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Gulfk ort Hurricane Victim Keeps Right On 'Swinging'
Back On The Job , . .
Helen Goff is back at work cleaning Gulf Coast buildings after the Red Cross helped her regain supplies and equipment lost in Hurricane Camille. Assisting Mrs. Goff is her 14-year-old daughter. Beth.
The indomitable Helen Goff ■ told the mayor and the Red i I Cross to help her out, fast.j They did.	j
When Hurricane Camille blew away her janitorial supplies and equipment, anyone would have said it was the end for her one-woman business enterprise. Her clients, various Gulfport and Biloxi businesses, reckoned so; and some told her they would seek someone else to clean their buildings, unless she1 came through right away.
Determined to continue swinging a mop—“It’s hard work; but it’s honest!’’— Helen Goff, 46, took direct action.	i
First, she phoned Gulfport | Mayor Philip W. Shaw. She re-: quested he help her. Shaw promised to per»^nally ask her, clients to give her a little more I time to get going again. j
Next she w'ent to the Red Cross disaster center in Gulfport and talked to Red Cross caseworker Frances Herrington, a 17 year veteran with the organization from Oklahoma City, r Oklahoma.	j
By midday Saturday, because! of the urgency of the situation, j Mrs. Goff, with a Red Cross! disbursing order for $1,291.65 in hand, picked up the cleaning supplies and equipment she needed from a local Gulfport store. The equipment includes a floor scrubber-buffer and a rug shampooer.
By late afternoon she was back at work. Working seven days a week, she cleans an average 25 locations every night.
‘•If it wouldn't have been for the Red Cross and God, I never would have made it,’' Mrs. Goff declares. Otherwise ■‘I would've had to go back on relief again and I wouldn't want to do that.”
Mrs. Goff had been on relief several years ago following a car accident. When she was able, she began working for a cleaning company as a janitor. Two years ago she set herself up in business on her own. She
is sole support for her mother and two teenage children.
Her 14 year old daughter, Beth, assists her work. Her son Claude. 16, also helps when home from boarding school and during the summer. He attends an Agricultural High School north of Gulfport.
Red Cross recovery help for victims of disasters, in addition to occupational tools may include food, clothing, medicai and nursing care, as well as household furnishings, and repair or complete rebuilding of homes. Red Cross rehabilitation assistance is given as an outright gift of the American people.
The organization expects more than 30,000 families to apply for Red Cross assistance. Affected families having disaster-caused needs which they are unable to meet through their own resources will find the Rec Cross ready to bridge the ga> between what they can do fo themselves and what must b done to restore them to norm: living conditions.
A total of 69,100 families wet affected by Hurricane Camill in the four-state area of Flori da, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Cold figures (as o! September 16. 1969) compiled by Red Cross disaster building advisers are almost unbelievable:	5.660 homes destroyed.
113,155 with major damage; anc i an additional 26.069 with minoi
■	damage.
The Red Cross Nursing Service records a totai of 135 confirmed dead and another 5i missing, with 53 seriously injured and another 8,475 receiving minor injuries.
Red Cross has already committed more than 4.3 millior for a total of 537 trained disaster workers of the national organization are now at work planning with individual families for their recovery.