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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -U.S.
Marine corps assault troops
some day may be able to "fly"
across the water in their am
phibious landing craft instead of
chugging along in the old-fashioned
way.
FMC corporation of San Jose,
Calif., has developed a new am
phibious vehicle that scoots
across the water on hydrofoils.
The vehicle, designated
LVHX2, has been tested in San
Francisco bay and turned over
to the Navy for further evalua
tion. The vehicle has both hydro
foils and wheels and both are
-uactaDie.
In the water, with wheels
retracted and hydrofoils extend
ed, it rides on its hull like an
ordinary boat until it gains
speed. Then it rises up on the
hydrofoils and "flies," skimming
across the water at more than
33 knots.
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As it nears the surf, the hy
drofoils are retracted. Then the
wheels are dropped to propel
the craft through the surf and
onto the land, where it can
travel as fast as 40 miles an
hour.
Road To Bypass
Lincoln Monument
By JAMES M. SHEVIS
LARAMIE, Wyo. (UPI) -You're
driving along U.S. 30
east of Laramie when the en
gine starts to labor.
You're reaching the highest
point along the way.
The motor slacks off, you look
to the right and there it is.
The Lincoln monument, one
of the most impressive sights a
motorist sees anywhere, rises
high in the sky atop 8,816-foot
Sherman hill. .
Designed by Robert Russiri
of the University of Wyoming's
art department, the monument
was erected in 1959 to symbolize
the trans-continental highway
which bears its name.
Today you could drive off the
shoulder of U.S. 30, leave the
car in ample parking area and
walk right up to the statue.
But one or two years from
now, don't count on it. For
progress is catching up with the
Lincoln monument.
A proposed interstate high
way is going to bypass Old Abe.
And at least one person the
Rawlins, Wyoming, philanthro
pist who paid $40,000 for the
monument has reservations
about the re-location.
"I don't like it," says Dr. C.
W. Jeffrey.
Tension fs Stock,
Trade of Company
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, 111.
(UPI) Tension may be the bane
of modern corporate life, but
it's the stock in trade of one
manufacturing plant here.
Alco Products, incorporated,
exporter of diesel-electric loco
motives, has a facility here that
produces springs ranging in
weight from less than an ounce
to more than 900 pounds. They
come in lots of sizes but they
all have one common denomina
tor: They're designed to bear
burdens way out of proportion
to their size and keep bouncing
back.
The smallest springs the com
pany makes are inch-long mod
els for storm windows. The big
ones, which stand five feet high,
support missiles in their silos
to cushion them from the effects
of possible nuclear blasts, so
that they'll stay vertical and on
target.
Puerto Rico Health
Conditions Improve
NEW YORK (UPI)-Mortality
lin Puerto Rico has dropped
nearly one-third in little more
than 10 years because of notable
improvements in health condi
tions there, report statisticians
of the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance company.
The death rate in the Com
monwealth fell from 9.9 per
1,000 population in 1950 to 6.7
in 1962. Much of this reduction
reflects increasing control over
the infectious diseases, Metro
politan reported.
Current Biennium
Collections Increase
SALEM (UPD-Collections for
the first three months of the
current biennium totaled $23
001.533, an increase of $713,604
or 3.2 percent, over collections
for the first quarter of fiscal
1962-63, the State Tax Commis
sion said Wednesday.
HIAWATHA' PANNED
BOSTON (UPI) -When "Hia.
watha" was first published in
1855, it took such a critical
thrashing from the Boston Trav
eler that Longfellow's enraged
publisher, James Fields, public-1
ly severed all connections witn
the offending paper.
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