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ir THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1965 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE fS" Jh More Training Urged For Negro Space Pilot House Passes Excise Tax Slash By 401 To 6 Vote SO BEAUTIFUL SO FINE SO COLORFUL SO LOW PRICED bacco and those, like the gai- LiL'ji IMWIMJ nrrmf 1 amy mi, ilium lmmm nrtturnniwimii rfrnrmni miTnimim IJ fr if CURTIS Bil MATHES COLOR HOME ENTERTAINMENT CENTER THE MAGAZINE article described Dwight as having been put "out to pasture" on an assignment to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, O. He is on a bomber testing job there, but has indicated he would prefer a different kind of plane and another base. In that connection the Pentagon said: "In order to effectively utilize the training acquired by Capt. Dwight and his contemporaries at the Air Space Research Pilot School, those officers who were not selected by NASA were given assignments in the Air Force Systems Command. Each has duties related to experimental test flying in research aircraft.

They are assigned to various installations associated with research and development work. Each officer is being effectively utilized as a research test pilot and his efforts will undoubtedly make a major contribution to his specific research project." A spokesman for NASA said it is not that agency's policy to reveal the names of persons who have applied to become astronauts. bile parts and sales of stocks and real estate. Also on Jan. 1 the 10 per cent telephone tax would be cut to 3 per cent, the first step in a gradual elimination to be complete Jan.

1, 1969, and the automobile tax would be cut one more percentage point in a similar phasing. PRESIDENT JOHNSON recommended excise tax slashes, but the House went beyond his recommendation by voting to wipe out the automobile tax entirely, although by stages. Mr. Johnson had recommended a cut from 10 per cent to 5. However, the cuts were so spaced that the revenue effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1 will be the same as Mr.

Johnson estimated in his recommendations $1.75 billion. Mr. Johnson advocated the cuts on the double ground of keeping the economy rolling at its present clip and making the tax structure more equitable. Unlike the general sales taxes in use in many states, the federal taxes applied to specified goods only. The automobile industry pledged to pass on the cut in lower prices and there were New low price.

Now in beautiful genuine wakiut cabinet. 21 -Inch Washington (AP) The House passed yesterday 401 to 6, legislation for a slash in excise taxes that could bring prices down on a wide variety of goods from automobiles to lipsticks. If the Senate follows suit, as is expected, this would be the second major tax cut in as many years. Income taxes were reduced last year by an amount estimated at $14 billion. The reductions provided by the House-passed bill would not be complete until Jan.

1, 1969, but a major portion would go into effect in just four weeks July 1. Moreover, the initial 3 percentage point cut in the automobile excise an average of about $75 for a passenger car and the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on air conditioners would be retroactive, applying to all sales after May 14. OTHER REPEALS taking effect July 1 would be those of the 10 per cent retail taxes on furs, jewelry, luggage, toilet preparations, and the manufacturers' taxes, most of them at 10 per cent, on a variety of other goods, including apliances, cameras, business machines, radio, phonograph and television sets and most sporting goods. On Dec. 31, the tax on cabarets and theater, sporting events and other admissions would go off, to be followed on Jan.

1 by another batch of excises, including those on club dues, passenger automo Color TV with a 5-speaker Stereo Phonograph and AMFM Radi 25,000 volts of regulated picture power. 4 Speed changer, diamond stylus. EASY TERMS oline tax dedicated to high ways, that are considered essentially fees paid by the beneficiaries of specific governmental services. The house acted after less than three hours' debate that was almost as one-sided as the vote. Chairman Wilbur D.

Mills (D-Ark.) of the Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin, the senior Republican member, both assailed the present excise taxes as discriminatory and outdated. "Who would say today that an appliance a stove or refrigerator, or even a radio or television set Is a luxury?" Mills asked. Byrnes emphasized his belief that the tax cuts should be acompanied by strict control of government spending.

The leadoff speaker In opposition was Rep. Howard W. Smith who remarked that the house is soon to act on legislation to raise the ceiling on the national debt. "We will raise the debt limit so we can borrow the money to reduce the taxes," Smith said. "If that isn't an absurd way to run a railroad I've never seen one." The six who voted against the cut were Smith, Rep.

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Marsh If ii (AP Wirephoto) CAPT. EDWARD DWIGHT Off NASA Astronaut List recommended 26 for astronaut training and only 7 got in. It added that NASA told the Pentagon that at the time Dwight's nomination was being considered, a total of 136 basically qualified Army, Navy, Air Force and civilian aspirants were being considered, from which 14, or barely over 10 per cent, were Washington (AP) The Pentagon said yesterday Capt. Edward Dwight first and only Negro to get through the Air Force space pilot school, was recommended for astronaut training but was not selected by the civilian space agency for the program. The Defense Department statement said he was "accorded the same rights, privileges and treatment as the other students" while in the Air Force school.

The statement was issued in response to inquries about an article in the June issue of Ebony magazine saying Capt. Dwight apparently had been dropped from the space program. The magazine said he was shelved because of a letter he wrote to the Defense Dpartment telling of "racial pressure" against him at the Air Force Aerospace School. THE PENTAGON said the Air Force recommendation for further training was made without qualification, and made a point of the percentage of aspirants for astronaut assignments who did not get past the selection processes of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Two of Dwight's classmates were selected for the astronaut program but it was pointed out by the Pentagon that five others in addition to Dwight did not make it.

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