The week of Sept. 21st was set aside for distribution of poison bait around private residences throughout the county. The material was distributed from the new Health Unit Building, with district agent Henry Pulnnecke in charge of the rodent control operation. The Lasseter family donates land at Fourth Street and West County Road for construction of St. John's Episcopal Church. A typhoon in Bengal, India, is blamed for the deaths of 11,000 people in October. Five months later, with MacArthur evacuated to Australia, U.S. forces surrender at Corregidor.
Information is drawn from news accounts, archives and other historical records.
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