The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-06-12
KELSO TO FLY
HIS OWN PLANE
ON THE FOURTH
Local Man Has Ordered Curtis
Biplane and will do Stunts
at Celebration
MACHINE HERE JUNE 18th
Will Make Eleven Flights During Day
Taking Up Ten Passengers S 3
Big Crowd from Pasco ~

That Kennewick is going to be abl
to feature airplane flights in its hi,
Fourth of July celebration, was mad
certain yesterday when Floyd Kels
wired the Curtis people for a biplane
The order was placed after Mr.. Kels,
had been assured by the company
Yakima representative that the ma
chine could be delivered by June 25.
Mr.. Kelso asked that the airplant
be shipped to Yakima for assembling
He will meet it there and with his
mother, Mrs. j. L. Kclso, will fly il
to its new home in Kennewick. While
Mr.. Kelso intends to eventually build
hangar and landing field at his home
on the Highlands, he will use the base
ball grounds as temporary landing
field.
The machine is Curtis biplane and
will be shipped from March Field, Cal
ifornia, where Mr.. Kelso learned to
fly and later served as one of Uncle
Sans aviation instructors. The BIZ
plane is of the same type used by Mr..
Kelso in his work and is one of the
many which the Curtis people purchas-
ed back from the government at the
close of the war.
Since leaving the service Mr.. Kelso
has planned to purchase machine this
fall. His placing the order now fol-
lowed the failure of the celebration
committee to contract with other fliers
for Fourth engagement. 1t is Mr..
Kelso's intention to give the same ex-
hibition here that is given in Yakima
the Fourth. He will contract with the
committee to give an exhibition flight
and to give joy rides to ten passengers,
making eleven flights in all. The COM
mittee will charge each passenger $50
for the joy ride and that the honors
may be passed around they will make
reservations for two citizens of Ken
newick, two of Pasco, and one each
from Richland, White Bluffs, Hanford,
Nona-Benton City, Alfalfa and Con-
nell The first to make applications
will be the ones to fly. Application
for flights should be made to A. F.
Brown, chairman of the celebration
committee.
With the aviation feature taken care
OF the celebration program is now
practically complete. The amusement
committee has outlined an attractive
program of sports with cash prizes
for each event. A feature of this
program will be military relay race
between picked teams of returned men
from Benton and Franklin counties, a
tug OF war between teams of soldiers
and sailors and a similar contest be-
tween Kennewick and Pasco teams.
1t has been suggested that these pull
ing contests take place across the
canal and continue until the last man
on the losing team has been hauled
tnru the water. Another attraction
on the sports program is baseball
game between Kennewick and Pasco.
While it has been impossible to get
ms consent, Major F. R. Jeffrey, of
sne 66th F. A. Brigade is being booked
Dy the speakers committee as speaker
oI the day. According to advices from
ne war department. the 66th Brigade,
VI which the 146th regiment is part,
IS que to land in New York Saturday |
u 'hls week and it is probable that the
Doys will be home by the Fourth. The
,oilowlng telegram was sent to Major
oelrey yesterday in care of the trans
Port Peerless:
Big celebration here Fourth.
lou are orator ef the day. Get {
pusy on your speech" II
(Signed) Kennewick.
ehalrman Brown has mailed tenta-
NV, use oraft of the program to Secretary
"ene' OF the Pasco Chamber Of Com {
asking that the citizens of Pas {
y make suggestions for it's improve
as reports from Pasco are to the {
81. that they are coming over one t
- usand strong, consequently the !
aasportation question becomes al
-, iern. JAS. Gavin has notified the q
a. committee that he will operate $
Terry making round trips every c