The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 2

Delay of state elections may be sought By PHILIP D. HEARN JACKSON (UPl)-Civil rights attorney Frank Parker said during the weekend he would seek to delay statewide elections this summer if the controversial issue of legislative reapportionment is not settled by a federal court panel before that time. Parker, representing the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, said a new House reapportionment plan approved during the final week of the 1975 legislative session could delay the federal court decision. He said the new plan "offers no improvement" over a 1973 plan currently under challenge in the lawsuit pending before the U.S. district court panel.

Parker said he does not feel the new plan will affect the outcome of the lawsuit but added, "It might delay the elections this year. It depends on how the judges deal with it." He said he understood Attorney General A.F. Summer would file a copy of the new reapportionment plan with the court and, "I'm sure we'll be filing our objections to the plan." He said he would seek an injunction to halt this summer's elections if the federal panel did not issue a ruling in the case before the primaries. "The new plan offers no improvement at all because it still doesn't provide for single-member districts and it still has the effect of diluting black voting strength," Parker said. The plan to reapportion House seats in the stale's three most populous districts won final legislative approval during the final week of the 1975 session despite charges by some lawmakers that it would not stand up under a federal court challenge.

No changes would be made in the current alignment of Senate seats and the only revisions in the current (1973) House plan involve Hinds, Harrison, Jackson and George counties. The House plan provides that supervisors' districts as Congress works on deaths WASHINGTON (UPI)-For the first time, Congress will try to drop its haphazard spending methods and set an overall goal for the federal budget. This year it will be a deficit. President Ford gave his version a week ago on television. After signing into law a tax cut larger than he wanted, he stood before a chart and, with a graphic sweep of the arm, drew the line on a deficit of $60 billion.

He said neither he nor the economy could stand for more. Until now, Congress spent money without consideration of an overall or its effect on the economy. Only a the end of a fiscal year could the size of the resulting deficit be seen. But last year, Congress voted to fix spending and deficit (or surplus) totals in advance. Starting today, the House and Senate Budget Committees, chaired by Rep.

Brock Adams, and Sen. I Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, will draft resolutions proposing spending and deficit targets. The Democrats who control Congress are almost certain to vote for more deficit spending. The best guess is that the congressional deficit will exceed Ford's S60 billion by S10 to billion.

No i in or out of i i i inevitability or the need for a deficit in fiscal 1976, which starts next July 1. Any attempt to limit spending to match receipts, shrunken by the i i a depression--and result in a still bigger deficit. a a a resolutions are to pass by April IS and variations reconciled by May 15. If the act works as intended--and skeptics question Congress can exercise such self-discipline--a second resolution must pass Sept. 15 trimming away at excesses.

If appropriations exceed targets, the resolution would instruct spending committees to make cuts or tax writing committees to enact laws to raise new revenues. If neither course were followed, members of Congress would be compelled to vote to increase the deficit, a politically difficult vote to cast. Margaret Bishop Margaret Kent Bishop, 25, a former Cleveland resident, died at 9 a. m. Friday at her home in Baton Rouge after an apparent heart attack.

Funeral services were at 5 p. m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church in Cleveland. Rev. Johnny Dinas officiated.

Burial was in New Cleveland Cemetery. Thweatt-King Funeral Home of Cleveland had charge. Miss Bishop attended Louisiana State University and at the time of her death she was a licensed practical nurse employed at a nursing home in Baton Rouge. She was a Methodist. Survivors are her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. F. W. Bishop Jr. of Baton Rouge; one sister, Mrs.

John Thornell of Austin, three brothers. Dr. F. W. Bishop III of Houston, and Jim Boykin Bishop and John C.

Bishop, both of Baton and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bishop of Cleveland.

Mrs. Grace Hickey Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Wall Hickey, age unavailable, widow of Burnett Royal Hickey were at 11 a. m. today at St.

Joseph's Catholic Church in Greenville. Msgr. Thad flarkins was the Mass. Father Edward Sheridan, S. and a A i co-celebrants.

Burial was in Greenville Cemetery. a i a a Greenville had charge. Rosary was said at the chapel of National Funeral Home at 7:30 p. m. Sunday.

i i a i Daughters Hospital Saturday following a lengthy illness. A native of Greenville, Mrs. Hickey attended the old St. Rose of Lima School here and St. Cecilia's Academy in Nashville, Tenn.

After her marriage she made her home in Jackson. She returned to Greenville 15 years ago afler her husband's death. Mrs. Hickey was a communicant of St. Joseph's Church, was a member of St.

Joseph's Altar Society and of St. Ann's Sewing Circle. She served as president of the Alice Bell Garden Club, was a member of Greenville's Federated Woman's Club and the Metropolitan Dinner Club. She was Levi offers handguns I suggestion WASHINGTON (UPD-- Attorney General Edward Levi has suggested tying laws against possession of handguns to the level of violent street crimps. He would except, however, those weapons kept inside homes and businesses.

Levi, offering his idea simply for discussion in an address to law enforcement executives, said Sunday it would provide gun control in cities, permit handguns for protection, and accomodate opposition to controls in rural areas. Levi said that while he heads the Justice Department he wants to spur discussion of possible crime solutions "one by one." He chose handguns as his first topic because they are "the focus of fear" in violence ridden urban As an alternative to the idea of nationwide gun registration, Levi proposed an outright ban on sale or a a a ammunition in areas where crime reaches a specified rate. The inexpensive "Saturday Night Specials" would be banned. People owning handguns for protection inside their homes or businesses could keep them, according to Levi's proposal. But they could not take them onto the street without a specific short term permit.

One possible formula for imposing this ban, Levi said, would be based on the Census Bureau's "Standard i a a i i a central cities of 50,000 or more population plus their suburbs. The ban would be triggered in each area where violent crime rose 20 per cent above the national average or if it rose 10 per cent in areas where it already was 5 per cent above the national average. markets NEW YORK The midday slock prices: AC Find 2 60 Aircolnc .90 AllqlurJ 1.80 AHqPwl.52 Allid Ch l.SO Alcoa 1.34 AM AX 1 .75 Am Airlines A AmCyan l--2 A 2 Ann Motors 5 3 4 Am TAT 3, JO Anarr.d1.2a Arm co l.6Ga E3ethSteel2a Boeing .80 ConPac Celanse 2.B3 ChrysierCp 10-1-8 CinGosl.W CinMila 1.40 Colgate ,63 Co1 Gas 2.06 CmwEd2.3Q Ccn Ed .305 ConsNG2.18 Consm Pw 2 CntlCanl.80 CookUn Copwld 1.89 Curliss, DefErflsMf Diamdrntl 2 OuPont 1-1 4b Eastern Air EastK 1.56o EatnCp 1.80 Exxon 1-Mb FordMo3.20 Gen Dynam 33-5 8 Gn fee 1.60 GnFoodT.40 GenMoT 1. 80 Goodrtcl.12 Goodyr 1.10 GroceWl.60 Great AP9-5 8 Gryhd 1.04o Gull Oil 1.70 Hershey .80 niCenin 1rvqRnd2.43 2 Monday, April 7, 1975 Delta Democrat-Times 39-3-8 Off 1-8 14 5 8 2 4 8 4 15 35 OH 1 2 36 43.1-2OII 1-4 8-1-2 38 7 8 1 6 1 4 25-7-8 Off 1-8 17 Up 1-8 Ofl 1 8 48 1 8 Off 1 8 16 34 29-3 8 Off 1-8 33-1-2 Off 3 8 21 Off 1 8 15-3 8 Up 1 8 29-3-8 32 Off 1-3 17 Ofl 1 4 19 7-8 Up 1-4 5 8 Off 3 4 26-1-2 23-l-2Off 1 11 -3 8 Up 3 8 23 1-2 Up IB 14 3 4 Off 1 8 25 Off 1 2 2-3 8 Up I 27 9 1 BOII 1 8 10 3 4 Up 1-4 28 14 Off 1 4 100-1 -2 Off 1-2 5-1-2 88-5 8 Off 12 70-3-8 Off 3 8 34.7.8 Off 1 4 Up I 4 4 3 4 I I 3 8 Up 1-8 40-3-8 Up 1-8 20 1-8 16-3 -A Up 1-4 17 Oil 1 8 247-BOff 1 4 Up 1-4 11 8 19-1- 2 UP 1-8 18 1-4 13 1 4 74OII1-2 Greenville, Miss IBM Corp 6 InfHorv 1.70 InlNck 1.40a Kencoff 2.60 Krollcol.92 Kroger 1.36 1.60 Lone 5 Ind 1 Marrorlnc 1 1 MODMOI3.40 Monsan2.10 Motorola .70 Nabisco 2.30 NatAvn NllOistl 1.20 Nil Gyp 1.05 NDilulkWbS OlinCpl-20 OwcnCF.83 Owenlll 1.72 Pan Am Air Penn Cenlr Penney 1.16 PennDix.24 PennPL 1.80 PepsiCo 1.40 Phil Pet 1.60 Polaroid .32 PPGIndl.70 Proct 8.GQ2 Pulmon UO RCA Corpl RepStll.Ma Rey Ind 2.88 ReyndMet 1 RocXwllln2 Sang. Elc .70 Sear; Sp Rand Sid Brands 2 StdOilCal2 SldOillnd2 SlOitOhl 34 StewWn 1.92 StudeW 1.32 Teneco 1.60 Texaco 2a Trans Air 9-3 4 TRW in 1.20 UALInc.Oo UnCafb2.40 Uniroyol .70 Ufd Aircrf 2 uld Brands 6-1 8 USSteel 2.80 UVIndusfl WUnlonl.40 Westh El .97 W5tvacl.40 WhIPSt .706 197 Off 1 21-5-8 24-3 4 35-1-4 Off 1 8 39 1 BOM 1 8 18-1-8 Off 3-8 12-1 4 Ofl 1-4 21 1 2 14-7 8 37-3 8 Off 3-8 55-1-8 OK 1-8 49-1-8 32 3-1 Off 1 4 10 5-8 Olf 1-4 15-1-8 Up 3-8 12011 1-8 64 5 8 Up 5 8 I I 1 8 33 3 4 Up 1-2 39 Up 3-6 4 1-7-8 51 I 1 5 8 6-3 8 Off 1-3 18 57-1-2 Olf 58 36-1 4 25 1 2O1I 1 4 2 5 5 8 TO 1 2Off 1-2 JSOfl 1-8 15-3-bOIM-8 31 5 8 0 8 53 3 9 Off 1 4 18 1-4 UP 1-8 19-1 8 Off 1-8 11-1 SOU 1-8 67 5 Oil 3 8 .7634 59 1-2 Of I 1-2 23-5-8 Up 1-8 38 Off 1-2 57 Off 1 8 20-7 8 Off 1-4 26 Up 1-4 22 1-JOIf 18 23 3 8 Off 1 8 Off 1-4 18-1-8 Up 1-8 19Off 1-4 55-1 2 Off 1 4 8 i aupi 39 Off 58 Off 1-8 5 5 0 3 4 20 5 8 Oil 1 8 13-1-8 13-1 4 Oil 1 4 24-1-2 Up 1 4 74-3-4 drawn i be the basis for residency requirements in both Hinds and Harrison counties unless those districts are drawn by federal court order prior to the June 6 qualifying deadline for candidates in this year's elections.

It provides that two representatives would be elected in Hinds County from each of the five supervisory districts and the remaining two members of the Hinds delegation would run from the county at large. The two-county district of Jackson and George counties has a total of six representatives. Under the plan, one member would be a resident of George County and five would be residents of separate supervisory districts in Jackson county. All six would run from two counties at large. "It's essentially the same plan they passed in 1973," Parker said.

"The Senate plan is only difference is that they created subdistricls within Hinds, Harrison and Jackson counties." He said he has several objections to the new plan: "First of all, it creates a large number of multi-membar districts It combines a majority of black counties with majority white counties containing greater white population concentrations. The effect of that is to dilute black voting strength. "Another thing is that it provides for countywide voting in all multi-member districts that comprise a single county," he continued. "Thus, it disfranchises concentrations of black populations within the county that might be large enough to be entitled to independent representation. "The third thing," Parker added, "Is that the plan contains population inequalities greater than those ever approved by the U.

S. Supreme Court." During a hearing of the three-judge federal panel earlier this year on the 1973 plan, Parker presented a statewide reapportionment plan that would form single-member districts cutting across county lines in CO per cent of the House districts and about a third of the Senate districts. associated with the Archaeology Society and was a member of King's Daughters and Sons Circle No. 2. Survivors are one son, Burnett Royal Hickey Jr.

of Jackson, one brother, Leroy Wall of Greenville; one sister, Mrs. Raymond Banks of Vicksburg, and three grandchildren. Jewell Rutland I a services for Jewell L. Rutland, 78, of VVilmot, were to be held at 10 a.m. today in the Lakeview Baptist Church in Leland with Hev.

Charles Everett officiating. i a a i Leland-Stoneville Cemetery. Boone Funeral Home of Leland has charge. Mr. Rutland died Saturday in General Hospital in Greenville as a result of a traffic accident near Arcola last Thursday.

A native of Lawrence County, he was a graduate of the Monticello public schools. He was engaged in farming and ginning in Lawrence County until moving to Washington County in 1951. Until his recent retirement, -Mr. a operated cotton gins in Washington County. lie was a member of Lakeview Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Maggie Tims Rutland of Wilinol: one daughter, Mrs. Paul Sabbatini of Leland; three sons, Robert Rutland of VVilmot, James Rutland of Leland and Jewell Rutland Jr. of Monte Vista, Colo; three sisters, Mrs. Rose Wallace of Brookhaven, Mrs.

Merle Waldrop of New Orleans, La; and Mrs. Sidney Carco of Slidell, La; two brothers, Cabe Rutland and Ham Rutland, both of Ruth; and 10 grandchildren. Hezakiah Williams a i a Williams, 62, of 532 Pleasant St. in Greenville died Friday at in a Jackson hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will he Thursday at 2 p.m.

at Edwards Evans Funeral Home Chapel in Greenville. Burial will be in Delta Memorial Gardens in Greenville. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Annie Williams of Greenville; one step-son, Eddie Barnum of Chicago, a a a great-granddaughter. Kennedy jeered, jostled WESTON, Mass.

(UPl)-Sen. Edward Kennedy, was poked, grabbed, jostled, and jeered i a i i protesters a Afterward, Kennedy said he will continue to support school desegregation no matter how it may affect his political future. "I've taken a stand," he said, looking irritable and bedraggled. "1 haven't changed it. We'll have to let the chips fall where they may.

"We have to resolve this in this generation," he said. "We have to face it now. We're bequeathing a terrible heritage to our children." a a arm-linked flying wedge of police and aides, waded through a hostile crowd of about 300 anlibusing demonstrators as he left a Knights of Columbus communion breakfast in Quincy, Mass. He was jostled and prevented from getting into several automobiles by the jeering crowd. A woman poked him repeatedly with a tiny American flag on a stick and a man grabbed him by the leg.

Anti-busing protester shouts at Kennedy The placard-waving demonstrators ripped at his hair, dark suit and tie, designed with a pattern of Liberty Bells. The senator, a smile on his face, at one point broke into a jog to reach the safety of a subway station. As the northbound train lie boarded pulled away, young demonstrators pelted it with rocks and bottles. Kennedy was not injured. There were no arrests.

He a canceled another appearance in nearby Sharon, a more a i i demonstrators showed up. a i the Boston school desegregation plan under which 13,000 students are being bused to schools outside their neighborhoods. Kennedy confirmed he was pushed during the Quincy incident, but told friends he was not hurt. "Its true--you can label this said. Democrats Loyalists seek to register as the legal party in the state A (UPD--Mississippi Loyalist Democrats will seek to i a a a Democratic party in line with a recent federal appeals court ruling.

An estimated 60-70 loyalists voted overwhelmingly Sunday following a meeting of the party's executive committee to instruct attorneys to file for registration with the secretary of states of.ice. Ur. Aaron Henry said the filing probably would come during the next week or two. He said the significance of filing as the legal party was that "it permits the running of a candidate under our own banner when we desire to do so and permits the filing of presidential nominees for the electoral college under that banner." He said, however, a decision has not Methodist 'team' is ruled illegal JACKSON I A two-district team su.perintendency plan currently r.sed in Mississippi has been ri'led illegal by the judicial council of the United Methodist Church, it was disclosed Sunday. Bishop Mack B.

Stokes of Jackson said he was informed by telephone a a night that the judicial council did not sustain an earlier ruling by the bishop that the plan was constitutional. The two-district plan was adopted in 1973 by the i i i i conference, which covers the southern half of the state, and the north Mississippi conference. It provides for GOP youths legislature JACKSON (UPD-- The Mississippi Legislature drew fire from young state Republicans this past weekend for handling of reapportionment and ethics bills i the recently concluded 1975 session. The Mississippi Young Republican a i i i a a convention here Saturday, adopted a resolution endorsing the concept of single-member legislative districts a plan sought in a pending lawsuit filed hy civil rights attorneys. The Young Republicans said the reapportionment plan passed by the 1975 legislature in the final week of the session "not only is likely to he overturned hy the courts, but also deprives the citizens in the more populous counties of the personal type representation that should be typical of the entire legislature." a team of four superintendents in each of Mississippi's four districts.

"The judicial council states also that the two-district plan is contrary to the structures required for a connectional church and violates the rights of annual conference, the members of the annual conference and the principle of inclusiveness," Stokes said. "It is the kind of issue on which there have been honest differences of opinion," he continued. "The decision of the judicial council, of course, settles the matter and we shall proceed accordingly beginning with the forthcoming annual conferences in May and June. "I believe the adjustments can be made without great the bishop added. Stokes expressed an opinion earlier that the plan was legal and the Mississippi conference supported his ruling.

All such rulings, however, are subject to review by the judicial council. The legality of the plan was challenged by the church's general commission on religion and race, which has the duty of reviewing the progress mergers between black and white annual conferences in the denomination. Stokes maintained the plan was not related to the recent mergers of the black and white annual conferences in Mississippi nor was conteingent upon merger in any way. been made whether the Loyalists will run its own slate of candidates in Mississippi gubernatorial race and other statewide elections set for this summer--hut he said that course of action remains a "possibility." The action comes in line with a federal appeals court ruling earlier this year that Mississippi's Regular Democrats do not have exclusive rights to the party label in the stale. The 5th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals decision stemmed from a long simmering legal battle over which of the two rival factions should be permitted to use the party label. The appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that the Regulars were a i Democratic party organization in the state. Regulars said they would appeal the appeals court decision. Loyalist leader Patt Derian of Jackson said at the time of the appeals court ruling that it meant both factions now have a legal right to "co-exist" although it did not specify which faction would control party machinery in the state. The loyalists are recognized by the a i a party but the regulars currently exercise control of state party machinery.

Both Henry and Mrs. Derian said they believed the court ruling would provide a "negotiating tool" for the warring factions to get together but Henry said he does not believe that will come before the 1976 presidential convention. Deadline Patt Derian, the Democratic a i a i a from Mississippi said Sunday that Regular Democrats will have until Wednesday, April 16 to challenge the loyalist's affirmative-action plan. Mrs. Derian said the loyalists would be glad to assist in the challenges.

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