i Obituaries Actor Howell visits Owensboro: ,0 Collins won't run; Ci FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1993 LOCAL NEWSSTATE NEWSDAILY RECORDS MESSENGER-INQUIRER 1 Texas Gas fined for lobbying violation Company didn't give full financial report on Mississippi lawmakers' trips lawmakers in 1993 and two legislators in 1992 and not including all the expenses on lobbying reports. State law requires lobbyists to report expenditures over $25. Lawmakers who took trips this May were Sens. Brad Lott, R-Pascagoula, and Tommy Houston, and Tommy Woods, D-Byhalia, according to court documents. Texas Gas paid $421 each for lodging, meals and travel on the trip to Louisville for races at Churchill Downs and to Indiana for the Indianapolis 500.
In May 1992, the company also spent By Gina Holland Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. Texas Gas Transmission Corp. admitted Thursday it treated Mississippi lawmakers to trips to the Indianapolis 500 and Churchill Downs and failed to fully report the expenses with the state. The Kentucky-based natural gas company was fined $3,000 for the 1992 and 1993 viola tions after pleading no contest in the first prosecution under Mississippi's lobbying law. "We take this situation very seriously," Texas Gas senior vice president Kim Cock-lin told Hinds County Judge Chet Henley during a brief hearing.
Attorney General Mike Moore accused the company of providing free trips for five KODertson, k-moss roint and Keps. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, Billy Bowles, D- See TexasPage 6C Kb New McLean judge trying to 'strike a match' 1 For years, McLean County coasted without looking toward the future, he said. Now people have witnessed that mistake and are ready to act Whitaker said it's time to quit talking and get to work "McLean County has got to exert itself," he said. "Ifs a dog-eat-dog world. We've got to be aggressive." Whitaker wants Fiscal Court to accept more responsibility in leading the county.
While he wants to be a "hands-on" judge-executive, Whitaker said he cannot be the lone economic developer. The whole court must define the coun- See JudgePage 7C By Noelle Phillips Messenger-Inquirer UVERMORE The new McLean County judge-executive is ready to get the county back on its feet Larry Whitaker, who will take office in January, shared some of his plans at the McLean County Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday morning. The county has Kentucky's third highest unemployment rate. That coupled with recent losses of industrial jobs has shocked county residents into a hunger for change that Whitaker wants to use. "We're at a flashpoint," Whitaker said.
"We need to strike a match and go." 1 1 1 vr 4 i Boys Club adding 'Girls' to its name REGIONAL ROUNDUP From staff reports Ohio social worker beaten by juvenile An Ohio County man was beaten Wednesday by the juvenile he was transporting to a secure camp for juvenile offenders. The boy was still at large as of late Thursday. John David Ashley, 38, a family services worker for the Department of Social Services, was transporting the Beaver Dam youth to Woodsbend Boys Camp in Frenchburg. Ashley said the juvenile, who was sitting in the back seat of Ashley's van, removed a drawstring from the hood of his sweat shirt and wrapped it around Ashley's neck, forcing him to stop the vehicle and remove his wallet The juvenile had him lie in the road, then kicked him three times, breaking a lens from his glasses. The incident took place in Menifee County, east of Lexington.
The juvenile fled in the van, which was later recovered in Louisville. Ashley said a group of teen-agers stopped to help him. After giving his report to officials, six state police posts arranged a relay of six drivers to drive him back to Ohio County, where he arrived about 2:30 a.m. Thursday well enough to attend a Boy Scout meeting Thursday night Woman pleads guilty to assault in stabbing case An Owensboro woman charged with attempted murder last year after she stabbed another woman with a kitchen knife pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Thursday in exchange for a five-year prison sentence. Dorothea Michelle Butler, 20, of the 600 block of Orchard Street pleaded guilty to second-degree assault under extreme emotional disturbance before Judge Joseph McKinley.
Butler stabbed Samantha Vanessa Lynn Green, 17, in an apartment in the 500 block of Plum Street a year ago. Butler will be formally sentenced Dec. 7. Man pleads guilty to reduced charge of robbery A man charged with first-degree robbery in August after he knocked a woman to the ground and stole her purse pleaded guilty to an amended charge Thursday as well as other unrelated charges. Toriano Addaryle Winstead, 21, of the 2700 block of West 10th Street pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery in connection with the theft of $868 from Christine Rieman, who was knocked down Aug.
1 as she got into her car in the 1100 block of Walnut Street Winstead also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of third-degree criminal mischief in that case for a recommended sentence of five years. He also pleaded guilty as charged in a separate indictment to five counts of second-degree forgery, criminal attempt to commit forgery, theft of a credit card and fourth-degree assault for an additional three years. His total sentence will be eight years In prison. He'll be formally sentenced later by Judge Joseph McKinley. Lottery numbers Thursday's lottery numbers are: Kentucky Pick 3: 7-2-3 The Pick: 4-6-8-10-11-14-19-44 Indiana Daily 3: 7-4-9 Indiana Dally 4: 7-5-4-3 By Karen Owen Messenger-Inquirer Girls have been attending the Cliff Hagan Boys Club for three years.
On Monday, the organization's name will be changed to the Cliff Hagan Boys and Girls Club to reflect that The Boys Club board adopted a policy in 1978 forbidding discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, said Joe Roth, executive director. It wasn't until 1990 that the board voted to admit girls as members, however. "Maybe we should've been doing things long before now," but some former board members weren't in favor of admitting girls, Roth said. "I just think it's a change in the times. Some of the attitudes had to change." Once the doors were opened, "we did not do any marketing toward the female sex.
It was strictly word of mouth," he said. Even so, membership has grown to the point where 351 girls, compared to 1,615 boys, attend the club and its satellite in Rolling Heights. With the growth in that membership, "we felt now is the time to change the name." Boys and Girls Clubs of America changed its name in 1990, but each local affiliate is autonomous, Roth said. The local name change will be celebrated Saturday with an exhibition weather permitting of a World War II P47 Thunderbolt at Singleton Aviation from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
EvansviUe was one of only two places in the country where the planes were made. See ClubPage 6C Cathy Clarke, Messenger-Inquirer Pile of fun As her friend Ruthie Wedding sits in a pile of leaves, in the air. The girls were playing in the front yard of Shannon Eakes, 6, delights in the shower of leaves a friend's house Tuesday on Arlington Drive, that cascades over her after the two tossed handfuls Ice cream venture helps give students taste of real business OMU board decides new headquarters will be at current site V'" feel like I'm a little more grown up," said Natalie Parks, 8. "You have to learn how to be responsible and stuff." The students take their jobs seriously. Travis Rhodes, the vice president said much of his job involves double-checking work of the other officers.
"I usually have to make sure our president doesn't mess up," he said. "I've got to make sure of how much we have and how much we're supposed to have. I have to make sure all the bills are paid." Travis, 7, said he enjoys working with the other students, particularly Kimberly Carter and Sara Adkins. Kimberly and Sara are in charge of the money. "I really like to help the two treasurers count the money we have," he said.
Most of the students keep very close track of how much money they've made. As of Thursday morning, the profit was $298 and growing. Students and teachers are happy to see the Yummy Turn-See StudentsPage 7C By Tracy L. McQueen Messenger-Inquirer HARTFORD Brent Beddow is president of a prosperous business, and he's only 8. He and his classmates operate the Yummy Tummy Ice Cream Express a booming business at Wayland Alexander Elementary School.
Teachers Bobbie Porter and Nancy Castlen helped their students start the business. It began when the primary students, all 42 of them, went to Hartford Bank Trust for a loan. Each borrowed $1. They selected ice cream as their project They were able to purchase their ice cream through the local Dairy Queen at a wholesale price. Their marketing plan included a television commercial and a survey of customers.
The students are responsible for selling the ice cream, using a cart they designed. They're responsible for collecting the money and keeping track of it They do just about everything anyone else working in business would do. "I kind of like it, because I town sites, including the former Western Kentucky Gas building on Frederica Street But the board felt it was best to stay put Because OMU shares City Hall's computers, "we need to be in close proximity to them," Cavin said. No decision has been made on where OMU would relocate in the interim between vacating the old building and occupying the new, Cavin said. "We will wait and see the time frame on when we would have to leave," Cavin said.
Carper said the existing building can't be modified to provide more room for employees and meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the federal law mandating access for the handicapped. "We have no elevator to the second floor," Carper said. "We can't get a handicapped customer or employee to the second floor if that is where they were required to work. We can't get a handicapped customer in the front door at this point There's no ramp and you can't get a wheelchair through there." By Greg Kocher Messenger-Inquirer It will be down with the old and up with the new for Owensboro Municipal Utilities, which plans to erect a new administration building on the site of its present headquarters. On Thursday the City Utility Commission authorized OMU General Manager Bob Carper to enter into negotiations with Owensboro architects Ranney, Blake Strehl.
Architect Terry Blake will present a proposed contract to the OMU board at its next meeting. The two-story brick building at 115 E. Fourth St next to City Hall will be demolished to make way for the new office, said Bill Cavin, chairman of the utility board. "Long ago we made the determination that we wanted to have a downtown image," Cavin said. "If we got on the periphery of our service area, which is basically within the city, that wouldn't be advantageous." In addition, OMU has occupied the Fourth Street site for many years "and people knew where we were," Cavin said.
OMU had looked at other down Bob Bruck, Messenger-Inquirer Lesley Cambron, 7, pulls Inventory while making her rounds with other "employees" of the Yummy Tummy Ice Cream Express Co. Thursday. "They have a personal interest In this," said teacher Bobbie Porter..
