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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 2

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i Page Amuspui, mi Betsy Churned a Maelstrom in Bayous 1 wf r-1 -wi Ayr" I I I station hangar at Algiers on the Mississippi. reoDie and things were struck with equal tury engulfed lower portions of New Orleans is right. A cement plant is isolated by water. The is at the upper left cane Betsy and the great flooding that it caused in the New Orleans area. Hundreds of bodies have turned up.

More fortunate were the destitute refugees shown in a A GREAT PUBLISHING 'Good Afternoon' to VENTURE Our Readers jii. i KWh la v. mzMB 1 hz aH -jv; I i'nwww-4-, Mil li Th. LA i 17 rt" "yfT- I A DISASTER-SADDENED LBJ TALKS TO PRESS He said full resources of U.S. would aid flood repairs.

The new San Francisco scene an Examiner truck waits for its load beneath the Chronicle tower the latter's plant the new home of San Francisco Printing Co. which produces both papers. i t'W I Dy hum naval air i 'a 4. P. W'lrmphoto per, Cmdr.

B. E. Terry, and river pilots. TIIE HYSLW was ordered in primarily because it is equipped with sonar detection gear for locating underwater objects. Diving experts were flown in from Washington.

Chlorine is shipped under pressure, which keeps it in liquid form. Accidental puncture of its container releases a misty gas, capable of killing any living thing in its path. The chemical was used as a poisonous gas in World War I. Washington sources said the bargeload of chlorine is enough to kill 40,000 people if the gas were released in a heavily populated area. However, said W.

B. Dodd, "We see no cause for alarm at the moment." He is chief executive assistant to the New Orleand district engi neer. Dodd said the barge sides are thick and underwater ob jects, such as floating logs and other debris, will not puncture it How water show nat Mississippi best to bring you the finest newspaper we can (and, not we can) Come to think of it, that It's From Page 1 building which used to print only The Chronicle. That sounds simple, but it wasn't all that easy. OVER THE weekend, typ-from The Examiner building esetting machines were taken at Third and Market streets, and from The News Call Bulletin Building at 860 Howard St.

and brought to Fifth and Mission to beef up the facilities there. Workers knocked out the walls of the third-floor composing room at The Examiner and huge cranes lowered the machines to waiting trucks. At Fifth and Mission, they knocked out walls again nd again, on the third floor to bring the machines into that building. There's been a lot of machinery moving, and a lot of people, too. Printers, pressmen, stereotypers, mailers, engravers and us white collar types, as welL EXAMINER people moving to The News Call location and vice versa.

Chronicle people shifting, too. People, people, all on the move. You'd expect chaos, right? Well, there was chaos we'd be less than honest with you if we said there wasn't. But it worked. You want proof? You're reading it.

IN THIS newspaper you'll still be visited by your old1 Grant to UC Prof NEW YORK (UPI( Twenty Eleanor Roosevelt international fellowships worth a total of $196,700 were announced today by the American Cancer Society. The fellowship program, administered by the interna' tional union against cancer in Geneva, brings outstanding cancer researchers from var ious countries together to ex change experience and ideas. Thirteen of the scientists receiving fellowships chose to work in U.S. research labora- tories while three fellows from the United States elected to work in England, Italy and France. Other foreign scientists chosen will work in France and Sweden.

Named from the United states were: Dr. Serafeim P. Masoure- dis. 43, associate professor of medicine and research associate at the University of California, cancer research institute in San Francisco, who will work at the institute $1 Billion Damage 4. By Betsy From Page 1 m-jiere lowlying areas normally protected by levees and an elaborate pumping ey8tem held the water like a bowL One levee beside the Industrial Canal was cut in an effort to speed the drainage.

Power fialure, still a major problem, hampered operations at the big pumping stations. assisting the Red Cross screened refugees lor possible communicable diseases. Extra supplies of snakebite serum are on hand. Snakes are a serious problem In some south Louisiana area during and after a flood. A POWER COMPANY offi cial said repair crews have more than 40 percent of the New Orleans system back in Service.

Mayor Victor Schiro denounced scattered reports of profiteering. He said there were complaints some prices had doubled or more. McKeithen vowed a crackeddown on profiteering. Officials said there were re-oorts of gasoline at $1 a gal lon and (1.30 a loaf. On the other hand, the Red Crost reported many wholesalers and merchants donated large amounts of food and oilier supplies.

ttADAERS overflowed the fcjorgue. A temporary morgue was set up in the dimly lit basement at police headquarters, with bodies laid on cots and covered with sheets borrowed from the House of Dentention, a jail for minor offenders. Lines of people made the rrim round to see if Betsy's tll included relatives or twenas. Iniislle Perils fBtate Ranges (UPD A dangerous thistle that can kill livestock is spreading rapidly across California rangeland, according to a University of California farm adviser. E.

Emrick said the star thislte, a sharp-spined plant that pierces Ci-uaug like barbed wire, will spread across the state's ranch land if the plant is not killed soon," CHLORINE GAS Big Search For A Deadly Barge friends of The Examiner, or of The News Call Bulletin, And every day, some new friends will drop around to chat about the day's doings with you. And here's something else we've got going for us: the way the sun moves. For example if President Lyndon B. Johnson should hold a noon meeting in the Rose Garden at the White House to announce, say, the appointment of Shanty Ma-lone as U.S. Commissioner of Culture we know about it at 9 a.m.

We'll be able to rush over and take a picture of Shanty, interviewing him What's and have the whole story in your paper ready for you by the time you leave work to catch the train or the bus, or whatever. INCIDENT AALLY, Charles L. Gould, our publisher, noted that "we have the highest-priced delivery system in America. Montgomery Street executives will buy our paper and carry it home with them. That's a delivery system." But this paper will also bang with regularity on your doorstep, too.

Our other de Uvery boys are not in the class, but they do just as good a job. ANYWAY, we're in a position today to make you a few romises, old friend. Among them: We'll do our Chess Champ Loses Match NEW YORK (UPD Amer ican chess champion Bobby Fischer lost a key match Sunday in the Havana-based chess tournament and fell to third place. Fischer resigned his 54th move in a match with Yugoslav grandmaster Borislav Ivkov, permitting the Yugoslav to move into undisputed possession of first place. of biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis, 36, assistant professor, division of oncology, Chicago Medical School, who will work in the section of experimental carcinogenesis at institute Na- zionale Per Lo Studio la Cura dei Tumori, Milano. Ita ly. Dr. Richard A.

Rifkind. 34, assistant professor of medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who will work in the biophysical research unit at King's College, London. one promise covers all the rest, too. Good afternoon, old friend. See you tomorrow, right? 12 lZ-i mm 4h i Autopsy in Death of FHA Aide An autopsy will be held today in the death of Ralph E.

Culbertson, chief loan examiner for the Federal Housing Administration here for 20 years. Culbertson, 61, was found dead Sunday in the living room of his home at 105 Westdale Daly City. San puties said there was an empty bottle of barbiturates, with a prescription filled only the day before, in an adjoin ing bedroom. Prior to coming here 1945, Culbertson was assis tant chief loan examiner for the FHA in Los Angeles, He served with the agency 32 years and was ne of its first officials. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, who has been hospitalized with multiple sclerosis for several years, and a daughter, Mrs.

Diane Phil lips of San Bruno. 59TH BIRTHDAY Adfflu David L. McDonald, chief of naval operations, celebrated his 59th birthday Sunday sharing a 40-pound cake with crewmen of the Seventh Fleet flagship Oklahoma City at sea in the Far East. He also visited the aircraft carriers Midway end Independence. 4 BATON ROUGE (La.) (AP) A Navy destroyer, Navy divers and Army engi neers today searched fora sunkenbargeloadedw i chlorine athreattothou- Mayor President W.

W. Dumas asked the 160,000 residents of this city to a tuned to their radios for a possible evacuation order. ARMY ENGINEERS said they have located a sunken object near the Mississippi River bridge under construction here, 500 feet from the bank and 26 feet below the surface. A 40 mile stretch of the Mississippi at this busy port was closed to shipping. Dumas said 100,000 gas masks are being stockpiled.

The barge, loaded with 600 tons of chlorine, was ripped from its moorings when Hurricane Betsy passed over Baton Rouge, 85 miles upriver from New Orleans. The destroyer a moved upstream from New Orleans during the night, with sunken vessels and debris making navigation delicate business for the A busy lane of automatic typesetting machines in the new plant. -J.

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