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NEW ORLEANS — Hun
dreds of Louisiana residents
near the Mississippi border
braced themselves Saturday for
a Pearl River Hooding expected
to reach “levels never before re
corded” on Sunday as damage in
the South approached $300 mil
lion.
Elsewhere in the flood-
stricken South, waters receded
and sunny skies returned.
Louisiana’s trouble spot was
the Pearl River along the Missis
sippi state line. The river, which
was expected to crest Sunday,
steadily rose Saturday and
spread over its banks.
“This is an extremely serious
situation as water levels will
reach levels never before re
corded,” said the National
Weather Service in Slidell, La.
“The entire area east of Inter
states 10 and 59 will be
threatened by major flooding.”
Eleven deaths were recorded
during three days of flash flood
ing that stretched from near St.
Louis, Mo., to the Gulf of Mex
ico. Six people died in Mississip
pi, three in Louisiana and two in
Tennessee.
Damage estimates across the
South neared $300 million
Saturday. Louisiana officials
estimated damage at $50 million
in the Baton Rouge area and $50
to $100 million in New Orleans.
Dozens of other hard-hit areas
had not yet assessed damage.
Officials said it was impossible
to determine how many people
had been evacuated, but scat
tered estimates from Louisiana
and Mississippi — the states with
the most widespread flooding —
exceeded 30,000.
The Red Cross said 90,000
families in Louisiana had been
affected by flooding, either los
ing their homes or suffering wa
ter damage.
In Mississippi, 2,500 homes
were damaged or destroyed
statewide, and more than 10,000
people were evacuated. Towns
like Foxworth and Hattiesburg
were inundated, and Columbia
became an island fortified by
sandbags.
Hattiesburg alone reported
$108 million in damage. Esti
mates from other flood-ravaged
areas in Mississippi still are
being compiled.
Weather forecasters Saturday
said no rain was expected until
next week. Rains that began
Wednesday were so excessive —
more than a foot in Louisiana
and 17 inches in Mississippi —
that rivers crested at record
levels.
Alabama Civil Defense offi
cials said there was a possibility
that six or seven familes in low-
lying areas around Selma would
have to leave their Dallas County
homes Saturday because of ris
ing waters of the Alabama River.
Storms that hit Alabama during
the week forced about 100 peo
ple out of their homes.
In Missouri, a spokesman for
the St. Charles County sheriffs
office said about 80 percent of
the town of W'est Alton was
under about 2 feet of water
Saturday. The 500 residents
were advised to leave, but 200
stayed.
Last
staff photo bvO
but not least
Joanne Morphew, 49, finally rolls up to i
finish line after 4 hours and 12 minutes
grueling walking, running and biking at H
Texas Triathlon Two, held here Salt
Morphew was the last of 710 people
managed to finish all three events. 900 pe
originally entered the triathlon.
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Friday, April 15th
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Nuclear war principles
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war said Saturday that the latest
toned-down version is still ‘’sig
nificantly at variance” with
administration policy.
“Specifically, we could not
accept any suggestion that there
are relatively few and insignifi
cant differences between U.S.
policies and the policies advo
cated in the pastoral letter,"
Archbishop John R. Roach and
Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin
said in a joint statement.
The proposed letter sets out
various levels of Catholic-
church teaching and attempts to
apply moral principles to nuc
lear war issues. The document’s
teaching has various levels of au
thority for Catholics.
When the statement was
made public last Tuesday, both
administration comment and
some media reports suggested
the bishops had caved in to
administration criticisms of the
document’s second draft.
Bernardin, at a news confer
ence, acknowledged the new
proposal was “more flexible”
than the second draft, but he in
sisted it has not “lost its prophe
tic character or basic moral
thrust.” |9
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