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University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1983
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Con man Estes leaves prison after four years
By United Press International
BIG SPRING, Texas — Legendary con man Billie Siol Estes, whose parap empire collapsed 20 years ago, stepped out of prison for a second time yesterday, walking down the aisle with his pioneers who knelt and prayed for him.
Estes said he had known the prisoners for years and that he was leaving behind a part of himself with his prison friends.
"They have been real good to me," Estes said as he walked out. Some inmates had offered him financial assistance, he said.
Estes' $230 million personal fortune and close associations with Texas' leading politicians including the late President Lyndon Johnson — fell apart in 1963 when he was convicted of swindling millions of dollars from West Texas banks by using non-existent fertilizer tanks as collateral.
ONCE OUTSIDE THE minimum-security federal prison, Estes said he had no desire to be a financial wheel-eater again.
"I've got no ambition to build an empire again." Estes told reporters. "I'm not a man that's bitter at the crime that the crime I walked alone."
Estes, 87, checked into a Salvation Army halfway house 100 miles away in Abilene, where he lived until he starts parole on Dec. 15 for his 1979 conviction for fraud and income tax evasion on almost $10 million. He served four years of a 10-year sentence.
He was paroled in 1971 on his first fraud conviction and told not to engage in any 'promotional activity' which he did while the parole when he was convicted in 1971.
Estes' 1979 conviction was for a scheme involving the leasing of non-existent oil field equipment cleaners. A total of 22 charges were imposed against businessman Raymond Horton, but most of the charges were dropped.
Calling himself "just one bad deal away from doing life in prison," Estes said he planned to consult with lawyers on any future business deals and that he would shim his past in order to move someone else's inventory as his own
About 100 prisoners formed a line, knell and prayed on his behalf as he walked out. Dressed in light blue slacks, a blue shirt with flowers and suspenders, he walked into the prison headquarters to find his wife, Patsy, his eldest daughter, Pam Estes, and five grandchildren waiting for him.
In the Miami election, Ferre, who was born in Puerto Rico, announced at a jubilant victory party that Suarez, a lawyer who was born in Cuba, televised his victory and the race which had divided the city's voters sharply on ethnic grounds.
"He was very generous and I invited him for breakfast." Ferre told his cheering supporters. "I think it has been a tough campaign, but I think it is important for us to heal the wounds and to bring this community together."
Miami, Boston choose mayors
MIAMI — Mayor Maurice Ferre defeated Xavier Suarez for a record sixth term yesterday in one of the most bitter election campaigns in the city's history.
By United Press International
And in Boston, soft-spoken City Councillor Raymond Flynn rolled to victory in yesterday's mayoral election, turning on the opposing legislator Melvin King's bid to become the first black mayor in the 333-year history.
WITH 57 OF the city's 85 precincts counted, Ferre had 22,838 votes, or 60 percent, to 15,207 votes, or 40 percent, for Surrez.
But with 200 of the city's 252 precincts reporting, Flynn had 105,180 votes, or 67 percent, to King's s. 314,777, or 33 percent. But the city's majority of the city's minority neighborhoods.
"I want to wait until Mel makes his statement," an obviously exhausted Flynn said, awaiting the returns at his home. "I knew we were doing very well. I've been in government for a long time, but when I got the job, so I knew we would do well. This is a campaign that has brought out the greatness of Boston."
Ferre, winning as much as 97 percent of the vote, in predominantly black
HE DID NOT immediately claim victory, deciding to wait for King to concede.
neighborhoods, took a strong early lead in the vote count, and Suarez never caught up. The challenger had counted on equally strong backing from the Cuban-American voters of Miami's Little Havana.
Election officials said voter turnout might eclipse the previous record of 64 percent in 1967, with as many as 70 million voters. 282,888 registered voting casters ballot
In Boston, Flynn, promising to heal the city's racial wounds, withstood a heavy last-minute barrage on his record as a state legislator and was on his way to an apparently easy victory.
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FLYNN SUCCEEDS 16-year incumbent Kevin White, dean of the nation's big city mayors, who announced last summer that he would not seek re-election in the face of rising public criticism of his policies and a federal investigation of alleged corruption in his administration.
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Flynn campaigned on a platform of cleaning up city hall, trimming excess spending and focusing attention and money on blue collar neighborhoods, and used with high unemployment, rising crime and spreading urban blight.
King, whose "rainbow coalition" was powered by minorities and liberal whites, brought in black luminaries such as the Rew Jesse Jackson, Billy Madison, former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier to boost his campaign.
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He withstood an intense assault on his opposition to court-ordered public school desegregation as a state representative in the mid-1970s.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A 2-year-old controversy over the teaching of the classic American novel "Huckleberry Fizz" in the State College Academy for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
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