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Mysiery .Telephone' Call Described by Hearing Witness Washington U.R) There was a mysterious telephone call, the .witness said, and an offer of money, perhaps a bribe. Spectators and newsmen perk ed up. The -tall, slim man appearing before the Securities and Ex change Commission was Dr. F. H. Kellogg, dean of engineer ing at the University of Missis sippi. He had been called to testify at the long and compli cated hearines about the contro versial Dixon-Yates power proj ect. : Dr. Kellogg is a soil expert. Opponents wanted, through him, to show that Dixon-Yates picked a poor location near West Mem phis, Ark., on which to build a plant for furnishing electricity to the Tennessee Valley Author ity. Contributions Promised But beore his technical testi mony, Dr. Kellogg told the com mission his university had re ceived phone calls from some one who was "very much dis turbed" that he was to testify. He said the mystery voice ques tioned "the propriety of my be ing here." . ;, - Kellogg said the calls were ,made from Jackson, Miss., to University Provost Alton Bry ant at Oxford, Miss.,, and that contributions were promised to the university for an airport it is building, and for engineering equipment. ' ' Kellogg did not say, nor did he quote. Bryant as saying, the proposed contributions were as ' sociated with his appearance as a witness at the hearing. ' ! Under questioning by SEC at torney Solomon Friedman and Daniel James, Dixon-Yates at torney, Kellogg declared, he felt no personal fear about his testi mony and that it had not been changed by the telephone calls. "Serious Testimony"; But he said, "I am very much concerned that anyone should question the right of myself, or any other professor, to appear as a technical witness." SEC Chairman Ralph H. Dem mler said Kellogg's statements about the telephone calls repre sented "very serious testimony." Kllogg later testified that a "safe plant could be built at the location" at West Memphis pro posed by Dixon-Yates. But he said over-all costs for founda tions would be "signicantly high er than at other nearby loca tions" and that "close engineer ing supervision of a high degree of competence" would be needed : on the foundations. ? A Memphis city official told the commission that the Dixon Yates project at West Memphis, would be unreliable, undesirable and unsatisfactory for Memphig. Final Advent Service Af St. Peler's Today The final Adent evening ser vice will be held at St. Peter's Lutheran church, 1020 -East Main st at 8 p.m. today, ac cording to the pastor, the Rev. Kenneth Korby. He will preach on Job, chapters 17 through 19. T.ast Sunday , at the morning si service, eight men were in stalled as officers m the con gregation. They are Harvey Rrandau. chairman: G. J. Wolff, secretary; Frank Strauss, finan cial secretary; Roland Holmes, treasurer; Wa Iter Kingman, hnaH of elders: Virgil Bower, board of trustees; Walter Wood and Al Huntemann, board of education. In other elections at St. Peter's during the past month, the fol lowing were elected to officers: T.aHies Aid. Iris Huntemann, chairwoman: Jeanne Korby vice- president; . Vera Wright, treas urer; Wilma Jaon, secretary; Christian Fellowship group, Herman Mack, president; Cece lia Blew, vice-president; .Dor othy Kobernick,. treasurer; and Esther Mack, secretary. eo gases Windshields curved & flat Plate Glass Window Glass 303 N. 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