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Perry & Houston County's
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1994
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Leaders to guide chamber through ‘94
(HHJ photo by Brenda Thompson)
The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce’s slate of officers for 1994 are pictured above. They are: front row, l-r, Skip Dawkins, vice
president, Rusty Wood, president-elect, John Sundqulst, president, and Mike Jackson, treasurer; second row, l-r, Leslie Smith,
general counsel, Bill O’Neal, Jack Ragland, Betty Gocken, Hervla Ingram and Lynn Hoover, directors; and third row, hr, Jim Peak,
Dennis Hooper and Wayne Lowrey, directors, Jimmy Falrcloth, Immediate past president, and Peggie Williams, executive vice
president. Board members not pictured are Eddie Wilson, Jim Sexton and Elizabeth Flowers.
Plans for annual Dogwood Festival underway
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
With Easter Sunday proposing a
challenge, organizers of the
Dogwood Festival have re-orga
nized the annual Spring festival to
span an entire week instead of (me
weekend.
According to Dogwood Festival
Coordinator Melodie Burrus,
Family Fun Day will be the kick
off for the festival this year and will
be held on Palm Sunday, March 27.
New events at Family Fun Day
will include a Wild Game Cook-off
and a horseshoe pitching contest.
The event will end Saturday,
April 2 with the traditional
Dogwood parade and downtown arts
On the
blotter
Shopper's purse
' stolen from buggy
at Kroger Sat.
It's always a good policy to play
it safe, even at the supermarket.
Just look what happened to 81
year old Perry resident Louise M.
Crockett at Kroger Saturday, Jan. 8.
According to Perry Police re
pots, the department received a call
from Kroger at 1 p.m. in reference
to a theft
Crockett's purse was stolen from
a shopping buggy. An officer found
her purse in a trash bin behind the
store. All contents, except $65 in
cash, were recovered.
Latest wreck on
Sam Nunn Blvd.
involves officer
Residents driving vehicles
should use extreme caution at the
intersection of Sam Nunn
Boulevard and Perimeter Road.
The Georgia State Patrol and
Perry Police Department are con
ducting separate investigations this
week of the most recent accident
that occurred at the congested and
confusing intersection at 10 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 7.
According to Perry Police
Captain Steve Heaton, Perry Police
Corporal Keith Kindle was in a pa
trol car at the intersection when a
pickup truck driven by Larry Parker
stuck Kindle in the left side of the
patrol vehicle.
Heaton said die due to conflict
ing stories at the initial time of the
GSP investigation, no citations
have been issued at this time.
-BRIQETTE LOUDERMILK,
Managing Editor
■ The Houston Home#
Journal
and crafts show and sale.
Also reporting a scheduling
problem is the Balvaununca Club,
sponsors of the annual Dogwood
Ball. Because of the Easter holiday
and a dog show scheduled at the
Agricenter, the ball will be held
later in the month than usual,
Saturday, April 30.
The semi-formal dance costs
SSO a couple and includes rock
and-roll from the 1950 sand 60s
from an Athens, Ga. 10-piece band
The Jesters.
As usual, Perry Hospital and
PPG will sponsor a 5K Run/Walk
to be held Saturday, April 2 at 8
a.m. For registration forms contact
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Membars of the National Transportation Safety Board look for evidence to determine
what caused the crash of this Cessna 172 Sunday. Pilot and owner Jim Elrod re
mains In critical condition In a Macon hospital due to injuries sustained In the crash.
Pilot remains in hospital due to crash
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Wrltar
Jim Elrod remains in critical
condition at Macon's Medical Cen
ter of Middle Georgia from injuries
received when his one-engine plane
cradled shortly after takeoff Sunday,
Jan. 9,1994.
Ralph Hicks of the National
Transportation Safety Board said
witnesses reported that Elrod, of
220 Mack Thompson Road, took
off from his private airstrip at the
end of Mack Thompson Road.
Hicks said that Elrod took off from
the grass runway, headed north,
around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Hicks said that Elrod turned east
about 300 feet from the 2,700 foot
runway. It was during this turn,
said Hicks, that Elrod's Cessna 172
"collided with die ground."
Danny Hart, deputy chief of the
Houston County Lake Joy Volun
teer Fire Department, said Elrod's
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One event that has been can
celled is the Dogwood Street Dance
which, according to Burrus, has not
showed enough community support
over the past few years to justify
spending the money or time needed
to organize the event
Annual Dogwood Festival activ
ities that will be included in this
year's program include the
Dogwood Festival Pageants with
tentative dates set for either the first
or second week in March, an Easter
egg hunt, music, a pet parade,
sporting events including tennis and
softball, relay games for children
plane had reached a height of 150-
200 feet before crashing. "He hit
nose down," said Hart.
Witnesses indicated that the
weather was clear with light winds
blowing at the time of the crash,
said Hicks.
Hart said that Elrod "sustained
multiple fractures" and "had several
cuts on him." Elrod received a
compound fracture to his leg and
severe injuries to his face and
ankles.
Elrod was conscious when he
was taken from the wreckage, said
Hart, who added he was transported
to Macon by a Peach County am
bulance.
Hicks said that it is too early in
the investigation to make a de
termination about what caused the
crash.
Fire departments from Perry,
Peach County and Houston County
and a balloon release at the Family
Fun Day celebration, a flea market
sponsored the local AARP chapter
and the Perry Kiwanis Club
Pancake Breakfast
Burrus said a children's safety
theme will be emphasized and in
cluded in all Dogwood Festival ac
tivities.
Volunteers are needed to help or
ganize individual events. Also,
Burrus said anyone who wants to
suggest possible additions to the
festival schedule are encouraged to
do so. Those interested may contact
Burrus (987-7043) or the Perry
Area Chamber of Commerce (987
1234).
responded to the scene. The initial
report of the accident placed the
scene at the Perry-Fort Valley Air
port across the interstate from the
crash site.
The Lake Joy Fire Department
was busy Sunday afternoon, said
Hart. When the call came to re
spond to Elrod’s crash, the volun
teer unit was wrapping up fighting
an one acre grass fire at 459
Langston Road.
About 30 minutes after Hart and
his men were released from the
crash site by die NTSB, the fire de
partment was called to respond to a
chimney fire at 416 Lake Joy Road.
Hart said fire had escjped from a
chimney on a two story house,
causing damage to one of the bed
rooms. He said damage to the house
was "not extensive."
"It all started around 2-2:30
p.m.," said Hart.
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Health officials
have issued
a rabies alert
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Health
Department has issued a rabies alert
to local residents.
Bert Tilton, Environmental
Health Specialist with the health
department, said that rabies was
present or suspected in five of the
last seven wild game attacks on
pets. In the last month, three at
tacks have occurred, with rabies be
ing present or suspected in all three
attacks.
The most recent attack occurred
Monday, Jan. 10, on Elko Road
when a raccoon climbed in the pen
with two dogs. The dogs killed the
raccoon, which tested positive for
rabies, said Tilton.
The other two attacks occurred
on Willingham Drive on Christmas
and on Lake Joy Road before
Christmas. The attack on Willing
ham Drive, said Tilton, involved a
rabid raccoon. Rabies is suspected
in the attack on Lake Joy Road.
However, the raccoon was destroyed
before any tests could be performed.
Tilton said that three people in
Houston County have been treated
for rabies in the past year, with
treatment starting on a 16 year-old
this week.
"It's (rabies) a very dangerous
disease," said Tilton. "It's 100 per
cent fatal without treatment"
Easterly is new director of
nursing at Ferry Hospital
Perry Hospital recently
appointed Linda Easterly, RN as
Director of Nursing. Mrs. Easterly
moves to Perry from Montgomery,
Alabama where she was Director of
Obstetrics at East Montgomery
Medical Center. Prim-to her job in
Alabama, she was an account
manager for Marketing at Anchor
Foods in Swindon, England.
"Linda steps into this position
very highly qualified," said Jim
Peak, Perry Hospital Administrator.
"Her experience is varied with
several years in the field of nursing
and several years in management"
Receiving a bachelor of science
degree in nursing from Wright State
University in Dayton, Ohio,
Easterly also received a master's in
administration from Georgia
College in Milledgeville.
Serving as staff nurse Chief of
Protocol at Robins Air Force Base
from 1981 to 1986, Easterly is no
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Good
morning, Perry
The community's sympathy is ex
tended to the families of those who
recently died. They include: Hazel
Rickett Fortenberry, Grady A.
Smith, Dell Taunton, Ben Curtis,
Willie Leary, Stanley Harvey
Morse, Sarah Ruth Turner, Maggie
Connell Richardson, Frank Billings,
Rose Bud Thomas. For more in
formation please see Page 2A.
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Tilton added that early treatment
is essential in fighting rabies. He
said that a person should not wait
several months after he is bitten by
an animal to seek medical attention
when he is ill from rabies. "By the
time you are sick," he said, "there
is nothing we can do for you.
"When a person is bit by any an
imal, he needs to go the emergency
room and have a doctor look at it
(the bite)," said Tilton.
Rabies is epidemic in the South
east United States, said Tilton, say
ing that the current epidemic of ra
bies is the largest in United States
history.
Although Tilton said any warm
bloodied animal could contract ra
bies, which is a viral infection that
destroys the brain, rabies is found
most often in raccoons, fox and
household pets. He said that 75 per
cent of all rabies occurred in rac
coons, with six percent occurring in
fox and six percent in cats or dogs.
Tilton said there were several
things a person could do to prevent
a rabies attack.
First, stay away from wild ani
mals. Tilton said animals with ra
bies might act tame, since the dis
ease affected the brain. "If you ever
see a raccoon in the daytime, some
thing is wrong with that raccoon,"
Please see ALERT, page 5A
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Linda Easterly
stranger to the area. The five years
she was stationed at Robins AFB
she was responsible for total
management of nursing care on a
14 bed obstetrical unit and later
organized and managed protocol
responsibilities for Warner Robins
Please see EASTERLY, page 5A
Perry listed as
only one school
district in Dlan
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education agreed Tuesday, Jan. 11,
on election districts for the next
school board elections. The school
board will be composed of five
members elected from individual
districts and two members elected
at-large.
South Houston County, includ
ing Perry, will compose Post 1 of
the school board. The district runs
to the south of Highway 96, but
roughly north of Mossy Creek,
Highway 127, Moody Road and
Beaver Greek.
Even though Post 1 occupies the
bottom half of the county, making
it the largest post in terms of area,
board attorney Tom Daniel said that
the populations of the posts were
equal, "plus or minus five percent"
The eastern middle third of
Houston County will be covered by
Post 4, while the western middle
third of the county will be covered
by Post 3.
Please sae 808, page 5A