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ills Today's weather Rlatt Bisnigan, Tech's 'arm' SPORTS, Page 5-C The Ark-La-Tcx will be cloudy and cool today with a chance of showers through tonight. Highs today and Sunday in the 60s. Lows tonight in the 40s. More weather on Page 18-C. II i Hi mm offc AP Laserphoto A Gannett newspaper-25 Shreveporf Bossier CltyArk-La-Tex Saturday, Dec.

4, 1982 Tornadoes, floods deal. Arkansas more misery 1 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The tornado killed two people and caused extensive damage. The funnel cloud of a tornado that hit Little Rock, Thursday is shown in this photo by Dixie Knight, a medical photographer at the Senate Democrats draft jobs program CaddoBossier Computers Three new courses dealing with com- Euters will be added to the ivision of Conferences and Institutes at LSUS. 12-A.

Ark-La-Tex Prisons A federal judge accuses state officials of whitewashing reports on prisons. 16-A. NationWorld No sponsor House members of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition seek stopgap legislation to halt soaring natural gas prices, but they have difficulty finding a Senate sponsor. 3-A. Poland The leader of Poland's martial law government urges the Parliament to ease military rule.

4-A. Sentenced A 19-year- old baby sitter pleads guilty to strangling three of the five children who died in her care apparently because their crying upset her and is given three life sentences. 5-A. Artificial heart Doctors remove the respirator from the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. 5-A.

Comedian British comedian Marty Feldman dies of a massive heart attack in Mexico City. 5-A. Commentary President Reagan's trip to Latin America seems to have accomplished its fence-mending goal, says a Times editorial. 6-A. Reagan Separate crowds cheer and jeer President Reagan during his trip to Bogota, Colombia.

7-A. Pride Arkansas and Texas will square off in their annual football grudge match today but this time they will be playing only for pride. 3-C. NBA Marcus Johnson scored 28 points to help the Milwaukee Bucks to a 115-112 National Basketball Association victory over the Boston Celtics. 3-C.

Jobs There are fewer seasonal jobs this Christmas than in the past because stores are reducing expenses. 17-C. Strike Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca says striking Canadian workers must be back on the job by Dec. 16 or talks will be postponed. 17-C.

Going up Mexico's new government doubles the price of its gasoline. The price of its dometic natural gas also goes up more than 50 percent. 17-C. Index Businessfinance 16-C Classified 5-C Comics 9-B Deaths 10-A Editorials 6-A Entertainment 11-B Hints from Heloise 3-B Ann Landers 2-B Sylvia Porter 18-C Sports 1-C Television 10-B Tell The Times 1-B Weather 18-C Ark-La Edition It-Uh Year, I'd. 112, Ao.

7 Copyright Timet PublUJiing Company Newsroom 459-3200 Circulation complaints 221-1982 Today's Chuckle A thoughtful wife is one who has the pork chops ready when her huband comes home from a fishing trip. Fireworks planned for bowl When the singer of the National Anthem entones "the rocket's red glare," at the Independence Bowl next Saturday night, rockets will indeed be glaring. Plans call for two fireworks displays during the evening of the postseason football game, one accompanying the anthem. It's part of a pregame program, which will begin at 4:30 p.m. and run to kickoff.

Three governors, two congressmen, a state attorney general, an Air Force general and television personality Art Linklet-ter lead the list of cheerleaders attending the seventh annual game. The clash between the Big Eight's Kansas State University, Manhattan, and the Big Ten's University of Wisconsin, Madison, will kick off at 7 p.m. in Independence Stadium. And among the 50,000 expected in the stands will be Wisconsin Gov. and Mrs.

Lee Dreyfuss of Wisconsin', Gov. and Mrs. John W. Carlin of Kansas, and Gov. and Mrs.

Dave Treen of Louisiana. Plans are in the works for a Wisconsin alumni and friends party to be at the Fair Grounds the morning of the game. Bratwurst sandwiches, beer and cheese will be served. Other dignitaries will be At torney General and Mrs. Robert T.

Stephan of Kansas; U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston U.S. Rep.

Buddy Roemer, U.S. Rep. Pat Roberts of Kansas and Air Force Gen. William Campbell, chief of the 8th Air Force. Linkletter is the 1982 recipient of the Omar N.

Bradley Spirit of Independence Award. Cheer Fund remembers less fortunate Many people will be out shopping for Christmas presents today for "people who have everything." Others are remembering their neighbors who have very little by contributing to The Times Christmas Cheer Fund. The Times, as sponsor of the drive, is seeking to collect $22,500 for area residents who are in need of extra assistance at Christmas. "We know that the Christmas season and winter needs will be greater this year than they have been for a long time," said E. Howard Lynch, commanding officer of the Salvation Army, citing high unemployment and layoffs in the area.

The cost for providing food and toys at Christmas to an average family is about $50, Lynch said. The agency also gives toilet kits to nursing home residents, many of whom do not have friends or family locally. Forty volunteers, who belong to the organization's League of Mercy, will pay a holiday visit to patients in 18 nursing homes Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Children under 12 will soon receive toys and their families will get a check for Christmas dinner through the Cheer Fund. Contributions thus far total $2,770.

The Times received $920 Friday from the following persons: James J. Crumbliss and June D. Crumbliss $25 Larkin L. Angel $15 Mr. and Mrs.

Louis T. Jones $25 Mrs. Egan Gleason $25 Mr. and Mrs. W.E.

Kizer $50 Muriel R. Ingram $10 Ralph J. and Margaret M. Steed $10 Anonymous $15 Ann Piatt Payne $200 In memory of the residents of Pierre-mont Manor Nursing Home $25 Frank Pillert $10 Corinne Roy Kelly $100 Clara M. Shunk in memory of Sammy Shunk $250 Anonymous $50 Mrs.

Paul L. Gunn $25 Mr. and Mrs. Seth Morehead $10 R.C. Hayes Jr.

$25 Charles Randall Griffith. Cameron Stuart Griffith and Ann-Marie Griffith $50 The Associated Press Tornadoes and torrential rains stormed out of warm, moist Gulf air over Arkansas for the second day Friday, raising the injured to 55, the missing to two and the homeless to scores. Three were known dead. The storms closed schools, highways and businesses, threatened city water supplies and prompted Gov. Frank White to proclaim a state disaster, making 10 counties eligible for $200,000 in state aid.

The counties are Clark, Cleburne, Crawford, Faulkner, Independence, Pulaski, Saline, Sharp, Van Buren and White. "I don't know of any time we've seen so much devastation so fast," White told a news conference at the Capitol in Little Rock. The Office of Emergency Services in Conway reported that flooding had forced evacuation of 50 homes in Clinton, 60 to 100 in Stone County and five in Faulkner County. OES spokesman Gary Talley said severe weather demolished 95 Arkansas homes and severely damaged 146 more. Flooding also was reported in Garland, Izard and Newton counties.

White said evacuations were made in parts of 15 towns. OES chief Leon McGoogan said they included Ashdown, Nashville, De Queen, Clin ton, Hardy, Russellville, Danville, Dardanelle, Heber Springs, Dierks, Plumerville, Hot Springs and Batesville. He couldn't remember the other two. A tornado ripped a residential area of East Camden on Friday, injuring two people and damaging homes near the industrial park. The OES said at one point that three people died in the Little Rock-Alexander area.

Later, the OES lowered the number to two. State police Sgt. Bill Young of Little Rock identified the dead as James Fletcher McDougal, 65, who lived at the tornado-ravaged Ranchette mobile home park near Alexander in central Arkansas, and John W. Mason 68, of Malvern, who died when a tornado hurled metal through the windshield of his car traveling on Interstate 430 at Little Rock. At the White River Medical Center in Batesville on Friday, two-year-old Marcus Musser was in critical condition in the intensive care unit, a nurse said.

A flash flood had caught Marcus and his mother and swept the child away from her. Rev. Jerry Taylor of the Weavers Hill Free Will Baptist Church described in a telephone interview what had happened to them. Taylor said Lynn Musser left their home in northwest Independence County to pick up her son Danny, 6, at school in Charlotte. Waist-high waters Please turn to Page 7-A Times photoLEE SHIVELY 4 By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate Democrats are drafting a $10 billion program including highway repair and increased jobless benefits to combat the "national disgrace" of 10.8 percent unemployment, Minority Leader Robert C.

Byrd said Friday. Byrd said Democrats intend to press for enactment of the plan during the current lame-duck session of Congress, despite anticipated strong opposition from both Senate Republicans and the White House. "We've got nearly 12 million people unemployed in this country," Byrd told reporters a few hours after the Labor Department announced that unemployment had spurted to a new post-Depression record in November from the previous month's level of 10.4 percent. "It's a national The West Virginia senator suggested the plan could be paid for by reducing next July's scheduled 10 percent income tax cut for individuals making over $46,500 and eliminating it for those making $78,600 or more. Byrd's disclosure came shortly before House Democrats unveiled limited details of a $5 billion jobs plan of their own, a package that House Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill D-Mass, has predicted the full House will probably approve next week. The outline provided by leadership officials calls for a combination of funding for programs such as highways, bridges, rehabilitation of federal buildings, Park Service projects, water system improvements, weatherization for low-inconie housing and job training. Aides said no breakdown of the amounts to be spent Please turn to Page 15-A Wants a chance Contracts up for October October construction contracts in the Shreveport metropolitan area were almost four times the level of October 1981, the national building trades reporting firm of F.W. Dodge said, with more than $39 million in new orders. Dodge, a division of McGraw Hill Information Systems, said October homebuilding contracts in the three-parish area rose to $16 million, compared to $5.1 million in the corresponding month of last year.

Non-residential construction contracts in October hit $23 million, compared to $5.2 million a year before. The spurt in home building orders pushed the year-to-date comparison ahead of the first 10 months of 1981, $83.6 million compared to $78.3 million last year. But non-residential contracts for the first 10 months of 1982, at $99 million, trailed the $126 million figure for January through October 1981, Dodge said. Sunday: new TV listings and more New 24-hour-a-day television listings in easy-to-read fashion. That's what you'll find tomorrow in TV of The Times.

The section will feature new charts, which include many of your favorite stations. Chart listings have been expanded with such extras as Showtime, KERA, PTL and ESPN. Pull the section for complete television schedules throughout the week and stay tuned to The Times for all your television information. Other special features of your Sunday Times: A comprehensive look at local homeowners associations, the advantages and disadvantages of belonging to such associations. City reporter Lee Ivory wrote the story.

An interview by Times Fashion Writer Margaret Martin with jet set designer Carolina Her-rera, who will visit Shreveport in January for a Shreveport Little Theatre benefit. Revolutionary changes in telephone service that take effect in January. Robert Moore tells you the options consumers will have. i i I at a press conference Friday. Shreveport Mayor John Hussey (background) defended Bach at the meeting.

Stuart Bach (right), the new Chief Administrative Officer for Shreveport, asks Shreveporters for a chance to prove himself.