MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE-SEVCW
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Six thousand persons ei In
the tornado and tidal wave that
struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900.
lunday, Juna SO, 1957
SECTlOiJS
President in Hourly
Contact With Aides
Br VEIL MacKEIL
Onltad Pron Correspondent
Gettysburg. P. 'f Presi
dent Eisenhower Saturday
pledged "II possible help" from
the government for the. Louisi
-. Texsi hurricane disaster
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Whi'e Houm Prs Secretary
James C. Higrty said the Chief
Executive regards the havoc re
sulting from Hurricane Audrey
as "a calamitous situation."
He said Eisenhower is "very
much . concerned" and has
pledged "all po.e.b.'e help."
In Hourly Contact
The President .as in almost
hourly contact with aides flown
to the stricken areas to make
personal surveys. Hagerty said
he would order specific govern
ment assistance as the extent of
the catastrophe is ascertained
Earlier Saturday, Eisenhower
declared the hurricane area elig
ible for federal disaster funds
He also urged Americans to con
tribute to the Red Cross, which,
he said, "must and eventual'y
will play a major role" In the
rehabilitation work.
Eisenhower himself made "an
additional contribution" to th?
Red Cross, HaEerty said.
The President also told Hag-
ertythat he greatly appreciated
one gift in particular to the re
lief agency S50.000 from the
Canadian Red Cross for the hur
ricane victims.
Government Assistance
Hagerty said government as
aistance so far has consisted of:
35,000 bushels of grain re
leased by the Agriculture De
partment to feed 3,500 head of
cattle left without feed.
An order to government de
pots and military bases to re
lease any "surplus" lumber they
have to the stricken areas.
The dispatch of small ships
and helicopters to carry drink
ing water and food to stranded
survivors.
Hagerty said the amount of
dollar aid to be made available
cannot be fixed for several days
He said the President would
have to await detailed reports on
the damage.
Among the federal officials on
the scene in Louisiana was Val
Peterson, former Civil Defense
administrator who was making
a survey for Eisenhower. He re
ported by phone from New Or
leans on his preliminary find
ings. Peterson first talked with Hag
erty for about 20 minutes and
then with the President. Hag
erty relayed Peterson's com
ments to newsmen.
He said Peterson had no ac
curate figure on the death toll.
Eisenhower mentioned to news
men Saturday morning that he
understood 211 persons had lost
their lives. Hagerty said this was
an unofficial total but that it was
expected to go higher.
Peterson told Eisenhower that
"little, if any" drinking water
or food was available. He also
said the health problem was
serious and that there was a
great need for lumber.
Peterson declared the main
disaster area as a 40-mile stretch
running from Cameron and Mor
gan City on the Louisiana copst
inland up to 40 and 50 miles. Ho
said Pecan island was "very se
verely smashed" and that Cam
eron was the most "severely hit
town."
Grange Notes
Shady Cove Grange
The Shady Cove Grange met
Wednesday evening, June 26, in
the Shady Cove school cafeteria
with its monthly potluck supper
and social meeting.
Several guests were present
among whom were Mrs. Ada
Shull and Mrs. Stanley Stevens
of North Bend, Oregon, and Mr.
and Mrs. Miles Williams of Eagle
Point Grange.
A short business meeting was
called, at which time Mr. and
Mrs. K. Oliver received the obli
gation lor the first and second
degrees.
The HEC of Shady Cove
Grange and the HEC of Upper
Rogue Grange will have a noon
picnic on July 9 at Casey's park.
The next regular meeting of
the Grange will be July 10.
Delia A. Littlefield,
Publicity Chairman
Grif:in Creek Grange
Griffin Creek Grange met for
a potluc supper Thursday, June
Follow ing the supper a pro
gram arranged by lecturer Mrs.
Clyde Suirgilf and Mrs. Cyril
Farnswortb was presented.
A skit rrtraying a wedding
arty of 50 years ago was given
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Bierua. whjo recently celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary.
They were presented a gift from
the Graneo.
Grange was called to order by
Master Cyril Farnsworth and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minear
were obligated in the first and
second degrees.
Fetitions were to be given to
a committee to get signatures
concerning house bill 163 known
as the school consolidation law.
As this was the social meeting
there -cve no reports of committees.
Weather Bureau
Says Audrey Was
Among Best Traced
' By HERBERT W. CHESHIRE
' United Press Correspondent
Washington 'IP The U.S.
, Weather Bureau said Saturday
j that hurricane Audrey was "one
j of the best forecast, best tracked
I and most forewarned of hurri
j canes in history."
Its statement by inference
j strongly denied complaints by
some survivors in the disaster
stricken Louisiana coastal area
I that there had not been adequate
advance warning.
"From press reports, an esti-
mated 75,000 people in the
! threatened areas evacuated to i
j higher ground and escaped pos
isible death or injury because
they heeded weather bureau
warnings and advisories," the
bureau said.
Advised lo Move
"R e s i d e n ts of low-exposed
areas were advised early Wed
nesday June 26 22 hours be
fore the storms' center hit the
coast to move to higher ground
to escape the forecasted rising
tides."
The statement was not signed
by any bureau official.
Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer
is chief of the bureau. He was
not available for personal com
ment. A bureau spokesman said
those who failed to leave the
lowlands either did not hear the
bureau's warning which, he
said, was unlikely or simply
did not heed them.
The bureau said that as a follow-up
to its warning service,
it had sent Robert H. Simpson,
director of its national hurricane
research project, and a weather
bureau "storm surge specialist"
into the stricken area "to con
duct a fact-finding survey" on
hurricane Audrey's behavior and
effect.
Specific Complaint
The specific complaint most
often heard from survivors was
that they were told at one point
the hurricane would not hit the
coast until Thursday night when,
in fact, it struck about 8 a.m.
Others complained they had
no warning of the "tidal wave."
In New Orleans, Ray Kraft,
forecaster supervisor at the
weather bureau there, pointed
ojt that there was adequate
warning in advance of the high
tides. He said there was no way
to specifically pin down the tim
ing and heighth of the tides once
the area was in the midst of the
storm.
He also said the bureau's last
advisory stated the center of the
storm would hit the coastal area
about mid-morning or about 10
a m. CST, "and that was just
about right."
(MISS. ALA. GA.
FEEL HURRICANE Area menaced by the
first hurricane of the season, Audrey, is
shown on the map above. Cameron, the
small Louisiana coastal town washed away
in high tides resulting from the hurricane.
is located south of Lake Charles and east
of Port Arthur, Texas, on the above map.
The brunt of the hurricane was felt in Louis
iana coastal area.
Welfare Payments Show Increase in May
Portvnd W The Oregon
Welfare Commission Friday
blamed depressed business con
ditions and the rising costs of
institutional care for a 17.1 per
cent average increase in wel
fare payments during May.
The May figure reached S2.
887,476 as compared with S2.
465,545 for the same month a
year ago.
Although budgets from the
counties will exceed available
funds for the coming fiscal year,
the budgets were approved here
bv the Commission with the un
derstanding that county welfare
commissioners would meet with
State Director Miss Jeanne Jew
ett to seek possible reductions.
Quarterly budget for the
counties for July, August and
September totaled $9,133,764.
the bulk of its total assistance
payments to the counties.
The old colored lead pencil
(made in a few primary colors)
has blossomed into 72 shades
10 times the number of colors
in the rainbow.
SWEET STINKER
St. Petersburg, Fla. TP Mrs.
Gladys Stewart Wahn, a cos
metic saleswoman, didn't ex
actly call an arresting officer a
stinker but he got her message
anyhow. Patrolman Richard
Kimble told the court Wednes
day night that when he stopped
Mrs. Wahn for speeding she said
"I wouldn't call you a stinker,
but . . ." and then handed him
a bottle of her sweet-smelling
wares.
The post-Civil War period saw
the introduction of mascara at
fashionable spas such as New
port and Saratoga. This was ac
credited to Empress Eugenie.
Survivors Gather at Arena
To Identify Those Missing
By JAMES M. FLINCHUM
United Press Correspondent
Lake Charles, La. OP Hun
dreds of persons stood or sat in
the rodeo arena at McNeese state
college Saturday studying each
other's tired faces for a miss
ing relative or friend.
They were the survivors of
Hurricane Audrey along the
Louisiana coast, brought north
to Lake Charles by boat and put
up temporarily by relief agen
cies in the rodeo arena.
Most of these survivors of
Audrey came from Cameron
parish towns Cameron, Grand
Chenier, Little Chenier and Cre
ole. Helicopters Shuttle
Helicopters shuttled them In,
landing on the college's football
field. A man with a loudspeak
er greeted them, asking them. to
register before greeting those
they recognized.
Mrs. Percy Dyson sat quietly
with two small girls. She left
Cameron Friday about 10 a.m.
from the courthouse.
"Not a splinter of the house Is
left. Everything's gone," she
said. "We went to the courthouse
the night before the winds hit."
The girls were Gloria, three,
and Martha, 11 months. Her hus
band and a son, David, four, had
not arrived. But she said they
were all right.
Not all of the survivors were
natives. Mrs R. A. Cooke, wife
of a Louisville, Ky., electrical
contractor, for example, was vis
iting a sister at Creole.
Her mother and sister-in-law
accompanied her there Wednes
day. When Audrey's winds in
creased, the women decided to
drive to safety about 3:30 a.m.
Thursay.
Wave Strikei
. It was too late. Before they
could flee, a tidal wave swept
over them, pouring water
through doors and windows of
the house.
The younger women tried to
make a raft of debris for her
72-year-old mother, Mrs. W. K.
Evans, Sr.
"But then a big wave struck
and carried mc away. I never
saw them again."
She clung to a timber which
carried her to higher ground.
She remained there until res
cued. In addition to her mother,
Mrs. W. K. Evans jr., the sister-in-law,
and Mrs. O. L Richards
of Creole, the sister, were miss
ing. Mrs. Cooke said Richards
telephoned from Corpus Christi
Wednesday night to warn them
to leave before the storm struck.
"But my sister thought there
would be plenty of time," she
said.
Authorities decided to close
the arena late today and move
the refugees elsewhere because
of sanitation problems.
The only wooden shoe factory
in the United States is located
at Holland, Mich.
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Women's hairdos hide it1
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angle.
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