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You Age Slowly, Traveling at Speed
Of Light—But Which Way Is Up?
Efforts Shaping Up
To Exempt States-Alaska
Travel From 10% Tax
WASHINGTON, UP)—A biparti
san effort today was reported
shaping up in the Senate to ex
empt States-Hawaii and States
Alaska travel from the 10 percent
transportation tax.
The House voted last year to
exempt travel to and from the
U.S. and Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands from
the transportation tax, along with
other overseas travel.
The Senate Finance Committee
voted last Friday, however, to re
tain the tax on travel between the
mainland and Hawaii and Alaska.
Hawaii’s Delegate Farrington
said she had been assured of the
support of Sens. Knowland, Mag
nuson, O’Mahoney, and Morse.
Travel to Hawaii and Alaska is
expensive, Morse said, and the
“travel tax is a substantia] part of
the cost of such travel.”
He said it “seems only equit
able” that Alaska and Hawaii
travel should be given the same
treatment as travel to Puerto
Rico.
j$en. Kilgore's Death
Gives Senate Democrats
Margin of One Vote
WASHINGTIN ’/P—Sen. Harley
M. Kilgore, West Virginia Demo
crat and backer of “New Deal
Fair Deal” policies, died Tuesday..
The 63-year-old lawmaker was
the first man ever elected to three
successive terms in the U.S. Sen
ate from West Virginia.
Kilgore’s death temporarily cuts
the Democratic Party down to a
one-vote margin in the Senate,
with a 48-47 count.
Kilgore was chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, a
position which gave him strong
influence on important legislative
issues. He will be succeeded in
this post by Sen. Eastland <D
Miss>, generally rated one of the
more conservative Democrats.
Eastland opposed much of the
social legislation backed by the
former Democrat administrations.
New Aerotrain Makes
First Scheduled Run,
Hits 100 Miles an Hour
NEW YORK, (A*»—'The Pennsyl
vania Railroad’s speedy new Aer
otrain has breezed through its
first regularly scheduled round
trip between here and Pittsburgh.
The low-slung, nine-car light
weight train hit speeds of 100
mph. on the 878-milc trip, finish
ing a few minutes ahead of sched
ule at both ends of the run Mon
day.
Dubbed “The Train of Tomor
row,” the Aerotrain met with sev
eral minor mishaps on its inaug
ural run Sunday and was side
tracked at Philadelphia for re
pairs. The coupling between the
first car and the locomotive had
loosened.
By RENNIE TAYLOR
BERKELEY, Calif., (jPV—Men
flashing through space at fantastic
speeds may age more slowly than
earthbound people but their hair
may turn gray from cosmic ray
bombardment. And they may not
know which way is up.
Interplanetary ships may have
to be rotated to produce a small
amount of gravitational pull for
the peace of mind and physical
comfort of the people aboard.
These are some of the things
which researchers in space medi
cine are talking about at a cur
rent symposium at the University
of California.
The slow aging idea will be
hard to prove or disprove unless
there is an actual trial in space,
said Dr. Nello Pace, the universi
ty’s physiologist and director of
the White Mountain high altitude
laboratory, 12,500 feet up in the
California Sierra,.
The relativity theory has it that
time slows down for anything
traveling at velocities approach
ing the speed of light, 186,000
miles per second.
At 161,000 miles per second, an
hour of space time is about two
hours of earth time. For all scien
tists know now, Dr. Pace said, a
person who travels for several
years at such speed might come
back to earth and find that he had
aged less than the people at home.
What to do about the loss of
[ gravity is another problem, Dr.
Pace said, because two of the
three senses for orientation de
pend on this property of nature.
One of these, said Dr. Pace, is
in the semi-circular canals of the
inner ear. The other is in the
nerve-muscle connection which
control posture. Both of these
need gravitation to function.
The third sense of orientation
is sight. Whether space men will
be able to orient themselves with
vision alone is a question. Dr.
Pace reported.
Chemical on Boy's Pants
Explodes When Brushed
LOUISVILLE, Ky. tA**—A chem
ical on Harold Tinncll’s pants ex
ploded Monday when he tried to
dust it off.
The 18-year-old high school stu
dent suffered a badly injured
hand.
A brother, David, said Harold
explained he was dusting potas
sium chlorate from his trousers
and the friction apparently setoff
the blast.
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Two Plane Crash
Into Farmhouses;
15 Airmen Killed
KNOB NOSTER, Mo., MB—A
mother and her son miraculously
escaped serious injury Tuesday
when a six-engine B-47 jet bomb
er exploded and smashed into
their small framfe farmhouse. The
plane’s four crewmen were killed.
Mrs. Clay Curtis and her son
Danny, 14, were in the dining
room of their four-room house. ^
Danny, ill with the flu, was lying ^
on a couch in his pajamas. Sud
denly they heard a terrific roar. I
Mrs. Curtis and her son suf
fered only minor burns. The home 1
was destroyed by fire.
Witnesses said the plane ex
ploded about 200 feet above the ,
ground before it crashed.
* * *
It was the second plane in one
day to crash into a farmhouse. A
four-engine Superfort had crashed
earlier near’ Dayton, Ohio and j
smashed into an unoccupied bouse
—all 11 aboard were killed.
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Ways & Means Group
Votes to Continue
Corporation Income Taxes
WASHINGTON, UP>-^-The House
Ways and Means Committee voted
yesterday to continue corporation
income taxes at the present 52
percent rate for another year.
The committee also voted to
extend for an additional year the
present excise (sales' taxes on
gasoline and special motor fuels, j
cigarets, motor vehicles, and cer
tain alcoholic beverages.
The tax rates are due to drop
April 1 unless Congress acts.
President Eisenhower has asked
they be continued at existing lev
els until April 1, 1957, to prevent j
a revenue loss of about $3 billion.
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Belt Drives, Electrical Equipment
Baker Manufacturing Co. Dozers and Plows
DeLaval Steam Turbine Co. Pumps
Detroit Diesel Engine Die. Diesel Engines
Gar Wood Industries . ’Dozers
Gales Rubber Company . Belts
Hobart Manufacturing Company . Welders
Hydraulic Supply Mfg. Company . Pipe
Jaeger Pumps, Compressors, Concrete Mixers
A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. Wire Rope
Lincoln Engineering Co. Greasing Equipment
Mallory . Blocks
Onan . Light Plants
Owalonna Tool Co. Hand Tools
Power Machinery Co. Power Saws
S K F Industries . Bearings
Smith Welding Equip. Corp. Welding Tools
Thew - Lorain Shovel Co.Cranes & Shovels
Thor .Pneumatic Tools, Electric Saws
Timken Holler Bearing Co. Bearings
Willard Batteries . Batteries
Wisconsin Motors . Motors
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