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tCoataoa Iran ha One All Agencies Aid Storm Victims tConHtmt turn Tt Ona Damage Is Less In Lake Worth (Cofttlmiea from Fire Om) Sections In North Raked By Storm found the road blocked with fallen long distance telephone lines. "For quite a distance there was ders to tide them over or for dry clothing to replace that soaked by the storm. 1 Injuries reported at the disaster headquarters, according to Mrs. vT. frJ: It If -H P0 i mi i i just one lane of traffic and you practically had to fight it out with the other fellow to see who was 800 and in Palm Beach at $2,.

000,000. The West Pahn Beach loss was broken down to In private property and $995,800 In public property and utilities. Other property losses announced were: Belle Glade to Lake Harbor, $1,500,000 (property only; not including agriculture); 1 a Beach, five houses; Boynton Beach, $10,000 in the negro section; slight In the business section, and Ri to take the clearer side of the single path," he said. R. E.

Branch, information chairman, were Mrs. Dora Floyd, who suffered leg cuts when a falling tree crashed through a window at her home on Davis Rd and A. B. Keicher, who suffered brush burns And in spite of the storm, or be- cause of it, there were tremedous numbers of automobiles on the highway, Mr. Quineey declared.

when Radio Station WEAT's anten na in the Northwest section toppled The Florida Power and Light over. There were 11 cases of minor injuries reported, Mrs. Branch said. viera Beach, 50 business houses sub-station, located, at Golden Gate about five miles south of Stuart, was stripped of cross beam insulators and seemed to be a total loss, he said. Local streets were jammed with and 500 homes damaged; two bust Bess houses destroyed.

sight-seers Saturday and those who visited West Palm Beach as well Ralph Blank, Resources Develop Stuart itself suffered greater as this city generally agreed that ment Board manager, and William structural damage than has been West Palm Beach suffered more Hitt. Red Cross board of directors. than Lake Worth. said Saturday night after a tour of estimated at West Palm Beach, Mr. Quineey added.

City Manager Frank Clark ap One side of its citv hall was pealed to motorists to stay away MUNICIPAL JUDGE JOS. D. FARISH, Jr. relinquishes his gavel to "Judge" James Blackburn as members of the Order of DeMolay took over the city government Wednesday. "City Clerk" Arnold Schmidt is seated at the right.

blown off in the storm and sev. from the ocean front. The road the Glades area that a number of cpen packing houses were leveled and homes hit heavily. They added damage was more in the Paho-kee-Canal Point area than in the adjacent to the boardwalk was dousing SURF IN FRENZY IN HURRICANE High winds drive surf against shore at Miama Beach, passing automobiles as hurricane hits southern Florida. washed out, sand was washed over eral of the larger business establishments and garages are total losses.

The negro section is in shambles." (ContliHiM from One) i Pago 10 The Palm Beach Pott-Times, Sunday, August 28, 1949 Scattered Debris An airport hangar collaDsed and buried two planes and a glider for Garage Lands Atop PBJC Damage Small; Will Open On Schedule Palm Beach Junior College, despite its proximity to severe damage at Palm Beach International Airport, emerged with only minor another entry in the complete Belle Glade-Lake Harbor section. There was much speculation Saturday whether Friday night's hurricane was worse or as bad as the 1947 and 1928 blows. City and county officials were divided in their opinions. Meantime, the hurricane last night was in the vicinity of Lake Handful Of Class the road and numerous motorists got stuck before the road was finally roped off Saturday. Local insurance agents who were busy with claims Saturday had widely different opinions as to the extent of damage.

One agent informed his main office property damage was 40 percent of that caused by the 1947 hurricane. He Marks Palm Beach Is What He Gets Boat As Winds Sweep Jupiter Imported Grasses Aid Beef Raising GAINESVILLE, UP) Foreign storm, apparently are almost undamaged. The Coral Beach Club Adjutant James Crawford, of the Salvation Army, has always City and heading toward Northeast been accustomed to entering build estimated between 30U and 4U0 homes would have claims In excess of the $100 deductible. Anoth lost cabanas along the ssuth side, but Jack Mitchell, manager, re ings by way of doors but he didn't figure with the hurricane grasses are playing an outstanding er agent predicted there would be far more homes having claims, and role in Florida agriculture, Agron damage and will open definitely as planned, with first registration Sept. 6, Dr.

John I. Leonard, president," said late Saturday. Some roofing paper and a number of doors were lost, he said, but extensive protective measures were taken, and the buildings escaped remarkably we'l. The workshop for his faculty will continue Monday, he added. Friday.

When food supplies at the Army omist Gordon Killinger of the State Agricultural Experiment ported the main clubhouse intact. Officials united in lauding the way the sand pumping programs protected the boulevard at the North end of the resort, in the Jungle Rd. area, and at the new Phipps County Park protected the loss column, he estimated. City Manager L. B.

Curit told Mr. Quineey he believed 40 percent of the city's residential and business buildings sustained very severe damage and 95 percent would need repairs of some sort. He explained "severe damage" as buildings with walls down or entire roofs gone. Minor repairs, he said, would include replacement of shingles, windows and storm damage. Returning on the Old Dixie highway to Salerno, Mr.

Quineey said, there was fairly heavy structural damage there. Sheds in a large boatyard collapsed but he could not estimate how many boats were under the flattened buildings. A wind velocity gauge at the US Engineer's weather station at Salerno locks and the cross state Citadel began to run low as the storm was gathering, the officer Station has announced. telephoned the Margaret Ann In fact, he thinks there may come a time when grasses from store manager and agreed to meet rlorida. As an aftermath of the Friday night storm, 200 local families Saturday applied for relief at Red Cross headquarters, while five white families were given shelter.

The Red Cross has set up three mass shelters to house residents driven from their homes: First Methodist Church, Florida Ave. and Hibiscus for whites; Fellowship Baptist Church, 3d St. and Division for negroes, and Community Hall, Riviera Beach, for Whites. The National Red Cross has al boulevard. other lands will have largely re him at the store, 600 S.

Olive. Accompanied by Jim, his 15- placed native grass on Florida year-old son, Adjutant Cranford ranges. Several imported varities George M. Simpson, motor machinist mate 3rd class, US Coast Guard, always figured the crash boat was a pretty sturdy craft but he just didn't realize how sturdy it was until a garage tried to get on board. Simpson was standing in the cabin of the 30-foot boat docked at hurricane moorings in an inland waterway canal at Jupiter at the height of Friday's storm, according to Guernsey Curran, commander, Eastern Area, 7th Coast Guard district.

Suddenly winds whipped a garage from nearby property. The building plopped down on top of the boat. Simpson went to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment of forehead and face lacerations then returned to duty. Slight damage was done to the boat, Coast Guard officials said. However, the extreme South end of the boulevard was a storm casualty, with washouts at the Widener estate and between the reached the building just as the storm struck.

the Experiment Station found good for Florida have meant millions though a number of mellaleuca trees along the Fourt Arts Plaza were uprooted, and the library gardens there were severely swept. The Town Hall was also a hur the recent storm did more structural damage than the 1947 storm Property damage was generally listed as "roof danwed, windows broken, water damage to contents, porch demolished." Only one case was reported where a house was completely demolished and that was by Thelma Stanley, Riedel Ave. A nearby home owned by C. V. Mercer was struck by the wreckage and severely damaged, according to the Red Cross Disaster Survey.

A filling station on W. Lake Worth Rd. was also reported demolished. county park area and Lake Worth of pounds of beef that otherwise 'We hung on to the handles of Casino. The strip from the casino the doors for dear life.

Then would not have been produced by cattle of this State, Killinger ex pop the windows of the building to Lantana also appeared gone, County Engineer J. M. Boyd said, ricane victim. The radio aerial crashed through the roof and plained. canal registered 122 mph before it though debris covered the roadbed damaged the police and fire bar The Station has not imported located funds for rehabilitation shattered.

I pulled out some glass splinters and Jim and I crawled inside and waited until the surprised manager came." such grasses directly from their work here, according to Tom Smith, vice chairman of the coun racks, while a north door to the fire station went down and damaged Chief Ralph Hardin's car. native lands. They came from the United States Department of Agn ty disaster committee. A delegation Three Palm Beach-owned yachts culture, the Coastal Plains Expert Boys In Blue Hold At least a dozen plate glass win ment Station in Georgia, and other too went with the wind, the photographer reported. Although Stuart has no US weather station, a barometer there fell to 28.22 during the storm.

"I was told there was practically no lull in the hurricane like we" had here," Mr. Quineey said. "Winds blew at hurricane force or above, through that area for at least five hours." sources. Those that tested well of area disaster workers from Atlantic already has arrived here. Cots, mattresses and blankets from Red Cross emergency supplies were brought here by the were casualties.

A large two-master schooner, owned by William G. Elmslie, Banyan now in Europe, which has been an dows in the business section were broken. Officer Kenneth Eckholm Final Encampment were recommended to Florida to such an extent the damage could not be entirely estimated. The strip in front of Palm out in 1917, held despite erodint along the outer edges. But the waterfront from Sunrise Ave.

to Wells Road was a sand-covered wilderness, strewn with bits of broken walls, showing little likelihood of being passable when the sand was removed. At the Department of Public Works, exterior damage was esti who patrolled the area described one case. "It puffed out like a 14th Air Force from Orlando Air farmers. Station agronomists are on i continual hunt for nutritous grass chored off the South end of Everglades Island all summer, broke loose and washed aground on the golf ball and then exploded in every direction, he said. started on the parapet and roof of the George Washington Hotel, according to Mr.

Lickton. He said the top part of the hotel wall is still considered dangerous. A portion of the parapet and roof fell to the street during the hurricane. El Cid lake front near Avila Rd. On N.

Dixie Hwy. and iHtn Ave. es for Florida ranges, and their efforts have been fruitful in the case of Pangola. the Bahias, INDIANAPOLIS, (J1) Two boys in blue, with dimmed memories of '65, came to Indianapolis Saturday for a "final" encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. "Yes, this will be the last," said Theodore A.

Penland. Vancouver, GAR commander-in-chief. The Vahdah, on which Col. Ed ward P. Johnson, Canadian win an aluminum display trailer was overturned and apparently rolled over and over like a rubber ball during the storm.

fthodes, and Berumda. All are natives to other countries. ter visitor, lived at the Australian Force Base and have been placed In the shelters. Mayor William P. Holland and County Commission Chairman Lake Lytal last night issued proclamations naming the Red Cross as the official disaster relief agency in the city and county.

They said any contributions lor hurricane relief should be made directly to the Red Cross. City Manager Keith R. Chinn Florida's principal pasture mated as somewhat less than in Buildings in the process er con Wright Field grandstand lost its glasses are carpet and wire grass. "The boys are getting so fee- 1947, when the task of cleaning up struction generally suffered. Ave.

dock, piled up on the Southern Boulevard Bridge. A houseboat, said to be owned also by Col. Johnson, which was tied up at the pier in front of Holy Trinity Church, went down. A truck At the neero quarters in tne us- root to tne storm ana tne neia the old Civil War veteran and surrounding area was underadded a little sadlv, "they've got water Saturday. On the other to stay at home and take care of Banquet Is Delayed By Friday's Storm Friday night was to be a big windup.

First youngsters at the Y-Teen camp at Lake Osborne planned a banquet. Then would come the program of three plays they'd practiced all week. But there were hurricane warnings Friday morning. And the American Red Cross and YWCA board members evacuated the 25 girls and eight in cost owners a staggering amount and put the town $120,000 in Hie red. Both are nutritious for a short time but do not produce as much herbage as those of foreign extraction.

Florida has several mil borne section it was reported "lots of roofs off." Police Chief Eddie Longo re-icrane tried to hoist it from the e0 from Wright "field? escaped inkr-oH eotnm.nrf.r. During the storm approximately erty owners in cleaning ud debris 400 Dersons took refuge in the six ported north and south arteries water after the dock went to passable from the Inlet to the pieces and the boat crashed lion acres of carpet grass, but more and more farmers are turning to Pangola and the Bahias after "checking beef production records. damage, it was said. veteran of the Army of the Po- Red Cross personnel, flooded tomac, was the first to arrive with inquiries from the North, re among the six expected for the local shelters. The Civic Auditorium housed more than 200 per Bath and Tennis Club with most against the seawall.

sons, Mr. arancn saia. quested local residents to notify meeting. Only piers stripped of planking remained at the Australian and Brazilian Ave. docks, and the side streets cleared sufficiently for traffic by nightfall.

A number of royal palms weie down on Royal Palm Wav, and structors. (Continued from Pe One) friends and relations as to their personal welfare and the condition of respective properties. mm yi Three Craft Victims same was true in West Palm Air Fo rce Oroup However, the banquet and plays will still be given but on this He said city trucks will pick it up as soon as the streets have been opened, "but this may take a few days." He also asked the debris from properties not be dumped in the streets. Mr. Chinn also asked "sightseers" to stay at home.

He pointed out these motorists only cause more traffic congestion and hinder cleanup crews. Police Lt. John Schwarz rapped cut-of-county and out-of-State two or three at the west end of Beach at the Yacht Club Airport Damage miss uaroiyn ciucn, nome serv- i Bill Passes Congress Royal Poinciana Way. The palms City Manager Keith Chinn re-on the Society of the Four ported Marina docks eame through Arts lakefront stood up well iin good condition. coming Friday and at the YWCA recreation hall, Mrs.

C. L. Mee-bold. executive director, said. ice director, said the Red Crossi I I lUITlCane UT received telephone and telegraph I innniiips pn rlnrinff trie heielnl A two-masted sailing vessel WASHINGTON, UP) Congress "jNears $1 Million nf ihp storm yacht and an 82-foot houseboat The City of Jacksonville offered were believed by authorities to be Saturday approved plans for an ultimate vast expansion of the Air Force but how soon the record Deacetime air fleet will be built West Palm Beach Business Review the only craft in local waters de municipal aid to West aim Beach, sightseers, some of whom arrived stroyed or seriously damaged in Saturday morning before the hur-' wor'ler3 ecdei for and similar electrical repairs ricane winds subsided Friday hurricane.

The sail boat, owner unknown, pulled loose from its moorings and piled up on the El Cid water Apparently all county schools were damaged to some extent, according to Edgar Wortman. School Board architect. He and Supt. City Manager Keith R. Cninn.

E. C. Bowen. district manager, Southern Bell Tflephone Telegrapn and E. Lyons, division commercial msnager, Flo -idi Power front near Aviia Ave.

A yacht, occupied in winter by Col. Edward For Quality Cleaners And Quick Service See CARL'S Dry Cleaning 34th St. Phone 3-1276 I.ieht Co. exDressed aDDreciation 1 Pardee Johnson. Canadian win and officials here had been unable to reach him to inform him of the disaster and the partial wreckage of his personal plane.

Walter Jeske. mechanic in charge, viewed the wreckage ruefully, unwilling to attempt an estimate of the damage. Sixteen planes were crushed in the west hangar, and are believed to be total losses, while five were partially damaged in the east hangar. Six or eight planes were flown in from Miami, he said, and sev nowea watKins planned to continue their damage survey today to Jacksonville Mayor Haydoniter resident, said to be in the remained unanswered. The Senate by unanimous consent passed the so-called 70-group Air Force bill which previously was okehed by the House.

Changes were made which will send the bill back to the House. Saturday's action did not, however, restore an $800,000,000 slash in the Air Force's appropriation voted Friday by the Senate. The bill instead merely provided authority for the military to biy when Congress agrees to put up the money all aircraft deemed necessary to bring the air arm up to the 70-group level. Coast Guard emergency radio equipment was pressed into serv North, smashed against the east end ice Saturday noon in an attempt of the north side of Southern Blvd. bridge, police reported.

Tied up in front of Holy Trinity Church at a pier pounded to pieces in the storm, the houseboat suffered the same fate, it was said. Unconfirmed reports indicated this Burns but added they believed "West Palm Beach can take care of its troubles." Mr. Lyons said 250 power company workmen other areas already are here for repair work, while Mr. Bowen said If extra men are needed after a survey of telephone damage his firm will send in workers from other areas. Mr.

Bowen also Moore's Appliance Shop Salri Installation! Rplri Service (In All Gai AppHanre Rottl City Huh 4Vt Datura fit. Phone 8 7 Hi eral brought up from Lantana for safe-keeping, since the hangars boat was also owned by Col. John son. 10 establish communication between the Red Cross County Disaster Committee and disaster organizations in the Glades. A portable radio station, mounted on a Coast Guard truck, came here from Miami and was dispatched to the Glades area, lt was to communicate with Guernsey Curran, Palm Beach, who maintains and operates a Coast Guard Auxiliary radio station.

Deaths And Funerals Church Plans Rites here had successfully withstood the 1947 storm. Four planes left at the Lantana port are believed to have come through all right, he added. Among local aviators whose! planes were in one hangar or the' added between 5,000 and 10,000 telephones were knocked out of order by the storm. National Guardsmen moved in MILLARD, ANN ELIZA Funeral services for Mrs. Millard, 93.

11! N. Lakeside Lake Worth, whoj died Thursday, will be held Mon-j day at 3 pm at the Lake Worth Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. R. A.

Kelley, pastor, of the First Baptist Church will! Felder Bell, Inc. S10 So. Ollre Ave. Westinghouse Sales Serriee Three amateur ooerators. C.

Y. 10 aia ouecung uaruc. other were: J. R. Hime, W.

H. Hitt, Wesley Jackson, Charles Howell and B. Elliott, Pahokee. with Mr. Hardeen's and three planes of the Aero Corp.

Fred Gundlach, Palm Beach and a Mrs. Haas, Jupiter, were among Toumans. W. A. Brown and CoL O.

Hartwell, commano-Sykes, set up a portable short- ld Battalion. 211th In- In Theater Today Because of hurricane damage to the Union Congregational Church, this morning's services were to be held in the Surf Theater at 11. according to Carl A. Widell, chairman of the board of trustees. He said the church school would be held in the new Sunday School building at 9:45.

Mr. Widell explained four stained glass windows, which had been dedicated to the church founders in 1912. were smashed. wave station in the Red Cross and said they will evening remain building to maintain eommunica- those whose cars were reported officiate. The body will be sent to Miami for cremation.

Friends are asked to omit fiowers. on duty through today. With telephone communications out Friday evening, the individual Guardsmen were picked up at their GENTRY Inc. Paint and Glass tion with the Red Cross Miami office. Reports on the top velocity of the hurricane varied from 120 to 130 mph, with gusts up to 155.

Highest recorded velocity was 162 homes by police cruisers. Adj. Gen. Mark Lanee. St.

Au- uustine. came here Saturday crushed when the hangar collapsed. Though the United Service hangar is located on the north side of the Airport, the giant C46s. assembled here for reconversion, dotted the field for acres around. Of the 17 moored on the old parking area with sandbags on their wings, 16 broke loose.

mph at Jupiter Lighthouse and the church sign crashed through a plain office window. He 4S9 Frra J-1SM vernlft St. tut The blow struck this area at morning 10 cnecK on Get Your Shoes Rebuilt At I CARPENTER'S VENOR'S SHOE SHOP SHEET METAL WORKS 322 FIRST ST. ROOFERS (Formerly on Datura St.) THE BKST IEATHKR AND Phone 6564 WORKMANSHIP. SHOKS MADE longer or wiDEB.

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I PLUMBING CONTRACTOR I A II NH It 608 25th St. Ph. 2-1 144 SERVICE Contractor Merchandiser I i Moat Modem in Sanitary Treatment and Workmanship The Animal Rescue League DIXIE Pound For Palm Hearh County If You Lose An Animal LAUflJllX CALL 5826 AT ONCE or Visit Kennels i Cor. Tamarind A 23rd St. W.P.B.

Phone 6131 917 First Street tin i-iof the liuarasmen, according 10 could not estimate the value of the Hunt, public rela- Capt. Enoch full force until 6:30. The winds JOHNSTON, GEORGE R. Mr Johnston, 84. 1804 S.

6th Lake Worth, died early Saturday at a local nursing home after a short illness. A photo finisher, he moved to Lake Worth from Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1823. There are no local survivors. The Tom G.

Smith Funeral Home. Lake Worth, is in charge of arrangements. windows or the damage to water-soaked carpets. tions officer. Pnlire station WRZY was! CITY TAXI PHONE 6201 14-HOCR SERVICE SUSPECT DESCRIBED IN REUTHER SHOOTING DETROIT, IPi Police Commissioner Harry S.

Toy disclosed Sat urday Detroit police had a good description of a "definite suspect" being sought in the Victor Reuther B. R. Holstein, assistant manager, said a complete check could not be made at this time, though seven were an admitted loss with the one remaining believed to be okeh. One straddled the canal, six others were piled up more or less in a heap, and one had hurtled from the mooring area out onto the field. Inside the big north side hangar showers of glass covered the floor, but three huge C46's appeared untouched.

Across the street several warehouses used as garages showed crushed roofs, with a number of shooting. Reuther, CIO-UAW educational RAIRFORD, ROBERT. Mr. Hair-ford, 87, 627 Bunker died Friday at a local nursing home after a long illness. Survivors include a sister, Mrs.

Fannie Shearer, and a niece, Mrs. Samuel Waddill, both city. Ferguson Funeral Home is in knocked out of commission early Friday evening but communications were resumed early Saturday. Its tower, atop the Harvey remained intact. The commercial stations didn't fare so well towers of WEAT, WJNO and WIRK, in this area, and WSWN, Belle Glade, were blown over in the gale.

WWPG, here, was the only station on the air Saturday morning, while WJNO, with a temporary antenna, went on the air at 12:45 pm. WIRK officials said they hope to be on the air, possibly today, with their remaining two towers. diminished until there was a complete calm at 7:20. last 18 minutes. With the passing of the hurricane's "eye," velocity picked up again, continuing in full for about three hours.

Weather Bureau in-gtruments at Palm Beach International Airport were blown away when the gale hit about 120 mph. Highest recording there was 110 mph steady with gusts of 125 mph. barometer reading was 28.14, during the calm at 7:38. From 8 am Fridqy until 9 pm Saturday there were more than aeven inches of rainftll. A communications blackout between Jupiter and West Palm Beach, a distance of less than 20 miles, -forced Red Cross workers In the Jupiter area to use a roundabout means to report storm dam director, was shot and seriously Our Job PRINTING tt strive slwayi to produce the belt at price coiumr nsurimte with quality material and workmanship.

THE LAKESIDE PRESS .105 Gardenia St. Phone 1673 wounded May 24 as he sat in the living room of his home here. He lost his right eye, SHIP DRAGS ANCHOR MIAMI, () St. John's lightship was reported Saturday night charge of arrangements. cars pinned below.

Un the houth side of the air to be dragging its anchor in a 70- port, the newly reconstructed CAA control tower, built sturdily of steel, stood safely except there Sixty persons formed a human chain to escape the water-logged was no glass left In the observa age to county disaster headquar WHEATLEY, C. ELBERT. Funeral, services for Mr. Wheatley, 76,1 1115 Osceola who died Fri-! day, will be held at 4 this after-: noon at Mizell-Simon-Faville Chap-j el with the Rev. Robert S.

Bennett, White Temple Christian Church pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Hillcrest Cemetery. Pallbearers will include: T. N. Hamm, Louis Pilchcr, Ira Rix, T.

R. Tucker, Claude Pclton and J. P. Duff. Conniston school during the nur- tion room 61 feet up.

Most of the equipment was cov ters. ricane. Fred O. Dickinson Jr. and Harold Maass.

Red Cross shelter William Small. Jupiter disaster ered with tarpaulins, the crew in the ground office reported, so that chairman, advised that the school New BRICE SHOE STORE Poll Parrot Shoes For Children Trim-tread Casual and Playshoet For Women Rand Randcraft Shoes For Men Complete Shoe Repair Dept. 2316 N. DIXIE PHONE S-2927 building had been damaged and knot gale off Jacksonville. The Coast Guard here said a tender, the Sweetgum, had set out from Mayport to help the lightship.

RIOT AT CONCERT PEEKSKILL, N. (TP) Fierce rioting among thousands of persons broke out Saturday night at a scheduled picnic grove concert by Paul Robeson and at least 11 persons were reported stabbed or clubbed. The rioting broke out as marching veterans organizations and concert-goers clashed head-on in a dirt country road near the grove. water was flooding tne structure not too much damage is expected. Although auxiliary power was available, the tower, was not in use, pending complete check of its fought their way through the gale to the building.

There they enlisted the aid of Cecil Vaughn, Florida Greyhound manager here, who safety by CAA maintenance crews. JOY, LINDA FRANCES. Funeral services for Linda Joy, two-day-! old daughter of Harry A. and Annej All commercial traffic had been suspended since noon F'riday, and Edwards Joy, who diea many airport officials announced it was closed except for emergency land I.KT UR PAY YOUR BILLS DURING ILLNESS ings, with pilots coming in at their Individual or tnmily uroup HOSPITALIZATION own risk, until further morning at a local hospital, will be held at 11 am Monday, at the Mizell-Simon-Faville Chapel with the Rev. Ryan L.

Wood, Memorial Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Many of the wartime structures SOMETHING WRONG? PENHALE, England, (P) Field Marshal Sir William Slim, chief of the Imperial General Staff, thinks chairman, enlisted the aid of the Coast Guard at Jupiter Island. The station there radioed the Coast Guard station at Miami: "No loss of life reported heavy property damage." Miami CG relayed the information by telephone to West Palm Beach. David Hanlon, superintendent of public works, said his- crew will work through today in an effort to open the streets. "We will make no effort now to clear the streets merely open them to traffic," said Nr.

Hanlon. He emphasized his crews later will clear the debris but asked cooperation of individual property owners in cleaning up their own properties as much as possible. First between Narcissus Ave. and Flagler has been closed as a "danger" area to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, Citv Engineer S. Lickton reported.

The street will remain ckMtd until repair work is it Doctor Benefit. ir Caih For Ilinesf At Horn fill ot and mail for details Jna.mk i ADDRESS at the airport took a severe The State Welfare Board office HE ropprRATION Jrj drove a bus to the school and evacuated 60 of the 100 people there. The remaining 40 were removed when the lull in the storm came along. Red Cross workers also were obliged to remove refugees from a damaged apartment, Northboro, Military Trail and West Gate schools and the Gayety Roller Rink. Refugees also were removed from criminal courtroom to another part of the court house when the skylight and windows blew in.

Six hundred negroes took shelter in Industrial High School and Grand Theater, while some went to the Seaboard depot, not previously designated a shelter. Red Cross sent supplies to accommo- was reported partly caved in. Mall Coupon to 213 Congrcm Miami, Fla. there's something wrong with the British educational system. Otherwise, he told army cadets In camp here, "we should not be getting ll A number of ouices were dam BE SANITARY BE WISE! Kl.et Tiadale Sanitary Service "mm rlean your Krptlo Tank, Urease Trap and Sewer l.lnea.

There" Hie not any fluid let! on yourM property, for wo 4n thla work" Hie Sanitary Way. JS Teara experience In making Hand handling modern machinery. All Work Guaranteed Hh Went Palm Beach PHONB M4II5 Architect Dean Better ELLISON BAY, Jens Jensen. 89. dean of American land aged, and considerable difficulties were experienced by some of the II! BURKHA 000 chaps in the Army a year who can't sign their names." scape architects, was reported Saturday in somewhat better health.

The name Maryland was given to Martha Fulkerson, secretary for apartment residents, though none who remained in their homes were injured or reported serious damage. Missing roofs were reported at a large part of the nearby Morrison Homes. INCORPORATED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES HOME OF NORGE PRODI'CTS SERVICE AND SALES 109 NORTH DIXIE PHONE 5804 the eight smallest state in the union in honor of the wife of Charles Queen Henrietta Maria Jensen, said he has been in ailing health with an internal disorder for months but has made a slight gain in recent week. XMXHJIXftHftMHft, dat those refugee. U1 England..

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