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Then, battering northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy hurtled full-blast into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Delta lowlands, where Audrey in 1957 took 518 lives in one Louisiana parish, 250,000 refugees sought shelter in schools and churches. The Delta was even more seriously hurt than the Miami area. Overall, property damage was estimated at $500 million...
...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
...candidate for the list. Another notorious "dead-end county," in Justice Department parlance, was Alabama's Lowndes, where a white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, was murdered last spring-and where, until March, not a single Negro was registered. Top priority went to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish...
...courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming of the registrars as "the second Reconstruction." And in Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish, where less than 5% of the 4,102 voting-age Negroes are on the rolls, one white lounger turned to a friend as the registration lines formed and sneered: "You got any cats, dogs or mules to bring in and register?" But there was little heckling and no violence...
Gornitzka's office is the executive suite or club of the men who consult him, his parish vehicle the coast-tocoast jet (he travels 140,000 miles a year). One day he may be preaching from a pulpit in Seattle; the next morning he may be in Manhattan, counseling TV, insurance and hotel executives. Last week he was in St. Paul counseling officials of Northwest Airlines, for whom he is a paid consultant...