ribbons will be given to the
winners to display their decora
tion. Doors will be judged accord
ingly: simplicity of design, inex
pensiveness, and originality.
Judges in Manteo will begin at
Skyco and proceed to North End.
Wanchese will begin at forks and
Stumpy Point will begin from
west end of village.
BRIDGE
(Continued from Page One)
the radical change in approach,
due to new curves being cut in,
and the slick nature of the road in
rainy weather.
“You can say that we promise
opening the new bridge to traf
fic before Christmas,” said E. H.
Baggs, resident engineer for the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission here last week. His
prediction came true. Ken Ward
who lives not far away is first
reported motorist to cross the new
bridge.
Construction of the new bridge
began early in June of 1950. The
contracting firm which has created
what experienced observers de
clare is one of the best jobs they
have ever seen in the price class,
was Wannamaker and Wells of
Orangeburg, S. C. Superintendent
of the project for the contractors
is W. B. McGowan and his fore
men assistants on the job have
been T. J. Carr, Del Smith and
L. J. Frierson: Assisting the resi
dent engineer for the state have
been W. O. Sessions, inspector,
H. Boyce Midgett and W. J. An
drews, engineers.
Length of the new bridge, a
composite stringer type structure
with creosote trestles and con
crete, is nine-tenths of one mile
with a total of about % mile of
approaches. In addition to its regu
lation width to conform with U. S.
Highways 158, 64 and 264, the
most noticeable improvement is
the fast operating electric draw
span. On the old bridge, a hand
operated, turnstyle-like, one way
draw has proven inadequate for
modern traffic for many years.
While the new span is open to
traffic there will be several weeks
of finishing touches to be made
by the builders. One of the finish
ing touches will be the removal
of the unsightly and dilipidated
old bridge.
A celebration of the building of
the new bridge is planned but local
county officials were of the opinion
that it may be delayed until late
spring when the road to Hatteras
is completed, and thus have a
joint celebration for the two pro
jects. This celebration is to be held
at Rodanthe, Melvin R. Daniels,
Clerk to the Board of County Com
missisoners said yesterday.
TRAPPING
(Continued from Page One)
cember 17, 1903, when he happen
ed to go by the great dune of Kill
Devil near his home, where two
“strangers” were working on a fly
ing machine. Moore stayed around
the camp of the two men (Wilbur
and Orville Wright) throughout
that morning, being careful to stay
at a safe distance when they start
ed the engine on their flying ma
chine and took off for a most his
toric flight. Today Moore is lhe
only living witness of the first
flight of 48 years ago..
Today, Moore past €5, does not
make daily trips to trap lines. In
stead his children do the trapping,
especially Stanley, his youngest
son, age 15. But years of exper
ience in finding the runs and slides
of muskrats makes the advice of
Johnny Moore very helpful to his
sons as they put out their traps.
Trapping today is different from
the old times, it is pointed out
here. In former days the person
who caught a muskrat or other fur
bearing animal had to also skin
the animal and then stretch it on
a board to dry.
Today the trapped animals are
kept until the fur buyers comes
in from Elizabeth City or Norfolk.
All of the skinning and preserva
tion of the pelts is done by the fur
buying firm. Edible food from an
imals is also utilized, usually be
ing sold as dog food.
MEETING -
(Continued from Page One)
Committee of the organization
headed by Chairman L ,L. Swain
was commended for its fund-rais
ing campaign, by the following
present: L. L. * Swain, chairman,
Manteo; M. L. Burrus, Hatteras,
vice-chairman; Stick, of Kill Dev
il Hills, secretary-treasurer; Wal
lace McCown,' president, Dare
County Chamber of Commerce,
Manteo; William Hardy, general
manager of The Lost Colony, Mar
tin Kellogg, Mayor of Manteo;
Edgar Perry, Kitty Hawk; Asa
Gray, Waves; and Stanford White,
Manns Harbor, directors.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1951
PORTER
(Continued from Page One)
parsonage a liberal supply of good
things, including 80 pounds of sug
ar, 30 pounds of lard, 235 cans of
food, and numerous other things.
Christmas carols were sung, and
Mr. Porter says he was so happy
at this demonstration of good will
that he thinks* he almost lost his
voice for a time. Forty five people
attended, and refreshments were
served. The three churches of the
township are St. John’s at Avon;
Clarks Bethel of Salvo, and Fair
haven of Rodanthe-Waves. All of
the members take pride in their
churches and are liberal givers.
FLIGHT -
(Continued from Page One)
privately after the exercises,
showing that he too was wearing
long underwear.
Maj. Gen. Vernon E .Megee,
USMC, commanding officer of the
Marine air station at Cherry
Point,, eulogized the “inspired and
courageous inventors who had ful
filled Leonardo da Vinci’s dream,”
and now were memorialized at
“this mecca for the aeronautical
pilgrimage of the world.”
Mayor Aydlett read a telegram
from Mayor Lewis W. Lowry, of
Dayton, Ohio, pointing to the link
between the two cities through the
Wright Brothers, who had their
dreams in Dayton and realized
them at Kitty Hawk.
The Elizabeth City High School
Band, with Scott C. Callaway di
recting, played the National An
them, taps and musical salutes at
appropriate moments in the prq
gram.
S. Wade Marr, of Elizabeth City,
was toastmaster at the banquet in
the Hotel Carolinian. Melvin R.
Daniels of Wanchese welcomed the
125 special guests to “Dare Coun
ty, where the first white child in
American history was born in 1587
and where the first heavier-than
air flight took place both sites
within sight of each other.”
Daniels said that when the
Wright Brothers returned from
their successful experiments, a
Dayton paper merely recorded that
Orville and Wilbur Wright, two
expert bicycle makers, had re
turned from North Carolina.
Miles L. Clark, president of the
host Kill Devil Memorial Society,
and Harold C. Stuart, president
of the co-host Air Force Associa
tion, spoke briefly.
National Society Now
Clark announced that his society
had been reorganized on a nation
al scale, with hopes that it would
become international, and Marr
read a telegram from President
Truman congratulating the society
on its expansion.
Clark also announced the new
officers for the enlarged society:
Brig Gen. Frank P. Lahm, USAF
(ret.), of Hollywood, Calif., who
was the first passenger of the
l first plane used for military pur
poses, president; Fred C. Kelly,
of Kensignton, Md., first vice-pres
ident; G. C. Meads, of Elizabeth
City, secretary; C ,S. Meekins, of
Manteo, treasurer.
Clark, retiring president, be
comes chairman of the society’s
board of directors.
Besides Captain Olson for the
Coast Guard, General Megee spoke
at the luncheon in behalf of the
Marines; ;_Maj. Gen. Edward J.
Timberlake.; the Air Force, and
Rear Adi*. A. B. Vosseller, the
Navy. '
On the first floor of the Hotel
Carolinian, visitors inspected an
early propeller of the Wright era,
a 60-horsepower Wright plane mo
tor of 1912, an early bombsight,
an early panel, and models of an
early Wright plane and the first
military plane. These were brought
from Dayton; Ohio, for the occas
ion.
A SCHOOLGIRL ATTENDS
KILL DEVIL HILL EVENT
By MARY BLANCH MEEKINS
7th Grade
On December seventeenth, 1951,
the 48th anniversary of the first
flight was held in commemoration
of Orville and Wilbur Wright at
Kill Devil Hills, N. C.
Two wreaths were placed at the
bottom of the monument by the I
granddaughters of the spectators
of the first flight 48 years ago.
A shower of rose petals was
dropped at the bottom of the hill.
California holly was dropped
around the monument.
Among the speakers was Maj.
Gen. E. J. Timberlake, who has
just returned from Korea. Mr. Her
bert Bonner, Representative in
Congress was a speaker. By Mr.
Bonner, Mr. Lindsay Warren sent
his love and regrets that he could
not attend the celebration.
Following, a luncheon was held
at the Carolinian Hotel, which
isn’t far from the monument.
FORMER BELHAVEN *
FAMILY IN GEfVIGIA
Friends in Belhaven who have
recently heard from Mr. and Mrs. *
R. G. Ross, formerly of Belhaven,
have learned that the family is
now located near Broxton, Ga.
When they left Belhaven, 18
months ago, they went to Mont
gomery, Ala., but have since been
transferred to Broxton by’tho J. j
W. Wells Lumber Co., for which J
Mr. Ross works.