Estes: from boy wonder to West Texas empire wreck
Billie Sol Estes arrived in Pecos 11 years ago clutching a beat-up briefcase and rose to become a famed agri business magnate. He built a vast empire valued in millions through fertilizer sales and grain storage, later facing federal fraud charges as his finances collapsed.
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Dallas
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Pevoy
Estes
West Texas
Washington
Agriculture Department
Sol
Las
Pecos
Church of Christ
Callahan County
Davy Crockett Placed With American Frontline Forces
Defense officials confirm the atomic mortar has reached U S troops, with indications it is issued to Army divisions in West Germany facing Soviet forces. Each division could field about 45 Crockett launchers, capable of a warhead near 1000 tons of TNT, deployed under strict division control and used against pillboxes bunkers and massed troops from 200 to 500 yards.
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Washington
Defense Department
West Germany
East Germany
U.S
Germany
Davy Crockett
Crockett
20 Per Cent Of Loans On Crop Cotton Paid
AP reports Agriculture Department data showing 20 percent of the 1961 crop cotton stored under price support loans has been paid off. Farmers had stored 4,824,060 bales of 14,318,000 bales and through April 27 had repaid loans on 969,826 bales. Texas led states with a return of 746,891,000 dollars, while most states earned more than last year except Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, and California.
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Agriculture Department
Alabama
Missouri
Oklahoma
California
Texas
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