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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 8

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8 CORFUS CHRIST! CALLER Wed Sept 13 1961 fWMP-MK-s b-gK--fa- FM yyw ywyjMWff'W- rp'- FT 4 "Ti A -f 4MMMGMMMMfc4MaMBINP GW- 4' HT wnmMRNGS3E -'I mttmm mit 11 1 Alr -A '4 i V- "Ifr Av 'V Lu CSl'LF BKACI! PARK ON IIRE WKKCKEP days of battering by Hurricane Carla At left Is Eleven years of work improving the county's Gulf shown the remains of Ira Van bait stand and Beach Park on Padre Island were undone in two the Bob Hall Fishing Pier only one span of which is left isolated lieyond th'e approach The photo at light shows pilings for the park seawall still standing but chunks of the concrete seawall itself blown up on the beach The fishing pier had been extended and the park seawall constructed only a few years ago Cabanas and picnic shelters In the park were swept way ns were the bath house restaurant and other park buildings (Story on Tage 1A) ECHO OF TEXAS CITY could wade on the highway end walked to La Marque" Searchers were looking for West's body late Tuesday Journey Through Flood Described Galveston Bay Recreation Industry Complex Flooded hut call for help" Packer said "He was that kind of Packer said he clung to the signboard for a while and then swam on toward I a Marque going from powerline tower to pow-erline tower until lie came to a pumphouse "I kicked out a window and spent the night In the pump house" he said "Today I swam to where 1 HOUSTON popular Galveston Bay a strip of Industrial and recreational-mind- name Texas City synonymous with disaster don't believe there is a huild- ed was heavily damaged jnc hi town that suffered by Hurricane Carla I extensive damage" he said after A Robinson the mayor ofa tour of the SMTO-population Texas City said the storm did rity LA MARQUE I A Houston man stumbled into La Marque Tuesday morning and told a harrowing story of wading swimming and walking from isolated Galveston Island to the Texas mainland Parker 43 said -his business partner Clarence West 37 drowned on the journey Monday night The two men who operate a home sales business were in Galveston when Carla hit They decided to try to make it to theit Houston homes Packer said but their car stalled in high water "We got across the rauseway and began walking down the sc much damage there he thinks it is comparable to the terrible 19(7 explosion that made the freeway (Interstate 45) In and out of water But as neared La Marque the water began getting deeper and deeper" Packer said La Marque is about 10 miles from Galveston Parker said the water whipped by high winds was in waves breaking over hia head He is six feet tall "We derided to turn back but the waves coming from the direction of Galveston were too strong" he said "West who was only 5-feet seven was already iwimming He hollered at me to swim toward a large signboard just off the freeway and I started toward it" Parker aaid "West never made it I looked hack in time to ace him go under He never came up "IIe know he'd had it I think loured Seabrook and aaid that tow was wiped out Dick Cake returned to Kemah to see how his Cabana Club made out He found three bricks "See where that crate is float ing in the water?" said Arnold Beckman' of Kemah "I owned a liquor store there I lost 715000 worth of stork" Jimmy Walkers Edgewater Restaurant worth $150000 according to hia insurance agent vanished "It could have been worxe" Louis Galvan said as he tried to sweep mud out of his Kemah hardware store "I Inst $20000 worth of stock hut I'm still here" EDNA STORM IMPACT TOLD RY EVACUEE EDNA Ul "People were screaming at the tops of their voices and eveiybody was praying like That was the word picture Miss Nettie Green supplied Tuesday of the scene at the Carver Negro School when Hurricane Carla bore down on it and 300 refugees it housed Monday night When the storm readied its crescendo the mot of the brick schoolhouse started to yirld "We could hear Die building roof ripping and there was a sound like thunder" Miss re said "We couldn't get out the doors Someone had kicked them and we couldn't find the key "We crawled out the windows" As the last got through (lie roof collapse! The evacuated refugees crowded into nearby cars or hid behind tliem TV hurricane hurled bricks from the demolished school at them Only two injuries resulted Police Officer Sam Yale said "It was a miracle" Miss Green added as she went with the others to the courthouse to gel some sleep BUCCANEERS! $1 DOLLAR A CAR $1 ONt CAHTOON "UNA SINORA MO VI 0 1 "CAIARIT i Glavilloio Victor Junco LoronolCon Cnlumba Doming Kitty Do Vslixqufz Rnto Ilona Durgol Fon-V ny Schillnr Ofolia Montotcs Loo-1 Hoyot Calno Soma Elio Cardona poida Ji I Ana Bortha Loro "We had very little wind he aaid of our damage came from tide water" He said most of the water Hill he down by Wednesday lot of business people are wiped out Kemah will nevrr be the said Joe McCabe rhief of the Kemah volunteer lire department The a long stretch of night spots on the was under eight feet of water State Agcnls Expect Some Dope Looting Shows biCl tuT-tiE HCg View Front the Air AUSTIN Col Homer Garrison Jr director of the Department of Public Safety and DPS photographers will fly Wednesday to ilurricane Carla disaster arras on an aerial reconnaissance survey it was reported Tuesday FORT WORTH LP-State undercover agents said here Tuesday a deluge of narcotics looting isihefore people can come back to he said "It may he a week or mote STRICTLY A WALT DISNEY Wo XLAUQH MUON Havtey nvwv expected to follow in the pathfTcxa Gty" Rnhinson said Rnadhlorks were set up to keep people out of Hurricane Carla i-kii LAST DAY 1 HU rofValj a Miasr Mins Cgk STARTS TOMORROW OPENING WIDE A NEW WOES OF SCREEN WONDERSlB MFVJW PECK BV0 NIVEN "We have no sanitation no power no water" he said Texas City was almost leveled in 19(7 when America's worst industrial disaster killed more than $00 persons and caused an estimated $27 million in damage Carla killed no one in the bay area Hanson a game warden NT del QUIN STARTS TOMORROW Typhoon Kills 100 Persons TAIPEI Formosa Ty phoon Pamela slashed across northern Formosa Tuesday killing 100 persons and causing immense property damage before hitting the Cbmmunist-held China mainland Police reported -100 confirmed dead following reports from Yilan on the northeast coast of Formosa which bore the full hmnt of the 135-miIe-an-hour winds Police said 31 persons were missing and 911 injured Many thousands of persons were left in Taipei alone Police reported 1273 houses collapsed and 25(7 badly-damaged The typhoon was the fifth to strike Formosa this year and the worst in the memory of longtime residents "Dope burglars are probably sitting in their cars right now- waiting for chance to get into the stricken area" said one narcotics expert The agents here for a narcotic training school fear dope burglars will strike drug stores and offices as soon ss waters in the coastal areas subside Highway patrolmen and National Guard units have been alerted to be on the lookout few any poa- sible looting The agents who eannot reveal their names pointed out that large quantities of narmtics have been stolen after catatrophies in the past TWO BIO HITS YOU'LL LOVI TO III "FRECKLES" "LA EDAO Dt LA TINTACION" CARLOAD NIGHT remran MATINII 1:15 PM Morion IronJo "ONE EYED JACKS" INGRID BERGMAN I YVES MONTAND ANTHONY PERKINS I nm ANATOLS i LITVAK IWKdlM GOODBYE Switzerland To Get New National Anthem BERN Switzerland The Swiss government has decided to try out a new national anthem for the next three years Tlie government said it was dropping the old anthem introduced in 1314 because it had Hie same melody as England's "God Save the (King) Queen" and the "Heil dir hn Sicgerkranz" of th old Austrian empire 1 Will WiUon To Tour Destruction Areas AUSTIN If) Ally Gen Will Wilson will join olher state officials in the Hurricane Carla destruction area and offer aid to local groups It was reported Tuesday- "I plan to confer with law en forccment officials to see what help we can offer in that field and I also want to find out if there are any additional ways in which the state can help these stricken areas" Wilson said Wilson said he will leave from Houston Thursday morning to inspect damage in the areas of Galveston Freeport Texas Gty LaMarque Hitchcock and south Harris County ifl ORIVEjlN WHEAT RES 0W tram COLOR -CINEMASCOPE msmih 95 Reported Dead In River Disaster BOMBAY India (1 Unoi-ftcial reports from Surat Tuesday-right said 95 persons including 35 women and 50 children lost their lives in a boat disaster on swollen Narmada River in Gujarat state Hie Indian Express correspondent said the boat named Sala-mat (meaning safe) Monday was carrying 130 evacuees from the flood-destroyed village of Gopali MEjbQA! 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