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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL sW»tuu BaUq.Tjuuriml Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, G A 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www. hhjnews. com Reader DROP® 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-courity 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. 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This newspaper is a member of The Georgia Press Association, The National Newspaper Association and The Associated Press State Briefs Ga. man accused of killing father BOSTON (AP) - Police have arrested a man in the stabbing death of his father. \Villiam Davis, 45, was taken into custody Saturday and charged in the killing of Lacey Davis Jr., 73. William Davis told police he and his father had gotten into an argument that may have led to the stabbing. “He called 911 himself and said he had stabbed his father and that he wasn’t breathing,” Boston Police Chief Chuck Weaver said. Police arrived to find the father dead in a bedroom. 22 people die on Georgia roads ATLANTA (AP) - The nurhber of people killed on Gedrgia roads over the Labor Day holiday period rose from last year, according to the Georgia State Patrol. Car crashes killed 22 people during the period beginning Friday evening and ending Monday night. That’s an increase from last year’s total of 17 fatalities. The number of vehicle crashes also rose to 2,667; up from last year when there were 1,930 crashes. But the number of inju ries was 729; down from last year when there were 931 injuries caused by crashes. Trauma chief: Mare centers needed ATHENS (AP) - Georgia has too few trauma cen ters and the ones it has are not well distributed across the state, according to the head of Georgia’s Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma. Dr. Patrick O’Neal spoke at the first of five public hearings scheduled by state Rep. Mickey Channell, R- YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S *lt EILED Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Thu 9/7 fo 88/66 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the mid 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:14 AM 7:52 PM S \nn-ri>iiii/W)7r Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta * V \ 83/64 0-1 —Augusta \ -—L2Sn^B6/68 V Warner Robins \ * Savannah ( £ Perry / J 89/66 P i / Valdosta <n • 91/68 r^--x \»4" .»■» J Area Cities HI to Cond mr lart'aMna Albany 91 68 t-storm Athens 85 64 pt sunny Atlanta 83 64 pt sunny Augusta 86 68 pt sunny Bainbridge 92 70 t-storm Brunswick 87 74 t-storm Cartersville 85 63 pt sunny Chattanooga,TN 82 60 . mst sunny Columbus 89 69 pt sunny Cordele 91 68 t-storm National Cities Hi Lo Cond. City Atlanta 83 64 pt sunny Boston 75 64 pt sunny Chicago 78 61 pt sunny Dallas 89 73 sunny Denver 77 54 cloudy ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service Greensboro, to study trauma care issues before the legis lature convenes in January. There are 15 certified trauma centers in Georgia. Only four of them - in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and Savannah - can treat patients with injuries so severe that regular hospi tal emergency departments typically cannot address. Channell, who’s a member of a joint state house-Senate study committee on the issue, said that the centers need more money because they are very expensive to run. “In order to be approved (as a trauma center), there are all sorts of things you have to have, like having doctors on call 24 hours in all sorts of different special ties,” he said. “That’s very, very expensive, and at the end of the day, that’s the root cause of it. Money is what it’s going to take to change it.” James Mathews, director of emergency medical ser vices in Oglethorpe County, said that having trauma centers in Athens and other parts of the state would help save lives by getting patients to the appropriate care quicker. “We have something in EMS we called ‘the gold en hour.’ The quicker the patient gets treated, the bet ter chance the patient has,” Mathews said. Ga. Hispanic voter drive under way ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia office leading a voter registration drive for Hispanics received a threat ening call the same day a nationally-known Spanish language radio host visited the state to energize the effort. “We need to run you out of this country. You are destroying it,” said the Frl 9/8 90/67 Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Sunrise Sunset 7:15 AM 7:50 PM 90/65 Isolated thunder storms. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:15 AM 7:SIPM We Celebrate Hometown Life Scones for and about hometowns |usc tike yours. Look for us each wads m this paper. 1, Dalton 86 63 mst sunny Dillard 80 58 pt sunny Dublin 91 66 pt sunny Duluth 83 63 pt sunny Gainesville 83 66 pt sunny Helen 82 61 pt sunny Lagrange 86 63 pt sunny Macon 88 66 pt sunny Marietta 83 62 pt sunny Milledgeville 89 68 pt sunny |ci»y Houston 93 69 mst sunny Los Angeles 82 61 mst sunny Miami 88 79 t-storm Minneapolis 82 63 t-storm New York 81 67 mst sunny caller, according to a tape of the call made available by the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, which is leading the voter registration drive. Since then, the volun teers in 10 Georgia counties that are working to regis ter Latinos have been told to work in teams for their safety, said GALEO’s direc tor Jerry Gonzalez. “It demonstrates the dan gers of political rhetoric fanning the flames of anti immigrant sentiment,” he said. After mobilizing the immi grant population with rallies and marches to promote the legalization of illegal immi grants and their access to taxpayer benefits, advocacy groups across the country are trying to make true on the promise that was shout ed and ensconced on march ing signs - “Today we march! Tomorrow we vote!” An Associated Press review of voter registration fig ures from Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston and other major urban areas that saw large rallies, however, shows no sign of a historic new voter boom that could sway elections. In Georgia, it might be too early to gauge the effec tiveness of the registration effort, because it got under way in the last few weeks, having missed the primaries but with more than a month before registration closes for the November vote. In some of Georgia’s most populous counties where large numbers of Latinos reside, such 'as DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett coun ties, voter registration through the end of July is up from last year, when there were no statewide or nation al elections. But the registration num bers are as much as 40 per cent lower than it was in the first seven months of 2004, before the presidential STATE AND REGION Meteorologist Jerry Math®w»on lM rnr- Mlrirtln flaamlii UnHwar Turns tsr Mews* Sat 9/9 mat 92/68 Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:16 AM 7:48 PM Hi to Hi Lo Cond. ii Sun 9/10 Mon 9/11 91/68 Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:17 AM 7:47 PM Moon Phases # m Full Sep 7 First Aug 31 m m New Sep 22 Last Sep 14 UV Index Thu 9/7 ■ Very High Fri 9/8 Very High Sat 9/9 p| Very High Sun 9/10 pj Very High Mon 9/11 J 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 m 11 "W Lo<W rarr Peachtree City 83 61 pt sunny Perry 89 66 pt sunny Rome 86 63 mst sunny Savannah 90 70 t-storm St. Simons Islandß7 74 t-storm Statesboro 94 73 t-storm Thomasville 92 69 t-storm Valdosta 91 68 t-storm Warner Robins 89 67 pt sunny Waycross 92 68 t-storm HI Lo Cond. City Phoenix . 98 77 t-storm San Francisco 71 54 windy Seattle 78 55 sunny St. Louis 83 65 mst sunny Washington, DC 82 67 mst sunny election, according to figures compiled by the Secretary of State’s office. About 70,000 out of more than 4 million reg istered voters were identi fied as Hispanic in 2004 in Georgia. While joining the national effort to register a million new voters by 2008, GALEO has been warning its volun teers to keep their expecta tions low. Since many Hispanics are not U.S. citizens and there fore can’t vote, Gonzalez has told his teams to plan on registering one out of 10 people they talk to, adding up to about 1,000 through the end of August. The vol unteers are active in Carroll, Chatham, Clark, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Troup and Whitfield counties. GILBERT APPLIANCE, INC. 925 Jernigan St., • Perry, GA 478-987-2284 SFRIGIDAiRE ALL FRIGIDAIRE LAUNDRY APPLIANCES Marked Down To Be Moved Out. DRYERS AS LOW AS WASHERS AS LOW AS $341.0022 1 a IMHKV.4O3 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 ♦ OBnUAWES EDWARD A, LONGENECKER. JR. WARNER ROBINS - Edward A. Longenecker, 81, passed away Saturday. He was bom May 25, 1925 in Petersburg, Pa. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Jean Haag Longenecker, Warner Robins; daughters, Linda Hall, Kay Smith and Terry Karloff; five grandchildren, two great grandchildren and his twin brother, Edwin C. Longenecker, Petersburg, Pa. JOANN KAY TAYLOR KATHLEEN - JoAnn Kay Taylor, 47, passed away Saturday. She was bom Dec. 21, 1958 in Missouri Valley, lowa. Her birth father, Frederick N. Smith, adopted father, Gerald R. Webber, paternal grandparents, Fred Smith and Marie Ramsey and maternal grandparents, Lester Motz and Trudy Robison, all of Harrison County, lowa, all preceded her in death. Ga. bills are being copied in other states By Walter C. Jones Morris News Service ATLANTA - Forecasting can be pretty simple some times. To see what the weather will be like, often it only requires a glance to the West to see the patterns moving this direction. That’s usually the place to look for clothing fashions and other trends as well. Included in those trends are governing. Often, legislative propos als, like hem lengths and cold fronts, originate in California and gather strength as they blow across the country until finally gaining acceptance in the Peach State. Even though Georgia has twice the number of legisla tors - or maybe because of it - Californians have tended to be more innovative. And since they are full-time law makers there with more than 2,000 staffers (at an average staff salary of $56,000), they have generally hashed out their legislation pretty thor oughly before it’s passed. Of course, that doesn’t mean bad ideas don’t become law there as they do here. It only means that the mechanics of the legislation has usually be completely explored to limit unintended consequences. Lately, though, the wind has been blowing the other direction. Several recent bills have originated in Georgia that are being considered west of here. Georgia has become a source for legislative creativ ity that other states’ politi cians are copying. That’s in spite of Georgia legislators having to make do with fewer than 825 staff ers who earn a pittance com pared to their West Coast cohorts. When political report ers from several states get together, there are always lots of questions for those who work in Atlanta. The list of topics has gotten lon ger recently, too. Sure, Georgia hit a few home runs in the past that everybody has tried to copy. There are pale imitations of the HOPE Scholarship tucked in the legal codes of several states, for instance. But that’s old news, even though it’s going to be mentioned repeatedly dur ing this fall's gubernatorial campaign. Here are six current topics where the Gold Dome team was out of the gate first: the academic bill of rights, the gas-tax holidays, sex offend ers, eminent domain, illegal immigration and voter-IDs, Most were in the headlines here and generated heat on the pro and the con side of the arguments, but you might not have heard much about the academic bill of rights. A 2004 resolution by Sen. Eric Johnson, R- Savannah, the bill of rights expressed the Senate’s posi tion that “faculty members should not use their courses for the purpose of political or ideological indoctrination.” More states might imi tate additional Georgia bills once the measures clear the courts. Lawmakers can be reluctant to enact legisla tion that has been declared unconstitutional already somewhere else. Suits are pending on the sex-offenders crackdown and the require ment to have a government issued photo ID to vote. Not every Georgian will find the attention flattering, naturally. Some are down right embarrassed that they live in a state that could enact these laws. Still, becomihg a role model is a sign that things have changed here. One of those changes is the shift in control from the Democrats for 13 decades to the Republicans. Another reason Georgia is becoming a trendsetter of sorts is its newfouhd size. The population surge of the last 20 years had made it the ninth-largest in the country. Such size comes with a lit tle more respect and added attention from the national media. WARNER ROBINS SUPPLY OF PERRY We Rent! 612 Ball St. Perry, GA 987-2334 3A 137072