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TelevisionSC Comics7C WEDNESDAY nim JULY 17, 1991 LOCAL NEWSSTATE NEWSDAILY RECORDS MESSENGER-INQUIRER 1C El Records2C mm Scott income down 59 taken on the project, Scott spokesman Rullie Harris said. Plans for the Daviess County project will come up for review again at the September meeting or thereafter, Harris said. Second-quarter earnings per share for Scott stockholders were 41 cents, compared with $1.01 in 1990, the company reported Tuesday. Net income was $30.5 million, compared with $74.6 million a year ago. Income from operations for the second quarter declined 30 percent, from $131.4 million to $91.5 million in 1991.

Dollar sales decreased from $1.3 billion in 1990 to $1.2 billion in the second three months of 1991. The decreases were attributed to higher in By Stewart Jennlson Messenger-Inquirer Scott Paper Co. reported Tuesday that its second-quarter 1991 earnings per share and net income both fell 59 percent from the previous year's results. The report was similar to one given three months ago: Earnings from the personal care and cleaning business were improved, but offset by lower earnings in Scott's S.D. Warren printing and publishing segment Scott's board of directors also met Tuesday and heard a formal presentation on plans for a proposed $500 million tissue-making plant near Newman.

No decisions were made and no action was pany spokesman Mike Kilpatric. The new entry is priced between the lower-priced Scott Tissue and its premium Cottonelle brand. Philip E. Lippincott, Scott's chairman and chief executive officer, said in a prepared statement: "I am pleased with the performance of Scott Worldwide's personal care and cleaning business in the first six months. "We also are making progress in implementing our business improvement program, particularly in lowering working capital and debt, reducing costs and achieving the target levels for capital investments.

"Once the economy strengthens and our key markets respond, I believe we are well-positioned to see strong improvements in our results," the Scott CEO said. terest expenses and a continued soft demand for the company's glossy printing papers an industrywide downturn attributed to the hurting nationwide economy. But dollar sales and unit volume for the U.S. tissue portion of Scott Worldwide's personal care and cleaning business both rose 5 percent to a record for a second quarter. However, income from those operations decreased 6 percent While the U.S.

tissue business continued to improve in the manufacturing area, its overall performance was diminished by a highly competitive market and spending to promote new products, the company said. 1 Scott has been testing a new Scott Tissue Supreme in several markets, according to com REGIONAL ROUNDUP From staff and AP reports Salesman thrown from hotel balcony A Dallas salesman staying at Owensboro's Holiday Inn was in satisfactory condition at Owensboro-Daviess County Hospital Tuesday after a would-be robber threw him from a hotel balcony. Lewis David Nash II, 27, was coming back from the hotel's lounge to his room about 1:45 a.m. Tuesday when a man began chasing him, the Owensboro Police report said. The assailant caught Nash and demanded his money, but without taking any, he threw Nash from the second floor balcony, the police report said.

A hotel security guard found Nash in a first-floor flowerbed, the report said. No one has been arrested. Humana co-founder dies at 55 Associated Press LOUISVILLE Wendell Cherry, vice chairman and co-founder of Humana died Tuesday of cancer. He was 55. Cherry founded mana in IS and served as the company's president for 30 years.

He and business partner David A. Jones, Human-a's other co- 'League needs vintage cars If you own a car, truck or taxi built in the 1930s, Columbia Pictures wants to talk to you. The movie studio needs more vintage cars for "A League of Their Own," a World War II-era movie being filmed in the Evansville area starting next month. And the production company is offering $200 a day for the use of four-door Plymouths, Dodges and Chevrolets. People with such cars can send a photo of the vehicle along with their name, address and phone number to Transportation Department, Box 1373, Evansville, Ind.

47706. Or call Richard Padgett at (812) 426-6232. Wendell Cherry founder, trans' formed Humana from a single nursing home in Louisville into one of the A Bob Brock, Messenger-Inquirer P.H. Smith, who turns 84 next month, stands beside his 1 940 Luscombe McLean County home two years ago. He plans to trade the plane in on a 8-A two-seater, damaged when he brushed a cornfield across from his new one in time to fly for his birthday.

McLean pilot ready to fly again With new plane, P.H. Smith plans to celebrate 84th birthday in the air nation largest hospital chains. Humana owns and operates 82 hospitals and provides coverage for the 1.6 million members of its health benefit plans. Humana is the only chain that includes a health-insurance division. Cherry underwent surgery to remove brain tumors after he was diagnosed to have lung cancer in February 1990.

He was president and chief operating officer of Humana until March 7, when he was succeeded by Carl F. Pollard. Cherry was named vice chairman. Besides becoming a self-made millionaire, Cherry also developed a reputation as a serious art collector. Art-news magazine in recent years had ranked him among the world's top 200 collectors.

In 1989 he sold "Yo a self-portrait of the artist for $47.85 million the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at that time. Cherry also spearheaded a fund-raising drive that led to the building of the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville. He served as chairman of the center's board of directors from 1980 to 1987. Cherry also was co-owner and president of the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association. He also served as the association's president He was also the attorney for a group of Louisvillians who sponsored Cassius Clay, the Louisville native See CHERRY3C OMU changing phone system Owensboro Municipal Utilities will begin operation of a new telephone system at 5 p.m.

Friday. The new system enables calls From a touch phone to be handled by an automated attendant If the caller knows the extension number of the person being called the number may be entered and the call will be forwarded. If the caller does not know the extention or is jising a rotary-dial phone, an operator will assist Under the new system, eight Incoming calls can be answered at one time which allows customers to be served faster and more efficiently. In order to cause the least inconvenience for customers, the change will be made after business hours Friday. right I had my mind on the sun and I forgot about the corn.

Just when I got down the left wing began to hit the corn." The wing sliced off the tops of the corn stalks, but the weight of the stalks pulled the little red and white Luscombe down. One wingtip hit the ground and the plane cartwheeled into the field. Smith wasn't hurt, but the plane's wings were damaged. Since that day, the Luscombe has sat in Smith's barn. The dust is now thick on the windshield and birds have built a nest under the engine cowling.

Smith has blocks under the tires, raising the plane just high enough so that he See PILOT3C loved 1940 Luscombe 8-A two-seater. Blame it on the corn. Smith recalled the flight Tuesday while sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of his house in northern McLean County. Across the road from the house is a mowed landing strip, impressive with its concrete columns, metal roof and massive shade trees, which Smith likes to call Guffie International. At one end of the strip is a cornfield.

"It was summer before last," Smith said with a laugh. "The corn kept growing up on me and the wingtips were going over it I was coming in one day and the sun was terrible, you couldn't hardly see land. I made a pass around to see where that sun position was and it looked all By Steve Vied Messenger-Inquirer GUFFIE Next month P.H. Smith will turn 84. But he's not planning a quiet celebration.

"I'd like to fly again on my birthday," he said. Fly again? Smith and his wife live in the house his father built in 1913. Her first name is Hugh, but that's another story. P.H. Smith likes to tinker with old tractors.

He even operates his own sawmill, powered by a decades-old John Deere. But what really separates him from most people is his love of flying. The lively Smith has been a pilot since 1950. He still considers himself a pilot, even though his last flight two years ago damaged his be Despite fall, show will go on for 'Camelot' performer Bonds to help finance projects at Owensboro museum, library KET selects new director LEXINGTON Virginia Gaines Fox has been selected as the new executive director for Kentucky Educational Television. Fox, 52, a Campbellsville native, will take the position held by 0.

Leonard Press, who will retire next year after 28 years. In 1968 Press hired Fox, who was then a teacher, and promoted her until she became deputy executive director in 1975. Later he encouraged her to gain national experience, and in 1980 she accepted the job of president of the Southern Educational Communications Association, the nation's largest public television and radio association. Fox returned to KET in 1988 as executive vice president of the KET Foundation. In announcing Fox's promotion on Monday, Press said the KET Authority, the network's governing body, "could not have picked a more qualified person in the entire country" for the job.

Fox holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Morehead State University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Kentucky. She has served on numerous national committees involving public television. ton said. "They depend on me for a couple of songs. There's no way they're going to get rid of me." The accident happened during the production's first dress rehearsal.

The cast was preparing for the coronation scene. "I'm one of the first ones out when the curtain opens," Wigginton said. "I tripped over a step or something. Someone caught me, but my head still hit a step to a platform. They told me I was out three or four minutes." Wigginton, a 1991 graduate of Daviess County High School, said she remembers waking up and seeing the faces of people calling her name.

"I knew I had fallen," she said. "I had a bad headache. They had already called 91L" Wigginton, who had knee surgery following an auto accident in March, said she plans to take it easy for the next few days in the hopes she will be better by Friday. "Camelot" director Rosemary Ahmad said TWO is trying to make the backstage area safer following Wigginton's faiL puter work stations for the public. Patrons should be able to see the computerization difference a year from now, Neudecker said.

Checking out a book will be computerized, and library workers will immediately be able to find out who has the book, when it's due back and how many other copies there are, Neudecker said. Eventually the card catalog method will be replaced with computers to help readers find the book they want Neudecker said. The library is well into the first phase and the $300,000 will allow it to buy the needed computer hardware, Neudecker said. The library expects to pay off the bonds in 10 years, he said. The museum will use the $1 million for a religious wing behind the museum to house its collection of stained-glass windows, said Dean Stanley, chairman of the museum's building committee.

The 18 windows donated by the Catholic Diocese of Owensboro were crafted prior to 1912, and were formerly in the St Joseph Catholic Church. Stanley said construction of that wing will begin next spring. It was originally planned for this year, but the opportunity to get the $1 million at a low interest rate allowed the building committee to slow down and get other things in order, Stanley said. The three-stage museum expansion will cost more than $3 million. By Steve Vied Messenger-Inquirer Lady Anne may have a splitting headache, but she plans on staying until the final curtain call Friday for opening night of "Camelot" Lesley Wigginton will portray Lady Anne in the Theatre Workshop of Owensboro musical that will be staged in the auditorium of Owensboro High School.

But Sunday night no one knew whether Wigginton would be able to perform following a backstage accident While hurrying to the stage Wigginton tripped and fell. Her forehead struck a prop and she was knocked unconscious for several minutes. She was taken to a local emergency room by ambulance, where she was checked and later released. The bruise on Wigginton's forehead was gone Tuesday, but she still had a headache. But in the Broadway tradition of the show must go on, Wigginton returned to rehearsals Monday night By Friday night, she plans to be back in full form.

"It's important to me and I don't want to let anybody down," Wiggin By Dan Heckel Messenger-Inquirer Money is on the way to help the Owensboro-Daviess County Public Library and the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art get on with their biggest projects. The Owensboro City Commission heard first reading of an ordinance Tuesday that would secure more than $1.3 million in bonds through the Kentucky Municipal League pooled lease financing program for the two agencies. The program offers low-interest bonds for community projects and is also being used for the RiverPark Center. The museum will receive $1 million for the first phase of its expansion, while the library will receive $300,000 for its goal of computerizing the card catalog system and checkout process. Another $75,000 is needed for debt reserve and bond fees, said Ralph Rascoe, city finance director.

The city is not responsible for paying off the bonds, but because neither the library nor the museum can borrow money by law, the city is issuing the bonds. Final approval is expected at the Aug. 6 City Commission meeting. Tom Neudecker, treasurer of the library board, said the $300,000 will go toward the library's three-year program to computerize the 120,000 titles in stock, go on-line with other libraries and provide com.