EIGHT MEDFORD 'OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, August 7. 1956
'Poor Boy' Plane
May Put Aviation
In Hands of Many
Houston, Tex. (U.R) A Hous
ton engineer has come up with
an airplane that may do for fly
ing what Henry Ford's Model T
did for motoring put the cost
within reach of the many.
The "poor boy" plane a sin
gle-engine two-seater called the
Nesmith Cougar can be put
together for no more than $1,600
and the plans are free just ask
Robert E. Nesmith for them.
Nesmith, head of a Houston
contracting and engineering
firm, designed and built the do-it-yourself
plane in his spare
time in little over a year.
Nesmith put the plane through
its paces, at the municipal air
port, taking off at 60 miles per
hour, cruising at 180' mph and
landing at 59 mph without wing
flaps down.
"Everything worked out fine
Nesmith said after the test
flight. "It does just what I
hoped it would."
The plane is only 5V4 feet
high, 19 feet, long, has a 'wing
spread of 22 feet, 2 inches, and
weighs just 628 pounds. It has
a 108-horsepower Lycoming en
gine and a range of 1,000 miles.
Nesmith said anyone can build
the plane which is the only
way they can get it in a garage
or backyard, using spare time
and spare cash.
Only the engine, wheels and
propeller are stock. The rest is
airplane fabric, sheetmetal and
plywood. The plane has dual
stick controls, enclosed cabin,
radio and all safety features.
Nesmith, who has been flying
for 30 years, built his first plane
while he was in high school. The
Cougar is his seventh and he's
already building another, a twin
engine, four-seater job.
Why doesn't Nesmith sell the
plans for his plane?
"Why should I," he asked,
i "I'm worth $6,500,000. I think
wealthy men should do things
; for the people. Most men can't
afford to plunk down $5,000 or
$6,000 for a plane.
President Signs
Excise Tax Bill
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower has signed a bill
cancelling the 10 per cent fed
eral excise" tax on tickets to
movies, plays, concerts, sports
events and similar amusements
costing 90 centa or less.
' Previously the exemption was
50 cents. Increasing it to 90
cents will cost the treasury an
estimated $60,000,000 a year in
revenues.
The bill signed Monday
was sponsored by Rep. Cecil R.
King (D-Calif.) and backed by
theater owners whose business
has been hit in recent years by
the advent of television. King
said it would "save 5,000 movie
bouses tram going out of busi
ness "
The President also signed bills
that permit the Atomic Energy
Commission and colleges and
universities to buy atomic reac
tors for training scientists. The
bill also makes it a federal of
fense to trespass on atomic ener
gy installations.
Burgess-McLean Rift
Hinted by Mother
London (U.R) Eve Bassett.
mother of turncoat diplomat
Guy Burgess, hinted today that
her son has broken with Donald
MacLean, his companion in
flight through the Iron Curtain.
Mrs. Bassett, who returned
Monday night from a visit with
her son in Moscow, said he "is
very happy and looks tremend
ously fit."
When she was asked about
MacLean and "his American-born
wife M e 1 i n d a. Mrs. Bassett
snapped: "I saw and heard noth
ing of those people." She ac
cented the word "those."
Yugoslavia Prohibits
Printing Pope's Letter
Belgrade. Yugoslavia (U.R?
Communist authorities here have
prohibited publication of Pope
Pius XII's June 29 letter to Alois
Cardinal Stepinac and other
Catholic prelates imprisoned be
hind the Iran Curtain.
The federal prosecutor ruled
Monday that the apostolic letter,
urging the persecuted church
men to stand firm, was "a gross
attempt at abusing religion for
political purposes."
Army To Draft 17,000
Men During October
Washington U.R) The De
fense Department announced to
day that the Army will draft
17,000 men in October, 3,000
more than September.
The increase was ordered be
case the Army wound up the
fiscal year ended June 30 below
its authorized strength, the Pen
tagon sqid.
The October call raises to 2,
101.430 the total number of men
drafted for military service since
the Korean war started.
Hailstones Bring Out
Snowplows in England
Tunbridge Wells, England
-:U.R) This southern city had to
call out its snowplows Monday
night to clear away five-foot
drifts of hailstones deposited by
a freak summer storm.
Thousands of tons of ice rat
tled down on Tunbridge Wells
in half an hour in hailstones up
to golf-ball size. The storm cli
maxed a period of crazy weather
that gave Britain its lowest
early-August temperatures in 76
years.
14 Persons Injured
In Train Derailment
Mitchell, HI., (U.R) Five cars
of New York Central passenger
train left the tracks Monday in
juring 14 persons.
- The last two coaches and
three Pullmans of the train from
St. Louis to New York were de
railed as the train was traveling
43 miles an hour.
A broken wheel assembly on
one car was blamed.
The railroad said 10 passen
gers and 4 crewmen were treated
at the scene for injuries. None
was hospitalized.
Mitchell is about 19 miles from
St. Louis.
Volunteers Join In Hunt (or Girl
Newport Beach, Calif. UR)
Hundreds of volunteers joined
authorities today in a door-to-door
search for a five-year old
Waterloo, Iowa, girl feared kid
naped from this beach resort
area.
The girl, Barbara L. Blasier,
vanished while playing in the
sand Sunday as her father, Gor
don Blasier, and brother, Larry
Wayne, 8, were swimming in
Balboa Bay channel. When life
guards failed to find her body
in the narrow channel, police
said it appeared the child had
been kidnaped.
Officers said dragging opera
tions would continue but pressed
their investigation on the possi
bility that little Barbara was the
victim of a sex deviate. No trace
has been found of the child since
her father left her to play in the
sand while he took his son swim
ming. Blasier was vacationing
here with his children while the
mother, who is expecting
another child, had remained in
Iowa.
In Canada 95 per cent of the
nation's milk supply is carried
by highway transport, and fresh
fruits and vegetables move main
ly by truck.
Italian Paper Tells
Of Red China1 Revolt
Rome (U.R) The Italian Com
munist party newspaper l'Unita
disclosed today a revolt broke
out in Communist China near
the Tibetan border last February
and that some of the rebels are
still holding out.
A Peiping dispatch quoted Liu
Ke-ping, president of the Na
tional Minorities Committee of
the Chinese Communist "Parlia
mentv as saying rumors of the re
volt probably accounted for In
dian reports of a revolt-in Tibet.
The interview also was broad
cast today by Peiping Radio.
Tokyo U.R The Communist
Peiping radio reported today
that typhoon "Wanda" killed
1,960 persons in Red China, de
stroyed 38,000 houses and caus
ed "great" crop damage.
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