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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Ifouatuu fbilq 'Vmmi Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, GA 31069 (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 Nicote 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, 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, GA31069; (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 James Tidwell at jtidwell @ evansnewspapers.com Corrections: The HDJ 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 One killed, two injured in shooting CARROLLTON (AP) - A woman is dead and two oth ers injured after a shooting during an apparent robbery attempt. The shooting hap pened Wednesday night at Elizabeth Village mobile home park. Four men came to a home and tried to rob the family that was living there, wit nesses said. The men opened fire after a man who lived there told them he did not have any money. A woman was shot and died at the scene. The man was shot along with a 9-year-old girl. The man and girl were taken to a hospital and were expected to survive. Police have not released the names of the people involved. No arrests have been made. Austell woman dies in night house fire AUSTELL (AP) - A woman was killed in a house fire that began in a bedroom. The fire began Wednesday night in the bedroom of the 59-year-old woman. Authorities did not immedi ately release her name. Two other adults and four children in the house escaped. The fire was found when the children smelled smoke and opened the door to the woman’s bedroom. That’s when the smoke alarm went off, officials said. Firefighters say when they arrived the smoke was smol dering inside the bedroom. The woman was in a hos pital bed and had an oxygen tank in the room, fire offi cial said. They were trying to determine whether she was smoking at the time the fire broke out. An autopsy will be con ducted on the woman’s body. YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S Today's Weathe Local 5-Day Forecast Sat 7/22 /\ 94/72 Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Sunrise Sunset 6:44 AM 8:39 PM Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta V \ \ 82/67 V Augusta \ y 92/72 \ V Warner Robins \ * ) Savannah > ' Perry 94/75 I T -1, - A — — tfir J ) 92/71\__/ q i / Valdosta -jL \J Area Cities rm ' hi Lo Cond. I Albany 94 73 t-storm Athens 86 68 t-storm Atlanta 82 67 t-storm Augusta 92 72 t-storm Bainbridge 95 75 t-storm Brunswick 91 77 t-storm Cartersville 83 66 t-storm Chattanooga,TN 79 63 t-storm Columbus 91 72 t-storm Cordele 94 72 t-storm National Cities Atlanta 82 67 t-storm Boston 80 69 t-storm Chicago 79 62 pt sunny Dallas 92 75 t-storm Denver 83 61 mst sunny ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service mmmmm 4 ; Woman arrested for poisoning dogs ATHENS (AP) - Police have arrested a woman who is accused of killing a neigh bor’s dog with antifreeze tainted food and causing another dog to get sick. Rosa Marie Daniel was arrested Tuesday on animal cruelty charges. Daniel, 58, poisoned a neighbor’s dogs by lacing fish with antifreeze, police said. The first dog, a spring er spaniel named Allison, died in January. A neigh bor found the fish in the dog owners’ back yard and a University of Georgia chem ist found it was contami nated with antifreeze. Neighbors suspected Daniel might be involved in the dog’s poisoning because she made it known she “hated” animals, yet kept containers of food in her yard, according to Athens- Clarke police Detective Rebecca Taft. Taft said Daniel logged about 45 complaints to Athens-Clarke Animal Control and police over the past three years. After the first dog died, a neighbor took one of the containers and gave it to police. A chemist found it contained fish that had been tainted with antifreeze, Taft said. Officers were called to the neighbor’s home Friday after another dog, a mix breed Labrador retriever named Samson, became ill, possibly after eating food in Daniel’s yard, police said. Police searched Daniel’s house that afternoon and seized containers of food for a chemist to test. They also seized two containers of antifreeze, one from a stor age shed and another from a bathroom. Daniel was booked into Clarke County Jail on a felo ny animal cruelty charge for Allison’s death and a misde Sun 7/23 ■ 90/71 A few thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:44 AM 8:38 PM Mon 7/24 90/72 A few thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:45 AM 8:38 PM TIFtEIVT WILLMON a little more livin' available: '-rHBBcvsB ,v rs.n ;h SOU- jetty A Lomond. | Dalton 84 66 t-storm Dillard 80 61 t-storm Dublin 94 70 t-storm Duluth 82 66 t-storm Gainesville 83 68 t-storm Helen 81 64 t-storm Lagrange 87 67 t-storm Macon 91 70 t-storm Marietta 82 67 t-storm Milledgeville 91 72 t-storm Hi Lo Cond. | Houston 92 75 t-storm Los Angeles 91 72 mst sunny Miami 87 79 t-storm Minneapolis 84 67 pt sunny New York 84 71 t-storm meanor cruelty charge for allegedly making the other dog sick. One in lour would defy evacuation ATLANTA (AP) - One in four people in Southern coastal states said they would ignore government hurricane evacuation orders, according to a Harvard University survey done ear lier this month. The most common rea sons respondents gave for not evacuating were confi dence that their home is well-built, belief that roads would be too crowded and concern that evacuating would be dangerous. “Public officials have to realize a substantial group of people are going to remain and be very dependent on rescue efforts after a storm hits,” said Robert Blendon, the Harvard health policy professor who directed the survey. The telephone survey, of 2,029 people, was conducted from July 5 to July 11. All participants were 18 and older and lived in counties within 50 miles of the coast line in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. We.llißav-Ytou.To. 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Sunrise Sunset 6:46 AM 8:37 PM Moon Phases m Last Jul 17 0 First Aug 2 UV Index Sat 7/22 H Extreme Sun 7/23 HI Very High Mon 7/24 B Very High Tue 7/25 I Very High Wed 7/26 | Very High The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin pro tection. o : ® mmm n rear — m Low- Peachtree City 84 67 t-storm Perry 92 71 t-storm , Rome 90 68 t-storm Savannah 94 75 t-storm St. Simons Island9l 77 t-storm Statesboro 98 76 t-storm Thomasville 93 74 t-storm Valdosta 91 72 t-storm Warner Robins 93 71 t-storm Waycross 94 71 t-storm | City Hi Lo Cond. ] Phoenix 114 91 mst sunny San Francisco 79 61 mst sunny Seattle 91 66 mst sunny St. Louis 83 65 t-storm Washington, DC 80 68 t-storm Nearly 50 percent said they had evacuated because of a hurricane. “These are people with a lot of experi ence with storms,” Blendon said. When asked if they would evacuate if government offi cials said a major hurricane was going to hit in the next few days, 67 percent said they would, 24 percent said they would not and the rest said they didn’t know or it would depend on the cir cumstances. If it turned out they later needed rescuing, 75 percent of those who would or might stay voiced confidence they would be saved. “I think the rescue thing was a surprise,” especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Blendon said. Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, devas tating southern Mississippi and flooding much of New Orleans. The storm killed more than 1,500 people in one of the largest natural disasters in modern American his tory. It’s noteworthy that 25 percent of the evacuation ignoring respondents would not count on a rescue, said Dr. Irwin Redlener, direc tor of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. 'f Ppm ‘ fc/— 5 Visit Us @ www.platoscloset.com BUYING! 10am-4pm Mon-Sat 478-477-9779 4£ifl Wed 7/26 94/73 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 6:46 AM 8:37 PM New Jul 25 0 Full Aug 9 9FF 20% 00035335' obituaries m 999999 MAE K WALTERS WARNER ROBINS - Mae K. Walters, 101, passed away Tuesday, July 18, at her home in Warner Robins after an extended illness. She was bom in Milford, lowa and moved to Warner Robins in 1992. She was best known by family and friends as “Great”. She is preceded in death by her hus band Ken Walters and son Jack Walters. Survivors include: daughter Betty J. Herndon and husband Jack D. Herndon of Warner Robins, grandchildren Crystal J. Flanders of Byron Chip Herndon of Pensacola, Fla., Melody Stuckey of Warner Robins, Karen Wagy of Byron, Lisa Bender of Yakima, WA and Diane Gaudette of Yakima, Wash., six great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Service will be at 3 p.m. today in the chapel of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home with burial in Parkway Memorial Gardens. Chaplain Thomas Qualls officiated. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Heart of Georgia Hospice at 103 Westridge Dr., Warner Robins, GA 31088. The family will receive friends at the home of Melody and Alan Stuckey at 1228 Candlewyck Dr., Warner Robins. Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Perdue-Taylor race expected to get dirty By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - Democratic nominee Mark Taylor enters the general election cam paign for governor as an underdog with a packed to-do list. Raise lots of money fast. Unite his fractured party. And figure out a way to cut into Gov. Sonny Perdue’s GOP support. Political experts said that if Georgians thought the pri mary race between Taylor and Secretary of State Cathy Cox was mean they should hold onto their hats. “This race may set a record for a new level of nastiness in a Georgia campaign,” University of Georgia politi cal science professor Charles Bullock said Wednesday. Taylor will likely go on the attack first if he hopes to gain ground against Perdue in the less than four months left before the Nov. 7 general election. “I think it’s guaranteed it’s going to be dirty,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said. “Taylor knows he cannot get elected in a purely clean fight.” “Perdue had better put his armor on.” But Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University, warned that a bare-knuckles offensive could backfire. But Perdue has also demonstrat ed that he won’t shy away from a fight. One of the most enduring images from his 2002 upset of Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes is the “rat video.” The video clip por traying Barnes as “King Roy” - a giant, marauding rat - appeared only on the Internet but generated wide spread buzz. In Perdue, Taylor faces a GOP governor in a state that has been tilting more and more Republican and tpWiUraCorner ' naming ♦ <yWonoflnaniming • Oil Uhintings • Qifc Custom CTui/rum/ 918 Carroll Street • Perry, GA 478-987-4079 UNIFORM SHOP 50% o JHHI, (Already Discounted Items, Cherokee Unisex Scrubs & Dansko Shoes NOT Included) JULY 26th - AUG. 4th BUY 1 get 1 FREE Shirts Select Shoes just $19.99 Clearance Rack - EVERYTHING SB.OO Hours: M-F Bam-6pm Sat 9am-lpm CLOSED Sunday 1544 Watson Blvd. Warner Robins, GA (478) 328-9977 FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2006 still shows strong relatively strong support for President Bush. Recent polls show Perdue with healthy approv al ratings. “The plurality of Georgians think of themselves as Republicans. So for Taylor uniting the Democratic party isn’t enough anymore,” Bullock said. Still, Perdue’s Republican primary challenger, conser vative Ray Mcßerry, had almost no money and drew more than 48,000 votes Tuesday, or some 12 percent of the vote. Mcßerry’s core constituency are conserva tives from Southern nation alist groups who embraced Perdue’s 2002 bid for office. But many are upset that he failed to follow through and allow a vote on returning the old Confederate battle symbol to Georgia’s flag. If the race is close that could hurt Perdue. ButPerduewillbenefitfrom former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed’s loss in his Republican bid for lieu tenant governor. Reed had been dogged by questions about his association with convicted Washington lob byist Jack Abramoff. Perdue would have faced messy questions about whether to endorse Reed or steer clear of his fellow Republican. Taylor’s camp said Wednesday that he was reaching out to Cox sup porters in an effort to unite the party. He was also rais ing money to replenish his campaign warchest. Filings made just before the July 18 primary showed Taylor with sl.l million cash on hand and Perdue with $9.1 million. The Republican Party also has millions of dollars in the bank, a large part of which will be spent on the race for governor. 3A