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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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STATE BRIEFS
Fourth victim dies
in plane crash
SUCHES (AP) - A fourth
person has died after a plane
crash that also killed three
girls.
Mark Bradly died
Sunday afternoon at
Erlanger Medical Center
in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
his mother-in-law, Sherry
Ballou, said.
Also killed in the Saturday
crash were Sidney Bradly,
11; Samantha Orbin, 7; and
Caitlyn Orbin, 4.
Sidney Bradly was Mark
Bradly’s daughter and the
Orbins were his stepdaugh
ters, said Ballou, who spoke
to The Times of Gainesville
from the family’s home on
Hilton Head Island, S.C.
Mark Bradly’s son, Mark
Bradly Jr., was injured in
the crash.
He has been brought
to Shriners Hospital for
Children in Cincinnati and
was listed in critical condi
tion, Ballou said.
Ballou said her son-in-law
had just received his instru
ment certification and that
the family was going on a
camping trip somewhere in
north Georgia.
She said the Bradly s’
14-month-old son, Walker,
stayed home with his moth
er.
The Federal Aviation
Administration and National
Transportation Safety Board ■
are investigating, said Lt.
Matt Hromalik of the Union
County 911 Center.
The plane crashed after
the pilot overshot the run
way and was coming back
around to try it again,
Hromalik said.
“I believe he hit some
power lines, and then the
house,” he said.
The plane caught fire on
impact, Hromalik said.
Police officer
shoots man
HOLLY SPRINGS (AP)
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- A police officer shot and
killed a man after a two
county chase.
The Holly Springs offi
cer was standing in front
of a police cruiser and was
struck when the suspect’s
Mercedes Benz slammed
into the cruiser as police
were cornering him.
The officer shot at the sus
pect, killing him, Cherokee
County Sheriff Roger
Garrison said.
The incident began in
Cobb County shortly before
5:30 p.m. Sunday, authori
ties said.
A Marietta police offi
cer was assisting a motor
ist on Interstate 75 when
the driver of a Mercedes did
not change lanes and nearly
struck the officer, Marietta
police detective Jake King
said. The officer jumped into
his car and chased the sus
pect.
When the Mercedes
entered Cherokee County,
the officer was told to call
off the chase.
But Holly Springs officers,
assisted by Cherokee County
sheriff’s deputies, took up
the chase.
Authorities tried , using
spiked “stop sticks” to
puncture the suspect’s tires
but he drove around them,
Garrison said.
Officers were eventually
able to box the car in. But
the suspect put the car in
reverse and struck a police
car, Garrison said.
“Then he put the car in
drive, ramming another
police car, and throwing that
vehicle into a Holly Springs
officer,” Garrison said.
The officer fired. The
Mercedes traveled another
100 yards, crossed into the
southbound lanes and ran
off the road into a wooded
area.
The driver, identified as
David Michael Purdy of Ball
Ground, was dead at the
scene.
Another occupant,
believed to be Purdy’s son,
was unharmed and taken
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Thu
7/13
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low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
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Dublin 95 71 t-storm
Duluth 90 69 t-storm
Gainesville 89 71 t-storm
Helen 87 66 t-storm
Lagrange 92 70 t-storm
Macon 95 72 t-storm
Marietta 91 71 t-storm
Milledgeville 96 75 t-storm
Los Angeles 81 63 sunny
Miami 88 80 t-storm
Minneapolis 89 70 pt sunny
New York 85 76 t-storm
into custody, Garrison said.
The officer, who also was
not named, is on administra
tive leave.
Seniors may create
housing problems
ATLANTA (AP) - The
number of people 65 and
older living in metro Atlanta
will more than triple in
the next 24 years, accord
ing to the Atlanta Regional
Commission.
The wave, estimated at
917,000 people, is the result
of a big number of aging
baby boomers and a grow
ing number of retirees flock
ing to Atlanta because of
its amenities and climate.
But some question whether
Atlanta’s housing market
will be affordable enough
for a swelling senior popula
tion.
Seniors on fixed incomes
often can’t afford a tradition
al neighborhood home and
have problems with mainte
nance because of declining
physical skills, said Kathryn
Lawler, director of the Aging
Atlanta program.
About one in four Atlanta
seniors pays more than 35
percent of his or her income
for housing, according to
research by the Commission.
And many seniors are not
able to afford houses even
in neighborhoods built for
those 55 and older, where
homes usually cost from
$200,000 to $500,000;
That’s why some devel
opers, like Noel Khalil, are
building housing for seniors
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who can’t afford high rent.
Khalil built the 132-unit
Columbia Heritage Senior
Residences in Atlanta with
federal tax credits to keep
rent affordable.
The maximum rent for a
two-bedroom unit there is
$795 a month.
“What I am very concerned
about is, as the tsunami of
boomers age, I am not clear
in my mind we will have
enough housing for them,”
Khalil said.
A local nonprofit, Mercy
Housing, is planning a 65-
unit apartment complex
for seniors in Chamblee.
Ground hasn’t been broken
on the project yet, but the
organization already has a
list of 35 applicants.
Some of the counties in
the state are beginning
to respond to the housing
demand by creating special
zoning for senior housing.
Cobb County was the first
in the state to do so, hoping
to make it easier to locate
seniors’ homes near trans
portation lines, shopping
areas and traditional neigh
borhoods.
But some Cobb County
residents argue that senior
housing is too-high density
for many neighborhoods and
could create problems.
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BONAIRE - Josh Frost, beloved son of Beth Collins and
Bob Farquhar of Bonaire and Randy and Diane Frost of
Musella, died on Saturday, July 8, 2006. He was 25. Josh
was employed at Tolleson Lumber in Perry and was a long
time employee of My Father’s Place restaurant in Warner
Robins.
Survivors other than his parents, a sister Jessie Allison
Frost of Savannah, grandparents Myra Collins of Kathleen
and Buck Frost of Lizella, and many loving aunts, uncles,
cousins, and friends.
The family will receive friends at Heritage Memorial
Funeral Home on Monday evening from 7 until 9 PM.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 11:00
AM at the Bonaire United Methodist Church. Burial will fol
low in the Bonaire Cemetery.
Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrange
ments.
MARVIN W. OWEN
Warner Robins - Marvin W. Owen, 83, a long-time resi
dent of Houston County, died Saturday, July 8, 2006, at the
Elberta Nursing Home after a lengthy illness. Interment
and memorial services will be held in Ohio at a later date.
Mr. Owen was bora in 1922 in Abbeville, Georgia to
William S. and Alice D. Owen. He came to Warner Robins
and worked on the construction of the first hanger built at
Robins Air Force Base. He served in both the Marine Corps
and the Maritime Service during World War 11. He and his
wife, Wanda Hepler of Eden Township, OH, moved from
Atlanta to Warner Robins in 1954 and he worked in the
construction trades until his retirement.
Wanda, his wife of nearly 60 years, survives as well as a
niece, Cathy Owen Nisbet, who lives in Riverside, Ca.
Mr. Owen was a friend to all animals and it is requested
that any memorials be given in his name to HARPS, Inc.,
EO. Box 7363, Warner Robins, Ga, 31095.
Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrange
ments.
State appeals voter
ID restraining onter
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP)
Georgia’s attorney general
on Monday filed an emer
gency appeal of a judge’s
order blocking enforcement
of the state’s voter photo ID
law in next week’s primary
elections.
Attorney General
Thurbert E. Baker filed
the motion in the Georgia
Supreme Court on behalf of
Gov. Sonny Perdue, accord
ing to Richard Diguette, a
spokesman for Georgia’s
high court. The motion
seeks to stay a temporary
restraining order , issued
Friday by Fulton County
Superior Court Judge
Melvin Westmoreland.
“We-’re pleased it’s moving
forward,” Perdue spokes
man Dan McLagan said of
the appeal. “We can’t for the
life of us understand why
the Democrats have been so
hellbent on making it easier
for dead people, felons and
illegal immigrants to cast
ballots in their primary.”
The action came with
eight days to go before
Georgia’s July 18 primary
elections.
In a sharply worded rul
ing, Westmoreland said
Friday that Georgia’s voter
ID law “unduly burdens the
fundamental right to vote
rather than regulate it” and
would cause “irreparable
harm.”
The new law requires
that every voter who casts
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a valid, government-issued
photo ID. Elections officials
had already distributed sev
eral dozen of the new voter
photo IDs to people, mostly
seniors, who don’t have a
driver’s license, passport or
other qualifying photo ID.
Supporters of the mea
sure, like Perdue, argue that
it’s needed to crack down on
voter fraud. Opponents say
it unfairly affects the poor,
rural voters and minorities
who are least likely to
have a driver’s license or
other picture ID. They also
comolain that absentee bai
loting, which has been used
for voter fraud m she past,
is exempt from the law.
In requesting the
restraining order, former
Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, a
Democrat, argued before the
judge Thursday that the law
violates the state’s constitu
tion, which he said guaran
tees the right to vote.
Barnes was not immedi
ately available for comment
Monday morning. Lane
McCraw, a spokeswoman
for Barnes said he and other
lawyers in the case were
studying Baker’s motion.
“At this point, we feel it
is without merit,” McCraw
said.
Georgia’s Republican-led
Legislature first adopted a
voter ID law in 2005, but
a federal judge blocked
its enforcement, saying it
amounted to an unconstitu
tional poll tax.
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