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WEEKEND
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Perry & Houston County’s
official Legal Organ
Good
morning, Perry
Home Journal
HIGHLIGHTS
In Sympathy
The community's sympathy is
extended to the families of
those who recently died. They
include Alvin Lester
Sr., Perry; John Thomas Yawn
Jr., Perry; Martha Anne Walters
Carter, Marion, N.C.; Carrie
Mae Owens, Hawkinsville. For
more information, please see
page 3A
It's back!
For our investors, The Home
Journal has brought back a
weekly financial report to ap
pear each Saturday. It includes
stocks of local interest, the
week's Dow Jones Industrial
report, utilities, commodities,
specific issues and much more.
For more information, please
see page 2A
Ghost stories
With Halloween just around the
corner, Perry Library will
present a program of "Slightly
Scary Stories" for preschool
and grade school children ages
three and up. For more infor
mation, please see page 3A
Turkey expert
Outdoors writer John Trussell
answers questions abut
Georgia's wild turkey popula
tion and a history of the tre
mendous change in the wild
turkey population in the state..
For a complete detail, please
see page 6A
INDEX
BILL OVERTON 5A
CLASSIFIED 8A
DEATHS 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK 4A
CALENDAR ; 3A
CHURCH NEWS 3A
WOODS 'N WATER 6A
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City elections
cancelled due to
lack of opposition
The Nov. 2 elections for three
city council posts and the mayor's
seat has been cancelled due to lack
of opposition.
According to Election
Superintendent Janice Williams,
current candidates were the only
individuals who qualified.
Hervia Ingram, Buddy Roper and
Ralph Gentry will be re-instated to
run another four-year term as
council members for Post 1
Districts 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
Also, Jim Worrall serve another
four-year term as mayor.
Worrall will be serving his
fourth term, Ingram will be serving
a fifth term, Roper will be serving
a fourth term and Gentry will begin
his ninth term.
The next city election is
scheduled for 1995 when the terms
of council members Bobby Glover,
James Moore and Charles Lewis,
who represent Post 2 District 1, 2
and 3 respectively, will expire.
Frito-Lay announces $25 million expansion
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Frito-Lay will spend $25 mil
lion to install anew product line at
its Kathleen facility, company offi
cials announced Thursday, Oct. 12.
Plant manager Dean Maly said
the expansion should create an addi
tional 100 jobs, which will give
the facility a total workforce of
550.
Frito-Lay literature said that in-
Mossy
Creek!
Fall festival promises
quality crafts and
much, much more
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
If you made it this spring,
chances are you’ll want to go again.
If you missed it, this is your
second chance.
That’s right, folks, the second
part of the semiannual Mossy
Creek Barnyard Festival is being
held today and Sunday.
Hours are from 10 a.m. until 6
p.m. both days.
Located on the traditional festi
val site, a terraced area nestled in
the deep woods of the Lake Joy
Road area, this 26th semiannual
arts and crafts extravaganza will
feature 150 craftspeople from 22
states and is expected to attract
thousands of visitors from 34 states
and six countries.
According to event creator and
organizer Carolyn Chester, who
says she always selects exhibitors
from among the best and most orig
inal in the nation, this weekend’s
Mossy Creek Festival will feature
at least five debut craftspeople from
a South Carolinian who blows
heavy glass perfume bottles, footed
vases and Christmas balls to a
Florida resident who sculpts origi
nal fish with clay.
Other new exhibitors include an
artist from Indiana who makes pa
Northrop still plans to produce TSSAM missile
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Even though further funding for
Northrop's Tri-Service Standoff
Attack Missile (TSSAM) is still in
doubt, Northrop officials are still
carrying out plans to manufacture
the missile at the Perry plant.
"Nothing has changed," said
Northrop spokesman Mike Gray in
a telephone interview Thursday.
Funding for the missile program
survived the Senate, but was cut
out by the House Armed Forces
Committee.
Because no amendments were al
lowed to the defense appropriations
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Members of Perry's VFW have been at the fair all week selling boiled peanuts
and other foods. Pictured are Lawton Daniel, left, Martin Gordon and James
Peavy. The fair ends Sunday. Brooks and Dunn and Radney foster will perform
In Reaves Arena tonight and Georgia's Governor Zell Miller will tour the facility
today also.
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formation on the new jobs would
be available through the Georgia
Quickstart program in November.
The line expansion will be paid
for using a bond issued by Houston
County to Frito-Lay. The com
pany will be exempted from county
taxes until the bond is paid back.
Maly said the Kathleen facility
was chosen for the expansion be
cause "the people of this state and
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Ginger, the famous cornbread eating mule, will be one of the featured guests at this weekend’s 26th Semiannual Mossy Creek
Barnyard Festival. Ginger and her wagon rides are a popular activity, especially for the younger festival goers.
per embossments, an occupational
and sports cartoonist from Pennsyl
vania and a native Georgian' who
hand builds Shaker style cabinets
and furniture.
Returning favorites include
Cleater Meaders throwing folk pot
bill on the House floor, TSSAM
proponents were not able to get the
funding restored before the bill was
voted on in the House, said Shelby
McCash, spokesman for Congress
man Roy Roland.
Presently, the funding fate of the
TSSAM is left up to a conference
committee of Senators and
Representatives who will work out
the differences in the defense appro
priations bills passed by the two
houses of Congress.
Complicating the debate in the
Conference Committee was an Oct.
8 report issued by the General
mitment to Frito-Lay" in job train
ing, capital improvements to roads
and rail crossings, and tax breaks.
He also said the area boasted a
good, technologically skilled work
force. "The more dependent you
become on machines," said Maly,
"the more you depend on the people
who operate them."
Jim Reese, Southeast Vice-
President of Operations for Frito-
Lay, said the Kathleen facility beat
tery, Joe Pavin carving art work
into old slate, John Sadler carving
dough bowls, Kevin McManus
with hand-built lodgepole pine fur
niture, Ernie Mills of Perry carving
working decoys, Corky Gauger
combing and spinning angora taken
Accounting Office calling for a de
lay in initial production of the mis
sile until "all critical pieces" of the
TSSAM "have been developed and
adequately tested."
"The U.S. Air Force continues
to fur.d [TSSAM]," said Graywitt.
"We continue to have a great deal of
Congressional support.
"We have a contract and are con
tinuing with it. The government is
satisfied with the contract.
"That contract is still in force.
We have not been notified of any
change whatsoever."
Graywitt refused to comment on
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out 39 other Frito-Lay plants for
the opportunity to expand.
"The plant with the lowest
[production] costs gets the product,"
said Reese.
Frito-Lay originally opened the
Kathleen facility in May, 1988,
with 190 employees. In 1991, the
company added a tortilla chip line,
bringing employment at the plant
to around 450. The new addition
will increase the plants workforce
from live rabbits and Joy Dunlap of
Destin, Fla. hand-crafting fishing
rods, just to name a few.
In addition to thousands of orig
inal arts and crafts items, the
Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival also
thrills visitors with more than 40
what would happen to the program
if the Conference decided not to
fund the missile.
Juveniles arrested for robbery
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
Perry police have arrested two
juveniles in relation to the Sept. 18
armed robbery of a Perry couple.
According to Police Chief Frank
Simons, the victims spotted the
two males in the Piggly Wiggly
parking lot on Main Street this
week and called police. After a short
County ahead of many by
meeting landfill mandates
By VETO F. HOLEY
Staff Writer ‘
The Houston County Landfill
will unveil an $l.B million
"Subtitle D" cell to county resi
dents Oct. 19 in grand opening cer
emonies starting at 2:30 p.m.
However, there will be no im
mediate rise in garbage rates due to
the new cell. "[Garbage] rates were
preset due to this ["Subtitle D"]
some time ago," said landfill man
ager James Phillips.
Garbage will be accepted in the
"Subtitle D” section of the Landfill
before the Monday grand opening,
with the first loads going into the
pit Friday, Oct. 15.
Phillips said there was a contin
uing danger that Houston County
residents could pay more for
garbage disposal in the future.
"Federal and stale governments
are putting in new rules and regula
tions all the time," he said. "We
have to abide by them."
to over 550 workers.
"Any time your create 100
jobs," said Perry Chamber of
Commerce Executive Vice Presi
dent Peggie Williams, "it has a
tremendous impact.
"We're certainly excited about
the expansion and what it will
mean to us, not just the Houston
County area, but Middle Georgia.
"We hope to see the plant con
tinue to grow."
pioneer craft demonstrations such as
soap and hominy cooking, weaving
chairseats with cornhusks, primi
tive rug hooking, making and play
ing dulcimers and bobbin lace mak
ing.
Please see FESTIVAL, page 8A
"We don't speculate on 'what
ifs,"' he said.
Please see NORTHROP, page 8A
foot chase police apprehended the
suspects and the couple made a
positive identification.
The couple was robbed Sept. 18
near the Perry Annex by two males
who followed them from the same
Piggly Wiggly.
Simons said the case has been
Please see ROBBERY, page 8A
Abiding by new rules and regula
tions, said Phillips, would continue
to cost residents in higher rates.
The new federal landfill regula
tions, "Subtitle D," have forced
many old landfills across the coun
try to close.
"Subtitle D” landfill regulations
require all landfills to be lined, pre
venting landfill waste water and
seepage from contaminating the wa
ter supply. Communities with un
lined landfills are being forced to
shut their landfills down, although
some communities have received
extensions through next year before
they have to comply with the regu
lations.
"This ["Subtitle D"] started
seven or eight years ago," sqid
Houston County Public Works
Director Tommy Stalnaker. "We
are so far ahead of other cities and
counties.
"This is set up as an enterprise
Please see LANDFILL, page 8A