European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday septembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 Gulfport miss resident line up to buy gasoline at one of the few service stations open following Hurricane Elena. More than 25,000 families suffered losses from Elena by the associated press food shelter and water remained scarce thursday As authorities estimate that More than 25,000 families in missis Sippi Florida and Alabama suffered prop erty losses when Hurricane Ciena slammed into the coast. These figures May increase As we get in and do More on the spot surveys Terry Gautier a spokesman for the red Cross in Mobile ala., said wednesday. The figures definitely won t president Reagan declared Mississippi s coastal counties of Harrison Hancock and Jackson a disaster area wednesday bring ing the Prospect of Federal Aid for victims of the Hurricane. The Federal emergency management Agency in recommending the declaration noted that thousands of families and Busi Nesses were hit by the Hurricane. The Agency s report said 3,790 dwell Ings in the state were damaged 3,000 of them so severely that temporary housing will be required. About 1,400 businesses were damaged or destroyed. In Jackson county gov. Bill Allain said he had told the White House the state was willing to come up with As much As si2.s million in Relief funds. State and local governments Are required to put up a Dollar for every $3 of Federal disaster re Lief Money for rebuilding Public facilities. This will be a big problem to find the Money to help the coast people Allain said. It is going to Cost us a lot of Money to clean up the coast and other areas Mississippi Power co., the main electric company serving the coast reported that More than half of the company s 80,000 customers who lost Power monday remained in the dark. Spokesman John Hutchinson said the company continued to work its Crews around the clock to restore Power. He said an additional 325 crewmen from Alabama and Georgia would join the missis Sippi workers thursday bringing the total of out of state workers helping Mississippi Power Cope with the Hurricane to 875. We re making Progress but the Tough part is coming up said Hutchinson. Hurricane Elena ravaged these Beach Homes on Dauphin Island in Alabama. We be got the easy ones now we face the ones that Are More difficult to dusk to Dawn curfews remained in effect All along the coast bringing last min Ute scurrying to food markets for Over night supplies. Long lines continued at Gas stations. In Gulfport and Pascagoula miss., residents lined up at shrimp Supply companies to buy ice that normally would be used to keep shrimp catches fresh. Most shrimpers remained in Dock be cause Many boats were damaged and be cause the Hurricane stirred up the Gulf so much the shrimp buried themselves in themed. Water is proving to be in Short Supply because it is pumped out of Wells and through pipelines by electricity. The major thing for thousands now is uncertainty uncertainty about a lot of things said Hank Turk civil defense director in hard hit Jackson county. Such As when am i going to get my Power Back when is the insurance adjuster going to get to me when is my place of business going to open when Are the factories going to reopen right now our top priority is to feed people said Turk some people Are hav ing some problems finding the salvation army fed 40,000 people in a three county area along the coast tuesday and had to Send to new Orleans to get extra supplies when food ran Short. Scenic . 90, which runs along the coast Only Iso feet from the Shore through most of Gulfport and Biloxi remained rutted wednesday from Sand pushed on the Roadway by Elena. Dangling Power lines and piles of tree limbs lined the High Way. At night the Only Light along the Beach comes from occasional headlights the Moon and some candles in the windows of historic turn of the Century Homes North . 90. The giant Ingalls shipyards South of Pascagoula reopened wednesday but Only Skeleton Crews were at work cleaning up debris. Elena did extensive damages to the administration building. We want to get Back to full production As soon As possible said Ingalls president Jerry St. Be then we can again Start the flow of Ingalls paychecks Back into the Gulf Ingalls with 11,500 workers is Pasca Goula s biggest employer. A we Jackson differ on apartheid new York a the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the Rev. Jesse Jackson taking their longstanding disagreement on South Africa on National television agreed that apart Heid is an illness but differed Radi Cally on the cures. Falwell Leader of the fundamentalist moral majority Day night the reason the Media was focusing on South Africa Over other african nations was because it was one of the few places with a free press. The South african Issue has to be the watergate of the american Media. You have to go to 20 or 30 countries before you find South Afri Ca As the major problem Falwell said on Abc s nightlife program. He said the famine in Ethiopia was the major problem in Africa by far followed by Uganda where Idi Amin has killed 300.000 Blacks. Libya with its hit squads and terrorists and other countries. We Don t see these happenings in Havana and in Moscow because you can t bring a camera in there fal Well added. Divine inspiration Jackson interrupted or. Fal Weli let us not forget that Hitler was not a communist or marxist. The ruling elite of business and military political leaders in South Africa think they have some divine inspiration to determine the destiny of the majority of the Falwell said he was t belittling the importance of fighting apart Heid. South Africa s system of racial segregation but that it should be eliminated through constructive engagement and not by encouraging the pullout of american invest ments. That was the Way he said to Cut off the cancer without killing the Jackson an unsuccessful Candi Date for the democratic presidential nomination in 1984, said constructive engagement has failed morally and in fact has encouraged More role of is. Companies Falwell argued that american divestiture in companies in South Africa would Hurt not Only South Afri can Blacks but millions of other Blacks who come there in search of jobs. Jackson replied that . In vestments were robbing South Afri can Blacks of their dignity. Jackson noted that the path to Ward self determination for South african Blacks must initially be painful before Long term pleasure could be achieved. When you have a boil on your Arm it will swell up and give you immense pain. You might think you arc dying. But it does t mean you Are dying but that the blood is purifying he said. In the same Way he said South Africa must go through a period of turmoil. With increased investment in apartheid the rope around the necks of the pc Pic appears to be getting tighter As opposed to
