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Nashville Banner front page on July 1, 1957




Banner front page on July 1, 1957

Banner front page on July 1, 1957

Editor’s note: Main Street Nashville reprints some of the best front pages from the Nashville Banner, an afternoon newspaper that published from 1876 to 1998. The pages are courtesy of the Nashville Public Library, Nashville Banner Collection.

65 YEARS AGO IN THE

NASHVILLE BANNER

The rescue of a former Nashville woman “long given up for dead” led the front page of the July 1, 1957, Banner.

Lost for six days in “blistering” Big Bend National Park in Texas, Mrs. Clifford S. White was spotted by Border Patrol and Civil Air Patrol planes. She had waved a white blouse to get their attention.

Her husband had died six days before after leaving their station wagon, which was bogged down in sand, to find help.

Park officials said Mrs. White had survived by climbing a mountain and finding the cover of a cave. Rescuers had “felt sure” she had drowned based on footprints found near a river.

In national news, southwest Louisiana was left devastated by Hurricane Audrey, which killed more than 400 people. Typhoid and tetanus serums were flown into the area to fight against disease.

 

 

The Red Cross estimated that 47,000 people were left homeless in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, where Audrey hit four days earlier before smashing Cameron Parish. There, 105 mph winds shot ashore, followed by a tidal wave, killing an estimated 70,000 head of cattle.

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