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.
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profession, portrays the role
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man in his first European
film, "Five Miles to Mid-niitht."
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A recording and movie execu
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raise $10 million to expand
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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
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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.
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