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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL .Paily Journal Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, GA 31009 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnews.com Reader OKF© 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. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: P.O. Box 1910, Perry, GA31069 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. NEWS TIPS: Call (478) 987-1823 ext. 231 Newsroom Fax: (478) 988-1181 Presentation editor: Contact Billy Dunham at bdunham@evansnewspapers.com Corrections: The HHJ strives for fairness and accuracy, and will print a correction or clarification when one is in order. Call ext. 231. Advertising errors and omissions: The advertiser agrees that the pub lisher shall not be liable for damages arising from errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred. There shall be no liability for non-insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement. This newspaper is a member of The Georgia Press Association, The National Newspaper Association and The Associated Press STATE BRIEFS Police: Student didn't die in trunk RIVERDALE (AP) - A Morehouse College student found dead in the trunk of his car was likely killed before his body was stuffed into the trunk, authorities said. Carlnell Walker’s body was found at his home Saturday. “Lack of blood in the car was a clear indication that he was dead when his body was placed in the trunk,” Clayton County assistant police Chief Jeff Turner said. Authorities still have not determined the cause of death. Walker, 23, had been stabbed in his left side, but Turner said the injury was not what killed him. Calling the death an apparent homicide, police found blood on Walker’s liv ing room floor and clumps of dreadlocks that had either been cut or pulled from his head. Police were sent to the home Saturday at the request of Walker’s mother, who said she had not heard from him in more than two weeks. Georgia drops water request ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia has dropped its request that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stop releasing so much water from Lake Lanier. On orders from Gov. Sonny Perdue, Georgia had filed for a temporary restraining order June 21 in federal court against the corps. The same day, Florida countered with a filing in a federal court in Birmingham, Ala., to force the corps to release more water from Lake Lanier to protect endangered freshwa ter mussels. The federal judge in Birmingham granted Florida’s request and ordered the corps to immedi ately release 40 percent more water for mussels strand- YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S Jffc Today's Weather I Local 5-Day Forecast Sat 7/15 / Fri 7/14 42fr‘ 91/73 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 6:38 AM 8:44 PM TFUEIMT WILLMON a lit.tele more livin’ AVAU.Am.r, 'yuvmvvmi is Georgia At A Glance i 1/ F I Atlanta M V i 65/72 -x Augusta \ 7 90/75 V Warner Robins \ \ * ' \ Savannah 4&F > /" v \ Perrv V £ j 91/7K,./' § ( //• , Valdosta || Y® « 92/73 Area Cities Hi Lo Cond Albany 94 74 t-storm Athens 88 73 t-storm Atlanta 85 72 t-storm Augusta 90 75 t-storm Bainbridge 94 75 t-storm Brunswick 89 78 t-storm Cartersville 89 72 t-storm Chattanooga,TN 84 69 t-storm Columbus 92 75 t-storm Cordele 94 74 t-storm National Cities Hi Lo Cond. jcTty Atlanta 85 72 t-storm Boston 84 70 pt sunny Chicago 84 69 mst sunny Dallas 97 78 pt sunny Denver 93 63 sunny ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service ed on dry streambanks. Georgia protested, leading to a week of negotiations among Georgia, Florida and Alabama that ended with a short-term water sharing agreement. Through July 24, Florida and Georgia agreed to a compromise: Water will be held back in the lakes for Georgia’s water supply, while Florida will get a limited amount of additional water to protect mussels. In the agreement, Georgia dropped its request for a temporary restraining order, but will keep alive the underlying suit, which criticizes the corps’ operations on federal lakes on the Chattahoochee River. But Georgia could end up making additional requests from the court in the future, said R. Todd Silliman, an attorney with McKenna Long & Aldridge who repre sents Georgia. 85 hogs killed in evening wreck HARTWELL (AP) - About 85 hogs were killed when a two-level tractor-trailer car rying 43,000 pounds of pork ers wrecked on a northeast Georgia highway. Another 15 of the 250- pound hogs that survived the accident Monday evening on Ga. 77 died from heat stress by Tuesday afternoon, said Jack Williford, the uncle of hog owner Mike Yeargin. “When I got there, I got out and heard hogs squeal ing,” Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland said. Assessing Your Leadership Skills -SBS/person ifilHPSmk; ' "iusL Meteorologists Derek Kinkade end Jerry Mathewson ‘Where Middle Georgia Turin for News’ Sun 7/16 92/72 Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder storm. Sunrise Sunset 6:39 AM 8:43 PM 93/73 Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder storm. Sunrise Sunset 6:39 AM 8:44 PM I City Dalton 89 72 t-storm Dillard 84 66 t-storm Dublin 93 73 t-storm Duluth 86 71 t-storm Gainesville 87 73 t-storm Helen 86 69 t-storm Lagrange 89 71 t-storm Macon 90 73 t-storm Marietta 86 73 t-storm Milledgeville 92 76 t-storm City Houston 88 74 t-storm Los Angeles 84 67 sunny Miami 89 80 t-storm Minneapolis 95 73 t-storm New York 86 72 mst sunny The Georgia State Patrol said driver Danny Puckett, 38, lost control in a curve and overturned en route to an Alabama processing plant. Cleveland said the hogs that were killed were buried near the scene, and the oth ers were taken to a nearby farm. Williford said a represen tative of the Hart County Humane Society supervised the burial, remaining at the scene until almost 3 a.m. Tuesday. He said the driver apparently lost control when the load of hogs shifted. State gets $6.4M more for bird flu ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia will get an additional $6.4 million in federal funding to prepare for a pandemic of bird flu or other form of influenza. The funding, announced Tuesday, supplements the $2.6 million the state received in February. That brings the state’s total of federal flu pandemic fund ing to $9 million to date. Georgia has not yet made any separate state appropri ation for pandemic flu, said Susan Lance, state epide miologist with the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Health officials fear that the HSNI influenza virus - which birds have carried from Asia to the Middle East, Europe and Africa - could mutate to a form that easily spreads from human to human. F. Dennis Hooper Certified Leadership Development Coach Building leaders and organizations of excellence (478) 988-0237 STATE AND REGION Mon 7/17 /V 95/72 Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder storm. Sunrise Sunset 6:40 AM 8:43 PM Moon Phases 0 m Full Last Jul 11 Jul 17 • New First Jul 25 Aug 2 UV Index Fri 7/14 ioj Very High Sat 7/15 i Very High Sun 7/16 9 Very High Mon 7/17 H Very High Tue 7/18 || Extreme The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need tor greater skin pro tection. 0 MHMMII I Hi Lo Cond. Hi Lo Cond 34274 dhooper2@juno.com Tue 7/18 91/69 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s. Sunrise Sunset 6:41 AM 8:43 PM Hi Lo Cond. [city Peachtree City 87 70 t-storm Perry 91 73 t-storm Rome 95 74 t-storm Savannah 93 75 t-storm St. Simons Islandß9 78 t-storm Statesboro 97 77 t-storm Thomasville 93 74 t-storm Valdosta 92 73 t-storm Warner Robins 92 73 t-storm Waycross 93 72 t-storm Hi Lo Cond. City Phoenix 112 91 mst sunny San Francisco 71 55 windy Seattle 68. 53 pt sunny 9t. Louis 90 75 t-storm Washington, DC 84 70 pt sunny . * ■ It's a perfect time for your new 10an... 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Her defense team said she will be expect ed to report to a federal pris on within four to six weeks. Cooper called Schrenko’s offenses, “an egregious abuse of the public’s trust,” and said acts like hers are why the public is losing trust in public officials. Schrenko, wearing a tai lored black suit with pink lapels and cuffs, made a brief statement lo the court: “I would like to thank your honor for a fair trial and the way in which you have treated me.” Just before leaving in a car driven by an unidenti fied man she said, “I made a lot of mistakes and I trust ed people I shouldn’t have trusted.” Asked whether she plans to write a book, Schrenko replied, “I don’t know. Who knows? I’ll have a lot of time.” Schrenko’s right arm was in a cast. She told reporters she injured her wrist when she fell at home. Her sentence was in line with a plea deal that she had struck with prosecutors mid way into her trial in May. 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Schrenko’s plea deal led to the swift imprisonment of her campaign manager, Merle Temple, with whom she acknowledged having an affair, on charges of obstruc tion of justice on suspicion of leaking information to Schrenko’s lawyers. In a plea deal of his own last year, Temple had agreed to testify against Schrenko. In May, she gave prosecutors a tape of a phone call with him. Temple said during the call that he would withhold some testimony against her as long as her lawyer didn’t “hurt” him, according to a transcript. He had earlier pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspir acy and theft of public funds and was expected to be a star witness in the Schrenko case before the plea agreement. He has yet to be sentenced. Another Schrenko co defendant, computer firm owner Stephan Botes, was found guilty of conspiracy, theft of federal funds and wire fraud charges. He is set to be sentenced next month. Botes’ chief financial offi cer, Peter Steyn, was found innocent of all charges. 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