Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol's 16th District Congressman, Democrat J. T. Rutherford, admitted getting money from Estes. He had searched his records, he said, and was so surprised that "I could have dropped my teeth" to find that Billie Sol had given him a $1,500 "campaign contribution" last...
...months. Thus, some of the $4,000,000 in annual storage payments would continue for a while. At his press conference, President Kennedy gave only a generalized reason for the Government's action: "I think that it's appropriate . . . because of all the circumstances surrounding the case." Sol Smiles. In El Paso, Billie Sol himself, who has been sticking close to his own 52-ft. Pecos living room these weeks, walked into a federal court to face representatives of his 500 creditors. The hearing was to determine what assets Billie has left. But Estes took the Fifth Amendment...
...looked down at Estes' creditors, found a bit of wry humor in their predicament. "About all you'd have left is the newspaper,'' observed the judge. "But I'm sure you won't need that, with all the publicity you are getting." Billie Sol smiled for the first time at the hearing-he knew what was happening to the newspaper...
...baked citizens of the West Texas town of Pecos (pop. 12,700) had always got along with one newspaper, the semiweekly Independent and Enterprise (circ. 3,000). The Independent seldom showed much enterprise, but Pecos needed another paper about as badly as it needed Billie Sol Estes. Thanks to Billie Sol, Pecos has been a two-paper town for nearly a year...
Unlike his other activities, Billie Sol's adventure in journalism was no get-rich-quick scheme for skinning the big-city rubes. Billie Sol was out to get even with some local types. He had been beaten in a school-board election last spring, and it was the Independent that had helped to beat him. Billie Sol was sore; he had wanted to get on that board to keep the boys and girls in Pecos High from swimming in the same pool or dancing on the premises. He retaliated by buying his own printing press. The first thing anybody...