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DE GAULLE SILENT ON PLANS

Beneath a portrait of him- eelf in a general's uniform, French President Charles de Gaulle casts his ballot/in Sun- * day's presidential election. The president and Mrs. De Gaulle voted in rural Colombey-les- Deux-Eglises shortly before noon. A heavy turnout was re- ported in the election despite stormy weather throughout

New Orleans Recovers From Hurricane Loss

By BILL CRIDER NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Tour- ists are gleeful in the naughty French quarter the port is busy and midtown-New Orleans seems miraculously unscarred The casual eye sees little evi. dence that the century's most destructive hurricane passed this way three months ago. leay- ing about $1,000,000,000 in dam-

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Except for a few broken bill- boards or neon signs, the mid- town area looks much as it did before hurricane Betsy's 125- mile-an-hour winds hit

The same is true of the Miami, Fla., vicinity, raked by Betsy when she doubled back out of the Atlantic to run the slot be- tween Florida and the Bahamas = rage into the Gulf of Mex-

| hut Betsy, 99 days after, re- mains a major factor in the daily lives of thousands. DO OWN REPAIRS

Louisiana was hardest hit. In | New Orleans sections flooded by levee breaks due to tidal surges, thousands of home owners still struggle with ‘‘do it yourself” repairs.

‘Even: those who have money 4) pay to have repairs done can't find. the . labor,’’..‘said.. Josep. Lambert.

The Lambert home was one of about 7.000 which stood in flood water a-week- The corrosive salt water ruined clothing, fur- niture, floors, wallboard, eler-

Seismology Sci Would Please

By DAVE McINTOSRA |

OTTAWA (CP)—In many in stances. science moves too fas! for the politicians

But in one at least, the poli- ficians would like to see science moving faster.

This is seismology, the study of earthquakes, and. specific- ally, and as-yet-unfound fool- proof system for distinguishing between earthquakes and under- ground nuclear explosions.

Canadian government scien- tists said Friday that - Operation Long Shot—the American under- ground nuclear test in the Aleu- tian Islands last month—has provided a great deal of useful data which was well recorded at the 25 Canadian seismograph stations.

“But one shot is not the an gwer to all the questions,"’ Dr Kenneth Whitman, Canada's chief seismologist, said in an in-

terview. “You never prove anything from one shot.”

‘He said data from Long Shot forms only part of a general re- search program~on the problem being conducted in Canada and in many other countries.

The political committee of the United Nations General Assem- bly voted 86 to 0 Nov. 26 for the suspension of all nuclear tests, including — ex- plosions.

An international treaty, to

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“yellow: It persisted nearly two * LOSSES :VARY—

Mrs. Ducote said their home and |

|the mouth of the Mississippi

| Stitute estimates total claims In

| $750,000,000—most of it in Louis. |

at 74—a lot lower than most pev-

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most of France. Monday de

Gaulle remained at his country

estate keeping silent about his plans after the rebuff at the

polls. There seemed little pos-

sibjlity he would withdraw_. from a second ballot Dec. 19

He has until Thursday night

to.pull out. (AP Wirephoto via

cable from.-Paris.)

appliances, shrubbery— | and cars. :

“Tt was the nastiest filthiest most , Polluted water you ever

saw,’ shuddered Mrs. Eugene Ducote, ‘Dead fish, oil, dead animals. . .”

The water left behind a heavy mold of black, grey, green and

months, despite scrubbings-

Lambert. figured Betsy cost | him $3,000—a common estimata- For many the loss was higher.

ear damage would total $35,000.: | In ravaged Venice, La., near

Morris Hartt borrowed $25,000 to get his service station back in husiness. Insurance paid $1,080 on his damage.

The Insurance Information In-

Florida and Louisiana will reach

jana. The—Red Cross_1i-sted-the Louisiana death toll from Betsy

ple thought it would be.

The cleanup in New Orleans

and Miami continues. From | the further south you go along the flat Mississippi delta strip extending 90 miles to the gulf, the greater the destruc- tion of land. ‘-Many of the 1,233 homes_the | Red Cross listed as totally de- stroyed were in the area south of New Orleans.

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atmosphere, space and under- water. Such detonations can eas- ily be detected and ee as nuclear.

Copies of Long Shot records taken by the Canadian seismo- graph stations have been sup- plied to the United States. The Stations are located across Can- ada and as far north as Alert on | Ellesmere Island, 500 miles from the North Pole.

The seismograms have also provided a geological mystery: Eastern seismograph ~ stations recorded the Aleutian test more clearly than those in British Co- lumbia. of

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