Storm causes power outage on Marco Island. Over 15,000 people on Marco Island were without power for more than seven hours Sunday morning. Violent storm winds Saturday night caused the main transmission line feeding the island to go down, leaving many businesses and homes in the dark.
In 1968 Hamer founded the Freedom Farms Corporation (FFC) a non-profit venture designed to help poor farming families. It also provided social services and grants for education. Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on 14th March 1977.
Tennessee Ernie Ford, the homespun television host and country and Western crooner whose 1955 recording of 16 Tons became one of the biggest-selling records of all time, died yesterday at H. C. A. Reston (Va.) Hospital Center. He was 72 years old and lived in Portola Valley, near Palo Alto, Calif.