Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of the death to the Estes case was emphasized in a legal wrangle between Texas Attorney General Will Wilson and federal officials over an Agriculture Department report on Estes' cotton dealings to which Marshall had apparently contributed. Wilson tried to subpoena the whole report. But Secretary Orville Freeman's Agriculture Department was willing to divulge only excerpts...
...being exhumed for an autopsy by a five-expert team headed by Houston Pathologist Joseph A. Jachimczyk. The team's finding: "From the reasonable medical probabilities, it was homicide." This was perhaps the understatement of the year. Marshall, 51, was the Agriculture official in charge of cotton allotments in Texas. A big (6 ft., 200 lbs.) man who had worked for the department for 26 years. Marshall ate an early breakfast with his wife in their $20,000 home in Bryan, Texas, on the morning of June 3, 1961. Then he climbed into his pickup truck to look over...
This was eleven days after Rutherford had helped set up and had attended a meeting between Estes and Agriculture Department officials in Washington. At that session, the department agreed to postpone its cancellation of Estes' cotton allotments. Also at the meeting was Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has admitted getting some $7,500 in political contributions from Estes-all, he says, before the meeting...
...Hong Kong's textile makers are asking the government of the colony to impose production controls on their industry. But M.I.T.-educated P. Y. (for Ping Yuan) Tang, 63, Hong Kong's biggest textile magnate, has other plans as well. He intends to add synthetics to his cotton cloth output, has expanded his zipper production, and is considering going into electronics. Says Tang: "Diversification is the long-term solution for Hong Kong." To give the island colony time to diversify, however, Tang argues that the U.S. must relax its quotas on Hong Kong Textiles...
Among the most sinister aspects of the Estes case were the bizarre and mysterious deaths of two Texans. Last summer, when Estes was already in trouble about his cotton allotments, Henry...