HW 2/25

Who: Duane LaChance (53), a pipe fitter
What: third-degree burns + hospital trip
When: Thursday at 3 p.m.
Where: Petal Municipal Power Plant, Mississ.
Why: installing new pipes on roof
How: accidently touched wrench to a 15,000 volt power line

A Gross Engineers pipe fitter was taken to the hospital after suffering 3rd degree burns while installing a new pipe on the roof of the Petal Municipal Power Plant in Mississippi Thursday at 3 p.m.

Who: Paul McCartney, famous rock singer
What: entered hospital for voice surgery
When: Thursday
Where: Riverside Hospital
Why: Voice had been reduced to whisper
How: large concert to 1,000 fans

Rock singer Paul McCartney checked into Riverside Hospital late Wednesday after his Bennett Auditorium concert and is scheduled for voice surgery Thursday.

Who: Hattiesburg Board of Education
What: board met
When: Thursday morning
Where:
Why: to discuss enrollment, new dress code rules, and cafeteria improvements
How: discussion and votes

The Hattiesburg Board of Education met Thursday morning to discuss enrollment, new dress code rules and cafeteria improvements.

Who: rural sociology associate professor John Dumont and English associate professor George Johnson (Backwater State University)
What: injured in plane crash that killed five epersons
When: Thursdya night
Where: Kennedy International Runway
Why: returning home from separate conferences in NYC and aboard the same TWA jet
How: takeoff

Two Backwater State University professor were injured in a plane crash that killed five persons Thursday night on the Kennedy International Airport runway.

Who: noted author, Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Meeman
What: spoke to audience of 67
When: 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Room 111 of William Oxlet Thompson Memorial Library
Why: speak on writing, works, prizes
How: used words

Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Meeman spoke on his writing to 67, most English, students Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Oxlet Thomspon Memorial Library.

Who: Freedom Foundation, Clement Crabtree, professor of horticulture
What: received George Washington Honor Medal for “Plan for Peace” essay
When: last week
Where: ceremony in Pennsylvania
Why: best essay
How: essay urged distribution of free packets of red, white and blue flower seeds to nation

The George Washington Honor Medal was awarded to 32 essay winners last Thursday at the Pennsylvania ceremony.