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Newspaper Page TextFlora's Toll Still Being Counted As Hurricane Season Comes to End MIAMI (UPI) -The 1963 hur- ricane season ended today. It will be remembered long into the future as the year of Flora. For Flora goes into weather records as the "most deadly tropical cyclone ever to occur in the Atlantic area." Tentative and conservative figures com piled from thp best sources available list Flora's death toll at 6,791 and its property damage at $434 million. But for Flora, the most ab normal thing about the June 15-to-Nov. 15 season was Ginny, a hurricane that kept the whole southeastern U.S. coastline boarded up for almost a week while it did a slow' loop offshore but then headed north at sea to strike Nova Scotia. Eight Storms In all there were eight tropi cal storms starting with Arlene and winding up with Helena re V-tccl "4 uJU f ft. . - 5 V Ski SHirS BLkn Tne Norwegian freignter Fernview, foreground and the tanker Dynafuel, front left, are shown stuck together and afire off Buzzards Bay, Mass. Coast Guard vessels and tugs neip to remove tne crews, mere were no fatalities. (UPI) The Medical Roundup By Emeritus rmiMilUint in Medicine JUayo clinic Emeritus rnilessnr if JVlcdicIllo Mayo Clinic (Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1963), lany Boils A woman writes to say that, of laic, she has had one scries of boils after another, and she wonders if perhaps she should consult a dermatologist (skin specialist). Yes; I think that would be wise; but, if I had such 1 ils, 1 would get i medi cal check-up and, particularly I'd have my blood sugar meas ured to make sure I was not i coming down with diabetes. If my boils kept coming only in my armpits, I might consider having the skin removed from my armpits and other skin Activities Guide Received by McGill ASHLAND - Dr. E. C. Mc Gill, assistant to the president in academic affairs, Southern Oregon College, has received copies of an activities guide for business courses, which he co authored. Published by the Gregg divi sion of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, the guide is primarily intended for use with the text book "Business Principles, Or ganization, ind Management" also co-authored by Dr. McGill. The guide may also be used in a student activities ma- 1 in conj -nction with any text in the fiel " Co-authors for 11k publication-, both of which are in the second printing, are Dr. Herbert A. Tonne, chairman of the de partment of business education, New York University, and Dr. Sidney I. Simon, profcssoi- of economics at Rutgers ar 1 mem ber of the New York State Bar. transplanted mere Iron my migns or my abdominal wall. Getting Patients Up Quickly today, the tendency among surgeons is, after an operation, to get the patient up and walk ing - ound as quickly as possi ble sometimes on the second day. I walked around on the fourth day after a big abdominal operation. This walking makes for a -needier recovery, and it tends to save the perso.i from getting a clot of blood in one of his large leg veins. Interestingly, many years ago there was a surgeon who tried hard to stir up our profession to get patients up quickly, but for some time no one would listen to him, and no one would publish his paper, which, of course, is typical of human na ture. Today, women who have had u baby are allowed to be up and about much earlier than they used to be 50 years ago. American PayCheck May Become Extinct CHICAGO (UPI) - A com munications scientist said to day the American pay check may become extinct. Joseph W. Halina of the In ternational Telephone and Tele graph Corp., Paramus, N.J., told the National Automation Conference . that automation techniques eventually will in clude the wage earners' weekly check. "The average wage earner may never need to handle his check," he said, "or, if he does, it will be a confirming copy, possibly to show to his wife." and only the last one missed growing into a full-fledged hur ricane. Cindy, late in September, was the only one to strike the U.S. mainland, causing at least two deaths and widespread crop damage in Texas. Beulah, the second hurricane, was seeded with silver iodide crystals by high-flying Navy jets while weathermen recorded the effect on instrument - packed planes inside the storm. But the result of these small- scale experiments to determine if man can ever control the giants of nature still are being recorded in columns of comput er figures. All of the infamy of the season belongs to Flora, whose de struction and death were spread over six Caribbean islands. Her fringe waves battered South Florida at one point near the end of a nine-jay rampage, causing the death of a swimmer. But her worst blows were to the remote mountain regions of southwestern Haiti, where the j tempest struck with winds esti mated up to 200 miles an hour, and in Cuba, smashed relentless ly for four days as Flora criss- i crossed the eastern half of the j Communist island. 1 History Compiled j Gordon E. Dunn, chief hurri cane forecaster of the Miami weather bureau, compiled the history of Flora's devastation from weather stations in the islands, government reports from Haiti, and radio broadcasts from Cuba monitored by press media. Here are Dunn's estimates, in the order of Flora's rampage: the island of Tobago, 17 killed and $30 million damage; Trini dad, $100,000 damage; Grenada, six dead, $25,000 damage; Haiti, 5,000 dead and $85 million in destruction; Dominican Repub lic, six dead and $7 million in damage; Cuba, 1,750 killed and $300 million in devastation; the Bahamas, $25,000 damage, and Florida, one dead. Exile sources in Miami have put the death toll in Cuba at 4,000, Dunn's figure is based on reports of the dead and missing from Fidel Castro's government radio. Dunn says that remote areas of Haiti and the Dominican Re public still are to be heard from. That over 50 people are not in cluded in the toll are among the missing in numerous boats un heard from since the tempestu ous night when Flora smashed into Haiti's Tiburon peninsula. He calls the $434 million esti mate "conservative ... it may well exceed a half-billion." The closest hurricane disaster to Flora in this part of the world was the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which took an estimated 5,000 lives. Spotted, by Tiros It was on Thursday, Sept. 26, that America's Tiros weather satellite impassively photo graphed from space and trans mitted to the U. S. weather bu reau in Washington the first pic tures of a cloud mass far east of the Caribbean in the tropical Atlantic. Tiros took another picture on Friday, but on Saturday and Sunday was not in position to keep up checks on what was nothing more than a suspicious depression in an area of few ship reports. But on Sunday, weathermen estimated from previous reports the area must be approaching the vicinity of Tobago and Trinidad, off the north coast of Venezuela, and ordered a hurricane hunter plane to check the area on Monday. On Monday, the Navy recon naissance plane from Puerto Rico found a "circular, well-defined eye, eight miles thick, in dicating Flora was the most concentrated and best organized tropical cyclone in the past two years," Dunn says. At 1:40 p.m. that day, barely two hours after Flora had been given a name, the hurricane smashed into Tobago with sus tained winds of 90 to 100 miles an hour, catching the island of Rob'., on Crusoe legend with little forewarning and unroof ing scores of native homes and tourist motels. Slashing into the Caribbean, the growing storm brushed Grenada with its deadly winds Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1963 , PAGES 1 to 12 and caused some damage on the island of Martinique which was still counting several dead, plus crop damage from hurri cane Edith the week before. It was on Wednesday, after Flora's steady march across the Caribbean, that the afternoon turned black as midnight in Haiti, the land of impoverish ment and voodoo. By evening, sustained winds of 140 miles aa hour were clocked and gusts of 180 and 200 miles an hour raked the mountain forests and ramshackle fishing towns. "Destruction over the moun tainous terrain of the Haitian peninsula ranged from severe to complete," Dunn's report says. "Flash floods washed away sections of many towns and landslides buried others. Crops were totally destroyed." Roads Impassible About 3,500 bodies were re covered, hundreds more were lost in landslides and floods. Roads in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic still are impassable and communications are not restored in some areas. From Haiti, Flora turned to Cuba, brushing a damaging blow at Jamaica to the south. The tempest, its winds down to 100 miles an hour after the bout with Haiti's peaks, crossed the eastern tip of the island on Friday afternoon. As it headed into the Atlantic on a course toward Florida a high pressure area to the north blocked Flora's advance, and for three more days the hur. ricane pummelled the cattle ranches, coffee and sugar plan tations of Cuba's three east' ernmost provinces without let-up. 1961 CHEVROLET 4 DOOR SEDAN Bel-Air V-8, Slick $1695 Call Mr. McHenry at 482-111 WALT'S LITHIA MOTORS On the Plan ASHLAND, OREGON Red Fir Log Ends Green-or-Dry Seasoned Oak and Laurel Standard Heating Oils Pres-to-logs Coal COLD BOND STAMPS VALLEY FUEL CO. 11 W. McAndrewi Rd. Tel. 773-1576 STANDARD Medford Girl died Following Accident Joan Patricia Murphy, 20, of 15 Newtown St., was cited for failure to stop after she was in volved in a two car accident in Medford Wednesday, city po lice reported. Driver of the other vehicle in volved was Leland Dusayne Ly on, 26, Central Point. The mis hap occurred about 2:40 p.m. at Barnett Road and Interstate 5. No injuries were reported, of ficers said. 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