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`May 5, 2004
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`Commissioner for Trademarks
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`Re:
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`Cancellation No. 32,301
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`King Ranch, Inc. v. GWB, Inc.
`Mark: RANCH KING, Reg. No. 2,422,044
`Our Ref. No. 014262/00037
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`Dear Sir:
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`With respect to the above-referenced Cancellation proceeding, please find enclosed the
`following documents to be filed on behalf of the Petitioner, King Ranch, Inc.
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`Petitioner’s Notice of Reliance, First Part (Regarding International Publications)
`with Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail and Certificate of Service;
`Petitioner’s Notice of Reliance, Second Part (Regarding Texas Publications) with
`Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail and Certificate of Service;
`Petitioner’s Notice of Reliance, Third Part (Regarding National Publications) with
`Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail and Certificate of Service;
`Petitioner’s Notice of Reliance, Fourth Part (Regarding Registrant’s Responses to
`interrogatories) with Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail and Certificate of
`Service;
`Pet_itioner’s Notice of Reliance, Fifth Part (Regarding Domestic Newspaper
`Articles (excluding Texas)) with Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail. and
`Certificate of Service;
`Petitioner’s Notice of Reliance, sixth Part (Regarding Trademark. Registrations for
`the mark KING RANCH.) with Certificate of Mailing by First Class Mail and
`Certificate of Service; and
`Postcard.
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`Please place your date stamp on the enclosed postcard and return it to us to serve as
`evidence of filing.
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`Although it is believed that no fees are due for filing these documents, the Commissioner
`is hereby authorized to charge any fees that may be due to Deposit Account No. 12-1322 (Our
`ref.: 014262-00080). A duplicate of this sheet is enclosed.
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`Patricia Paquet
`Senior Paralegal
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`Enclosures
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`James E. Schlesinger (W/enclosures)
`Schlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP
`3000 South Eads Street
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`Arlington, VA 22202
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`Paul C. Van Slyke (w/o encl.)
`Tanya Coate (w/o encl.)
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`Cancellation No.: 32,301
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`Mark: RANCH KING
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`Reg. No.: 2,422,044
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`Filed: February 1, 1999
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`Attorney Docket No.: 014262-00037
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`KING RANCH, INC.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`GWB, INC.
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`Registrant
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`PET[TIONER’S NOTICE OF RELIANCE, FIRST PART
`[REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS}
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`Petitioner, by and through its attorneys, hereby submits this Notice of Reliance, First Part
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`(Regarding International Publications) pursuant to Rule 2.122(6). These printed publications all
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`mention King Ranch, describing King Ranch using terms such as “famous”, “legendary”, and
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`“renowned”. These publications are relevant to show that the Petitioner’s trade name and
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`trademark KING RANCH is famous to the ordinary consumer. These publications are also
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`relevant to show that the trade name and trademark KING RANCH conveys a connotation and
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`commercial
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`impression related to The King Ranch itself, not a connotation or commercial
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`impression related to Captain Richard King.
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`Specifically, Petitioner relies on the following printed publications available to the
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`general public in libraries or of general circulation among members of the public:
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`1.
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`2.
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`Land in Texas: A Spread of One 1? Own, THE ECONOMIST, Nov. 21, 1998, at 30,
`available at 1998 WL 11700643.
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`Tunku Varadarajan, Spaniard ‘s Heirs to Sue Over ‘Stolen ’ Oil and Ranch Legacy,
`TIMES OF LONDON, July 15, 1997, at 15, available at 1997 WL 9216054.
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`3.
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`4.
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`5.
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`6.
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`7.
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`8.
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`Paul Johnson, Books: A Colossus of American Politics, DAILY TELEGRAPH
`(London), Nov. 10, 1991 (book review), available at 1991 WL 3160351.
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`Ian Verrender, Regular Shorts: BT Starts to Sell Bits of the Farm, SYDNEY
`MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1989, at 26, available at 1989 WL 7770162.
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`Katrina Iffland, $900,000 Expectedfor Hunter Farm, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD,
`June 6, 1989, at 34, available at 1989 WL 7746795.
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`James T. Yenckel, Padre Island: A Seaside Wilderness, TORONTO STAR, Oct. 10,
`1992, at F9, available at 1992 WL 6572730.
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`Shirley Christian, Dodge City, Kansas, GLOBE & MAIL (Toronto), Feb. 6, 1999, at
`F3.
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`Ranches and Rodeos Ofler Taste of Old West, TRAVEL TRADE GAZETTE EUROPA,
`Feb. 24, 1994, at 18, available at 1994 WL 14127934.
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`Date:
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`Respectfiilly submitted,
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`KING RANCH, INC.
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`Pau c. Van Slyke
`Attorney for Petitioner
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`LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP
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`600 Travis Street
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`Suite 3400
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`Houston, TX 77002-3095
`(713) 226-1200 - Telephone
`(713) 223-3717 — Facsimile
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`CERTIFICATE OF MAILING BY FIRST CLASS MAIL £37 CFR § 1.8]
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`this PI:T1TIoNER’s NOTICE or RELIANCE, FIRST PART
`I hereby certify that
`(REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS) is being deposited with the United States Postal
`Service with sufficient postage as First Class Mail
`in an envelope addressed to: Assistant
`Commissioner fgr Trademarks, BOX TTAB, 2900 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202~
`3513 onMay § ,2004.
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`this PETITIoNER’s NOTICE OF RELIANCE, FIRST PART
`is hereby certified that
`It
`(REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS) has been served upon Registrant by se
`ng a
`,5 égay of
`copy thereof by prepaid first class mail addressed to Counsel for Registrant this
`May, 2004.
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`James E. Shlesinger
`SHLESINGER, ARKWRIGHT & GARVEY LLP
`3000 South Eads Street
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`Arlington, Virginia 22202
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`Copyright 1998 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
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`All rights reserved.
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`The Economist
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`Saturday, November 21, 1998
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`Vol. 349; Issue: 8095
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`United States
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`Land in Texas
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`A spread of one's own
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`LA PALOMA RANCH, CHARLOTTE, TEXAS
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`WHAT makes Texas different? Not just that Texans think of
`themselves as bigger and better than other Americans,
`though of
`course they do; not that they live in boots, wear bolo ties and show
`other weird sartorial flourishes. What really counts is that they,
`and not
`the federal government, own the land they walk on.
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`Given the size of Texas, it is extraordinary that it contains
`virtually no public land. Even the most desolate sweeps of desert
`are private fiefs protected by the toughest trespassing laws in the
`country. other western states are a chequerboard of federal lands
`(Nevada is 86% federally owned, Utah 64%). Less than 2% of
`Texas—2.7m acres out of 171m, or 1.1m out of 69m hectares-belongs to
`the government.
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`How did Texas come to be so independent? Largely because it was
`independent. When the Republic of Texas joined the Union in 1845 as
`a sovereign nation, it kept title to its unappropriated land. The
`federal government received nothing. This was important to Texans.
`Mexican rule had given them a mistrust of distant power. Out of the
`carnage of the Alamo, Texans forged a simple mantra: Texas should
`always be in the hands of Texans. So it has remained. Even today
`the only large tracts of federal land in Texas have either been
`bought (military bases) or donated (Big Bend National Park). The
`rest is in private hands,
`from the small to the extremely large.
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`A generation ago, big ranches still gripped the imagination of
`Texans. Just to mention the JA,
`the Four Sixes,
`the Wagoneer or the
`Matador was enough to get them misty-eyed. Big ranching families had
`a lustre that was part John Wayne, part royalty. This is less true
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`the North American Free~Trade Agreement,
`today. Suburbanisation,
`trauma of the 1980s‘ oil bust, a growing Latino population and a
`newly diversified economy have all loosened ties to the land. Ten
`years ago Texans knew more about the King Ranch than they did about
`Michael Dell,
`the owner of Dell Computer,
`the richest man in Texas.
`Today it is the other way round. Texans are all too aware that even
`the biggest and most profitable ranches earn less than any
`medium—sized Austin software company.
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`the
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`It is bad manners to ask a Texas rancher the size of his spread.
`And, unsurprisingly, reliable statistics on land ownership are hard
`to come by. Proposals to lay out who owns what, and how much, are
`thrown out of the state legislature as soon as they arrive. "They're
`dismissed for what they are," says one official at the Texas Land
`Office: "federal, socialist. environmentalist plots."
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`Yet the broad brushstrokes of land-ownership are clear.
`Cattle—raisers still dominate the land. About 55% of Texas—94m
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`though the huge ranches that remain
`acres—is under ranch management,
`are a shadow of their former selves. The Matador used to have 100
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`cowboys and 70,000 head of cattle; now it has only eight cowboys and
`7,500 cattle. Fencing and even branding are contracted out to a new
`breed of freelance day-labouring cowboys. Dolph Briscoe, a colourful
`former governor of Texas and the largest single landowner in the
`state (640,000 acres of south Texas), points out that it used to take
`15 cowboys two weeks to round up his cattle. Now it takes half a day
`in a helicopter-
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`In one way, Mr Briscoe is luckier than most. His children want to
`follow in his footsteps. Texan ranchers are getting older: on
`average, now, over 55. This does not bode well. Children who have
`grown distant from the land are likelier to sell it than to work hard
`to pay off inheritance taxes.
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`Old giants such as the XIT, a 3m—acre spread in the Texas
`Panhandle, have long since been broken up. The other big ranches are
`getting smaller, and smaller ranches more numerous. Perhaps the most
`telling statistic on ranching in Texas is that 70% of the state‘s
`ranches now run fewer than 50 head of cattle.
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`"No matter how high Texas may climb," ran a recent editorial in
`the Dallas Morning News, "its roots are in the range." The rise of a
`new breed of Texas rancher proves the point. Small plots of 100
`acres or less-ranchettes-have become popular with city slickers.
`Developers shamelessly entice buyers by tugging at their
`heartstrings.
`"Own a piece of Texan history," says a brochure for
`land parcels on the famous YO Ranch just west of San Antonio.
`"Be a
`Texan, buy land," exclaims another, pointedly playing on the notion
`that owning a ranch is a patriotic duty.
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`Predictably, old~timers scoff at ranchettes. They may be big
`enough to give a city boy some peace and quiet,
`they say, but they
`are too small to be economically viable. "Ranchette—owners", goes
`one crack, "are 40-40 types. They work 40 hours a week in the city
`and run 40 cattle out on their land." The typical owner, it turns
`out,
`is a middle—aged, affluent professional who was raised in rural
`Texas and wishes he was still there.
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`inheritance
`Ranchettes have pushed up land prices and, with them,
`taxes. This has tempted some old-timers to sell out, and this year's
`drought has driven more out of the business. But Texas ranchers are
`a tough breed. Most are reluctant to sell the ranches their
`forebears worked hard to build.
`"Hold on to the land," they say,
`"God's not making any more."
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`Yet, since land scarcely pays, giving profit margins of less than
`5% on big ranches even in a good year, ranchers are being pushed into
`a painful shift in land—management. It is rather like the steps
`British aristocrats had to take to hang on to their stately homes.
`Ranches, once jealously guarded private preserves, are now almost
`obliged to be open to the public and to market themselves.
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`Hunters who strayed on to ranch land used to be prosecuted. Now
`they are welcomed with open arms—assuming,
`that is,
`that they pay
`handsomely. Tourist pursuits such as bird-watching are increasingly
`attractive. The legendary King Ranch, once the biggest
`beef—producing spread in the world,
`is now run by businessmen in
`Houston with a mandate to earn money for the extended King clan.
`They have increased hunting on the 800,000—acre ranch and have
`brought out a line of King products (this season,
`there is talk of a
`King Ranch cologne). Cattle are now an afterthought; but profits on
`the ranch have risen from $100m in 1988 to $183m in 1994. "It's a
`kind of Faustian pact," frets one rancher; "the more we open up our
`land,
`the less control we'll end up having.“
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`like the
`Big ranches will survive, all right; but most of them,
`King Ranch, will increasingly become corporate concerns. Ranch
`managers will exact further efficiencies and supplement their income
`with hunters and bird—watchers. Ranches which do not measure up, or
`are closer to the city, will be broken up into ranchettes. And this
`tells a greater truth about the Lone Star state. No matter how
`intoxicating the myth,
`the bottom line is even more important.
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`The Times of London
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`Copyright 1997
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`Tuesday, July 15, 1997
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`Overseas News
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`'stolen' oil and ranch legacy
`Spaniard's heirs to sue over
`From Tunku Varadarajan in New York
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`Issue: 65942
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`NEARLY 900 descendants of a Spanish army officer, Jose Manuel
`Balli Villareal, who was granted a large tract of Texan land by the
`King of Spain in the early 1800s, are suing for the return of the
`property, claiming that it was stolen in 1836 by Captain Mifflin
`Kenedy, perhaps the most famous cattle baron in Texan history.
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`the case in a small county court in Texas could
`If successful,
`blaze a trail for thousands of copycat lawsuits across those parts of
`the United States that were once under Mexican sovereignty.
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`in south
`La Barreta, a 363,000—acre ranch near the town of Sarita,
`Texas,
`is owned by the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial
`Foundation, a charitable body created in 1960 by Sarita Kenedy East,
`the granddaughter of Captain Kenedy.
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`The latter, and his "pardner" Captain Richard King - who founded
`the legendary King Ranch - were among the makers of early Texan
`history.
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`They established gargantuan ranches, many the size of small
`countries, and,
`in keeping with those turbulent times, much of the
`land was acquired by force from Mexi can landowners. However,
`the
`heirs of Balli are now demanding the land back, as well as millions
`of dollars in oil—well royalties.
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`Eileen Fowler, an attorney in Houston who is representing the
`family, says:
`"Our position is that the Kenedy Foundation is
`squatting on the land. They've been getting oil royalties, and
`running cattle, and getting money off land that doesn't belong to
`them, for all these years."
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`Ms Fowler says the claimants can prove that the land belongs to
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`them, citing a 50-year grazing lease which expired in 1949 between
`Sarita Kenedy East and several descendants of Balli. The lease, she
`says, acknowledged the Ballis' continued ownership of La Barreta.
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`The Kenedy Foundation has responded by claiming that it owns the
`land "100 per cent" by proper title as well as by adverse possession,
`a legal principle that allows effective and unchallenged occupation
`of land to mature over time into valid legal ownership.
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`Captain Kenedy took possession of La Barreta in 1836, after the
`Texan forces defeated the Mexican Army on April 21 of that year,
`the Battle of San Jacinto.
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`The Sunday Telegraph London
`1991 (c) The Telegraph plc, London
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`Sunday, November 10, 1991
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`Books: A colossus of American politics Paul Johnson weighs up a mountain of
`evidence about
`the political rise of Lyndon Johnson
`PAUL JOHNSON
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`Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 by
`Robert Dallek. OUP, #25
`WHEN you went to see Lyndon Johnson in
`the White House, he received you in the stuffy little room off the
`Oval Office. Four TV sets in the wall,
`tuned to different networks,
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`flickered silently. If you bored him, he would turn up the volume.
`If he thought you worth persuading of something, he would move his
`chair forward until his long nose was only inches from yours, his
`huge elephant's head with its great flapping ears filled your
`vision, and the sense of evil power became almost palpable.
`
`He was 6ft 31/2in and seemed even bigger, his lanky youth
`having yielded to heavy middle age. He ate "like a wolf", often two
`lunches and dinners,
`smoked 60 cigarettes a day, worked
`fanatically,
`talked incessantly (or fell asleep when he had nothing
`to say). and when not talking to visitors would be on the phone.
`The first day he went into hospital to have a kidney stone removed
`he had three phones installed and, a nurse complained, made 64
`phonecalls.
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`That stone was cherished: he had it in a jar and would show it
`to everyone, would pull up his shirt to display scars and the
`special surgical corset he wore, and would whip out his medical
`records from his wallet, and show you them as well, plus newspaper
`clips, poll findings letters praising him and other Johnsoniania
`with which his pockets were stuffed.
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`He liked to touch you too, as part of his persuasive intensity,
`even if you were a woman (though one who had her bottom pinched by
`him in an underwater lungs in a swimming—pool told me it was hard
`and painful).
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`He had absolutely no sense of privacy and habitually gave
`orders to subordinates or dictated to secretaries while sitting on
`the lavatory. He smiled often and, said a colleague, "if he wasn't
`smiling you'd almost think he was Dracula". Another compared him to
`"a great overpowering thunderstorm that consumed you as it closed
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`round you".
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`This 721—page first volume of a two—part biography takes LBJ to
`the point when, aged 52, he was elected Jack Kennedy's
`vice-president. It is enormously detailed. Robert Dallek needs 50
`pages, for instance,
`just to describe LBJ's 1948 senate election.
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`I doubt if many here will want to read it through. But I know
`of few books which bring you closer to the nuts and bolts of
`American politics, as practised during the decades of Democrat
`paramountcy which began in 1933.
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`For LBJ was the archetype political pro of American history:
`not even the great Henry Clay acquired such detailed knowledge of
`how the system worked, or operated it with such unremitting
`intensity and skill. Dallek describes him at work with relish.
`
`He is fair too. LBJ lost the backing of the media and academia
`in his last two years as President and for two decades he has been
`hammered unmercifully as a kind of Satan in the White House. Dallek
`does not minimise the crooked, horrible side; but he shows,
`too,
`the pragmatic statesman, with strong, no—nonsense ideals and an
`is a
`impressive record of practical achievement. This work, so far,
`highly successful effort to put a fallen titan on his posthumous
`feet.
`'
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`LBJ was proud of his forebears‘ record in creating, and helping
`to rule,
`the Texas hill—country. They were significant folk, he
`boasted, when the Kennedys were "still tending bar“ or Irish
`savages.
`(He also claimed, shouting and pounding the table with his
`huge fist,
`that he "had more women by accident than Kennedy had on
`purpose".)
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`In the
`The Texas he knew as a boy was poor and backward.
`Twenties they still held public hangings in some towns and his
`father was one of the last to attend to his duties in the state
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`legislature wearing a six-shooter. But the old man lost his money
`and land speculating in cotton future and LBJ knew real hardship,
`though never as much as he later claimed.
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`the only one, apart from
`He found his feet as a teacher —
`Woodrow Wilson,
`to become President — but quickly switched to
`politics, first as assistant to a millionaire congressman, heir to
`the famous 1.3 million—acre King Ranch,
`the world's largest,
`then
`as Texas director of Roosevelt's youth training pro gramme.
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`To get into Congress himself, LBJ had to play politics the
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`Texan way, and that meant breaking the laws governing election
`expenses, and ballot rigging. He had a highly successful career as
`a congressman 1937-1948, was robbed of a senate seat by
`manufactured votes in 1942,
`learned the lesson and got elected in
`1948 by 87 votes, over 200 of them certainly rigged.
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`This was a sensational case and determined legal efforts were
`made to unseat the new senator. He survived, Dallek thinks, because
`the Truman administration put pressure on Supreme Court Justice
`Hugo Black.
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`The young LBJ was always careful to earn the gratitude of his
`seniors in the party, especially Roosevelt himself. This paid off
`in 1944. Brown & Root,
`the Texas-German construction firm which fed
`LBJ with what he called "money,
`the mother's milk of politics", and
`to whom in return he steered hundreds of millions of dollars worth
`of federal contracts, was the subject of a massive investigation by
`the Internal Revenue Service for tax—evasion and breaking the Hatch
`Act governing election expenses.
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`The partners risked going to prison and LBJ, heavily involved,
`would have been ruined too. He paid two secret visits to Roosevelt
`and the three—year probe was aborted. LBJ had two other narrow
`squeaks,
`in the Bill Sol Estes and Bobby Baker affairs, but both
`fall beyond the scope of this book.
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`He and his wife Lady Bird, who inherited some money, made
`fortunes out of radio and TV. They bought a decrepit,
`loss-making
`radio station in Austin and turned it into a money—spinner, partly
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`by vigorous management but mainly by knowing the right people in
`the Federal Communications Commission.
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`their TV station was given a monopoly in Austin
`Similarly,
`throughout the Fifties. LBJ was also adept at persuading big
`advertisers, whose businesses he might be able to help,
`to boost
`their wares on his stations.
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`As senate minority leader from 1953, and majority leader a year
`later (the youngest, at 46,
`in Us history) he wielded enormous
`power and influence, symbolised by the 20 palatial rooms he and his
`staff occupied in the Senate building. Thus he became a millionaire
`and bought his "spread", much of it old family lands. Dallek shows
`that most charges levelled against LBJ in his day (except one of
`murder) were true.
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`on the other hand, LBJ's work on Roosevelt's youth training
`programme was superlative. His concern for the Texas poor, not
`least blacks and Mexicans, was genuine and practical. He could
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`rightly boast of bringing electricity to hundreds of thousands of
`farming families in the Texas hills,
`transforming in par ticular
`the lives of their womenfolk.
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`LBJ used his growing power to ensure that Texas, for the first
`time, got its fair share of federal wealth, and no one played a
`bigger role in creating the New South. He believed that
`desegregation, and black participation in politics and
`wealth—creation, would never come about until the South was
`prosperous. He did everything he could to set this process in
`motion, and events have surely proved him right.
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`By comparison he makes Jack Kennedy seem a contemptible playboy
`and an amateur. The old elephant was Janus-faced and in the last
`analysis inscrutable. He offers an excellent opportunity for
`studying the practical ethics of government in a vast, unequal,
`unruly country, and Dallek seizes it with both hands, or rather
`word-processors.
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`facfiva.
`Davina; I flute?!
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`Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd
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`Tuesday, November 21, 1989
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`Business; CBD
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`REGULAR SHORTS
`EDITED BY IAN VERRENDER
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`BT STARTS TO SELL BITS OF THE FARM
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`JUST four months after tying up control of King Ranch, one of the
`country's largest and most renowned cattle empires, BT Australia has
`decided to sell off portions of the farm.
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`The aggressive investment house forked out a reputed $98 million in
`early August after the Dallas-based King Ranch Inc decided to pull up
`stumps and head back to the Panhandle.
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`In the process, BT beat the Australian Agricultural Company and Robert
`Holmes a Court's newly acquired Sherwin Pastoral Company —
`two outfits
`that potentially had very good synergy with King Ranch.
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`CBD has learnt the Macquarie Downs property, near Toowoomba, now is on
`the market and BT hopes it will bring in around $10 million. The high
`rainfall property is not suitable for King Ranch's mostly Santa
`Gertrudis cattle.
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`In addition, parts of the Tully River property, near Cairns, are being
`eyed for subdivision and sale.
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`While the move has raised speculation that BT needs to recoup part of
`the full price it paid for King Ranch,
`the truth behind the sale lies
`more in the nature of the operation.
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`Everyone in the cattle business recognises King Ranch as among the
`best in the country.
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`But most know that as an entity, it is an aggregation of properties
`that do not fit particularly well and require either buying more
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`properties or selling some.
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`Targeting the high rainfall coastal properties for sale has been the
`best move. Both are close to civilisation and either are involved in
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`have excess fattening capacity and would bring in the
`stud breeding or
`highest sale returns
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`The Barkly Tablelands properties, currently in the midst of a drought,
`are
`the most economical beef properties within the empire and are the
`ones that would best serve a long term beef producer.
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`HOT NEWS TIPS
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`SEVERAL clever stockbrokers around town have been tipping clients into
`Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, News Corporation,
`in the past few
`weeks
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`The recommendation appears to have been based on impending favourable
`reports from Morgan Stanley and First Boston on Rupert's plaything.
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`But
`beam.
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`the inside tips look as though they may have been slightly off
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`Morgan Stanley apparently also has heard the rumours and while it says
`that some research has been undertaken, it is by no means close to being
`finalised,
`let alone being able to predict on what such a report may
`contain.
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`First Boston, which bravely took on the since aborted Media Partners
`float earlier this year, no doubt also is putting some sums together
`but whether this
`culminates in a strong buy order remains to be seen.
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`LEFT IN THE COLD?
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`seems to be dallying over
`REBORN entrepreneur, Robert Holmes a Court,
`his planned purchase of the esteemed left-wing British title New
`Statesman and Society.
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`Sources close to the reclusive Hacca camp yesterday indicated to your
`diarist that, while a conditional bid was made for publication,
`there
`has been no purchase to date.
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`Negotiations continue but it seems the beef baron - who recently
`visited the Old Dart to examine his prospective buy — may have cooled on
`the idea.
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`the
`In any case, several observers in the City were wondering about
`Perth lawyer's left—wing credentials for owning such a fish wrapper.
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`POT'S WRONG OPTION
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`AFTER securing the services of Bill Buckle‘s Buckle—Up, one of the
`fastest vessels in the fleet,
`the Potters Option Team almost came to a
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`sticky end in last Friday's annual Telerate regatta.
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`Resplendent in bright blue shirts emblazoned with "POT, The Team on a
`High"the crew set off on a high speed chase down the harbour, heaping
`scorn on all those unlucky crews left to wallow in their wake.
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`the vessel looked like sweeping the field, until an
`At one stage,
`ominous black cloud appeared on the horizon which sent most crews
`scurrying for home.
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`But lulled into a false sense of security by the consumption of
`copious amounts of neck-oil,
`the brave POT team decided to sail full
`bore into the oncoming apocalypse only to come to come to grief on some
`rocks just off Manly.
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`the POT
`In what one participant described as a sobering experience,
`team then set about begging for assistance from passing vessels who
`earlier had suffered the barbs of earlier POT abuse.
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`Twenty minutes later, Buckle—Up finally was towed to safety and limped
`into a nearby haven to survey the damage, where a police launch rounded
`up survivors for a quick trip back to Middle Harbour.
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`With the wind whipping through their hair again and with sirens
`blaring,
`the team regained their thirst as Mr Plod safely delivered them
`home.
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`MORE ON THE PLATE
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`FORMER Tricontinental boss Ian Johns would have every reason to be
`very upset about some of the nasty comments made about him in the
`Victorian Parliament last week.
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`As if Johnsy didn't have enough enough on his plate, what with charges
`of insider trading, conspiracy and receiving secret commissions,
`the
`Liberal Party — which is supposed to be the bastion of free enterprise -
`has taken to dredging up old statutory declarations which only rub salt
`into the wounds.
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`According to statements in Parliament last week, a statutory
`declaration filed in 1986 by George Frew, who once was married to Pixie
`Skase, showed Ian had used his position "to line his own pockets".
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`George's statement said Johns had "used his position in Tricontinental
`to force me to sell the Goldsborough Mort Building in 1984 for many
`millions of dollars less than its true value to a person I was later to
`discover was a very close friend of both Johns and his predecessor
`managing director in Tricontinental Holdings Ltd".
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`Parliament was told Frew then approached John Cain and State Bank
`chief executive Bill Moyle but, apparently, got nowhere with his
`complaints.
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`The whole issue was raised in Parliament during a debate on an
`entirely different matter, although John Cain later said he would not
`respond to a conversation he may or may not have had with someone three
`years ago.
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`GLOBAL RECYCLING
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`WITH environmentally conscious shareholders getting thicker on the
`ground every day, Global Funds Management Australia Ltd is understood to
`be the first Australian company to use recycled paper for its 1989
`annual report.
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`The attractive looking report uses recycled paper for its cover and
`for the financial statements. The cover features a slightly grey
`speckled background and sepia coloured mountain vista.
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`A spokesman for Global reckon