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Perry & Houston County’s
official Legal Organ
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1993
Community leader, Francis Nunn, dies at age 79
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
If Francis Nunn could be com
pared to a building, he would, un
doubtedly, be the Empire State
Building.
A towering vision of foundation
and strength and a sparkling reflec
tion of the city in which he has
lived all of his life.
A true pillar of the community.
An eternal legend.
A legend whose early Tuesday
morning passing has left this entire
community saddened.
A legend whose physical pres
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HIGHLIGHTS
In Sympathy
The community's sympathy is
extended to the families of
those who recently died. They
include George Francis Nunn,
Perry; Sharon Gurley Durden,
Perry; Henry Gibson, Perry;
Raymond Duglas Lyles, Perry;
John F. Davis Sr., Macon,
please see page 3A
Jan's back!
After a short absence, Jan
Kerce's weekly column on go
ings on around town appears
again in the Lifestyle section.
Although she is now teaching
school at Westfield, Jan will
continue to write a weekly col
umn about people and places
in Perry, please see page 2B
Barbecue bucks
For an update of the immensely
successful city barbecue held
Friday to raise funds for the
Rozar Park OAC/Recreation
Community Center, please see
page 3A
Magical message
Christian magician Felix Snipes
will perform at First Baptist
Church of Perry Sept. 24-26.
For more information on this
special show, please see page
6B
INDEX—
BETH JONES IB
JAN KERCE 2B
~ BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK 4A
JOYCE COMPTON 4A
CLASSIFIED 108
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 7B
PUBLIC RECORD NOTICES 5A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
BRIAN LAWSON 6A
Traditional dates
for Christmas
festival changed
The Perry Festivals Steering
Council voted recently to kick off
the Christmas season the weekend
after Thanksgiving as opposed to
the traditional first weekend in
December.
Due to this change, the
Christmas at the Crossroads
activities will begin Saturday,
November 27, with the traditional
Christmas parade.
This year's parade will feature
four categories of groups to be
judged for prizes. They will be
church and church groups, clubs and
associations, schools and school
groups and intjustry and business.
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ence will be sorely missed, but
whose memory and soul will,
without a doubt, live forever.
“I don’t know of any other man
who has had such a widespread and
immense impact on one commu
nity,” said Perry Mayor Jim Wor-
I rail, a longtime friend and obvious
admirer. “From his involvement in
the business community to the
areas of cultural, religious and
civic, he’s one of a kind; the type
of person who comes around only
once in a lifetime.”
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Kids of Georgia Day at the Perry Kroger.
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Local celebrities bag groceries to promote Safe Kids Day
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
No need to get your eyes
checked. That was indeed Perry Po
lice Chief Frank Simons you saw
loading groceries at the local Kroger
store Saturday.
And, yes, that was City Coun
cilmen Hervia Ingram, Ralph Gen
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Houston County coalition of Safe Kids of Georgia.
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and involvements in the commu
nity is long. He has, at one time or
another, touched the lives of almost
everyone in Perry, and is perhaps'
most appropriately described by
long-time pal and fellow Kiwanian,
Deryle Whipple, as “one of the
community’s most loved and ad
mired men”.
“And he is truly a sport,” Whip
ple added while looking at a photo
graph of the still youthful-looking
79-year-old Nunn singing at a re
cent Kiwanis Club gathering. “I
guess you would say he was our of-
song leader and always kept
ager Marion Hay, Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall and a host of other local
dignitaries and celebrities working
right beside him.
But, no there hasn’t been a ma
jor city lay-off and these ladies and
gentlemen weren’t working for a
paycheck, they were all volunteers
participating in a special program
to raise money for the Houston
us entertained.”
The last active charter member
of the Perry Kiwanis Club, Whip
ple said that Nunn, a natural and
talented musician whose musical
prowess dates back to his college
days when he was soloist and
president of the Emory University
Glee Club, has led the club in its
opening song since its very first
meeting in 1938 and was recently
awarded the national club’s coveted
Leadership Medallion by Georgia
District Kiwanis Governor James
Pilcher.
Please see NUNN, page 8A
County coalition of Safe Kids of
Georgia, a branch of a national or
ganization which promotes child
hood safety and injury prevention.
Dubbed “Celebrity Baggers
Day”, the event was co-sponsored
by the Safe Kids organization and
Kroger and featured not only
celebrity baggers to bag and load
Please see KIDS, page 8A
PERRY, GA.
"I don’t know of any other man who
has had such a widespread and im
mense impact on one community.
From his involvement in the business
community to the areas of cultural,
religious and civic, he’s one of a kind:
the type of person who comes around
only once in a lifetime."— Perry
Mayor Jim Worrall
Student tribunal system
is given the green light
by county school board
By KIMBERLY L. CASSEL
Park News Service Writer
Members of the Houston
County Board of Education ap
proved the pilot Disciplinary
Tribunal to hear Houston County
student appeals, in their regular
monthly meeting Tuesday in Perry.
Implementation of a tribunal
ensures "due process" is given to
the students, according to board at
torney Tom Daniel.
Prior to the tribunal, the board
has been hearing all student appeal
cases which have been heard by the
Student Review Committee.
The Student Review Committee
hears student affairs and conflicts in
the school system. Once the
committee reaches a decision, that
decision may be appealed to the
board.
"Ninety-nine percent of all stu
dent problems are resolved at the
committee level," said Daniel.
He said the tribunal is a step be
tween the committee and the Board.
It will consist of a permanent
chairperson, a board member on a
rotating basis, and a faculty person
comparable to the size of the school
the student attends. Hinnant will be
able to add an additional person to
the tribunal if he deems it
necessary.
If the student wishes to appeal
the tribunal decision, a transcription
of the proceedings are given to the
board for examination along with
the tribunal's recommendation. The
board will base its decision on the
tribunal summary of the hearing,
according to Hinnant.
Board vice-chairman Skip
Talbert was chosen to chair the
tribunal.
In an early morning work
session, the board decided to call a
special work session noon Sept. 21
to discuss new tax rates.
Other business discussed in
regular the meeting included:
—Denying the Perry Pilot Club
permission to go into various
county schools to ask for student
support for a community project,
Memory Walk.
—Amending the sex education
policy to allowing teachers to give
a simple definition of sexual inter
Armed robbery attempt
results in arrest of man
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
A 61 year old Springhill, Fla.
man received minor injuries in an
armed robbery attempt Sunday
morning.
According to Perry Police
Detective Leon Roberts, William
B. Johnson received an abrasion in
the chest area after a 41 year old
Hispanic male approached and at
tacked Johnson while he was pump
ing gas at the Conoco station on
Sam Nunn Boulevard Sunday mom :
ing, Sept. 12.
Benjamin Munios Fluentez, 41,
has been arrested and charged with
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G. Francis Nunn
course at the fourth grade girls and
making separation of boys and girls
in gifted and special education
classes optional for the principal or
teacher's discretion.
—Postponing voting on a loca
tion for the new middle school until
a later date.
—A request from Professional
Association of Georgia Educators
president Cathy Giddens to consider
changing the mandated eight-hour
work day for teachers to a "strongly
urged" eight-hour work day for
teachers.
Perry FBC
given ok to
erect sign
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
Perry Planning and Zoning ap
proved a sign variance for Perry's
First Baptist Church at the com
mission's regular meeting Monday,
Sept. 13.
The church will place a sign for
messages which will also bear the
church's name on the Swift Street
side of their property.
Commissioners also approved a
sign variance for Georgia Golf
Outlet, but added a stipulation.
According to Building Official
Bill Chambless, the outlet owners
will be permitted to add 80 square
feet of signage to the front and side
of their building, but in doing so,
must remove the 68 square foot
sign in the store's window.
Other items approved at the
meeting were a sign variance for the
Speedway Starvin Marvin on Sam
Nunn Boulevard and a setback for a
Kingston Road resident.
Chambless noted that the
Starvin Marvin variance was very
beneficial since the store was
already over on their sign
allowance. The store will be raising
a 456 square foot sign 100 feet
high, which will replace their
current 640 square foot sign.
Mark Rowley was given a six
foot setback variance to construct a
screened in porch on a house at
1130 Kingston Road.
aggravated assault and criminal at
tempt to commit armed robbery.
According to Roberts he is an ille
gal alien and does not speak
English. Police arrested Fluentez
minutes after the incident occurred
walking down Sam Nunn
Boulevard. The knife was recovered
also.
Fluentez is being held without
bond until immigration services can
be contacted.
Johnson's wife was in the car
when the incident occurred. He was
treated at the service station for his
injuries.