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George Dement
George Elyott Dement, Jr. (January 23, 1922 – January 12, 2014),〔 was an American innkeeper and restaurateur who served from 1989 to 2005 as the thirteenth〔Some listings have Dement as the thirteenth mayor because they omit Frank Blackburn, the interim mayor from 1983 to 1984.〕 mayor of Bossier City, Louisiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amanda Crane, "'Mr. Bossier' turns 91" )〕
==Background==
Dement's parents were George Dement, Sr., and the former Clara Catherine Depew. Employed by Gulf Oil, the senior Dement relocated in 1919 from Missouri to Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. When Clara was giving birth to George, Jr., with the assistance of a midwife, a mule crawled under their old farmhouse in the Princeton community in search of corn. The creature tried to stand and shook the floor while the baby was being brought forward.
Dement went to Arizona a year before he graduated from Elm Grove High School (pronounced ELEM Grove) in Bossier Parish. He then earned a dollar a day as a delivery boy for a Bossier City drugstore. Soon he was nearing completion of officer candidacy school in Corpus Christi, Texas, when he had a dispute with a lieutenant. Outraged, he joined the submarine section of the United States Navy during World War II. Though his submarine, the ''USS Razorback (SS-394)'', did not enter service until 1944, it participated in five combat patrols in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Dement was a member of the first crew of the ''Razorback'', on which he worked as a cook. During a surface attack, he once mistakenly left oil in a fryer that began to smoke. This forced the boat to rise to the surface in enemy waters in daylight.〔 The ''Razorback'' was nearly the last casualty of the Pacific war.〔 Dement was present for the ceremony on Victory over Japan Day, September 2, 1945, when the Empire of Japan, under Emperor Hirohito surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur at Tokyo Bay. In 2004, the ''Razorback'' was moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas, as a display vessel, and Dement was there for the ceremony.〔
After five years in the military, Dement attended Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport. At one time or another, Dement owned and operated fourteen restaurants in the Bossier City area, including "The Doghouse," where Elvis Presley ate in 1954, when he came to the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium for the ''Louisiana Hayride''.〔 His restaurant business actually originated while he was in the Navy. He sent his bride-to-be $70 per month, enough to allow her to open their first restaurant, "George's Big Boy", across from the Strand Theatre in Shreveport. The outlet served foot-long hot dogs, Po' boy sandwiches, homemade chili, and apple pies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=George Dement obituary )〕 By the late 1960s, faced with fast-food chain establishments in competition with his home-owned restaurants, Dement switched to hotels. He took over the management of a new Holiday Inn in Bossier City. Twice he was designated "Innkeeper of the World" for his work.〔〔
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