Camille cuts sweeping path of destruction GULFPORT, Miss. (A'-Ravaged by 150-mile- an-hour winds, raging tides and fire, much of Mississippi's coastal strip lay virtually helpless last night-shattered by the worst hurricane that ever hit America's mainland. Thousands were homeless. Help was on the way but rescue work was slowed by the sheer mass of wreckage left by Hurricane Camille. Coast Guard and Civil Defense reports listed 46 killed. This port city of 30,000 and nearby Biloxi, a city of 44,000, were without power, drinking water, and open only to emergency com- munications. Some highways and railroads were ripped up by the storm. Fortunately, many coastal residents fled to inland areas before Camille shrieked in from the Gulf of Mexico Sunday night. "This is the greatest single disaster Mississippi has ever known with the possible exception of the great 1927 Mississippi River flood," said Gov. John Bell Williams. State Adj. Gen. Walter Johnson, reporting to the governor after a survey of the disaster area, said rescue workers had been unable to reach many areas of maximum damage and he expect- ed the death toll to rise. "We are going to find more in those houses when we start searching areas we can't even get into now," said Johnson. President Nixon declared the storm-battered coastal counties of Mississippi a federal disaster area-making it eligible for an initial $1 million in federal disaster assistance, with more appro- priations to be considered. At Atlanta, a dozen C-124 Globemaster planes at Dobbins Air Force Base were assigned to airlift 375,000 pounds of food and supplies to the stricken area-to be unloaded at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi. Emergency telephone and electric power repair crews were ordered in. Gov. Williams spent much of the day here, conferring with disaster rescue officials. After a jeep ride over stretches of broken pavement between Gulfport and Biloxi, the gov- ernor said, "I just couldn't believe it could be this bad until I actually saw it." Estimates of monetary damage along the Mis- sissippi coast remained sheer guesswork but William said it would be "in the hundreds of millions of dollars." The Red Cross said its preliminary and in- complete survey of the area showed about 2,000 homes destroyed and more than 2,000 damaged in the Gulfport-Biloxi area. --Associated Prest Gulfport after the storm WOODSTOCK AND THE ESTABLISHMENT See Editorial Page Y 41k i au 47DAitj HOT AND HUMID High-84 Low--67 Chance of thundershowers; cooler tomorrow tom' Vol. LXX IX, No. 68-S l Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 19, 1969 Ten Cents Four Pages I I I Housing ................. ................. .... ...... j..... { ;f/..... director # ~Chosen Webb succeeds Mrs. Mhoon as commission head Ollie D. Webb, executive' director of the Muskegon Heights Housing Commission since January 1968, yesterday was named director of the Ann Arbor Housing Commis- sion. Webb will replace Mrs. Joseph D. Mhoon, whose resignation as commission director was effective yesterday. Mrs. Mhoon resigned July 21 in a dispute with the com- mission over her role in hiring new t staff members. Webb, who attended Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio, ; will take over his new job in about; 30 days. No precise date has been set. Before becoming executive di- x :..rector of the Muskegon Heights Associated Press Housing Commission, Webb was An eye for an eye the assistant director from August to December 1967. Prior to that Walter Brisebois found revenge against a Canadian railroad linen he worked as an administrative last month when he blocked the path of a train with his car for planner for seven months with the Muskegon County Metropolitan. 18 minutes after being delayed by a train for the same amount of jPlanning Commission. time. Yesterday he won his court battle with the railroad in Wind- ebb had also worked with the sor and charges of intimidation against him were dropped. Muskegon Heights Urban Renewal; and Planning Department from' MA 5 1964-1967. AI____ L_ -H_ Mrs. Mhoon, who had resigned from the commission three times Land ord c qu tted before her final departure, left after a feud which began at a July 14 meeting. Mrs. Mhoon had! declared then that she would hire whomever she pleased to fill three on assaitu1 char ge new staff positions for which city' council had allocated funds. One of those positions is an as- By ETHEL SHUTTA sistant for tenant relations which Louis Feigelson, manager of the Ambassador realty com- commission members believe to be anyyesterday was found not guilty of assault and battery of great importance. In January cages f aand March Mrs. Mhoon had come s, filed agaist him by Lynn Haynes and Betsy Ander- under heavy criticism from some son of 609 S. Division St., apt. No. 9. . public housing tenants. After more than two hours of testimony, District Judge They charged she intimidated S. J. Elden acquitted Feigelson; ruling there was reasonable and harassed them with irritating doubt of his guilt, telephone calls. d hThe tenants also claimed she Haynes and Anderson charged than on May 5 Feigelson did not adequately take care of entered their apartment on Division St. "obviously in a rage" I their complaints. "and told the tenants they - - were trespassing. The girls LEAVING YOUR LA had signed a lease to sublet from David Benisch who pre- viously had the apartment. Because the original lease stip- ulates that all subtenants must be approved by the management, the women were told their lease was By L. WI invalid because only Benisch had signed it. Now that the close Haynes charged that Feigelson arrived, so too has the did not identify himself as the existing boxes in Ann landlord until she asked who he Most students are p ~'was. She claimed he said the lrlongings and moving apartment belonged to him and the city. So cardboard that he would take everything that ium y was in it. M a n y think small When Feigelson picked up the who have been taking TV which was in fact his, Haynes, er-priced jars of pea: who thought the TV belonged to mer will now return Benisch, said she told Feigelson over some extra carto 1