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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL %a»fcm flatly Perry Office 1210 Washington St P.O. Box 1910 Perry, GA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnews.com Reader □KF® 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, 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, GA31069: (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 UGA won't eliminate oarly admission ATHENS (MNS) - The University of Georgia like ly won’t do away with a popular and growing early admissions program, even after one of the nation’s top universities announced that decision last week. Harvard University announced last, Tuesday that, beginning in 2008, its admissions office will elimi nate an early admission pol icy that allows prospective students to be admitted in late fall for admission the following fall. The decision came amid concerns that the process, called “early action,” hurts its chances of attracting minorities and economically disadvantaged students who might go else where for better financial packages, officials with the Ivy League school have said, adding that they hope other elite colleges and universi ties will do the same. Whether other top-flight universities follow suit or tweak their policies, UGA will not drop its early admis sions program, which offi cials said eases application processing and allows more time to attract its brightest minority students with cam pus visits and open houses. “(Harvard’s decision) shouldn’t have an effect on what we do,” said Nancy McDuff, UGA associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management. Students who apply for early admission at UGA may also apply early at other col leges, and are not required to accept UGA until the reg ular March deadline. Now in its fourth year, UGA’s early admissions pro gram has seen the number of applicants almost double from 5,000 in 2002 to more than 9,000 this year, McDuff said. YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY’S Jfc Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Thu 9/21 81/60 Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:23 AM 7:34 PM tawmi I'mlilv Georgia At A Glance \ 74/59 v lii Area Cities I Hi ■lllll— Albany 85 61 sunny Athens 75 58 mst sunny Atlanta 74 59 mst sunny Augusta 77 61 sunny Bainbridge 84 64 sunny Brunswick 83 71 mst sunny Cartersville 75 59 pt sunny Chattanooga,TN 73 59 mst sunny Columbus 82 63 sunny Cordele 84 63 sunny National Cities | City Hi Lo Cond \ Atlanta 74 59 mst §W)ny Boston^, 66 51 sunny? Chicago 62 55 rain Dallas 89 76 t-storra” ■> Denver 62 44 rain;’ ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service Georgia M.D., wife charged with fraud JESUP (MNS) - A Wayne County physician, along with a Florida physical ther apist and their spouses, have been charged with health care fraud in a 106-count federal indictment resulting from an investigation into a phony billing scheme involv ing patients at a fitness gym owned by the doctor. A family medicine doctor, Randy Scott Lentz, 40, his wife, Rebecca J. Lentz, 31, both of Jesup, physical ther apist Scott Thomas Bowlin, 43, and his wife, Kim A. Bowlin, 40, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., are accused of falsely billing Medicare and Georgia Medicaid for physical thera py services at the gym, the indictment states. The fraud scheme billed more than $700,000 to those government health care pro grams from August 2004 through April 2005, accord ing to an ongoing investi gation by the FBI and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The indictment made pub lic Monday contains 105 counts of health care fraud and one count of conspiracy. Randy Lentz and Scott Bowlin were charged in all the counts. Their wives each were charged with con spiracy as well as many but not all of the health-care fraud counts, the indictment revealed. Nunn, Turner group pledges SSO million WASHINGTON (AP) - An organization founded by for mer Georgia senator Sam Nunn and CNN creator Ted Turner pledged SSO million to the U.N.’s nuclear watch dog agency Tuesday to cre ate a uranium stockpile that might discourage other coun tries *from developing their own nuclear programs. Sat 9/23 85/60 Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Sunrise Sunset 7:24 AM 7:31 PM Fr! 9/22 87/68 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s. Sunrise Sunset 7:24 AM 7:32 PM we UMehrai e Hometown Life nxvßSMSMsm* T'T'IMSS Dalton 77 60 mst sunny Dillard 70 51 pt sunny Dublin 83 60 sunny Duluth 73 57 mst sunny Gainesville 71 59 pt sunny Helen 72 55 pt sunny Lagrange 78 57 mst sunny Macon 80 60 sunny Marietta 73 57 pt sunny Milledgeville 80 62 sunny . Los Angeles 76 60 mst sunny ‘ Mjfmi 87 76 rain Minneapolis 57 51 rain New York 68 54 sunny The idea for a stockpile has been around for decades, but Nunn and others at the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative said they hope the financial pledge to the International Atomic Energy Agency will prod governments into action. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is providing the money, which is contingent on a SIOO million match from IAEA member states. The reserve would ensure supplies of low-grade fuel for nuclear power plants, with the goal of discourag ing nations from launching their own processing pro grams that could ultimately be used for developing weap ons. Western leaders are cur rently locked in a standoff with Iran over its program, which Iran says is aimed at producing nuclear power but that the United States and others fear is intended to make weapons. “Under international law and under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, countries have the right to enrich nuclear fuel,” Nunn said in a telephone inter view from Vienna, where he announced the finan cial pledge at a 140-country IAEA annual conference. “If we have a lot more coun tries that do that - and we’re on the threshold of that now - then it’s going to be an extremely dangerous world.” “It’s going to be very dif ficult to keep that weapons grade material out of the DAVID OVERTON /EWELERS ‘Jewelry Repair & Cleaning / ‘Watch Repair ‘Engraving Hours; ‘Appraisals Mon., TUes., Thurs., Fn ‘Estate Jewelry loa ™^> ,m ‘Class Rings lOam-lpm 905 Downtown Carroll St. • Perry 478-987-1392 STATE AND REGION IKImIwom)1o||I>1 Jwrry Mathtwion •Where MhMte Oaergbs Tiaras *mt News” Sun 9/24 81/57 Scattered thunder storms possible. Sunrise Sunset 7:25 AM 7:30 PM Moon Phases # • Last New Sep 14 Sep 22 r t> First Full Sep 30 Oct 7 UV Index Thu 9/21 8 Very High Fri 9/22 8 Very High Sat 9/23 8 Very High Sun 9/24 8 Very High Mon 9/25 t 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 mmß 11 Peachtree City 75 56 mst sunny Perry 82 61 sunny Rome 77 59 mst sunny Savannah 83 64 mst sunny St. Simons Islandß3 71 mst sunny Statesboro 85 66 mst sunny Thomasville 86 63 mst sunny Valdosta 86 62 mst sunny Warner Robins 81 61 sunny Waycross 86 63 mst sunny Phoenix 95 76 sunny ( San Francisco 83 54 windy Seattle 60 49 rain St. Louis 68 61 rain Washington, DC 69 55 mst sunny hands of someone who might use it as a weapon, like a ter rorist group,” he said. Nunn said an interna tional fuel reserve might not have deterred Iran from pursuing its program. But it would give the international community more leverage in addressing the situation, he said. “A country that’s been determined to have nuclear weapons from the outset may not have listened to this kind of proposal,” Nunn said. “But it would certainly be a powerful tool in the hands of the international community, saying, ‘You don’t need your own nuclear fuel supply. You have this available.’” In a press release, IAEA Director General Mohamed Elßaradei said the money would “jump start” a stock pile program that would provide “nondiscriminatory, nonpolitical assurances” of fuel supplies for power plants. Nunn, a Democratic senator from 1972 to 1996 and for mer chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the $l5O million fund ing goal is enough to provide only a “last resort” reserve intended to back up existing international nuclear fuel markets. He acknowledged that rallying the interna tional community around the program would be a dif ficult sell. “It’s an uphill fight,” he said. “They’ve been talk ing about this for over 50 years.” mak Mon 9/25 82/59 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:26 AM 7:26 PM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 4 Obituaries CLYDE E. HACKNEY PERRY - Clyde E. Hackney, 77, died on Sep. 11, 2006. Mr. Hackney, bom in Cedartown and the son of the late William E and Laura Hackney, had lived in Perry for three years. He was retired from Western Auto, co-owner of Hackney Interiors of Savannah and was rewarded the Bronze Star in Korea while in the Army and also served with the Maritime Service. Survivors include his wife, Rosalyn Hackney; children, - David R. Curlee, Jr. of Perry, Kimberly Lyn Prieto of Savannah, Darby Curlee of Las Vegas; brother, Coye Hackney of Cedartown; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Please sign the online register at watsonhunt.com. Services were private with Watson - Hunt Funeral Home in Perry in charge. NELLIE S. WILLIAMS WARNER ROBINS - Nellie S. Williams, 82, passed away Saturday. Funeral services will be held at noon today at Second Baptist Church. Entombment will be private. Williams was bom in Peoria, 111. Survivors include three children, 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Perdue-Taylor race is personal By SHANNON McCaffrey Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - The way Sonny Perdue remembers it, it was close to Christmas in 1997 when fellow state Sen. Mark Taylor paid a visit to eat some barbecue and talk about the race for lieutenant governor. “He came to my house in Bonaire and begged me not to run,” Perdue, now governor, volunteered in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “He told me that he planned for this all of his life and he sure hoped I wouldn’t do it.” “That’s not the way it was at all,” Taylor replied with a hearty laugh when told what Perdue had said. Taylor said Perdue, then a Democrat, had been sending mixed signals about whether he planned to get into the race. “He was the classic Hamlet figure in deciding whether to run or not to run,” Taylor aaid. The competing anecdotes make one fact abundantly clear about this year’s race for governor in Georgia: the faceoff between Perdue and Taylor has been brewing for some time. “It’s personal,” Emory University political science professor Merle Black said. “There’s a history there that could make this race par ticularly nasty.” Perdue and Taylor are set to appear together at a can didate forum on Tuesday in Duluth. The forum will not allow the candidates to debate directly. Still it’s expected to be the first time Perdue and Taylor _ who have been trading barbs from afar will be in the same room For an event since Taylor won his party’s nom ination in July. With just seven weeks left until the Nov. 7 general election, the two are poised to begin face to-face combat. Both men both deny personal animos ity and say while they were never friends their relation ship over the years has been cordial. Still, the pointed jabs are thinly disguised. As rising stars together in the Democratic Party the two were certainly competi tive. Perdue, then president pro tempore of the Senate, switched parties in 1998 and became a Republican. Taylor was elected lieutenant gov ernor later that same year. In the GOP minor ity, Perdue saw his legisla tion bottled up. When he complained, Taylor issued a withering rebuke in the Senate chamber: “Cry me a river.” Asked about that exchange recently, Perdue offered a twist on the famous quote “power tends to corrupt.” WASE MASTER MECHANIC W w * •Air Conditioning Repair •Engine Repair •Tune Ups, Belts & Hoses - BILL BREWER, JR. | a— fcufcPHr* tfwtw-im “I believe that power reveals,” Perdue said. “Power reveals what’s in one’s heart because you have the ability and position from which to impose that view and that opinion.” “I think that’s what hap pened,” he said. “I was not frankly that surprised.” Taylor apologized in 1999 for inciting partisan ten sions. But Republicans soon had their revenge. When the GOP took control in 2003, they quickly stripped the lieutenant governor post of much of its power. Perdue maintains that he never had any ambitions for statewide office, although others were encouraging him to run. Nonsense, said Taylor. “The reason he chose not to run is that he concocted a way to become lieutenant governor without running. He switched parties,” Taylor said. Taylor suggested that Perdue hoped to change the post into one appointed by a majority of senators instead of elected by voters. “If he had run I would’ve defeated him,” Taylor said. But Mary Perdue backs up her husband’s version of events. “Sonny was happy being a citizen legislator,” the first lady said. “He was getting a lot of pressure from con sultants who wanted him to run. Mary Perdue remembers that 1997 meeting in Bonaire as “nice and cordial.” “But it was obvious that Mark was hoping that Sonny wouldn’t get into the race,” she said. “He said ‘Sonny you have a family to worry about. I don’t have a family all I have politics,”’ Mary Perdue recalled. Taylor married Sacha Taylor, his third wife, in 2003. He has a son Fletcher, 23, from his first wife, Robin Coble. Bridal Registry -y &. Chtiit&pSwr Nunn Jennifer W&Moft &. MaiiNw Its HoMtf'y Tw Wr & MwdOtk 16 & MkhaArf Suttivsn Jt 'i Arofettr Hwicrtcuil Phittip fUgg&m. it. JO Jill Hulkwrl frte Yttigposn Octoisd-f' 1 <> W«t 6» Ari-am PartriAge CVfvbci 22 Cindy (Xtn-xway £*. Trey Slgniuod o«G4tmisitr 16 Uurttn Mdton & Thomas Mocnv Setru/ary 909 Carroll Street Downtown.,. Perry 987 0751 www.twofrt*r»xii2 ,<r.om 3A