Show Military Gear GearIn In River Fight PORT ALLEN La March 25 5 INS INS Huge Huge army moving earth-moving equipment was thrown Friday into the battle to hold Mississippi river waters which ripped a foot wide gap through a levee near Port Allen AJlen Eight square miles of bottom land Jand were flooded and hundreds hundreds hun hun- of persons were forced from their homes when the dike gave way Thursday and waters surged through to threaten the city's 2000 population Meanwhile weather forecasters said a squall line was approaching the Ule area and officials expressed fear rains might send the Ule waters dangerously higher Three temporary levees were thrown up to protect the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi sippi river town but only one still was intact Thursday night Army en engineers reported Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night that the level Jevel of the river which has a flood stage of 35 feet was receding slowly They said the morning high of feet had dropped to feet during the day I |