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i 9 Inquiry Into rio I I sca If i WMliy- Tli'lfillhft-illllTliMiir, fill' laMffit Milf ll.i. Missouri legislators suggest incentives i 1 These bills are not an answer, but they will show our tots est," Johnson said. The carrot local legislators wish to dangle are economic subsidies that would encourage a soy diesel plant in Missouri Included in the package: $250,000 from the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council. $150,090 in general revenue money from the state and $100,000 from a petroleum overpayment fund. From that package, producers of soy diesel would be eligible for a subsidy credit of up to 10 cents a gallon, for a maximum of up to 5 million gallons.

"It's a sweetener to try and bring a plant to Missouri," said Rep. Phil Tate, D-Gailatin. who has sponsored the legislation in the House. "There is interest in putting a plant in the Midwest" The only other soy diesel plants in the country are on the East and West coasts. In the Midwest St Joseph would be considered one of the logical sites for a plant producing soy diesel, in large part because Ag Processing on the city's South Side, already is crushing soybeans into soy oiL That soy oil could be used in the production of soy diesel fuel.

Please see StatePage SA I III i r. DILLEY Texas State prison oSkMs began instigating a huge inmstB riot Ttiesday that law officers quelled with tsar gas and batons. Seven inmates were taken to hospitals after the melee between black and Hispanic inmates m.ptd Monday night in a recreation yard at the fJolph Briscoe prison about 90 miles from San Antonio. From Xi to 500 inmates were involved. They broke up concrete storm dradm that run undenmth the sidewalks, Slid the used them on each other as well as on the buildings causing some damage as well as a number of broken windows." said corrections spokesman David Nun-netee.

Authorities were trying Tuesday to learn what caused the outburst Damage was estimated at more than $100,000. ftsmisfts msks surprfsa PHOENIX Russian arms experts arrived Tuesday for a surprise inspection of rocket motors taken from decommissioned nuclear missiles. It was the 10-memher team's second such visit to this country under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. "For the hosting party, it is always going to be a surpr said Gen. Viacheslav Romanov, the Russian who heads the team.

That's to minimize the possibility of cheating, he said. Accompanied by a team of 10 teach out By SEAN P. JOHNSON Nw-PrM Capitel Corrpondnt JEFFERSON CITY President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it priming the pump. Faced with a nation in collapse, he said the government had to inject money into the economy to get it moving again, much like water sometimes has to be poured down a dry well before it will pump water.

Lawmakers from Northwest Missouri are doing a little economic pump pruning. And the pump they are looking to tap for jobs and investment is an alternative fuel: soy tL-esel Legislation that would provide $500,000 in economic incentives for the development of such a plant in Missouri has been introduced in both the House and Senate. "It's kind of a carrot-and-stick project," said Sen. Sidney Johnson, D-Agsncy, who has co sponsored legislation with Sen. Sam Graves, R-Tarkio.

The measure awaits debate. By HOLLY NEUMAN Nenrs-Ptess Sun Writer Another piece of the Northwest Missouri Community College puzzle is in place, officials said Tuesday. Vatterott College will be involved with teaching out 46 students at the private community college, 4315 Pickett Road. 'They're going to operate the cosmetology Jim McCarthy said of Vatterott, a private career college. They'll be involved with the teachout with that particular program." Vatterott officials announced early last week that they would oversee the remainder of the semester for the cosmetology students.

That arrangement was negotiated by Vatterott officials and members of Northwest CCs Board of Trustees. But late last week, Missouri Western State College became involved with the SI IS IB tween 25 and 30 cents," the industry group said. "Cereal prices in real terms have risen less than the rate of inflation between 1 and 2 percent annually. Consumers are actually paying less for many of the top brands." The industry also said the Federal Trade Commission spent 10 years looking at competition in the cereal industry and in 1982 found no evidence of anticompetitive practices. In fact, the Grocery Manufacturers said, the market 'is so competitive that more than 60 new cereals have been introduced in the past five years." Gina Talamona.

a Justice Department spokeswoman, said Attorney General sntnfntso! Vatsfot wiff i I 1: community college, and its officials said Vatterott College would need to renegotiate the cosmetology teachout with them. McCarthy. Western's executive vice president is overseeing Northwest CC operations until the end of the semester. Gov. Mel Carnahan released $350,000 in Western's reserve funds to make sure students at the private community college could finish the semester with credit for their current courses.

Western will use the money to pay Northwest CC's faculty salaries and to pay monthly rent on the community college's building. Money also will be used to pay utilities and other business expenses. McCarthy is receiving no additional pay for the duties he has assumed at Northwest CC. Because of a financial crisis at the Please see ValteroQPage SA rs Janet Reno was willing to consider any information submitted by the lawmakers. General Mills said in a statement that the company hasnt increased the price of a single cereal in more than two years and has lowered tha cost of nearly half its entire cereal line.

Joe Rutledge, spokesman for General Mills, said that since December 1933. the company has lowered the price it charges retailers for many popular cereals by 30 cents to 50 cents a box. The reductions were applied to Cheerios, Wheaties. Total, Trix and Lucky Charms, he said. Ptease see CerealPage SA Tima mscliins iiwmsiic iai3 tjmM Americans, the team was to count the stored motors, to verify U.S.-supplied information.

Army suspends instructors FORT EENNING, G. Three instructors and two officers were suspended Tuesday, as the Army crmttausd to investigate the (kssths cS tonr soldiers during a Ranger training exercise. The soar died of exposure test month in the swamps of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla, after spending to eight hours in chest-deep, 52-degree water during the last phase of the grueling training. Gliiooty granted rme nzma PORTLAND, Ore. Mayor Jeff Stone of Temecula, didnt like it Neither did the Jeff Stone who works for NASA's Mission Control.

Even the guy who played Jeff Stone ort TV's "Donna Reed Sho-" showed up Tuesday to fight Jeff Gil-looly's attempt to change his name to Jeff Stone. In tne end, though, after a 10-minute hearing, District Judge Dale Koch decided the ex-husband of figure skater Tonya Harding can become Jeff Stone. "Another sorry saga in the history of American jurisprudence," said Paul Petersen, who played Donna Reed's son, Jeff Stone, on the TV series that ran from 1353 to 1966 and remains in syndication. "We have lost our common sense, I feel for the country." Cop out of uRSbnm out fob NEW YORK She got fired for wearing her badge and little else. New York City Police Officer Carol Shaya, 25, who raised eyebrows with a nude layout in the August 1994 issue of Playboy, was fired Tuesday by Police Commissioner William Bratton, who called her an embarrassment It wasat the naked pictures that ended Shaya's three-year career as a Bronx beat cop, Bratton said.

It was the photographs, including a cover shot, showing Shaya in her NYPD blues a violation of rules barring cops from using the job to make money. Shaya, married to a New York City police sergeant, was paid $103,0 for her appearance. Fran MP iporti INSIDE TODAY Concealed-gun bill moves ahead Schumer and fellow Democrat Sam Gejdenson of Connecticut asked the Justice Department to undertake an antitrust investigation, to see if major cereal makers were conspiring to keep prices high, Kellogg's, General Mills, Post and Quaker Oats control 85 percent of cereal sales, they said, and take too much profit They said 55 percent of the price of cereal goes to advertising and profits. While the lawmakers point critically to the overall prices of boxes of cereal, the Grocery Manufacturers of America emphasized the price another way. "Today, the average bowl of ready-to-eat cereal including milk costs be no BmSy West, 5.

slides off her sled Tuesday morning at Hyde Park. Emily was with her brother William and father, Norman, all of St Joseph, hitting the slopes. The- March snow canceled school In ft city, allowing children to get out and enjoy the white stuff. Shadow Evans, 11, took a snowball to the face Tuesday while playing with friends near 12th and Corby streets. Related story, Metro1 WASHINGTON Two congressmen produced a breakfast shopping list Tuesday and called it a rude $4.49 for a box of Raisin Bran, $4.69 for Frosted Flakes, $4.25 for Rice Krispies and $3.59 for Cheerios.

"Every once in a while, there is an issue that just gets your goat a pet peeve that you wish you could do something' about," said Rep. Charles E. Schumer, a New Yorker who does the grocery shopping for his household. Generic brands are much cheaper, Schumer said, although it often is difficult to locate them on the store shelves. roo New lows recorded against yen, mark NEW YORK The dollar contin-ued to plummet Tuesday, hitting new lows against the Japanese yen and German mark.

Clinton administration officials did not intervene in foreign exchange markets to try and bolster itsvalue. In late New York trading Tuesday, it took 90.05 yen to buy a dollar, down sharply from 92.83 on Monday a percent loss. At one point Tuesday, the dollar dropped to a new low of 83.05 yen. And it took 1.3702 marks to buy a dollar, down from 1.4013 Monday The dollar opened at 90.73 yen em tha Tokyo foreign exchange market at 9 a.m. today (S pl CST Tuesday), down 1.S0 yen from its level of S2.63 y1" 5 j5i.

Tsssdsy (uiid The arcane business of global currency trading may seem ir- Please see JrfPa SA XewMi pnco ifwentor Siopas -Nw-PrssS(aft writer ALBANY, Mo. Time-machine aficionado Michael E. Marcum says he sees an infinitely practical use for his experimentation. The 21-year-old Ohio rative wants to travel a few days into the future to see lattery results, cos to pick winning nsiimbafs, ha ss i Before that happens, Marcum faces arraignment Thursday in Gentry County Circuit Court, whore the state plans to formally accuse Mm of stealing six St Joseph light Power transformers frea ih Eicg City area several weeks ago. 1 Maraua has been held in the Gentry County Jail in tteu of $7,500 bond since his arrest Jan.

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