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March 26, 1982
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Redistricting plans
explained to court
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United Press International
DALLAS — The U.S. Sup
reme Court, which is consider
ing an appeal by a Texas Repub
lican group, is getting the full
explanation of why a three-
judge federal panel imposed
certain House and Senate redis
tricting lines.
The panel issued a 73-page
opinion and 25 pages of foot
notes Wednesday explaining its
March 5 imposition of tempor
ary redistricting plans for the
May 1 primary and all elections
until Dec. 31,1983, “unless valid
reapportionment plans are
sooner acted.”
The high court had received
the panel’s summary opinion
earlier, but has given no indica
tion when it will rule on the
appeal by the Associated Repub
licans of Texas, a non-profit,
Austin-based fund-raising
group, to block the panel’s deci
sion.
ART is opposing the decision
to institute the basic plans drawn
up by the Legislative Redistrict
ing Board.
The panel was hearing a chal
lenge to the LRB plans when the
Justice Department threw them
out on grounds they did not
accurately reflect minority vot
ing strengths.
The judges, in imposing the
temporary boundaries, said they
felt the importance of holding
the May 1 primary on time su
perseded Justice Department
objections.
ART financed the original
challenge to the LRB plans on
grounds they discriminated
against Republicans, minorities
and urban residents. The panel
has made no ruling yet on the
merits of the case.
The LRB was forced to draw
up the plans after Gov. Bill Cle
ments vetoed the Senate plan
passed by the Legislature and an
Austin judge ruled the Legisla
ture’s House plan was unconsti
tutional.
A three-judge panel in Austin
was forced to redraw Texas con
gressional lines after the Justice
Department also declared the
state’s plan unconstitutional.
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To return or not to return:
the $3.4 million question
Chris Fields, a freshman business major from Houston,
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udget cuts force station closings
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Federal
budget cuts are forcing the clo-
: of more than a dozen Coast
^uard stations in five states, in
cluding offices that register
irge recreational and commer
cial vessels, officials say.
Coast Guard Senior Chief
i Kosch said 13 Vessel
Jocumentation Offices and
jome recruiting offices will be
posed and aides to navigation
leams at Apalachicola, Fla., and
Dulac, La., will be reassigned to
bther operations.
“They are planning on clos-
ng them,” Kosch said. “We
lon’t have a schedule for the
Pate of closure.”
The Vessel Documentation
pffices primarily deal with the
Registration of commercial ves-
els, but also register some large
Recreational vessels. A lack of
lunds was responsible for the
shutdowns, he said.
If the documentation offices
tlose, Kosch said the paperwork
[hat has been administered at
Rhose offices would be shifted to
Marine Inspection Office in
sew Orleans.
The closure could be an in
convenience to the shipping in-
iustry, Kosch said, especially
Shipbuilders along the
Louisiana coast who would have
ko travel to New Orleans to regis-
Rer their vessels.
“Some of the people that will
be involved or their companies,
from what we’ve heard, will con
sider it at least a nuisance,” he
said.
“They’ve been exploring ways
of streamlining the process so
more of it can be done by mail
Some of it requires a personal
appearance now and some by
delivery as opposed to mail so
they can be certified.”
The U.S. House of Represen
tatives is considering a sup
plemental appropriation to pro
vide $48 million needed by the
Coast Guard for operations this
year.
About $1.5 million has been
earmarked to continue opera
tion of the Vessel Traffic Sys
tems in New Orleans, New York
and San Francisco. The VTS in
New Orleans, which monitored
ship traffic and warned of im
pending collisions on the Missis
sippi River, was terminated last
week.
“The funding that the House
has been discussing ... is a sup
plemental appropriation not
neccessarily directed at a parti
cular unit,” Kosch said. “I don’t
know right now where the
money will go.”
Approximately 100 workers
displaced in the shutdowns will
be transferred to other units.
Texas documentation offices
scheduled to close are in Brown
sville, Galveston, Corpus
Christi, Houston and Port
Arthur. Other offices scheduled
to close are in Baton Rouge, La.;
Biloxi, Miss.; Morgan City, La.;
Mobile, Ala.; Pensacola, Fla.;
Apalachicola; and Lake Charles,
La.
United Press International
DALLAS — Vicki Pannell —
and a bank teller’s negligence —
parlayed a $23.80 phone bill
into a $3.4 million dollar for
tune. But, honesty finally trium
phed and Pannell’s living on an
executive secretary’s salary once
again.
This week, Pannell bought a
small money order from First
National Bank to pay a tele
phone bill she left when she
moved from Indiana five weeks
ago.
When she got home and took
a second look, she held a negoti
able instrument for
$3,400,023.80.
However, there was a draw
back: the money order was in
scribed “Not valid for over
$500.”
So, the next day, Pannell took
the money back to the bank.
“They didn’t make a big deal
of it,” she said. “It seemed like a
normal, everyday thing that
they go through.”
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