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September
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6, 1960
Ga
a
urricane Challeng et, Island Escapes St.
Other
Martin,
Islands
Badly By MANUEL
ee
Hit
SUAREZ
; Hurricane Donna barreled 75 to 100 miles north of Puerto Rico yesterday afternoon, causing almost no damage--only rain, some wind, and high seas. Indications grew last night that other islands fared badly—perhaps disastrously. Efforts were being made to rush restoration of communications’ and to meet all possible needs.
Munoz Calls Hurricane A ‘Curve Ball’ By
A.
W.
She was reported headed
MALDONADO
Hurricane Donna, which changed course and missed Puerto Rico yesterday, was characterized by Gov. Muiioz as “a curve ball.”
of
disaster
the
of the island, inspecting sible damage. But
curveball
The
made
four
stops
lit-
on
his
tour. The first was at the Luis Mufioz Rivera elementary school in Santurce where 1,250 evaecnees
from
low
coastal
areas
had spent the night. A civil deffense officer told the governor the evacuees had been served a light the city
DONNA’S PATH—This US. Weather Bureau photo taken off a radar screen at 3 p.m, yesterday at the International Airport office, shows Hurricane Donna, farthest circle te the top, as it passed 85 miles north of Puerto Rico, whose land mass is represent-
snd Peer ed
Hee glow: directly at the center of the picture. The line between Donna is one of the outer
hand corner is the radar tracer. Herricane
aoe
es
the line in the lower right
St see
Humor
The Huff And Puff Of It All RSE IR SACRA
By
AL DINHOFE
?
the
first
time) in
19
years in the
busi-
ness,” an assistant told the bystanders, ‘‘he has run out of nails.” Around
Yapht
‘on Sunday. At the Condado Beach Hotel
of carpenters were busy making plywood shutters aan front of the new drug store. One of the — pacientes ar panick od end. ren for a ».: {What . happened?’’., those. standing...around
clubs
around
coast
were
black squage in the center.
flying
CamThe boy Scouts staging an island-wide tine ond tosae oad: ro nie iently— nod whatup bean. (See HURRIC ANE,
Page 20)
stop
was
by
at
a
area at Canovanas. At the Rockaway,” a watering
(See
MUNOZ,
Page
were
no
immediate
was
advisory’ from Bureau at Is
issued
at
6
last
advisory were
said
gale
discontinued
will
warn-
for Puer-
subside
today
on
beach
low
but
people
areas
living
should
be
on the alert for local flooding, the report said. Moving At 14 MPH Donna was about 100 miles north northwest of San Juan at the time and moving northwest at 14 miles an hour. No heavy damage was reported here or in the Virgin Islands.
However,
gale
winds
from
50
to 60 mph buffeted St. Thomas as the storm passed north of the islands.
But other islands in the hurricane’s wake did not fare so well.
Communications
down ward
and at
places in the Lee
Islands,
most
there
was
press
(See
21)
were
in many time
no
severly
clear
what
DONNA,
had
Page
hit,
picture hap
21)
Governor May Seek Traffic Law Change that
the
Mufioz new
said traffic
yesterday
law
is “pos
sibly unnecessarily harsh” in provisions not dealing directly with
Town
the
second
beach “Bar
Gov.
asked.“ “For
The
breakfast furnished government.
in
to Rico and the Virgin Islands. Ocean swells along the north coast of Puerto Rico were to
tle more than a spitter—it sprayed the coast with plenty of rain and high tides, but no damage. Mufioz
Verde
ings
coast
was
areas
night. Future advisories come from Miami.
for pos-
Donna
her
la
prepara-
northeastern
There
land
The last storm the U.S. Weather
tions, Mufioz yesterday afternoon toured
of the Bahamas. path.
“It’s a good thing,” the governor added, “that it wasn’t a fast ball.” After cancelling four stops on his campaign tour of the Ponce area to return to San Juan for supervision
west
by northwest last night and on that course would pass north
traffic
safety.
He recommended that police enforcement of these provisions be lenient and added that he might ask the Legislature to make amendments of such provisions. He was referring to some restrictions dealing with the di-
regulating the transport of sugar cane. However, Mufioz said that police
should
firm down
as on
continue
possible such _
to
drunken driving, speeding driving without a license.
he
be
as
in cracking violations as and
The governor said he doubted would call a special session
of the Legislature to reconsider the traffic law. The new law, which went into effect Aug. 19,
mensions of trailers and others carried about 130 new violations.
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