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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Muustuu flatly 3fuunuU Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, GA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnews.com Reader 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 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 GOP files complaint against Taylor ATLANTA (AP) - In a sign that the race for gov ernor is heating up, the state Republican Party on Wednesday filed an eth ics complaint against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor for accepting $35,000 in contributions they say are illegal. The Taylor camp insists the contributions are legally permissible and argues that it’s Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue who has the ethics problems. At issue are eight $5,000 contributions made to the Taylor campaign from different Carl Gregory car dealerships, all received on Dec. 15, 2005. Republican Party spoksewoman Clelia Davis said that such bun dling is illegal in Georgia, where the limit for an indi vidual is $5,000. “Mark Taylor has been caught red-handed and still refuses to admit he was wrong,” Davis said. But the Taylor camp main tains that it was legal in 2005 for related businesses to con tribute separate checks. “Our campaign attorney says these contributions are perfectly legal under the law in 2005, the year they were given,” Taylor spokesman Rick Dent said Wednesday. But while the ethics law changed, Republicans are arguing that the contribu tions violate a 2002 decree from the state Ethics Commission in a case involv ing Perdue. The commission questioned separate contri butions made to Perdue’s gubernatorial campaign from Perdue’s own busi nesses. Perdue eventually became the first Georgia governor to pay a fine to the state Ethics Commission for campaign violations. As part of the consent order, Perdue agreed to repay SIB,OOO in excess campaign contribu tions... “You would think Sonny Perdue, the only governor in Georgia history with an YOUR WEATHE R TEA M ! TODAY’S Today's Weather Fri 8/18 94/70 Mostly sunny skies. High 94F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Sunrise Sunset 7:02 AM 8:17 PM Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta \ \ 91/69 /"\ Augusta \ yy' 90/71 \ Warner Robins \ \ 94/70 t V V \ \ • \ \ \ ) Savannah -ygyr: } , Verry \ 91/71 / 94/70- £ l / Valdosta In • 92/70 S' Area Cities a* Albany 95 71 pt sunny Athens 92 68 mst sunny Atlanta 91 69 mst sunny Augusta 90 71 mst sunny Bainbridge 96 73 t-storm Brunswick 87 76 t-storm Cartersville 93 70 mst sunny Chattanooga,TN 90 69 mst sunny Columbus 94 73 mst sunny Cordele 94 71 mst sunny National Cities Atlanta 91 69 mst sunny Houston 94 75 t-storm Phoenix 104 82 pt sunny Boston 80 66 pt sunny Los Angeles 81 64 mst sunny San Francisco 70 57 mst sunny Chicago 77 69 rain Miami 89 79 t-storm Seattle 83 59 sunny Dallas 104 82 sunny Minneapolis 82 68 t-storm St. Louis 98 77 t-storm Denver 85 61 t-storm New York 84 69 pt sunny Washington, DC 88 70 pt sunny ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service ethics conviction, wouldn’t want to make ethics an issue,” Dent said. But Senate President Pro Tempore Eric Johnson, of Savannah, wrote Taylor a letter urging him to come clean. “Be a big guy and give the money back,” Johnson said. “Georgia’s not for sale.” Deadly intersection claims six lives DEMOREST (AP) - Authorities say six people, as young as 7, have died in traffic accidents at the same northeast Georgia intersection over the past 19 months. Habersham County Coroner Don Pitts said the latest victim was 89- year-old Frank Trotter of Clarkesville, who died Tuesday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta after a collision at the intersection of Ga. 365 and Mount Airy- Demorest Road. Trotter was attempting a turn from the northbound lanes of 365 when his car collided with a southbound vehicle driven by Thomas Wilfred, 48, of Toccoa, the Georgia State Patrol said. Wilfred was treated and released from Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Teri Pope, spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Transportation, said a controlled interchange is planned at the intersection on the divided, four-lane highway. But she said the project is not yet funded and preliminary engineering is not on DOT’s three-year project list. Perdue's Ha. land deal questioned ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue spent $2 million to buy about 20 acres of Florida land just miles from Disney World, pur chasing the property from a wealthy Republican donor. Sun 8/20 96/74 A few thunderstorms possible. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:04 AM 8:15 PM Sat 8/19 95772 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:03 AM 8:16 PM TRENT WILLMON a little more livin’ | City 111 LodonJ. j Dalton 94 71 mst sunny Dillard 87 63 mst sunny Dublin 95 68 mst sunny Duluth 91 68 mst sunny Gainesville 9.1 71 mst sunny Helen 89 66 mst sunny Lagrange 93 68 mst sunny Macon 93 70 mst sunny Marietta 91 68 mst sunny Milledgeville 93 70 mst sunny Perdue bought the land from Stanley Thomas, a Georgia mega-developer with a fleet of planes that the gov ernor used at least once to get to a West Coast fundrais er. The 2004 purchase came a little more than a year after Perdue appointed Thomas to the state Board of Economic Development. About a year after the purchase one of Thomas’ companies, Fourth Quarter Properties, donated a whopping $250,000 to the state Republican Party. Perdue said there was nothing improper about the deal. The Republican gover nor said that he bought the land in Florida because pur chasing property in Georgia while he was governor would have created a conflict of interest. “I like land,” Perdue said following an environmen tal speech Wednesday in Savannah. “I determined to buy out of Georgia because I didn’t want it to ever be said that I influenced anything. If I bought land within 100 miles of a new road construction, I’d be accused by the other side of influencing that. So I chose to go out of state.” i Th® | 50-75% off Friday, August IS > Saturday, August 19 Friends | Tuesday -Saturday 10 until 5:30 i 909 Carroll Street Powntowru-Perry 987-0751 I www.twofriends2.com STATE AND REGION Meteorologist Jerry Methewson “Where Middle Georgia Turn* tar Mews* Mon 8/21 92/72 A few thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:04 AM 8:14 PM Moon Phases Last Aug 16 t> First Aug 31 UV Index Fri 8/18 Sat 8/19 Sun 8/20 Mon 8/21 Tue 8/22 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 wmm 11 Peachtree City 92 67 mst sunny Perry 94 70 mst sunny Rome 94 70 mst sunny Savannah 91 71 t-storm St. Simons Islandß7 76 t-storm Statesboro 95 74 pt sunny Thomasville 94 71 t-storm Valdosta 92 70 t-storm Warner Robins 94 70 mst sunny Waycross 92 70 t-storm l O T ** Z? * A.. jwl ' SAVE SALE 24.99 DOCKERS WASHED CHINOS For men. Reg. 48.00. Dockers Individual-fit khakis. Reg. 48.00, SALE 29.99 30% OFF GIRLS 7-16 COLLECTIONS From Amy Byer, U.S. Polo Assn., Southpole, more. Reg. 16.00-54.00. SALE 11.20-37.80 30% OF CHILDREN’S SETS Specialty Baby', Specialty Girl , Graphite', Nannette , more. Reg. 18.00-49.00. SALE 12.60-34.30 BUY 1, GET 1* 1/2 OF SHOES FOR THE FAMILY Reg. 24.99-65.00 .•2nd pa if must be o* equal or lesser value, txdudes Red Dot item T^P mm Tue 8/22 91/72 Scattered thunder storms. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s. Sunrise Sunset 7:05 AM 8:13 PM New Aug 23 Full Sep 7 I Extreme I Very High I Very High I Very High j Very High | fr— ■ fr— * 111 1 THRU SUNDAY! 40% OFF KirOUNG MEN’S SCREEN TEES gpQine-iiners, graphics and more. Mb. 20.00-24.00, SALE 12.00-14.40 Interim markdowns may have been taken, Entire stocks only where indicated. Selection may vary by store. Obituaries STAFF SGT. WILLIE BOBBY BRINKLEY, USAF (RET) WARNER ROBINS - Willie Bobby Brinkley, 77, passed away Wednesday. Graveside services with full military honors will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Magnolia Park Cemetery. Visitation will be today from 7-9 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home. Brinkley was bom Aug. 30, 1928 in Monroe. Survivors include his wife and brother. Isakson: Attacks will lead Arabs to reject terror By Walter C. Jones Morris News Service MARIETTA - Sen. Johnny Isakson predicted Wednesday that Hezbollah’s recent attacks on Israel may actually further U.S. foreign policy by prompting moder ate Arab countries to reject terrorism out of revulsion as long as America can avoid the public-relations pitfalls • like those during Vietnam. Georgia’s Republican junior senator was speaking to a hometown crowd in a joint meeting of the Marietta Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, Come Take A Look You Might Be Surprised! m § Jjte 926 Carroll St. • Perry. GA 31069 478-224-8888 T-F 10am-spm SAT 1 ()am-2pm SALE 24.99 JUNIORS DENIM Fashion denim from LEI.*, Glo and Angels . Reg. 38.00. 30% OF MISSES SAG HARBOR & RQT Sweaters, jackets, skirts and pants. Reg. 30.00-60,00. SALE 21.00-42.00 25% OF CAMOUFLAGE HANDBAGS By Fashion Express'. Assorted sizes. Reg. 30.00-38.00. 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