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...week's No. 1 witness was John Charles Doerfer, 53, a Wisconsin lawyer named to the FCC by President Eisenhower in 1953, and appointed chairman in mid-1957. Relentlessly, Schwartz piled up testimony and documents showing that Republican Doerfer had collected "honorariums" (not very lavish, usually $100) for speeches to various broadcasting-industry gatherings outside Washington. On these trips Doerfer traveled at Government expense, collecting $12 per diem allowances, although his hosts often paid his hotel bills. Most picked-over trip: a 1954 expedition during which Doerfer 1) took part in the dedication of a station KWTV tower...
Brass Knuckles Rapped. Doerfer's defense was that the Federal Communications Act explicitly permits FCCommissioners to present "publications or papers for which a reasonable honorarium or compensation may be accepted." As for hotel bills, bar tabs, etc. paid by the broadcasting industry, "these things are accepted today as American amenities...
TOLL TV TEST is arousing little interest. Only one firm, Philadelphia Broadcasting Co., has applied to FCC to try system, and deadline for bids is March 1. FCC Chairman Doerfer says that single test is not enough, and pay TV may never get started unless businessmen are willing to invest more...
Last week FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer assured Utah's outraged Republican Representative William A. Dawson that the FCC was investigating whether such sly brainwashing was already being practiced on unsuspecting viewers. All three networks hastily denied that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing...
...Frederick W. Ford, 47, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission, replacing retiring Chairman George C. McConnaughey, 61, as a member of the commission, but not in the top job. The senior post goes to John C. Doerfer, 52, a tough, middle-roading lawyer who has been an FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division...