Estes Faces 29 Count Indictment And Bankruptcy Risk
Billie Sol Estes is saddled with a new 29 count federal indictment including 16 mail fraud counts and 12 counts of illegally transporting securities, joined with a prior indictment. Creditors’ committee weighs a new offer to settle the $38 million debt, with possible immediate bankruptcy if rejected. The case involves associates and a sixth Pecos court inquiry opening Saturday into Estes money manipulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Tex
UPI
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Justice Department
Rufus McLean
Criminal Division
Washington
McLean
M. R. Irion
Dallas
Creditors’ Committee
Plainview
R. Ewing Thomason
Estes Thursday
Coleman McSpadden
Lubbock
Tex Rural
Alexander
Harold Orr
Amarillo
Superior Manufacturing Co
Banruptcy
Frank R. Murray
McSpadden
Murray
Texas Atty
Will Wilson
Pecos
F. H. Ryan
Air France 707 Crashes in Guadeloupe Killing 111
An Air France Boeing 707 en route from Paris to Santiago crashed into a Guadeloupe mountain during final approach killing all 111 aboard. The wreckage burned in dense jungle near De shayes on Basse-Terre with no survivors among 103 passengers and 10 crew.
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Pointe-A-Pitre
Guadeloupe
UPI
Air France
Paris
Santiago
Chile
Caribbean
le Raizet
French Ministry of Overseas Territories
Deshayes
Basse-Terre
Andre Lesieur
Grande - Terre
Coast Guard
Lesieur
Charles de Gaulle
Atlanta
Continental Airlines
Centerville
Iowa
Orly
Lisbon
Santa Maria
Azores
U.S. Coast Guard
Eshaves
R Y McDonald Dies In Galveston After Explosion
Funeral rites were held in Quanah for R Y McDonald who died in Galveston hospital from burns from the May 23 Lake Pauline circuit breaker blast. The body was flown to Quanah and his wife to Quanah by officials. Survivors include his widow three daughters one son three brothers and two sisters. Interment was in Quanah.
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Quanah
R. Y. McDonald
Lake Pauline
John Sealy Hospital
WTA
Wells Produce Water From Michie Sandhills
City announces repairs on wells two three and seven in the Michie Sandhills are complete and they are now in operation. Pump in Well Six is out for repairs. Thirteen wells supply the city water with additional sources from Baylor Lake and Well 62 near Estelline.
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Michie
Louis Sally
Sally
Baylor Lake
Estelline
Summer Heat Sweeps Texas as All Regions Feel Warmth
Summer arrived as heat spread across Texas with showers in spots. Dalhart and Alpine logged 59 degree lows while Galveston stayed warm at 80. Brownsville recorded 17 inches of rain in 24 hours ending 6 am. Temperatures climbed into the 90s and 100s with Presidio at 106, Wink 101, and El Paso 100.
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United Press International
Texas
Weather Bureau
Dalhart
Alpine
Galveston
Brownsville
Presidio
el Paso
FHA to finance 30 low rent homes in Mercedes Texas
The Federal Housing Administration agreed to finance thirty low rent homes for elderly residents in Mercedes Public Housing Authority. The project aims to provide senior housing and expand affordable options in the community.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Housing Administration
Mercedes, Tex
Emma Frith Dies at 64 in Childress
Emma Defia Frith. 64, of 10 04 Avenue NW, died at 12 30 a m at Childress General Hospital after a brief heart attack. Funeral 2 p m Saturday at First Baptist Church. Interment in Childress cemetery. Survived by husband J L Frith, five daughters, one son, sister and two brothers.
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Emma Defia Frith
Avenue FE
Childress General Hospital
First Baptist Church
Joe Allen
Shelby Wilson
James Holton
Mike Wilson
D. O. Nash
Ebb Petty
Tom Fisher
Childress Cemetery
Newberry Funeral Home
Frith
Arkansas
J. L. Frith
Charleston
Childress County
Cooper
Helen Frith
Childress
Lillian Norris
Vivian Sealey
Oklahoma City
Joyce Goodwin
Lubbock
Fay Bassham
Evalee Bradley
Fort Worth
Ella Bassham
Orange
Virgil Akins
Paris
Roy Akins
Climbers Sayre and Party Safe After Himalayan Search
The White House announced that Prof Woodrow Wilson Sayre 42 and three companions missing since May 31 in the Himalayas have been found in Nepal in weak condition. The group including Norman Hansen Roger Hart and Hans P Duttle requested helicopter evacuation from Khum Jung near Namche Bazar.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Himalayas
Woodrow Wilson
Pierre Salinger
State Department
Katmandu
Nepal
Woodrow Wilson Sayre
Khum Jung
Salinger
Namche Bazar
U.S
Sayre
Tufts University
Boston
Norman C. Hansen
Roger Hart
Tufts
Hans P. Duttle
House Kills Farm Bill With Stunning 215 To 205 Vote
President Kennedy and Republicans vow substitutes after the House rejected the administration farm bill 215 to 205. Rep. Victor Wickersham said Kennedy planned to pursue an alternative program, while GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck suggested continuing the current feed grain plan and revisiting Eisenhower era guidelines.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
House
Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Wickersham
Charles A. Slaneck
GOP
Halleck
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Sitton
White House
Phil Weaver
Nebraska
Pierre Salinger
U.S
American Farm Bureau
New Wheat Allotments Announced with Deadline
Farmers are reminded to contact the ASC office to seek consideration for a new wheat farm allotment with a July 2 filing deadline. A new farm has no wheat acreage history for 1960 1961 or 1962 and farms with existing wheat allotments are ineligible.
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ASC
Centennial Event Opens Bryan Celebration With Queen Crowning
The Bryan centennial event begins Saturday marking the founding of Bryan and Hood's Texas Brigade in the Civil War. A centennial queen will be crowned as part of the ceremonies. In San Antonio authorities reported the drowning death of Rudy De Leon Jr., 514 months, in a bathtub at the family home while his mother searched for another child.
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Bryan
UPI
Hood
Texas Brigade
Tub San Antonio
Rudy de Leon, Jr
Rural Electrification Grants Near $2 Million to Texas Coops
The Rural Electrification Administration announced loans totaling nearly 2 million dollars to the Lower Colorado River Electric Cooperative of Austin and the Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative of El Dorado.
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Washington
UPI
Rural Electrification Administration
Lower
Colorado River Electric Cooperative
Austin
Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative
el Dorado
Dallas teen drowns in Grapevine Lake
Charles Simpson, 15, of Dallas drowned while swimming in Grapevine Lake on Thursday. The body was recovered after a 40 minute search conducted by rescue teams.
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Grapevine, Tex
Texas House Votes To Return Farm Bill To Committee
The U S House killed the administration farm bill on a 215 to 205 vote and sent it back to committee. Texas split 22 Democrats and 1 Republican for the measure with 204 Democrats and 1 Republican voting against.
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House
House Agriculture Committee
Washington
Estes Uses Lawyer During Grand Jury Testimony Irregular
A Franklin County grand jury investigating Henry Marshall's death allowed Billie Sol Estes to bring his attorney John Cofer to advise him during questioning. Attorney General Will Wilson called the move highly irregular though he had not reviewed the statute. Estes answered some questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment about a hundred times with Judge John Barron's permission.
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Wilson
Cofer
Dist
John Barron
Grand Jury
Estes
Probe Opens in Pecos on Estes Money Matters
Texas Attorney General Will Wilson will launch a sixth Pecos court of inquiry Saturday to probe Billie Sol Estes finances. About seven or eight Pecos witnesses are subpoenaed for the 9:30 a.m. session, part of wider hearings in Amarillo Plainview Dallas Pecos and Lubbock into Estes capital structure and related antitrust issues.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Will Wilson
Pecos
Billie Sol Estes
Wilson
Amarillo
Plainview
Dallas
Lubbock
Operator Drowns After Pond Swim Near Dumas
A 50 year old combine operator Herman Dallegge of Peach Colorado drowned Thursday night in a deep stock pond on a ranch 18 miles northeast of Dumas. Dallegge and three crew members swam in the pond and his unidentified son, hospitalized in Dumas, suffered shock after failed rescue attempts.
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Dumas, Tex
UPI
Herman Dallegge
Peach
Colo
Dumas
Dallegge
Stamford Man Named Jaycee Vice-President
Ten men from as many states were elected to vice presidential posts of the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce at its 42nd annual convention in Las Vegas. Elected were Robert E. Dillon Jr. Wayne Matlock Harry W Nelson Jr Johnson R Davis Lewis R Timberlake W Waner Marks Orval F Carverhill Dick Thomas Richard H Headlee and Dan Stewart Jr Timberlake, past-president of the Texas Jaycees, was the keynote speaker. The ten were chosen from fourteen candidates.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
U. S
Lewis R. Timberlake
Stamford
Texas
W. Waner Marks
Little Rock
Ark
Orval F. Caverhill
Ontario
Ore
Dick Thomas
Sedalia
Missouri
Richard H. Headlee
Bountiful
Utah
Dan Stewart Jr
Pineville
Timberlake
Texas Jayycees
Childress Jaycee
Skeleton Found Near Littlefield
Lamb County officials prepared to ship parts of a human skeleton found during plowing on the W. Q. Hardin farm 11 miles southeast of Mule Shoe. Deputy Sheriff W L Sith said the remains likely belonged to a large Plains Indian male about 50 at death. Ribs hips and ankles were intact and the bones would be tested at the Department of Public Safety laboratories in Austin.
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Littlefield Tex
UPI
Lamb County
Austin
W. L. Sith
W. Q. Hardin
Muleshoe
Smith
Department of Public Safety Laboratories
Northwest Council Scout Meet At Perkins Reservation
Scout leaders Dr. Gene Blackwell Warner Stevens and J W Hamilton attended a Northwest Council meeting at Perkins Scout reservation near Wichita Falls Thursday evening.
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Childress
Gene Blackwell
Warner Stevens
J. W. Hamilton
Perkins
Wichita Falls
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McClelland
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Lima
Perus
Arthur Goldberg
Flight Engineers
Trans World Airlines
Mercedes
Senate
Jaycee
Littlefield
Dean Rusk
East Berlin
Lotsdamer Place
Rusk
Berlin
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