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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Hmtnvwi Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Parry, QA 31069 (478)987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnaws.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, 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. 4 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 Nationa! Newspaper Association and The Associated Press Shoe Briefs Sex offender caught in secret pit ST. MARYS (MNS) - A violent sex offender being sought by Virginia authori ties was arrested Tuesday after police found him hid ing in a secret pit behind an elementary school in St. Marys. Timothy D. Primrose, 50, of Virginia Beach, was cap tured by St. Marys police investigators while he was hiding in a 6-foot-deep hole he had dug behind Mary Lee Clark Elementary School on Mickler Drive. Primrose was convicted in October 1996 on attempted rape, forcible sodomy and taking inde cent liberties with children charges and was listed as a registered sex offender with Virginia authorities, accord ing to investigators involved with the arrest. St. Marys investigators had been watching Primrose’s daughter, Sheila Primrose, the past week after getting a tip from area residents that she was helping her father hide from authorities and was delivering food to him, according to an arrest report by St. Marys police. Lt. Frank Thornal, a spokesman with the St. Mary Police Department, said investigators followed a vehicle they believed was occupied by Primrose’s daughter and at least one other person to the wood ed area behind the school Monday night. Investigators are still trying to determine the identity of the occupants in the vehicle. 100 soldiers return from Iraq SAVANNAH (MNS) - Little Maddox Guildoo was six months old when his father left for a year long combat tour in Iraq last October. On Tuesday, having just YOUR WEATHER TEAM! TODAY'S Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Fri 10/6 ±JktL 84/56 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:33 AM 7:14 PM LOOKS LIKE HOMEMADE. Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta \ \ 77/54 V Augusta \ 78/54 Warner Robins \ V * Savannah *Wr~- > ■ V 08/57 I 86/56 c ( / Valdosta in m 93/61 /■"'‘•—Jj Area Cities 6ity HI Lo Cond. Albany 92 60 t-storm Athens 77 52 pt sunny Atlanta 77 54 pt sunny Augusta 78 54 t-storm Bainbridge 93 62 pt sunny Brunswick 89 65 pt sunny Cartersville 78 53 pt sunny Chattanooga.TN 70 50 pt sunny Columbus 86 60 pt sunny Cordele 90 58 t-storm National Cities [ City Hi -Lo Cond. Atlanta 77 54 pt sunny Boston 55 48 pt sunny Chicago 62 42 sunny Dallas 93 68 mst sunny Denver 76 53 cloudy ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service mastered the word “da-da,” Maddox and his 5-year old sister Shealyn were swept up into the arms of Spc. Loyde Guildoo. The North Carolina native was among about 100 soldiers of the 473rd Quartermaster Company welcomed by cheering families at Hunter Army Airfield. “This ought to be inter esting,” said Guildoo’s wife Kristen. “He doesn’t quite know his dad yet.” The 3rd Infantry Division unit spent a year in Mosul, Iraq, providing laundry ser vices, running a dining facil ity and conducting convoy security as it moved supplies throughout the country. “We did an outstand ing job,” said Capt. James George, company command er. “It feels good seeing sol diers back together with their families.” Five arrested In sting hi NE Georgia GAINESVILLE (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted five men for selling guns without licenses at a flea market. Agents with the'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested four of the men Saturday at the Jackson County flea market. The fifth suspect surren dered, ATF Special Agent Marc Jackson said. The arrests came after a 17-month investigation. Undercover agents bought guns sold illegally, and at least one agent told a seller he was not a Georgia resi dent, according to indict ments unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Gainesville. Some of the unlicensed dealers also sold weapons to convicted felons and illegal immigrants, the indictments say. The men arrested at the flea market are Thomas Hallman, 77, of Athens; Jack Sat 10/7 C- 82/54 Abundant sunshine Highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 50s Sunrise Sunset 7:34 AM 7:IIPM 79/49 Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 40s. Sunrise Sunset 7:34 AM 7:12 PM City Lo Cong. Dalton 75 51 pt sunny Dillard 70 45 pt sunny Dublin 87 53 t-storm Duluth 77 52 pt sunny Gainesville 76 54 pt sunny Helen 73 49 pt sunny Lagrange 81 54 pt sunny Macon 83 55 pt sunny Marietta 77 52 pt sunny Milledgeville 82 54 t-storm Houston 93 67 mst sunny Los Angeles 70 55 mst sunny Miami 86 77 t-storm Minneapolis 64 55 pt sunny New York 59 52 windy Prough, 62, of Winder; Albert Stephens, 72, of Greensboro; and Charles Murphy, 63, of Canon. Gerald Barnes, 65, of Maysville, surrendered to authorities after learning he was wanted, the ATF said. Jackson said he did not know if the men worked together or separately at the flea market. Among the accusations, the indictment says Hallman sold a .38-caliber revolver and a Norinco SKS semiau tomatic rifle to customers he knew were in the United States illegally. He is also accused of selling another revolver to someone he knew was a convicted felon. One of the illegal guns Prough is accused of selling was a .22-caliber Magnum Derringer, a small, easily concealed weapon belonging to a special class of firearms, like machine guns and silenc ers, that must be registered with the ATF, Jackson said. All five suspects appeared Monday in federal court. Each was granted SIO,OOO bond and released, a court clerk said. They are to be arraigned Friday. Arrest made in death of woman COLLEGE PARK (AP) _ Police have arrested a man in the death of woman whose body was found in her apart ment bathtub. Leroy Mitchell Knox, 21, was arrested Tuesday night near his mother’s home in Decatur, police said. Kimberly Jacobs, 26, was found partially clothed and face down in a tub of water last week. An autopsy found she had been strangled. There were signs of a struggle in the apartment. The shower curtain was torn down and the curtain rod was bent, Clayton County Police Assistant Chief Jeff Turner. Also, Jacobs’ shirt had apparently been torn off. STATE AND REGION tHFU^Io Sun 10/8 4' * w 84/57 Sunshine Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the upper 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:35 AM 7:10 PM CHli , TASTES LIKE HOMEMADE. la Mon 10/9 Tu« 10/10 : jjL t 82/58 Plenty of sun Highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:36 AM 7:09 PM Moon Phases r> r> First Full Sep 30 Oct 7 • Last New Oct 14 Oct 22 UV Index Fri 10/6 7 High Sat 10/7 7 High Sun 10/8 7 High Mon 10/9 7 High Tue 10/10 7 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 mmm mmm 1 1 fCity HI Lo Cond. Peachtree City 79 52 pt sunny Perry 86 56 t-storm Rome 78 52 pt sunny Savannah 88 57 t-storm St. Simons Islandß9 65 pt sunny Statesboro 89 57 t-storm Thomasville 93 62 pt sunny Valdosta 93 61 pt sunny Warner Robins 84 55 t-storm Waycross 93 58 pt sunny | City Hi Lo Cond. Phoenix 90 66 t-storm San Francisco 62 52 pt sunny Seattle 58 45 rain St Louis 69 48 mst sunny Washington. DC 56 50 rain Nichols could face more charges ATLANTA (AP) - Brian Nichols, accused of killing a judge and three others after fleeing from custody while on trial for rape, could face more charges for allegedly trying to intimidate a key witness against him and plotting another escape, a prosecutor said Tuesday. “It may possibly lead to indictment,” Assistant District Attorney Michele McCutcheon said during an emergency hearing on the new allegations, which were made Friday. Defense lawyer Gary Parker shook his head in disbelief at McCutcheon’s statement, and another defense lawyer, Henderson Hill, told Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller that while Nichols made a call to the woman he’s accused of raping, he never tried to intimidate her. Hill did not address the escape plot alle gation during the hearing, but defense lawyers said in a motion Friday that claims by another inmate facing a murder charge that Nichols plotted with him about an escape are unreliable. Hill also said that Nichols has exhibited “growth and maturity” since the March 11, 2005, shootings at the Fulton County Courthouse. “I have never been more proud of a client than I was with him,” Hill said. Assistant District Attorney Christopher Quinn chal lenged that contention. “As far as Mr. Hill hav ing good feelings about his client, I’m sure March 10 a lot of people had a good feel ing about his client,” Quinn said. All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp-$10 w /Catfish-S9 ,rj Friday & Saturday - spm • 10pm 9Sn l-TSKxH IM*MT4M77 Obituaries DEBORAH WHITEHEAD __ | WARNER ROBINS - Deborah Whitehead, 52, passed 1 away Monday. A memorial service will be held at 10:3(1 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home. Interment will be private. Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry for the family. Voters turned off by ad wars in Bth By BEN EVANS Associated Press Writer MACON - Voters from both parties here say they’re disappointed in the tit-for-tat attack ads being exchanged by the campaigns of Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall and his Republican challenger, former Rep. Mac Collins, in the battle over middle Georgia’s Bth Congressional District. While the claims made in the ads have sometimes been technically accurate, each candidate has mischar acterized or exaggerated the other’s positions, a fact that isn’t lost on those who will ultimately decide who repre sents them in Congress for the next two years. “It’s all half-truths, spin ning, lying,” said Leonard Sletto, an Air Force civil service retiree, while tak ing in a high school foot ball game Friday night in Warner Robins, a military town that’s home to the dis trict’s main economic engine, Robins Air Force Base. The race is seen by both parties as critical in the fight over control of Congress. Republicans, who say it represents one of their best opportunities to knock off a sitting Democrat, took the offensive first, trying to undermine Marshall’s reputation as a conservative Democrat who bucks his party as often as he sup ports it. The National Republican Congressional Committee and a California group called the Economic Freedom Fund have been particularly aggressive, buying a flurry of television ads, mailers and recorded telephone messages casting Marshall as a liberal who “turned his back” on Georgia. Collins, whose ads ini tially focused on his blue collar background as a trucking company operator, more recently ran ads say ing Marshall “let us down.” In a typical television spot, Collins says Marshall “joined his liberal leader Nancy Pelosi and voted to waste our tax dollars printing elec tion ballots in Spanish.” “Muchas gracias, Senor Jim Marshall,” the ad con cludes. Marshall _ whose ads had not mentioned the chal lenger until Collins aired his attacks _ responded with television spots defend ing his record and accusing Collins of spreading “flat out lies.” He also took a shot at Collins, accusing the Republican of supporting amnesty for illegal immi grants, citing a speech in which Collins said he would allow some migrant workers to stay in the United States for up to two years before being deported. “That’s amnesty, Senor Mac,” the narrator quips. Collins, who gave up his congressional seat for an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2004, wouldn’t comment on the outside groups that have GwudUfd, j&i &CU& lust In! Old Favorites and Unusual Varieties! Buy your camellias now while we have a great £, . » ok choice of varieties. & - . Massee Lane f J Gardens Valley and 3 ml north of Marshallville on SR 49. ijr 3^o THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006 ♦ attacked Marshall. And he denied that he’s running a negative campaign, saying he is simply pointing out differences between the can didates. “If you don’t do a contrast, people have no idea why they should look at either candidate,” he said. Collins’ ad on Spanish-lan guage ballots, for example, is a reference to Marshall’s vote this summer support ing the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which among other things calls for some jurisdictions to print ballots in foreign languages. Marshall supported the measure, but so did an overwhelming majority of Republicans. The extension passed the Senate unani mously and cleared the House with a 390-33 vote. President Bush signed it shortly thereafter. Collins said he would have opposed its renewal. In other ads, the NRCC charged that Marshall opposed the creation of med : ical savings accounts aimed at cutting health care costs. But Marshall has consistent ly supported such accounts, and his campaign claimed a victory last month when it said it successfully lobbied to get the ad taken off the air. The NRCC said it sim ply changed out the ad as scheduled. Collins also has accused Marshall of supporting food stamps for illegal immi grants, an allegation that Marshall calls a “flat-out lie.” “You cannot permit some body to put something on the air that attacks you falsely and just leave it there unan swered,” Marshall said. “You have to respond.” Marshall, a Vietnam War veteran first elected to Congress in 2002, defend ed his characterization of Collins’ immigration posi tion as amnesty. Marshall said he opposes Collins’ proposal for a tempo rary worker program, argu ing that it would encourage more immigrants to enter the country. Collins’ spokesman Bill Hagan said the Republicaii does support a temporary program with input from businesses who need labor. But while some immigration hard-liners have said that position constitutes amnes ty, Hagan insisted it does not because it would not allow illegal immigrants to win citizenship. “It is the most false and misleading ad I have seen,” Hagan said. “When I first heard about it, I almost fell out of my chair laughing.” With the election still more than a month away, voters in the district are already tired of it all. “It’s getting to be a nui sance,” said Mildred Cline, a Warner Robins resident who voted for President Bush but said she’s turned off by the Republican attacks on Marshall. “I don’t believe half of what I hear on TV” 3A