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HERLIHYS MERCHANTILE STORE ON COLEMAN AVE. IN WAVELAND WAS ONE OF FEW BUILDINGS LEFT IN TACT.
Avert Panic
While telephone and power lines were snarled across the roads, streets and highways men worked with deliberate speed in opening passage ways -- their trucks displaying the sign “AVERT Panic*'. Good Advice. Thepeople responded with calm. There was acceptance of the situation and words of praise and appreciation for all who rendered assistance.
Motels Go All Out With crippled facilities the motels spared destruction waved aside their own losses to provide hospitality and comfort. Bill Hamzy, Manager of the Ramada Inn, together with Lou Boudreaux and his good wife, Jo, worked round-the clock in setting up free food, free lodging, a first aid station, an injection center for typhoid, tetanus, etc. Hundreds of people lined up for vaccinations thus staving off a threatened epiderpic. Volunteer workers cooked, cleaned, cheered the needy and performed a multiade of selfless services. Small children were even given “reward’’ candies to compensatefor injection discomforts! Finally, help came in way of water supplies, donated foods, etc. The Ramada Inn, Disaster Headquarters, provided meeting places for city fathers and steering committees who worked at thi arduous task of guiding the destiny of a stunned and crip-pledcommunity. The Driftwood Inn valiantly housed power line crefs from Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. They warmheartedly accepted families, dogs, cats, and salvaged materials ancgladly allowed use of their swimming pool as a public bath faclity.
F riends Beat a Path Zig-Zagging across the county, coming to a screaming halt abashed out bridges and uncleared roads, came friends from Albania and elsewhere ladened with food, water, transistor ra-d)s, coffee makers, camp equipment and canned foods. All con-tibuted the moral building boost needed to give Cam i 11 e Gushed the will to survive -- they brought HOPE.
Supplies Still Needed Despite the caravans of comfort and generous contributions ifiny needed supplies are dwindling or non-existent. Among the tings most needed are brooms, mops, rakes, shovels, hoes, irbage pails, household cleaners and scouring pads, and sil— tr polish, heavy cord for clothes lines, large plastic garbage jgs, slack line, insect repellents, work pants, women’s blue ans, tennis shoes, work boots, disinfectants like lysol and pine I, ready-to-eat canned foods, pencils and note paper, and foot fwder and corn plasters.
,	Dangerous	Water Contamination
i Septic tanks are reportedly boiling up in the vicinity of Saveland, Clermont Harbor, Ansley, etc., and while in many aces there has been a restoration or water supplies people ■e warned that this water is polluted and not to be used for •inking purposes. Throughout the entire area people areurg-I not to drink or cook with water until it has passed the health spection.
Profiteers -- Prolific Some instances have been reported of stores hiking the rices on necessary items despite the order to hold the price ) those prices of the Saturday prior to Camille. In one instance
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MERCHANTS BANK & TRUST CO. AND THE LAW OFFICES OF GEX, GEX, AND PHILLIPS STANDS IN TACT AS HURRICANE CAMILLE WIPPED OUT THE BUSINESS SECTION OF BAY ST. LOUIS.
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VIEW LOOKING SOUTH FROM DOWNTOWN BAY ST. LOUIS TOWARDS ST. STANISLAUS COLLEGE.