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Freeman Tells Plan To Recoup Losses Under Ike's Cotton Program Washington - HOT - Agricul ture Secretary Orville L. Freeman said today the Ken nedy Administration will try to "recoup for the govern ment" any improper losses sustained under an Eisen hower administration cotton program. Freeman made the state ment before the Senate In vestigations Subcomm i 1 1 e e which resumed its inquiry Into the Billie Sol Estes case. The Texas financier is under federal indictment for fraud. The Secretary said the FBI has spent $236,200 and used the services of 452 special agents while investigating the tangled financial arrange ments of the Texas farm ty coon. The question of the opcr alion of a cotton disposal pro gram used by the Eisenhower administration in 1959 and 11)00 was first raised by the General Accounting Office in a report to Congress earlier this week. The GAO said the opera tion involved a possible "con flict of interest" concerning the disposal of more than $400 million worth of govern ment cotton. There was no evidence linking that pro gram directly with Estes. Freeman said he is consult ing with Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and that his depart ment "will act to the best of our ability to recoup for the government whatever losses have been sustained by these transactions under cotton pro grams operating in 1959 and 1960." The GAO report claimed that some Eisenhower ad ministration officials allowed private firms to buy more than $400 million worth of government - owned cotton, then sell it back to themselves at "prices which may have been less than fair value." Freeman was to have been the afternoon witness on the inquiry's opening day last Wednesday. He still was be ing questioned by Sen. Carl T. Curtis (fl-Ncb.), however, when the subcommittee ses sions recessed last Friday. Having heard an outline of the case from subcommittee counsel Paul Kainerick and Freeman's defense of the Ag- riculture department's activi ties, subcommittee members were anxious to complete Freeman's initial testimony and begin taking direct testi mony on Estes' get-rick-quick operations. Before Freeman returned to the subcommittee's vitness table in the vaulted Senate caucus room today, Chairman John L. Mi.Clellan (D-Ark.) and other subcommittee mem bers had made it clear that he can expect to be called back after substantive testi mony has been taken in the case, Early testimony was to feature Estes' operations In Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia and Texas - all of them de signed to amass government cotton allotments originally approved for other locations on irrigated fertile. West Texas farms controlled by Estes. Before moving into that stage of the proceedings, how ever, the subcommittee plan ned to examine two Agricul ture department memos which figure in the improper allotment transfers. One memo was used to justify the Estes operations, and the other declared them in viola tion of law. 7 :i 3 hi I. i if J !1 Vi i...n r Life can bloom after fifty Your savings invested with us can help make 1 i f e bloom jater or you, too. Here, your sav ings earn excellent returns, safe from market fluctuations and insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. Investment mad by the tenth earns i ef the first. wing and LOAN ASSOCIATION 201 West 6th Free Customer Parking in Our lot Robert F. Kyle, Mgr. Fractional Gains Noted in Market New York -lUPlu Gains of fractions to more than a point were the rule in moderate early slock market dealings today. Aside from gains of around a point in General Foods and Eastman Kodak, blue chip im provements were nominal. The big three motors were fractions lower, chemicals mixed, international oils small fractions hiRher and steels up nearly a point in some cases. A majority of the rails inched upward and a few util ities spurted more than a point, including Houston Lighting in the Dow Jones av erage. The so-called growth stocks were hesitant with IBM up l'j and Xerox down Its, setting the range. FOURTH ESTATE Hollywood - IUPII - Gig Young, who has won two Academy Award nominations in films about the newspaper profession, portrays the role of an American newspaper man in his first European film, "Five Miles to Mid-niitht." Funds Donated To Divinity School By Picture Executive Beverly Hills, Calif. JUPIi A recording and movie execu tive is leading a campaign In raise $10 million to expand the Southern California School of Theology at nearby Claremont. Randolph C. Wood, a lead ing Methodist layman, is pres ident of Dot records and vice president of Paramount Pic tures. "There is a rising demand throughout the nation for out standing, well-trained Chris tian ministers," he said. Oregon Demo Platform Summary American Dieters Asked To Give Money Weymouth, Mass. -AIPII-American dieters have been asked to donate the money they save on food each week to ihe overseas relief pro grams of the churches. This suggestion was made by James L. Hofford, direc tor of public relations of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, who called "uncon trolled materialism" one of the great dangers facing the nation. Salem -OIPli- Here is a sum mary of the 1982 Oregon De mocratic platform adopted at the party's convention here Wednesday: Education - Support feder al aid to education and 50 per cent of local school costs paid by the state. Health and welfare - Sup port President Kennedy's me dicare plan plus the Presi dent's program to help peo ple move off welfare rolls in to productive work; urge deep search into causes of family breakups, juvenile and adult antisocial behavior, and physical and mental illness. Labor - State minimum wage of $1.25 an hour for both men and women; 40 hours work week; federal minimum standards for un employment compensa tion; oppose "any major de parture" from Oregon's in dustrial accident insurance Soy of Year Marked By Service Record Newark, N.J. ll'PB E v e n before he was named "Boy of the Year" by the Boys Clubs of America, Newark's Stephen Lutz, 15, had established a reputation for outstanding achievements as a student, athlete, youth leader and community service worker. The sophomore's scholastic honors include: consistent honor roll membership with a straight "A" average, mem ber of student council and swimming team, reporter for the school paper, violinist with the school orchestra, member and leader of Future Physicians of America and Future Scientists of America. system, such as the three-way bill. Civil Rights - Equal treat ment for all persons regard less of race, color, national origin, religious belief, or uex. Agriculture - Urge pro grams to increase demand for products, reduce supply to a point where the price a farm er gets will bring a fair re turn; urge federal govern ment to withdraw from exces sive price support and storage programs. Economic Development -Urge immediate inventory of Oregon's industrial resources, and develop plans for their use; present State Depart ment of Planning and Devel opment "has done little to up grade our economy." Natural Resources - Reaf firm historic stand for long range planning to preserve and develop water, fish, tim ber, public lands, recreation facilities, minerals and wild life resources for all people; favors U.S. youth conserva tion corps, state youth forest camps. Power - Urge new federal dams, an intertie with Cali fornia markets for surplus power, development of power at Hanford, Wash., creation of state power agency to "pro tect the people from private monopoly control." Government Organisation California Police Hunt Killer Of Abducted 1 1-Year-Old Girl Corona Del Mar, Calif.--HIHI-Police today hunted the killer of a pretty 11 -year-old blonde girl kidnaped a few blocks from the scene of an unsolved 1981 abduction, and sexually molested before her nude body was dumped into the ocean. The unclothed body of Dor othy Gale Brown was found floating near the ocean floor here Wednesday by a skin diver. tThe discovery climaxed an Bll-day searrh by more than 100 police officers. Torrance, Cnlif., Police Chief Percy Bennett said an autopsy showed the blue-eyed sixth-Kinder drowned, and re vealed site had been sexually attacked before her death. "It definitely appears to be kidnaping and murder," Bou nd! said. The police chief said there were no concrete suspects in the slaying, but likened the case to Ihe disappearance of 11 -year-old Karen Lynn Tompkins in the same area last August. "I think we have Ihe same thing," he said. "The circum stances are very similar. Both girls are about the same ago. Both disappeared during the same time of day." "Everything looks the same, Ihe similarity is too close," said Lt. Douglas Cook of Tor rance police in comparing the two cases." Dorothy was last seen Tues day evening near her Tor rance home HO miles from here when she led on her bicycle for a neighborhood gas station, where she oflen father, William F. Brown, 38, bought soft drinks from a an aircraft worker. "She vending machine. never went beyond two blocks "She wesn't the type to run from home and stayed around j away," said her distraught the house pretty much." Foreign Briefs CHIANG GETS ENVOY'S CREDENTIALS Tapei. Formosa - SUM) - New U. S. Ambassador Alan G, Kirk presented hit credentials to Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek today with renewed assurances of American support for Nationalist China. PERU CANDIDATE LEAVES DECISION TO PARTY Lima. Peru - Hfli- APRA party candidate Raul Haya de la Torre, victor in the recent national election, today left to his parly the decision whether he would press his claim to the presidency. Haye defeated Fernando Balaunde Terry and Manuel a Odria by 14.000 voles In the June 10 election, but the margin was not the one-third plurality needed. Under the constitution, selection of the chief executive thus was given to congress. NIXON STOPS OFF IN COPENHAGEN Copenhagen - !TH - Former vice president Richard M. Nixon returned here by plane today from Jutland, where his Fourth of July speech at the Rebild festival was marred by the sudden death of another speaker. Nixon and his wife. Pat, were to leeve tonight for Los Angeles alter a day of shopping and sightseeing. The Republican candidate for governor of California was main speaker at the lestival. devoted to Danish-American friendship. The Independence Day celebration was touch ed by tragedy when Henry R. Henius, 78. of San Mateo. Calif., son of lestival founder Dr. Max Henius. collapsed and died. I YEAR'S HEAVIEST RAINS LASH JAPAN Tokyo - iPI - The heaviest rains of the year lashed ; Central and Southern Japan today, causing floods and death I dealing landslides for the third consecutive day. f Q, i : t V 1' I1 MONTGOMERY WARD Held over by popular demand Thursday, Friday, Saturday Only July S, 4, 7 "1 . i m Z. 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