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Perry Office
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P.O. Box 1910
Perry, GA 31069
(478) 987-1823
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Author pokes fun at
Georgia cities
ATLANTA (AP) - Author
Dave Gilmartin offers
a snarky assessment of
Atlanta and a few other
Georgia cities in his upcom
ing travel guide called “The
Absolutely Worst Places to
Live in America.”
The guide, due in stores
this fall, gives a dig to Atlanta
for the way some residents
refer to it as “Hotlanta.”
As for Atlanta’s neigh
bor, College Park, Gilmartin
describes it as “a realm of
crime, razed buildings and
televangelists currently in
the midst of a transition from
community to runway.”
Of Douglasville, Gilmartin
writes that the communi
ty “might as well be called
Hee-Haw Town, USA.” He
says Douglasville has always
been a “simple, slow-paced
place for rednecks and hill
billies.”
Hinesville gets even worse
treatment. Gilmartin says,
“Hinesville is the sort of
town that everyone talks
about moving away from.”
Teens accused in
series of robberies
SAVANNAH (AP) - Police
have arrested two teenage
brothers in a bank robbery
and say the boys are also sus
pects in two South Carolina
robberies.
The boys _ ages 13 and
16 _ are being charged as
adults after being arrested
Thursday.
On June 2, two boys
entered the Sun Trust Bank
inside a grocery store and
gave a demand note. One of
them indicated he had a gun
and the two left with a bag of
cash, said Lt. Jimmy Stevens,
commander of the Savannah-
Chatham Metropolitan
Police Department’s violent
crimes unit.
A dye pack exploded in the
parking lot, causing the pair
to drop most of the money.
They then jumped into a
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waiting Ford Expedition
and drove off, according to
the FBI. Detectives are still
investigating who was driv
ing the Expedition, police
said.
And the FBI says the broth
ers may be linked to two
South Carolina robberies.
On June 12, two teenagers
robbed a Wachovia Bank in
Beaufort, S.C. They are also
suspected in a Monday rob
bery at the South Carolina
Bank and Trust on Lady’s
Island.
Police found the 16-year
old with his mother early
Thursday morning at a
hotel. He was arrested on a
charge of being a party to
the crime of armed robbery.
His mother was questioned
but released. The younger
brother was found later that
morning hiding in a home.
Detectives were still inves
tigating to see if the brothers
were working with anyone
else to commit the crimes,
said Sgt. Mike Wilson,
spokesman for the Savannah-
Chatham Metropolitan
Police Department.
Man arrested in
deadly hit-and-run
MILLEDGEVILLE (AP)
- An Eatonton man was
arrested Thursday in a boat
ing hit-and-run accident on
Lake Sinclair that killed a
48-year-old man last week
end.
Mark Howard Entrekin,
49, was charged with homi
cide by vessel, a felony, and
three misdemeanors: reck
less operation, failure to
render aid, and failure to
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Milledgeville 94 70 pt sunny
Houston 85 74 t-storm
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report an accident, said Cpl.
Doug Bridges of the state’s
Department of Natural
Resources.
Entrekin was the opera
tor of the deck boat that hit
Mark Baxter and his family
about 10:30 p.m. Saturday as
they returned to shore after
watching fireworks from
thejr pontoon boat, Bridges
said. Baxter and his wife
were thrown into the water.
The deck boat kept going.
Baxter’s wife and her 25-
year-old daughter sustained
only minor injuries. Baxter
likely was killed by blunt
force trauma in the impact
with the boat, Bridges said.
A tip from the public led to
Entrekin’s arrest. Entrekin
said he fled the scene of the
collision because he was on
probation, Bridges said.
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Plan to sell national
lands dealt setback
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The
Bush administration’s plan
to sell national forest lands,
including thousands of acres
across the South, to help pay
for rural schools is draw
ing widespread opposition
and suffering legislative set
backs.
But the administration
isn’t backing off its proposal
to raise SBOO million for the
Secure Rural Schools pro
gram for another five years
by selling 300,000 forested
acres in 35 states.
That includes nearly 3,000
acres in 38 parcels in seven
east Tennessee counties bor
dering North Carolina in the
Cherokee National Forest.
While much of the land
proposed for sale is in
Western states, the impact
might be greater on Southern
Appalachian because it
has less national forest
to begin with, said David
Carr with the Southern
Environmental Law Center
in Charlottesville, Va.
“Under this plan rough
ly 10,000 acres was being
proposed for sale in North
Carolina and that same
amount was being proposed
for sale in Oregon, but
Oregon has 15 times more
national forest than North
Carolina,” he said Thursday.
“Because recreation
demand and the use of these
national forests continues to
go up, we should be adding
to the base, not subtracting
it,” Carr added.
The administration’s
plan was seen as virtu
ally dead after the Senate
Appropriations Committee,
following the lead of its
House counterpart months
before, refused last week to
include the proposal in a
$26 billion Interior appro
priations bill.
But Dan Jiron, Washington
spokesman for the U.S. Forest
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ary is premature. “What you
have heard isn’t an indi
cation of anything at this
point,” he said Thursday.
Agriculture
Undersecretary Mark Rey,
who oversees the Forest
Service, told The Post
and Courier newspaper in
Charleston, S.C., two weeks
ago the proposal has drawn
more than 130,000 com
ments. He said except for a
few real estate agents, most
were opposed.
But Rey, a former timber
industry lobbyist, defended
the plan as a way to help
counties pay for schools and
roads when large portions of
their property tax base are
tied up in national forest
lands and timber sales that
normally subsidize them are
slipping.
Rey said if the plan failed
this year, he would be back
next year with an alterna
tive.
Meanwhile, Jiron said the
administration will press its
case this year in Congress
before committees with
direct oversight of the rural
schools program.
“I don’t like to get into
fights with people in this
administration, but to me
(this) is arrogant,” said
Tennessee Rep. Zach Wamp,
a Republican on the House
Appropriations Committee
whose district includes large
sections of the Cherokee
National Forest.
“Congress has a role here.
This is not the executive
branch rules everything,” he
said.
The Chattanooga lawmak
er said opposition is strong
and bipartisan to the land
sales, though there is sup
port for the rural schools
program.
“We are all for finding
ways to pay for it, but we
are all against selling public
land to do it,” he said.
CiNite.
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