A week before a county-wide effort to begin exterminating rats was to begin, in March 1947, W. J. Morris, left, and John J. Stillinger, of the Arnold Exterminator Company showed off 100 rats they killed in downtown Lexington businesses within 48 hours. The two men said they killed the rats with 1080, the most effective rat poison now on the market. Lexington officials acknowledged there was a rat problem and they were causing $500,000 worth of damage a year. The Fayette County Farm Bureau rat-extermination campaign was to take place March 14-15. Published in the Herald-Leader March 2, 1947. Herald-Leader Archive Photo