The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-30
By HOWARD SUBTLE
Star Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, June 20. - TAX
mo the position that the job of
d4eloping local commercial air
,ervice rightfully belongs to t h e
email! airlines which have been
beating the bushes, State Airlines
ri Charlotte today opened. it's case
j., the Great Lakes-Florida hear
NOS for routes from Detroit and
Chicago to Florida points.
Through two witnesses, DR.. C.
Tx Brown, dean of the Davidson
(College faculty, and Lowell S.
Harding, World War 1 hero, fam
tus test pilot and airlines opera
tions expert, State Airline sub
,nitted to the Civil Aeroaauics
hoard a proposal designed to COM
nletelv cover the Carolinas with
To~th.south and east-west lines
connecting South Atlantic cities
with important Mid Western
H K. Gilbert, Jr., president of
The line. is slated to testify to-
morrow to complete States case
end leave only one other of the
nine lines competing in the case,
Virginia Central Airlines, to pre-
sent a case before the hearings
are concluded. Indications tonight
were that the hearings may be con-
Guided Saturday.
Gilbert entered into the record
today history of his line to show
that. despite it's failure during
five year life to obtain a certifi-
cate to operate schedules between
designated points, it had continual
in business to render a charter
flight service looking toward even
tual success in a program designed
10 serve and help develop the ter
ritory in which he hopes to oper-
ate.
DR.. Brown, under direct exami-
ration of Wilmer A. Hill, State
counsel, submitted estimates to
show state has set an objective of
almost a hundred million passen-
ger miles during it's second year of
operation over the area it seeks
f. serve.
In event the CAB should approve
the lines application, Wilmington is
Listed by Gilbert as an important
terminal on two separate routes ex-
tending to Louisville, K. Y, while
New Bern would become the north
ern terminal of an extension from
Meridian, Miss. One route to Lou
lsville would extend through Fay
etteville, Southern Pines, Charlotte,
Asheville, and Knoxville, while
tie other would touch Fayetteville,
Raleigh, Burlington, Winston -Sa-
lem, Greensboro, Tri City, w.
Va, and Lexington KY. Two daily
fights each way would be oper-
ated over the latter route. One
each way on the former.
Other primary routes proposed
Ky State are:
Two daily flights each way be-
tween Pittsburgh and Jacksonville,
through Morgantown, Clarksburg,
and Elkins, W. Va, Covington, KY,
Roanoke, Va, Greensboro High
Point, Winston Salem, Salisbury,
and Charlotte, Rock Hill and Co.
lumbia, S. C. and Savannah and
Brunswick, Ga.
Two daily flights each way, Gin
cinnati to Norfolk through Ports
mouth, Ohio, Huntington, Charles
ton, Beckley, and Bluefield, W. Va,
Roanoke, Lynchburg, Petersburg
ard Richmond, Va.
One daily flight each way, De-
toit to Jacksonville, through To-
ledo, Findlay, Marion, Columbus,
Chillicothe, and Portsmouth, Ohio,
Huntington and Tri City, W. Va,
Aeheville, N. c. Grenville, An
derson, and Greenwood, S. c., Au-
gusta and Waycross, Ga.
Two daily flights each way Gin
einnatti to Charleston through
Lexington, KY, Tri City, W. Va,
Hickory and Charlotte, N. c., and
Columbia, sc.
Two daily flights each way, Mer.
i6ian, Miss. to New Bern through
Selma and Montgomery, Ala, Co.
lumbus, Macon, and Augusta, Ca,
Columbia, S. c., Charlotte Raleigh
and Goldsboro, N. c.
One daily flight each way, Louis.
l. L,
vile, Tenn, Asheville, N. c.,