The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 66, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 21, 1962 Page: 2 of 22
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Creditors Consider Carpenter
Estes Assets Sale
DALLAS (AP) —A committee
of bankrupt Billie Sol Estes’ cred-
itors considered Monday selling
his assets to Morris Jaffe of San
Antonio, who was reported offer-
ing $6.5 million
Estes owes many millions be
sides that He faces federal and
state indictments and is under i-
vestigation in Washington by Sen-
ate and House committees
The Estes assets are in grain
elevators, which once stored about
50 million bushels of government
grain: in fertilizer enterprises:
and in other agricultural and mis-
Donna Marie
IAPEII CI
mull si re da Pleads Guilty
" BELLEVILLE, III. (AP)—Don-rule on her fate. She might be
HOUSTON AP) — Top officials na Marie Stone, pudgy 14-year-old freed or held for seve
Solon Requests
Freeman Check
In Rice Case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
John Dowdy, D-Tex, asked the
Secretary of Agriculture Orville
Freeman Monday to investigate
. . years %
of the nation’s space team were who admittedly took part in four more—the maximum for volun-comp STS
killings, pleaded guilty Monday to tary manslaughter. harassed rice growers in Texas
.___, a reduced charge of manslaughter The Bana-d. .ee and used gestapo tactics” in
Scott Carpenter make a formal the laving, Ballards, were Sam for checking compliance with farm
____. . „ n the sayings of a man and his their money and car—he had $1 1
meet on his. May 24 orbital daughter- on him-and £ others — Dowdy also made public a letter
Ie Until Circuit Judge Richard T. killed for loot. The pair got $17. 6oNs Mona Craft a Bay
Carpenter’s presentation Tues- Carter accepted her plea, she Ballard and Carol were killed City, Ter the
day will conclude an all-day con-had been charged with murder in Aug. 30. The Stone girl said she 5 mA
ference on the Aurora 7 flight the pistol shot deaths of George bound them hand and foot and a allot
Six technical papers will be given Ballard, 49, of Belleville, and his gagged them. Myers then ended t 1
about the flight daughter, Carol. their lives with pistol shots to the hire
Officials of the Manned Space- She has also confessed to hav-head. Ta whose charges Dowd, sent
craft Center would give no hints ing a hand in the deaths of a kid- After the Ballards were killed, on to Freeman, said Agriculture
Monday concerning the reports naped woman in Missouri and a Myers and the Stone girl were Department agents had been in
There was speculation, however, hitchhiker in Texas, unable to get the Ballard car vestigating the business relations
Carpenter’s report may clarify Her lover, 33-year-old John Ed-started. j" .....
the mystery of the famous space win Myers, an ex-convict, is So the pair walked to the near-
fireflies observed by astronaut awaiting execution in Texas for by home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
John Glenn on bis Feb. 20 flight, the slaying there. Graham. At gunpoint they took
In a preliminary report Car- After accepting her plea, Judge the Graham car and forced a vis-
Pre T sen, the Carter ordered her turned over to itor. Miss Margaret Wernicker, to
pemte:asnRA the Illinois Youth Commission, accompany them,
particles, but said they 5 She will undergo a series of tests The next day, Donna Marie
has made clear that his proposed committee meeting in El Paso or A Russian astronaut, Gherman JuE minis. State Penitentiary, said then s hot Miss Wernicker
purchase of the surviving rem-Dallas." S. Titov, said he spotted the part-, S State Girl’s twice in the back and Myers fin
nants of the Estes empire is a Irion said that at le a st one cles. He and Glenn compared -as ished her off with a bullet in the
private venture unconnected with member of the committee is notes last May before the Car- is 21. At that th. TASS
the stores known to oppose terms of the con-penter flight and offered a joint P.—“me the IllinoisThe pair then drove to Texas
Iron said the sales contract was tract, as they are set out in the opinion the fireflies were globules ar Board will where their crime career ended. I
drawn up over Sunday in Chicago final draft.
by Bob Greenberg, vice president Whether we can get him to
and general counsel of the Walter change and what the action of the There also was speculation
E. Heller Co. and a member of full committee will be are two Tuesday’s conference may lead to
the committee, Moore and Alan things I wouldn’t care to predict," comments about the recent Rus-
Poage of El Paso, who is lawyer he remarked. sian flights of 64 and 48 orbits,
for Moore. The offer by Jaffe to buy the Scientists at the spacecraft cen-
Representatives of Commercial total bankrupt estate of the in-ter have declined to discuss the
Solvents Corp. were in Chicago dieted fertilizer king was one ofhave gecined “ 09955
part of the time. three received by the committee
“Copies of the final draft will at a meeting in Dallas two weeks
in Houston to hear astronaut
cellaneous businesses.
° Monte Irion, one of the seven
members of the creditors' com-
mittee, said a contract for Jaffe
had been drawn up The full com-
mittee first must approve the con-
tract. Until then, Irion, a lawyer,
declined to talk price
The contract would be with the .
trustee a federal court at E Paso MORRIS D. JAFFE
named for Estes. Harry Moore of ... contract is drawn
El Paso. Jaffe is president of the ’ . -
Fed Mart discount stores, but be approval by telephone or call a snowflakes more than fireflies.
of fuel being ejected from the
spaceships.
flights.
be mailed to the various commit- ago.
The sessions will end with 20-
minute di scussion periods in
which more than 1.000 scientists
fee members this week, as I un- The other offers came from E._____. .
derstand it.- Irion explained J Gray and his son. Eddie, from are expected to participate.
“When each member has had a Baytown, and another delegation Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director
change to see the contract, we from Houston headed by Irvin of the center, will be chairman of
will either attempt to obtain their Kaplan. the conference, the first held out-
side Washington.
Maxine A. Faget, assistant di-
Race Suit Cleared
For Houston NLRB
rector for research and develop-
ment, will preside at the morning
, session. Kenneth S. Kleinknecht,
Project Mercury manager, will
preside in the afternoon.
The morning session will include
four reports on operations aad
HOUSTON (AP — The Houston inery The company is keeping its scientific analysis. In addition to
office of the National Labor Rela. hands off this case." Carpenter’s pilot report, the after
tions Board has been authorized to ’ » Everitt, Local 1 president, noon agenda includes aeromedical
file an illegal racial discrimina- said he would have no comment and pilot performance reports,
tion charge against a union local until he receives * formal NLRB
notice
Stuart Rothman, NLRB general . , .
counsel, announced in Washington . But, T cannot understand why
the complaint against Local 1 of Local 1 faces the complaint he
the Independent Metal Workers said. It seems to me it is up to
Union will be the first such charge Local 2 to present the grievances
to be filed in the 27-year history of of its members. It has the ma-
the NLRB. chinery to do so.
Rothman said the formal com- Davis and other off ers of Lo-
plaint would be based or. charges cal 2 had no comment
brought by Ivory M Davis a Ne- Rothman said his investigation
gro employe of the Hughes Tool shows there has been a tacit un-
Co., a major manufacturer of oil derstanding that better jobs at the
drilling tools, plant go to members of Local 1
Davis, treasurer of Local 2 of and that lower paid jobs, 50 to
the union, has charged the com- Negro members of Local 2
pany refused to consider his ap- He said the case will test the
plication for an apprenticeship extent of the responsibility of a
program to train as a machinist labor organization to process com.
and toolmaker Davis also plaints with equal consideration
charged Local 1 refused to pro- regardless of race. ■ i
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between him and two brothers.
He said he aad Gene Andrew
operate a partnership, involving
rice farming at Katy, Tex., and a
3,806-acre ranch along the Trinity
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Morning, August 21, 1962
River near Onalaska, Tex. | Worry of
“A third brother, Wayne, farm- FAI SE TEETH
ed rice for several years but his FALSE IEEE n
allotment was so small that it was
not profitable to continue with this
acreage (27, so in January 1961
he asked us to farm his acreage
on our place,” Harold Andrew
wrote.
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so keen that they can scent seal
blubber at a distance of 20 miles
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announce the association of
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cludes Negro employes.
A Hughes spokesman said the
company had no comment on
Rothman’s announcement.
“It’s a matter between the two
locals,” said James M Delmar,
vice president for industrial rela-
tions. “They have set up the
ground rules for their union mach-
Andrews Woman,
Daughter Hurt
BALLINGER R.NS — An An-
drews woman and her 15-year-old
daughter were injured in a car-
pickup collision in the city limits
of Rowena on Highway 67 about
2:30 pm. Monday
Mrs E J Gober S. of An-
drews was taken to Ballinger Clin-
ic - Hospital by Newby - Davis
ambulance following the collision,
and hospital attendants reported
she had suffered two broken ribs
and multiple bruises and lacera-
tions.
Sue Gober, a passenger in the
car driven by her mother, was
treated and released at the hos-
pital. Two other children, Johnny.
8, and Rebecca, 11, were not in-
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The 1960 Rambler station wagon
driven by Mrs. Gober was in col-
lision with a 1950 Ford pickup
driven by Fred D. Oakley, 71. of
Cisco, who was not. injured, ac-1
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