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GOVERNMENT CONTINUED
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Thought for today: WMT-TV covers over half of the tv families in Iowa, dominates Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and Dubuque, three of Iowa's six largest cities.
WMT-TV
CBS Television for Eastern Iowa
CED.Ut RAPIDS — WATERLOO
Represented Nationally by The Katz Agency. Inc. • Affiliated with WMT Radio, KWMT Fort Dodue.
the FCC and left when the chairman did. He said he was unsuccessful in attempts to learn the source of the allegations.
Mr. L'Heureux vigorously denied he had contacted Mr. Reed or anybody else regarding the bribe solicitation or the 3-3 tie vote. He said only one side could benefit from the rumors and that if he were sitting on a jury he would "have some very strong suspicions . . ." about Tv City.
He was first informed of the bribe rumors by Messrs. Sutton and McConnaughey, Mr. L'Heureux said, the same day the two attorneys were questioned by the FBI. He said that in March 1958, Mr. McConnaughey told him and Mr. Sutton that Mr. Reed had offered the former FCC chairman "about $10,000" a year for his vote.
At the conclusion of Monday's hearing. Reps. Williams and Charles A. Wolverton (R.-NJ.) called on the Justice Dept. to investigate the Pittsburgh case. Three days earlier, both congressmen had called on the FCC to reopen the case [At Deadline. Nov. 17].
The Justice Dept. had the case under grand jury scrutiny for several months but no indictment was returned and the jury was dismissed. A Justice spokesman said last week that no new evidence was unearthed in the House hearings which had not been presented to the grand jury.
FCC Chmn. Doerfer said the Commission would have to consider the possibility of reopening the case but as yet, has not done so.
Several members of the subcommittee have expressed a desire to recall a number of witnesses because of inconsistencies in testimony before the congressional body. Among those facing a possible recall are Messrs. Sutton, Reed and Lee W. Eckels, Tv City principal. The congressmen also want to question William Matta, ch. 4 applicant who has not testified.
OVERSIGHTSPONSORS PANEL DISCUSSIONS
• 30 examine regulatory ills
• FCC declines participation
Thirty prominent attorneys, government officials and professors at the invitation of the House Legislative Oversight subcommittee, participated last week in two days of panel discussions on how to cure the ills of federal regulatory agencies.
And, one of the panelists used the forum to get in a lick against the parent Commerce Committee and for pay tv. James M. Landis, counsel for pay tv-proponent Skiatron, charged the committee with interference in "a carefully worked out program" by the FCC to authorize a test of pay tv.
Topics for discussion were "(1) Should the clearly judicial functions of the administrative agencies be divorced from them and lodged with the federal courts? (2) Should the legislative functions of administrative agencies be restricted? (3) How much overseeing of the administrative process should be undertaken by the Executive branch and the legislative branch? (4) How can improper pressures be best dealt with?"
The FCC was conspicious in its failure to participate in the panel. Charles E. Smoot.
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