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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
1
A county health board approved an appropriation totaling 25 334 61 dollars amid reporting confusion over high speed planes and military use. The article notes wartime tech and funding questions, with references to W T Lanham and Abilene arrival events.
Mrs. Dominic Tyrenda was surprised to find bearded men at her door they were her sons Stanley and Thomas Nester and Frank Waller Sivkie returning from Merchant Marine service and now grown beards they kept during duty. The brothers spoke of travels to Australia India Egypt and South America and observed hardship and food scarcity in India while noting Americans’ good treatment abroad. Mrs Tyrenda has four sons and a son in law already in service.
The Lorain County District Board of Health renewed Dr L E Kerr as county health commissioner and hired Elinor Wilson as assistant sanitarian. They approved 1942 1943 appropriations totaling 25 334 01 and increased state subsidies to 1 460 for 1943 1944. Wilson succeeds Jane Price, has degrees from Baldwin Wallace and Columbia, and will be paid 160 monthly plus travel. The board also reemployed staff, noted measles immune globulin purchases, and honored local donors for health education funding.
United States Navy and Army air forces report new raids on Japanese shipping and installations in the Marshalls. Liberators sank two of six small cargo vessels near Kwajalein Atoll and damaged the others in a day night attack with no fighter opposition. Seven Army Air Forces Liberators bombed Taroa islet in Maloelap Atoll, setting fires and wrecking two planes on the ground. Also noted are ongoing operations announced by Admiral Nimitz and the continued year to date tally of 17 attacks.
At the time of the meeting only one rabies case had been diagnosed in the county, outside Elyria and Lorain. The Wellington case involved a dog that bit eight other dogs before it was shot. The eight dogs that bit were under close supervision.
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