[News Script: Carla] Part: 1 of 6
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SOUND COMING
t ______CARLA 1-1-1
---Carla has gone, but her mark remains. And, for the
e male- tus
-v~ cQ, thousands of Texans still displaced by the
murderous hurricane, Carla's mark is the blackest
EASE BRIGHTEN of their lifetime. At a temporary Red Cross center
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set up at the fairgrounds in Angleton, more than
Fifty
seven-hundred 'people are housed. Many have
no homes to return to. Others are from Freeport,
rln fifteen miles to the south where only
cleanup workers and heads of households are c
] permitted to return. stories are of heroism,
fear and heartbreak. Most are thankful just to be
The damage to buildings and contents alone
alive.
caused by the giant storm has been set at one
hundred seventy-five million dollars by the Texas
Insurance Advisory Association. This figure does
not include heavy damage to crops, livestock, boats
and automobiles. Vice president Johnson announced
late today that he will fly to Houston Monday Nmu to begin a tour of the hurricane damage area.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Carla], item, September 15, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc959833/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.