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INDEX Page INTRODUCTION 1 3 ESTES AS FEDERALLY-LICENSED WAREHOUSEMAN 4 6 The Bond Formula 7 Estes' Bond Increases 7 8 The Jackson Certification 8 Checks Made on Estes Warehouses 8 9 $10 Million Bond Required 9 10 Load-out of Estes Houses 10 ESTES AS CONTRACTOR WITH CCC FOR GRAIN STORAGE 11 17 Storage Payments to Estes 11 Commercial Solvents, Berger and McConnell 12 Grain Storage Background 12 14 Did Estes Get More Than His Share 14 17 ESTES AND COTTON ALLOTMENT TRANSFERS 18 38 "Eminent Domain" Allotment Transfers 18 19 The Cotton Allotment System 19 Estes Cotton Land 19 20 The First Overplanting Penalty 20 21 How Much "Eminent Domain" Allotment Acreage is There 21 Who Decides on Cotton Allotment Transfers 21 22 The New Mexico Case 22 The Williams Inquiry 22 The Bridgforth Memorandum 23 Correspondence with Congressman Mahon 23 24 The Manwaring Memorandum 24 The Regulations are Amended 25 The Estes Scheme 25 27 The Texas Meetings 27 28 The Fort Stockton Meeting 28 29 Numerous Inquiries Received About Allotments 29 30 USDA Memoranda of Spring, 1961 30 32 The Departmental Investigation 32 34 USDA Decisions Following the Investigation 34 35 Decision to Give Parties Chance to Prove Claims 35 ESTES AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON COTTON 39 41 ESTES AS AN INFLUENCE SEEKER 42 47 Emery E. Jacobs 43 William E. Morris 43 James T. Ralph 43 44 William P. Mattox 44 Rufus D. Atkinson 45 Alvin J. Weimer 45 OTHER PERSONNEL 45 Henry Marshall 45 N. Battle Hales 46 Russell E. Dill and Harvey E. White 47 PRESS RELEASES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE 48 49

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