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The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-12
Washington

WASHINGTON. Mich.-Mrs
Peter Vallentgold of Washing
ton road was taken to Detroit
hospital last week for observa-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Hartopp
have moved from the Albert
Kage house formerly the Adah
Payne house.
Francis Hopp and Richard AL
ward left Detroit for induction
in the armed service Thursday
morning.
Rev. Harry Sterling spent the
weekend with friends in Che
boygan, his sister from Northern
Michigan was visitor in his
home recently.
Jack Pendergrass of North
Van Dyke was home from work
a few days last week as a re-
suit of infection in'his eyes.
Mrs. j. r. Bromley was con-
fined bed with illness two
days last week.
The L and L Club will meet
with Mrs. Clara Schocke for
regular meeting next Thursday,
April 10. Mrs. Laura Curtis and
Mrs. Lerty Corby will have part
in the program. Plans are un-
der way for a musical and a
play, THE Servant in the
House" to be presented the lat
ter part of the month, proceeds
will be used for buying new
books.
Mrs. Mable Gray of Muskegon
arrived last week for an indefi-
mite stay with her cousin, Mrs.
Inez Hazard.
Miss Grace Davis Of Detroit
was a luncheon guest of Mrs.
Minnie Hartley Monday and
visited relatives in town later,
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-12
Dead "Sayed" Awhile

In Thailand, formerly Siam, a
person who has died Is en-
balmed externally and kept in
a large sealed jar In the house
for several months, after which
the BODY is cremated.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-12
Gold Goes Far

One pound of gold can be
pulled into a wire more than
700 miles long, and sheets can
be beaten from it less than
1/250000th of an inch thick.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-12

More nickel was used by the
steel industry in 1914 than by
any other single user.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Lower Top Age Limit
For Women's Army
Corp Enlistment

I'm line with the Army's plan
for rehabilitation of troops and
the continuance of drafting men
under 38 years of age, a War De-
partment directive issued this
week stated that the top age linn
it for women enlisting in the
Women's Army Corps is now 49,"
1t. George M. Underwood, re-
cruiting and induction officer in
charge of the US Army Recruit
ing station in Jackson announced.
Prior to this order the top age
limit was so.
1t. Underwood stated that an
intensive recruiting campaign is
now in progress to enlist thou
sands of women in this age
bracket needed to fill many i'm
portant Army positions and re-
place those WACs who are eligi-
BILE for discharge under the point
system.
Complete information about
enlistment in the Women's Army
Corps and the kinds of jobs open
to women can be secured at the
u. S. Army Recruiting office, 504
Post Office Building, Jackson,
Miss.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Health Expert Urges Rat Poisoning
Campaign To Combat TYphus Threat

A quiet-mannered, slow-spok-
en- Georgian who knows very
nearly all there is TO know about
rats and who hopes TO teach some
OF ii to the citizens Of Pascagou-
Ii, is doing a work of vital inn
portance for the health and lives
of the community's citizens, and
doing il in such an unobtrusive
way that one might pass him any
day in the downsown area with
out realizing the Importance of
mis- work.
He is William r.. Plemons, in
charge Of a typhus control unit of
the United States Public Health
Service. which is cooperating with
local and county authorities to
carry on a rat-proofing project
for the Pascagoula area.
For the past six week he has
been at work, with his few help
ers and laborers. rat-proofing the
buildings along Delmas avenue
from South Pascagoula toward
the river. He hopes to finish the
whole downtown area and sew
eral outlying commercial neigh
borhoods within the next two
months. And then-he hopes
the City of Pascagoula will seek
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Gauiier

Mrs. Leonard Fuller visited her
daughter, Beverly Dalgo, in
Ocean Springs Friday.
Lawrence Delcomyn left Mon
day for New Orleans to enlist in
the Navy. He is the son of MI
and Mrs. J. c. Delcomyn.
Mrs. Egan returned to New Or
leans Friday after a visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Robert Hor-
San.
Mrs. Henry Lebatard of New
Orleans is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Lebatard and daughter, Ed
ma.
Mrs. j. c. Delcomyn and
daughter, Marion, left last Mon
day for a months visit with Mrs.
Delcomyn's mother, Mrs. Ed Mon,
and sister, Mrs. Bonnie Kessler,
of Pomona, California.
A number of people from Gau-
tier enjoyed a picnic at Martins
Bluff last Wednesday held in hon.
or of Pvt. Mona and Eris Martin,
who were home on furlough.
Little Hattie Polk of Cedar
Point returned Sunday from
Prentiss, Miss, where she visited
relatives.
Miss Daphne Polk of Cedar
Point, is spending a week in Mo-
bile as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Allan Polk.
Mrs. Bill Roberts, nee Betty
Jane Foster, of Panama City, Fla,
is visiting her mother-in-law,
Mrs. c. H. Roberts.
Miss Mary Elise Petersen and
Miss Violet Cochran entertained
with a Laundering party last
Thursday night. The Rev. j. L.
Reeves and Kell Penton chaper-
oned the group.
Mrs. Hurley Guillotte of eau
tier, and Miss Mildred Martin of
Pascagoula and Sgt. William Ask,
visited in the home of Miss Mar
tins mother, Mrs. Bailey Martin,
in Fort Bayou, last week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Fuller and
two children spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Fuller.
Mrs. Joe Lipscomb and three
children, of Jackson, Miss, are
visiting Mrs. Lipscomb's parents,
MI. and Mrs. P. T. Vaughan.
S 1-c M. l.. Payne of Jackson,
spent Thursday and Friday at the
Penton home where he joined his
buddy, S &c Floyd Penton. Both
left for San Francisco, Calf, to
rejoin their ship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Henry
Switzer and children, of Grand
Bay, Ala, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

it, 1t travels like an epidemic
once II gets started. That is why
il is important that every home
owner and business operator in
the community become conscious
of the threat to the health of this
crowded wartime community,
and that they make vigorous eff
forts to remove rat harbors such
as weeds, trash, shacks and out
houses, and also to trap and pois-
on rats on the premises.
The job of rat-proofing COM
mercial establishments really
needs the services of an expert,
and that is what Mr.. Plemons and
his assistant, Jack Beard, are
to provide. w. S. Matthews, en-
ployed by the city, is also work
ing with them, and officers of the
county board Of health r CO.
operating. TIE city has voted a
5000 revolving fund as part of
the program of cooperating with
the federal typhus unit. Under
Mr.. Plemons direction this money
is spent for the materials and la
Dor necessary 70 rat-proof the
buildings. Whenthe job has been
completed the owners of the
buildings are charged for the ma
terials and the cost of labor. This
does not include the salaries of
the federal and city supervisors,
which the federal and city gov
ernments pay.
This Chronicles Star reporter
watched the crew at work on one
building and listened to Plemons
as he talked about the rodent sitS
uation-and about the character
istics of rats in general. A car
was flashing the screen
doors of the establishment; he
had 1t dismantled on two wooden
horses and was putting the heavy
metal flashing about the bottom
of the door and covering the mos
quito screen with half-inch
mesh heavy wire, or hardware
And all about the foun-
dations of the building, which
sat only about six inches off the
ground, a curtain wall' of ce-
ment had been poured in a trench
some two feet deep and carried
up about six inches along the
sides of the weatherboards. The
wood was protected by sheet
metal, and Plemons pointed out
how the tamping of the cement
greatly strengthened the founda-
tons of the building. The whole
effect was to give the place a
neat, sanitary : looking trim,
where before the foundations had
mouldy and overgrown
with weeds. While the inspection
vas going on, a big roach crawled
out of the adjoining field and
ran frantically up and down the
curtain wall trying to find his ac-
eustomed hole in the building.
But everything had been sealed
up, including all of the holes
punched in the cement stucco by
plumbers around the water pipes
and cut into the weather-strip-
ping by electricians. The trick of
rat-proofing is to prevent the rats
from getting a ~"gnawing edge
anywhere, for they can gnaw a
little crack into an entrance in
half an hour.
Mr.. Plemons took the reporter
to an adjoining building where
the work had Just begun. The
building was about six inches off
the ground, and he pointed to
places where the rats had worn
slick spots in the dirt as they
passed beneath the house. He
pointed to a rim of a hole in the
stucco, and showed how it had
been smoothed down by the rats
as they crawled in and out of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

the aid Of the state public health
department in carrying on a rat
poisoning campaign in the resi-
dental areas.
Such a campaign is needed to
consolidate and hold the gains
that have been accomplished by
treating the commercial area For
when the rats have been deprived
of their customary nesting and
feeding places beneath restau-
rants and cafes, they often go for
aging out into the other neigh
borhoods, and unless the city can
carry through a general poison
ing program such as those which
have been accomplished in Jack
son and Hattiesburg. and other
Mississippi cities, the general rat
population will not be sufficiently
reduced to combat the very seri-
Gus threat Of typhLls epidemic that
confronts the Pascagoula COM
munity.
Heavy Infection
II this statement sounds serious,
the facts are as serious as they
sound. The public health SER
vice has had laboratory analysis
made of the blood of sixty rats
trapped in Pascagoula and have
found that "a percent of them
showed a positive infection. This
year there have been three cases
of typhus in Pascagoula and at
least one death. And since ty-
phus is highly infectious when
there are rats present to spread
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

building. In the rear yard there
was a weathered, delapidateo
shack, green with age.
Rat Harbor"
There is a perfect rat harbor,"
he said. There is nothing in that
shack but trash and perhaps a
few old tools. And 1t is under
places like that where the rats
live. AS a matter of fact, you will
find few rats in the commercial
buildings themselves. The rats
60 in there to feed at flight when
it is safe. But in the day time
they seek shelter under the build
ings and outlying shacks and the
trash piles, where it is quiet and
safe and they can sleep and
breed"
Besides rat proofing which is
the business of depriving them
entrance into the buildings and
cutting off their food supply and
depriving them of places TO nest,
we also set out poison for them.
We use several kinds--red squill,
arsenic trioxide, barium carbon
ate-poisons that are not deadly
to animals in small quantities, but
which are fatal to rats.
I'VE trap rats and poison them
through a knowledge of their
habits and physical characters
tics. Red squill, for instance, is
an excellent rat poison. 1t is
made from a beet root that grows
in Sicily, and is only mildly nox-
ious. If a child or an animal
should get hold of it, it would
nauseate him and he would throw
il up. But the rat is the only an
imal that cannot do this. He is
so constructed that he holds what
ever he swallows. The red squill
stays with him, and works on his
heart and lungs, and eventually
kills him. A rat, like a dog, will
also stop to lap at any pool of
water. So we have been using
another poison in little cups cups
OF water to great effect. 1t is
a wartime discovery and its in
gradients are still secret, but 1t
is the best yet"
Need Poisoning Campaign
Mr.. Plemons hopes very much
that the City of Pascagoula will
carry on a rat-poisoning cam
paign as have other Mississippi
cities. He said II could be done
for about three or four hundred
dollars and that Mr.. Ed John
son, assistant sanitary engineer
of the state health department,
would direct the campaign as it
was done in the other communi-
ties. The poison is placed by Boy
Scouts and other volunteers or
any labor that can be obtained,
and is set in places in accordance
with instructions from supervis-
ors for the area. The boys scat
ter the poison in the form of tor
pedoes' made of a mash of pea
nut butter, grain and syrup, COM
bined with the poison mixture.
These r placed under houses, in
sewers and in fields of weeds,
and other places where rats
might harbor. Pascagoula is
badly in need of such a campaign,
he said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

Madame Curie was born Man
va Sklodowska and was a gov
rness in Poland before she was
a scientist.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

Scientists have discovered an
apple with almost as much Vita
min c as an orange-The White
Calville.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
SPECIAL DELIvERANCE

Fl. Richardson, Alaska-Army
mail carried Edmond Smagge de-
livered himself the most well
come letter he had received in
years. 1t was from his parents,
recently liberated in Belgium,
with whom he had lost contact
in 1910.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

1t is estimated that there is one
printing plant for every 5000
people of the United States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
C. d. Switzer, Sunday.

Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. A. Penton were Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Penton and two children,
Joe Jr., and Emily Jean, of
Crichton, Ala; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Penton and baby. Ann,
of Pascagoula; Mrs. Agnes Sau-
rez of Biloxi and Mrs. MILFORD
Oliver, and daughter, Marion;
Mrs. Ina Landry of Jeanette, La;
Willie Oliver of the Navy; and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Penton of
Biloxi.
Guild Meets
The woman's guild of ST. Pierre
church held a meeting last
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Walter Anderson. Those present
were Mrs. Phil Chestnut, Mrs.
Walter Fuller, Mrs. Leonard Full
Ter, Mrs. Carroll Clifford, Mrs. M.
l.. Davis, Mrs. Lee Thomas and
the hostess, Mrs. Anderson, and
the Rev. F. S. Resch.
Mrs. Joe Lipscomb and three
children of Jackson are visiting
in the home of Mrs. Lipscomb's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. p. T.
Vaughan, for the next two weeks.
Nogales international., 1945-08-03
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ship was not only able to hold her
own against the attacking planes,
but was able to knock down four of
the massed planes which attempted
to pass the ships and continue on
to Okinawa.
Only at the end of 60 minutes did
the first plane get through and
strike the Evans, followed by three
others in quick succession. This
knocked out the guns of the smaller
destroyer, leaving it's protection up
to the skill of the gunners on this
ship.
Once 10 enemy aircraft surround
ed the ships and made simultan-
eous attack. All 10 of them were
destroyed, but not before this ship
suffered heavy damage and most OF
her guns were knocked out.
In the meantime, Corsair fighters
had joined the battle and though
t,tnun?bered had nanagd to destroy
ibout so of the enemy, and drive
away the others.
At one point when it looked as il
this ship would capsize, all the
wounded were put over the side or
RATS and floats, but the remaining
men stayed aboard and kept hel
afloat. Next day, both ships were
brought in safely.
Not only had the Hadley saved
herself, but in giving assistance tt
the Evans when it was needed, en-
abled the crew of that ship to put
out fires and make repairs which
permitted her to limp back to port
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Manuel Majalca

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crossings of the winding Main River,
forced crossings over both the Dan
ube and Lech rivers in "a hours,
Nogales international., 1945-08-03
Invasion In Three Months?

Admiral Daniel Barley, who commanded the
Seventh amphibious force in fiftysix successful
landings against the Japanese suggests that control
States to land soldiers standing up the coasts of
China and Japan.
The admiral says small landing can be made
within thirty days, larger in sixty and "reay
big one" in three months. He points out that the
enemy has "just so many men, so many guns SO much
barbed wire, so many mines and that he "can't be
strong everywhere.
Obviously, the Japanese do not know where the
Allies will attempt landing They will have to wait
for the attack before concentrating defensive power
and then it may prove too late Complete control Of
the waters around Japan give the Allied high com
mand the ability to select the point of attack any
where
Nogales international., 1945-08-03

Judge Farley sitting on floor at
Chamber of Commerce meeting +.
there weren't enough chairs.
Nogales international., 1945-08-03
Simple Precautions Can Curb
lnfantile Paralysis Spread

Although the term infante paralysis" strikes terror
into the hearts of parents each summer the chances OF chill
dren becoming infected with this dread disease exceed
ingly remote.
While than $4,000 persons in the United States die
each of tuberculosis and than 100000 OF cancer
the total number of nfane reported in
less than 10000 according article in the August
issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
And this total could be substantially reduced parents
would take cognzance of few fundamental facts set forth
in the article, which states in part:
Nogales international., 1945-08-03
Memorial Park

The subject of War Memorials is live one 1t is
engaging the attention of the several veterans organ
izations and civic leaders throughout the nation
Nearly every town and city is considering plans
for a memorial of some sort to the men and women
who served in our military forces during World War
It is only natural and inevitable that promoters
of various types particularly those in the real estate
and monument fields, should try to capitalize on the
movement.
The monument people are not having much sue
cess in inducing local communities to build memorials
of the kind which they turn out They are learning
that people generally tired OF the graveyard
tvne and that cities are more interested in sOcalled
living memorials These take the form of parks,
auditoriums rest roonls libraries and such instaa-
tons for the pleasure and convenience of the public.
The majority of veterans themselves favor the estab
lshment of these useful and practical memorials.
In this connection Phoenix could well consider
the establishment of Memorial Park in the business
area The need of such central park has long been
recognized. AS suitable site we suggest the Hatty
Mosher area lying within the confines of couple Of
blocks directly east OF Central avenue and north OF
Van Buren street The land is either vacant occu
pied by obsolete or ncompleted buildings. 1t is true
that fraction of the has been bought at tax
sales by some Of Phoenix leading citizens, but we
have no doubt these gentlemen would be willing to
turn their part to the city for the cost Of hem
for such laudable purpose as public Memorial
Park (Arizona Fax, Phoenix)
Life is hard to those who make it hard.
Not every gentleman pays an income tax.
People who only pay taxes fight war the easiest
way.
There were two men interested in Potsdam-
Hirohito and Franco.
The best way to seal business bargain is to put
the money on the line.
Life would be rather monotonous if all Of us
thought alike and acted alike
1t won't be long now before President Truman
will be able to pick out his friends.
We are now living in the air age but we have not
altOgetner gotten out of the hot air age
Nogales international., 1945-08-03

Two boys from this county among
10000 at Chanute Field, Illinois, a
B-29 base.
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"When symptoms appear put theF
patient to bed and isolate him at
once. Call a doctor.
doctors recommend that par
ents avoid removal Of tonsils and
adenoids when infantile paralysis
is prevalent in the community.
"The virus of infantile paraly-
sis is widespread in sewage and
pollHted water. Practice cleanliness.
Avoid crowded swimming pools
and bathing beaches during out
breaks OF infantile paralysis.
Nogales international., 1945-08-03

"Teach children the Importance
of clean water, clean food, clean
milk, and above all, clean hands
when eating and drinking. Keep
food away from flies. They have
been shown to carry the virus.
"The infantile paralysis virus is
widespread, but only a minimum
number of those exposed are in
fected. Less than half of those in.
fected are paralyzed.'A
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2M11lfsEBox Fl
New York, N. Y.
July "a, 1945

July "a, 1945
Dear Craig:
Here I am in the big city-Hilde-
garde and Sylvia are in Montrose,
Mo-, with Mrs. Schiller. I have
found place to live and after Aug.
1st our address here will be: Apt.
"a, 66o7 = 99th St., Forest Hills,
LII, NY.
You can send the paper there.
Start with the issue that will reach
here after August 1st.
The housing situation is really
something tough up here. I just
got break through a friend and
landed an apartment that will be
Nogales international., 1945-08-03
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Ramon Cruz, 25, to Santa Ana
Mendoza, both of Nogales, Sonora.
Walter K. Adams, 40, Long Beach,
Calf, to Mona G.. Wells, 40, Tucson.
Roberto L. Ramirez, 25, Nogales,
Arizona, to Hortencia Ortega, 81,
Nogales, Sonora.
Louis P. Adams, 81, San Diego,
Calf, to Maria Dolores, %, Nogales,
Sonora.
Nogales international., 1945-08-03

captured the center of Munich and
liberated $4,000 persons at the in
famous concentration camp of Da-
chau.
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SEEN ad HEARD
-oA -
THE MAIN DRAG

THE MAIN DRAG
Judge Farley sitting on floor al
Chamber of Commerce meeting :.
there weren't enough chairs.
SOftball Announcer Harry Wilson
surrounded by puddle of water :.
Monday nights rain left lot of
miniature lakes on edge of field.
M. I. Davis saying that the re-
ceipt of the birth announcement of
his first great-grandchild made him
for the first time feel old.
Sammy Capin paying $4,000 for
dinner at the Hotel Du Commerce
in Running, China 5000 extra
for a pat of butter amounted to
$1.50 us. currency.
Two boys from this county among
10000 at Chanute Field, Illinois, a
B-29 base.
vacant on Aug. 1st. Many people
have been here for months and are
still living in hotels with children
and hunting place every day with
no luck whatsoever.
Hildegarde writes that she has
been receiving The International in
Montrose and enjoys it as much as
ever.
Good luck to you and yours,
TED S. SIMPSON.