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Voice of the People on the Golden Gulf Coast
Bay St. Louis. Clermont Harbor, Lakeshore,
Long Beach, Pass Christian, Waveland
Vol. 2, No. 32
Tuesday, August 11, 1970
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CAMILLE’S MOST TRAGIC SITE.
Monday afternoon, August 18, National Guardsmen probe the ruins of the former luxury apartment building RICHELIEU APARTMENTS at W. Beach and Henderson avc., Pass Christian. More than 20 persons perished here, despite warnings from •Policy Chief Gerald Peralta to evacuate.
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Camille ********** Anniversary
Edition
No single person can tell the story of Hurricane Camille’s fury, because the intensity of the storm, and the darkness, limited observation by any one person to a few hundred feet. In the part of this edition dealing with the storm itself, The Owl therefore is presenting first person stories of individuals in various parts of the area . . . what they saw, what they felt. These individual stories reflect the individual experiences of thousands ol others, too numerous to tell all the stories.
Because of the size and importance of the Camille story, current news is limited this week to back pages of the Owl. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
A Killer Named Camille By Carl Mixon
The seabirds cried as if they knew of tilings to come, of things we could not know, the storm gods Hexed their mighty arms as if to the world to show, all their wrath so often seen was nothing to compare to this their mightiest storm born in the tropic air.
The calm seas rolled, and the winds grew strong and the embryo of the killer was born to rip the shores of a placid land, and to ma^e the mortals mourn. Mourn for the dead, the cherished things now lost, and for the dreams so long pursued by most.
Named for a maiden at a sacrifice, as the offering lay so still, so layed the sands of our shores so fair for a killer named Camille. Her eye of blue and
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