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February 25
 The DC-8, Flight 304, which originated in Mexico City, left New Orleans International Airport for
Atlanta at 3:01 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, and disappeared from radar at 3:10 a.m. Visibility was good, although there
was a light rain. The winds were calm. The Coast Guard and other searchers sighted the wreckage around dawn in Lake Pontchartrain,
about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of New Orleans. Eastern said 51 passengers and a crew of seven were aboard. The subsequent
investigation concluded that the plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain en route due to "degradation of aircraft stability
characteristics in turbulence, because of abnormal longitudinal trim component positions." The victims included Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, a member
of the French delegation the United Nations, who was active in women's and human rights activities of the world body. The
pilot, Capt. William B. Zeng, 47 years old, lived with his wife and seven children on a farm at Ringoes, N. J. Captain Zeng,
with Eastern 21 years, had flown over five million miles. The co-pilot. Grant R. Newby, 40, of Manhattan, had almost two
million miles on his flight log. Coast Guard recovered parts of the wreckage, clothing, luggage
and what was described as bits of bodies from a wide spread area centered 6 miles (10 km) south of the north shore
of the lake and about 4 miles (6 km) east of the 23-mile (37 km)-long Lake Pontchartrain causeway. A Coast Guard
pilot said there were indications that the plane had exploded either in the air or on impact. Eastern said that the crew
had made the routine checks after take-off and that no alarm had been given. An experienced Eastern pilot said the jet had
probably reached a height of 16,000 feet shortly after it had got over the lake. —The
New York Times, February 26, 1964  
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In a memorandum to District Attorney Jim Garrison dated February 25, 1967, chief investigator from Louis Ivon wrote to Garrison: RE: CLAY BERTRAND -- To ascertain the location of one CLAY BERTRAND, I put out numerous inquiries and made contact with several sources in the French Quarter area. From the information we have obtained concerning this subject, I'm almost positive from my contacts that they would have known or heard of a CLAY BERTRAND. The information I received was negative results. On February 22, 1967, I was approached by "BUBBIE" PETTINGILL in the Fountainbleu Motor Hotel, located on Tulane Avenue, whom I had earlier contacted about CLAY BERTRAND. He stated that DEAN ANDREWS admitted to him that CLAY BERTRAND never existed.
Municipal ordinances regarding wood construction: RESOLVED, that from the present resolution's enactment
approved June 24, 1816, Ordinance entitled "Ordinance to prevent the construction of building in the City of New Orleans
with wood, relative to the construction of houses and other buildings in said City" and the dispositions of the Ordinance
approved February 25, 1822 entitled "Supplemental Ordinance to the Ordinance prohibiting the construction
of houses and other buildings with wood" as well as the dispositions of the Ordinance approved May 28, 1828, relative
to the repairs of houses shall be extended and applied to that part of Ste. Marie's Faubourg located between Camp, New Levee,
Common & Delord Streets as well as that part of the City from lower Rampart Street between St. Louis, Basin, Canal Streets,
and that part of the Batture and both sides of New Levee stree between Delord & Roffignac. On February 25, 1802, Governor Salcedo announced to the Cabildo that he had formed a board of health. |
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