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PAGE FOUR TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1944 WRECKAGE AND DEBRIS LEFT IN TAMPA AFTER HURRICANE SWIRLED THROUGH HURRICANE FAILS TO DELAY THREE GIRLS JOININGWAC The hurricane which swept the Tampa bay area yesterday failed to Petersburg: managed to get a telephone call through to the recruiting station and WAC Sgt Qulnnelle Taylor picked them up in a staff car. After basic training, the recruits will be assigned to Florida posts. Ecuador plans to construct a network of airfields near large cities. keep three WAC recruits from report ing for active duty to the army recruiting station in the Tampa theater building. This trio of new members of the Women's Army Corps left last night by train for Ft.

Oglethorpe, Ca, for basic training. Binnie Lee McClamxna, of Lakeland, a former WAC, had her sister drive her from Lakeland at the height of the hurricane. The other two, Dorothy Gasdorf and Mary Frances Zygnerskl, of St. SHELL FUEL HE Home Delivery Order your OIL NOW. DEPOSIT your COUPONS with us for delivery as you NEED IT.

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Chjcly tailored models for your suits intriguing creations for date dresses in the colors you want. i. Above: In stock- Provocative in rich black or lush pillbox fuchsia felt. 2.99 Tribune Photos Some of the after-effects of Tampa's tropical storm were caught by photographers in these pictures in scattered sections of the city. Photo No.

1 shows a house at 2708 Central its roof punctured by boughs broken from a huge oak. The walk at Memorial junior high school was torn up when a tree was uprooted, as shown in No. 2. In No. 3 the photographer caught two high-tension wires arcing, a common sight at the height the storm.

Photos 4 and 5 were taken at Bobles park, the first showing a big eucalyptus stretched across the road, and the next the park itself under water. Photo No. 6 shows palm fronds littering Davis boulevard. Right: wires. They also were busy clearing debris from streets w-here their trucks could move, and from tracks of the street cars.

In stock Smartly modified derby softened with cobwebby veiling. Black, brown, green and fuchsia felt. 1.99 First Floor MEETING POSTPONED Scheduled to consider 11 zoning complaints at a meeting last night, the city adjustment board lacked a quorum and adjourned until next Thursday. Experiments reveal climatic and soil conditions in the better fruit-growing regions of New York state to be "en milk 5000 cows with milking machines. The dairy had no help to milk the cows by hand.

The telephones were out. So a worker dashed to town, called on the power company for help, the break was traced, and thus a regular milk delivery was possible. The repairmen also rushed aid to places where power shutdowns had threatened stocks of meats and other foods cooled by mechanical refrigeration. Crewmen not only, were repairing tirely practical" for home plantings of dwarf and smi-dwarf trees. However, warns Dr.

H. B. Tukey, state expert mental horticulturist, the dwarf trees have not been tested long enough to warrant any recommendation for commercial planting. 5000 Calls Answered By Power Men Emergency crews of Tampa Electric company were working all night last night repairing thousands of wire breaks reported in more than 5000 calls to the trouble department during and after yesterday's hurricane. Short circuits by the dozen were reported as broken wires dangled across live wires.

One live-wire young schoolboy patrolman started diverting traffic around a downed wire in a Seminole street. Numerous wires were knocked down by falling trees. The started to go off early yesterday morning, and such was the oddity that lights in one section were, burning brightly while across the. streets all homes were dark. That was caused, the company explained, by hookups to different transformers.

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Phone M-1833 1514 Florida Ave. At one dairy, the power went off, all day, with disruption of wire service all over the state. Scores of trees were blown over the city, some hitting houses, others blocking traffic. A defense council squad with trucks and cranes kept busy during the night moving trees blocking streets. Windows in more than 20 stores were blown out, some, despite precautionary boarding.

One clothing store window was shattered, and shirts and other articles' of merchandise scattered in the street. Roofs of some houses were ripped off, inundating rooms and loosening plaster. At one apartment house, 506 S. Westland, four apartments were soaked. Tenants pitched in to help the landlord repair the damage, which "is news in itself," the landlord said.

Two Fires Two 'major fires were reported in addition to-numerous caused by short-circuited wires. The home of Mrs. Henry Harper, 2509 Prospect was destroyed in a spectacular blaze during the height of the storm. A carpenter shop at McCloskey Co. shipyard burned early yesterday afternoon in a blaze seen by hundreds in the downtown section.

But all in all, the widespread devastation which many Tampans had feared failed to materialize, and the hurricane passed inland leaving relief that greater damage had not been done. Only damage to the army fields was to temporary buildings from which tar paper covering was ripped, and the roof was lifted off the bus terminal at Drew field. Shipyards Unscathed Tampa Shipbuilding Co. nierged unscathed from the storm, and workers will return to work as usual at 8 o'clock this morning, the company announced. McCloskey workers also will return this morning.

Schools will continue to be closed today, but will reopen the county school board announced. City hall and the courthouse will reopen today. Refugees from Maritime homes, who were quartered for the night in Plant, Hillsborough and Philip Shore schools, were scheduled to return, home this morning at 1 o'clock In buses provided by the Tampa Housing authority. They were fed by the Red Cross canteen corps while in the schools. just as dairymen were preparing to For the Separate SUITS or COATS 1 Others19.99 to 39.99 for the separate suits or coats.

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Opinions varied, but it seemed that the storm center passed inland south of Tampa and moved eastward across the state, mowing down wires along a route that roughly included Mulberry, Bartow, Lakeland, Orlando and Jacksonville, and passed out to sea. Broke. Drouth If the hurricane did no other good, It at least broke up the drouth that had threatened crops even more severely than had the storm. In the two days of the hurricane's approach and passage, a total of five and a half Inches of rain was recorded. Despite severity of the winds, there was no reported injury or loss of life in the Tampa area.

Street cars were scheduled to go back in regular operation today. Tampa Transit line buses went back into operation yesterday afternoon. Most cabs were still running, although hoods were ripped from several. Bus service through Florida will be returned this morning. Areas scattered all over Tampa were in darkness during the height of the storm early yesterday morning as falling trees lipped power lines loose, and fallen wire calls were numerous.

More than 5000 calls were handled by Tampa Electric trouble department. Telephones Out Telephone communications over Couth Florida were knocked out early, and even last night only emergency calls were put through by Peninsular Telephone company. Western Union telegraph office was Isolated from the rest of the network Junior Debs Junior-Prom Rexmoor Modes Judy Nell Welyouth And Other Famous Makes Unb eatable Selection of GIRLS' WINTER COATS Natural, Beige, Grey, Moss Green, Rust, Fuchsia, Brown, COLORS: and Black. 1 w-IM Left: Smartly tailored boxy coat with hand-tome stitched detail in Brown, Rust and Moss Green. Siies 10 to 18.

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