The medical hero of two gruelling sleepless nights on Hurricane Audrey duty also went sleepless on 'the eve of the killer storm—deliv-lering three babies.
This was related rnattet-of-factly today by Dr. Cecil W. Clark, 37, of Cameron, La., who was the only physician in that little town when Audrey struck last June 27, killing more than 500 people in Cameron Parish, most of them in the town itself.
The quiet-spoken country doctor talked to newsmen shortly after he was named "General Practitioner of the Year" by the American Medical Assn. for,his service in tending hundreds of victims of shock, exposure, snake bite or other injury during and after the disaster.
...Referring to the babies born at his small country clinic the night before the night Audrey came blasting in, Clark said that as waters rose around the clinic, three volunteer men grabbed the babies' bassinets, held them high above their heads and waded through water sometimes shoulder high en route to a temporary hospital at the Cameron jail, some two blocks away.
PHOTO: DR. CECIL W. CLARK, Cameron, La., hero of last summer's hurricane Audrey disaster, grins as he displays the medal awarded him Tuesday in Philadelphia as the American Medical Association's "Most Outstanding Family Physician."
