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Show Springville man in Hurricane At least one Springville man, 2nd Lt. John R. Patrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Patrick, was in the Camille hurricane hitting Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana coast Monday of this week. In a telephone conversation with his mother, Tuesday, Lt. Patrick, who had just been at Gulfport and the Biloxi area for two weeks as he begins his four-year training in the Air Force ROTC program, attempted attemp-ted to describe the vast devastation devas-tation done by the strongest hurrican ever recorded by man. He and his wife were among those living in trailer homes 50 yards from the beach. His trailer trail-er was the only one still standing stand-ing through some miraculous way, following the huge storm. He was calling his parents here to meet his wife at the Salt Lake Airport because of the terrible destruction there that had left practically nothing no-thing in the Gulfport city. Sanitation San-itation facilities, communications, communica-tions, power and lights all were destroyed by the storm. Gulfport, 15 miles southeast of Biloxi, was hit hard when Camille Ca-mille slammed ashore in the pre-dawn hours with tides of 18 to 20 feet sweeping through homes and businesses sucking out furniture, clothing and anything In its path. |