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Three Down. Several days after the FBI arrived in Pecos, Texas Attorney General Wilson set off on his own investigation, and his first revelations made the front pages. Employees of Dallas' Nei-man-Marcus luxury store testified that Estes had bought-or gone through convincing motions of buying-expensive clothing for three officials...
Agriculture Department. In September 1961, the testimony ran, Estes went into the men's wear department of Neiman-Marcus with Assistant Secretary (for Agricultural Stabilization) James T. Ralph and Ralph's assistant, William E. Morris; Ralph and Morris selected more than $1,000 worth of clothing, which was billed to Estes. In October, Estes came in again, this time with Emery E. Jacobs, deputy administrator of the Commodity Stabilization Service. After Jacobs had selected $1,433.20 worth of clothing, including a $245 suit and a $195 sports coat, Estes went into the fitting room with...
...Ralph, Morris and Jacobs have all departed from the Agriculture Department since the Neiman-Marcus revelations. Morris proved to have other links with Billie Sol. His wife had been on Billie Sol's payroll as "Washington columnist" for the paper in Pecos, and in Estes' files were some very friendly letters that Morris had written...
Jacobs denied that Billie Sol bought any clothing for him. The only gifts he ever accepted from Estes, he said, were two rides in Estes' private plane, several meals, a box of cigars and a 5-lb. bag of pecans. Yes, Billie Sol did go into Neiman-Marcus with him, Jacobs admitted, but "I had my own money." Jacobs resigned his post anyway. Maybe he knew it would be hard for people to believe that a $6,500-a-year Government official would be carrying around $1,433.20 in cash to spend for clothing...
Among the recipients will be: Eliot L. Gardner '62 (Air Force ROTC), who will receive the Reserve Officers association gold medal; Dennis C. Longwell '62 (Army ROTC), the outstanding com- pany Streamer and Frothingham trophy; Stephen D. Marcus '63 (Army ROTC), the Association of the United States Army medal; and Barry J. O'Keefe '62 (Air Force ROTC), the Professor of Air Science silver medal...