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r VICTORIES ENJOYED Three Democratic cenators enjoyed reviewing their party's vic tories in Tuesday's elections when they gathered at Seattle. Sen. Stuart Symington (Mo.) shown in center, declared the election a "beUweathef . of the great Democratic vic Revlon Ad Man Renews Charge Firm Knew of TV Quiz Rigging ' Washington -ffiPD- The Rev- J- Ion Company's former adver tising chief renewed today .his charge that officials of ;the firm knew that the tele-- vision quiz shows they spon ' sored were "controlled" by J the producers. MedfordTribune Rogue Valley Edition,. , Page 2 Stocks Continue I Oregon Campaign Irregular Move New York -flJTO- Stocks con- tinued to move irregularly to- day with volume shrinking sharply from Wednesday's pace. 1 ; The makers of small cars were hit' in volume and in p- price. American Motors at one time touched 88 for a loss of IV points. It was well up in C the actives with Studebaker; also on the downside. " Chrysler featured the autos - on the upside holding a gain T of nearly a point. General Mo- tors and Ford eased. , : Kew York fWB - Dow Jones final stock' averages: 30 industrials 647.57 up l.3; 20 railroads 151.58 off 0.93? 15 utilities 86.97 up 0.18; 65 slocks 212.02 up 0.18. Salts today war about 3.17Q.000 shares compared with 3.194.000 shares Wednesday. Z Today's -price on selected stocks Allied Chemical 118V 3 Alum Co. Am. American Can J, American Motors . A T & T 97 'i : 41 Vs 89 78 4 73 Anaconda Copper Armco steel J7 Bendix Aviation . Bethlehem Steel . Boeing Air 69 - 55H : 32 "4 .i 324 60 46 54 29?i 9Hi i60 Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp - Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak. . 961. Firestone General Electric - 81Ts -103 i General Foods General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paige. , Greyhound 1 52 5i 51 '4 . 2, .115'b Gulf Oil Homes take Mining Idaho Power I. B. M 41'4 . 46:'4 ..410 -136 Vx. 49 - 5, - 945, - 15 Int Paper- I? Johns Manville Katy S, Kennecott Copper Kaiser Ind Lockheed Aircraft 27 Montana Power Co. Montgomery Ward New York Central - Pac Gas & Elec Penney. J.C. , .-25'i . 52 . 29 i - 62 -117 . 15 ',4 . 64', - 754 - 363 - 474 - 72' - 405, .. 38 V, .. 68 47 - 42 47 i .. 6j, Penn RK . Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway , Sears Shell Oil Soconmy Mobil Oil Southern Co Southern Pacific . Standard California (xd) Standard Indiana Standard NJ. Sun Mines .. WATCH FOI DT! -Of Medford Mail Tribune life' V-' 11' 1': Members of the House sub committee investigating rig ging of "TV "quiz programs raised a question of perjury Wednesday when , a former Revlon executive denied a statement bjr George J. Ab rams, who had served as vice By Symington Said Undecided . : Portland-IDPD-Rep. Charles H. Brown (D-Mo.) said Wed nesday he could not say whether Sen. Stuart Syming ton would stump in Oregon if his nam appears on the' state's primary ballot as a Democratic presidential candi date. ... ; : . ' . Brown was here to talk to local Democrats about the pos sibility of . the Missouri sen ator's, candidacy. . . - Symington's name may appear-on. the Oregon ballot next spring, under a new law which permits the Oregon sec retary of state to enter names of candidates generally advo cated in the national press. Not To File Affidavit Brown indicated Syming ton would not file an affidavit with the secretary of state to get his name off the ballot. "I don't believe any of those prominently mentioned for the nomination has the moral right to take his name off the ballot" he said. Brown commented on the possible candidacy, of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) in 1960 as an Oregon "favorite son." Although Morse has declared he doesn't want to be on the ballot, a petitioner in Salem has said he can and will get the necessary 1,000 signatures and that Morse will be put up as a favorite son. Of this, Brown "said he thought Morse "deserves rec ognition and the state's loyal ty." He added that on his trip here he talked to some Ore gon -residents .who support Morse's candidacy. Texas Co. 8OV4 Texas Gulf Sulfur ... 1714 Tex Pac Land Trust Transamerica 20 31 , Trans World Air Tri-Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft United Air Lines .. U. S. Rubber 21 Mi 37-!4 ..137 '4 30 36 41 61 98 .. 124 U. S. Steel Youngstown S & T . November 9-21 MAKE TOCR ROMK HAPPIER WITH A NEW APPLIANCE 0 m. v tory on all levels next year." Symington spoke at a press conference en route to Alaska. He's seconded by Washington's two senators, Henry M. Jackson, left, and War ren G. Magnuson. . ., (UPI Telephoto) president in charge of adver tising. Abrams appeared before the subcommittee to repeat under oath what he had said in a sworn statement denied by Martin Revson, former execu tive vice president of Revlon, Inc. The cosmetics firm spon- sorea uie $o,uuu wuesuon and "S64.000 C h a 1 1 e n g e" J 1 XI IlKA J SfSV i." shows. "The statement was com pletely true and correct," Ab rams said. Abrams, now an executive of the Warner-Lambert Phar maceutical Corp., was called as today's lead-off witness by Chairman Oren Harris CD Ark.) who said his affidavit and Revson's denial had pre sented "a pretty serious situa tion." ' . The witness, who said he had volunteered to appear in person, emphasized that par ticipants in the weekly meet ing -of sponsors and producers of the two quiz shows "knew that" the producers had the ability to control the destiny of the contestants." Revson at Meeting Asked to list those in at tendance, he named Martin Revson among others. "This is my honest belief, that everyone present knew," Abrams testified. . Revson told the committee Wednesday that "it never en tered my mind that the pro ducer could control it." But : Abrams, under . ques tioning by Harris, said Rev son .definitely was among those aware of the producers' ability to "ask a tough or easy q u e s t ijo n" depending on whether they wanted an "ex citing" contestant to stay on the program or a "dull" one to be eliminated. . Producers Steve Carlin and Mert Koplin have testified the two big-money programs were "controlled," that the sponsor knew it , and made "urgent" ; suggestions as to who' should win or lose. Finds It Difficult Rep. John B. Bennett (R Mich.) asked Abrams if there was "any doubt in your mind" that Martin Revson knew the producers were con trolling the future of con testants. "I find it very difficult to believe he wouldn't -know, sitting in on these meetings," Abrams repeated. He testified that Charles Revson, president of Revlon, "rarely attended" the weekly meetings. And he said he could not recall a single in stance that Charles Revson "expressed an opinion about the destiny of a contestant." This bore out part of the testimony given by Charles Revson Wednesday. - Abrams said that the "con trols" of which the sponsors were aware dealt with the relative difficulty of ques tions. He said it was not until March, 1958, that any hint arose that contestants were being told questions in ad vance. When Revlon heard charges to this effect in March and September, 1958, it began in vestigating. "I have been asked what Revlon would have done if it knew of fraudulent prac tices," Abrams said. "It would have cancelled the show im mediately. Kiwanis Club to Sell Game Programs The Medford Kiwanis club will sell football programs at the Medford - Grants Pass game Friday,'-Nov. 6, with proceeds going to the United Medford. Crusade. Dr. Abner Clark, program sales chairman, said Kiwani ans will sell official game pro grams before and during the first part of the game. Dr. Clark said the programs will sell for 25 cents this year. The project . is an annual affair , sponsored by the . Ki wanis club to benefit United Medford Crusade agencies. Army dDififiiGer Denies TV Quiz Show Assistance; Turns in designation Lawton, Okla. -(DM A war hero who hit big money on a television quiz show fired a salvo Wednesday at charges that he was helped with an swers, then resigned from the Army. Capt. -Michael O'Rourke, an advanced artillery student at Ft. Sill, near Lawton, Okla., won $106,500 on the quiz show: "Tic-Tac-Dough." In testimony released Wedi nesday by the House subcom mittee investigating TV quiz shows in Washington, a for mer producer of "Tic-Tac-Dough" said O'Rourke had received help. But the pro ducer, Howard Flesher, hesi tated to accuse the officer be cause of his Army decorations and service record. No License for Fraud Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), sub-committee chairman, re plied that he respected a sol dier who offered "his life on behalf of his country, but that ... does not give any body a license . . . to return and commit fraud on the American people." "He might be Gen. O'Rourke some day with re sponsibility for- very large sums of money," Harris said. "If he is corruptible, it is well that we find it out." Hearings concerning the show already had ended, and there was little possibility that O'Rourke would be call ed. O Rourke nevertheless is- sued a statement Wednesday saying he was resigning from the Army because "if I were to be called -before the con gressional committee investi gating -the television shows I would prefer to appear as a civilian or as an officer . of the Army whose resignation has been submitted." Resignation Accepted His resignation was accept ed by the acting commander at Ft. Sill, Brig. Gen. Vonna F. Burger, who said the De partment of Army also . ac cepted it. O'Rourke was unavailable for comment after he resign ed. ' He had said earlier there might have been a "fix" in the case of another man on the show, "but not as far as I'm concerned." He said Fel sher's statement "surprised me very much." Dog Has Opinion Of Lutheran Choir San Males, Calif. - Mrs. Marion Seep wondered if rhe dog was making a sub tle comment on the per formance of the choir at St. John's Lutheran church here. . The stray pooch came out of the church with a song book in its mouth and bur ied it in the back yard. UlM P I' ill lift gIt? : -r ;v;iH East Berlin Bows To West Stand on Raising of Berlin-fflPD-The East Berlin Communists bowed today to a firm Allied stand and an nounced they would not try to fly their flags in West Ber lin Friday to celebrate the anniversary of Russia's Bol shevik revolution. The off ical Sast German newpaper Neues Deutschland announced, the Communist backdown in an editorial. ' "We do not assume that flags will be raised at West Berlin railroad installations which belong to the German Democratic Republic," it said. Troops Stand Ready The Communist . statement followed a warning Monday by the American commandant in Berlin, Maj. Gen. Barks dale vHamlett,' that Western Allied troops stood ready to put down any trouble caused by the flags. The ' East Germans had threatened to plant their flags on the elevated railroad sta tions in the Western sectors of the city to celebrate e revolution. They contend their operation of the rail road in both . sectors gives Open 12 Noon Till 9 P.M. Friday In the Medford Shopping Center. Flags them the right to the stations in the West. They put out the flags in West Berlin for the first time Oct. 7 to cele brate East Germany's tenth anniversary and rioting re sulted when West Berliners ripped them down. 20 Avoid Provocation Neues Deutschland said the Communists changed their minds about the flags to avoid "bloody -provocations." It said West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt "will not get his wish for , civil war" and charged thajt such a war was planned by the West in order to block the path to the sum mit meeting. 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