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Friday, June 27, 2008

Hayes found guilty of murder

By JESSICA PETZEL
and MICHAEL SEWALL
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
The family of Cynthia White
said they felt justice had been
served after a jury found
Dwight T. Hayes guilty Thurs-
day morning of killing White
last November at the Clark
Lane hotel where she worked as
general manager.
A Buchanan County jury took
just two hours to convict Hayes
of second-degree murder, first-
degree robbery and armed
criminal action in the Nov. 24,
2007, crime at the Comfort Inn.
The courtroom was tensely
silent as the family settled into
a row in the Boone County
courtroom, waiting for the jury
to file in. Before the verdict was
read, the family clasped hands
to form a circle.
Hayes showed no reaction as
Judge Gene Hamilton read the
verdict.
“I don’t know if great is the
word,” said Jeanie Nail, White’s
sister, trying to describe her
est person I’ve ever known,”
said Margaret Ray of Maysville,
when he died, she kept it up.”
After her husband’s death,
absence of physical evidence
at the crime scene and lack of
emotions after the jury returned another friend. Ray and White took a trip video surveillance tape. Fur-
its guilty verdict. “I feel that Ray moved to Missouri five together to China on White’s thermore, he said, the defen-
justice is served.” years ago with her husband suggestion and “because we dant lied continuously during
Fortified with tissues, fam- and stayed at the Comfort Inn, wanted to see it.” his interrogation.
ily and friends stopped briefly which she referred to as “Cin- Ray said the trial “opened all Knight said that he learned
outside the courtroom to catch dy’s hotel.” That’s where Ray the wounds.” a lot about White and her fam-
their breath. got to know White, who helped The medical examiner’s pho- ily during the investigation and
A friend of the victim, Rita the couple get settled. tographs were particularly that the trial was an emotional
experience for him.
Riley of Cameron, said of Four months after moving, hard to endure, Riley said.
“My heart went out to her
White: “You couldn’t ask for a Ray’s husband got sick. “From Boone County Chief Prosecu-
because she’d do anything for
better friend.” then on, Cindy was at our side tor Dan Knight said his biggest
“She was the kindest, warm- constantly,” Ray said. “And challenge in the case was the Please see HAYES, page 8A

Review ‘I have to give back’

board gets
unanimous
approval
The group will oversee police
complaints.
By SARAH PANUSKA and JIM HOLT
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
The Columbia Citizen Oversight Committee
voted unanimously Thursday night to recom-
mend that City Council establish a citizen review
board to oversee the process by which the Colum-
bia Police Department handles complaints.
The committee was formed by Mayor Darwin
Hindman in June 2007 and has been meeting
since Nov. 28, 2007.
Co-committee chair Rex Campbell said he
anticipated the outcome, though the unanimous
vote was unexpected.
“I was surprised,” he said. “I thought there
might be one or two dissenters. I am pleased.”
Yet Thursday’s decision is just the beginning
of the process to establish a review board. The
oversight committee has designated models for
a subcommittee to investigate. These models are
based on examples of other police review boards
nationwide, and the subcommittee will evalu- MELISSA HUFFER/Missourian
ate them to gauge which components should be
More than 30 friends came out Tuesday night to show their support for Kathleen Weinschenk. Her partner, Greg Ahrens,
implemented.
Co-chairman Jefferey Williams said the com- center, is seated beside her. Their friend Sean Spence, right, helped organize the event.
mittee is still concerned about how to improve
transparency, communication and trust.
“I’m encouraged with the unanimous vote and
that everyone felt that there were reasons to take
the next step,” Williams said. “We want to build a

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away, exposing the hood to be a dull, water-stained silver. Three

Police arrest
of the tires are missing their hubcaps.
Kathleen Weinschenk has The back of the van, a red, wheelchair-accessible ‘92 Plymouth
Voyager, is covered with bumper stickers: “Christian and a Democrat,”
always done her best to “Save the planet, vote Democratic” and “MIZZOURAH!”

mother of
The van and its stickers belong to 65-year-old community activist, artist
and poet Kathleen Weinschenk and her partner, Greg Ahrens. They use it
support the community. Now, to get Weinschenk, who has cerebral palsy, to church and meetings for the
PedNet Coalition, Muleskinners, the Columbia Disabilities Commission
her friends are returning the and the First Night board of directors, not to mention around town to chat

dead child favor during her time of need.

with friends.
“Once in a while we just go to the City Council meeting for a cheap
date,” Ahrens says.
Inside, the van’s plywood floor and lack of air conditioning make for a
hot, bumpy ride.
By DANIEL SHAR “That’s not good for old women,” Ahrens says.
and TONY BROWN By CATHERINE MCCOMB N news@ColumbiaMissourian.com “Or old men,” Weinschenk says, teasing him. Her blue eyes glint mis-
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
The mother of a 2-year-old boy Please see GIVE, page 8A
who died at University Hospital on
Wednesday was arrested on suspi-

City throws out old trash bag delivery system

cion of first-degree endangering
the welfare of a child, but police
are still looking for the boy’s father,
Horace C. Johnson, according to
a news release from the Colum- By KOURTNEY GEERS price of the city’s trash bags, which “Now there are over 30,000 hous- delivery trucks are on the road,
Horace C. bia Police Department. Keyonda news@ColumbiaMissourian.com are a petroleum product. The cost es out here, and we are delivering and employees are building up their
Johnson Lumpkin, 26, told police she was Residents soon will have one less of the bags rose by 15 percent for three different packages of bags. “pitching arms,” as Mayor Darwin
aware her child was being harmed thing to pick up from their yard. City fiscal 2008 and will rise another 20 So, it’s become logistically a night- Hindman said.
over the course of several days but officials are hoping that August will percent in 2009, Solid Waste Utility mare and an extremely expensive The city distributed more than 4
did not seek proper medical attention, according be the last time they send out crews manager Richard Wieman said. adventure.” million bags in fiscal 2007.
to the release. to hand-toss rolls of black and blue “Back in the early ’70s, when you Blue bags and black bags are Like your trusty postman, the city
Lumpkin was transported to Boone County Jail trash bags into your driveway, your were hand-tossing a package of bags each delivered three times a year delivers bags in rain, snow or sleet,
and is being held on $4,500 bond, according to lawn — or in the middle of your to a few houses, it was a great idea,” and clear yard-waste bags twice a but their aim might not be as great.
the release. prized garden. Mary Ellen Lea, interim director year. That equals eight rounds of “A package of 25 black trash bags
Police are investigating the suspicious death The price of gas is affecting not of Public Works, told City Council delivery, each taking about a week. is heavy. We’ve knocked people
Please see CHILD, page 8A only your pocketbook but also the during a work session Wednesday. That’s a total of two months that Please see BAGS, page 3A

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Paquin gets new windows NEW WINDOWS FOR PAQUIN TOWER

In order to increase utility efficiency, Paquin Towers is replacing all
its single-pane windows with double-pane windows.

to go green, save money

Side view of a double-pane window

Room wall Building exterior

Fiberglass insulation

By SARAH M. PANUSKA get in, replace the window and

news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
In an effort to combat the
rising cost of energy, a con-
tractor for the Columbia Hous-
ing Authority will install 404
energy-efficient windows in
Paquin Tower.
“A building like Paquin uses
a lot of electricity to heat and
cool,” Paquin site manager Lee
Radtke said. “The new windows
should help cut down energy
costs. We also hope to keep the
temperature better regulated
in each unit.”
The project has been in the
works for many years, but a
lack of money pushed it to the
back burner.
“We have had this planned
for about eight years,” said
Greg Willingham, the hous-
ing authority’s modernization
coordinator. “It was originally
scheduled for 2011, but because
of the increase in cost of ener-
gy, we decided last year that
this was going to be a project
we’d have to move up.”
When they prepared the bud-
get for the upcoming fiscal
year, housing authority offi-
cials had to account for a 33
percent increase in the cost
of natural gas to heat Paquin
Tower. What cost $90,000 last
year will cost an estimated
$120,000 this year.
The U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Devel-
opment is requiring housing
authorities across the nation to
PAQUIN PROJECT
WHAT WORK WILL BE DONE?
The Columbia Housing Authority will replace windows in each of
Paquin Tower’s 200 apartments. Some have two windows, others have
three.
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
The work will cost $256, 820. The housing authority will pay for it with
capital improvement money.
WHO WILL DO THE WORK?
The contract was awarded to AllServ Midwest, a company founded in
2001 in Columbia. The contract runs from June 5 to Nov. 19.
cient practices. Because ener-
gy costs nationwide have been
rising and the federal housing
department helps local housing
authorities cover the cost of
utilities, the housing authority
has sped up plans for green
renovations.
“This is not what we do every
day,” Phil Steinhaus, CEO of
the housing authority, said.
“But I feel the windows will
help us save money and cut
utility costs.”
But choosing the windows
was no easy matter. Because
Paquin Tower houses both
elderly residents and people
with disabilities and limited
mobility, the windows had to
meet standards of the Ameri-
cans with Disabilities Act. For
instance, the windows slide
open from right to left rath-
er than up and down to allow
people with limited mobility to
The windows also must be
able to withstand strong winds
and the slight swaying of the
high-rise. In addition, the win-
dows must to be installed from
the inside to keep costs low.
Past renovations at Paquin,
such as the complete re-til-
ing of apartment floors, have
required residents to pack
all their belongings. While
replacing the windows will not
require residents to remove
anything from the apartments,
the housing authority is striv-
ing to ensure residents will be
disturbed as little as possible.
Still, Radtke is concerned.
“From my position, it is a logis-
tics problem,” she said. “Some
people are anxious about the
interruption.”
In a test installation, it took
2 1/2 to three hours to replace
the windows in each apart-
ment, Seinhaus said.
get out with minimal impact to Aluminum frame Spacers connect
our residents,” Steinhaus said. the two-piece
Though the contract contin- frame and provide
ues until Nov. 19, Willingham Inner pane a thermal break in
Outer pane
hopes the work will be done by the frame. Spacers
the start of the heating season do not conduct
in early November. Last win- hot or cold
ter, the housing authority aver- temperatures well.
aged $16,500 in gas bills per
month to heat Paquin Tower. Vacuumed air
That includes hot water, oper- space creates
ation of the laundromat and a barrier
between
heating apartments, entryways
outdoor and
and common areas.
indoor Low-emissivity, or
“Installing windows is going
temperatures. low-e, coating on
to reduce the amount of money
the housing authority is spend- the outer pane
ing to heat the rooms that resi- keeps energy
radiation to a
dents occupy,” Wellingham
minimum. Heat
said. reflects off the
Although it won’t be clear one-inch glass.
how much money the new win-
dows will save until Novem-
ber, officials know from other
projects geared toward energy
efficiency that it’s worth their Weather stripping
while. decreases air flow
“We switched all of the light between the fixed
bulbs in Paquin and Oak Tow- pane and sliding
ers to compact fluorescent and pane in the
expect to save $130,000 over window.
the next seven years,” Stein-
haus said.
In their efforts to go green,
the authority has also agreed Spacer
to recycle all the glass and alu- Caulk
minum from the old windows.
“We are definitely looking Source: ERIC ROSELLE, PECKHAM AND WRIGHT ARCHITECTS; GREG WILLINGHAM,
more towards green improve- COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY
ments and energy efficiency,”
Willingham said. “We’ve been
CATHRYN DEATHERAGE/Missourian

move toward more energy-effi- open them. “We want them to be able to doing that for years now.”

Asparagus could flourish in dirt on Mars

Phoenix mission finds
Martian soil isn’t too
acidic to support life.
By JOHN JOHNSON JR.
Los Angeles Times
The first chemistry results
from Mars’ northern plain
reveal an environment more
hospitable to life than some sci-
entists had predicted, one that
might allow future colonists
to grow crops as familiar on
Earth as asparagus and green
beans.
Strawberries, though, might
be tougher, Phoenix mission
scientists said Thursday.
“We’re flabbergasted by this
data,” said Sam Kounaves, the
lead scientist on the wet chem-
istry experiment for the Phoe-
nix spacecraft, which landed
on Mars on May 25. “We’ve
found nutrients that could sup- turned up magnesium, sodium,
port life.” potassium, and chloride, all of
have to be grown underground,
because the meager Martian
life would be happy to live in
these soils.” In fact, the Mar-
dioxide. The twin rovers, Spirit
and Opportunity, which have
A sample of soil about the which are useful in organic atmosphere lets in too much tian soil looks very similar to been rolling around the planet’s
size of a sugar cube was deliv- processes.
ered to the lab by the lander’s The test did not turn up the
of the sun’s destructive ultra-
violet rays. The scientific team
soils on Earth, only without the
organics, he said.
equatorial regions since 2004,
found evidence of ancient pools
nearly eight foot long robot- prize that the $420 million mis- from the University of Arizona Fuller answers to the habit- or seas of standing water.
ic arm and mixed with water sion was sent to find: complex and the Jet Propulsion Labora- ability question are expected Sometime in the next few
brought from Earth. organics that would tory in La Canada Flintridge, from Phoenix’s other major weeks of the three-month mis-
Analysis shows that indicate Mars Calif., emphasized that these laboratory, the Thermal and sion, the scientific team will
the soil is alkaline, “Some types might be, habit-
once was, or still results represent an analysis Evolved Gas Analyzer, which attempt to bore into the hard-
with a pH between 8 of a single piece of a Martian contains eight tiny ovens to as-cement ice layer. After
and 9, Kounaves said. of life would able. Organic com- landscape that is the size of the “bake and sniff” the soils, as breaking off shards of the
This came as some-
thing of a surprise, be happy to pounds, made up of
carbon in combina-
Earth’s land area.
“A lot of people predicted the
well as the ice that is lying only
inches beneath the lander.
ice, the robotic arm will try
to inject them into TEGA’s
at least to the many live in these tion with nitrogen, soil would be acidic,” Kounaves Scientists said they had ovens.
scientists who have hydrogen and other added. “We’re showing at this received the results from cook- The instrument continues to
argued that Martian soils.” elements, are nec- location it appears to be alka- ing the first soil sample from be balky, however. First, the
soil was likely too Sam kounaves essary to build the line. But we’re only looking at TEGA up to 1,800 degrees clumpy soil proved to be hard-
acidic to support life. Lead scientist, wet elaborate chemical a tiny area.” Fahrenheit. Small amounts of er than expected to shake into
With that level chemistry experiment for scaffolding of life, Still, the scientists said carbon dioxide and water were the tiny ovens. Most recently,
of alkalinity, “you Phoenix spacecraft at least as we know Thursday in a briefing, the released, according to Bill the sliding doors above two of
might be able to grow it on Earth. early results are encourag- Boynton, the lead scientist for the ovens have failed to open
asparagus very well,” Further, even ing. the instrument. all the way. Phoenix project
Kounaves said. Strawberries, though the soil chemistry “There’s nothing about (the Neither finding was surpris- manager Barry Goldstein said
on the other hand, require would provide some nutrients soil) that would preclude life,” ing. The Martian atmosphere engineers have been working
more acidic soils. The test also for life, any future crops would Kounaves said. “Some types of is mostly made up of carbon on solutions.

Bags: One company has Committee: They plan to meet Aug. 7 CONTINUED from page 1A that he was not opposed to the
idea of external review.
About a half-dozen residents
of Columbia and Boone County

put in bid for new system

CONTINUED from page 1A
over, we’ve crashed into win-
dows, knocked over mailboxes,
flowers, yard lights — it’s not a
good system,” Lea said.
In January, the city requested
proposals for an alternative sys-
tem. The lone bidder, Phoenix
Recycling, proposed mailing
vouchers that customers could
redeem for trash and recycling
bags at local businesses. Clear
bags won’t be necessary once
public trust and work to build a
relationship between the police “I don’t have any problem attended the meeting. Some said
and the community.” handing the investigation file they were pleased with the com-
The models subcommittee over to someone else to take a mittee’s progress.
will spend the next five weeks look at,” Martin said. “I’m happy about tonight,”
outlining a framework for the Yet Martin also stated that for- said Khesha Duncan, a Colum-
Columbia Police Department’s mer police Chief Randy Boehm bia resident who attended the
Phone survey citizen review board. held a different view. meeting. “It’s a long time com-
The Citizen Oversight Com- “Chief Boehm stands steadfast ing. This will be a good tool to
The city conducted a phone survey to get an idea of the impact of a that the internal affair investi- start bridging the gaps.”
mittee’s unanimous approval
voucher system on recycling customers. After calling 1,000 people, highlights differences in opin- gation process as it stands now The Oversight Committee
here’s what it found: ions previously expressed by meets the needs for transpar- plans to meet Aug. 7 to review
n 600 people responded members of the police depart- ency and answers,” said Martin outlines that have been compiled
ment. at the June 12 meeting. by the models subcommittee.
n 462 people said they were recyclers At the June 12 committee
n 394 of the recyclers said they use the blue bags meeting, Capt. Mike Martin,
who is in charge of the profes-
n 343 said they would continue to use blue bags with a voucher sys-
sional standards division, said
tem

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