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Wednesday, June 1, 1963 PAGE S-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon THE WIZARDS OF SPACE (2) By Don Oakley and John Lane Humanity was poised on the verge of flight at the turn of the 20th century. Indeed, some men had already flown: Le Bris in France, Montgomery in California, Chanute's students in Indiana. Some had died in crashes: Lilicn thai in Germany, Pilcher in England. But these were all short hops in crude glid ers. Sustained, controlled, powered flight was yet to come. Yet when it did come, on Doc. 17, 1003, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., men hardly took note, least of all in America. Born in America, the air age began growing up in Kuropc. Before men realized it, Bleriot had flown across the English Channel. Other adventurers were staying up for hours and reaching heights of many thousands of feet. Then, less than 11 years after its invention, the airplane began to undergo forced develop ment in the deadly skies above France, achiev ing new speeds, maneuverability, endurance, strength. In 1915, it was not a "missile gap" but an "airplane gap" that alarmed sleepy, isolationist America. It was in that year that Congress established a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and President Wilson appointed the original Ionian nonsalaried committee. NACA was given a budget of $3,000 for the first year and had no paid employes for months. Hut within a few years, NACA's "scientific laboratory research in aeronautics" began to pay off. Among its notable accomplishments: The NACA engine cowling, which increased speeds by 15 per cent. Over 100 different airfoils, many still used today. The laminar flow wing, used on the famed P-51 Mustang. After World War II (where victory in the air was made possible because of NACA's great backlog of basic knowledge built over the years), NACA turned to work on jets and nose cones for missiles. An NACA engineer de signed the pinched-waist fuselage'that enabled jets to slip through the erstwhile barrier of sound. Still, the emphasis was on aeronautics, not astronautics. Space was far awav until Oct. 4, 1U57. NEXT: The Space Race Hatfield Asks Added Project Funds WASHINGTON (UPH A ipokesman for Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield asked that Congress add S721.000 to President Kennedy's budget for navigation projects in Oregon. Thomas J. Murray, port con stant to the state, made the re quest during a brief appearance before the House Public Works Appropriations subcommittee. He said Hatfield supported: budgeted navigation projects total-i ing $4,311,000, but also recom-l mended addition of funds for sev en projects. The additions would include $545,000 for a deeper navigation channel in the Coos and Millicomai rivers, which Murray said would result in big savings to lumber mill operators. Murray said approval of plan ning funds for a project to deepen the Willamette River and to re- sume planning on the Willamette Di..n Folic liwlr nrniai'l UnlllH expedite construction of the au-l Ithorized projects. The amounts re quested (or the two projects were $16,000 and $85,000. Oilier additions requested by Oregon officials included: S2.000 to beein a review study for a barge channel and protec tive works where Herman Creek 'enters the Columbia River. I $19,000 to begin planning of a 'Slough. S.1 noo to becin a review study lof the Charleston small boat ba sin. A delegation from Tillamook County asked that $1.1 million be appropriated to complete major rehabilitation of the Tillamook north jetty. do FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? 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The administration was rebuffed on the issue Monday when the committee rejected, 14-11, a com promise that would have yielded $.170 million of the $4o million in new tax revenue that Kennedy's plan would provide. The President had proposed thatl a taxpayer be required to pay the same tax rates on income from dividends as he pays on in come Irom wages, rents, or interest. The law now exempts from taxes the first $50 in dividends ($100 in the case of a married couple filing jointly). The tax on dividends in excess of that amount is four ercenlage points below the taxpayer's regular tax rate. The rejected compromise would have left tax-free the first $50 ($100 for married couples) in div idends but would have eliminated! the four per cent tax credit. Four! of the committee's 15 Democrats joined with 10 Republicans in op posing it. 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