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Are Swiftly Taken
Residents of Low Areas Stream from Homes
By DAVID CUTHBERT And FRED BARRY As Hurricane Camille in-eased in intensity Sunday and oved ominously closer to the 2W Orleans area, mass emer-ncy evacuation measures ;re put swiftly into motion in astal areas.
Even as the Weather Bu eau issued bulletins to the ef-jct that Camille would hit le mouth of the Mississippi liver, people of Plaquemines treamed out of the parish ome 12,000 in all, Luke Pe-•ovich, public safety commis-ioner, said.
[n Orleans Parish, at about 15 p.m. Mayor Victor H. Schi-and Police Superintendent seph I. Giarrusso left the kef rent' Civil Defense Shelter servey the Lake Vista and ke Terrace area.
After observing flooding oni keshore dr. due to heavy' ives from Lake Pontchartrain, wers overflowing and water shing through sandbags on the /ee on the Industrial Canal, jy ordered the area evacuat-
Sgt. William Nolan, police puty information officer, said
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turn Buses sts that are Safe
CITY IS AWARE j FURY POSSIBLE1
Residents Batten Down for Dangerous Blow
:	By DON LEE KEITH
New Orleans, acutely aware !of the death-dealing fury of killer hurricanes, staged a one-day j preparedness campaign Sunday that may have rivaled any in !the city’s history.
As Camille coughed her ' way steadily through the Gulf I of Mexico toward the ever ! vulnerable inland, residents of the Crescent City and its surrounding areas began to batten down for the short but danger-filled storm.
By mid-morning, with the elemental blockbuster half a day ahead, many plate glass windows on downtown stores were already slashed with strips
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cane warning east of the Mississippi River, five to eight feet. Immediate evacuation of areas that will be affected by these high tides is urgently advised.
Several tornadoes are likely Sunday within 100 miles of the coast in the area of southeastern Mississippi eastward to Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
Heavy rains with local amounts of eight to 10 inches will spread into Southeast Mississippi, Southwest Alabama and the Florida Panhandle tonight. Flood statements will be issued by the local weather bureau offices as needed.
At 11 p.m. the center of Hurricane Camille was located by New Orleans and other land based radars near latitude 30.3 N, longitude 89.1 W, or near Gulfport, Miss.
Highest winds are estimated at 150 miles per hour near the center. Hurricane force winds extend outward 60 miles and gales extend outward 180 miles from the center.
Those in the path of the eye are reminded that the winds will die down suddenly if the eye passes over their area, but the winds will increase again rapidly and from the
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of table-flat delta land deposited by centuries of silt.
Until 9 p. m. Sunday, thi big storm was heading in j north-northwest direction anc seemed on a course that woul( take it dangerously close to Nev Orleans.
Storm Moves Toward Gulfport
But the storm suddenly ceasec its slight westward movemen: and headed straight for Gulfpor on the Mississippi coast.
By the time the storm ha< passed over the southeaster] tip of Louisiana, the area wai deserted.
In all more than 21,000 per sons were evacuated from fivi parishes, including better thai 12,000 from Plaquemines, 5,501 from Terrebonne and 2,800 fron Lafourche.
About 1,000 fled sections a Orleans and St. Bernard par ishes. All estimates came fron rescue centers.
A Red Cross spokesman
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‘Orphans of the Storm’ in Belle Chasse
id Light were reported with-it power at 9 p.m.
An LP&L spokesman said lere were some spotted out-?es in the Metairie area and ime individual Metairie out-|es caused by falling trees id tree limbs, but Metairie as “in pretty good shape.” Most outages occurred iuth of Metairie, it was said. The following were without wer: Everything below Port Iphur, everything from Gold-i Meadow to Grand Isle; erything below Oakville, lich is just south of Belle lasse; and a section along e Belle Chasse Hwy. be-een Gretna and Belle lasse.
The LP&L spokesman said crews would be sent out ring high winds and heavy ins except for critical in-tutions such as substations d hospitals.
AMONG the thousands of persons from low-lying areas in Louisiana who sought shelter Sunday from Hurricane Camille was Mrs. Albert J. Falcon (right), holding one of her five grandchildren, 14-month-old Patches Rooks. Mrs. Falcon and her family were
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housed Sunday at the Belle Ch^s$e jHigh School in Plaquemines Parish. At ■Wft' is	'
friend, Miss Debbie Treadway 'and another' of Mrs. Falcon’s grandchildren,/8-pios.-old Amy Marie Gomillion. * g -	>
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