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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Muustuu Jtaily IpVßTffl Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Pony, QA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnaws.com Reader orae© 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 mall: 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, 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 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 Suspect: I was serving win of God JONESBORO (AP) - One of the suspects arrested in the killing of a Morehouse College student told police he was serving the will of God, according to police doc uments. Keith Jerome Roberts and two others have been arrest ed and charged with tortur ing Carlnell James Walker and leaving him locked in the trunk of his car, where he was found dead two weeks later. The two other Morehouse students charged in the death told police Roberts, 22, coached them in the attack, Clayton County police detec tive Stefan Schindler said. Roberts’ court-appointed lawyer, Joseph Roberto, said he has not talked to Roberts about his religious affiliation, but said Roberts “stands with God. He always has.” Roberto informed Clayton County District Attorney John Turner that he will be having a psychiatric evalu ation of Roberts and may pursue an insanity defense, Turner said. Roberts, Miles Jonathan Allen, 21; Breylon Wendell Garland, 20, and Theodore Paul Hollisman allegedly went to Walker’s home to rob him. Walker was try ing to start a record label and had told people he was receiving a large sum of money from an insurance settlement, friends said. Grand Jury calls for probe of academy MARIETTA - A grand jury has called for an investiga tion of the academy where a police recruit died after being accidentally shot by a training instructor. Cobb County’s May- June grand jury described a “non-standardized” form of training guidelines estab- YOUR WEATHER TEAM! E'ZkTmTV'HW* 'm Imct Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Thu 8/10 /X • 94/74 A few thunderstorms possible. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:56 AM 8:24 PM Wed 8/9 95/74 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 6:56 AM 8:25 PM TFIEISTT WILLMON a lit>t,le more livin’ AVA.U.ABJUB '.'i’HiiH-VtK.VfSX CS SOLE Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta P \ \ 93/71 v- Augusta \ / X©© ,; ©*\ 91/73 \ f l ' \ J N. V Warner Robins \ A \ ' \ *’) Savannah 4^- > , l Wrry \ 93/73 £ ) 95/rev__/ "X q / Valdosta in « 92/73 / r^~Y Area Cities |6ty M Lo Cond. "1 Albany 94 73 t-storm Athens 93 71 t-storm Atlanta 93 71 t-storm Augusta 91 73 t-storm Bainbridge 95 75 t-storm Brunswick 92 76 t-storm Cartersville 93 71 t-storm Chattanooga,TN 89 71 t-storm Columbus 96 75 t-storm Cordele 96 74 t-storm National Cities Atlanta 93 71 t-storm Boston 76 68 sunny Chicago 84 68 mst sunny Dallas 102 81 pt sunny Denver 89 63 t-storm ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service fished by instructors at the North Central Georgia Law Enforcement Academy. The grand jury found there does not appear to be any specific training for the instructors to use estab lished lesson plans, teach ing methods or other specific guidelines. “This may have included procedures that are in vio lation of written policies, regulations, memorandums, safety procedures and com mon sense,” the grand jury’s presentment reads. Tara Drummond was training to become an offi cer for the Kennesaw Police Department when she was accidentally shot last September during a fire arms training exercise. Her instructor, Cobb County Sheriffs Deputy Sgt. Albert Jackson fatally wounded her when he fired a gun at her he thought was loaded with “dummy” rounds. The exer cise was designed to have Public Notice The Houston County Board of Commissioners does hereby announce that the mitlage rate will be set at a meeting held at the County Annex Building in Warner Robins, Georgia on Tuesday, August 29,2006 at 4:30 P.M. Pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A 48-5-32, the Board does hereby publish the following presentation of the current year’s tax digest and levy along with a history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years. COUNTY WIDE Real & Personal Motor Vehicles Mobile Homes Timber Heavy Duty Equipment Gross Digest Less M&O Exemptions Net Digest Gross M&O Millage* Less Rollbacks Net M&O Millage* Total Taxes Levied Net Taxes $ Increase Net Taxes % Increase * M&O Millage includes expenses mandated by court order, state or federal law which are not funded by state or federal funds Frl 8/11 94/74 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 6:57 AM 8:23 PM jdty hit Lo Cond. | Dalton 93 72 t-storm Dillard 86 65 t-storm Dublin 96 72 t-storm Duluth 92 70 t-storm Gainesville 93 73 t-storm Helen 90 68 t-storm Lagrange 94 71 t-storm Macon 95 73 t-storm Marietta 92 71 t-storm Milledgeville 93 74 t-storm Houston 94 75 t-storm Los Angeles 86 69 sunny Miami 88 81 t-storm Minneapolis 81 71 pt sunny New York 84 69 sunny STATE BRIEFS trainees experience what it is like to have a loaded gun pointed at them. Railroad trainee hiring boom coming ATLANTA (AP) - Two major railroad lines are planning to hire 3,600 new conductors this year, and many of those new hires are coming to the Atlanta area for conductor school. Both Jacksonville, Fla.- based CSX and Virginia based Norfolk Southern have training facilities in northwest Atlanta and McDonough respectively that teach new employees crucial job and safety skills. “You don’t get scratched or bruised with this equipment. You lose limbs. You lose lives,” said Jerry Russaw, a CSX training instructor. The boom in hiring comes after about two decades of job cuts prompted by con 2001 $1,940,164,418 $254,526,680 $14,038,614 $3,475,381 $247,491 $2,212,452,584 $114,200,391 $2,098,252,193 9.55 0.49 9.06 $19,010,165 $1,378,304 7.82% STATE AND REGION Meteorologist Jerry Mainewson Turns ter news’* Sat 8/12 89/73 Scattered thunder storms. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 6:58 AM 8:22 PM Moon Phases 1 First Full Aug 2 Aug 9 m m Last New Aug 16 Aug 23 UV Index Wed 8/9 ■ Extreme Thu 8/10 p|] Extreme Fri 8/11 ■ Extreme Sat 8/12 ra Very High Sun 8/13 jp] 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 11 jetty Hi Lo6W. 1 Peachtree City 92 70 t-storm Perry 95 73 t-storm Rome 94 72 t-storm Savannah 93 73 t-storm St. Simons Island 92 76 t-storm Statesboro 98 76 t-storm Thomasville 93 74 t-storm Valdosta 92 73 t-storm Warner Robins 95 74 t-storm Waycross 95 72 t-storm I City Phoenix 106 87 t-storm San Francisco 78 57 mst sunny Seattle 70 55 pt sunny St. Louis 95 77 t-storm Washington, DC 86 71 sunny solidation and new-technol ogy that helped reduce the size of train crews from five to two people. HOME REPAIR LOAN Jp\ City of Warner Robins does your home need repairs? fill Do you own your home? ■■ Do you have equity in your home? Is your home within the limits of the City of Warner Robins? | Please contact the City of Warner Robins,. Department of Community Development to see if you qualify for a U.S. Department of HUD funded low (0% to 3%) interest rate loan (Certain income restrictions apply-Maximum income ranges from $32,950f0r a single person to $62,150f0r a family of 8) Apply at Warner Robins City Hall, 100 Watson Blvd. upstairs in the Department of Community Development or call 929-1140 for more details. Current 2006 Tax Digest and 5-Year History of Levy 2002 $2,043,319,513 $261,196,410 $13,801,427 $3,386,445 $467,223 $2,322,171,018 $111,653,362 $2,210,517,656 9.94 0.00 9.94 $21,972,546 $2,962,381 15.58% nr mm Sun 8/13 .ff 92/72 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 6:58 AM 8:21 PM 2003 $2,302,009,321 $266,895,480 $12,749,530 $3,647,334 $443,162 $2,585,744,827 $113,480,028 $2,472,264,799 9.94 0.63 9.31 $23,016,785 $1,044,239 4,75% OBITUARIES FELICIA LASEANN HARDMAN WARNER ROBINS - Felicia Laseann Hardman, 29, passed away on Tuesday. She was bom on September 14, 1976 in Ind. Survivors include her children, Angel R. Young and Brandon Lee Yerby, mother, Kathy Hardman, partner, Robert Yerby, and many loving friends. HAROLD OTTO WALLEN. SR. WARNER ROBINS - Harold Otto Wallen, Sr., 88 (89), passed away Friday. He was bom on August 7, 1917 in Delphos, Ohio. His parents, Benjamin A. Wallen and Elizabeth Fiddler Wallen, infant daughter, Charlotte Wallen, and a baby brother, all preceded him in death. Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Marjorie E. Wallen, four chil dren, 10 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. LULA “LOU” S. BATES KATHLEEN - Lula “Lou” Spillers Bates, 76, passed away Friday. She was bom on May 22, 1930 in Roberta. Her parents, J.D. and Maebel Marshall Spillers, preceded her in death. Survivors include her husband, Bobby Edgar Bates, three children, six grandchildren and 13 great grandchil dren. McKinney, Johnson square off In debate By ERRIN HAINES Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) - U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney faced off for a second time against challenger Hank Johnson Saturday, attempting to paint him as a Democrat awash in Republican money and votes. Johnson says he is not a Republican pawn and he started running his race before the “ABC” - “Anybody but Cynthia” - campaign began. He said that of the more than 1,400 individual contributions his campaign has received, most were donations of SIOO or less. Johnson said his campaign has identified only three contributions from known SUGAR LOAF A Lovely Sidewalk Community In Perry These Homes are quality built all brick homes. We have 3 & A bedroom homes starting at 131.900 Homes have features such as custom cabinets, fireplace, sod, sprinkler system. C Builder is giving a $5,000 bonus if you contract on one of our 1 a : last 2 completed homes and close within 30 days We have a new loan program available to use that is a 100% loan with J-T no PM I information Center open daily Mon. Thur Fn 12-6 I-- weekdays. Sat 11-5 Sun 1-5 . , B iV* I’■ Stop by and visit with Karen or give her a call at 954-HOME (4663) (|| Located on the Perry Parkway right across from the new Court House. Coming Soon Another CARTER-WILKES S/D CONSTRUCTION, INC. 111 Fairclothßealty. Inc. d* (4781 971-2115 331 Margie Hive, Winer Robins, GJL 31081 Disclaimer: Bonuses based on certain completed homes only Loan program based upon credit and may not apply to all purchasers 2004 $2,451,242,795 $266,167,480 $12,936,031 $3,313,119 $888,601 $2,734,548,026 $116,836,887 $2,617,711,139 9.31 0.03 9.28 $24,292,359 $1,275,574 5.54% TUESDAY, AUGUSTB, 2006 Republicans. “I can guarantee the pub lic my allegiance is to the voters,” Johnson said. The candidates for the 4th Congressional District squared off in a live hour long debate aired on WSB TV It was the last televised debate before Tuesday’s runoff election. In the July 18th primary, Johnson, an attorney and former DeKalb County Commissioner, came within 1,700 votes of McKinney to force a runoff. Prime Rib Seasoned to Perfection t-7S MkH 136 ••*7-8877 2005 $2,688,798,850 $263,906,010 $13,852,635 $2,284,261 $699,263 $2,969,541,019 $180,067,357 $2,789,473,662 9.82 0.00 9.82 $27,392,631 $3,100,272 12.76% 3A REMINGTON CHASE 00036365 2006 $3,144,818,498 $259,480,000 $15,884,624 $2,665,297 $954,327 $3,423,802,746 $232,217,633 $3,191,585,113 9.82 0.50 9.32 $29,745,573 $2,352,942 8.59%