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One team was reported in e Hattiesburg area; a second as working north from Jack-n, and a third team was head-into New Orleans. Undersecretary J. Phil impbell of the USDA said ,000 pounds of government od was on its way 'from a ireveport warehouse to Gulf->rt and Biloxi, Miss.
The Buena Vista Hotel, long le of the convention centers on e Coast at Biloxi, had water ght feet deep on its ground )or, destroying facilities off ra-o station WLOX.
The Sun ’N Sand Motel, an-her resort motel on the beach, as reported destroyed. Additionally, Hurricane Cam-e reportedly killed three Cu-ins as it howled across the land nation’s western tip Fri-ly night, before heading for e U.S. mainland.
After whipping ashore on e Coast, Camille moved inland id her fierce 190-mile-an-hour inds had slowed by the time; e reached McComb and Hat-isburg, which reported winds-100 miles an hour.	j
everal Windows Collapse at McComb
Several store windows col- i psed at McComb and utility! )les, trees and signs were; rewn along the city streets, i Almost every downtown isiness in Hattiesburg suffered ass breakage, officials said, ■ id “It was impossible to get to
0	w n t o w n Hattiesburg,” be-ocked by fallen trees.
Columbia, Miss., was still : vithout water or electricity dondav afternoon.
Hwy. 98 in Columbia was ocked by ’fallen trees.
Five- of the 10 hangars reamed standing at Columbia’s •ivate airport, and there was
1	unconfirmed report of a tor-ado in the Keys Hill-Golden cres area where falling trees pped up chunks of earth with leir roots.
About 150 refugees were /acuated from the Chrystelle ord Auditorium and moved to le Columbia High School gym hen parts of the auditorium, >of were blown off.
As the storm crept slowly arthward it lost its big punch, ith the Weather Bureau re-orting a record low barometric ressure at its station in Rankin ounty of 29.03 inches.
Damaging winds avoided ackson, Miss., the capital, as amille selected a path near randon to the east. Heavy mounts of rain were recorded
owned Robert E. Lee Hotel housed over 1 persons while the UniveK „ of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg opened its doors to over 2,000 homeless. Food was offered j through the school’s cafeteria 1 and the gymnasium quickly became a large dormitory. j | At the Mississippi Test Fa-' , cility, located between Bay St. j (Louis and Pearl River, NASA! (provided for about 600 refugees! 'Sunday night, giving food and: shelter.	j
Several Mississippi con- ( gressmen issued appeals to fed-j ;eral agencies for assistance.! 'Sen. John C. Stennis and Sen.
I James O. Eastland said President Nixon and assistance agen-icies promised prompt attention, i The Coast Guard put 16 helicopters and two fixed-wing i planes in the air to scour the wrecked 30-mile stretch of Mississippi coast between Waveland and Biloxi.
Lincoln stopped short 0f nave “ De clefea oeiore uumy
saying the state and local prep-(serA ; sCAal1bl1reS, ^ed^ „ arations for an emergency com-; rH	telephones	were
munication network had knocked out of service along
failed,but he said the capability was at a very low point.
The extent of federal help will be in three areas, he said.
The first will be repairs to damaged federal property.
He said the OEP is restricted to using an emergency presidential disaster fund to help repair essential public facilities such as hospitals, roads, bridges and city halls and it can also
the Coast, representing nearly two-third of the telephones in the area.
Despite the havoc, the afternoon edition of the Biloxi-Gulf-port Daily Herald appeared Monday.
It was printed, however, on the press of The State and Columbia, S. C., Record newspapers.
All local copy of the Daily Herald was telephoned to the
contract for services to remove newspaper offices in Columbia debris from public property and late Sunday, after electrical to take steps to protect public (power was lost on the Coast, health.	;The newspapers were flown to
The Mississippi Air National the Daily Herald’s circulation Guard Monday began transfer- area and then distributed to ring patients from hospitals in readers by truck.
Gulfport to other areas of the! The Daily Herald is a sister state.	!	paper of the Columbia news- *
A C-124 Globemaster made a papers, which are all owned roundtrip flight from Jackson bv the State-Record Co._____________________
Work Begins on Removing Sandbags
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—Photo by G. E. Arnold of The Times-Plcayune Staff.
A WORKMAN with shovel toils at removing	Sunday night and quick action by authorities
sandbags at Robertson St. and the Industrial	headed off the dangerous threat.
Canal. A leak sprung in the levee here late