Wednesday, June 1, 1963
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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.
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Administration Backers Prod House Committee
To Okay Tougher Tax Treatment On Dividends
WASHINGTON (UPI) Admin
istration backers held out hope
today that the House Ways 4
Means Committee would wind up
approving a limited version of the
tougher tax treatment President
Kennedy wants to apply to income
from stock dividends.
Some said it was possible the
committee might be induced to
accept a compromise that would
ease tax treatment for relatively
small stockholders and provide
tougher treatment for big stock
holders. 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.
A possible new compromise
which may be offered before the
committee finishes work on Ken
nedy's tax bill would repeal the
four per cent tax credit, but ex
empt from taxes the first $100 in
dividends ($200 in the case of mar
ried couples).
All of the committee decisions
are tentative. It is fashioning be
hind closed doors a compromise
version of Kennedy's proposal to
provide individuals and corpora
tions with a net reduction of $10.4
billion in income taxes over three
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