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St. Joseph Let it snow Emily 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 the city, allowing children to get out and enjoy the white stuff.

Right: Shadow Evans, 11, took a snowball to the face Tuesday while playing with friends near 12th and Corby streets. Related story, above by WAR. LAWRON JR. at right beg BAIR Today: High: Low: Inquiry into riot at prison begins DILLEY, Texas State prison officials began investigating a huge inmate riot Tuesday that law officers quelled with tear gas and batons. Seven inmates were taken to hospitals after the melee between black and Hispanic inmates erupted Monday night in a recreation yard at the Dolph Briscoe prison about: 90 miles from San Antonio.

From 400 to 500 inmates were involved. "They broke up concrete storm drains that run underneath the sidewalks, and they 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 Nunnelee. Authorities were trying Tuesday to learn what caused the outburst. Damage was estimated at more than $100,000.

Russians make surprise visit PHOENIX Russian arms experts arrived Tuesday for a surprise inspection of rocket motors taken from decommissioned nuclear missiles. it was the 10-member 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 surprise," 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 Americans, the team was to count the stored motors, to verify U.S.supplied information. Army suspends instructors FORT BENNING, Ge. Three instructors and two officers were suspended Tuesday, as Army continued to investigate the deaths of four soldiers during a Ranger training exercise. The four died of exposure last month in the swamps of Eglin Air Force Base, after spending up to eight hours in chest-deep, 52- degree water during the last phase of the grueling training. Gillooly granted new name PORTLAND, Ore.

Mayor Jeff Stone of Temecula, didn't like it. Neither did the Jeff Stone who works for NASA's Mission Control. Even the guy who played Jeff Stone on TV's "Donna Reed Show" showed up Tuesday to fight Jeff Gillooly's attempt to change his name to Jeff Stone. In the 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 1958 to 1966 and remains in syndication.

"We have lost our common sense. I feel for the Cop out of uniform out of job 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 wasn't 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 $100,000 for her appearance. From AP reports INSIDE TODAY Concealed-gun bill moves ahead Business Page 58 Classified Page IC Comics Page 48 Dear Abby Page BA Focus Pare 9A Metro Page 1C Movie Ads Page 7A Puzzle Page SC Sports Page 18 1995 Joseph. MISSOUTT 50 SECTIONS Soy diesel plant sought by state Missouri legislators suggest incentives By SEAN P. JOHNSON News-Press Capital Correspondent 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 priming. And the pump they are looking to tap for jobs and investment is an alternative fuel: soy diesel. 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 project," said Sen.

Sidney Johnson, D- Agency, who has co sponsored legislation with Sen. Sam Graves, R-Tarkio. The measure awaits debate. "These bills are not an answer, but they will show our interest," 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, $150,000 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-Gallatin, 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 5A Vatterott will teach out cosmetology By HOLLY NEUMAN News-Press Staff 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 program," Jim McCarthy said 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 CC's Board of Trustees. But late last week, Missouri Western State College became involved with the gy students 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 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 54 Cereal prices leave bad taste for 2 lawmakers Associated Press WASHINGTON Two congressmen produced a breakfast shopping list Tuesday and called it a rude awakening: $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 diffcult to locate them on the store shelves. 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 I the price another way. "Today, the average bowl of ready-toeat cereal including milk costs between 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 Dollar continues fall; no intervention New lows recorded against yen, mark Associated Press and Washington Poet NEW YORK The dollar continued 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 its value. In late New York trading Tuesday, it took 90.05 yen to buy a dollar, down sharply from 92.80 on Monday a 3 percent loss. At one point Tuesday, the dollar dropped to a new low of 89.05 yen.

And it took 1.3702 marks to buy a dollar, down from 1.4048 Monday. The dollar opened at 90.73 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market at 9 a.m. today (6 p.m. CST Tuesday), down 1.90 yen from its level of 92.63 pen at 8 p.m. Tuesday (midnight CST Tuesday) The arcane business of giobal Trader James T.

currency trading may seem ir- cantile Exchange on Please see SA at one point dropping Janet Reno was willing to consider any information submitted by the lawmakers. General Mills said in a statement that the company hasn't increased the price of a single cereal in more than two years and has lowered the cost of nearly half its entire cereal line. Joe Rutledge, spokesman for General Mills, said that since December 1993, 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. Please see 5A Time machine inventor hopes device will let him win lottery By MIKE JONES News-Press Staff Writer ALBANY, Mo.

machine aftcionado Michael E. Marcum says he sees an infinitely practical use for his experimentation. The 21-year-o old Ohio rative wants to travel a few days into the future to see lottery results, then come back to pick winning numbers, he says. Before that happens, Marcum faces arraignment Thursday in Gentry County Circuit Court, where the state plans to formally accuse him of stealing six St. Joseph Light Power transformers from the King City area several weeks ago.

Marcum has been neid in the Gentry County Jail in lien of $7,500 bond since his arrest Jan. 90. "They say I could got up to seven years in Marcum said Tuesday. Please see 54 makes an offer in the yen futures pit at the Chicago MerTuesday. The dollar fell to a new low against the yen Tuesday, below 90, prompting fast trading in yen futures at the Merc..