THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1978
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Tractorcade might not roll
Protest under the Lone Star
Agriculture specialists ant! officials from
across the nation came to Texas A&M Univer
sity Monday for the beginning of a three-day
conference on problems in agriculture. Along
with them came farmers to protest the meet
ing and also participate in it. Farmers in
about 30 trucks with half a million pounds of
wheat are in College Station on their way to
the port of Houston to sell the grain directly.
Battalion photo by Tricia Forbes
United Press International
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A
nation-wide tractorcade to Washing
ton may be canceled if the govern
ment increases loan rates for store-
able grains to the maximum allowed
under the farm bill, a spokesman
said Monday.
Wayne Peterson, a rancher from
Holabird, S.D., and a spokesman
for the American Agriculture
Movement, said the organization
wants Agriculture Secretary Bob
Bergland to authorize 90 percent of
parity on storeable commodities.
“That’s the one goal we are asking
for,” Peterson said. “The Carter
administration could enact that in 30
minutes under the 1977 farm bill. If
they do, we ll probably keep our
tractors at home.”
Peterson stressed that the parity
goal on loan rates was not an abate
ment of the goal for which the
movement was established in 1976
— 100 percent of parity, which the
agriculture movement considers
minimum wage for farmers.
Delegates from several farm
states gathered Monday in College
Station, where agricultural issues
are being discussed at Texas A&M
University, Peterson said in a tele
phone interview.
The parade of tractors, farm vehi
cles and pickup trucks will leave for
Washington from seven cities on
Jan. 15 and enter the nation’s capital
from three main highways, Peterson
said.
“I expect between 300 and
300,000 people to be in the tractor
cade when it arrives in Washing
ton,” he said. “Even if 300 people
arrive, 100 tractors stretch a mile.”
A revised set of starting points
was proposed Sunday night at a del
egates meeting, Peterson said, but
these still are tentative: Bismarck,
N.D.; Mitchell, S.D.; North Platte,
Neb.; Lamar, Colo.; and Amarillo,
Dallas and Houston.
The Houston tractorcade is ex
pected to unite with Florida mem
bers, he said.
Fargo, N.D., and Denver were
dropped as starting points because
“wagon masters” were trying to es
tablish routes that have the same
length, Peterson said.
He said wagon masters will or
ganize the routes to Washington anc
do such chores as finding rest area!
for each tractorcade.
Peterson, a 53-year-old forme
state representative, said mor<
plans for the tractorcade will b<
made at a a Dec. 16 delegates meet
ing in Topeka, Kan.
Conspiracy cited
by Davis defense
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HOUSTON — Telling jurors the prosecution evidence was not
what it seemed, Richard “Racehorse” Haynes Monday began his de
fense of T. Cullen Davis by trying to prove the millionaire was victim
of a conspiracy between a karate instructor, an FBI informant “and
others. ”
Haynes moved quickly to identify others who might have plotted to
entrap Davis in a murder solicitation case, calling as his first witness
the defendant’s estranged wife, Priscilla.
Mrs. Davis, wounded by gunfire in 1976 which she attributes to
her husband, testified she talked with karate instructor Pat Burleson
almost daily and coincidental with the time he contacted the FBI on
behalf of his best friend, David McCrory.
On the basis of McCrory’s allegations that Davis wanted 15 persons
killed, the FBI notified state authorities and cooperated in a four-day
investigation and surveillance of the industrialist, resulting in his
Aug. 20 arrest.
Haynes said the relationships between Burleson, McCrory, Mrs.
Davis and her boyfriend. Rich Sauer, and the “answer to the question
of who these people are and what their relationships are will raise
more questions than it does answers.’
During the month prosecutors presented their evidence before
resting Monday, McCrory testified Davis provided him with em
ployment of a legitimate and clandestine nature, but eventually pres
sured him to find a professional hit man to eliminate Mrs. Davis and
others, including the couple’s divorce judge.
Haynes suggested to the jury in his opening remarks that Mrs.
Davis obtained sums of money totaling $30,000 in the weeks before
Davis arrest for allegedly passing $25,000 to McCrory in exchange
for faked evidence Judge Joe H. Eidson had been killed.
Mrs. Davis did not deny relationships with Burleson or McCrory,
saying her acquaintance with both dated to around 1970 when she
and Davis were living together. The couple separated in 1974.
Mrs. Davis testified she saw Burleson Aug. 17, the same day the
karate instructor arranged for McCrory to meet an FBI agent, and
saw him again the 18th and 20th. But she maintained the meetings
were about business and Haynes obviously was content to establish
the encounters to allow jurors to decide for themselves if the timing
was coincidental.
District Judge Wallace Moore overruled the defense request for an
instructed verdict of acquittal when prosecutors rested.
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