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Guam Typhoon TollSet AtReliefAGANA, Guam (UPI) -Gov. Ricardo J. Bordallo said Sunday Typhoon Pamela caused more than $300 million in damage on Guam, leaving 80 per cent of the island’s buildings in ruins, three persons dead and 60 injured.Winds that reached 190miles per hour left the islandwithout power or a freshwater supply and its coastline littered with sunken o rbeached ships and boats.President Ford declared Guam a major disaster area to allow use of federal relief and recovery funds, including provisions for temporary housing.Pamela’s steady 140-m.p.h. winds and 190-m.p h. uprooted trees and unroofed hundreds of buildings.The storm appeared to have been worse than Typhoon Karen which struck t n November, 1962. Karen hit with 200 miles per hour winds but Pamela caused more damage because it moved soslowly.“Karen came suddenly, hit hard and then left suddenly,” said the Rev. Flixberto C. Flores, leaving Catholic bishop of the diocese of Guam, “But with Pamela, she came in slowly, hit very hard and took her time leaving.”“Destructive force winds hitus continuously for almost 36 hours,” he said.Pamela struck Truk island in the western Pacific earlier last week, 10 dead in a mud-slide.Water supply became Guam's major problem, and accompanying it came concern about sanitation. Pumping stations were without power and will likely not be restored for at least three weeks.Most residents used rain water to supplement rationed water supplied by trailer tanks throughout the villages. Some tourists used waste baskets to scoop water out of swimming poois to flush toilets.Japan Air Lines said it would send two jets today to pick up Japanese tourists stranded as a result$300NowMillionOnWayof the typhoon. None was injured but their hotels, lacking power and water, could provide only sandwiches.The govdBtr’s office said an American Red Cross relief team would arrive today from Honolulu, the first outside relief since Pamela hit the island Thursday and Friday.Two planes left Clark Air Force Base butside Manila Sunday with 50 experts to help in relief operations. The experts carried portable power units and communication equipment.Besides the damage on the island, a least a dozen vessels were either sunk or run aground, including the Japanese fishing vessel Akitsu Maru, whose 16-man crew was found safe on a beach.There was concern thatPamela may in the next fewdays strike the Philippines,staggering from TyphoonOlga which killed 41 persons and left more than 25,000 persons homeless. Guam is approximately 950 miles east of the Philippines.ill W
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sarasota, Florida, US
Mon, May 24, 1976
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