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The Geotge- Anne VOLUME 64, NUMBER 22 GEORGIA SOUTHERN COLLEGE, STATESBORO, GEORGIA 30460 THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1984 Tornado damage extensive By DONNA BREWTON were damaged by the tornado. Funeral Home. “We have a half “We lost about 30 trees,” said News Editor However, only 30 people were injured, million dollars in damages.” Daniel. “There were five or six cars Reconstruction of businesses and three of them seriously enough to Hodges and his son were in the parked around the house but luckily houses is now in process since a require hospitalization. kitchen of the funeral home when the none of them were damaged.” tornado hit Statesboro last Thursday Areas along Highway 80 East and tornado hit. A refrigerator fell on GSC, however, suffered very around 3 p.m. Highway 67 were the hardest hit by Hodges but he was unharmed. Tittle damage besides a few fallen According to the Georgia the tornado. Hodges said they will set up a trees. The GSC Health Center Emergency Management Agency, 30 “Everything is gone,” said Bird temporary location downtown for the reported no injuries. houses were destroyed and 160 more Hodges about the Barnes and Hodges time being. With the electricity being off in The Time Saver Minit Market on many areas, some local businesses Highway 80 East had $175,000 in and restaurants reported an increase damages, according to Morris in business. Lupton^ owner. Kirk Johnson, an employee of “No one was injured,” said Johnson’s Minit Mart, said, “It was Lupton. “We have to get a new roof the busiest day we’ve had all year.” Pizza Inn reported that they were with new steel in it. The tornado also blew the air conditioners off the busy for two hours and that they gave building.” free meals to people who lost their Lupton’s son, Bobby, was working homes. at the Time Saver when the tornado came through. “The electricity went off and the doors went wtioosh, said Bobby. “We went into the back room and sat back there and we heard the whistling sound and then the roof blew off. After it passed, Bobby said they went to help others in the area. The Country Manor, a home for the aged, was also damaged. A girl, High winds destroyed 30 houses and 160 more were damaged. who chose to remain anonymous, said, “It’s no big deal. It just wrecked our home, that’s all. I don’t really feel Forensics participant like talking about it.” The high winds damaged the Pi Kappa Phi house on Highway 67. assaulted on campus According to Marty Daniel, a Pi Kapp, a couple of trees fell on the By KATHY KENNEY Association of GSC. house and it tore off the back porch. Assistant News Editor Campus Security was notified at He also said they had some water An out-of-state student participa- 8:25 p.m. and several trucks damage and they will have to get new ting in the Forensics Tournament reportedly converged at the alledged shingles for the roof. Clouds hanging over Statesboro was assaulted April 26 at about 7:30 location. last Thursday. p.m. Sergeant Marvin Riggs patrolled The student, a female, said in her inside Williams Center and in the Former U.S. ambassador report to campus security that a surrounding area but was not college age male, about 6’2” to 6’4” approached concerning the incident. and wearing jeans and a When he got off duty at 11 p.m. the to speak at Biology Hall windbreaker, pushed her against a next shift was notified. SPECIAL TO THE and held memuersm^o on numerous wall and tore buttons around the neck GEORGE-ANNE U.S. delegations to international of her dress. The United States’ first meetings and conferences. .. .there seem to be ambassador to Hungary and former She said a group of people rumors of other such Ambassador to West Germany Dr.' Hillenbrand has authored a wide approaching scared him off and she Martin J. Hillenbrand will deliver a variety of books and articles on composed herself, got directions, and incidents lately but they free public lecture on “The Future of global issues and has received a went on to the Education Building. the Atlantic Alliance” May 15 at 9 number of prestigious awards have not been reported. including the Grand Cross of Merit She said as she was walking from a.m. in the Biology Lecture Hall on —Captain Deal the GSC campus. from the Federal Republic of Hollis to the Education Building (the Germany, the United States Army assault is believed to have occurred Currently the Dean Rusk Captain Deal of Campus Security Professor of International Relations Award for Distinguished Civilian near Williams Center) the male asked Service and the Director General’s her if she was lost and then offered to said there seem to be rumors of other and Director of the Center for Global such incidents lately but they have Policy Studies at the University of Award for Distinguished Service of walk her to her destination. After the Department of State. walking three or four minutes he not been reported. Georgia, Hillenbrand has held positions as the Assistant Secretary For further information on suddenly turned on her. Hillenbrand’s lecture, contact Dr. Zia He also said the statistics of of State for European Affairs and Director General of the Atlantic H. Hashmi, Director, Georgia The incident was reported at things like this occurring at other Institute for International Affairs in Southern International Studies approximately 8 p.m. to Janet Bury, schools is very high but GSC is Paris, France. He has also chair- Program, at 681-5698. the director of the National Forensics ranked among the safest campuses. Pace 2, May 10, 1984, The GEORGF-ANNE Tornado season hits here Bv JIM TORELL miniature twisters in modified wind away from windows. Get to the tunnels and learning more than ever interior hallways and as close to the about the destructive powers of northeast corner as possible, since “It felt like I was in a giant tornadoes. tornadoes usually strike from the popcorn machine,” said GSC student Once the funnel hits the ground it south and west. Keith Johnson. “The two wheels on does not stop. Wind currents above Listening to the radio during the the right side of my car were bouncing ground cause the funnel to move storm is a good idea so as to get the off the ground and golf ball sized hail causing the bouncing effect. During latest information. A tornado watch was bouncing off my car.” this time there is an updraft of nearly is the first alert. This means that 75 mph. The tornado season of 1984 began conditions in the area are favorable with a vengeance in Statesboro, Ga. for a twister to form. A tornado Although the tornado season is warning is much more serious. This Tornadoes are the fiercest said to be April, May, and June, means that a funnel cloud has been atmospheric wind storms on earth, twisters occur at any time. January sighted and there is no time to waste according to the National Severe and December are the months least in seeking shelter. Storms Forecast Center. The wind likely to have weather conditions A cyclone should not be confused speed in the funnels can range from favoring these storms. In the last 25 with a tornado. A cyclone forms over 150 to 350 mph. years, 54 percent of all tornadoes water and is much less intense, recorded occured between April and having winds only as strong as 100 Until 1975 very little else was June. mph. known about these storms because of the difficulty in forecasting precisely The area most often hit by The amount of deaths caused by when and where tornadoes were tornadoes is referred to as “tornado tornadoes has been falling steadily, going to occur so that scientists could alley,” and it runs from Texas to Ohio and hopefully the more that’s learned position themselves in a place to and is flanked on the west and east by about this natural phenomenon, the study them. the Appalachian and Rocky fewer people will be killed in the Mountains chains. “popcorn machine”—like damaging Red Cross works in aftermath of Now with the help of multi-colored effects. tornado. radars, meteorologists can observe Even though very little can be weather patterns of continents, or the done about the storm itself, minute details of a county’s weather precautions can be taken for safety. situation. Other researchers are Sixty percent of all immediate studying the storms with scale fatalities happen as a result of people models and man made mini-funnels. attempting to get into their cars and get out of the path of the storm.