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a lew aays at me nume ui ivnand Mrs. Frank Y. Hill,Misses Garcia, as, Ara-ie and esdames jmberto navides.Business(Continued From Page 1.) homes as any in Laredo sleeping in the park and hotel lobbys has opened the upper floor of the Sames Motor Company’s building on Houston. Street as a dormitory for these women. The building is spacious and well located, and is one of the coolest buildings in the city during summer months.Washroom and toilet facilities will have to be added to the building to make it desirable in every respect, and Judge Raymond has stated that the county will use its every endeavor to see that such facilites are secured and installed and provide the best in every respect.Judge Raymond, who was most instrumental in bringing to Laredo such a large army installation as the Laredo Army Air Field feels the responsibility to the soldiers stationed here to protect their wives while they are the guest in this community and who find themselves without a place to sleep because of tremendous housing shortages.Sames stated that “these girls are like our own daughters and they are entitled to every courtesy and comfort that we would want our daughters to have in a strange city in a period such as this.”With Raymond’s pledge from the county and Sames generous offer of his building space, it is expected that the dormitory can be opened within a very short time and thus greatly relieve the pathetic scenes that are taking place on our streets and in our local hotels nightly.The Laredo Army Air Field, through Colonel Charles G. Pearcy, has agreed to furnish beds and clean linen, and will see that the linen is laundered regularly. Careful supervision will be provided so that the women will be entirely safe and free from harm.Plumbing facilities are all that are needed to complete the program of the opening of the dormitory, and any Laredoans knowing where toilet and washroom facilities may be obtained are asked to cooperate in this civic step and make the information known.will increase as occupied countries are freed.Directors(Continued from Page 1)of the community, shall be called for the purpose of drawing up an ordinance to be presented to the city council for action to set up an emergency fund from the city budget to combat this menace.It was outlined to the merchants that a fund could be set up on a permanent basis to pay salaries of rat control experts. These experts then would systematically de-rat the stores on a purely cost basis of materials for the merchants. The only expense to the merchant would be the actual cost of the measures taken within the store, and not any part of the experts’ salaries.Dr. John J. Essex, representing the federal public health service explained the severity of the typhus spread and the need for inmcdiate attention to its control. He advised full cooperation from the merchants in participating in the program.H, L. Draper, typhus control engineer of the Texas State Pu blic Health Service, also spoke and pointed out the rapidity with which rats breed and thus the great danger of an epidemic of typhus. “One pair of rats can start breedings that will besome 15,000 in twelve months time”, he said.E. G. Clingenpeel introduced the health service officials and pointed out that in the past week reports showed 24 cases of typhus in Laredo against a 57 case total for the entire state.Mayor Hugh Cluck, speaking for the city, assured the merchants that he and the citycouncil would carefully consider the proposed ordinance, and that he could promise that in such an emergency endangering the health of the community the city would cooperate to the fullest.StJfiSSPh©WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 18, 1944
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