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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
14
RAF Lancaster bombers fly incendiaries into the North Sea from east coast airfields after Europe’s end. Bomb bays open over deep water to dispose of thousands of surplus fire-bombs, considered obsolete, in a method described as safe and practical.
At Camp Lejeune in Onslow County a malaria control effort uses DDT to exterminate mosquitoes across about 50 000 acres of swampy coast land. From 1944 to 1945 adult mosquitoes and biting insects dropped sixty percent, with larval control and brush clearing expanding the effort and preventing malaria among troops.
Milton Curtis an 18 year old from Plymouth Michigan fell ill with acute appendicitis aboard the S S James Cameron midway to Europe. He was evacuated to the M S John Ericsson where Maj Abraham Kramer performed an emergency appendectomy. Curtis regained consciousness and hoped to resume his journey home to Michigan after recovery.
Dr C D Grinnells of the agricultural experiment station at State College warns that chicken mites are now carriers of sleeping sickness, a fatal horse disease. The virus was isolated from mites on a farm with sick horses, suggesting mites transfer the virus from chickens to horses and possibly to people. Vaccination is advised in affected areas and efforts should reduce biting insects in stables.
SEYMOUR JOHNSON FIELD Sept 6 The First Air Force will discharge men directly to their homes under a new policy announced by base commander Col Dudley B Howard. Direct discharge will be limited to those living within 250 miles of their present duty station. previously men went through 22 separation centers nationwide. The Erie Canal tale contrasts rapid news delivery by telegraph and cannon lines.
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