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...true that there is a movement afoot among Texas Republicans to pay Billie Sol Estes' fare to Hyannisport...
...Billie Sol Estes scandal just kept growing and growing-and every time an answer turned up, so did a few more questions. Last week the New York Herald Tribune (see THE PRESS) got its eager hands on a copy of the Agriculture Department's secret report on Billie Sol's cotton manipulations. Dated Oct. 27, 1961, the 140-page document clearly warned that Estes was a sleight-of-hand wheeler-dealer. Yet, three weeks after the report was submitted, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman confirmed Estes' appointment to the National Cotton Advisory Committee, and the Pecos Ponzi...
...Billie Sol bluntly warned Agriculture investigators that if the department tried to change "in the middle of the game" the regulations under which he had built up his cotton holdings, he would "take the matter to the Secretary and the President if necessary...
...Billie Sol's low bond was based in part on a financial statement listing his net worth at $13.7 million that was submitted in February 1961 by Winn P. Jackson, a Lubbock, Texas, certified public accountant. But Jackson testified that the statement actually had been drawn up by Billie Sol himself. Jackson said that when he told Estes he would have to check into the facts before he could approve the statement, Billie Sol replied: "Why? There's nothing wrong with it. The only place it's going is somewhere up in the Agriculture Department." Said Jackson...
...congressional hearings were hardly under way before Republican subcommittee members began clamoring for more exciting witnesses, including Billie Sol himself. Chairman L. H. Fountain, figuring that Estes would only take the Fifth Amendment, had no immediate plans for calling Billie Sol. Still, with Senator John McClellan preparing to hold hearings, two grand juries at work in Texas, and 76 FBI agents on the prowl, there seemed every reason to agree with Fountain's forecast: "I think Mr. Estes is likely to find a place in history as one of the most, if not the most, thoroughly investigated individuals...