The Coastland Times With Which Is Combined The Pilot And Herald Of Belhaven And Swan Quarter

DISTINGUISHED
VISITORS TO
KILL DEVIL
HILLS AS
PLANS BEGIN FOR DEC.
17TH EVENT

Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, Man Who First Flew for the Army, and Japanese Air Pioneer Lt. Gen'l. Yoshitoshi Tokugawa; Major General Capus Waynick of N. C. and Other Visitors Enjoy Hospitality of Mayor and Mrs. Cook Wednesday.

With Japanese and American representatives of "Voice of America" on the scene to make recordings, international goodwill was created Wednesday at Kill Devil Hills, birthplace of aviation, when Japan's premiere aeronaut, retired Lt. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa planted a native live oak tree at the base of Wright Brothers National Monument.

General Tokugawa was accompanied to Kill Devil Hills by a fellow countryman Publisher Masayuki Fukubayashi of Tokyo, who is making a Pan American transworld trip with this first flier of Japan. Representing Governor Luther H. Hodges was Major General Capus Waynick, Adjutant General of N. C. and former ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia. Capt. Alex B. Andrews of Raleigh, Frank S. Baba, chief of the Voice of America Japanese Service, and his associate Yasukazu Tsukagoshi, and several U.S. Air Force Officers of Langley Field and Andrews Air Force Bases.

America's most distinguished early aviator now living, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois who on March 2, 1910 became America's first military flier when he flew the Army's first plane, a Wright-built machine that had been tested at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, was also a member of the party.

General Foulois, age 81, and who weighs 135 pounds, makes his home at Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, D. C., is expected to return to Kill Devil Hills on December 17th this year to be featured in the annual Wright Brothers first flight anniversary celebration. The Wrights flew at Kill Devil Hills 57 years ago. He flew the military Wright plane on March 2, 1910 and later that year on December 19, 1910 Tokugawa flew the first powered flying machine in Japan.

Official host to the party was Mayor R. H. Cook of Kill Devil Hills, who met the group at Manteo Airport and after the tree planting ceremonies and visits to the new Visitor's Center museum, the first flight takeoff site and the reconstructed hangar and living quarters of the Wrights, entertained the group at a fish and corn-bread dinner which he and Mrs. Cook prepared. Some 25 people were fed at Mr. Cook's Kill Devil Hills Manor, and some of the visitors said they plan to return next summer.
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Here to greet the distinguished
flyers and official party were members of Kill Devil Hills Memorial
Association. S. Wade Marr, president. Miles Clark and State Senator
Elton Aydlett, of Elizabeth
City. Victor Meekins, Vice-President of the Association; and Melvin
R. Daniels of Manteo, also one
of the founders of the Society.
General Tokugawa, who is now
at Japan's lucky age of 77, was
scheduled to fly to Bolling Field.
for a two day visit in Washington
before taking off again for a
visit to West Germany from which
place he will return to Tokyo.
Following the splendid dinner
served by Mr. and Mrs. Cook, a
meeting was held in the new museum and visitor center at the
Wright Memorial to discuss plans
for the usual annual celebration
on December 17th. Sponsors of the
celebration this year will be the
National Park Service, and the new
$400,000 addition to the
Wright monumental area will be
dedicated. Major General Foulois
is expected to attend. A committee,
consisting of David Stick, Melvin
Daniels and Robt. F. Gibbs, Supt.
of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore have already gone to work
on the preliminaries for this celebration, which will be in two sections, with a program at the museum before noon, followed by a
luncheon program, dutch treat at
the Dare County Shrine Club. Dinner tickets will be sold for $2.50
each to finance the cost of the
latter program, and as only a limited number will be sold, orders
should be sent at once to C. S.
Meekins,
Association treasurer,
Manteo, N. C.