Stories from Wednesday, September 26, 2001

The Rector City Council is wanting to gauge support or opposition of its efforts to clean-up, repair or demolish substandard structures in the community. The council has been active over the past several years in such efforts. Members of the community who are either support or oppose that effort are invited to attend a public meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Rector City Hall...

If I could only take back one quarter. Certainly those words must have been going through Rector Junior High head coach Jason Lance's mind after last Thursday night's game against Parkin. With the Junior Cougars leading 12-8 going into the final quarter, the game suddenly fell apart for Rector, as Parkin came from behind for a 44-18 win...

Slowly, and very patriotically, the sports world is attempting to get back to something that resembles normalcy. After the tragic events of September 11, the sports world came to a screeching halt. The games didn't matter much anymore. There were much more important things to do. There still is, but as a nation, and as part of the nation's healing process, a return to some regular familiar activity must take place...

FAYETTEVILLE - East is east and west is west, but north-south running suitsthese Razorbacks best. That's why Fred Talley and Brandon Holmes rank as Arkansas' 1-2 tailback punch even if the national pundits and some local media haven't grasped it yet...

C.W. Knauts fired a 67 in the first round last weekend at Sugar Creek Country Club in Piggott to capture first place in the annual Sugar Creek Individual Tournament. Knauts shot a 71 on the second day to finish with a 138. "I played pretty well," Knauts said. "I played good in the first round, but I believe I played even better in the second round."...

Earline Lawrence, 81, of Rector, formerly of Campbell, Mo., died Monday, Sept. 24, 2001, at Three Rivers Healthcare-South Campus in Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was born May 6, 1920, in Malden, Mo., the daughter of Nathan A. and Perlie Ellen Barnwell Russom...

Darlyn Sinkbeil, 49, of Oklahoma, a native of Rector, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at St. John Hospital in Tulsa, Okla. She was born July 24, 1952, in Rector to Doyne and Susie McDaniel Fowler. She was a graduate of Lamar University and was a certified public accountant (CPA). She retired in 1990 as manager of financial reporting for Occidental Petroleum to be a fulltime wife and take care of her sons...

Lola Marie Yancey, 49, of Dallas City, Ill., died Friday, Sept. 21, at her parents' home. She was born Aug. 18, 1952, in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of Wendell and Betty (Stewart) Oge. She married Doyle Gene Yancey on July 15, 1970, in Peoria. He preceded her in death on Sept. 26, 1997. She also was preceded in death by her mother...

Rectorites have an opportunity assist victims of the recent terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. Those who wish may donate to special accounts set up at Union Planters Bank or Peoples Bank in Rector. Donations to the special funds also may be made at the Rector Water Department office in city hall...

A 13-year-old Marmaduke girl, kidnapped Saturday, Sept. 15, from Marmaduke's Legion Park, was found late Friday, Sept. 21, by police in Durham, N.C., and, according to authorities, is "safe and sound." Danielle Shea Blair, an eighth grader at Marmaduke Junior High School, was found by police in a Durham motel room after she called authorities when her captor left her there alone. ...

People all around the world now have forever etched in their minds scenes of destruction in New York City and Washington, D.C., and images of a crashed airliner in Pennsylvania, the result of terrorist attacks in America on Tuesday, Sept. 11. These images, and those of brave rescue efforts, grieving families, and displays of patriotism, have touched us all, but American children, suddenly thrust into a world of chaos with which they are totally unfamiliar, perhaps are having a particularly difficult time in sorting out the events of the last two weeks.. ...

Recently, a 13-year-old Marmaduke girl was abducted by a man that she had been chatting with over the Internet. The 13-year-old had given this man enough information about her through the chats that he was able to locate her and kidnap her. Fortunately, the girl was returned unharmed, and the predator was captured. ...

Donald and Kay Huckabay of Rector often keep up with the schedule of their son, David, a pilot for Continental airlines. So when they heard on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, that two hijacked planes had been flown into the World Trade Center in New York and another into the Pentagon in Washington, they began to pray. All of the hijacked flights had originated on the east coast...

Rector's Cougars had trouble getting untracked offensively Friday night and didn't have an answer for the hard running of Palestine-Wheatley's Ray Gardner. The result was a 22-0 conference football win for the visiting Patriots. The setback left the Cougars 0-3 and 0-1 in conference play heading into a 3AA game this Friday at Parkin...