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state / national Battalion/Page 7 February 2, 1982 Redistricting failures delay filing deadlines United Press International iwillipij/ -^AUSTIN — Aborted reclis- |;trkting attempts have cost the RIAL [ state trillions of dollars — with I three separate Filing deadlines "ipTesently set for candidates seeking congressional and state iquin Ct offices. Advanced technology and ier a ndj early planning by the Legisla- ig tosai ture have failed to prevent 198 1 i redistricting from resembling a • replay of the last reapportion- \ meat when litigation carried on for several years. Dr.Sami rlie Legislature had high hopes for early acceptance of a I . hew plan, but the political na- .7 ture of the process prevented l ' ‘ such a wish. med Pani Opposing factions cropped up within political parties from dleligir the start and black and Hispanic rsityLuii legislators began fighting I ranong themselves. .A ■ Lawsuits were filed against tu "'I each plan, sometimes only days 1 after passage. mil R n| Both Democrats and Repub- ns t)ui!p ij cans agree there should be a Ebetter way to reapportion the >n andats state, but no one is willing to take i the job away from the Legisla- at 8:/.:| ture - be discs “I would hope there is a better way to do it,” Gov. Bill Clements, said. “But anyone who thinks they are going to take it away from the Legislature has a pie- in-the-sky attitude. The Legisla ture is very jealous of its right to redistrict.” The Legislature began plan ning for redistricting more than two years ago and invested mil lions of dollars in staff hours, computer time and legal talent. Redistricting was considered throughout a legislative session, a special session and the 60-day existence of the Legislative Re districting Board. In the end, none of the Legislature’s or LRB’s plans are being used for the elections. Clements and a ruling by the state Supreme Court voided the Legislature’s First plans for the Texas House and Senate, giving the task to the redistricting board. By October, the LRB passed two new plans, but the Lf.S. Jus tice Department last week killed those proposals and passed the task of reapportionment on to a three-judge federal panel. While stating their grudging acceptance of the responsibility, the judges also said the process of redistricting should be re vised. At the very least, there should be some procedure by which negotiations could take place with the Department of Justice, thejudges said, and if necessary, agreed changes in a redistricting plan could be implemented without the necessity of costly time-consuming legislation. The judges have delayed the filing deadline for statehouse seats until March 19 while new districts are drafted. The Legislature’s plan for the state’s 27 congressional districts also was thrown out. The Justice Department rejected the con gressional plan on Friday the grounds it dilutes the voting strength of the Mexican- American community in two dis tricts. To accommodate potential candidates, a federal court in Austin earlier delayed the con gressional filing deadline until Feb. 22 for 16 of the districts. The deadline for filing in the 1 1 other districts was Monday. leedngl rtingai dent cm 19-inch snowfall puts freeze on St. Louis m 101 pus Iniv.l Ave’s lirchild jction 5 I United Press International ST. LOUIS — The heaviest snowfall in 70 years imprisoned St. Louis residents in their homes Monday, closing schools and businesses and forcing police to make emergency calls in four-wheel-drive vehicles. The 19-inch accumulation recorded Sunday w r as the heaviest 24-hour snowfall since Feb. 12, 1912. 1 Downtown St. Louis, normal- ly clogged with 100,000 work ers, was eerily silent and w hite at aawn without normal rush-hour (jraflic. Only two streets in the entire downtown were cleared ihd entrances to parking gar ages were blocked by huge snow drifts. “We’re snowed in pretty good,” policman Floyd Bolder said. “Some main routes are get ting plowed open, but the secon dary routes — there’s just no way.” Bolder said National Guards men were helping police patrol the downtown to prevent loot ing. Some occurred early Sun day, he said. Private citizens ^Volunteered four-wheeldrive vehicles to carry police emergency calls. “That’s the only way we can get around — in four-wheelers,” Bolder said. Drifts were making inter states impassable or restricted to one lane, and a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 40 was closed in west St.Louis County. Police say peo ple who ventured out into the Tuesday: LUNCH SPECIALS — FRIED CHICKEN — 2.95 HAPPY HOUR: 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.-12:00 p.m. Vour Danskin Headquarters Manor East Mall 779-6718 Something Else Hair Salon Valentine Special $ 7 00 Haircut Feb. 1-14 No appointment necessary 693-9877 404 E. University -pLJGH XW u< Jeteeu ^ ALL R\PTiE<3 AT THE- HCLQE. ■Qyc rwore. * r\L.- ccdl oafves 2 X Uqlse_ (eA < 3 'S2bb Southwest Pkwy. Warped By Scott McCullar SPREAD OUT, LOOK FOR IT. IT HAS TO BE HERE SOME WHERE, IT ALWAYS IS. (OOOHH, IT LOOKS LIKE H£'S GOING TO BE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH THE STRIP THIS WEEK-..) IT'S WOT IN HERE. WHY DOES HE DO THESE THINGS ? HERE I HE ALMOST ALWAYS HIDES IT DOWN IN THIS CORNER. Ad brings 600 responses Spouse hunt successful United Press International DALLAS —Judy Culbertson answered Harold Stern’s adver tisement for a bride last Tues day, met him for lunch Wednes day, met him again for dinner Wednesday night and accepted Stern’s marriage proposal dur ing dessert. The couple married Satur day in Las Vegas at the Candle light Wedding Chapel, which Stern, 43, selected from the Yel low Pages. “It’s been a wild week,” Stern said. “I wouldn’t have believed it in a million years. I think I’m going to write a book — that is if the phone ever stops ringing to give me time to do anything. The women keep calling and calling.” The women have been calling the dental laboratory operator: since the news media publicized an ad Stern had placed in a Dal las tabloid. The ad read: “Wife wanted — that means marriage, that also means im mediately. Wife is to be 23-35 years of age. I am 5 foot, 10 in ches, not good looking, not ugly and warm heart. And one more thing, this is no long courtship, two-three weeks, then marriage. This ad is for real.” Stern said more than 600 women from all over the United States and Canada responded. Some sent him flowers and tele grams, one woman had her mes sage delivered by a stripper and another from Pennsylvania was even prepared to throw in her Lear jet to win his hand. Harold, who kept a notebook on all the callers, picked Cul bertson who got a four-star rating. “That’s because she wasn’t sil ly,” he said. “She didn’t play around. She just sounded sweet — and serious.” zero-degree weather often were stuck, and abandoned cars com plicated plowing efforts. Bi-State buses were unable to travel — the first time in many years St. Louis had no bus ser vice — and spokesman Tom Sturgess said no buses would run today. 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