Box 4422
Contains 24 Results:
Sub-Series 1: Grain Warehouse Receipts and Checks, 1979-1982
Warehouse receipts for the Ristine grain elevator, the Campbell Gin Company, the Frisbee Cotton Company, as well as checks made to the Cryts’ legal defense fund. Arranged chronologically.
Sub-Series 2: Legal and Legislative Materials, 1981-1983
Subseries includes United States Congressional testimony, Missouri State Senate Bills, Hearing of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, legal materials, and a signed agreement between Wayne Cryts and Assistant Attorney Robert T. Haar. Arranged chronologically.
Sub-Series 3: Public Outreach, 1980-2007
Materials include press releases issued by Wayne Cryts, a handwritten timeline of the events surrounding the Ristine Elevator, religious and agricultural poetry written by supporters of the Cryts’, pamphlets, flyers, a screenplay, The Gentle Rebel, and History Day project submissions focusing on the Ristine Grain Elevator. Arranged chronologically.
Wayne and Sandy Cryts Family Papers
Correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and legislative materials pertaining to Wayne and Sandy Cryts, a Puxico, Missouri couple who made national headlines in 1981 when they defied federal law and reclaimed their soybeans stored at the Ristine Grain Elevator in New Madrid, Missouri, after a federal bankruptcy court confiscated their beans to pay-off the debts of Ristine’s owners.