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Independent from Long Beach, California • 31

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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31
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Robert Brunner, principal of the school, aaid the' bride incinerator was no longer ip use. Det Lt Ernest Vandergrift aid police Were checking to see if the caps wfcm stolen. By JAMES BAAB WASHINGTON (UPI) Two Pittsburgh television exeeuttvee testified Wednesday they heard rumors that Sanaa TOC Chairman George McCbn-naughey Bought fiXOOO to $200,000 for his vote in that city's TV-Channel-4 contest Earl Reed, president of Television City, Inc, told the House influence-investigating subcommittee of rumors that a rival applicant was to pay McGon-naughty $200,000 ever a period of 10 years. He identified the. rival as WCAR, Inc, a Hearst Oorp.

subsidiary. Lee W. Eckisa, Reed's partner, testified that Reed received an Indirect telephone solicitation from McCon-naughey for. $50,000 to be paid over five years. Reed testified that he thought McCbnnaughey might have tried to solicit future law business bom him while the Channel-4 case was pending.

THE TWO TV partners testified at the reopening of hearings which were suspended last September to give 0 federal grand Jury time to act on the Channel-4 cite. The grind Jury has announced no action sq far end la reported to be in recess. The Federal Communication! Commission awarded Channel 4 to Television City, Inc, lest year after It merged with WCAE. Three other applicants withdrew after being paid each fay Television City to cover their expanses. Reed aaid ha did not put much stock" in the bribery But Eddes testified that Reed got him out of bed at 1:30 ajn.

one day to tell him by telephone that he had received what he considered a bribe solicitation. Ecklaa aaid Reed told him he had gotten the request by telephone from an unidentified third party idiom Reed believed to be calling on McCta-naughey'a behalf. BEEP, A LAWTEB, swore Black Dog Sought After Biting Boy Mr. and Mrs; Harold W. Hurst, 1900 W.

25th St, seek a Mack, short-haired dog which bit their son, Marie, 3tt, on the wrist in their yard a Week ago. They aay the dog has a tong, flagpole" tall, Umpa in a hind leg and won a red collar. final decision in the Channel-4 case, has denied to newsmen that he solicited or received bribes. He la expected to testify under oath next Monday. CHARGES THAT the former FCC chairman had solicited and been offered bribes totaling up to a quarter of a million dollars were aired by a staff investigator last September.

Hearings were recessed then to give a federal grand Jury looking into the can a chance to act. The Jury so tor has announced no action. Before questioning' Reed, Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark) chided Attorney General William Rogers for belatedly urging actkjn against applicants who pull stringy In television-channel- award cases. Harris said he wu amazed" that Rogers waited so tong before urging the FCC last Saturday to disqualify applicants who improperly contact FCC members. Harris noted this already la In the law.

Rogers made his proposal in is brief calling for disqualification of three out four applicants for TV Channel 10 in Miami a case under, court-ordered review because of dia-ctoaurea before the Harris committee. Reed told the subcommittee he first heard the bribery rumors about three days after the; FCC completed argument! in the Channel-4 case on June 3, 1957. PIYIDINM MR TNURSb, Ptl, SAT, NOV. II. 14, II OPIN HU.

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He aaid- under persistent questioning that he discounted the rumors about MCCon-naughey because he thought former FCC chairman had a reputation for drinking and I Just thought he was talking in Ma' liquor.1 Eddea, in testifying about 'the mysterious phone call to Reed, said he did not know who 'called Reed. He said ha had never tried to find out. Retiring -Rep. Charles A. jWdverton (R-NJ) snappe'd 'that even two women in sewing circle would have asked each other that Eckles testified -it, was his understanding that Television City had only 24 hours to make up its mind whether it would pay the bribe or face toeing Channel '4.

He said Television City's answer was to fire George Sutton, a lawyer for the firm who planned to form a law partnership with McCmnaughey. Eckles said Television City's officials told Sutton they were not interested in buying the vote of any FCC member. McConnaughey, who resigned in 1957 before the FQC made a Harbor Area HE ALSO TESTIFIED that he lunched with McConnaughey earlier- last year at a Washington hotel to discuss speeding up action in the long-stalled This meeting arranged, he aaid, by a mutual friend, TV station operator George Storer of Detroit. Reed aaid he- and McConnaughey discuMcd only procedural matters and did not into the merit! of the case. But he mid McConnaughey told.

Mm he planned to leave the commission shortly and resume his law practice, with one office In -Washington and another at CMumbua, Ohio; where McConnaughey's eon is a lawyer- He didn't ask fcr any busi-Rfed mid. didnt attach much importance to lt all until the day of the oral arguments; Than I began to think the talk had some significance. Wholesale Food Distributors 999 WILLOW ST. evfiWBI -2015 COAST 1 9524 LAKEWOOD BLVD. Bellflower a I iSSSSmmXSZ.

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