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Pacific typhoons hit hard on Guam and in PhilippinesBv DICK WILLIAMS AGANA. Guam iUPI Typhoon Pamela raked the American island of Guam with 130 mile-an-hour winds today, churning up lo-toot waves that swept ashore and cut the island's main highway to the southAuthorities said at least50.000 persons one third ofthe island's populationwere stranded in the southern portion when the highway was washed outThere were no immediate reports of casualties from Pamela, which killed 10 persons when it hit the Caroline islands three daysagoAbout 1,500 miles west, asecond typhoon Olga tutthe island ol Lu/on in the Philippines Flash floods from Olga already have killed 22 personsIn (iuam, Typhoon Pamela with gusts up to loo miles per hour slowed its forwardprogress to about six miles |Mr hour as il approached the peanut shaped ;io-mile long island from the southeast, according to the weatherbureauThe storm dumped heavy rains along coastal areas, uprooted trees. and threatened Guam’s million dollar vegetable cropWhipping into a super-typhoon as it rolled across the Pacific, Pamela hit Truk in the western Caroline islands wmi miles southeast of Guam Tuesday. touching offmudslides that killed at least 10 persons.Military and civilian authorities in Guam ordered residents to move into typhoon shelters and police were ordered to abandon their patrols and take cover In the Philippines. Typhoon Olga, with winds of K7 milesan hour, hit 11 provinces as it roared inland today.Olga dumped more than IH inches of rain on Manila in the Iasi two days, producing flash floods that drove more than20,ooo persons from theirhomesSixteen of the storm’s 22 victims died in the rising waters Two light aircraft with 12 persons aboard weremissing in stormy weather south of ManilaPhilippine PresidentFerdinand Marcos declared a •‘state of calamity in the Manila area and neighboring provinces and suspended work m all government and private offices except those involved in emergencyoperationsThe proclamation tro/e tood prices and imposed still penalties against hoarders and profiteers.Marcos also ordered the air force to conduct cloud seeding operations in the mountain areas northeast of Manila to induce rainfall Irom the storm clouds away from the population centers
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Eureka Times Standard
Eureka, California, US
Fri, May 21, 1976
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