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...mile lines between Pecos, Texas, and Washington, D.C., were getting tauter and tauter as the Billie Sol Estes scandal hotted up. Last week Assistant Secretary of Labor Jerry R. Holleman, 42, a Texas politician and former president of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., resigned after admitting that he had accepted a $1,000 gift last January from Estes "to help ends meet." Just two days before Holleman confirmed that he had asked Estes and other Texans to pick up the tab for a January dinner Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg gave for Lyndon Johnson, but said he backed off when he learned...
...break by asking a 2?-per-bu. bond-the lowest possible rate required of grain-storage operators). Said Freeman: "The Government hasn't lost a dime . . . Estes hasn't got a cent of the taxpayers' money." Of three Agriculture officials accused of accepting gifts from Billie Sol, one has resigned, one has been fired, another has denied the charges under oath. The official who approved Billie Sol's low bond has been shifted to another...
...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 Ledger accounts obtained by Wilson indicated that Estes had withdrawn $40,000 in cash from his bank account before flying to Washington in January.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...