Show CITY WILL ENFORCE T ORDINANCE r t Faced with lack of funds to conduct a wide extermination program the city board of health Friday prepared to enforce a city ordinance making It unlawful to pern permit t rats to infest build buildings gs as it was disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed the rodents are numerous in nearly half halt the city N. N N w W. W Pickett chief sanitary Inspector said Bald t that tat at 35 per percent cent nt of the city Is infested The department is short of funds but there is b a city or ordinance that will be enforced he said A person per son isn't a criminal if 11 he harbors a arat arat arat rat in his building but J if he doesn't do something toward getting rid of I It we can pros prosecute cute him The sanitary division has been bat bat- I rats for some time but the situation sit came to a head Thursday after a girl was bitten Betty Rose Lowe Low 6 daughter of ot Mr and Mrs E. E H H. Lowe West First South street t awoke Wednesday when she felt fangs sink into her forehead She suffered two more bites on her cheek check before she was wa able to tear the rat awa away Th The week before her brother Gale was bitten We Wc believe a wide city extermination tion campaign campal n is necessary but our attempts to obtain C W A money and later F FER E R A funds failed Mr Pickett Pickett Pick- Pick ett ctt said |