HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-06-07, Page 2Another Boy Wonder
Runs into Trouble
Billie Sol Estes of Pecos is•
smallish 'man, but he carries the
Kull credentials of e. Texas -style
wheeler-dealer, At 31, the Muon-
dam pogr farm boy bibs himself
as the. world's largest distributor
of anhydrous mini -Willa, a •liquid
fertilizer that has helped turn
West Texas's arid' prairies into
cotton land,His faeilities
tot • storing surplus grain earned
him a 5,1 million Federal cheek
last year. Estes sells insecticides
and plows, owns a daily newspa-
per and a funeral home, He is an
associate of some of the most
important Democrats in Texas,
an active lay minister in the •
Church of Christ, a locally re-
nowned fancily man who first
ogee to national attention nine
years ago as one of the Junior-
Chamber
uniorChamber of Commerce's "Top
Ten Young Men of the Year."
When Estes moved to Pecos a
dozen years ago, he had little
more than ambitious plane to got
into the caftan business The
easy -talking yotmg man. built a
house from salvaged Array -sur-
plus material. Estes, his wife, and
five children still live on the
same site, but their home has
grown into an elaborate show-
place. A mile down the road is
the modernistic home office of
the Billie Sol Estes Enterprises,
He often bicycles to work. For
longer trips, he has a brace of
Cadillacs and a plane.
As the folks In Pecos unhesti-
tatingly like to point out. Estes is
the biggest pian to hit town since
the long. -ago days of Judge Roy
("Law West of the Peso. ') Bean.
Estes may well have more in
common with that old frontier
finagler than the townspeople
realized.
Billie Seel Estes was indicted
by a Federal grand jury last
month on charges of eomnutting
57 acts of fraud. He spent a
weekend in jail before being re-
leased under a $100,000 bond
while his woefully tangled affairs
were investigated by the Federal
and state governments and a
dozen finance companies. Before
the week was out, $1O million in
suits had been filed against hila.
Estes' troubles started a month
ago when The Peons Independent
and Enterprise, which competes
with his Feces Daily News. point-
ed out that farmers in eleven
West Texas counties had signed
mertgaes an some 32.000 anhy-
drome ammonia tanks, each eeet-
ing abeut $ .0tel: but, the Inde -
dependent :a Enterprise noted,
only ,of the :.;*et'
ml:' _ ge-`` there needed in Me
ares. The D'at:y News entered
the stcry. , when the finance
co: hes Iteard abet: .
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TRANQUILIZER — How can o guy holler when his mouth is full? He just can't. Ray Ayers'
parents decided he should hove a haircut even though he was only eight months old. Due to
his long hair too many people were calling him "her." It looked pretty stormy until re-
sourceful dad popped the bottle in Ray's mouth, and clipped the 'rebellion.
sign mortgages on tanks the
farmers bad never seen: the
farmers were paid for their ef-
forts (about 10 per cent of the
mortgage), and Estes promised to
keep up the payments on the
paper. Estes then sold these
mortgages to the finance com-
panies.
Bad as his troubles are, Estes
made them worse with remarks
and actions he now claims were
facetious. His original jail bond
was set at 1500,000 because he
had once said that if ever he tot
into trouble he would flee to ex-
tradition - proof Brazil. At his
bail -reduction hearing. Estes told
the judge he really hadn't meant
that. The court also wanted to
know about a 54.+ million chattel
mortgage he had assigned to a
"K. Weinheimer Co. of Switzer-
land." Grimly, the eonservative-
ly dressed ertrepeneur explain-
ed that it was all a "joke." There
never was such a company: he
had picked the Swiss name out
of the air to befuddle his tz ^men-
tor, The Feces Independent and
nd
Enterprise.
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write. 1just. w ntedve them
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The new appliance saleemata an
Alaska sold a refrigerator t0 an
Eskimo. One day he met the cus-
tomer. "How's the refrigerator we
sent you?" he asked the Eskimo..
"Swell," said the Eskimo. "hut
my wife still doesn't. have the
knack of chopping the ice squares
to fit those little trays."
15S'rE 21 — 1962
TABLE TALKS
V Jane At\ettews.
Here's a fine recipe for Roast
Leg of Lamb also one for a cas-
serole of the leftover lamb which
could very well s e r v e as a
hearty main dish at another
mea:.
ROAST LEG OF LAMB
5 lb. leg of lamb
1 clove garlic
le teaspoon curry powder
ie teaspoon poultry seasoning
Salt
2 medium onions
2 stalks celery
Wipe meat with damp cloth.
(Do not remove fel:, the thin
covering over the meat.) With
sharp knife make four gashes in
the roast and insert slivers of
gild Rub meat with seasoning;
dredge with flour. Piave a few
p:o. e lamb b : t or suer in
pan. S:ant oven (about 500 de -
_:res F.). Hem roeseine pan.
P:, ;e :neat in hot even with fat
:.tie up. Sear for abem 20 min-
ute: '^ • i' brew: . then re-
d( e t o 225 degrees F. Do.
a er. Bast( cniten with juice.
Allew 3oa-S5 minetes per p:und.
Add eu - celery. :Ind
' pets:tees in las: ear of reast-
Re ave ea�od pc ;'es
w =eking gravy. ra :up
-
._ sal. taste, and a few
a:.o: y:.,r laves:rite seasen-
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LAMB AND POTATO
CASSEROLE
^a cups mashed potato.
seasoned
2 cups diced cooked lamb
1 cup grave-
1
ravy1 teaspoon minced onion
1 tablespoon finely chopped
celery
1 tablespoon butter
Paprika
Cever ezetter...w bak-
ing.
O e n Neste.
s spread '.antlt.
celery and cravy. t._.: with
:es: tate. with ..--.
sptlink:e r. n':-.. ,
rr .<_al
brew^ cr..: p. Selves -,
M eCsee c s- a c. - i can
taro.. .:-.e el` the nest of ::re
SPACEMEN DISCUSS Ast ,out J.' -n G"e-ri !e4t,out G4.e-i'tan
d' n errp'-.,:,nes 01 ci o tele 6,2,0 d set.:s n cn (1.5.-ScA et cc -:pe ..t 21 in spice,.
Mexican dishes which we have
adapted for our tables, Here is
a recipe for this popular dish,
MEXICAN STYLE
CHILI CON CARNE
1 pound ground beef
2 tablespoons fat
2 medium-size onions,
chopped
12 cup chopped green peppers
1 pound, 12 -ounce can
tomatoes
1 8 -ounce can tomato sauce
1101e -ounce tomato puree
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons salt
le teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 15 -ounce ean chili beans or
red kidney beans
Cayenne pepper to taste
Brown beef well in melted fat
in 'large skillet. Add all remain-
ing ingredients except beans.
Simmer i?z hours. If a thicker
chili is desired, simmer 21.2
hours, Add beans and heat.
Serve her. Serves 8.
Another famous Mexican dish
is Pah,take Soup, Here's the re-
cipe taken from the United Na-
t°cns cook -book "Over 100 Test-
ed Dishes farm the United Na-
teems."
a-
tions.'
SOPA DE TAU -WOE
UPancake Soup)
cup tomato sauce
3 tablespoons oil
2 quarts well -seasoned meat
broth
1 cup sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1. teaspoon salt
1 egg. beaten
1 cup milk
2 hard -cooked eggs, chopped
Pancake tilling
Place in a large pat Me to-
rncte sauce ts o cook a few
meat broth. Let
witee you make the
S_.. into - bowl the
baktr.s. pa.vier and salt;
mix we.:. Add :he beaten egg
ar.den'",-.
unci: smooth.
Bakepec. - ed this batter in
yo. et e y not greased skillet,
-air sa:rewn >n both sides.
When �_ are baked, spread the
he tikes with one of the
fe"i:awi g -i:la ngs:
'•a cup butter and grated
cheese
cup well -seasoned, chopped
rooked vegetables
'4= cup chopped cooked
chicken or meat
::a each pancake and
ala}2 tr. eazin soup p:ate. Cover
w t bill _ s_up and sprinkle
each ; Willi,chopped,
-,>-. :. ._.. ges. Serves 0.
PEARS IN JELLY
6 small pear halves
6 maraschino cherries
2 tablespoons granulated
gelatin
2 cups cold water
rugs boiling water
1 cup sugar
1 cup lemon jniee
,.:ak eelatei
Mn cold
bo; water,
stesen. ane see sugar and
et ..a.::nto mold
: - to set.
add a layer of
;sacs Titer. a_- ether hall' of
�, v'- .r. Be`ere It
sets. n.eze. Iesspien of ge;a-
-,. and then a
_.:'e.ry, ette: teitre gelatin .s set,
over pears
.and :hecites. Chill far 24 hours.
Ser:es 6.
Eskimo Language
Hard To Understand
The Eskimo language is guito
unique. considering the scatter-:
ed habitation and the few con-
nections between tribes in North
America and Greenland, the dia-
lect differences are not great.
Outsiders rightly complain of its
difficulty. In structure it differs
radically from. every European
language. A phrase or sentence
is formed by agglutination, as
follows:
The phrase "in the great coazrr
try" is nunarssuarme, It is form-
ed from nuna (land), -ssuak
(great), and -me (In), "I'm going
to fetch water" is intertasautzga,
and is formed from itnek (wa-
ter), -tarpolt (fetch), -sats shall),
and -nga (I). In this way words
may become very long, e.g.nal-
u n a e riartorasuariasagaluaravlt
(you should really have sent
word long ago). Many are long-
er than this,
The language is nol so expres-
sive as a modern civilized lan-
guage, which is not surprising
considering the Greenlander's re-
stricted world of ideas. It is
striking deficient in abstractions,,
and so it is difficult to be abs-
tract in the language, Technical
terms and phrases are associated
entirely with objects known and
used by Eskimos. Nevertheless it
is supple enough to absorb new
elements. Where it is concerned
with the Eskimo world itself it is
rich,
The Eskimos have a variety of
terms for the animals they hunt
and for their lives, their tools and
implements, and their home, A
distinction is drawn between
men, land animals, and birds
when they are said to "run."
There are very fine shades of
difference in descriptions of vari-
ous kinds of wind. The Eskimos
had -aro use for big numbers,
Their numerals went up to twen-
ty. The first ten were indicated
by hand and arm, 10-19 by the
feet, and twenty by "a man."
Everything beyond twenty was
"many". The missionaries ex-
tended the numbers by devel-
oping the existing numerals;
e.g. fifty as "five times ten,"
This system, however, has been
discarded, as the Greenlanders
have found it easier to use
the Danish numerals. In place
of arfersanek sisamanik un-
tritigadlit tatlimanik kuligcllit
atauserdlo, it saves time and
breath to say nittenhundrede og
halvtreds (nineteen hundred and
fifty-one). It is still usual, how-
ever, to employ the Greenland
numerals up to ten.
With the introduction of Euro-
pean oivlllzaticnahoddm t.xpa new
ideas the language
it it was to absorb the new
names. ,
The Greenlanders have them-
selves found new names and ex-
pressions, "To read" is to "fol-
low atom" 1hlt'i'"; "to write," "to
put marks"; "to play "to bummer with the hands," etc.
They have formed new words
with the aid of suffices, e.g.
"ship," "a bigboat"; "church," "a
talk piace"; "boon," "a thing you
turn aver": "coin," "a thing lika
the moon": "corn," "a thing like
fish roc"; "(looter," "the healer";
"liriuoz,' "sense -robber, end so
forth..
Experience shows that it is im-
possible to go on finding Green-
land terms for new ideas and
things. ,An increasing number of
words are taken over as they are,
technical terms in particular.
They are used like Greenland
words; are given Greenland end-
ings and declined and conjugated
as though they were 01 native
origin, It is a development no
purist can stop.
A curiosity el the early years
of Danish colonization was a kind
of "pidgin Danish,' now out of
fashion. A number of Greenland
words, it is worth noting, are in
international use, e.g. kayak and
igloo,—From "Greenland," pub-
lished by The Royal Danish Min-
istry for Foreign Affairs, edited
by Kristjan Buro.
What Happened To
Evita's Treasure?
Evita Peron, wife of the for-
mer Argentine dictates, was one
of those hard -faced blondes who
consider diamonds a girl's best
friend. Before she died m 1952,
Evita had accumulated an esti-
mated $260 million in cash and
jewels — and, unknown to her
husband, had s`auggi d $45 mil-
lion of it into a secret safe-de-
posist box in a Swiss hank. Then.
as ladies will, levita lest the key.
Today, hushand Juan Peron,
now residing in Spain, has ord-
ered his agents to intensify their
search for the number and the
key to Evita's safe-deposit box.
Years ago, the Peronistas sus»
pected that Evita's brother, Juan
Duarte, knew the secret of her
treasure. When he died in 1953
- (ostensibly a suicide), they broke
into his desk and found a jumble
of loose sash, perfume, pornogra-
phic literature, and letters for
Peron — but no key and no ac-
count number.
The search gces on, and Peron
seeking a political comeback at
57, is concentrating his efforts.
Time is short.
Fashion Hillt
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WARMER WEATHER