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50 Copyright 1993 5-STAR (ai I V. i VOL. 115, NO. 189 CLOSE 3475.67 UP 25.74 2B Supplanted: Ozzie Smith won't start in the All-Star game. Ozzie Ousted As All-Star For the first time since 1983, baseball fans fail to vote Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith as the National League All-Star starter.

Smith lost by about i 1 2,000 votes to Cincinnati's Barry Larkin for Tuesday's game in Baltimore. ID Lee Smith's 30th Saves Cardinals Lee Smith, who will find out tonight if he has made the National League All-Star team, reached the 30-save plateau for the eighth time in his career Wednesday night when he held off the Atlanta Braves in a 3-1 Cardinals victory at Busch Stadium. ID Romanian Boy Arrives Home Arthur Alexander Henn, 19-months-old, arrives home to his adoptive parents, Brenda Henn and Art Henn of west St. Louis County. The boy is the first to be released of 28 Romanian children adopted by 24 American couples.

3A Downtown Resurgence (EDITORIAL) At Last, A Settlement For Haiti (editorial) 2C i' 11 1 J. JULY 8, 1993 (1) 4 yy edge. And a single voice from the sandbag line. "Just think, men, we saved the town of Kimmswick," the voice said. "We saved a town older than all of us put together." Saved? Maybe.

Kimmswick, a picturesque tourist town of quaint antique1 shops, gift stores and pre-Civil War homes, sits just between Interstate 55 and the river in eastern Jefferson County. They saved it once, Reno said, way i iC.) V- 'i Jerry Naunheim Jr.Post-Dispatch A volunteer sandbag brigade trying Tuesday to protect a home in Kimmswick from Rock Creek. Brian Crow (far right) lives in the home with his mother. Crest May Top '73; North St. Charles County Evacuates 1 v.

1 i LSJ THE CREST: A record-breaker of 43.5 feet is predicted for Tuesday. The previous record: 43.23 in 1973. TO CHECK THE WEATHER: Call the National Weather Service at 928-1198. TO DONATE MONEY: Send donations to help flood victims tor Salvation Army 3800 Undell Boulevard -St. Louis, Mo.

63108, or to: American Red Cross P.O. Box 1504 St. Charles, Mo. 63302. ter 10 p.m.

Wednesday. Officials or-4 dered the immediate evacuation of. residents in the northern section the city and county in the Missouri River flood plain. The order includes all bottomlands and flood plains. "This order affects several thousand people," said Mark Echele, public information officer for the St.

Charles Emergency Operations Center. "The area includes several miles of flood plain area. It's not real densely populated, but there are people living there." And water topped the 23.8-mile-See FLOODING, Page 8 Elizabeth Dole: Red Cross head here 6A Around the Clock: Corps starts 24-hour operations 6A Cities Surveyed: Water threatens towns 7A Missouri Rises: Rain pushes river toward record 8A Industries React: Companies dependent on barges stockpile goods. IB THURSDAY, 1 "A i 1 rZ I IM I I a this marriage to bring you hunting season," it said), staring silently out across the rising mud-brown floodwa-ter of the Mississippi River. Mayor Martha Patterson, in her shin-high blue rubber waders, directing flood efforts with a hand-held walkie talkie and gutsy determination.

Ray Henn and Bobby Menefe and Mike Godwin and all of the other men in handkerchief head coverings and water-logged tennis shoes passing the 40-pound sacks one by one to the sandbag levee growing along the water's winners paid their money and took their chances. Plenty of Illinois residents lined up through the ropes Wednesday at the Unnamed Irish Bar in St. Louis Centre. The Missouri strategy was really paying off. Missouri joined the Powerball association 14 months ago to get some jackpots that would compete with the Illinois lottery.

The state was tired of seeing Missourians going to Illinois to buy lottery tickets. See POWERBALL, Page 12 pa i By Tom Uhlenbrock Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Great Flood of '73 soon may be in second place. The Mississippi River at St. Louis is expected to top the high-water mark set in 1973 early next week ushering in the Greater Flood of '93. "All the records that were established 20 years ago are going to be broken," said Claude Strauser, senior river engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers in St.

Louis. Strauser pointed to river forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. Those predictions say the Mississippi at St. Louis will hit 43.5 feet next Tuesday, topping the record of 43.23 feet set April 28, 1973. Those forecasts, however, do not include downpours that hit much of Missouri on Wednesday or those to come over the next several days.

"Everything I'm telling you now is changing because it's still raining," Strauser said Wednesday afternoon. "And it can be nice and sunny in St. Louis, and the rivers will continue to rise if it's raining north and west of That, Strauser said, probably will cause the crest predictions issued Wednesday to be revised upward. 'The story is unfolding," he said. "The ground is totally saturated, so every drop of rain is going to run off.

This is a major event." Officials in St. Charles and St. Charles County issued a joint flood warning and evacuation order just af- back in 1973 when the Mississippi crested here at 43-feet plus, the place marked in white paint mark on the concrete support of the old railroad bridge. Reno was here then, too, bagging and waiting, and bagging and watching, and bagging and hoping. The sand held that time, he said.

It can hold again. The volunteers have been arriving here since Friday morning, the morning after the big town hall meeting where the people of Kimmswick See SANDBAGS, Page 8 1 sfTf Sy Ted DarganPost-Dispatch Ray Cothern of south St. Louis County taking his dog to higher ground Wednesday. They are on the rising Meramec River, which forced Cothern to leave his home and his dog late Tuesday. The Struggle To Save A River Town Business 1-6B Calendar 1-16E Classified 1-6F Commentary 3C Editorials 2C Everyday 1-8G Movie Timetable 14E NationWorld 8A News Analysis 1C Obituaries 4C People 4A Reviews 6G St.

Louis 3A Sports 1-8D Television 5G By Bill Smith Of the Post-Dispatch Staff On a rainy, gray July afternoon, these are the enduring images of Kimmswick and Front Street and the flood of 1993: Three-year-old Joanna From-mann, standing in the middle of some 60 volunteers, pouring yellow-white sand into a green plastic sack one tiny fistful at a time. Seventy-two year-old Harvey Reno, in his bib overalls and his neon-orange baseball cap interrupt Lucky Lottery Numbers Add Up To $110 Million Chance Of Storms FORECAST: Today: Partly cloudy; chance of afternoon and evening storms. High 88, with south winds at 5 to 15 mph. Low 74. Friday: Chance for storms.

High 88. Other POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO BEO PAT Of F. 09189V1100 ii Summit Backs Bosnian Muslims But Leaders Retreat From Last Year's Vow To Use Force If Necessary Compiled From News Services Trad nact nprtPd to boost they would pressure Iraq and Libya to TOKYO A day after reaching an lr fScts 10A C0Perate with the United Nations- accord on free trade, leaders of the rn. The draft also ur8ed North Korea t0 world's seven richest industrial coun- "Iharm campaign- reyerse its dedsion t0 withdraw from tries called today for strengthening 1 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. U.N.

operations in Bosnia. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins In dealing with the war in Bosnia, In a draft political communique, ravesinToKyolOA. the summjt nations retreated from a President Bill Clinton and the other threat issued last year to use force, if leaders said terms of a settlement in u.N. resolutions calling for withdraw- necessary. A U.S.

official said the Bosnia should not be imposed at the aj from iandS occupied in the Six-Day warning may have raised false hopes expense of besieged Muslims. War of 1967 At the same time the for the Muslims. The leaders at the economic sum- abandon lheir This time, the seven nations, dc mit meeting also urged Serbian Presi- lJiVl scribing the situation in the former dent Slobodan Milosevic to allow in- economic boycott or Israel, a process Yugoslav repuDiic "rapidly deterio- ternational monitors to remain in already begun by Kuwait rating," reaffirmed their commitment Kosovo. Tne seven leaders expressed con- to Bosnia's territorial integrity even as They called on Israel to respect cern over Irak's behavior and said See SUMMIT, Page 10 By Fred W. Lindecke Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The numbers for the real numbers are 4-8-19-28-41 and 30.

Those numbers came up Wednesday night in $110 million Powerball lottery drawing. Officials should know by this morning if someone won. If no one wins, the prize could roll over to as much as $150 million making it the largest lottery prize in the United States. All day Wednesday, would-be.