Stories from Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Marita 'Eileen Woods' Bullock, daughter of the late Rachel Maxine Woods, was born on Dec. 29, 1955 in Fort Scott. She departed this life on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2007 at Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton, N.C. Eileen received her education in Fort Scott. She was united in Holy matrimony to the late Bennie Bullock and to this union, three children were born...

Investigators have not determined the cause of a fire that swept the inside of Boone and Dauben's Drive-In Saturday. Fire creeped through the inside of the restaurant, a popular gathering place at 515 S. National Ave., spawning smoke and heat damage throughout the building, officials said...

Fort Scott Community College administrators have narrowed the list of presidential hopefuls down to five possible candidates, FSCC officials said Monday. In November, the FSCC Board of Trustees began the process of searching for a new chief administrator, following current FSCC President Jim Miesner's announcement in October that he plans to retire in July. ...

The Mayor's Phoenix Downtown Redevelopment Committee has recently added four new members from other committees whose goals are similar to that of the Phoenix group -- to redevelop downtown Fort Scott. Some of the appointees were chosen from three groups charged with trying to reinvigorate downtown by spurring economic growth and expansion...

William K. "Bill" Hixon, 77, of Bella Vista, Ark., died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007 at the Earline Howard Hospice Home Circle of Life Hospice in Springdale, Ark. He was born on August 30, 1929 in Fort Scott, Kan., to James Fredrick Hixon and Margaret Blanche Wilson Hixon...

Gary Young, 63, of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday morning, Jan. 29, 2007, at his home. He was born July 12, 1943 in Fort Scott, the son of Emil and Virginia Moyer Young. He married Pat Cotter on Dec. 7, 1964, in Girard, Kan. She survives of the home...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) For a month now it has been known that negotiations were going on which would ultimately lead to the erection of a new brick building across from the Goodlander Hotel. The deal has never been formally consummated but probably will be completed by tonight. ...

If you were asked to make a list of your possessions -- clothing, household furnishings and appliances, gardening and automotive equipment, jewelry, and so forth -- could you do it? It's not easy to do from memory. But, if your home was destroyed or damaged, you would need to complete such a list to be compensated by homeowner's or renter's insurance. ...