[News Script: School bus probe] Page: 1 of 4
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SCHOOL BUS PROBE 1-1-1
BOUND COMING
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on other contracts.
"If we didn't do that, " says
Allen, "we'd all go broke."
LONG SHOT AFTER MED.
"Yes," answers the attorney general, "but, it's
designed to allow everyone to make money and it
costs the state more money."
MAD. IAN ON STAND
Allen says that in the past there have been
price ware in the school bus trade which have2:30
Attorney General Will Wilson opens his
investigation into the sale of school buses
to the state claiming the taxpayers are getting
gypped up to twenty-five percent on purchases
of 4-million dollars annually. Judge Owen Giles
presides over the court of inquiry in Dallas.
The first witness is Gordon K. Allen of Dallas,
former president of Superior Coach Corporation.
He says bus dealers bid on the basis of past bids
> for the business they want and make complimentary
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: School bus probe], script, June 28, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976772/m1/1/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.