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Show Enduring After 50 years as a pharmacist, Bill Henderson still gets excited when he rum the key and opens die door to Hendeaonh Drug Sme, continuing a tradition tfau his greatgrandfather started 161 yean ago. The family-ownepharmacy has endured the tmoftime, surviving an 1864 Civil War bottle that leveled a town block and a 1947 fire that gutted the red brick structure by die Missouri River in Glasgow, Mo. (pop. 1,263). No sooner do I get in the store and the telephone's already ringing," says Henderson, 72, who today mans the store with son David, 40, their respective wives. Deltas and Sarah, and two loyal, longtime employees. As Bill heads back through the 195Qs-yl- e soda fountain, past shelves lined with preparations, cards, candies, and "sundries," he greets retired postal worker Jim Partise, who begins brewing the coffee that will fuel him and ocher regulars and the laughter that drifts through the drugstore each morning after the store opens at 7 sun. As a youngster; Bill helped dean the store and served customers at die cash register. His father; Walter Sc, also operated a newspaper distribution service, and Bill delivered The Kanua City Star tnATbtKamua City Tima 13 times a week for a nickel a customer: Bills tide model was his ftthec People respected him," Bill says. "My dad was agende-mahe tipped his hat to the ladies. d n, '4. mmt m SSSi'SWffaUiisiia aw ' mSSSSXmSSmSSSmml VIHk . : MMi Mima amma jiaia jva us' mbm IMM ua Mima ua wiQjf fMaeM0no$iM um emmeeSBh MIU MIMJiEF tnomicoomin 1 I |