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Mayor Victor H. Schiro on siesday sent a telegram to embers of the Louisiana delation in Washington in hich he asked them to at-mpt to seek federal forgive-;ss for those persons who iffered Camille damage who e still repaying federal dis-iter loans made after Hurri-ine Betsy.
Meanwhile, an insurance in-s t r y spokesman predicted t claims submitted for Cam--caused damages along the If Coast will reach $100 mil-l.
Damage to fixed insured perty in Mississippi and Ala-na was estimated at $60 mil-l to $80 million, and in Louis-a, the estimate was revised yard to $18 million, from the .mated $6 million predicted Monday.
The spokesman said the es-ates are prelminary and cov-only fixed insured property, ■y do not include such items automobiles, boats and mo-homes, nor do they take in ount losses from flooding.
ggs to Introduce sistance Bill
Also, U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs \Tew Orleans announced that will introduce legislation to vide emergency assistance victims of the hurricane n Congress reconvenes early t month.
The bill, he said, will be ilar to one Congress enacted 1965 to assist about 30,000 ilies in Louisiana and Missis->i who suffered heavy flood wind losses from Hurricane sy.
Under the bill enacted after sy,. loans were made availa-to owners of homes, busies, churches and other fates destroyed. Under terms he act borrowers were not lired to repay a portion —
o	$1,500 — of their loans. Boggs said that homes of ous relatives, including his ier, sisters and brother, ‘destroyed as Camille )t through Long Beach,
?p. Hebert, commenting on ral aid for Louisiana, said 'as "very pleased and happy President Nixon has re-ided so quickly” to Gov. Mc-hen’s request. . .”
Jbert, saying he was speak-“for my congressional dis-.” added:
The cooperation received
thority to repair damage to levees, he’	remove debris
from streei	ad remove ves-
sels stranded on the coast or stream banks.
Civil Defense—is helping restore communications and providing engineering supplies, water purifiers, generators, medical kits and chemical toilets.
General Services Administration — providing generators, flashlight batteries, eating utensils, transportation and some trailers for housing.
Labor Department—Job Corps workers will assist with debris cleanup.
Coast Guard—has made available a fleet of six cutters, 13 helicopters and one plane for genereal use at New Orleans.
Department of Transportation — is helping to open clogged roads, using state labor and equipment where possible and contracting for some of the work.
Federal Aviation Administration-providing military airlift and helping open Gulfport Airport and Keesler Field, both of which are reported now open for limited use.
Health, Education and Welfare—has provided one disaster hospital, complete with personnel, to Pass Christian: also providing generators, cots, blankets and sheets.
Agriculture Department—providing food for distribution by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and state and local agencies.
At Pascagoula, a major shipbuilding point, the problem of snakes added to the miseries of those who suffered damages.
“We had to organize to fight them,” said State Sen. Merle Palmer of Pascagoula. He said snakes blown in by the storm’s winds had moved to the city’s higher ridges.
Back Bay Waters Floods Areas
Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, all small communities west of Gulfport, were all but destroyed. The storm’s backlash, pushing a giant wave from back bay waters, flooded through the area.
Cleanup operations dominated the recovery operations in both states Tuesday.
In Bogalusa, National Guardsmen were called in to help in the mammoth cleanup. Officials estimated that 35 per cent of the houses there were damaged. An estimated 500 trees were scattered on the city’s streets.
In Slidell, the north shore
services for the Red Cross, the organization ordered its 20 t nursing specialists from aroui. the nation into the storm-dam-aged area.
Headed toward the area Tuesday night was a special 27-car train donated for use by the Red Cross bv Alan S. Boyd, president of the Illinois Central Railroad and secretary of transportation under former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
It is scheduled to arrive in Gulfport Wednesday where it will serve as a headquarters and housing area for the Red Cross professionals and volunteers in the area.
Pierpont said Boyd offered use of the train when he learned many Red Cross workers were commuting from New Orleans.
At Atlanta, a dozen C124 Globemasters at Dobbins Air Force Base were assigned to airlift 375,000 pounds of food to Keesler AFB in Biloxi.
New Orleans shipped 13,000 gallons of water in tank cars to Bay St. Louis.
Water was also being shipped in from other areas, including Meridian. Electric generators were being used to alleviate the power shortage.
Gulf Coast officials said they would still be in a state of total chaos except for the lifesaving airlift of supplies and personnel.
However, devastation is so severe in Hancock and Harrison counties that food serving and shelter operations had not been established during the day Tuesday, and the U.S. Agriculture Department set up headquarters at Hattiesburg, more than 60 miles north.
Acting Secretary of Agriculture Richard E. Lyng said in Washington that officials of the Forest Service and the Soil Conservation Service advised him that hundreds of thousands of acres of private and national forest timber were in the path of Camille.
Untallied millios of board feet of pine timber have been flattened in Mississippi and Louisiana, and worst hit was the 501,-000-acre DeSoto National Forest in Harrison, Stone and other Mississippi counties.
This is a rundown of the various Mississippi communities along the coast that suffered damages:
—Gulfport, where Mayor Philip W. Shaw reported the food and water situation as “critical.” A 6 p. m. to 6 a.m. curfew is in effect.
—Biloxi, described as ‘'anoth-
<cal supplies were being rushed ito the disaster area to lessen the risk of possible disease due to the disrupted conditions there.
Dr. Durward Blakey of the board’s division of preventable disease control, said at present Gulf Coast residents “have a good protective level because of earlier immunization, but we are sending personnel and supplies to take care of the increased risks.” “We’ll do more booster dosing down there now than we usually do in a whole year,” he said, “and the supplies are needed to keep our operation at a peak level.”
Board officials said communication continues to be a big problem, causing Jackson-based offices to have to oversupply in some cases.
Dr. Frank J. Morgan Jr., assistant state health officer, said once communications are established “we will know what the needs are on the coast and we will know better what we need to do.”
Officials said Civil Defense and National Guard personnel were being used to take medical supplies into some areas where local board of health offices were either destroyed or out of communication with the board in Jackson.
Several board of health nurses, gas-operated electric generators, beds and other supplies also have been sent into the Gulfport-Biloxi area for dispatch to damaged sections.
One of the hardest hit facil-ites at Gulfport was the Construction Battalion (S e e b e e) base where 13 to 15 persons were injured, four seriously, and 46 buildings were destroyed, with damage running into the millions of dollars.
Of the 26 barracks, seven remained standing. Many vehicles were overturned, and the base is a mass of debris.
The base had taken in refugees 24 hours before the hurricane struck, and since the storm, the base has provided portable generators to hospitals in Gulfport and Biloxi.
In Louisiana, electric power and telephone service continued to be restored by crews working around the clock.
A spokesman for New Orleans Public Service said only about 600 homes were without electricity by midday Tuesday and those were located in the area along Hwy. 90 from Chef Menteur hwy. to the Rigolets.