Stories from Monday, February 7, 1994

PRAIRIE DU ROCHER, Ill. -- The flood of 1993 has claimed another victim. The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency canceled the June 1994 Fort de Chartres Rendezvous because of extensive flood damage that occurred to the fort and the surrounding grounds...

As many of the other boys rough-housed on the nearby playground equipment, Dusty McDowell practiced his knot-tying skills beneath a pavilion. At the edge of the playground, another young boy was whittling away at a tree limb with a Swiss Army pocket knife. Just a few yards away, a third boy was practicing knot-tying with his shoe laces...

Lady Luck and Boyd Gaming representatives tonight will have their first opportunity to pitch their riverboat casino proposals to the Cape Girardeau City Council. Last month Lady Luck Gaming proposed a $58 million development for a 100-acre tract of land on the southern edge of the downtown riverfront...

PERRYVILLE -- Sabreliner Corp. has received a special award from the Army Aviation Association of America for its actions during last year's flood at its Perryville facility. Flood preparations by Sabreliner, headquartered in St. Louis, saved tools and equipment necessary to continue the Army T53 helicopter engine rebuilding program without interruption...

People The Southeast Missourian asked people how they felt about the United States accelerating its ongoing conversion to the metric system. About 30 percent of U.S. products are now metric. Jenny Adams: "It should probably go faster. I think the hardest part would be figuring how many kilometers instead of miles it would be to some place. They should put up new road signs all at once that show both. People would learn it quicker if they have to deal with it."...

Two races in the Jackson municipal and school board elections and one race in the Chaffee Board of Aldermen election face voters April 5. The filing deadline was Feb. 1. In Jackson, a race for the two vacancies on the school board was assured when incumbent board member Larry Koenig filed Feb. 1 for a fourth term. The other candidates are incumbent board member Jack Knowlan Jr. and a newcomer, Ken Callis...

More than 2 million people are victims of burn injuries every year. Of those, 70,000 are hospitalized and many thousands die. It is because of numbers like those that Burn Awareness Week -- this year Feb. 6-12 -- is observed. "If two DC-10 jets collided head on and killed everyone aboard both planes, you would hear about it in the news," said Lt. ...

January was a month of record temperature extremes in Cape Girardeau. The 30-day outlook for February indicates more cold weather is ahead, with temperatures here expected to continue to average below normal. Two record lows were set and a record high tied. Two new record minimum highs were also set...

Sixty-eight people were killed when a mortar bomb devastated a Sarajevo street market this weekend. "In the worst atrocity of the 22-month war," The Reuter news service reported, "the explosion transformed the crowded open market into a scene from a charnel house .... Horribly mutilated bodies littered pavements where moments earlier hundreds of shoppers bartered food and clothes...

To the Editor: As nurses, we witness the detrimental effects of smoking each time we work. Recently, research has determined that smoking is the number one contributory cause of death in our society. More deaths are related to smoking than to deaths caused by drugs, guns and accidents combined. ...

To the Editor I am one member of a group of citizens that is representative of residents of the 15 homes on County Road 341 and other concerned neighbors. I want to try to inform our friends and residents of The City of Jackson as to why we are opposing the sale of the Jackson landfill to a regional or private operator. ...

Leon A. Shell, 69, of 1716 Cecilia, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, in Bradenton, Fla. Ford and Sons Funeral Homes are in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Robert G. Little, 53, of Jackson died Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 9, 1942, at Cape Girardeau, son of Percy R. and Mayme Babb Little. He married Carolyn Reitzel, May 11, 1962...

ORAN -- Thelma O. Thompson, 79, of Oran, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 1994, at her residence. She was born Oct. 9, 1914, at Corona, Tenn., daughter of John "Biffle" and Myrtle Iva Osbon Orr. She married Elwood Thompson, April 15, 1941. He died Nov. 15, 1977...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Mabel Grant, 84, of Tamms, Ill., died Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, at her residence. She was born July 14, 1909, at Vicksburg, Miss., daughter of Tom and Kate Scott. She married John Grant, April 9, 1945, at Chicago. He preceded her in death...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Donald Gene Rendleman, 64, of Elgin, Ill., formerly of Union County, Ill., died Friday, Feb. 4, 1994, at his residence. He was born March 14, 1929, at Cairo, Ill., son of Frank J. and Agnes M. Kelley Rendleman. He married Sandra Weinberg in 1951, at Chicago, Ill...

ADVANCE -- Walter Campbell, 93, of Advance, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 16, 1900, in Bollinger County, son of William and Lucinda Shieverdeck Campbell. He married Emma Dennison in 1926. She preceded him in death...

PERRYVILLE -- Debbie A. Stortz Hendrix, 35, of Perryville, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 1994, in Anna, Ill. The Miller Family Funeral Home in Perryville is in charge of arrangements.

WARE, Ill. -- A 41-year-old Perryville woman was killed early Sunday in a single-car accident near Ware. Deborah Ann Hendrix was pronounced dead at the scene on U.S. Route 3, about three miles south of Route 146. A spokesman for the Illinois State Police said Hendrix's southbound car left the roadway at about 2:20 a.m., struck a tree and burst into flames...

Burger King, 7-Eleven, Nestle's, Lipton, Ragu -- all are money-making brands readily recognized by U.S. investors. And all are American brands. But, if you restrict yourself to U.S. stocks, you won't be investing in these; they're all owned by foreign companies...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- The name Ensign-Bickford could lend itself to the gentle setting of academia. Nestled between high-reaching bluffs adjoining Shawnee National Forest, Wolf Lake and a large ox-bow-shaped body of water, a visit to Ensign-Bickford Co. leaves a feeling of having visited a friendly college campus...