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consideration
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HURRICANE DEATH TOLL MOUNTS
Official gure
Now
Lake Charl
30
une 28.
Official sources $ least 150
persons were dead andreds were missing today in the wa
the tropical
Louisiana's
ignored this hurricane "Audrey" whit a path of
death and destruction of south coast.
and its decision is a sign of enlightened responsibility that will win wide com- mendation,
The Louisiana Directoof announced that 150 bodies he hurricane wrecked Cameron ris Gulf Coast.
The campaign has been de
cided upon following publi- calion of the Medical Research Council's report In Washington the Weather which states that cigarette Bureau said information it had smoking was the principal received today indicated that factor in the large increase 200, to 300 people were killed in the incidence of lung in the Cameron area, south of cancer in Britain in the last Lake Charles.
sald the 10 years.
Uneficial As the Medica!! Council is the Government's total death toll was much higher, advisory body on health tunning Into thousands. matters the Government has clear duty to act upon its opinions.
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AND the course it has adopted is the correct one: tho riska are to be made known and it is up to the public then to make their decisions. Only the future can tell what effect these warnings will have, but it is doubtful whether they will pereunde many to abandon smoking entirely, though some may reduce consumption.
of
enormous
FORTECS
Waves In
the
in thu coast,
Civil Defence found in the section of the
Mexico, off the Plew
A helicopter over yet, north of Pecan Island that they had foundtra of a herd of come 30,00% 2 divestock that bad been the area.
DTH TOLLS
Deputy Sheriff D. P. Vincent
Cameron County,
Cany who
luated about 40 arrived at Lake Charles today, mileath Lake Charles and salt that between 3,000 and 4.250hwest of New 000 persons had been drowned swamps around Cameron.
ONE OF THE WORST If the unofficial figures were conlirmed, they would make the hurricane one of the worst present-day disasters,
The hurricane, first of the 1957 see, swept away homes and buildigs and caused severu
damage and destruction.
the
Rescue boats were searching swamps for survivors or victims. The Revi Cross all- nounced that ut least 1.000
persons had failed to evacuate the Catherca region.
In this regard, the report recently published by the
At the request of the Sheriff American Cancer Society
of Cameron, *an Air Force after a four-year statistical hallcopter left Houston, Texas, study may have a coercive today to pick up 10 persons, effect. It stated among theluding a pregnant women
five children,' drifting In] other things, that among and smokera of 10-20 cigarettes three tiny boala in the swamps,
a day the death rate was 70 per cent higher than non-smokers. It also anid that ten times more smokers than non-smokers died of lung cancer, Pipe smokers, however, were not so badly affected.
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RN Cruiser Arrives This Morning
SMOKING CAMPAIGN
HMS Newcastle arrived in Houghong this morning. HMS Newcarljo is wearing the Bag, of. Rear Admiral W. K. Edden, CB, OBE, Flag Offer, Second in Command, Far East Blation and is due to stay here until the beginning of August. -
She recommlisioned at Singapore last month,
Menzies' Move At Premiers Meeting
Landon, June 28. The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan invited cach of the nine visiting delegates to the Common wealth Premiers confer ence to draft a memoran- duni ́on suggested policy to [cope....with Communist ex...
pansion.
The "Invitation” was prompled by a strong pica made by Au n, Juno 28.
tralian Premler. Mr. R. G. A th ducted study Menzies for the Commonwealt by a great #ish experts of to draw up a manifesto 'stating the reces pub bed speech of in precise terms its attitude to Chincre Edenao Txe-tung Rustin's policy of domination, - supplated by first hand
Menzies, move gained support ..reporteromChina has from Canada, New Zealant persons reached gone on that dii- South Africa, Pakistan, the Cen- the devastated cullics labina te far muretral African Federation and the
the
Vincent arrived
Lak? Charles aboard
Coas!- Guard launch "Blue Donnel" accompanied by 40 evacuated from
aboard the fore in tivest old woman boat counted on her fingers: "
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serious 1 thought be
MANUFACTURERS lost my six children," she said.
.oppone
new. African state of Ghana.
India and Ceylon wanted u They dot, however, different approach on the grounds
in immediate that to repres in
such unified approcches threat to served caly to raise fears of war gime which in the Soviet Union. ve tuunched Conference source The new Jeyn a feeling the of confide in Franice-Pr.
ndamantly
the simply A Negro, whose child-future anperio Andinga of independent ren were also killed, described the Comals research committees on this bow n 15-foo! wave crushed indeed se to question. They maintain upon his house. there is no proof" and that "atalistical evidence certainly does not prove casual connection."
The public is, however, entitled to know the findings of an impartial committee of ex- perts and If the menu facturers can provide new evidence to the contrary they are equally justified in broadcasting their results.
About 19,000 persees had to no evacuated from the Lake Charles region. Although there were no esilmates of the number of à- jured, the Mayor of Lake Charles Sidney Gray,
C11- nocneed that some 30 ambu- and numerous other ances vehicles were standag by to carry the wounded arriving by boat frem Gemeren,
In addition to the losses in lives, it was callmated that some
15,000,000 damage had been: caused to all drilling installations
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visiting Ministers strength.undertaken to give their views
in writing-United Press,
Go-Slow Ends
Note Sent To Macmillan
In Singapore Let's Get Together
...Singapore, June. 28.
A go-slow campaign and
a siriko nolice were called. off today, when a dispute. *between Islay '''Kert, ・ A shipping company v in Bingapore, and · Its d'ém- pidyees' union was settled.
Torma of the agreement ending the dispute. Reta not made known.-Reuler,
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Wing June 25. ́ | civil uses of atòmie 'energy, · The Uniissabon well con-The reaçtor would requiro ap-
tribute 1900 Award the
Best of war arch reno- for projde banderlaken by the Jo Ale Energy Research | at Ats Tokai-Mu The atomic energy culmiaannounced Today,
Tho
cost the care project had been imited by Japan to exceed 900.00 the AEC Bald.
Four kiloge of 235 con- tained in alum fuel ele- menta end to per cent, U-235 being leased to. Japan by is Und Blates under them off in servos ment for sport in the
proximately 7.5 tens of-heavy water wilch would be pur~ chased from the United States.
The AEC sald that this contri- bullaa was in accordanoo, wishi Fresident Elsenhower's 'offer rada for June, 1955 to help other nations with ' nudíðer research reactor programinės as part of the atoms-for-peaco programme,
A New York firm, ADIF Atomics, Inc., will design and build the reactor, the ARC 'maid, In- stallation and initial testing had been sub-contracted by this firm to the Mlisubishi group of companies In Japan. --Reuter,
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