FOURTEEN-YEAR OLD LAD BREAKS THIGH IN FALL AT JENNINGS SCHOOL. Monday afternoon as he was starting home from the Jennings school, Herman Heck, the 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heck, of 6 miles north of Farmington, caught one of his feet in a crevice in the rock steps at the school house and fell, breaking his right thigh between the knee and hip joint. A near neighbor was summoned who came and took the unfortunate lad to his home. Dr. Robinson was called in and set the broken bones. He reports him doing as well as could be expected. It was a very painful as well as unusual accident. [local newspaper clipping] Note: The above clipping came to me undated. Herman Heck, according to his obituary, was born October 14, 1900. He died Dec. 30, 1972, and served for one term as Sheriff of St. Francois County. He was married to Alpha (Mitchell) who survived him.