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ECCC holds 'Ghost Out' program In an effort to discourage students from drinking and driving, " Ghost Out" activities were held at East Central Com– munity College in Decatur where program participants painted the1r faces white and wore black clothes or black arm bands to symbolize the thousands of teenagers who die each year in drunk driving accidents. The statewide project, sponsored by the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and East Central's chapters of Phi Theta Kappa and SADD (Students Against Driving Drunk), was held in conjunction with Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week, observed Dec. ~-15. The special week focused on the problem of drunk driving, not only for teenagers, but for all citizens. In the photo above, SADD sponsor Frances Graham portrays a person who has died as a result of drunk driving. Students shown in grief over the " death' of the1r fnend include, from left, Jeff Hitt, Union; Nikki Griffin, Philadelphia; Shannon Jackson, Carthage; Vickey Cumberland, Unton. Monika Ford and Karla Munn, both_ of Decatur; Dawn ~. Little Roc*; Gayla GOOdwin, ~: and Clarence White, Forest. (ECCC Photo)

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