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I	Priest Vows s Church Wiil Be Rebuilt
yardstick it has ever tracked, brushed the narrow strip of
Additional names of hurricane victims are given in Sec. 1, Page 2.
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| All the figures represented ! substantial increases over previous counts.
j Although river levels had subsided, high water remained in Louisiana which juts into the fjje danger area of south Rich* Gulf of Mexico along the Mis- ,m0nd, where the land dips like sissippi River and then | a saucer below the normal level plowed into the Mississippi Qf james River and the Coast, a resort area, late last Ifiood waters in effect were Sunday.	Strapped.
Police said water nearly 8
feet deep in the low-lying industrial area was tbpped by more than an inch of gasoline. Hundreds of workers and several families were evacuated Saturday.
The property of the com-
(Editor’s note: W. F. Minor, The Times-Picayune s Jackson bureau chief, has spent the last 22 years as a chronicler of Mississippi news. In the course of those 22 years, as a reporter and citize of Mississippi, he has come 7o know and love the >
Coast.)	j
By W. F. MINOR I
(Times-Picayune Staff Correspondent)
LONG BEACH, Miss. —j William Faulkner., himself aj
Mississippian, said it for allj The ki]ler ]eft 10 dead and rmankind: ‘'Man wilkpot-.merely |another 30 ]endure; he will *KVevau.”
! What has happened to the gay, brassy, unique, lovable Mississippi Gulf Coast must be the real test of man’s durability.
It is no clearer anywhere than in the shambles of St.
Thomas Catholic Church—whose pure white wooden frame structure and red steeple with the cross on top stood out along the beachfront as a Gulf Coast symbol.
' Can man come back from t h e unbelievable devastation which the mysterious power of ;the universe seem to have cruelly dealt this region?
FAITH IS SHAKEN
Faith of man is shaken here. It perhaps cannot be otherwise lest man lose his human fears, emotions and his limited courage.
The tom and distorted heart j pine timbers which went intoj c t . § j p 2 c j ? c , } g j p , Co) the erection of St. Thomas	’	8	’	’
Church 65 years ago prove again the fragility of man and his works.
St. Thomas Church had ridden out all the great storms of this century which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast. When Camille came crashing in Sunday night a week ago, she sheared off all of the church and left standing only the altar and the back wall.
Water came racing through the church, inundating the altar, but, almost miraculously, leaving the Blessed Sacrament inside the altar tabernacle undam-
As Camille moved across land to Virginia, and then on out to the Atlantic, where she was born Aug. 14, her rains caused heavy flooding in western Virginia, leaving upwards of 71
d63At Pass Christian, one of! the beachfront communities; I111 ,a 6	-'’ ,5 ., . . fi t
near here Parnell MrKav a! leak W3s undetected at first. ^ , T, p ’ f , McKay, a; j plifgged late Saturday Civil Defense official, said • . .
searchers found one more body! • arga remained cor.
Sv w	of£ by N*tional Guards-
p evious d }.	,men	firemen prepared
DOG FINDS BODY	; t0 sjphon the gasoline-laden wa-
A sheriff’s department ca-tter into storm sewers that emp-nine corps dog discovered the j ty into the river only a few body of a young woman Sunday;blocks away, in a pile of rubble alongside! City officials said they had U.S. 90 at Gulfport.	jbeen	assured by the Virginia
Federal officials said 15 Army!Water Control Board that the scout dogs with their handlers gasoline would be “ swallowed arrived at Gulfport Sunday from up” in the James and that dan-Fort Benning, Ga., for use iniger was minimal that it would the search for more	bodies, lignite	in the storm sewers.
One grisly statistic came from! Dikes had been thrown up Sat-
Outside the wreckage of his church, the Rev. Francis P. — O’Malley, C.M., his stubby
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