The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-12-23
COASTLAND FACED WITH NEW
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS
SANFORD AND HODGES ADVISE
Speeches at Aviation Celebration Point TO
Future As Big As The People Wish to Make
It; Many Surprises on Program Saturday at
Kill Devil Hills; Encouragement for Beach
Road and Ocracoke Ferry.

SoaSCldnO: Lnere are gOOQ pros
poets for a beach boulevard from
Mays Head to Virginia Beach; it
it likely ferry SERVE southwark
from Ocracoke will be resumed;
enlargement is in prospect for
Fort Raleigh historical site, and
continued improvement of the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
area is a certainty, are things
confirmed by all the speakers at
XIII Devil Hills Saturday, and
particularly by Governor Luther
Hodges, and Governor-elect Terry
Sanford.
The days program included
many surprises. Unexpectedly
Senator Lindsay Warren, the man
who guided legislation through
Congress making possible both
the Wright Memorial and the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
turned up as a visitor and was
applauded at both the morning
and the luncheon program.
The program included both the
Governor and the next Governor
and both agreed that this area Of
the state would in time become
a National Shrine of enormous
magnitude.
Principal speaker was the Wig.
orous 82-year-old retired Major
General Benjamin D. Foulois who
flew the first plane for the army
in 1910 and who had been closely
associated with Orville and Will
bur Wright. He recited many
of his early experiences.
Presiding at the morning pro
gram which began at 1890 at the
new Wright Visitor center was
David Stick of Kitty Hawk, chair.
man of the Museum Committee.
The Elizabeth City High School
band furnished music for the &C.
casion. The invocation was by
Father Peter M. Denges of Kill
Devil Hills. A welcome was ex-
tended by the towns Mayor, R. H
Cook.
Governor Luther Hodges well
coined all to North Carolina, AND
limited at an early resolution OF
the Ocracoke Ferry problem to
the benefit of all concerned.
A fly-over by U. S. Air Force
jet planes was described by Major
AL Baker of the Tactical Ali
Command, Langley Air Force
Base, Va. Several wreaths were
presented in honor Of the Wright
Brothers.
Director Conrad Wirth told OF
his hopes for enlargement and
improvement at Fort Raleigh anC
continued expansion of the sea-
shore, in his talk at this memorial
service.
Beside Conrad ~Wirth, Director
the National Park Service, Gen
Foulois, Governor Hodges and
Mr.. Sanford, other notables in
cluded Congressman Herbert Bon
ner, Mr.. Warren; Hon. Geo. w
Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, Rear Admiral Peter v
Coimar, Commander of the 9Th
Caost Guard District; Ebert Cox
Regional Director of the National
Park Service; Miss Camille Elias
of the NPS, Washington, D. C..
gifted singer, who sang the Ma
tiouai Anthem, and America the
Beautiful; DR.. Oskar ]. w. Han
sen. Of Charlottesville who sculp'
tured the busts of the Wright
Brothers at this memorial; Rear
Admiral Jesse G. johnson, (Ret.,
president American Air M all
Stamp Association; Herbert B
Kalish, of the Air Force Associa-
ton: John D. Cabot, NPS Chief OF
Architecture and Design in the
East, from Phila.; Maj. Gen. X
M. Montgomery of the U. S. Ali
Force; William Tucker. President
of the North Electric Co., donors
of the busts of the Wrights, and
Commander John M. Thomas, ex-
ecutive officer of the Carrier Kit
ty Hawk now under construction
Some 200 people attended the
luncheon. at 1890 at the Shrine
club. This meeting was opened by
S. Wade Mari, who was unani,
modsly reelected for the thirG
time as President of the Kill Devil
Hills Memorial Society. Invocation
was by Rev. Harold Leatherman
of the Manteo Methodist Church
State Senator N. Elton Aydlett OF
Elizabeth City was toastmasteri
Miss Elias sang America the
Beautiful, accompanied by DicE
Jordan at the piano. Distinguished
guests were presented and a great
ovation was given Mr.. Warren
A. w. Drinkwater Of Manteo
who figured in the early histor,
made by the Wrights in Dare
County in 1908 was presented.
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