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Saturday January 11, 1975 Hattiesburg American Page? MM hi 1 it ri i 4 nor i i ii.ii '-t fi P-t i i 1 1 1 tt r- i. i 1 Mississippians lead nation in January Bible study JACKSON Mississippi Baptist led the nation In January Bible Study awards for the past year, according to a report from the Southern Baptist Convention's Sunday School Board. All across the nation each year the Sunday School Board promotes January Bible Study, and the denomination's 35,000 churches generally study a selected book of the Bible. Records are kept and awards are made on the basis of percentage participation. During the last reporting period, Oct.

1 to Sept. 30, Mississippi had the best record in the nation with one person enrolled in January Bible Study for each 17 persons enrolled in Sunday School Rev. Bryant Cummings, director of the Sunday School Department for the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, received a plaque from A. V. Wash-bum, secretary of the Sunday School Department of the Sunday School Board, in recognition of the past year's achievement The presentation was made in December in Nashville.

(APWIrapheteV Otken Elementary School principal Julian Prince picks up a book from the yard outside his school which was heavily damaged tornado at McComb, 2010 i .1 Schools menus Menus in the cafeterias of the Forrest County Schools for the week of Jan. 13 through 17 are as follows: Monday: Chili with rice, cabbage and carrot slaw, apple wedge, hot "corn bread and butter, chocolate cake and milk. Tuesday: Pigs in blanket, butter peas, cole slaw, one half orange, gingerbread and milk. Wednesday: Sliced luncheon meat, macaroni and cheese, field peas, fruit cup, hot corn bread with butter and milk. Thursday: Beef stew with vegetables, jellied citrus salad, hot corn bread and butter, cookie and milk.

Friday: Pizza, baked beans, cole slaw, jello and milk. Outlook for state is mostly clear 6kies Severe weather that produced tornadoes over Mississippi Friday has been replaced by a cold, high pressure area that is resulting in clear weather. The National Weather Service said the outlook is for mostly clear skies over Mississippi during the weekend, with low temperatures tonight dipping to the 20s and 30s. I 'w mm i KVJ1VC fit (AFWlrphoo) I Aerial view of destruction at McComb's Southwest Mall shopping center. Figuroi Show low Tcmporofuroi Expoctad Unfit Sundoy Mofm'm Eyewitness accounts ofMcComb tornado Ul' ''coiatioR Not Contwlt Weather forecast Rain is forecast Saturday along the Gulf Coast and the Pacific Northwest, according to the National Weather Service.

Snow is expected in a band of states extending from Washington to the northern part of Texas. Cold temperatures will prevail in much of the nation, except in Florida where warmer weather is expected. AP Wirephoto Map) if DM f'om NATIONAL YsATHSR SSPVICe. 20 A NOMA. U.S.

Otpt. Of Commwrf lain I 51 50 Snow t-. local foroca ONLY) JV 7: oo WHERE ECONOMY ORIGINATES Jerry McCray, 20. "I was at work at the aluminum plant," she said. "They called me, and when I got home the building was flat.

There's just nothing Mrs. Cameron spoke in a quiet, even voice, "but the Lord Is bolstering me up." State Methodists meet Jan. 14 to lay plans for Crusade JACKSON-More than 1,000 church I leaders from the Mississippi Con-1 ference of the United Methodist Church will convene here Jan. 14 for a briefing i on the Mississippi Conference Crusade. The three year Crusade was authorized by the Mississippi Conference and will, raise $1 million for strengthening the pension program of the conference and $750,000 for student a and faculty laid to Millsaps College here.

Featured speaker for the day will be Bishop Mack B. Stokes, who serves as J. general chairman of the Crusade. He will speak during the afternoon session. The Crusade Rally begins at 10 a.m.

Presentations of the Crusade Causes will be made by the Rev. Harold Peden, who Is chairman of the conference Board of Pensions, and Dr. Edward M. Collins, president of Millsaps College. MDr.

W.J. Erwin, a member of the staff of the Board of Global Ministries' Office of finance and Field Service, will serve as resident Crusadedirector.He will be located in Jackson during the Intensive phase of the campaign.Dr. Erwin will speak during the morning session and a question and answer period will follow. USM professor, student have book published Dr. Bobby Irby, chairman, of the Department of Science Education at USM, and Steve Carey, a former USM graduate student, have published a book entitled Caves of Mississippi In conjunction with Dr.

E. Leslie Knight, chairman of the Division of Science at Blue Mountain College. i The volume, containing photographs and detailed maps of about 50 caves in Mississippi. Oliver Emmerich, editor-publisher of the McComb Enterprise-Journal, said he heard the storm approaching, and "within seconds the strength of my home seemed to be pitted against what I now knew was a "Then there were eerie noises, as if a ton of sand had been blown against the house. Then the crash of glass, the rain came through broken windows.

Suddenly all was quiet." Elsewhere, David Kavanay, 13, who watched the twister approach Denman Junior High School, said, "I almost threw up when I saw it." Tornadoes struck in other parts of the state. Mrs. Carolyn Griffin said she held back tears as a funnel cloud roared over her school bus loaded with 45 students in rural Lee County. Mrs. Griffin said that before she reached the school, the storm had torn away bleachers at the school's football field, pushed down lights and damaged the school.

"When we were about halfway between (Shannon and Plantersville), the tornado came over the highway, right over us. Trees were blown down beside the road and it was all I could do to keep the bus in the road. "I was so upset on the bus, but I didn't let the kids knowthat. When I got to the school and saw what happened, I couldn't help but cry." USM to sponsor metric conference The largest assembly of metric educators in the history of metric education is expected to attend the Second International Conference on Metric Education Jan. 27 through 29 at the Sheraton-Biloxi Motor Inn, according to Dr.

John M. Flowers, USM science professor and executive director of the conference. The conference is sponsored by the USM Department of Science Education, the College of Science and Technology, and the1 College of Education and Psychology in cooperation with the United States Metric Inc. for additional information, contact Gene Tinnon, Director, of Conferences and Workshops, Southern Station, Box 56, Hattiesburg, MS 39401, or phone 266-4306. 0B? msKi By CECELIA 'NELSON J.

Associated Press Writer "I heard it coming. I have been in a tornado before, and I knew just what it 1 was," William Pugh of McComb said as he looked at a heap of bricks, boards, and tangled belongings which had been his two-bedroom house. Pugh and his family lived in a McComb subdivision of government-financed duplexes and apartments damaged when a tornado struck the town Friday morning. Four persons died In the McComb storm while three were killed by a Lincoln County twister, i "I was in bed when it hit Pugh said, His wife, a counselor at a McComb high' school, and his son were not at "I ran ini to get my son and remembered he was thing hit and the walls just came in.V.I was probably lucky I was in that room, it's the only one with four walls still standing," he said. "I had a motorcycle, too, but I don't have any idea where that is," he said.

"And a man was just by last month and asked if 5 14: wanted to i buy (household) insurahceM.I told him to' come by again at the end of this mon- th," said Pugh, who has been laid off from a furniture sales job. "I guess tomorrow we will start looking for an took seven years for us to get these things, and now, I guess, we will have to start i '31 "At least we are all safe," he said. The family of Mrs. Dorsey Cameron, another resident of the housing area, -was not, 'v -M7 CK1 The body of Cameron, a 56-year-old construction worker, was found behind the rubble of their home. Mrs.

Cameron talked as she sat in the hospital room of her injured son-in-law, News of servicemen First Lt. Harvey Teston whose parents live on Rt 10 Hattiesburg, has been assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group at FtBragg, N.C. Lt Teston" received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1972. He entered the Army in May of -that year after receiving his commission through ROTC Legislative quote Rep. Jerry Wilburn of Mantachie, arguing to amend an education bill to raise lunchroom workers' pay: "If somebody foe these pqpr folks they won't get looked after." Church news notes The Gospel Road, a film released by World Wide Pictures, conceived and produced by Johnny Cash and his wife, will be shown at Main Street Baptist Church at 7 p.m.

and at University Assembly of God Church at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12. (UNIVERSITY MALL STORE mmwE r' i 12 00 SUNDAYS TILL.