Howard Hughes Estate Is
LAS VEGAS, March 15 (UPI) - ',The inventory of the estate's prop- Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Inc. Howard Hughes left an estate worth erties include cash, various receiva- at the direction of a Nevada district 51611,834,165, far less than generally bles, interest in real estate, stocks and court judge who earlier had given believed, according to documents filed other business interests and various today. Surma an extension of time to file miscellaneous properties as they ex- the inventory. The attorneys just The worth of the late industrialist's isted on the date of Mr. Hughes' death made the deadline by filing the docu- c-state was declared in papers filed by April 5, 1976," according to a state- attorney William Morse with the ments today , ment issued by Hughes' Summa Corp. The same inventory report was riled Clark County clerk's office. Morse said that, to his knowledge, It was the first actual public decla- almost simultaneously with a court in the $16S million Included the entire Houston, where state officials claimed ration c,f Hughes' estate, which had estate. Hughes was a resident. heen estimated in newspapers and The estimate Was prepared prima- Three states—California, Nevada magazine stories at about $2.5 billion. rily by the stockbroker firm of Merrill and Texas—claim Hughes as a resi-