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4 •»' mjri Herb St. John f HKter > ■! ■ U It A fcgn|H| In Wtfmt on Smig 3Jtmmal VOLUME 136, NUMBER 180 Below THE Fold: Overturned log truck creates quite the log jam Thursday September 14,2006 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH IN SPORTS ■ Houston County's volleyball team beats Warner Robins. The Lady Bears also roll in softball. Perry, on the other hand, falls to Peach County and Westfield gets shut out again. - See 1B IN BRIEF Sacred Heart to hold Fall Festival Sacred Heart’s Fall Festival will be Oct. 21 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at 250 South Davis Drive, Warner Robins. The festival will include live Radio Disney broadcast and priz es for kids; entertainment stage including Best Country WDEN and country music star T. Graham Brown; hot air balloon ride; Bingo; Granny’s Attic flea market; paint ball; 50 and more arts and crafts vendors; silent auction; premium raffle to win money, vacations, and other major packages; carnival games; sports challenges; carnival food and food by vendors such as Chick Fil A, Moe's Southwest Grill, Backyard Burger, and Papa Johns; pony ride; and many rides ($lO wristband) including a mechanical bull, bungee trampoline, airborne parachute, rock wall, and many more. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Stephen Calhoun ANNIVERSARY Sept. 13 ■ Chastity and Jeff Rountree Today ■ Tom and Anise Ochs, 43rd DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Robert “Bob” Glenn Coon, Sr., 86 3 wm 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Belter Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 September 14, 2006 ls&rnmmmmrnumsm.mm Perry stadium to be named in honor of St. John By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Over a half century ago, Herb St. John arrived at Perry High School. His mission: to start a football team at a school where the main sport for decades had been basketball. St. John arrived with outstanding football credentials, but that was never the whole story. A man of many See HONOR, page 6A LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville ■ Board picks names fißßflßaalH for new high, middle j^B schools Coming: Veterans High and Middle, Mossy Creek and Hilltop Middle and Lake Joy Elementary By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer While the first day of classes in at least four years in the future, there are kids in school now in Houston County who will have the honor of being the first students at a brand new high school. They’ll get to attend classes, of course, but the big thing is that they’ll get to choose the mascot and the school colors, hold the first pep rally ever, build school spirit, elect the first student council and class offi cers, and start creating the memories of a lifetime. And, it’s a given that even its earliest Rednecks set to ride for charity By RAYLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer You might be a redneck if von like to ride vour motorcv- him? tu 11 cle and help out those in need. The Rednecks on Tour, a local motorcycle club will hold its sev enth annual poker run on Saturday to ben efit Grace Village and Aiden Hawk. “We raise what we can and have fun What: Rednecks Tour poker run When: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Where: Perry Wal-Mart Cost: sls per hand, $5 each additional hand Why: Fund-raiser to benefit Grace Villiage and Aiden Hawk doing it,” said Rooster, an orga nizer of the event. The annual fundraiser has helped out the Hawk family in the past as well as Rainbow House. This year Grace Village See RIDE, page 6A The Herb St. John file College Football Career ■ Played from -1944 to 1947 at the University of Georgia ■ All-SEC for four years m 1946 All-American Professional Football Career ■ Played guard for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948-49 ■ Played guard for the Chicago Hornets in 1949-50 Teaching/Coaching Career ■ Overall football record in 19 seasons 115-72-7 ■ Head Football Coach- Manchester High, Ga. (1950-54) ■ Started football program at Perry High in 1954 ■ Head Football/Track Coach- Perry High, Ga. (1954- 1969) m Also taught PE, Health, Bookkeeping and Mechanical www.hhjnews.com n i days, those students will see Veterans High School as second to none. Veterans High School? Yes, that’s the name that has been chosen for the new high school slated to be built in the area off Old Perry Road and Viney Grove Road. Ground has not been broken yet, but it will be named, according to Houston County Board of Education officials, Veterans High school in rec ognition and appreciation of Houston County’s military community. The nearby middle school, also to be opened in 2010, will be named Veterans Middle School. «/ V. jß R. -9HIMHL JS.'' ,-u- .JHk 3. ■ Jun ■‘f . •fgr ” rmsr . £sS%i£-V .1 Ljfe‘ : V; y K : ' , •Journal Ray Lightner A wrecker attempts to right a log truck after the latter had turned over during an accident Wednesday. Log truck creates quite a log jam A log truck created quite a log jam Wednesday. The accident at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr./Elko Road and Larry Walker Parkway left the load of logs over both side of Larry Walker Parkway, said Perry Police Lt. Jack Johnson. Johnson said the accident occurred when the driver of a white Ford F-250 failed to yield right of way and was struck by the logging truck. He said both drivers were taken by ambulance to Perry Hospital. He could not comment on the extent of the injuries, just that they were serious enough that both had to be strapped to backboards as a precaution and taken to the hospital to be checked out. Johnson said the driver of the pickup also had to extri cated from the truck, and passers-by were attempting to help get him out when police arrived. - Ray Lightner Drawing at Manchester and Perry Administrative Career m Asst. Principal-Perry High (1961-69) m Director of Transportation and Maintenance-HCBOE (1969-87) Honors m Coach of the Year- 1956, 1960-62, 1964-65 m Elected to Georgia division of National Football Hall of Fame in 1998 m Inducted into UGA Circle of Honor (for Student Athletes) in 2004 Most recently, St. John was forwarded to the second round of nominees for the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2007 in the Seniors category. The initial list, con sisting of 248 nominees, was cut to 68 in the first round. The Class of 2007 will be chosen Sept. 25. The name was approved Tuesday by the board. Names were also approved for three schools currently under con struction and slated to open in August 2007. The middle school being built just off Sandefur Road will be named Mossy Creek Middle School. The elementary school being built off Moody Road in Bonaire will be named Hilltop Middle School. The new school being built on Lake Joy Road will be named Lake Joy Elementary School, with the existing adjacent school renamed Lake Joy See NAMES, page 6A Two sections • 20 pages Commission OKs rezoning; puts annexation on hold tor now By RAYLIGHTNEK Journal Staff Writer About 20 residents from Tara Estates and neigh boring subdivisions came out Tuesday to object to a rezoning request before the Warner Robins Planning and Zoning Commission. But the matter of concern, the rezoning of 48.854 acres at the north end of Lake Joy Road from R-3 (7,000- . square-foot lot nunjmum)Jq R-4, which permits multi family residential, was tabled and deferred to the next Oct. 10 Planning and Zoning meeting at the request of the developer, Donald Faith, who was not able to attend Tuesday’s meeting. Residents’ concerns included the higher density R-4 and possible multi-fam ily developments, increased traffic and crime, water run off, noise and decreased prop erty values. The 48.854-acre tract was rezoned from R AG (residential agricultural) to R-3 when it was annexed into the city in March. Outside City Hall after the meeting, residents said the rezoning would negatively affect them with addition al and unacceptable traf fic in the Lake Joy Road area including Highway 96, Scarlett Drive Twelve Oaks Drive and Lovorn Circle. See HOLD, page 6A WMSsmiMmm