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—States-Item photo by Phil Guarisco.
F MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST SCENES WEEK AFTER HURRICANE
rating Storm Victims
There were these other	developments arising	out of	ing, BO were known dead and more than 110 missing. This,
the storm emergency:	with the deaths in West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana
—Harrison County school	officials said it will be	several	and Cuba, could put Camille’s toll over 400.
weeks before classes open because of damage to schools.	‘‘It appears that perhaps at least 100 of our citizens have
School was scheduled to start next week.	lost their iives,” Gov. Miiis E. Godwin Jr. said after sur-
— i previous ieiepnone system mat 1.000 linemen	veying the mountainous western part of Virginia,
worked four days to set up in the Gulfport area was knocked	Camille also triggered torrential rains and flooding that
out yesterday by a driving rainstorm. The rains also flooded	forced more than 100,000 from their homes in Oaxaca State
streets where drainage systems are already clogged with	on Mexico's Pacific coast,
hurricane residue.
—In Lafayette, the Louisiana Intracoastal Seaway As-	a RED CROSS OFFICIAL said many of the homeless
sociation urged Congress to speed up a study of hurricane	were “poor peoDle with no place to go.”
projection plans for the Louisiana coastal area.	^SeTCAMILLE-Page 2
—State Rep. Nat U Kiefer of New Orleans sent tele- --------------------------------------------5---------------------
grams to Gov. John J. McKeithen and several Louisiana	-	__
congressmen requesting that areas of eastern New Orleans \ B I _ _ __ i	_	§j	M	_	_
be aecia. ed disaster areas.	VOlUnTGSrS	tTSSS
—In Jackson, Miss., state Sen. Hayden Campbell called for a Guif Coast building code to require construction that	I • f
•would withstand hurricane winds.	|	i	£^§|£2k>fl
In Vugitit;, wiijre ^amines >ains set off mass flood- 1^1 I v V? I I i\ v I S 1
The massive drive	for	aid
^ m	' - S-J'f' ''‘i-'* '*4	to Hurricane Camille	victims
3 &, i 1 Vf *	^	>	<	* 1 U	3 “i i 1	..	,	•	r	ii	.	. .
continued in full swing today, as volunteers picked up ef-
Food Rushed to Animals	Page	forts to speed financial help to
Left Homeless in Storm	Amusements ....... 16, 17	the killer storm's stricken
‘ —Page 3	Churches ........... 4-5	thousands.
1	Classified ........ 13-30 The New Orleans Camille
News and Photos of Church	Columns ............... 13	Relief Fund will have two ar-
Activities in New Orleans	Comics ... ............. 8	mored cars at the Canal
}	—Pages 15	Editorials .. ............ 6	^ list of collection centers
..... Z	in the New Orleans area for
Future is Troubled	Radio-TV ............... 7	contributions toward relief of
For Coast Storm Refugees	Sports ........... 9-11	Hurricane Camille victims
?	—Page 22	Women’s News ... 14, 15	appears on Page 31.)
*	Weather ............... 11 -------------------------------
3>	Street intersections of Elk
'•	BiESSSi	Place and Basin Street at 9
e	n—„ 19 — a m- tomorrow, with workers
e tuc uipatucd Hour ...; 5; b| 7, a, it 10 llj i_	collecting donations from mo-
irlc WtAinCS Temp. .. j77.77.76 79 80	| i	torists and pedestrians.
~	Three jazz bands will
e	Partly cloudy through tomorrow with chance of thunder-	draw attention to the Canal
s	showers mainly in the afternoons and evenings. Variable	street drive. The Olympia
r	winds, five to 15 mph. High temperature today, 88 to 92.	Brass Band will play from
Low tonight, 72 to 76. Probability of rain 50 per cent to-	noon to 2 p.m., Sharkey Bon-
s	day, 20 per cent tonight and 50 per cent tomorrow'. Rela-	ano and His Group will hold
tive humidity at 10 a. m., 75 per cent. Details on Page 11.)	forth from 2 to 4 p.m., and
Nick Gaglirdi and ihs band will take over from 4 to 6 p.m.
SUPPLIES AND manpower meanwhile continued to flow into Hurricane Camille’s disaster areas in efforts to relieve the suffering caused by the killer storm.
The Louisiana State Pharmaceutical Association began a drive for emergency medications badly needed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in lower Plaquemines Parish.
Pharmacists, drug whole-s a 1 e r s and manufacturers were a^xed to donate medications through Dr. Rodney C Jung, director of the New O’ leans Health Department, the Communicable Disf Clinic on the first floor of Hall.
TWO DRUG mam ers have speeded thou See AIJ
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