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4L OBITUARIES, MID HUDSON NATION SATURDAY1, JUNE 3, 2000 POUOHKEEPStE JOURNAL DEATH NOTICES liarncs, Willard 0., 87, of Mount Dora, Fla and formerly of Poughkeepsie. died Thursday, June 1, 2000. Arrangements by Allen Harden Fu neral Home, (352) 383 8178. Hennessey. Timothy James (Tim) 51, of Vcrbank, died Wednesday, May 31, 2000.

Arrangements by Allen Funeral Home, (914) 6779011. Jackson, Lillian It, 86, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, died Wednesday, May 31, 2000 Arrangements by Rhodes Funeral Home, (914) 569J12M McNeil, Robert Neil, 62, of Santa Cruz, died Sunday, May 28, 2000. Arrangements by Hufcut Funeral Home, (914) 877 6313. Polhlll, Eileen 39, of Beacon, died Thursday, June 1, 2000. Arrangements by Libby Funeral Home, (914) 831 0179.

Rodriguez, Oswald, 76. of the Town of Poughkeepsie, died Friday, June 2, 2000, Arrangements by Timothy P. Doyle Funeral Home Inc. (914) 452 0460. Southwick, Margaret 93, of the City of Poughkeepsie, died Thursday, June 1 2000 Arrangements by Dow ling Funeral Home, (914) 452 2410.

MEMORIAM ERAMO In Loving Memory Of JAMES (Jimmy) ERAMO On The 3rd Anniversary Of His Passing June 3rd, 1997 Greatly Missed By Your Family Betty, Terry Rob, Mike Candice, Chris HEDRICR In Loving Memory Of RAY HEDRICK June 3rd, J957 May 25th, 1983 Ray, 17 years have passed. You are still in our hearts, We still feel your energy. Send some extra "E'r to me As I run the Rock Roll Marathon in honor of your 43rd Birthday Loe Your Sister Lori Cmpy Loving BirthdayflSl t7j Remembrance For SL jpESSICA FAITH GERMANfffl Happy Birthday JB Ymir Jhl )iu liMJ )iw iitvxynurhnfhf nle hcr Jt liuithicf Bi ff Our lcur Mill Ml olid tmt hcarHltmg fur csue) iNiarvmivN4.Um4imly litla), huUvcl)Jj Wjl fV Mn l)l. Mikcy Jjm Jf N.MU $1 tL4W), 1PP) ti AuMk, JLL Undct ouvm, CrtnJmaJt Jb Loving Birthday Remembrance Erin Finn Tankiflg MprwHH He surv Timothy James "Tim" Hennessey Sr. VERBANK Timothy James 'Tim" Hennessey 51 of Verbank, died at home on Wednesday, May 31, 2000.

A lifelong Dutchess County resident, he was employed as a Plumber with Local Plumbing Contractors. He served in the United States Army and was a member of the N.U.A. Born on June 22, 1948 in Rhinebeck, he was the son of Bernard Hennessey Sr, and Anna May Batt. He was married to Carrie A. Sigler.

In addition to his wife of Verbank, he is survived by a son, Timothy Hennessey, Jr. of Denver, a step son, Robert Ryan, Amenla; his father, Bernard Hennessey of Millbrook; his sister, Lynn Hennes sey, Wappingers Falls; three brothers, Michael Hennessey, Poughkeepsie; Thomas Hennessey, Millbrook and Bernard Hennessey, Poughkeepsie; two granddaughters and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Calling hours will be held on Monday, June 5, 2000 from 2 4 and 7 9pm at the Allen Funeral Home, Franklin Millbrook. Graveside services will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2000 at Ham at Nine Partners Cemetery, "Millbrook, Rev, Karl Esmark will officiate. Margaret L.

Southwick Margaret Southwick, 93, of Poughkeepsie, died Thursday, June 1, 2000 at Eden Park Nursing home after a long Illness. She was a lifetime local resident and a homemaker. Margaret was a lifetime member and Past Matron of the Eastern Star, Poughkeepsie and a member of Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church where she was a choir member. Born in Tivoli, on Sept 3, 1906, she was the daughter of Egbert Simmons' and Bridget Doyle. She was a Graduate of Poughkeepsie Schools.

In Poughkeepsie, Aug. 25, 1925, she married Charles Edward Southwick. Mr, Southwick was a manager at the Delaval Separator Co. and predeceased her on Feb. 27, 1990.

Survivors include a sister, Maryleen Keady, Poughkeepsie; a niece, Barbara Lee Wyant; two nephews, Richard and Gerald Keady; several great and grand nieces and nephews Funeral service will be Mon June 5, 2000 at 12 Noon at the Dowling Funeral home. 'Calling hour 11:00 a m. Monday, pri or to the service. Interment, union Cemetery, Hyde Park, Arrangements by Dowling Funeral home, 43 Fairview Poughkeepsie. Family requests in lieu of flowers donation to Rehabilitation Programs, Inc, 70 Overocker Road, Pougnkeep sie, NY 12603.

Oswald Rodriguez Oswald Rodriguez, 76, a 1 year Town of Poughkeepsie resident, died on Frjday, June 2, 2000 at.Vassar Brothers Hospital. He had resided in Syracuse for 12 years before moving to Poughkeepsie and had also resided in the Bronx. He ws employed by Hayioi1 Elevator retirinff in 1986. He was of the Catholic faith and had served in the United States Army during World War II. Bom on Feb.

29, 1924 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was the son of Ramon Alicea and VTrgina GineL On May 15, 1943 in the Bronx, he married Gloria Class. She died on Hi :BsaY.Taaaaa' Baasi aaau survived by threes sons, Os wald Rodriguez. Jr. Manhattan; Rob ert Rodriguez and Dennis Rodriguez ety" presidency. Lillian It Jackson TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE Lillian H.

Jackson, 86, a 75 year resident of the Town of Poughkeepsie, departed this life on Tuesday, May 31, 2000, at her residence. The widow of the late David M. Jackson, she was a retired attendant of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center. Mrs. Jackson was a member of the Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church, where she was past president of the Senior Usher Board.

She was also a member of the Senior Choir, Get Together Club, Floral Club, Interior Committee, and a Sunday School Teacher. Her civic affiliations included the Catherine Street Center and the Poughkeepsie Neighborhood Club. Born in Lawnside, on April 1 1, 1914, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Frances Polk Johnson. She leaves to cherish fond memories, four daughters, Gloria Freeman and Barbara D. Anderson, both of Poughkeepsie; Elise J.

White, Silver Spring, and Frances M. Hancock, Pleasant Valley; a sister, Anna Thomas, Camden, 13 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends. Visitation will be 9 11 a Monday, at the Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church, 124 Smith Street, Poughkeepsie, where the funeral service will follow at 11 a m. The Pastor, Dr. H.

Dwight Bolton, will deliver the eulogy. Burial will be in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. Rhodes Funeral Home, 259 Walsh Ave, New Windsor, is in charge of arrangements. Eileen M. Polhill BEACON Eileen M.

Polhill, 39, a lifelong resident of Beacon, died Thursday, June 1, 2000 at home. Ms. Polhill was a financial specialist for. Premier National Bank in Cold Spring. i She was a member of St.

Joachim's Church, Beacon. Born on June 5, 1960, in Beacon, she was the daughter of Charles and Julia Cooper LaVallee. She was a graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Class of 1978 Survivors include her mother, Julia Koenitzer, Beacon; step father, Alfred Koenitzer, Beacon; a son, David Charles Polhill, Beacon; Sister, Annette Champagne, Cape May, N.J.; fiance, Damasco Maldonaldo, Bea con; nieces, Nicole and Madeline Champagne, Cape May, N.J.; stepbrother, Eric Koenitzer, Beacon; several aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was predeceased by her father, Charles LaVallee. Calling hours are 2 4 and 7 9 i at Libby Funeral Home, 55 Teller Beacdn.

A Memorial Mass will be offered 10 am, Monday. June '5, at St. Jor achim's Church, Leonard Beacon. Cremation will be private and at the convenience of the family. In.

lieu of flowers, a trust fund for her son, David Charles Polhill, hasi been established at the Premier National Bank, 40 Chestnut' St, Cold Spring NY 10516. Trust fund contribu tions would be preferred. LBJspeechwriter Horace Busby dies SANTA MONICA, Calit Horace Busby an aide and 'speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson who wrote the president's announcement that he would not seek re has died He was 76. Busby, who died Wednesday of respiratory failure, worked for Johnson on and off for nearby two decades, and wrote speeches discussing civil rights and other causes during Johnson's "Great Sod Tobacco companies seeking dismissal of federal lawsuit lb Usodatod PrM WASHINGTON Tobacco companies asked a judge Friday to throw out the government's massive lawsuit seeking to recover billions of dollars spent to treat ill smokers. "This just absolutely, Independently cannot fly," the companies' lawyer said.

The government's claims "are entirety lacking in any foundation in law," the lawyer Herbert Wachtell told U.S. District Judge Gladys Kesslcr. If the lawsuit "is not the largest lawsuit of all time, it certainly ranks high," he said. The government is trying to recover $20 billion a year spent by Medicare and other federal health plans to treat smoking related illnesses. Justice Department lawyer Frank Marine urged Kessler to let the lawsuit go forward.

"We have an overwhelming case to go to the next step. It's not whether we have proof at this point, it's whether we are entitled to put the proof before your honor" at trial, Marine said. Government accusations The government believes the tobacco companies "are continuing to deceive and continuing to spread the big lie that smoking cigarettes does not have adverse health effects," he said. Marine contended the government is legally entitled toseek payments dating back to when the Justice Department alleges the cigarette makers began conspiring to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking. However, he added; "We may ask for less i than we are legally entitled to," Kessler questioned both sides during the 3 hour argument but did not indicate when she might rule on the cigarette makers' bid to fend off the lawsuit, Smoking banned on international flights WASHINGTON Effective Sunday, smoking will be banned on all scheduled airline flights between the United States and other countries, the Transportation Department announced Friday.

The regulation bans smoking in the cabin or cockpit of flights by U.S. or foreign airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration estimated that 97.7 percent of flights between the United States and other countries are already smoke free Including all U.S. carrier flights due, to voluntary decisions by the airlines. Smoking has been banned on domestic U.S.

flights since 1990, bu that rule did not cover international flights arriving in or leaving the country. The government has been encouraging voluntary action by the airlines. The ban taking effect Sunday implements a part of an aviation overhaul act President Clinton signed April 5. The Associated Press ATAGiANCE TOBACCO COMPANIES The lawsuit names Philip Morris Philip Morris R.J. Reynolds Tobacco American Tobacco Brown Williamson Tobacco British American Tobacco PLC; British American Tobacco (Investments) Lorillard Tobacco Liggett and Myers the CounciFfor Tobacco Research U.S.A.; and the Tobacco Institute.

When the lawsuit was filed last September, Attorney General Janet Reno accused the tobacco industry of putting profit above public health by concealing data that showed nicotine is addictive and smoking causes disease. Company officials pledged last1 fall to fight the lawsuit rather than settle, as.they did in 1998 by "agreeing" to pay the states $246 billion over 25 years to cover the cost of treating sick smokers in the Medicaid program, which serves the poor and Wachtell said federal law does not allow the government to recover Medicare payments as it seeks to from the tobacco companies, That it never tried to do so before "speaks most eloquently that no such right exists," he added. Company breaks away One tobacco company, Liggett Group, argued separately that it could not be sued under the racketeering provision because it broke with the other companies four years ago, settled with five states and agreed to help the states pursue the other companies. "Liggett took a historic step to break ranks With the tobacco indus try" and can no longer be considered part of any conspiracy, lawyer tFredReinkexsaid, Justice Department lawyer Mark' Stern said a "simple' and sweeping" federal law allows the government to recover Medicare costs from those who harm patients covered by it Contest spotlights home schooling Vs Vfi Aj We loved you at your beginning We loved you at your painful end We shall keep you alive in our minds until we meet you around the bend Love Dad vr vr In Loving Memory of DARLALYNNSCHWARK 102867 67398 both of Liverpool, NY; two daughters, Shirley Segarra, Red hook; ana iuu nee Morel, Poughkeepsie; eight grandchildren; two great grandchildrengrandchildren and several nieces and neph cws. Calling hours are 'Sunday, June 4, 2000 from 3 7pm at the Timothy P.

Doyle Funeral Home, 371 Hooker Poughkeepsie. A Funeral Mass will be held on Monday, June 5, 2000 at at Our Lady of ML Carmel Church, Poughkeepsie. Burial will follow in SL Peter's Cemetery, Poughkeepsie. Robert Neil McNeil SANTA CRUZ, Robert Neil McNeil, 62 of Santa Cruz, died on Sunday, May 28, 2000 at his home. An 18 'year resident of Santa Cruz, he had previously rested in Dover Plains.

He graduated from Dover High School in 1955'. lie served in the Army Intelligence in Germany during the Korea Conflict Born on July 9, 1937 in Mt Vernon, he was the son of Raymond McNeil and Margaret Savage, He Is survived by bis former wife, Dianne Williams of Millbrook; three children, Robin MostachettL Millbrook: Heather McNeil and Jackie McNeil both of Dover Plains and two grandchildren KaiUin and Julia MostachettL He 'was predeceased by a brother Raymond McNeil, Jr, and a grandson Dante McNeil MostachettL There will be no calling hours and burial will be in SL Charles Cemetery at the convenience of the family, A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, June 4, 2000 at 3.30pm at Hufcut Funeral Home, Main SL, Dover Plains, Memorial donations may be made to the SIDS Foundation, NYS Center for Sudden Infant Death, State University of New York, Stwybrook, NY 11794. Busby was first hired by Johnson as a speechwriter in 1948, two years before Johnson was elected to the Senate. He served as special assis tant to Johnson from 1964 to 1965. In 1968, at the height of Johnson's unpopularity because of the Vietnam war, Busby wrote the president's announcement delivered before a national TV audience: "1 shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president" Born In Fort Worth, Texas, Busby attended the University of Texas at Austin but left college two credits short of graduation.

He worked for three years in the Austin bureau of the old International News' Service before Johnson hired him. Costume designer Bill Thomas dies BEVERLY HILLS, Calit BUI Thomas, a costume designer who won an Academy Award for "Spar tacus" and created outfits for actors from John Wayne to Lana Turner, died Tuesday at 79. He had suffered three heart attacks since January. Thomas' career covered some 300 movies and TV shows, from Westerns to historical romances to science fiction. His Oscar was for the gowns worn by Jean Simmons in 19608 "Spartacus." He also received Academy Award nominations for nine other movies, inducUngJ'Ship of Fools" andBedtaobs and iBroanstlcks." Thomas designed Judy Garland's down suit for The Pirate" and the silvery futuristic dothing of "Logan's Run." He also created personal wardrobes for actress Kim Novak and singer Helen Reddy.

The Associated Press Oannett Nws Srvtc Gone are the elaborate words, the 'pervous youngsters, and the equally nervous, audiences, What's left of the 20OO.Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, which ended Thursday, is a result that some say spells victory for a nontraditional and' controversial approach to education. Fbr the first time in the bee's bis tory, the three top finalists, got their education at home Iri fact, of the nation's 248 best spellers entered, 27 were home schoolers. Less than a decade ago, there were none Only a week four of 10 7 finalists in the National Geographic Bee, which tests of world geography; 1 were home schoolers. The results are being hailed by proponents as a sign the" technique not only works hut is big success. "It's a maturization of the home schooling movement said Mike' Farris, president' of Home School Legal Defense Asso dation.

"I can't wait until, home schoolers are winning Oscars and are becoming This Is an outstanding confirmation of the excellence of home schooling," said Farris. Education Ntftfy vata Paige Kimble, spelling bee director, said that although nome schoolers have done well oefore in the contest, the impact' this year, was unprecedented, "My hunch is that we're seeing more and more parents of gifted children who' see the need to engage these children at home. Many of these. parents have encouraged the.cnildren since infancy. Education is highly valued in these homes" But Kathleen Lyons, spokeswoman for the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, said the contest results shouldn't be interpreted as home schooling budging ahead of traditional education.

HBhhhhhhhhhV' HH BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaKLsr9 fL I l9 Vf 11 George Abraham Thampy.l 2 of Maryland Heights, accom panied by his father K. George Thampy, shows off the National. Spelling Bee trophy after winning the' 73rd edition of the event in' Washington Thursday. Thampy has been taught by his moiner since Dinn. A' The idea of an education is not to be a spelling thamp," she' said.

don't want to take anything away from thj; kids, but education is a broad base of knowledge that 'indudes sdence, mathematics, erature and history. To say home schoolers get a better education is quite a stretch" She added, "Let's face it, there aren't a lot of people who can afford home education." Lyons said the education of a child also involves building social skills, knowing bow to get along with others, and partldpating in outside The hcnechoc4ers'' top finish waar "very said Jack Wehk, an adviser in the US, Department of Education. "Home schooling appears to be doing something that results in high achievement in spelling bees and presunv abhm other subjects, too," he sakl Said Wenk, "Certainly education needs to look at why this sue HUflUWCE W06 A 1 909 udy proparad ter U.S. Department of EstoeaSen revealed that 1 .2 psreaf of ttwnaflon'sscrjcatohl dren hi 1996 ware being 'vj. taught at homa.

That was mora ftan double 019 esev; rrflvevsarsearBtr, cess Is occurring." "There 'may be characteristics' hat can be emulated," he said. Farris said home schooling is usually a famUy affair The teacher is the mother or father or Students often indude all siblings; Traditionally, parents pursue home teaching because of religious reasons, but Farris said some believe they can provide a better education they're worried about safety in public schools. htcsief vaccfetM for dogs, cats BEACON Mid Hudson Animal Aid is offering discounted vaccines for cats and dogs' Sunday at Memorial Park in Beacon. Rabies and distemper shots will be available fbr cats and dogs at a cost of per vacdne, Fbr the safety of all animals and people in attendance, dogs must be leashed and cats must be in carriers. The dink will be held from 9 am to 1 pjn.

at Memorial Park on Route 51 The park is across the street from the Tallix foundry. Fbr information, call MI U2L WAPPINGERS FALLS Wappingers Junior High School has been without full phone capabilities since a storm knocked put power and phones on May 10, according to prjndpal Robert Dvorkln. vThe district working with its contractor to remedy the problem, but the school has only one incoming line at this time. In the event of an emergency, call Facilities and Operations at (845) 294 5150 and ask to have the school contacted by radio. fcauafc ftft tMr lira a ti FISHKILL A car wash will be held by the Lighthouse Vbuth Group from 9 ajn.

to m. today at the FishkUl Church of the Nazarene, 201 Main SL, FlshkUL The church youth group Is asking local residents to donate whatever amount they choose for the car washes, proceeds will be used to support summer activities at the church. Taa raantf Resulbr from January's fourth grade EnglkhLanguage Arts exam can now be found on the Poughkeepsie Journal's Vfeb site. Across the state, 59 percent of fourth graders met or exceeded the state standards for the second year tests. In the mid Hudson Vklley, several schools had more than 70 per cent meet the benchmark, The state education department released the results on Thursday.

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