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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 22, 1977
Page 18
Jimmg’s White House
President given go-ahead on mouse caper
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
ident Carter may not know it
but he has a go-ahead from the
Humane Society of the United
States to kill as quickly as pos
sible the mice that inhabit the
presidential offices.
Three White House sources
reported that special devices
that trap rather than kill mice
have been installed near Car
ter’s private office because,
they claimed, conventional
mousetraps are frowned upon
by humane societies.
Nothing could be further from
the truth, it seems. Said Charles
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Herman, spokesman for the
national society:
“We stay away from rodents.
Essentially, we're for the
quickest possible kill for these
pests. We’re against cruelty.”
When the local society was
asked if it had advised Carter or
his people against using ev
eryday mousetraps, a spokes
person responded, “Doesn’t he
have enough problems?”
Mice are so prevalent
throughout the White House
complex that a variety of de
vices and methods are em
ployed to fight them.
In the press center, for ex-
ample, conventional spring
traps are used — but with an
unconventional bait. Instead of
arming the triggers with bits of
cheese, GSA employes period
ically dab them with peanut
butter.
Neither Jimmy nor Billy Car
ter put them up to this. It’s
simply a fact that mice often
contrive to eat cheese bait
without triggering a trap. When
gooey peanut butter is involved,
the task becomes impossible.
In Press Secretary Jody Pow
ell’s office, the trap of choice is
a long narrow cardboard box,
open at both ends, called a
Mouse Tracking Station. It con-
tains a green powder that Pow
ell and tys co-workers are cau
tioned — right on the box —
from ingesting or inhaling.
An employe in Mrs. Carter’s
press office reported there were
no traps in those precincts —
just a saucer filled with
something that looks like oats
but presumably entails side
effects that are best avoided.
Intervention by humane so
cieties, although an ill-founded
rumor in the case of Carter’s
mice, has occurred periodically
in recent White House history.
When squirrels began chew-
ing up President Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s backyard putting
green, some animal lovers were
outraged by Ike’s strenuous
efforts to have them trapped
and carted off to distant federal
forests.
Eyebrows were raised anew
by a campaign to rid stately
White House trees of squalling,
untidy starlings. The gimmick
in this case was to capture a
starling, truss him head down
by his feet and record his
shrieks of terror, which then
were broadcast from loudspea
kers placed in the trees.
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Five generations
Members of Mrs. Vesta Johnson’s family recently gathered at the Living Center of Griffin
where Mrs. Johnson is a resident and had five generation picture made (above). In the
picture are Mrs. Johnson, left front; her son, David Chappell Johnson, back right; his
daughter, Mrs. Chappell Johnson Crowder, front right; her son, John Winston Crowder. In
1910, a photo of five generations of the Reynolds family was made with Mrs. Johnson in it.
She is the lady in the white dress in the bottom photo. The oldest lady in the photo is Mrs.
Zillah Reynolds, who was 94 years old when the picture was made. The other lady is Mrs.
L.W. Ellington who was Mrs. Reynolds’ daughter. The man Is A.H. Chappell, father of Mrs.
Johnson. Also in the picture are two of Mrs. Johnson’s children Eli and Chappell. According
to a 1910 newspaper story: “A.H. Chappell has built something of a village around him,
which is known by his name. Under the rural free delivery system, the post office known as
Chappell has been discontinued, but the community is served by route No. 2 from Milner
and continues to Increase in prosperity.” The article also notes that Mrs. Reynolds’
parents, James and Celia Fleming, settled in Monroe County in 1823. “That was before the
celebrated Indian Mclntosh left that section. The Flemings were the third white family to
come to Monroe County and they settled in what is now known as the Seventh district.”
That area is today known as the Chappell Community of Lamar County which was carved
from the original Monroe County. 1
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