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Six Committees Open New; Resume Former Investigations Today wasninzton ru.P Activity at the capitol this week reached the highest point since Congress adjourned earlier this year. Six committees start new in vestigations or resume old ones. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler and his Repuhli can counterpart, Leonard W. Hall, will testify at the opening of an elections subcommittee in quiry today into campaign con tribution expenditures. Butler charged in prepared tes timony before the committee that corporation executives have solicited 1954 Republican cam paign funds from their employes. He also charged corporation ex ecutives solicited GOP campaign money this year from "other per sons dependent upon the corpo ration for their livelihood." Home Committee The House Committee on Un American Activities will hear testimony today from a foreign er who is billed as "director of the largest resistance organiza tion behind the Iron Curtain." The witness Ernst Tillich, di rector of "The Fighting Group Against Inhumanity" was flown to Washington last week. He is the first of a series of ov erseas witnesses the committee plans to bring here in quest of data on "international Commu nist strategy and tactics." Other congressional inquiries scheduled: Lobbying: A special Senate committee set up to investigate lobbying will resume hearings today with testimony from rep resentatives of oi! companies. This group, headed bv Sen. John L. McClellan. D-Ark. was cre ated after Sen. Francis Case, (RS.D.i disclosed that he had been offered and had rejected, a S2.500 campamn contribution in advance of his vote on the smre-vetocH natural gas bill. Taxes: A House Ways and Means subcommittee meets be hind closed doors today to chart the course of its inquiry into na tional tax policy and administra tion of tax laws. The group plans to lay out a program of staff work whirh can be undertaken while members are back home campaigning for re-election. Air Crash: A House Interstate Commerce subcommittee will re sume hearings Tuesday on its in vestigation of the Grand Canyon plane collision which took 128 lives. The group, headed by Rep. Oren Harris. (D-Ark.), hopes to produce recommendations that will improve safety of air travel. TV Monopoly: The House Mon opoly subcommittee will begin 10 days of puolic hearings at New York in its investigation of possible "anti-trust and mon opoly problems" in the television industry. This is a continuation of previous hearings conducted here last spring. Oregon Candidates Take Campaing To All Sections of State Br UNITED PRESS Candidates for state and na tional offices, both Democratic and Republican, carried their pleas for votes to nearly every corner of the state yesterday and scheduled some whirlwind , tours for this week. Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) and his Republican opponent. Douglas McKay, led the full scale assault aimed at capturing votes in the November general election. Morse accused the Republican party of betrayal of the farmers of Oregon and the nation in a speech yesterday at the Klamath county fairgrounds. The senior Oregon senator challenged McKay to answer if he would have voted for the farm bill that President Eisen hower vetoed and which Morse described as a '"cood bill." Meanwhile. McKay was plan ning for a trip to eastern Oregon ' this week to attend the Pendle ton round-up and ceremonies celebrating the completion of the natural gns pipeline. The Republican senatorial aspirant was also slated to meet with farmers in the Pendleton area and visit Bppton county groups earlier in the week. Rep. Sam Coon, seeking re election in the second district, today was slated to be in Hood River and Cascade Locks. At The Dalles yesterday. Coon said he was pleased to note a good har vest of wheat through most of Oregon's wheat belt. He said the farmers are getting a good price for their crops, too. The Democratic state central committee met in Bend yester day and named four new execu tive committee members. Named to the posts were Richard Groe ner, Milwaukie: Pat Davis. Bak er; Kenneth Rinke, Portland, and Ron Raddock. Oakridge. Much of the meeting was de voted to rallying enthusiasm for Democratic nominee for gover nor, Robert Holmes, who him self was busy campaigning in Multnomah county. Miss America Beats 'Smart Guys' to Draw In First Press Meet Atlantic City. N.J. u.Fr The new Miss America, blonde Marian Ann McKnight of South Carolina, beat the "smart guys" to the draw in her first meeting with the press corps. The fivc-foot-five-inch beauty handled herself so well during her first news conference that she came up a winner although she won more of the honors in the preliminary judging during hectic week of the Miss A pag eant. The pretty queen from Man ning. S C.. opened up her own conference before the reporters had a chance to wag a tongue. "I'm still numb." she said. "When Leonore Slaughter pin nd the Miss America ribbon on me, she stuck me right hard. I was numb. I guess and I didn't even feel it." To Tour Abroad Marian (35-23-35) is In love, of Timior, starts her new duties to day in New York. She is sched uled to appear on three televis ion shows on different networks and to hold a news conference. From there she starts a 100. 000 mile tour of personal appear ances in several states and two trips to places like London. Rome. Paris, and Sicily. The tour is expected to net her at least S30.000. Her year-long reign as Miss America of 1957 includes a ban on marriage. Newberry Company Buys Portland Building Portland (U.R The J. J Newberry company Saturday an nounced purchase of the quarter block downtown Portland build ing that it expanded into three years ago. The six-floor building was sold by Henry Cabell, representing his own interest in the building and that as a trustee under the will of the late Man.- F. Failing. The transaction involved approx imately $775.000. Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 Marian (35-23-33). is in love, of course, as most teenagers are. The lucky suy is Johnny Gam ling, a first lieutenant in the Air Force stationed at Shaw Air Force Base. Columbia, S.C. Boyfriend Calls Johnny called Marian after she won Saturday niht and said: "When will I get to see you, darling." Best answer she could give was that it will be a year or so maybe, unless she gets a coffee break to go back home. Mareo Lucey, brown-haired Miss District of Columbia, came in second in the judging and Miss Alabama. 19-year-old blonde Anne Stuart Ariail. was third. There were no announced winners beyond that point in the contest among the 50 girls. . 35 Coifon Output Listed At 13 Million Bales Washington V.P., The Agri culture Department today esti mated a 13.115.000 bale cotton crop will be produced this year, down 437.000 bales from last month's forecast. Today's estimate, based on Sept. 1 crop conditions, com pares with output last year of 14.721.000 bales of cotton and 10-year average production of 13.098.000 bales. This year's prospective crop, added to a carryover of 14.1 mil lion bales, will meet consump tion demands, both domestic and foreign, for more than two years. The crop reporting board esti- Wheat Cargoes Set To Be Unloaded Portland (UPJ Seven ships from the Astoria reserve fleet are scheduled to have wheat cargos unloaded at Longview, Wash., starting this week. The Commodity Stablization Service announced that flie grain from the liberty vessels would be placed on the export market. mated cotton yields this year will average 402 pounds of lint an acre, compared with last year's record of 417 pounds and a 10-year average of 283 pounds. The board said condition of this year's crop Sept. 1 was 75 per cent of normal, compared with 81 per cent Sept. 1. 1955. and a 10-year average of 72 per cent. Couple Injured When Car Hits Horse Sunday Mr. and Mrs. George Beaman, Grants Pass, were treated and released at Sacred Heart hospital Sunday after the car in which they were riding struck and kill ed a horse on highway 99 north Complete reports on the acci dent were not yet available this morning at the sheriff's office. Sheriff's deputies answered the accident call with Medford Am bulance service which took the couple to the hospital. According to Medford Ambu lance service, the car struck and killed a horse which had strayed onto the highway between Med ford and Central Point at about 3:15 a.m. Sunday. Monday. September 10, 19S8 MED70RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Two Single Car Accidents Reported Two highway accidents, each involving one vehicle, were re-; ported by state police over the week end. Late Saturday evening a car driven by Rex Eugene Hopper, 21, Gold Hill, hit a light pole near the Rocky Point exchange on highway 99. According to police reports Hopper, traveling south on 99 at 50 miles an hour, lost control of his car when he tried to look into the glove com-1 partment j The car turned on its left side ! after cutting off the light pole. Hopper received a slight bruise on his knee. His car was re moved from the scene by wreck er. Early this morning a car driven south on 'highway 99 by Kenneth Lee Gentry, 228' 2 East Main Medford. hit the blinker light post on the Beal lane traf fic divider. The car, traveling between 55 and 60 miles an hour, skidded and turned over after striking the post, according to state police reports. Gentry was taken to Rogue Valley (Community) hospital by private car and was released later this morning. He was cited by police for failing to operate on the right side of the highway. One machine tabulating 400 names a minute and running 40 hours a week would require about two years and eight months to count all of the people in the United States today. Read and Us Classified Ada . . PICTURE TUSES REJUVENATED Is your pictura tuba dull ana weak? Moil picture tubes am ba restorao to original brightness at only fraction of the cost of replacement For further information CALL Electronic Service IS N. GRAPE PH. 3-171 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS fti jm m (V m nr wmu JC SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS IW OPEN 7 DAYS A f JLXX week UNTIL V P.H. Make Your PAYCHECK S-T-R-E-T-C-H SHOP the GROCETERIA! GROCETERIA PRODUCE IS FRESHER! 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