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The unday Pre No Picnic U. J. WIATHEH BUREAU FORECAST Considerable cloudiness, warm, showers likely today and tonight. High in 80s. Low tonight, 60s.

Uain chance, 80 per cent. AIRPORT TEMPERATURES Lei's Cliucklc When misfortune comes along, take it like a man blame it on your wife. The Hometown Newspaper of the Southern Tier 70 64 3 p. 79 4 p. m.

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YM August 17, 1969 160-Mle L-amiiie 10) anhanclie eriis .1 Wo By the Associated Press Miami Crawling to a stop, Hurricane Camille wound her top winds up to a screeching 155 to 160 miles an hour last night and developed into the most intense hurricane since a 1935 Labor Day storm heaped catastrophe on the Florida Keys. "Camille now is very sim- i -J 'Y'i A vl "I 1 I "rrV rT Jn Z' mJ-: 50 GEORGIA CAMILLt ilar to the 1935 storm," said Dr. Robert H. Simpson, chief of the National Hurricane Center. "She has a very large fury concentrated in an exceedingly small area." The 1935 storm struck the Keys with winds estimated in excess of 200 miles an hour, drowned 400 persons in a 15 to 20 foot wave, and wrecked the famed "Railroad That Goes to Sea" from the Florida mainland to Key West.

Camille, bound toward the Associated Press WIREPHOTO. NO HELP IN SIGHT Youth lies on ground with head injuries suffered when he was thrown from the trunk of a car on road leading to the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel. Ambulances were unable to reach the scene because of the traffic jam on all area roads. CAMILLE Map pinpoints hurricane Camille as she threatens Florida Panhandle. Gale warnings were raised from Pensacola to Cedar Key (shaded area).

Water, Doctors Needed Disease Noiv Fear In Cuba HAVANA (AP) Muddy western Cuba braced Saturday for floods and possible typhoid and gastro enteritis epidemics in the wake of Hurricane Camille, which slammed into the island Friday night and screamed on toward Florida. There were no immediate casualty figures and only scanty reports of crop and property losses. A mass evac-ment appeared to have saved the lives of many. Thousands of persons, including entire populations of some fishing villages, were evacuated to higher ground on the Isle of Pines and the southwestern coast of Pinar del Rio Province before the storm hit. The Communist party newspaper Granma warned river flooding was expected.

It said medical teams had spread out through westernmost Pinar del Rio giving typhoid shots to the population. Drenching from the storm added to the danger of typhoid and gastro enteritis inflammation of the lining of the stomach and intestines which already has broken out in isolated pockets all over Cuba due to unseasonably heavy rains this summer. Camille dumped more than 10 inches of rain on the Isle of Pines renamed Isle of Youth. Riot Leaders 300,000 jam Rock Festiva Face Jailing ma 3A ravages of religious factionalism. New outbreaks of Protestant-Catholic rioting, arson, sniping and looting were feared.

The British units in Northern Ireland were not considered adequate to cope with the situation. One hundred especially picked men of the 24th Infantry Brigade were mobilized in Britain to be flown to Ireland over the weekend. Ulster has domestic autonomy, but foreign affairs and military matters are handled by London. British Prime Minister liar-old Wilson planned to cut short his vacation and fly to London for talks with Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark of Northern Ireland. Wilson will hold an emergency Cabinet meeting before then.

Fighting to save its life, Chichester-Clark's government has invoked emergency powers to intern riot leaders, indefinitely if need be. The last time Ulster adopted these tactics was during terror campaign by the outlawed Irish Republican Army IRA from 1956-61. The death total in five days of trouble in Ulster rose to eight with the death of a 25- Continued on Page 5 A) Sunday Press Index Britain Belfast, Northern Ireland M') Britain mobilized more troops for Ulster Saturday night, as the deeply troubled northern province braced for more street fighting, and authorities threatened riot leaders with indefinite internment. Florida Panhandle, deepened so rapidly as she stood still, clawing at Gulf of Mexico waters, that she may not long be able to contain such energy in a small area. Later, there was a chance that she would spread over a larger geographical area, while losing some intensity, Simpson said.

But he added that Camille (Continued on Page 5 A) even threw paper back at the crowd. Collins' car was filled with paper almost to the shoulder of his wife, who sat on the back seat of the convertible. Collins laughed and began bailing out the debris. 19 protests that "the little man" on the lunar landing effort was left out. The parade which saw several police motorcycles forced to stop due to wheels jammed with confetti and the party climaxed a week of tributes from the nation for astronauts Neil A.

Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Houston, adopted home town of the astronauts, organized the evening entertainment, at which master of ceremonies Frank Sinatra headed a list of performers that included Flip Wilson, Bill Dana, Nancy Ames and Dionne Warwick. More than 31,000 personsastronauts, space engineers, blue collar workers and scientists from the space industrygot tickets, and the other 19,000 tickets, made available to the public, were taken quickly. The city gave the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 31,000 tickets to distribute to the 4,700 employes at the Manned Spacecraft Center and the 16,000 employes of space contractors in the area.

But one official said "the little man was left out" after some supervisors took their share off the top. In the parade the Apollo 11 spacemen and 26 other astronauts rode through the streets of the downtown business district while a Saturday morn jj Food, WHITE LAKE, N. Y. (AP) The rock music festival staggered forward Saturday as an estimated 300,000 young fans left this small lake community with short rations, inadequate medical services and cut off from the outside except by aircraft. A medical airlift to bring 30 more doctors up from New York City was organized by the festival management.

The scene generally was peaceful, an aura of content spread among the long-haired and blue-jeaned youngsters from around the nation here for three days of rock in the open air. But as far as facilities went, it was the equivalent of putting the population of Omaha, into a town geared to serve 3,000 residents. And they kept coming Saturday, through roads clogged impassably by abandoned cars and unmindful of warnings that food, water and the necessities of life were becoming critically short. The organizers of the music festival estimated the crowd which by their count grew by 100,000 since the three-day gathering opened Friday. One youth was reported fatally injured when a tractor rolled over him as he slept.

Upwards of 1,000 others were treated for minor injuries and illness, doctors at the scene said. Helicopters plied back and forth over the Catskill Mountain terrain carrying food and medical supplies to the isolated area. To travel by car was virtually impossible, as (Continued on Page 5 A) As 3 A-Guards Said Unstable San Francisco (UPI) The Air Force has assigned at least three men with dangerous psychiatric problems to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons base 25 miles from San Francisco. Associated Press WIREPHOTO. TRAFFIC PRONE Girl caught in the traffic jam outside the Woodstock Festival naps atop her car.

Some 200,000 persons were trying to reach the festival on back country roads. ouston Hails Its Moonmen The instability of the guards was revealed in the record of the preliminary hearing for Sgt. Robert V. Ballou, 22, Cor-vallis, who was accused of going berserk with a loaded carbine at Hamilton Air Force Base. "It scares the hell out of me," said Ballou's civilian attorney, Robert D.

Carrow, former mayor of nearby Novato. "It's like Dr. Strangelove." After the hearing air force spokesmen at Hamilton refused comment. ing crowd estimated at nearly 300,000 cheered and showered them with paper. Armstrong seemed delighted.

He reached out to touch hands of those around his car. He waved and winked and At one point he Two thin lines of British soldiers, 600 in Belfast and 350 in Londonderry, kept an uneasy peace in cities torn with the Maj. Donald H. Tidwell, 37, Ballou's commanding officer under cross-examination had said that accidental explosion was possibility. Tidwell, who is a security officer and not a nuclear specialist, said he had received unfavorable psychiatric evaluations of three of his men, including Ballou, but did not relieve them of their sensitive duties for lack of replacements.

Without guards, Tidwell said "people from the Haight-Ashbury" (hippies) would try to get at the weapons. A psychiatrist testified Ballou had been diagnosed as a "passive-aggressive personality," specifically proscribed by regulations, last May 20. Tidwell was informed at the time but concluded Ballou was only a "goldbricker." Neiv Town Troy The State National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is studying the possibility of forming a new community. Association State President Donald Lee said the group was looking into the possibility of establishing a new town on the outskirts of some metropolitan area. Lee noted that the State Urban Development has also suggested the formation of such new communities.

Urban Development suggested areas near Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany for the communities 31ixiii in 'Buried9 Man Ponders Body in His Grave HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) The Apollo 11 astronauts were hailed with cheers and a blizzard of confetti at a home town parade Saturday before heading for a gigantic party in the Astrodome. More than 50,000 persons were invited to the party Saturday night, but there were Two days later, the grieving parents received a letter from their son. It was dated Aug. 8, mailed from London and proved Joseph, Jr.

was still alive. Representative Ogden R. Reid, when notified by the family, helped them locate the youth by contacting the American Embassy in London and having him paged over the British Broadcasting Corp. Savago, on a student tour, walked into the Embassy and told officials his passport had been either lost or stolen. The former Cornell University stu-dent's documents, officials said, were found on the body of the as yet unidentified victim buried in St.

Mary's Cemetery in Kingston. i 'lit i HI i K-' if -ir 41,1 Amusements 8 Bishop Sheen 10 A Books in Review 4 Bridge 2 Business 5-8 Classified 6-16 Crossword 2 Deaths 6 Gallup Poll 6 Homes, Gardens 9-10 Medical 2 Inquiring Photographer 3F Jumble 2 Pets 2 Picture Page 1 Records 2 Servicemen 2 Service Queries 5 Society 2-7 Sports 1-7 Stamps 2 Television 3 Viewpoint 1-3 Weather Map 2 Women's Features 8-1GC Katonah (LTD A 21-ycar-old Harvard graduate student, reported killed in France and "buried" last Saturday, relaxed at his Katonah home as officials wondered who lay in his grave. "We were delighted and pleased to say the least," Joseph Savago, said Saturday when his son returned to his Westchester home. Joseph, shocked when told of his reported death, said he was "glad to be back." The State Department in Washington told the family the youth was killed July 31 in an automobile accident in France. A body, in a sealed coffin, was shipped to the United States for a funeral and burial.

Associated Press WIREPHOTO. MOONMAN HIT BY MISSILE-An unguided missile tossed from a building along the parade route in Houston, Tex. yesterday strikes astronaut Neil A. Armstrong in the head as he and Mrs. Armstrong ride in the parade honoring the Apollo 1 1 astronauts..

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