European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 4,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7firm sets up panel to study charitable request Philadelphia apr when Genevieve Mclaughlin told her Boss at Independence Blue Cross she wanted to skip the traditional retirement lunch so the Money could be Given to Charity she got a typical corporate response. The company set up a committee. Blue Cross usually throws a retirement lunch at a fancy hotel for employees of a decade or More Complete with Flowers photographs and a $100 gift certificate. The guest of Honor can invite up to 35 co workers and a handful of managers attend. The non profit health insurance company with about 2 million subscribers in the Philadelphia area picks up the $ 1,200 Tab up to 20 times a year but Mclaughlin 64, Wasny to interested in sitting through a Bunch of speeches by executives she hardly knows. A you ride the elevator with these people and they done to have the faintest idea who you Are a a she said. Mclaughlin suggested to her Boss that instead of spending the Money on a lunch she did no to want the company split it Between her favorite Charity a St. Johns hospice a and her grandsons Little league baseball team. A they gave me a memo saying they a set up a committee to consider whether or not the rules could be changed a she said. Mclaughlin a retirement As a medicaid claims adjuster officially started saturday after nearly 19 years with the company. She does no to know when the committees decision will be announced. Meanwhile Blue Cross gave her a Choice a have the lunch or wait for the committee decision. A they said it might be five years from now. And who knows if in a even cing to be around tomorrow a Maughlin said. A but i done to care i want that Money to go to that hospice and that Little league team. A after All its not like in a saying a just give me the Money so i can go Down to the  a Blue Cross spokesman Dick Mendenhall said the decision has been put on hold. He said he does no to know of any other employees who made similar requests. Mclaughlin said she sympathizes with the company in one respect. A i understand part of their problem. They re worried that some Day some one retiring will want to donate the Money to the Kun flux klan or a group like that Quot she said. A Well Why Don t they just specify that you can to donate the Money to something destructive a Bob Cantlin a company vice president bristled at the suggestion Blue Cross could be a Little quicker about making a decision. �?o1 think quite frankly some companies would just say a this is the policy and we wont consider changing a a he said. Mclaughlin said she feels bad about the controversy but she Isnit backing Down. A if a big outfit like Blue Cross would change their policy like this maybe other companies would follow suit and there a be a Little less hunger in the world a she  aunt Bee s Memorabilia draws fans to Siler City a a Raleigh . Apr you can buy a velvet Elvis portrait anywhere but Only this weekend could you get a great Deal on aunt been a Rake. Just about anything at the late Frances Bavieri a House was up for Sale saturday. The actress who died in december at age 86, portrayed the matronly head of the Taylor household in the popular a Andy Griffith show a which is nearing its 30th anniversary and enjoying continued life in syndication. One of Bavieri a last wishes was to leave the contents of her Siler City Home to the University of North Carolina Center for Public television endowment fund. And everything was there during a morning Sale open to the Public some of whom had travelled from As far away As Minnesota and Florida to take part in the bidding and buying. Anything that did no to get snapped up before lunch went on the Block in an afternoon auction. Included were the yellowed copies of Bavieri a contracts and her guacamole Green Studebaker Daytona with 43,000 Miles on it along with rotting tires and the Ceramic Donkey on the dashboard. The Center raised about $120,000, spokeswoman Alexsandra Lett said. The car brought $20,000, paid by Stanley Bingham and Brown Loflin both of Denton. They plan to exhibit it at an annual tractor show. A sofa was auctioned for $1,400, Lett said. A Queen Anne dining table with six chairs went for $ 1,800. A this is what she lived with and what she sat on and what she ate held and touched a said Priscilla Bratcher director of development and Community relations for the Center. Books mostly novels and lamps were most popular amid the end tables chests of drawers and other furniture. The Rake went to Glennie Bell of nearby gamer who said it was for her husband. The Price $45. A a he a a fan and he better not use it a she said. A a it la go in a storage room right now in a Comer that he wont touch. Maybe Well hang it up in the Den  Jackie Hawley of four Oaks bought a tree trimmer for $20 because a i did no to have  Bud Kendrick and his wife Penny made the three hour drive from Charlotte and walked out of the Sale with a writing table slightly water stained but a Price against the backdrop of other searchers Reather Reddick eyes a lamp from the late Frances Bavier s belongings. Less treasure by their standards. A a it a aunt Bee. Everybody wants a Little bit of aunt Bee to take Home with them a Kendrick said. A she was on television so Long and so much a part of your life and you watched her. You just want to take a Little bit of that  Penny Kendrick who watches the show at Home every Day says she a plans to Bone up on her Griffith history. A a there a a College course you can take now in Char Lotte. In a seriously considering that a she said to which her husband replied a ooh my  Early in her retirement Bavier sought to escape identification with her television past. But in her later years she became reclusive and increasingly referred to herself As aunt Bee and continued to Wear her hair in a Bun her lawyer and a close Friend for Many years j. Samuel Williams has said. One Volunteer said the item a lot of people avoided was the four poster bed in which Bavier died. The bed eventually sold for $850. Rapist killer grins widely As guilty verdict read fort Myers Fla. Apr a Man who already faces life sentences for three other rapes broke into a wide Grin sat in the a 12 other rapes broke into a wide Gri urday after a jury found him guilty kidnapping rape and murder of year old girl. Robert Power 29, also was found Guil Cut rubbing Orange county Deputy a Henitt Richard Welty of his gun and radio in the Field where Angeli bares a Yohes do a an it bleed next the a us be Bounty jurors took less than be hours to find Power guilty of first de Grce murder in the oct. 6,1987, attack near me girl s South Orange county Home. A rps Eluters said they would Nawf a a a no a a a i Miu Iney Wouita Emp size Powers prison record in seeking the death penalty. One of Powers attorneys f. Wesley blanker said it would be unlikely that he could persuade the same jury next month to recommend a sentence of life in prison with no parole for 25 years. Power who already faces 10 consecutive life sentences in prison for rape convictions in Seminole and Osceola counties blinked and then grinned broadly after the verdict was read. A the does no to look real upset a one juror said before the panel was escorted from the courtroom. Blankner explained his clients reaction a emr. Power was prepared for the worst in this situation. We did no to kid him. We knew it would be Tough to con Vince a jury  circuit judge Gary format set the sentencing phase of the trial for sometime next month. Powers attorneys said they Hope his prison record a he has spent All but two years of his adult life in jail a will help him. A the jury will hear that he has t done Well in the outside world a Blankner said. A but he a demonstrated that he a done Well in a controlled environment. He a been a Model  Blankner also said he will present evidence that Power was physically abused and sexually assaulted As a child. Prosecutors meanwhile have said they will use Powers previous convictions and details of angelic a slaying to try to persuade the jury to recommend the death sentence. Power was also convicted of raping two Kissimmee Sisters Ages 12 and 16, and a Longwood woman All within a month of Angl in a death but Formet barred prosecutors from revealing that information to the jury during the two week trial which was moved to Lee county because of publicity. Angeli was found half clothed tied and gagged in a Field bleeding from both the rape and a fatal Stab wound in her neck. She had been punched in the face and her glasses were broken. Welty identified Power from the witness stand As the Man who stole his radio and gun