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...Billie Sol Estes scandal last week claimed its first elective victim. It was, ironically, a Republican and an old foe of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Freeman tried for years to unseat stocky, moonfaced H. Carl Andersen as U.S. Representative from the rural Seventh Congressional District. But Andersen, a conservative on nearly all issues but high farm supports, seemed unbeatable; he was elected twelve times. Then, last January, along came Billie Sol...
...after reports questioning Billie Sol's operations, had Murphy approved Estes' appointment to the Agriculture Department's Cotton Advisory Committee...
...Murphy, after canceling Billie Sol's cotton-acreage allotments upon advice of Agriculture Department officials, later suspended the order...
Steadily and stolidly, Murphy defended himself. Yes, he agreed, he had been responsible for the Estes decisions. But he had merely been trying to be fair; after all, any U.S. citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yes, he had at one time canceled Billie Sol's cotton-allotment transactions. But then, after urgings from Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough and Representative J. T. Rutherford, Murphy suspended the cancellation in order to reconsider the legal merits of the tangled affair. Why? Well, there was the possibility that Estes may have only made an "honest mistake." This explanation...