Premises spraying begins as city seeks to destroy disease carrying insects
— Sequoyah County Times, Aug. 5, 1949
25 Years Ago
(From the Aug. 5, 1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Vian will spend about the next week assigning addresses to residences and lots in Vian, Albert Marquez, Sequoyah County 911 committee chairman, said.
Marquez and town employee Herbert Hutchinson are assigning the numbers. The resolution to assign addresses, passed at the last town council meeting, was designed to make locations easier for emergency services to find.
In addition to aiding emergency services, the new addresses may allow Vian to receive home mail delivery, Bill Page, town council member, said. The town needs to check with the postmaster for the exact procedure to obtain the home delivery, he said.
50 Years Ago
—Pairings have been announced for the Sallisaw Invitational Tennis Tournament, sponsored by the Sallisaw Jaycees and Your TIMES.
Action will begin at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at the tennis courts near Black Diamond Stadium and will continue through Sunday for the 49 contestants who have emerged.
75 Years Ago
—Yesterday, Sallisaw received the first dose of a spraying with DDT, as four trucks began the operation in the northwest section of the city. The Beasley Addition will be sprayed first since polio is prevalent especially in that area, according to Leon Black, District Personnel Supervisor.
It will take three or four days to complete the task of spraying the city. Black said, “And the job isn’t over then,” he continued. “Too many people think that one spraying of DDT will kill all the flies and keep them away.”
He explained that people will be expected to keep their premises clean. “Filth will draw flies, and many people allow filth to accumulate in their homes. Then they expect this spraying to perform a miracle and keep the flies away,” he added.
The spraying, as carried on by the city, is what is known as “premises spraying” in which a solution of 25 percent DDT Chlordan rosin concentrate is used. Special attention will be paid to chicken houses, barns, hog pens and other outbuildings where flies breed and multiply.
—Mrs. Zelda Atteberry, superintendent- lessee of the Sequoyah Memorial Hospital, announced today the new Xray and laboratory technician has arrived and is assisting in the installation of the X-ray. He is Charles E. Keith of Atoka.
Mrs. Atteberry also announced the arrival of the autoclave for the operating room. The contractor is now installing this modern sterilizer. As soon as the lights for the operating room arrive and are installed, the hospital will be ready to open, she explained.
100 Years Ago
—Bill Johnson and Tom Frye, “devils” at the Democrat office, Edgar McLaughlin, Stinson Anderson, Buck Wheeler, Gilbert Carlile and a few more Sallisaw boys left this week for the civilian training camps for a thirty-day vacation with Uncle Sam’s army. Stinson Anderson will do his “stuff” at Camp Logan, Colorado, while the rest of the boys will go to Fort Sill.
—Mark Spencer, an alleged dope head, was taken from the Rainbow Special first of the week by Night Patrolman Perry Chuculate. The man’s home is in Van Buren, it is said. He was taken to Van Buren by the local officers.
