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...JAMES MCCONKEY, OF ALBANY, MO. (pop. 2,100), never cried. But he felt a sadness the nights before Christmas 1985, standing in his tiny hardware store on the west side of his town square. He remembers it vividly today. A dream smashed...
Shiny new bicycles were lined up, prices cut to the core. Appliances filled the counters. Holiday decorations festooned the windows. Everything there . . . except customers. Some evenings when McConkey looked beyond the twinkling lights out over the square, he could not see a single car. He knew where they were...
...earned his position. He worked his way to Sergeant on the beat and in the cruisers. He wasn't politically inclined [a political appointee] like some people," says Lewis G. McConkey. a detective at Area B and 28-year veteran of the Boston Police. Johnson's past gave him increased authority and a more effective style of command, McConkey adds...
...Automatically that creates a problem. It's a given," Thomas says. However. most agree that Johnson took whatever difficulties came his way in stride. "You're bound to meet someone along the way who'll judge you not because of your abilities but because you're a Black man." McConkey says. "But that wasn't something that deterred him. It wasn't a problem." he adds...
...month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...