April 18, 1975 ClatiOn'LtHgtt Black Group Criticizes Reapportionment Bills Plans Reviewed For Alleviating MISSISSIPPI ARTS FESTIVAL Prison Crowding TICKET ORDER BLANK By The Associated Press Civil rights forces advised a three-judge federal panel Tuesday that two reapportionment bills passed by the 1975 Mississippi legislature failed to cure black objections to current seating plans. Frank Parker, attorney for the black group attacking the allocation of seats in the state House and Senate, said the 1975 bills "represent little change from the 1971 and Name. Street. City tatives from Hinds. The districts are so racially gerrymandered that it will defeat the purpose of reapportionment." Parker said that under the new law the "districts remain malapportioned.
They are raciallydiscriminatory. They combine counties with black majorities with counties with white majorities to create districts with overall white majorities." The state has five days to answer the amended complaint and the court is expected to fix a hearing date later. The panel includes Appeals Court Judge J. P. Coleman and District Court Judges Dan Russell and Harold Cox.
Cox had ordered the plaintiffs to amend their suit within five days because of the new law. With the 1975 legislative races approaching, Cox advised the plaintiffs, who wanted single-member legislative districts across the state, that speed was of "extreme importance." Qualifying deadlines for the summer primary elections will be June 6, with first primaries scheduled on Aug. 5. The recent legislature passed a House reapportionment bill subdividing Hinds and Harrison Counties into districts coinciding with the supervisor beats. In Hinds, each beat will elect two representatives, and two more will be elected county-at large.
Harrison will elect one per beat and two at large. The Senate bill made no changes in current Senate seating but inserted into the law reasons supporting the plan. Federal court decisions calling for single member districts have indicated they will be necessary for areas entitled to more than five seats. Hinds is the most populous county and has five Senate seats. JACKSON BALLET GUILD- Thursday, April 24, starring Natalia Makarova and Ivan Nagy.
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Amount s. ing the court to set up single-member districts." The assessment and request came as Parker filed amendments to a pending reapportionment suit in which blacks challenge House and Senate seating plans. Parker said that revisions in the way Hinds and Harrison counties elect their House members "are not single-member 1 He said the supervisor's districts, or beats, in Hinds Saturday, April 26, starring Pearl Bailey with Louis Bell-son and Ferrante and Teicher with Jackson Symphony Orchestra. Coliseum, 8 p.m. Rainey Files $1.5 Million Suit Over Showing Of TV Movie Reserved Seat $10 Tickets.
Amount Reserved Section $5 Tickets. Amount $. Add 25: handling charge .25 GREENVILLE (AP) A federal judge and civil rights attorneys Tuesday reviewed Mississippi's plans for easing overcrowding at the Parchman prison. The plans, involving a phasing-out of substandard inmate quarters through camp consolidations, were submitted by State Atty. Gen.
A. F. Summer here Monday. A spokesman for U.S. District Judge William Ready said the proposals were under study and that a date for future hearings had not been set.
Civil rights attorneys in Jackson said they too were reviewing the state plans and indicated they would file a response later. Earlier this year, Keady heard testimony concerning overcrowding at the prison. Expert witnesses indicated a minimum of 50 square feet of living space was needed for each inmate. Keady had directed the state to submit reports on which inmate camps failed to meet the minimum requirements and on phasing out priorities for substandard units. Attorneys said the report showed that 12 of the prison's 22 camps were overcrowded, while 10 were within the space requirement.
Under the the court's living space requirement, the report indicated Parchman had room for 2,094 inmates and that there were 2,112 inmates housed at the prison as of April 10. Summer told the court that "all of the housing units are not listed" in the phase-out schedule because it was "virtually impossible to determine at this point what action the state legislature will take concerning the future prison The legislature was asked to provide funds for new construction at the prison, but Summer said that some of the requests had not been met. Summer said a bill approved by the 1975 legislature and awaiting the signature of Gov. Bill Waller would provide $1.85 million for two new housing units for 320 inmates. He said a medium-security unit for 192 inmates had been funded and that another unit for 192 inmates was requested but not funded.
"As the new housing units are completed, the population will be adjusted between the camps in accordance with modern and acceptable penological standards and procedures in order to further meet the 50square-foot- per-inmate standard," Summer said. Summer also reported on other proposals submitted to the legislature to deal with overcrowding. Inmates File Petition TOTAI Send self-addressed stamped envelope with order. Make all checks payable to Mississippi Arts Festival. Mail to: Arts Festival, Box 4354, Jackson, MS 39216.
County are racially discriminatory and if they are the basis for electing representatives, "plaintiffs will be deprived of the opportunity to elect any represen he was such a high risk, so they let him go. He has been unable to find work since then." He said the case "probably will take three months to try" and the court term does not last one month. Mclntyre said alternatives included asking for a special judge and asking for an extension of the court term. Besides GBS and the producer, Mclntyre said, the All Coliseum tickets include a pass for all fairground events. privacy.
Mclntyre said that federal courts have ruled that while the media has a duty to comment on public issues, it cannot extend these comments indefinitely. Rainey asked $500,000 in actual damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Mclntyre said Rainey had been a security guard at a Meridian grocery but was fired after the film was shown. "People kept calling the store and threatening to bomb it," Mclntyre said. "They had to let him go.
He found another security job but the insurance company refused to bond him because defendants included Capitol By The Associated Press Attorney James Mclntyre said Tuesday he had filed a $1.5 million damage suit for former Sheriff Lawrence Rainey of Neshoba County because of a television movie about three 1964 civil rights slayings. Mclntyre said he had filed the suit last month in Neshoba County Circuit Court at Philadelphia against the Columbia Broadcasting System, the producer of the film, and three Mississippi television stations which carried it. He said the suit charged that the film was not a fair representation of a 1964 civil rights case at Philadelphia, where three workers were slain. Rainey was charged with conspiracy in the case but was acquitted in 1967. The suit also charged that the movie was an invasion of COOKING SEMINAR Conducted by John Clancy Monday, April 21 9:00 a.m.
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Honeysuckle Lane Jackson, Miss. 39211 Sewing Machine Mart PASCAGOULA ST. 355-1515 Whitfield Accreditation Studied By Committee By The Associated Press The Joint Commisssion on Accreditation of Hospitals is surveying Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield to determine if it meets federal guidelines for accrediting. Dr. W.
L. Jaquith, director of the hospital, said Tuesday that the Chicago-based accrediting organization had sent in a twoman team that began Monday to check the The Mississippi Council on Human Relations said Tuesday that 40 state penitentiary inmates had petitioned for improved conditions in the prison's Maximum Security Unit. Michael Raff, director of the council, said the petition listed 21 grievances, ranging from harassment by guards to the lack of church services. facilities, staff and program. The survey is being made by Dr.
Harry Lipcon, a psychiatrist, and Jack Barthold, a hospital administrator. It is the first accreditation survey at the big mental institution since 1954, when it fell far short of meeting requirements. Jaquith said the survey was voluntary and had been requested by the State Building Commission and State Board of Mental Health. The prisoners made 13 demands and "certain and such action to bring these deplorable conditions to national attention will be taken unless our complaints are recognized and our demands met." Smart ltaiii extent rfir fir $1,500.00 ANNUALLY AT 7 AMT. CUMULATIVE YEARS CONTRIBUTED INTEREST AMOUNT 1 1,500 119.67 1.619.67 5 7,500 1,997.86 9.497.86 10 15,000 8,439.21 23.439.21 15 22,500 21,402.94 43,902.94 20 30,000 43,940.47 73,940.47 25 37,500 80.530.85 118,030.85 30 45,000 137,748.59 182,748.59 The above computations are based on the assumption that all contributions shall be invested at the full 7 Certificate of Deposit rate for the entire term indicated, interest being compounded quarterly.
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