The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-12-15
PROGRAM is SET
FOR THE WRIGHT
CELEBRATION SAT.

Complete program for the 5Sth
anniversary ceremonies commemo-
rating the Wright Brothers and
their famous first powered flights
1T Kitty Hawk on Dec. II, 1908, to
be held this year on Saturday, De-
cember 16, has been announced by
Is. Wade Mari, Elizabeth City, presi-
dent of the Kill Devil Hills Memori-
al Society.
The ceremonies this year are
being held one day ahead of the
actual celebration as December II
falls on Sunday.
Mari announced that prior to the
beginning of the morning program
on the southwest patio of the
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Visitors Center, there would be a
musical concert featuring Elizabeth
City's famous high school band and
majorettes, under direction of Scott
lC. Galloway.
The main program of the morn
ling will get underway at 1890
o'clock as follows:
| Presiding, Congressman Herbert
C. Bonner; Invocation by Rev. Har-
old McLaurin, pastor, Kitty Hawk
methodist Church; National An
them, Miss Camille Elias, soloist,
National Park Service, Elizabeth
City High School Band, accompany
ing; Welcome, by David Stick, Kitty
Hawk, chairman Dare County
Board of Commissioners on behalf
Icf county and the town of Kill
Devil Hills; U. s. Navy and U. S.
lair Force jet planes in memorial
. flyover, described by Ralph White
Iner, National Aeronautic Associa-
. ton.
State Senator Lindsay C. Warren
of Washington, N. C. will be hon.
Iored during the ceremonies when his
portrait to be displayed permanent
lily in the Visitors Center is I'M
, yelled. Congressman Bonner and
lNPS Director Conrad Wirth will
speak during this phase of the
program. Following the program at
the Visitors Center, wreaths will
! be placed at the base of the boulder
marking the actual take-off site
of the first flight IS years ago
Grandchildren of eye-witnesses OF
. the first flight and others usually
place the wreaths.
II The first flight Of the Wright
J Brothers plane with Oryille at the
, controls occurred here at 1857
o'clock on the morning of December
liz, 1908. In the Saturday program
i Air Force and Navy jets travelling
at super sonic speeds will fly over
) the site at 1887 o'clock.
] In comparison the first flight
7 lasting IL seconds covered only 12(
feet at an estimated speed of only
lS2 miles an hour against headwinds
! estimated at 81 miles an hour.
Following the morning program
the Wright Memorial Luncheon will
EDe held at Dare County Shrine Club
in Mays Head at 1890 o'clock. With
president Mari presiding, Senator
N. Elton Aydlett of Elizabeth City
viii be the POSTMASTER.
Rev. Robert s. Pullman, pastor Of
Bethany Methodist Church, Wan
CHEESE, will deliver the invocation
and welcoming remarks will be b,
Melvin r. Daniels, member of ths
sponsoring society's board Of direc'
sors. Senator Aydlett will introduce
special guests present and Miss
Elias of the National Park Services
will sing a solo accompanied BY
Richard Jordan at the piano.
Rear Admiral Jesse G. johnson
USN (Retired) Norfolk, member o.
society's board of directors win in
troduce the luncheon's principa
speaker, Vice Admiral Robert Burns
Pirie, deputy chief Of naval opera
tions (air). Admiral Pirie, giftes
speaker, graduated from the u. S
Naval Academy in 1926 and has has
a brilliant aviation career in tn,
Navy.
The events of Saturday arranget
by the Kill Devil Hills Mcmoria
Society are being co-sponsored b.
National Park Service, Air Fore
Association and the National Aero
nautic Association.
Among other special guests pres
lent will be Assistant Secretary o
the Interior, John Carver; pres
representative Of the Department
, of tile Interior, Dick Rodgers; AS
: sistant Directors Of the Nationa
/; Park Service, Danile Beard AM
, Clark Stratton; and Mr.. Beard
, lson, Albert Beard.