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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL (ft] [ wj Mmjeton Mitnif ( (U|e journal Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, GA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnews.com Reader □rap® Classified Advertising: Call (478) 987-1823 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. You can fax an ad 24 hours a day to (478) 988-9194. Display Advertising: Call Nicole Crofutt at ext. 224. Delivery by mail: Delivery by mail is available for $62 in-county and SB2 elsewhere per year paid in advance. F’OSTMASTER: Send address changes to: P.O. Box 1910, Perry, GA 31069 The Houston Home Journal, A peri odical, mailed (ISSN 1526-7393) at Perry, Ga., is published Tuesday through Saturday for $62 per year by Evans Newspapers Inc., 1210 Washington St.. Perry, GA 31069; (478) 987-1823 Fax (478) 988-1181. Not published Thanksgiving and Christmas. Office Hours: The office in Perry is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. 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This newspaper is a member of The Georgia Press Association, The National Newspaper Association and The Associated Press JL/\.JI L DftUDr 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 YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Mon 7/10 , Sun 7/9 94/67 Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Sunrise Sunset 6:37 AM 8:46 PM TFtEISJT WILLMON a. litvtle more livin’ AVAJILABLiSi '.VBKIRBVKR tteCStC :S SOLE Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta V \ 88/66 Augusta I / 87/69 V Warner Robins \ \ \A V S ) Veriy Y 90,71 £ / ; 94/6 K. X ~"" \ x q ) J ft? I / Valdosta \jA 90/69 Area Cities I city U Lofcond. I Albany 95 70 t-storm Athens 92 66 pt sunny Atlanta 88 66 pt sunny Augusta 87 69 t-storm Bainbridge 95 72 mst sunny Brunswick 87 76 t-storm Cartersville 90 66 t-storm Chattanooga,TN 84 65 pt sunny Columbus 95 70 pt sunny Cordele 95 69 t-storm National Cities Atlanta 88 66 pt sunny Boston 78 70 pt sunny Chicago 87 65 t-storm Dallas 95 77 t-storm Denver 75 56 t-storm ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service 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 DAVID OVERTON JEWELERS y/S. ‘Jewelry Repair & Cleaning / ‘Watch Repair / jGJtZl ‘Engraving Hours: V® W/ -Appraisals Fri \ / ‘Estate Jewelry yVed. ‘Class Rings 10am-lpm 905 Downtown Carroll St. • Perry 478-987-1392 Meteorologists Derek Kinkade and Jerry Mathewson “Where Middle Georgia Turns for News” * Tue r 92/70 Isolated thunder storms. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:38 AM 8:45 PM 92/70 Isolated thunder storms. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:37 AM 8:46 PM | City W lolonti. 1 Dalton 89 66 t-storm Dillard 81 60 t-storm Dublin 94 66 t-storm Duluth 88 65 pt sunny Gainesville 86 67 t-storm Helen 85 62 t-storm Lagrange 92 65 pt sunny Macon 93 67 pt sunny Marietta 90 68 pt sunny Milledgeville 94 70 pt sunny Houston 85 74 t-storm Los Angeles 81 65 mst sunny Miami 86 79 t-storm Minneapolis 88 62 sunny New York 83 73 pt sunny 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. 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Instantly! 9nl\CU UAT Friday, July 14th Robins Federal V[J EDIT UNION www.robinsfcu.org 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 SHRED: . Receipts . Personal Information . Bank Statements . High Profile . Information .Any paperwork that contains account numbers Shredding Services Provided By: SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2006 Service, contends the obitu 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. BOCBUN? 3A