Stories from Monday, December 3, 1990

I'M CALLING IN regards to the person who was wanting to dress up and look like a cowboy, which he can do as far as I'm concerned, although I do think it looks too well. But I was wondering why these guys who dress up like cowboys keep their hat on when they're inside of a building. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mary O. Smith will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau, with Fr. Joe Orthel officiating. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery here. Mrs. Smith died died Sunday at Belleville, Ill. She was 85...

JACKSON -- Service for Juanita W. Koch will be held at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel here Tuesday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Carl J. Richardson, associate pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Cape Girardeau, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 6 p.m. today...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral mass for Igenia Griffin of rural Chaffee will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Chaffee. The Rev. John Cantore will officiate, with burial to follow at the church cemetery. Mrs. Griffin died Saturday night at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was 91...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Graveside service, conducted by the Cape Girardeau VFW Post, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Memorial Park Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Ford & Sons, Mt. Auburn Road, is in charged of arrangements. Ross, 63 year old, of Chaffee, died Friday, Nov. 30, 1990, at the John J. Pershing Veterans Hospital in Poplar Bluff...

(Editor's note: Mark Wappel, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Council for the Boy Scouts, reports that the 3,000 scouts who participated in the council's Scouting for Food campaign Nov. 17 across 14 counties collected 76,500 cans of food totaling about 30 tons. ...

In some cases of foreign policy, American citizens must place their faith in the actions of officials in Washington. The workings of global politics are so complex that the right decisions sometimes do not lend themselves to simple logic; greater national interests are often best served by decrees that on the surface make little common sense. ...

Three personalities dominated the '80s: Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher. Although Britain was half a century beyond superpower status, Thatcher made herself into a superpower personality. She recognized Gorbachev as having a sharp and wide-ranging mind. ...

Reading Paul Greenberg's long litany of things he was thankful for, I said a silent "Amen" after each one. When I came to his listing of "Old editions of the Book of Knowledge," I could contain my happy silence no longer and spoke aloud, "Yes, yes. Me too." I'm sure many read right over that listing and noted more especially his mention of greater things--" (thankful) for the hope of youth, the wisdom of age...for every child's clear, quick sense of justice...for peace however fragile, freedom however high the price.". ...

JACKSON -- Sarah Loennecke, 67 years old, of Jackson died Sunday, Dec. 2, 1990, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McCombs Funeral Home of Jackson.