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2A OBITUARIES HUBCITYSPOKES.COMTHE HATTIESBURG POST THE LAMAR TIMES THE PETAL NEWS Thursday, August 13, 2020 PineBelt NEWS Steve Larken Bounds Jr. 50, of Sumrall Steve Larken Bounds 50, of Sumrall; died Aug. 4, 2020, at Merit Health Central in Jackson; born to Steve L. Sr. and Sylvia Ann Bounds; husband of 31 years to Cathie Bounds; father of Britany Pettit, Tony Bounds and Hanna Chisolm, all of Lumberton.

Eugene Curtis 71, of Hattiesburg Eugene Curtis, 71, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 6, 2020, at his residence; born to Walter and Jessie Curtis; husband to Gayle Curtis; father of Shelley Smalley of Pensacola, Florida, Jenny Terui of New Castle, Colorado, and Kris Keller of Fort Collins, Colorado. Debroah Sue Dickinson 63, of Hattiesburg Debroah Sue Dickinson, 63, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 5, 2020, at her residence; born to Bufford Jr. and Marie Odom; of the Baptist faith; wife of 41 years to Richard Dickinson; mother of Maranda Pyles of Hattiesburg.

Warren Elsner 75, of Petal Warren Elsner, 75, of Petal; died Aug. 9, 2020, at his residence; born to Warren and Leona Elsner; veteran of the U.S. Army and avid reader; husband to Elaine Elsner; father of Addy Panzram of Petal, Shayne Elsner of French Camp and Katherine Alexander of Antioch, Tennessee. Charles Henderson Jones 87, of Hattiesburg Charles Henderson Jones, 87, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 6, 2020, at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg; born on Aug.

28, 1932, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Leslie James Jones and Evelyn Jerome Jones; husband to Betty Jones; father of Lisa Jones Reid, Michael Edward Jones, Leslie Andrew Jones, Wallace Arthur Jones, Linda Lee Jones Johnson and Wendy Creel Guichard. James Gary McGregor 87, of Hattiesburg James Gary McGregor, 87, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 8, 2020; born on April 15, 1933, in Hattiesburg to John and Perle McGregor; father of Michael McGregor and Christopher McGregor, both of Petal, Monica McGregor Miller of Newton, Alabama, and Jeff McGregor of Tupelo. Carolyn W. Morrow 71, of Petal Carolyn W.

Morrow, 71, of Petal; died Aug. 10, 2020; born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward; wife to David Morrow; mother of David Franklin Morrow Jr. of Ovett and Tamatha Morrow and Robert Dewayne Morrow, both of Petal.

William T. Myers 89, of Hattiesburg William Myers, 89, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 6, 2020; father of William Myers, Peyton Myers, Julie Hughs and Delia Myers. Cindy Nobles 56, of Oak Grove Cindy Nobles, 56, of Oak Grove; died Aug. 9, 2020, at her residence; born to Jim Eastburn Jr.

and Dot Eastburn; co-owner of Nobles Contracting and elder in the Presbyterian church; wife to Butch Nobles; mother of Brian Nobles of Madison and Sarah Nobles and Mary Edwards, both of Seattle, Washington. Charles Poston 81, of Hattiesburg Charles Poston, 81, of Hattiesburg; died Aug. 9, 2020, at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg; born to Charles A. and Norma Lee Poston; retired professor of English literature; father of Jeffrey Poston and Kevin Poston. representatives our state will receive for Congress and Green added that Mississippi has a higher percentage of count areas and populations, both of which benefit from in-person According to information provided by the bureau, census officials planned to begin knocking on doors to follow up with people who have not self-responded beginning Aug.

11 and continuing through Oct. 31. the 2020 census marked the first time a questionnaire could be completed online, our low level of broadband internet subscriptions has negatively impacted us, with the 2018 five-year estimates from the U.S. Census American Community Survey revealing that Mississippi had the lowest internet rates in the said Green. though major efforts have been made recently to improve our internet infrastructure, an undercount in the decennial census will put us at a relative disadvantage for years to Green and others including former state Sen.

Giles Ward, who chairs the Complete Count Committee are urging people to write their representatives in Congress to urge the restoration of the 31 days. They are also urging people to reach out to their neighbors to ensure they have self-responded to the census. of what happens with the deadline, we owe it to ourselves and our fellow Mississippians to encourage anyone we know to complete the census online or by phone as soon as said Ward. As of Tuesday, response rates are as follows: Nationally: 63.4 percent. Statewide: 58.0 percent.

Forrest County: 58.7 percent. Lamar County: 61.1 percent. Hattiesburg: 53.9 percent. Lumberton: 47.5 percent. Petal: 68.2 percent.

Purvis: 50.5 percent. Sumrall: 60.3 percent. Marilyn Stephens, assistant regional census manager for the Atlanta region, which includes Mississippi, said an accurate count is important because census numbers devise federal funding formulas. are allocated based on population statistics gathered from the she said. those numbers help allot $675 billion, or $7 trillion over a decade, and funding for things like Medicaid, schools, social services, highway construction and planning, emergency management and so on.

When you look at the census from that standpoint, then it becomes a fuller understanding and you say, wow, this is really Stephens said there is not to complete the census. can do it online in a few minutes, or by phone in a few minutes, or you can use the paper questionnaire that we she said. easy, and everyone should be making a list of 10 people to contact to ask them if done their census. Once reached those 10 people, add another 10. It takes maybe six minutes to complete the census and those six minutes will help us for 10 To complete the census, go online to my2020census.gov or call the bureau at 844.330.2020.

COUNTED Continued from Page 1A how to best deal with the JUUL problem. Some schools have responded by taking extreme measures such as removing bathroom doors or shutting bathrooms down. have had to ban flash drives to avoid any confusion between flash drives and the suit states. have also paid thousands of dollars to install special monitors to detect vaping, or pay for the costs of plumbing repairs spent as a result of students flushing vap- ing paraphernalia down toilets. school districts have sought to create new positions for tobacco prevention supervisors, who get alerts when vape smoke is detected in bathrooms.

In order to implement anti-vaping programs, teachers have to prepare lessons and study materials for these sessions with information on the marketing and health dangers of vaping extra work which requires teachers to work extra hours in addition to the work required for the normal The suit goes on to say vaping hurts individual student learning and has led to a rise in student absences because of sickness. addition to skipping class or being late to class to address their addiction, students often share vape devices, which accelerates the spread of viruses and other illnesses that impact student the suit states. district has had students end up in the emergency room as a result of vaping at The suit states that a 2015 JUUL advertising campaign was particularly designed to appeal to young people, as the advertisements in that campaign included bright colors and models in their 20s posing in manners that were meant to evoke those of underage teenagers rather than adults. JUUL also has advertised on the front page of VICE Magazine, which has marketed itself as the 1 youth media company in the The lawsuit goes on to say that JUUL further targeted youth by manufacturing, selling, and promoting an array of youth-oriented flavors for its JUUL pods, which came in flavors including mango, fruit medley, cool mint, cool cucumber and brulee. According to one survey, 81 percent of youth e-cigarette users reported the first product they used was flavored, and 81.5 percent reported product flavoring as a reason for use.

In addition, JUUL has also purchased banner advertisements on television networks, including Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, as well as websites for children. also purchased advertisements on a range of websites designed to help middle school and high school students develop their mathematics and social skill the lawsuit states. purchased advertisements on websites for high school students hoping to attend college, including collegereview.com. targeted college students with its paid online advertisements and purchased video advertisements on sites such as collegehumor.com and thecollegeprepster.com, as well as ads on survivingcollege.com. The teen vaping epidemic, which JUUL has had a massive influence in creating and maintaining, has and will continue to have significant costs, both for individual users and for society In addition, JUUL held more than 50 parties in cities across the United States in the first year after its 2015 launch, at which young attendees were give free nicotine-filled JUUL pods.

Afterwards, the company posted pictures of various young people using the products across its various social media channels. marketing also included attractive young people distributing free JUULs at movie and music the suit states. Stanford Report identified at least 25 JUUL entertainment events, usually either music or cinema themed, whose primary purpose was to distribute free samples of JUUL devices and flavor pods to a youthful audience. average number of samples distributed at events equals 5,000 JUUL starter kits. That equates to 20,000 packs of cigarettes at each event, or 500,000 packs of cigarettes total.

Although JUUL claims its marketing changed after 2015, in December 2017 JUUL tweeted an invitation for a for $1 in Miami. And in April 2018, JUUL promoted an event where new users could learn to use your device and sample The suit requests compensatory damages, costs to abate or mitigate vaping, injunctive relief and abatement, punitive damages, reasonable fees, statutory pre-judgment, costs of the suit, and any and all other relief allowed by the court. secondary focus (of the suit) is to reimburse school districts for the cost of taking the extra time and personnel that had to use to deal with the vaping problem in Norton said. are going to be hundreds and hundreds of school districts to join in the class action litigation. the same thing that was done with silica and asbestos and tobacco and other things like that, so sort of the pattern for SUIT Continued from Page 1A.