As a solution to Peoria’s “social problem” Mayor Woodruff, the Army, and the State Department of Public Health proposed to increase the city’s supply of penicillin by $1000 for the remainder of the calendar year.
Peoria
A digital companion to the biography Becoming Richard Pryor
Mayor Woodruff: More Penicillin Needed
Date: 10/10/1944
Citation:
"Council Proceedings, City of Peoria, Illinois." Peoria City Clerk, Oct. 10, 1944.