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creation ii swung lDUCAl 31VT iiviTxiH sci ioous 1 fWpSSJKSj 3 we want on the adoption list doesn't mean that we've given up by any means." He said his group also plans to inform parents and teachers about the issue in an effort to persuade school systems to include creationism in the curriculum. Science textbooks come up for review each six years. This year's textbook committee reviewed books for some four months and heard testimony from about 20 people recommending some texts and criticizing others. But some religious groups say evolution presents no contradiction of Christian doctrine; they argue that creationism should be kept out of science classes. In a statement issued in February 1982, the Roman Catholic Church urged opposition to any legislation which would require instructors to teach biblical accounts of creation as if they were scientific.

The biblical account of creation deals with other questions, such as the reason for creation, why man was created and the quality of creation, the statement said. See ROMAN, page 2A This ii the lecond In a two-part series on the debate over Including creatlonism in science instruction in the state's public schools. By KAREN HARTLEY Advertiser Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM The Issue of whether creationism should be taught in public schools has religious denominations taking both sides with the Roman Catholic' Church opposing such teaching, while the Alabama Baptist State Conventon says it shouldn't be out of the question. Thursday, the state Board of Education will decide which among 153 science texts it will approve for use in the state's public schools. At least two of th.m list "special creation" in the index of the books' contents, while some of the others suggest students may want to find out about other theories of man's origins besides evolution.

James Talley, a member of the Central Alabama Creation Science Society, said he will attend the state Board of Education's Thursday meeting and present a book for adoption that is not on the list recommended by the State Textbook Committee. The book he will recommend presents both the theories of evolution and creationism, Talley said. "We're going to try to get it or similar books like it into the curriculum," he said. "The fact that we don't have the textbook Home A Cool, clear Details, page 8A 25 Cents l4Year- 156th No. 243 Montgomery, Alabama Wednesday, December 7, 1983 uufL i i (LOlQ) PLO blast kills 4, injures 46 Militia gunners fire at U.S.

base Militia gunners poured heavy machine-gun fire at the U.S. Marine base at Beirut airport Tuesday, and a PLO bomb tore apart a bus in Jerusalem, killing four people and wounding 46. Injured Alabamians die In Alabama, the death toll from the October 23 terrorist attack rose to 11, The Associated Press reported. Military officials reported Tuesday that Lance Cpl. Terry L.

Hudson, 22, of Prichard, and Cpl. Henry "Ben" Townsend 21, of Mount Meigs, have died in U.S. hospitals from injuries suffered in the bombing. The announcement came one day after military officials said two other Alabama soldiers died Sunday in fighting in Lebanon. And more than a month ago, another seven servicemen with homes or family ties in Alabama were killed in the explosion that claimed more than 200 lives at U.S.

headquarters in Beirut. By ALVIN BENN Advertiser Staff Writer SELMA Federal disaster relief officials are due in Selma Wednesday to assess damage after a tornado cut a 13-mile path of death and destruction through the city and county Tuesday morning. a 40 60 Phouw by Phil Scarabraok 'J I Tornado's trail No U.S. casualties were reported i The collapsed wall of an i until IWIV il AH building, above, An elderly man died in his apartment, 17 others were injured and 103 houses and mobile homes were either destroyed or damaged, authorities said. Civil defense officials said damages may top $5 million and could reach as much as $10 million.

"It's the worst natural disaster I've seen in Selma since the 1961 flood," said Mayor Joe Smith-erman, who viewed the damage in a state trooper helicopter Tuesday morning. Smitherman said there have been no reports of looting, adding he ordered Selma policemen to shoot looters on sight. Dallas County Coroner Kenneth Lawrence said Clarence Chappell, 70, died when the tornado roared over the apartment complex where he lived shortly before 3 a.m. The tornado destroyed five apartment units and damaged a sixth, said Manager C.H. Glass.

Most of the injured were treated and released from Selma's two local hospitals. Four were admitted at Medical Center Hospital and a 5-year-old girl, Kimberly Pettoway, was transferred to Baptist Medical Center in Montgomery for treatment of internal injuries. Dallas County Civil Defense Di Iat ggvo -I Selmamanwas apartment! -lyOv I where a Sel l(0 killed early i-'-i Tuesday, attests STILL to the power of the tornado NEED $130,894 in the most recent machine-gun attack. The bus blown apart in Jerusalem was stopped at a traffic light in the Jewish section near a military cemetery. Bloody terrorist attack It was the bloodiest attack on civilians in Israel since Israeli forces invaded Lebanon 18 months ago in an attempt to smash the Palestine Liberation Organization.

It also was the worst terrorist attack in Jerusalem in more than five years. The PLO in Tripoli claimed responsibility, saying, "This operation comes to escalate the actions of the Palestinian revolution against the Israeli occupiers." that toppled it. At Turner Motor below, a tossed-about pickup truck and damaged cars are scattered outside the wrecked dealership. A gasoline pump at the Minit Shop, next door to W'estside Junior High School, was also torn apart by the 1 winds. rector Warren Rhoades said the twister cut a quarter-mile-wide swath from southwest Selma to the northwest corner where it flattened houses, businesses and mobile I homes.

Troubled families get help By FRANK MASTIN JR. Advertiser Staff Writer Family Guidance Center helps keep troubled families together through professional counseling, according to Director Peggy Weil. "Our major focus is to work with people to prevent the disintegration of families caused by unnecessary divorces," Mrs. Weil said. The agency is one of 33 non-profit organizations that rely on funds from the Montgomery Area United Way.

She said the center has three full-time professional counselors including one psychologist and two social workers and two part-time counselors. Handle many problems "We do a lot of marriage counseling and parent-child counseling. Some of the major cases we handle are communications problems, sex-See FAMILIES, page 2A J.C. Davenport, spokesman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, said 103 houses and mobile homes were damaged along with a convenience store and Get rolling on reform, Bell says By CYNTHIA SMITH Advertiser Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS U.S. Secre car dealership.

Milam Turner, president of Turner Motor said more than two dozen vehicles, including new Chevrolets and Chryslers, were de stroyed. He estimated damage at above $300,000. The tornado struck Selma Univer sity and Westside Junior High School, inflicting the most damage at the university where a coed dormitory was destroyed. Several of the women students were taken to local hospitals for See OFFICIALS, page ZA Senate remains mired in fidelands debate tary of Education Terrell Bell on Tuesday said governors must take the initiative in getting education reform programs off government drawing boards and into local school systems. Addressing a convention of politicians, parents and educators, Bell offered a work list for improving the nation's public schools, emphasizing the role of the classroom teacher.

"I am convinced that there is an unprecedented readiness to support action to reform and renew American education," Bell told the crowd gathered in the Indiana Convention Center for the start of the National Forum on Excellence in Education. Reagan to speak The three-day meeting was called by the Reagan administration and the president is scheduled to address the convention Thursday. Bell's aides said earlier they expected about 1,200 people to attend. Nearly twice that many showed up, including the governors of eight Bell called on teachers and politicians to support both master-teacher and career-ladder plans for teachers. "Master" teachers would be similar in rank to full professors at the college level.

The "career-ladder" plan would create several levels of promotion teachers could shoot for during their land to the state but earmark any revenue earned from it for nigner education, especially high-technoto- ey development. Page Ann Landers 6C Business Finance 5-9B Classifieds 3-9D Comics 8-7C Movies 4C 3D TV Log 6C Emergency Hospital: ST. MARGARET'S From 7 a.m. Wednesday To 7 a.m. Thursday "This bill eives respect to the previous administration and the present administration," said Little.

"The kev is whether the admin istration would accept it and wheth er the filibuster will frustrate them enoueh that thev would seek an ernor. "He didn't say yea or nay on anything we talked about, but I think he left the door open to any reasonable compromise." Tyson said one compromise offered during the meeting would return the land to the state if a large part of the money initially earned from oil and gas wells drilled on the land would go to the university. Another compromise would require that a portion of any money earned from the land be used to create a school of international business at the university, Tyson said. Sen. Ted Little of Auburn said he would offer a substitute to the governor's Grant's Pass bill sometime after midnight Tuesday.

The substitute, Little said, would return the The Mobile lawmakers say the 7,664 acres of potentially oil-rich marshland was given to the school, but Wallace says the land belongs to all the people of Alabama. In addition, the validity of the university's deed is in dispute. The governor met for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon with about 10 of the nearly 200 people from Mobile who flocked to the Capitol to lobby against the tidelands, or Grant's Pas's bill, and the trustee bill. The trustee bill would, in effect, abolish the current board and allow Wallace to appoint new trustees of his choice: "Wallace didn't backtrack on any of the bills," said John M. Tyson one of those meeting with the gov By MARK J.

SKONEKI and PHYLLIS WESLEY Advertiser Staff Writers State senators headed for an after-midnight session late Tuesday, while House members dodged consideration of the two Mobile-area bills stalling the Senate. The Senate voted to' start Wednesday's legislative day one minute after midnight Tuesday. Mobile-area legislators in both chambers spent Tuesday trying to talk to death bills proposed by Gov. George Wallace that would reclaim for the state some Mobile Bay tidelands now deeded to the University of South Alabama and that would restructure the university's board of trustees. alternative." Former Gov.

Fob James signed a document reaffirming the Unive sity of South Alabama's title to the land a few months before leaving office. A makes a difference Circulation Service 269-0010 Toll-free Statewide 1-800-3924794 The Senate voted Tuesday to send the trustee bill back to the Educa- careers. See HOUSE, page 2A See BELL, page 2A.