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Today: dT High: Ml 1 Low: iJftN0lr if SL Joseph irjw (PJDW rwnriimwfmm Vanguard flight, with 70 unable to land at KCI because of fog By JESS DtHAVEN News-Press Staff Writer Bad weather in Kansas City forced a commercial jetliner to land Friday afternoon at Rosecrans Memorial Airport in St. Joseph. The Vanguard Airlines Boeing 737, carrying 70 passengers, was scheduled to land at Kansas City International Airport but was diverted to St. Joseph after receiving word of fog in Kansas City, said John Cox, Rosecrans manager. The jet landed about 4:30 p.m., and the passengers took a shuttle bus to Kansas City, he said.

Vanguard Flight, 221 left Denver about 8:30 a.m. and landed in Salina, to wait for weather conditions to improve, an airline spokesman in Denver said. Salina is 177 miles west of Kansas City. But after the flight resumed, weather conditions continued to prove unfavorable for landing in Kansas City. The jet circled KCI in a holding pattern before landing at Rosecrans, Cox said.

Passengers were taken from St. Joseph to about 7:30 p.m., according to a Vanguard Please see JetPage SA Thl Boeing 737 was diverted to Rosecrans Memorial Airport because weather was I IT I w40' 1 HISH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Benton girls 84 Maryville 2S Central 57 Park Hill 52 Lafayette boys 76 Smitnville 49 Lafayette girls 42 Platte County 29 LeBlond boys 52 Lathrop ..35 Notre Dame 48 LeBlond girls 33 Suspect is held in fatal shooting Officials had a suspect in custody after the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old St. Joseph man Friday evening in front of a residence at 4510 Maxwell Road. The shooting occurred just before 7 p.m., and the suspect turned himself into Andrew County officials a short time later, said Mickey Gill, Buchanan County sheriff. The man, an Amazonia, resident, was transported back to Buchanan County and taken to the Law Enforcement Center.

The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, was transported by ambulance to Heartland Hospital East, where he later was pronounced dead, Gill said. The victim was shot once, but Gill declined to say what type of gun was involved in the shooting. The Sheriffs Department has submitted a case to the Buchanan County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and charges could be filed this morning, Gill said. Nw-Pre report Bill on mandates passes WASHINGTON Proclaiming the return of power to the people, the Senate on Friday passed a Dill curbing the congressional propensity to create new programs and make states pay for them. The "unfunded mandates" bill a cornerstone of the Republican "Contract With America" agenda won approval on a bipartisan 86-10 vote despite some Democrats' concerns that health, safety and environmental programs could suffer.

The House expects to vote on its version of the bill next week. Exhibit reduction planned WASHINGTON The Smithsonian plans to drastically scale down an exhibit on the atomic bombing of Japan, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday. He welcomed the development, saying the Smithsonian should not be "a plaything for left-wing ideologies." Gingrich said that a conversation with Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman gave him the impression 'that a much more limited exhibit is going to be there and that it's going to be one which every American, and frankly, every citizen of the planet, can be proud of." The exhibit, scheduled to open in May, has come under criticism from veterans groups and members of Congress, who said it made Americans look like racists and the aggressors in the Pacific war. Cable law Is ruled illegal WASHINGTON The telephone industry cleared a hurdle to providing cable services Friday, when a federal court in Washington declared unconstitutional a law that keeps them out of the cable business.

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that a provision in a 1984 cable law that bars telephone companies from owning and programming cable systems inside their territories is a restriction on free speech. From AP report (i I Gifr' 4 HERE TO PUMP YOU UP Maurice Young-man, left, and Ed Bacon both worked at this gas station in the 1930s when it was a very popular stop along U.S. Highway 71 on the southern edge of Maryville. During its period of operation, the two-story station had four pumps around it, complete with attendants who even washed windshields.

But the construction of Interstate 29 and 35 reduced traffic on U.S. 71, and the station eventually went out of business M')w, it is on drlay at the King City Museum. fey TIMOTHY 4. JONEt Stall photo by EfttC WELCH bad in Kansas City. rwtt 11)' ffsl'fw 'T- two-story structure with the four pumps around it was an immediate hit, as well as one of the busiest places in town.

It was the talk of the town and the conversation piece of every tourist who bought gas there. Ed Bacon of King City worked for Limpp in those days. He remembers that the Big Pump had four bays, and attendants not only pumped gas but Please see BigPage 6A 2316 N. Belt Highway, and about 20 in the group dined at a banquet that evening at the St. Joseph Holiday Inn, 102 Third St.

The Deli had served chicken casserole. The Holiday Inn had served chicken, rice and ice cream. A laboratory analysis of the food samples, released Monday, did not find salmonella. Smith said that is not unusual or conclusive. It is possible that all of the contaminated food had been consumed by the time lab samples were taken, or that the sample was taken from a part of the batch that was not contaminated.

Smith said she does not think the em KCI by bus, arriving DSSOdQITD EkOG1 SIS piTDSOITQ Facility near Maryville would have 525 beds By MIKE JONES News-Press Staff Writer MARYVILLE, Mo. A whopping increase in state prisoners has put the old Mount Alverno Convent next in line for conversion into a mediunvminimum-security prison, the state's top corrections official said Friday. Corrections Director Dora Schriro said developments have put the proposal on a "fast track." It anticipates 52S beds and will create 165 staff jobs, she said. Two meetings are scheduled in Maryville next week to address the issue. Schriro said that with the exception of the St.

Joseph State Hospital, Mount Alverno has emerged as the top spot in the state for such a facility. It could be in operation within the year, she said. The St. Joseph facility, which already houses up to 200 prisoners, is scheduled to be converted into a prison and diagnostic center, to be in full operation by Jan. 1, 1998.

If Mount Alverno becomes a correctional facility, Northwest Missouri will have prisons at Cameron, Chillicothe, Maryville and St. Joseph. There is also a private juvenile rehabilitation center In Tarkio. Umxpicttd growth ii prismrs "We need Alverno in addition to St. Joe," Schriro said, noting the unexpected growth in prisoners and other inmate housing problems caused by the 1993 flood, which devastated Renz Correctional Center, a women's prison in Jefferson City.

About the only thing that could slake the Corrections Department's interest in the Mount Alverno site, she said, would be a heavily negative community reaction to the proposal. "It's a terrific spot," Schriro said. "It's well suited to our immediate housing needs. I believe we can make a positive difference." Schriro said recent calculations of Uje state's prison population had shown thaC over the last year, prisoner growth had gone from 1.44 prisoners per day to 51 an increase of 265 percent. Accordingly, Schriro said, she is pre paring for presentation to the Missouri General Assembly next week a $6.9 million proposal for conversion of the old Please see PrisonPug aft Yfce S)aSi ployee at The Deli was a carrier of the salmonella bacteria; rather, that she ate the same infected food as the Westreco employees.

The Deli employee showed signs of food poisoning at the same time as the Westreco employees. The city health department ordered her removal from the restaurant until lab tests show she is free of salmonella. The Deli's three other food handlers also are being tested for salmonella. "I feel very comfortable saying this was an isolated incident," Smith said. Recent city health inspections of The Deli and Holiday Inn showed no significant problems.

Big Pump, area landmark, comes 'home' to King City By ALLEN SEIFERT News-Press Staff Writer KING CITY, Mo. The Big Pump has finally come home. The gigantic wooden gas pump, constructed at the request of Rufus Limpp, the King City entrepreneur and business wizard, is now a permanent part of the King City museum grounds. Seeing ft, with old-style pumps in front, stirs memories of early automo Salmonella Bifcely ooicjiiroatted! bile travel, when gasoline of the highest quality sold for 11 cents a gallon and U.S. Highway 71 was the main north-south highway in this area.

The idea of a towering pump probably occurred to Limpp the first time he saw the Wayne electric pump, which was the absolute cutting edge of technology in the early 1930s. Limpp commissioned Charles Foster to build it. By 1937, it had been installed at Limpp's station on the extreme southern edge of Maryville. The what happened. He said foods always were stored and cooked at proper temperatures, and that The Deli also passed health inspections without a hitch.

"We've been doing this for 16 or 17 years," he said. "We're very careful and particular about what we da" Asked if he expects the latest development will affect his business, Rosenthal said: "It already very much so. We're just not getting the business we used to." More than 30 people complained of being sick after a group of 50 Westreco Inc. employees dined together at a business meeting Jan. 10 in St.

Joseph. The 50 ate a lunch catered by The Deli, INSIDE TODAY Drainage problems to cost $1.2 million Metro11 By CHERYL W1TTENAUER News-Press Staff Writer A food handler at The DeliJourmet Food Wine restaurant in St Joseph has tested positive for salmonella, suggesting the eatery was the source of a recent food-borne outbreak. The case brings to 10 the number of salmonella cases confirmed since the St. Joseph outbreak began in mid-January. "We would assume, unfortunately, that it originated at The Deli," city Health Director Vicki Smith said Friday.

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