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a a a a a a a a MAN, ONE VOTE RULING Arkansas Solons Worried Over Appo Apportionment ment Issue Worried Issue Arkansas House members whose jobs are in jeopardy, would, if they were arranging things, have the state Senate apportioned on population and leave the House undisturbed. As one legislator from a small "I'm surrounded counsouth county, put it: ties. No matter what county they put me with, my county will be outvoted. There's no way my county can have representation under The this issue rulinfely to be faced soon. A suit set for trial before 7 that state constitutional a three federal court Jan.

provisions convering apportionment be invalidated and that the state Board of Apportionment instructed to divide the legislature on a population basis. The Board of Apportionment, composed of the governor, secretary state and attorney general, now has authority only to apportion 25 House seats left after each of the 75 counties is assigned one. These 25 seats are apportioned on population. It is unlikely that any kind of population based apportionment could be worked out to leave each county with one representative. Since the smallest county (Perry) has only 5,000 residents, it would take more than 350 House members to give Perry a seat and give the larger counties equal representation.

No one believes a House with 350 members would be workable. So some of the representatives from smaller counties have come up with a "weighted vote" proposal. No one has made the proposal formally, but it's being talked about. It would leave the House membership at 100 and would provide for election of the representatives in the counties they now represent. But each man's vote in the House would be counted differently.

The vote of a legislator representing a county with 30,000 population would count six times as much as the vote of a man from a county with 5,000 residents. would keep those representatives who fear for th ir jobs in the House while complying with the Supreme Court order. the Arkansas General Assembly and legislatures in a score of other states. The first argument the legislators put up is that the Supreme Court had no right to clude both legislative houses when the U.S. Senate isn't based on population.

But by some twist of logic, the Swift Cold Front Bolts Across Texas United Press International A swift cold front bolted southward across Texas Saturday, dropping, degrees temperatures in some as areas. much Scattered light sprinkled areas of the Panhandle during the early morning hours. Readings at noon ranged from a frosty 33 at Dalhart to 81 in McAllen. Winter returned to the state cold air after week of with the rapid movement of the mild. springlike temperatures.

The mercury in areas behind the front was about 30 to 35 degrees lower Saturday than on Christmas Day. Few scattered rain showers dotted the upper Texas Coast and southeast Texas Saturday afternoon. satisfied? This is the time of the year when we all must decide if we're satisfied with our personal progress. Are we accomplishing what we set out to do a year ago, or is there room for improvement? All of us must decide for ourselves whether to move forward or stand in the same spot. Shreveport Draughon-Norton Business College has guided many hundreds of persons toward better futures.

and we are prepared to do the same for you. COURSES START AT $75 FREE PLACEMENT SERVICE HOUSING FOR OUT-OF-TOWN STUDENTS 1965 CLASSES NOW FORMING! CALL OR WRITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SHREVEPORT DRAUGHON NORTON SON BUSINESS COLLEGE 1165 LINE 422-5778 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES Sunday, Dee. 27, 1964 11-A H. M. Cotton Succumbs in Alexandria Services Today For Official of Baking Company ning local ALEXANDRIA-Herbert Manbusinessman, died Saturday in a New Orleans hospital.

He was secretary-treasurer of Cotton Brothers Baking Co. Mr. Cotton was born on June 15, 1893 in Corley, the son let Cotton. the late The Mr. family and moved Mrs.

to J. Al- T. exandria in 1923 and established the Cotton Brothers Bakery here. which expanded into a statewide company. Five Cotton Brothers bakeries being operated in Alexandria, Shreveport, Monroe, Baton Rouge and Natchez, Miss.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in Hixson Brothers Funeral Home with Dr. Glenn Bryant officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Masonic graveside be conducted.

widow, former, Hazel WadMr. Cotton, is survived by his ell: a daughter, Elizabeth Cotton of Shreveport; a sister, Mrs. Grace Shipley of Fayetteville. and three brothers, Henry, R. Cotton Cotton of of Paris, Fayetteville, and William F.

Cotton of Alexandria. He was a Mason and Shriner, and held membership in dria Lodge No. 398, and El Karubah Shrine of Shreveport. He was a charter member of the Kiwanis Club and the Alexandria-Pineville Chamber of Commerce. The Seminole Indians originally inhabited the Florida Penninsula where some still remain on a reservation.

After the Seminole Wars of 1817, many to Mississippi. NINE IN EAST TEXAS Violent Death Count Climbs To 12 in Ark-La-Tex Area Times News The violent death count Ark-La-Tex Saturday as new total to 14. Of the latest count, nine died in traffic accidents and three had died as a result of gunshot wounds and two were stabbing victims in the first half of the 78-hour weekend period. The worst accident came late Friday when three East Texans were killed in a highway crash near Mount Pleasant. Their deaths brought to 16 the number of persons killed in Titus County this year.

In addition, at least four other area residents died outside the Ark-La-Tex. They were Mr. and Mrs. B. S.

Floyd, and their young son, all of England Air Force Base, who were killed near Baton Rouge in an auto accident; and 45-year-old L. B. Harris of Alexandria, who was fatally shot Friday night at a Houston beer tavern. Other Louisiana deaths since 6 p.m. Thursday include: -Danny Dauzat, 39, of Georgetown, killed in a headon collision Friday afternoon on U.S.

Hwy. 165 near Georgetown in Rapides Parish. instAntoyne early LaLonde, Friday 48. on killed fogshrouded La. Hwy.

12 near Starks. He was a resident of Basile, La. -C. A. Walker, 38, of Olla, killed Saturday when a shotgun he was cleaning accidentally discharged and struck him in the stomach.

Nine persons have died in East Texas accidents since Thursday de night. They were: -Perry Ryan, 47, Mrs. Annie Capehart, 51, and Jerry Ryan, 2, Both Sears Stores Service continued to mount in the fatalities pushed the area killed Friday night in a two-car collision near Mount Pleasant in which seven other persons were injured, at least one critically. All were residents of Mount Pleasant and passengers in the same auto. -Elroy White, 28, shot to death Thursday night in San Angustine.

-Mrs. Richard Webster, of Tyler, killed when her gun accidentally discharged Saturday morning while deer hunting near Maynard. -Joe Cochran, 20, of Reklaw, killed Friday morning in one-car crash near Rusk. -Patrick Lee McDonald, 19. of Orange, killed late Thursday in two vehicle collision south of Timpson.

New Kilgore Officer Named LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (P-Members of the Arkansas House who come from small counties are a pretty concerned group these days. Some of them are staring into the face of political extinetion and they know it. One sure way to stir a vigorous argument in halls where lawmakers gather is to suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court was anything like right when it declared recently that both houses of bicameral state legislatures must apportioned, as nearly as possible, on a Lasis of population.

This is the so-called one man, one vote ruling that threatens to put an end to rural domination 'THERE ARE LAWS Texas Sailors Critical Of Ill -Fated Freighter HOUSTON, Tex. (P) Eleven survivors of the ill-fated Smith Voyager returned to their Houston homes Saturday, some sailors critical of Quartermaster the shiponald Covert, 39. said his life jacket became water SO rotten." within he 30 said, minutes. "it crumbled in my Covert earlier said that the rudder of the lifeboat capsized in heavy seas and killed four men could not be controlled and oarlocks were rusted. that, freighter, a World War victory ship, was bound for Calcutta, India, from Houston a load of grain when it cracked a seam 700 miles southeast of Bermuda.

Four members of the 42-man crew were crushed to death between a lifeboat and a rescue ship, the German freighter Mathilde Bolton. One of the dead was George Davis, Houston, an oiler. His body was returned to Houston yesterday. Thirty four of the 38 survivors left Friday from San Juan Puerto Rico, to New York, where several recounted the disaster for Coast Guard investigators. Covert said the ship should never have been cleared for the "Talking about how rotten the ship was won't help now, but there are laws on what shape a ship should be in," he said.

A San Antonio seaman, Buster Haris, who was in the engine Meningitis Blamed for State Death OPELOUSAS (P) Physicians said Saturday the epidemic form of meningitis caused the death of an Aranaudville woman. But they said a five-year-old boy who died on the same day had the non-contagious form of the disease. Both Mrs. Paul Guidry, 61, Arnaudville. and Kevin Chris Ortis, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Ortis, Lawtell, died Thursday in a hospital here. about 20 miles The two nearby, towns are Cultures showed Mrs. Guidry's death was caused by meningococcal meningitis, the only contagious form. Physician said, "we are still working on" cultures of bacteria which proved fatal to the young.

ster. RELIC FROM GALILEE NEW YORK (P--Recently added to the American-Israel exhibit at the New York World's Fair was a six-foot column, weighing more than 2.000 pounds, from synagogue at Capernaum on the shore of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus once taught. -Otis Lee Willis, 13, and Charles Ray Mathis, both killed in traffic accident at Texarkana Thursday night. Statewide, Texas had counted 40 violent deaths-22 in trafficSo far in the long holiday. Louisiana had a total of deaths and Arkansas followed with seven.

The Arkansas deaths included persons who were stabbed to death Saturday night in Texarkana, Ark. The victims were Calvin McFadden, 35, and Doris Williams, 35, both Texarkana Negroes. City police were seeking, a man recently released city jail. BEHIND THE CURTAIN BERLIN, East Germany (P- Enrollment of Protestant theology students in East German univer. sities has increased to 592, up 38 from the previous year.

HENDERSON, Tex. Tatum Brown, a law enforcement officer for almost 35 years and chief deputy sheriff in Rusk County for four years, will join the Kilgore police department Jan. 1 he said Saturday. Brown's appointment as a deputy expires Jan. 1 when Carlton Morton takes office as the county's newly-elected sheriff.

It will be Brown's second time to serve on the Kilgore police force where he previously spent 10 years as a patrolman. MARKED DOWN PRICES on Seasonal Merchandise to savings 4 Days Beginning Monday POSY MART The Unique Flower Hawn Ave. at Airport Store. 423-5281 room when the Smith Voyager sprang a leak. said the vessel was listing 30 degrees before the order to abandon ship was given.

said the port side lifeboat lowering mechanism wouldn't work, and that the starboard lifeboat stuck. Thirty -eight of the 42 members of the crew crowded into one lifeboat. Eckart Linke, a deckhand from Santa was credited with saving the lives of 12 of the Smith Voyager crewmen. Income Tax Guide Book Being Sold The 1965 edition of "Your Federal Income Tax" is now available, Chester A. Usry, district director Internal Revenue Service, announced yesterday.

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