Flora'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
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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
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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.
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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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