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MIDWEEK EDITION 250 Perry & Houston County's official Legal Organ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1994 np ,i 11 m niiii hj * kg.if rv' •% -‘ ••iSv' : jgp "-^f^A-. • # #t up* jsjv , Ir H £ mb) S BHL r ■: I mi j Jmm S ** ; '^*y| ■ . • ; ■:• . -• 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 !§3LjAi - 1 MhuL. a ... .. 4 -rnwi MM— ~ *• a <t 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 PERRY, GEORGIA’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1870-FQR COVERAGE OF YOUR EVENTS, CALL 987-1823 2 SECTIONS—I 2 PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS Marti Tolleson (987-3600) or Ty Sturgeon (987-2459). 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. PERRY, GA. I American Publishing Company— ©l994l 12/01/99 GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT U. GA MAIN LIBRARY ATHENS GA 30602 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 (’■ \ 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. JOYCE COMPTON 4A BEIHJQNES lfi DEATH NOTICES 2A CLASSIFIED fifi EDITORIALS _AA LEGAL NOTICES 2B LOCAL CALENDAR SA BILLQYERIQN fiA 124TH YEAR—VOLUME 4 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 - iv. s '• 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