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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL K«uafcm HailQ.ljuurual Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Parry, GA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www. hhjnews. com Reader orap® 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, G A 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 State Briefs Woman sought for hitting patrons ATHENS (MNS)-Police are still searching for a dis gruntled McDonald’s cus tomer who ran into two other customers with her car after a dispute over who was next in line to order breakfast. Ataboutß:3oa.m. Saturday, Melinda Ann Thomas, 34, and Linda Ann Thomas, 51, were standing in a crowded line at the McDonald’s on Gaines School Road waiting to order breakfast, accord ing to Athens-Clarke police. When a cashier opened a new line, they zipped to the front of it -- a move that drew the ire of at least one customer waiting for her chance at a McGriddle that morning. According to the report, an unidentified woman, who had been in front of the Thomases in the origi nal line, started yelling at them for cutting in line and threatened to kill them for the offense. The woman, who was described as white with brown hair in her mid-20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, left the restaurant before the Thomases and stayed in the parking lot, sitting in her dark blue Jeep Cherokee, according to witnesses cited in the report. The vehicle’s license plate number was not noted in the report, but witnesses said the Jeep had fog lamps. As the Thomases made their way to their car, wit nesses said the woman pulled out of her parking space, backed up and then sped toward the ladies striking them both with the passenger side of the Jeep. According to the report, neither victim was injured severely. The woman now is being sought by police on charges of aggravated assault. YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Thu 8/17 / v&jjs^C 92/72 Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder storm. Sunrise Sunset 7:02 AM 8:18 PM Wed 8/16 94/72 Scattered thunder storms. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:OIAM 8:19 PM Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta * V \ 89/70 \ Augusta • 1 jr - 92/72 \ ( V Was g^ 2 OWnS \ \ * ; Savannah } \ Party 93/73 I 95/7<N — S' ""X, p ( / Valdosta . 95/72 Area Cities | City y lo(W I Albany 96 72 t-storm Athens 91 70 t-storm Atlanta 89 70 t-storm Augusta 92 72 t-storm Bainbridge 97 74 t-storm Brunswick 89 77 t-storm Cartersville 90 70 rain Chattanooga,TN 86 68 t-storm Columbus 95 74 t-storm Cordele 96 72 t-storm National Cities Atlanta 89 70 t-storm Boston 82 66 sunny Chicago 84 64 sunny Dallas 105 81 mst sunny Denver 82 60 t-storm 02005 American Protile Hometown Content Service Macon woman dies in house fire MACON (AP) - A woman who was smoking in bed died in a house fire, authori ties said. Thelma Leslie, 76, was pro nounced dead at her home after the Saturday night fire, Bibb County Coroner Leon James said. “She was smoking in bed,” Jones said. Carl Goolsby, who lives across the street, said he was up late cleaning Saturday night when his nephew came in and said someone across the street was burn ing trash. “I looked outside and her whole living room was glow ing orange,” Goolsby said of Leslie’s home. He called 911 and then ran over and tried to put the fire out with Leslie’s front yard water hose. Macon-Bibb County Fire Department officials said the damage to Leslie’s home was in the den and bed room. Her body has been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab in Macon for an autopsy. Hre burns old warehouse in Rome ROME (AP) - Firefighters brought a large fire under control at a warehouse Sunday afternoon. Firefighters from sev eral stations responded to the blaze at the abandoned warehouse, said Chief Curt Pierson of the Rome Fire Department. Pierson said the build ing was already “heavily involved” when firefighters arrived. The fire department used defensive tactics to keep the blaze from spread ing to surrounding buildings and allowed the fire to burn itself down, he said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation. Fri 8/18 94/71 Isolated thunder storms. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:02 AM 8:17 PM TFIEIMT WILLMON a little more livin’ \tky i4l Lo Cond. Dalton 91 70 rain Dillard 85 64 t-storm Dublin 96 70 t-storm Duluth 89 69 t-storm Gainesville 88 71 t-storm Helen 88 67 t-storm Lagrange 92 70 t-storm Macon 94 72 t-storm Marietta 89 69 t-storm Milledgeville 95 72 t-storm Houston 97 75 pt sunny Los Angeles 78 65 sunny Miami 90 81 t-storm Minneapolis 86 68 pt sunny New York 86 70 sunny 'Daylight Rapist 1 seeks new trial ATHENS, (AP) - A man sentenced to six consecutive life sentences in 2000 for multiple rapes is asking for another trial. Poneil Carruth, 51, known as the “Daylight Rapist,” will go before Clarke County Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens on Friday. Carruth filed a motion July 25 con tending that Stephens, who presided over the original trial, influenced jurors by telling them to pay attention during testimony. Jurors found Carruth guilty of raping four women between late May and mid- June of 1996. He abducted two of his victims during the daytime and broke into the homes of the other two late at night. He was convicted on four counts of rape, three counts of armed robbery, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of burglary and one count of robbery. Police arrested Carruth in 2000 after investigating the rapes for four years with few leads. The break in the case came when a fingerprint from the scene of a home invasion matched Carruth’s print. Prosecutors also used DNA evidence that linked Carruth to the rapes. Cabbie's body found at Fort Benning FORT BENNING (AP) - Investigators have identi fied a body found at Fort Benning as that of a missing taxicab driver, and say his death is being investigated as a homicide. The victim, whose body was found Friday, was Gold Star cab driver Jack L. Home Jr., post spokeswoman Tracy Bailey said Saturday. The case was turned over to the FBI, Columbus Police STATE AMP REGION Jwry w ®-ofi Sat 8/19 93/72 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:03 AM 8:16 PM Moon Phases 0 Full Aug 9 • New Aug 23 UV Index Wed 8/16 Thu 8/17 Fri 8/18 Sat 8/19 Sun 8/20 The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need tor greater skin pro tection o y* - < mmm 11 fsity Hi Lo Cond. Peachtree City 90 69 t-storm Perry 95 72 t-storm Rome 91 70 rain Savannah 93 73 t-storm St. Simons Islandß9 77 t-storm Statesboro 97 76 t-storm Thomasville 96 72 t-storm Valdosta 95 72 t-storm Warner Robins 95 72 t-storm Waycross 95 71 t-storm | City Hi Lo Cond. Phoenix 101 85 t-storm San Francisco 69 55 pt sunny Seattle 74 57 pt sunny St. Louis 90 67 mst sunny Washington, DC 91 70 sunny Sgt. Stuart Pratt said. He declined to describe how Home died and referred all questions to the FBI, which did not return repeated phone calls for comment. Horne’s body was sent to the state crime lab for an autopsy. A funeral can not be set until the body is returned, Gold Star owner Jerry Halicki said. Horne, 55, gave his last radio report to the cab com pany at about 1 a.m. on Aug. 6 after dropping off a pas senger. PUBLIC NOTICE Destruction of records: Students with Disabilities The Houston County School System, Student Services for Excep tional Children, intends to destroy specific records that were collected, maintained, or used in the provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities. This notice in compliance with all policies and procedures that were approved as part of the Georgia Special Education State Program Plan that are not Inconsistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (20U.S.C. 14111420) Special Education records set to be destroyed are those for students who were enrolled in a special education program and have birthdays that are from September 2, 1978 thru September 1, 1979, and are no longer needed for education purposes. Speech records for students who were enrolled in speech only programs with birthdays that are from January to December, 1979 are also no longer needed for education purposes are also set for destruction. The system plans to destroy these records September 10, 2006, unless there has been a request for a due process hearing. If you as the student or parents of the student want copies prior to destruction, you should contact the Office of Dr. Ruth O’Dell, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, at 478-988-6153. 00036269 tTM Sun 8/20 94/73 Partly cloudy, chance of a thunder storm. Sunrise Sunset 7:04 AM 8:15 PM • Last Aug 16 0 First Aug 31 I Extreme Extreme Extreme Very High Very High Obituaries CLARENCE CRAYTON ROGERS. JR. MACON - Clarence C. Rogers, Jr., 64, passed away Wednesday. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., today at First Baptist Church in Kathleen. Rogers was bom Aug. 16, 1941. Survivors include his wife Deborah Louise Rogers and children, 24 grandchildren and five great grandchil dren. LUCIE LATIMER TRQN WARNER ROBINS - Lucie Latimer Tron, 94, passed away Thursday. Tron was bom on June 23, 1912 in Wilkinson County. Her husband, Henry Peter Tron and her parents, Joel Leander Latimer and Lucy Butler Latimer, preceded her in death. Survivors include her siblings, nieces and nephews, 15 great nieces and nephews. Peach Care lacing major cash crunch By BRANDON LARRABEE Morris News Service ATLANTA - The state’s health-insurance program for a quarter of a million low-income children is fac ing a cash crunch and could run out of critically impor tant federal funding by Jan. 1, state officials say. Gov. Sonny Perdue and officials at the Department of Community Health are working with the state’s congressional delegation to urge the federal government to address what they say is a problem in the way money for the low-income health programs is divided among the 50 states. The funding gap is in Peach Care, the joint federal state program for children in families whose income is too high for traditional Medicaid but still too low to pay for private insurance. For example, a family of four making $47,000 would qualify for coverage in Georgia. Almost three-quarters of the funding for Peach Care comes from the federal gov ernment. But the formula used to decide how much the state gets for the program is actually punishing Georgia MANIC MONDAYS mm 7 Men, Women & Children Call For Appointment. * Must present coupon! TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006 ♦ for getting more families to sign up. Under federal law, the amount of money flowing to the state is decided by how many uninsured children Georgia has, a relic from the proposal’s roots as a way to get coverage for those children. But those covered by the program count as insured children. “The more children we move into (Peach Care), the smaller our pool is,” said Community Health Commissioner Dr. Rhonda Medows. Perdue press secretary Heather Hedrick said the federal government doled out the funding in five-year increments and that early estimates for how many chil dren would be enrolled grew larger than expected. “It’s reflective of the suc cess of the Peach Care pro gram that we insured many more children than we antic ipated,” she said, pointing out that the numbers were set during former Gov. Roy Barnes’ administration. Aged Hand-cut Steaks 9 am i-75 Exit IS6 • 987-9*77 HXM WEONESDfif ! Pull Card From Deck J Deceive That Amount Off! 225 WES PARK DR. 478,987*2737 OfM Moftfei-nwßtaT MO a.m. until 8:30 p,m. 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