Herald and news., July 25, 1963, Page 6, Image 6

Billy Sol Estes Associate Resigns Self To Serving Out Prison Term
AMARUXO, Tex. H'PI '-Harold
E. Orr, whose memoirs sell
in 11 volumes or about $6,000.
is going to stail a 10-year stretch
in the federal penitentiary Sept. 1
and is reasonably resigned to it.
"It does not profit me to stay
out," said Orr, a leading asso
ciate of bankrupt and convicted
farm financier Billie Sol Estes.
"I do not want another stay.
"Now I just want to get this
behind me, get a nice little job
and get bread and beans for my
family. No more wild dreams
about the future."
Orr's memoirs are mainly
about his deals with Estes and
are lesally known as a deposi
tion. More than 20 lawyers ques
tioned him for four months. It
Postponed
The Neighbors of .Woodcraft
Thimble Club meeting, originally
scheduled Friday, July 26, has
been postponed until Tuesday, July
30. It will be held at the home
of Neva Hayes, till Alameda, be
ginning at 8 p m. with a potluck
dinner.
takes 11 volumes, each to in-
Iches thick, to hold the tran
scribed questions and answers.
Copy Costs (6.01)0
When a lawyer wants a copy
reproduced, page by page, on a
duplicating machine. Since the
cost is about $6,000 a copy, Orr's
memoirs have enioved onlv a
modest success.
Orr lives in an $18,000 home
His wife, Barbara, supports him
and their daughter Diana, 12, by
keeping books for a cement com
pany. The home, the furniture in
it and a 10 automobile are all
that Orr has left.
"I am living off my wife." Orr
said in an interview. "That's not
;ood."
Being unmasked as a fraud has
not entirely disgraced Orr among
his friends and associates. He
was especially worried about how
Diana would be treated.
"Only one kid made a crack
to her," he said. "People have
really been pretty nice. 1 have
not lost my friends."
"Estes said jump and I said
how high," Orr said.
"We committed a sin and have
to pay for it. The days are just
clicking off."
President Of Company
Orr was president of Superior
tank) Manufacturing Co. of Am
anita which Estes used as a
front to sell mortgages, signed
by west Texas farmers, to 12 big
finance companies.
Superior made few, if any
tanks for Lsles. but with the
help of Orr and two other Su
perior officials, Estes was able
to sell about $24' million worth
of mortgages on anhydrous am
monia fertilizer tanks.
Orr, 32, and the other Superior
officials Coleman D. McSpadden,
director and leading stockholder,
and Ruel Alexander, secretary
treasurer were arrested April
29. 1962, about the same time
Estes was.
Pleads Guilty
Pleading guilty to fraud and
conspiracy charges before U.S.
Dist. Judge R. E. Thomason in
El Paso on July 13, 1962, Orr
and McSpadden were sentenced
to 10 years each and Alexander
to 8.
Estes chose to stand trial on
the same charges. A jury found
him guilty and Judge Thomason
sentenced him to IS years in the
federal penitentiary. A state
court has sentenced Estes to
eight years for swindling a farm
er and more than 30 counts of
various indictments against him
remain untried.
Orr, McSpadden and Alexander
all have to report to federal
prison in September. Orr is
spending his last weeks of free
dom cleaning house, mowing the
yard and answering questions of
lawyers preparing cases for or
against Estes.
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamalh Falls, Ore.
Thursday, July 25, 1961
PAGE 7-A
RAILROADER GETS SERVICE PIN Stewart H. Snell,
right, chief dispatcher for the Great Northern Railway,
received a 25-year service award from Tom Lamphier,
superintendent of the Klamath Division, at a party held
in Snell's honor Tuesday. Snell joined the GN in 1938
on the Klamath Division. In 1943 he was transferred to
Great Falls, Mont., where he worked as dispatcher. He
was returned to Klamath Falls the same year and was
subsequently promoted to the position of chief dis
patcher, May 27, 1954. Snell resides at 1850 Earle Street.
Old-Time Sunday Band
Concert To Be Revived
It seems like only yesterday
every town in the country had
a hand shell in the municipal
park and Saturday was concert
night.
During the decades of the '20s
and '30s, money was no status
symbol. Nobody had any. The
"big men" in town were the
members of the band farmers,
merchants, neighbors who donat
ed their talents to provide free
weekly entertainment.
Hie grocer who rewarded
payment of his" bill with a sack
of candy for the kids played
trombone. The man who drove
the ice wagon, with its long tail
of barefoot children, was the
drummer.
Cuba Holds
Grab Order
HAVANA (UPI) - The govern
ment has taken no action so far
to enforce its order nationalizing
the U.S. Embassy building here.
Work at the embassy proceed
ed normally Wednesday, with peo
ple coming and going on routine
errands qs they would on any
other day.
Since the United States broke
oCf diplomatic relations with Cuba
in January, 1061, the embassy of
fices have been used by Swiss
diplomats handling U.S. affairs in
Cuba.
Cuban officials asked the Swiss
Wednesday to vacate the build
ing. Informed sources said the
Swiss Embassy protested both
the nationalization and the request
that they leave, and for the time
being they remained in possession.
When the old-time concert is
revived Sunday. July 28, in Vet
erans Memorial Park, Klamath
Falls neighbors will be the music I
men.
LaMar Jensen's Starlighters,
enlarged into the greater Star- j
lighters Concert Dance Band by
musicians from Baldy's Band, and
Jack Pearson's Dance Masters,
w ill play the danceable tunes from
the "only yesterday" era.
Saxophonists are LaMar Jen
sen, school teacher; Roger Beck,
millwright: Norman Beck, esti
mator; "Bud" Blanchard, car
salesman, and Lawney Hallack,
student.
Trumpet section is composed of
Fred Floetke, appliance store
manager; David Johanson, bank
loan officer; James Metier, ac
countant; Ephraim Hackelt,
teacher.
Trombonists are Dr. R. F. Pe
ters, optometrist; Dr. James L.
Lawson, optometrist, and Dwight
Sthuck, student.
Rhythm section is made up of
Normand Poulshock, teacher;
Ronald Jones, upholsterer; Wil
liam J. Cunningham, car sales
man; Ted M. Van, automotive
parts man, and Richard Douglas,
men's apparel salesman.
Funds from the Recording and
Transcription Industries make the
concert possible, but the men
who form the band are rehears
ing long hours after their regu
lar workday to assure its success.
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