TO HALL OF FAME

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Conservation Commission has added the late Edward D. "Ted" Jones, Jr. and the late Alexander Timon Primm, III to the Missouri Conservation Hall of Fame.

Membership in the Hall of fame is limited to persons who have made lasting contributions to Missouri's outdoor resources and who have died.

Jones, the founder of the brokerage firm of Edward D. Jones & Co., began his conservation work on a run-down farm in Callaway County. He and his wife, Pat, planted thousands of trees on the farm to stop erosion and benefit wildlife.

Other conservation honors bestowed on Jones include the 1989 Conservationist of the Year Award from the Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM), the Chevron Conservation Award and the Department of Natural Resources Resource Stewardship Award.

Primm, who worked as senior vice president of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and director of Radio Station KSD in St. Louis, championed the work of the Missouri Botanical Garden and The Nature Conservancy. He was a member of The Conservancy for 15 years and served on the Missouri Chapter's board of trustees until his death Aug. 6. He served on The Conservancy's national board of governors from 1975 to 1979 and was chairman of the Missouri Chapter from 1978 to 1984.