Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS week's cover story on Billie Sol Estes brings out old-fashioned journalistic instincts-the pursuit of shenanigans, resolving contradictory stories-that all journalists, ourselves included, take professional delight in. We think we have something extra to bring to the story in the accumulation of fascinating detail that a television audience would not be expected to sit still for, and in the deployment of correspondents to many cities, weaving together their separate strands in a way that individual newspapers cannot match...
...Cover) Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was on the grill. What were his associations with Billie Sol Estes? Freeman shrugged, hopelessly and helplessly. He had, he told newsmen, met Estes once, briefly, when Estes was paying one of many visits to Agriculture Department headquarters in Washington. Said Freeman: "I might recognize him in pictures." Then he mustered up a bit of bitter humor: "I'm sure I'll never forget the name." The newsmen laughed...
...Texas Attorney General Will Wilson prepared to file an antitrust suit against Estes, alleging that Billie Sol used capital gained from the grain-storage program to help him corner the liquid-fertilizer market in West Texas. Ledger accounts obtained by Wilson indicated that Estes had withdrawn $40,000 in cash from his bank account before flying to Washington in January. Even more mysterious was an Estes ledger entry showing $235,000 paid out for a "Washington project...
...William P. Mattox was suspended as vice chairman of the Reeves County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee-which helps set crop allotments in Estes' home county-while the agency investigated his connection with Billie Sol. Mattox has admitted flying to Washington with Estes on a trip paid for by a group of Reeves County farmers to "clarify" cotton allotment problems...
...week's end the House Government Operations subcommittee was preparing to start an investigation concentrating on grain-storage activities. And the Senate investigations subcommittee was gathering material for open hearings on the whole Billie Sol Estes mess...