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Population Count to Touch Off
Gerrymandering Across Nation
Washington-IPD-A double-
edged political carving knife
is being whetted in 18 state
legislatures where the 1960
National census is certain to
revive the old American art
of gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering, which
means reshaping congressional
districts to benefit the state
party in power, has been de
plored but practiced in this
country since 1812. That was
when Massachusetts Gov. El
bridge Gerry whittled up Es
sex county to insure victory
for his own people there.
Hence the name, gerryman
der. This year's national popula
tion count will touch off the
biggest Gerrymandering activ
ity in U.S. political history.
Democrats and Republicans
alike have indulged in the
practice in the past and will
continue to do so.
Five States Free
The American Political Sci
ence Association which has
sought to establish standards
that would minimize the prac
tice, credits only five states
with having set up Congres
sional districts that are free
of the Gerrymandering taint.
They are Arizona, Maine,
Nebraska, New Hampshire
and Rhode Island.
Six states can't Gerryman
der because they elect only
one House member at large.
They are Delaware, Nevada,
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Every 10 years, as the cen
sus bureau completes its na
tionwide head count and pre
pares to announce the subse
quent changes in the number
of congressmen from each
state on the basis of popula
tion, politicians around the
country get ready to gerry
mander. The state-by-state allotment
of the 435 House seats, which
preliminary statistics indicate
will mean changes in at least
18 states, is based ou an ac
cepted scientific formula.
But the Bureau's impartial
distribution of political power
comes to an abrupt halt when
the state legislatures work
out the actual boundaries and
political makeup of congres
sional districts within the
state.
Two Basic Rules
The state lawmakers gen
erally follow two basic rules.
-Set up district boundaries
so that your party has a solid
majority of voters in each
district.
-If this can't be done, con
fine the majority of the other
party's voters into the small
est number of districts, thus
insuring victory for your par
ty in the remaining districts;
Gerrymandering is not pe
culiar to any region or party.
It is practiced by both Demo
crats and Republicans, in the
North as well as the South.
One of the most obvious
gerrymanders in the United
States is the district of Rep.
James Roosevelt (D-Calif.),
which was engineered by a
Republican legislature.
Republican leaders, know
ing that Roosevelt would be
hard to beat, crammed every
local Democratic voter they
could find into his unusual
claw-shaped district which
meanders through six sepa
rate towns in Los Angeles
county.
Positions of Strength
As a result, Roosevelt won
by an overwhelming majority
but the concentration of Dem
ocrats in his district elimi
nates , Democratic opposition
in a . number of other Los
Angeles County districts.
In a number of cases, the
farmer and his rural politi
cians have managed to gerry
mander themselves into posi
tions of strength in almost
every state.
For example, each Alabama
House member theoretically
should represent about 340,
000 people.
But in reality, eight rural
Alabama lawmakers have dis
tricts averaging just over
300,000 people, but the Ninth
congressman, from the indus
trial Birmingham region, rep
resents close to 600,000 peo
ple. Efforts to change the Ger
rymander practice have been
stymied.
One bill, offered by Chair
man Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)
of the House Judiciary Com
mittee, would make a two
pronged attack on Gerryman
dering. Approval Doubted
First, Celler's bill would
forbid election of any repre
sentative with a district popu
lation 20 per cent higher or
lower than the average per
district population of that
state.
Second, it would require
that all districts be reason
ably "compact and contigu
ous." But no one, not even Celler
himself, believes the legisla
tion will be approved by Con
gress in time to affect the
next general redistricting
which, under law, must be
done before the election in
November, 1962.
At best,, the stale legislators
may avoid creating what be
came known as the "Missis
sippi Shoe String District"
which once ran 500 miles long
and 40 miles wide for parti
san political advantage.
Sheriff's Officers
Arrest Talent Youth
Jackson county sheriff's of
ficers cleared the burglary
of a Talent second hand store
earlier this week with the
arrest of a 14-year-old boy of
the Talent area yesterday, it
was reported.
He has been turned over
to juvenile officers. Two guns
were taken from a rack m
the shop, but were found out
side by the door as the boy
was apparently frightened
off, officers said.
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GERRYMANDERING SEEN The redistribution of seats in
the House of Representatives because of population shifts
will touch off the greatest gerrymandering activity in U.S.
history by state legislatures. One of the most obvious gerry
manders is district of Democratic Rep. James Roosevelt, top
photo, of California, which was engineered by a GOP legis
lature. Chairman Emanuel Celler, lower photo, of the house
judiciary committee, is attempting to halt the practice with
bill requiring all districts be reasonably "compact and
contiguous," among other provisions. . (UPI Telephoto)
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Los Angeles-IUPII-A touch of
international intrigue . . . .
Young love which hurdled
obstacles that have confound
ed nations . . . worldwide suc
cess in athletics . . . These
are the ingredients that make
up the remarkable story of
Hal and Olga Connolly, hus-
band-and-wife members of the
U.S. Olympic team.
Fade back to November of
1956. The scene is the Olym
pic Village at Melbourne,
Australia. A' husky American
hammer-thrower w a tc h e s
idly as a blonde Czech girl,
built along symetrical but
Amazonian lines, tosses a dis
cus on the practice field. They
get to talking. She knows
a little English. They are
both avid adherents of strict
physical training methods. He
learns she is a medical stu
dent at home in Prague. She
learns he is from Boston and
a school teacher.
Love blooms into a kind of
athletic ecstasy when Harold
Connolly strides to the vic
tory stand at Melbourne and
receives a gold medal for
winning the hammer throw.
And when Olga Fikotova re
ceives a gold medal for win
ning the women's discus
throw.
Iron Curtain Broken
Love blooms but an Iron
Curtain descends between the
couple as Olga goes home to
her Communist - dominated
land and Hal goes back to
the United States.
Weeks go by while embassy
officials from both countries
go into secret huddles. There
seems to be no progress in
Connolly's effort to get a visa
for a trip to Czechoslovakia.
Then suddenly one day it
comes through and he's off
to Prague and a wedding
which' makes the pair inter
national heroes.
So it's back to the United
States for the happy young
couple as they shed the en
tanglement of yards of inter
national red tape.
But their story does not
end on a clinch-type "they
lived happily ever after"
note.
They settle in the Los An
geles area and continue their
athletic training-to a point.
Olga must take time out for
another chapter in their story.
On May 1, 1959, she gives
birth to a sturdy little ath
lete who is called Mark.
Then she goes back into
training. And back into the
rigorous routine of premed
ical studies and work as a
laboratory technician at the
University of California at
Los Angeles.
Papa Hal is working as an
English teacher at John Ad
ams Junior High school in
Santa Monica.
Both on U.S. Team
But every afternoon, for
two hours the stalwart young
couple could be seen in an
undeveloped area of the
UCLA campus practicing with
the hammer and the discus.
They compare notes on their
physical condition and on
their throwing form. They
have a goal in view-the
Olympic games in Rome in
1960.
Two weeks after Hal made
the Olympic team with his
throw of 212 feet, 3V4 inches,
July 1, Olga had her chance
at Abilene, Tex. In the pre
liminaries, she trailed below
the minimum Olympic stand
ard of 157-6. But the next
night in the finals she un
corked a toss of better than
170 feet, short of her Olym
pic record of 176-1 Vi. Earlene
Brown, Los Angeles, won the
trials with a toss of 176-10V&,
so Olga found herself in sec
ond place just like her husband.
SOUND SLEEPER
Menlo Park, Calif. - (UPO -
A driverless garbage truck
rolled down a slight incline
Wednesday, smashed into the
bedroom of 9-year-old Victor
Greenspan and showered the
youngster with plaster. Victor
slept through the incident.
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. 5.00
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