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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, September 24, 1965 OA of cans, the article says. NEWS IN BRIEF id Last the Consu: - oT mers AS) «py SOUTHPAW WATCH < tered storefronts, bent steel bill-[munication at all with towns tojbeen warned to boll water be- Juice Labels ° ® |oards over double, tore offjthe south. jeause of a power failure in the = -- table-sized sheets of tin roofing] In Mississippi and Louisiana|purification plant, Many res- in s i s see eee jand skimmed them into thejnational guardsmen were called -- ves --. ' Must Be Exact i Radio stations broadcast long sociation of Canada measured People who wear a watch of streets like lethal boomerangs.jout and issued live ammunition The wind cries its fury akc on with br to --- if -- cron Bi of aA pe wl Bac people TORO! (cP) a ae moan, Walking was impossible.|sary stop rs. Street|seeking word or fam- INTO oe "linices in six atces oft ¥ Baca fhe face like nee-\crews began sweeping up rub-|ily they had been unable to/rent issue of The Canadian Conn pat flan ace ae "3 re nr ble and glass that sheathed the|reach. sumer says government and in- Gi ik cana hk pr age the mage er In Hurricane Betsy dies etn? The hurricane, far away now|dustry have agreed that begin- time: hence the Sirens whined all over - the|streets. good ; five teet|city. Church bells peeled in the] A steady flow of cars broughtitrom the moist air that gave it/ning Jan, 1, nners ofluice stated on the label, the rt tgs Key West had up to five feet din of crashing glass and debris|outboards and rowboats to thelpirth, died some time Friday, r el sae ey gas 1A magazine reports, that lle va tent sie caching the|boats sank in the harbor. {flung through tne streets. Some|flooded to help ev Sept. 10, in northern Louisiana, The CAC drew this to the at- da fire of the| QDs CFOPs, Deacung 40,000 flooded residents. The with the exact liquid contents of Day after day the fire of the). .5hy inter-island sailing boats,| py jate Wednesday afternoon,|time after midnight a levee ony . But its remains continued to tention of the department of| Surveyors and prospectors tropical sun scorches the empty! cing the tin ruots from thelgent. 8, Betsy had passed into|tte ship canal to Lake Pont, living came out first. 'The dead/bring wind and rain as far as|the can. agriculture and asked that theloil under the North Sea are ve oe tied to trees to be brought back|the Ohio valley into the week-| Some labels have sot been|labels be revised to state thelpected to spend £100 and windless sea, The air turns little houses of chartrain gave way. Police tried heavy, moist, oppressive. 104 intends. Yor 12 hours the ee ee een wal to warn residents of low-lying|!ater. end. giving the true liquid contents!contents correctly. yearly on equipment in Britain," soggy i | , ye the = storm was rooted just north of|dows, downed power and phone are Bet ny of , apes gen ee ae me rises, er airs from the ' ~ati t , cars became flooded. esivate cars broug! ousands 0 piesa. Cemtuaiestions wer |tises, ruined crops and washed from broken glass stopped oth-jevacuees into the city. Five with romantic names -- Abaco, By SID MOODY Eleuthera, Treasury Cay--flat-jof water in the streets. Several trades funnel in, are heated,idown and the islands were shut he teamed a cent off from the world for two days. eee sents, tate When contact was regained, no deaths were reported, The fun-in-the-sun city of Nassau was frayed but still in business. rise and more air moves in. The process speeds, Spun by the rotation of the earth, the air movement takes a counter- clockwise direction, and as the air spirals upwards, pressure at the centre of the funnel/HITS THE KEYS drops. The velocity of the rushing winds rises. A passing ship notes the wind or low pressure or a weather satellite photo- Gulf Stream and struck the graphs the circular pattern of|Fiorida Keys just after mid- clouds, The word js out: Hurri- cane, So it began on Friday, Aug. 27. A ship far at sea near the vast stillness of the doldrums between South America and Af- rica reported heavy rain squalls, A Tiros weather satel- lite sent back a photograph of a rotary cloud pattern in the same area, the nurturing place of the hurricane. Hurricane hunter planes from Puerto Rico tracked the storm, centred about 2,000 miles east southeast of Miarni, By Aug. 31 they reported the storm system was falling apart, REVIVED NEXT DAY But the storm regenerated the next day, stoked by the moist air by which hurricanes are 105 m.p.h. Against the dark sparking and cracking. to die in Florida from Betsy. So was Betsy, A major hurri- cane with 145 m.p.h, winds and}iang gales radiating out 200 miles, estimated at $119,000,000. On Thursday along the gulf coast from Pensacola into Texas red and black hurricane warning flags stiffened in the first gusts. Long, slow swells that mark a storm's approach broke against the low. beach the storm strode across the|/FLEE INLAND a pickup truck, Then they were Ashore almost a quarter-mil-| washed into the black night. thousand alone were in the New Residents of the suburbs of|Orleans municipal auditorium. the south of the city could see the waters rising: They climb lof their families. People tied to bor watched helplessly as water .|babies, stood in line for soup, rose up and then over two ¢l-|.21 staring at the floor, told of ee ee ee tes their hours inthe black night of . storm, children crowd atop the cab of Men walked from one group to another seeking lost members sleep on cots, calmed crying "If I had been there I could have saved them," said a father night, Tuesday. Miami shud- dered under winds that reached blurred by hurtling curtains of rain flared blue and grey rain- bows from shorting transform- ers. Power lines snapped like whips in the storm's frenzy, "Look out!' a young boy cried in warning to a woman bent head down against the storm, She couldn't hear and walked into a wire. There was a flash and whe felb, one of seven lion people deserted their homes struck at midnight. Rain machine * windows. The _ gusts, and moved inland, A cattle herd was driven inland from Cam- eron, La., where 500 people skyline|once died in a hurricane,. In New Orleans wind puffs of warning would blow, then dic. the wind was harder, steadier and rain had begun. The storm The sight--and sound--of a hurricane loose in the streets of a great city is overpowering. gunned against which|ice reached 115 m.p.h,, struck with were obliterated, remained was who lost two small sons. They Along the miverfront six|were among the 68 dead in ocean - going freighters were|Louisiana, Five others died in lblown' free, crashing into dock-|Mississippi and Arkansas. sides, tugs and each other in an aimless, murderous ballet. Sev-|son toured the city and declared eral barges, one loaded with 600}southern Louisiana a disaster The air was muggy. By dusk|tons of fatal chlorine, sank.jarea. Damage was put as high Down in the bayous, severaljas $1,000,000,000 with another towns barely above sea level/$1,000,000,000 to the shipping in- On Saturday President John- dustry between New Orleans But much of this would not be|and Baton Rouge. known for many hours after the storm moved northwards Fri-jin day, Sept. 10. What phone serv-|freezes. jammed.|some supplies short in super Power to 80 per cent of the city|markets, For more than a day a fierce "whump" that shat-lwas out. There was no com-'residents in New Orleans had With power out, food spoiled refrigerators and deep The demand made ----ICICIaaaaoaaeaeEeEeeeeeeee---------------------- ENJOY THE FINE, FAST FAMOUS FOR OIL ECONOMY © Gar Woon counter flow principle. © Amazing savings in heating costs. © Clean, sunburst flame; © Washable air filters. ® Flash humidifier. fuelled. Its winds passed the 75- mile-anhour velocity that de- termines hurricane force. 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