From CGI member oldmaninthedesert:

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Pandora's Box...Elliot Springs & Hugh William Close....Ike's Farewell Address...Fortune 500 Companies

Continuing with Alex Christopher's Pandora Box...

[... Upon Leroy's death, a man by the name of H.R. Rice took control of the Lancaster Cotton Mills and. among other things, convinced Mrs. Springs that her "playboy step-son" Elliott, should run the mills, railroad, and banks, which, shortly thereafter, he did get the control of.

It was during the time that H.R. Rice and Elliott Springs were in total control that much of the embezzlements and record-changing of L.C. Payseurs' property took place, according to the dates found on documents recorded in courthouses; the deeds in the name of L.C. Payseur disappeared from the Courthouse records.

It was also in this time period that Elliott Springs embezzled the stock of the Lancaster Cotton Mill and changed its name to "Springs Mills Incorporated". I'm sure you are familiar with the name almost everyone sleeps on - "Springmaid". sheets and pillow cases, or dries with their towels.

The heirs of Lewis Cass Payseur were his three daughters, who were born into a wealthy family which believed the "old ways" - ladies are not allowed to work or know about business matters, period. They did know, however, about the various railroad leases and other assets of their father, L.C. Payseur. under the management of Mr. Springs, the "Trustee" (Leroy Springs has been reported by the daughters of L.C. Payseur to be the finest person L.C. Payseur had ever known, and the most honest, but Leroy's son. Elliott, was known in that family to be an "untrustworthy playboy", and also in that family, H.R. Rice was reported to be "a crook"), through The Bank of Lancaster.

The records prove that prior to L.C. Payseur's death, his Stock Dividends from the Bank of Lancaster were 400% quarterly, and the members (stockholders) were trying to get L.C. Payseur to sell his controlling interest in the Bank of Lancaster, which, according to the records of Payseur, he never did. The Springs now claim that they have a 90% control of ownership, which does not balance with the original Payseur documents.

During the depression, which was by this time, in full swing, the U.S. government was looking for sponsors for a "job creation scheme": the plan was commonly known as "CCC & WPA".

In Lancaster, one of these "jobs" was the re-indexing of the County Records, and this was gleefully sponsored by the Lancaster Cotton Mills, under the direct supervision of Elliott White Springs....]

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