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th of Hurricane w j, * Be Difficult to Face
Pass Christian, its Area in Critical State
By RONNY CAIRE
(Special to The Times-Picavune)
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -'/ The aftermath of hurricane^ Camille may be harder to face' for residents of this town than brutal winds and waters of the storm itself.
Weekend and summer residents from New
'leet and Industry (200), Hum-
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>ory Reigf* tfozy Shop (2), [ffirough a rianson’s Shell station (2),
Jerry’s Hideway Lounge (3),
Kohl Motors (5), Aimee’s Antiques (1), One Hour Martin-izing (3), Winn-Dixie (15),
TG&Y (12), Discovery Bay executive and auditing office (6), Penthouse apartments (4), Gulf Palms Motel (12),
Moonlight Drive-In (6), Bobbie’s Barber Shop (1), Allen
Electric (6).
This is just a short list from memory and observation. I don’t know the fate of many others 'but all suffered major
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trance road to Discovery Bay. T - and siusn roaa
weesena and summer resi- ,	whether they can re-
gents from New Orleans and; ’ a ° j survive is a debatable jther nearby points will suffer! °^pSfjon financial damage because of de- ' struction of their property.
who lived and
question.
Saturday we assembled
Those of us who lived andLi truck-Ioad of clothing, tools, worked in the storm’s path faceL. foodstuffs, _ soap, {rom f”e"ds the problem of economic surviv-} and acquaintances in New Oral for ourselves and our fami-' leans and delivered it to DeLi-lies.	sle Elementary School, head-
First ronsiHpr th	^	quarters for the relief effort in
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, I I that community Christian, which -UIJgreater need, ip3 Clothing went through win-rsaidows to one classroom set up as a storeroom for donated cloth-
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i aoi, cuiiMuer me com-rnunity facilities that most of us take pretty well for granted:	Police	protection,	fire
protection, sewerage and water service, garbage pickup,	storeroom	ior	uuuateu
street maintenance. Even if hnujnE, Food went through another repairs to these physical facil- fpo«^fnrfow to a classroom actmg ities (all badly damaged
i .mo (an uauiy damaged or destroyed) are made with fed-| era] or state funds, tax sources which paid for their operation have disappeared.
With the town’s businesses). rjalmost totally destroyed, the' •monthly income of $7,000 to $8,000 is gone. Real estate taxes : I which supported the school sys-Ijtem and part of the city’s expenses will drop to virtually jnothing, if collectable at all.
po< window to a classroom acting p las a temporary grocery supply >jaz]room. A water truck was un-'ssa loading at the front door as we pulled up, and small containers we brought were eagerly IJIsnatched up. Teenagers helped us unload.
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t ruction was as heavy for a
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• There is no revenue to pay off jtg?
: the bonds on the newly installed jf ' ‘
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(which do not exist.
i Not only is the city crippled jj ifinancially, but the built-up area? surrounding the city is in the? same fix -as county tax revenues T take a similar nose dive.
Second, the question of fi-i nancing individual homes and businesses for those who %ant
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with the end of Acadian Rd. This detour is not recom-j |mended for any vehicles except |those with high clearance such as trucks. We had to stop and dry the distributor to keep our borrowed truck running once we reached Cuevas.
The Cuevas volunteer fire (department building is standing, jits fire engine halfway out the front door, but Cuevas supermarket is caved in.
Traveling south on Menge Ave., buildings are damaged or destroyed everywhere. Pineville school stands, and apparently is in use as an emergency supply dispensing station. Dixie White House Nursing Home had some damage, but the buildings appear to be habitable. The Pineville Presbyterian Church and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church are standing but damaged.
Mississippi Power crews are already at work trying to restore lines to the large trans-j former station a mile or so off the beach.
I Pass Christian resembles a (newly occupied city of Europe i during World War II. Most civilians have been evacuated for j their own safety, and National (Guard troops, Seabees, and harried state, county, and municipal officials and employes work ; around the clock with them in a m a s s i v e clean-up operation. Chain saws buzz, huge bulldozers sweep the nibble ahead of them to clear the streets, military and utility boom trucks jwork at clearing and restoration of municipal services.
At the fire station on Second (St., the center of municipal and Civil Defense operations, men :and women work as they have
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worked since Monday morning without sleep, clean clothes, descent food, handling each emergency as it is discovered. Next door, the Factory Discount .XTStore is being used to issue emergency clothing both from =3/the store’s stocks and from dominated garments sent in by New.
‘ 'Orleans and outside communi-j ties.	I
BEST, WORST SHOWN : The disaster has brought! Y 3So4OU£ the best and the worst
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The best is the sight of Par- j • Inell and Jesse McKay, myL j newspaper competitors, working; around the clock in the dirty, il j stinking firehouse, on Civil De-; fense direction while their news-!' j paper office is a mucking mess j from three or four feet of waiter. Rory Rafferty, the action ! superintendent of city utilities,
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[persona1 belongings only to fii had gJxjjffled tj mer home met some of t worst of the lot. Knowing t roads were impassible, he tr; , eled to his bayou-side home I his boat. At the entrance Bayou Boisdore, he saw men a skiff. He went closer to of assistance. As the bo touched, shotguns covered 1 and his money and a rese (supply of gasoline was taker gunpoint. On the return trip, ran out of gasoline and tied Ion a train bridge in L IPontchartrain. When he tempted to board a pas: train, he was summarily dri off by the train crew.
CRIME CONTINUES Many looters continue tc |ter the area from small b at night, defying detection.
Our own home and new per office on Bayou Boisdo: a revolting ruined shell i house. The outside walls, crete block reinforced steel, and the roof strm (stand. Whole window fr. and doors were blown £ Inside partition walls arc istroyed. A six to eight-incl er of muck on the floors r footing dangerous and c most of our personal belon scattered around by the and water. Clothes, typew I furniture, silver, china, TV, refrigerators, freezer jone big tangled mess {they did not blow down th or into neighbors yards tree leans on the living roof. We don’t have even jgle copy of each issue newpaper for the recor were not even able to sal full truckload for th.e |trip. The stench inside ip (of gag continuously.
Neighbors in every di Oil Pass Christian face th problem.	'
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