Stories from Tuesday, October 4, 1994

Bob Hendrix has taken retirement in stride. He can be found on the golf course three days of the week or reading one of his "jillion" books. He worked 30 years directing chambers of commerce in Missouri, including more than 21 years in Cape Girardeau. Retirement allows him more time to spend with Rosemary, his wife of 35 years, his four children and eight grandchildren...

After a month, the Cape Girardeau Area Wide United Way is slightly ahead of last year's collections. To Sept. 29, the campaign has taken in $136,212, about a quarter of its $520,000 goal. Last year during the first month, collections were $115,174. Campaign Chairman Ron Hopkins said the last two weeks the emphasis has been on getting contributions from corporate and employee groups...

Betty Westrich of Benton summed up taxpayers' frustration Monday: She is tired of taxes being raised without a chance to vote on them. Westrich voiced her sentiment at a forum on Amendment 7, otherwise known as Hancock II, at Southeast Missouri State University...

Is your dog depressed? Is your pooch perturbed? After a summer of romping around with the kids, dogs can become depressed when it is time for the youngsters to go back to school, the American Kennel Club says. Personally, I find that hard to believe. After a whole summer of having one's tail pulled unmercifully and being jumped on by the neighborhood kids 500 times a day, I would imagine most dogs would be glad for some quiet time...

"Pick of the Crop" is the theme for Monday's luncheon of the Cape Girardeau County Christian Women's Club. The luncheon and meeting will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Holiday Inn at $7.50 a person. Complimentary day care will be provided for children to 10 years old...

SCOTT CITY -- Scott City will purchase a new trash truck at a total cost of nearly $80,000 over four years. The city council approved a lease-purchase of the truck on Monday. The new model with a 20-yard bed is being purchased from Wiethop Truck & Trailer Sales of Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Associate circuit judge candidate Allen Moss has raised and spent more than any of the other candidates running for three judicial posts this year. In campaign finance reports due 40 days before the general election, Moss had raised $35,423 and spent $33,189, leaving him with $1,508 in his account...

Lillian Wills was a 1911 graduate of Oak Ridge High School. She eventually married Vest Smith, who was the Oak Ridge postmaster for many years. A photo of a 1922 science classroom in Oak Ridge High School is part of the mementos that can be seen in an exhibit relating to the first 120 years of the schools...

To the editor: At long last, Congress is turning away from pandering to Green activists and is doing something to help America's landowners. Congressman Billy Tauzin (D-La.) is pushing for a floor vote on his bill, HR 3875, the Property Bill Of Rights. The bill has 156 cosponsors and needs 90 more to force a vote...

Remember health reform? President Clinton's No. 1 agenda item -- the one that was to be accomplished within months of taking office -- generated heated debate and brought special-interest groups out of the woodwork with millions of dollars to spend. But government-imposed health reform is over for this year...

JACKSON -- An ongoing debate over residential rezoning continued at a public hearing Monday before the Jackson Board of Aldermen. Dennis Siebert, whose mother owns property on Highway 72 near its intersection with West Main Street, said he wants the two-acre tract rezoned from residential to general commercial so that he can build rental storage units...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Catherine L. Morgan, 61, of East Prairie, died Monday, Oct. 3, 1994, at her home. She was born Jan. 12, 1933, near Ridgely, Tenn., daughter of Lonzo and Mildred Cotham Williford. She and Marion "Bud" Morgan were married in April 1949...

PUXICO -- Reuben Franklin Kitchen, 91, died Saturday, Oct. 1, 1994, at Doctors' Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Sept. 27, 1903, in Leora, son of Edgar Almonte and Rose Wilson Kitchen. He and Hazel Lowe were married Oct. 23, 1926. Lowe lived in Colorado Springs, Colo., from 1941 until returning to this area in 1973. He was a member of Poplar Bluff Church of God...

ADVANCE -- Dosha Mae Cox, 95, of Swansea, Ill., formerly of Advance, died Sunday, Oct. 2, 1994, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Belleville, Ill. She was born June 6, 1899, at Painton, daughter of Minor and Emma Holland Litteral. She and Frank O. Cox were married Sept. 10, 1923. He died Sept. 26, 1945...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Byron Wayne Vaughn, 22, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, Oct. 2, 1994, at Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, Ind. Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home at Anna is in charge of arrangements.

Daughter to Phillip and Becky Samson, Slater Route 1, John Fitzgibbons Hospital in Marshall, 11:25 a.m. Monday, Aug. 22, 1994. Name, Sara Diana. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Mrs. Samson is the former Becky Friedrich, daughter of Ruby Friedrich of Jackson, and the late David Friedrich. Samson is a farmer, and is the son of Phillip and Helen Samson of Marshall...

Ruth Ann S. Hathaway, a Cape Girardeau chemist, will share 1994 Alumnus of the Year honors for Huntington College in Huntington, Ind. The American Chemical Society honored Hathaway for her contributions in health and safety. She completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Huntington College in 1979 and did graduate work in medicinal chemistry at Purdue University. She works as the safety officer and quality assurance officer for Environmental Analysis South Inc. in Cape Girardeau...

Amy Chanel Johnson, a graduate of Egyptian High School at Tamms, Ill., has been awarded a scholarship from the Masonic Lodges of Alexander, Pulaski and Union counties. Johnson is the daughter of Wayne and Beverly Welch of Tamms. She is attending Shawnee College, majoring in English and minoring in Spanish and journalism...

Award-winning shows including CNN news, weather channel documentaries and Nickelodeon information series, will air today as part of a televised showcase of cable's educational programming during TCI's Education Day. Programs provided by 21 cable networks are scheduled throughout the day for grades kindergarten through 12. Evening hours will feature educational programs for families...

Adult Girl Scout members in Cape Girardeau will meet next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran School. Members will elect delegates and hear reports from the long-range task force. Other adult meetings are planned Monday in Perryville and in Piedmont, next Tuesday in Cairo, Ill., Oct. 12 in Jackson, and Oct. 13 in Scott City...

Chaffee High School students Chip Bollinger and Brian Payne have been named commended students in the 1995 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 35,000 commended students throughout the nation are being honored for their performance. They placed among the top 5 percent of more than a million students who entered the 1995 Merit Program by taking the 1993 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test...

Yung Hee Park, a 1994 graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School, has been awarded a scholarship through the federal Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program. The selection was based on academic ability and credentials. The scholarship provides $1,500 per year and is renewable for four years...

The Cape Girardeau High School Marching Tigers Band will compete in the annual Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival Oct. 22 at Busch Stadium. The contest has 48 bands competing from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Bands will compete for top awards in music, marching, general effect, percussion, drum majoring and auxiliary...

As a former radio broadcaster, Mary C. Mims works to avoid "dead air" in her classroom. As a music teacher at Washington Elementary School, she plans two or three different activities for each lesson. "I believe music is a living, moving art form," she said. "We might start with rhythmic movement, then go to singing and even throw in some bell playing."...