He enrolled at Washburn University briefly, then started BioLab, another veterinary drug firm, in Norborne, Missouri, which was more successful.
[3] In addition to veterinary products, the company produces a malt-flavored ultra-compact storage food for humans called Minuteman Survival Tabs.
He became a member of the John Birch Society,[5] and according to a biography he was influenced by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
In February 1968, he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle, Washington for conspiracy to commit bank robbery.
[citation needed] In the early 1990s he was tried but acquitted on a morals and pornography charge with an underage girl[11] and on three counts of federal firearms violations.