BUSINESS MEMO: NEW DELTA CENTER EXHIBIT HALL

Funding has been approved for an exhibit hall at the University of Missouri's Delta Center near Portageville.

G.W. "Son" Rone Exhibit Hall will be a 60 x 240-foot structure, erected on the Lee Farm, about seven miles southeast of Portageville. Funding for the hall, which will be used to house machinery and serve as a permanent exhibit center for the Delta Center Field Day, was approved by the center's 44-member advisory board.

The building is named in honor of G. W. "Son" Rone Jr., a Portageville agricultural and civic leader who died in 1982.

Rone's sons, Donald D. Rone Sr. and C. E. "Gene" Rone of Portageville contributed $20,000 to the Delta Center to fund the construction. Additional building funds come from an earlier donation by the late Mrs. Helen Mae Spiese, a Portageville school teacher who died in 1986.

The new center is expected to be ready for the next Delta Center Field Day, Sept. 2.