District Court, W.D. Missouri October 7, 1981, Nos. 81-0510-CV-W-1 and 81-4161-CV-C-0 (Joseph v. Bond)

MEMORANDUM OPINION, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDERS DIRECTING THE ENTRY OF JUDGMENT

JOHN . W. OLIVER, Senior District Judge.

I.

This consolidated case involves but one of the many forms of the general practice of political patronage. The various forms of that general practice, as the Supreme Court noted in Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 at 353, 96 S.Ct. 2673 at 2679, 49 L.Ed.