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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Pony, QA 31009 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnewa.com Reader \MF© Classified Advertising: Call (478) 987-1823 between the hours of 8 am 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. 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 Store Briefs Missing man's body found in river ST. SIMONS ISLAND (MNS) - The body of a 34- year-old Mclntosh County man was found floating Wednesday about three miles from the beach where he drowned, authorities said. A member of Duke Gardner’s family spotted the body about 9:30 a.m. in the Frederica River, just south of the bridge that connects the F.J. Torras Causeway with St. Simons Island, said Capt. Stephen Adams Georgia Department of Natural Resources. “That’s a tough thing for them to do, to find him,” Adams said. “We discour aged them from participat ing in the search because we knew it would be hard.” From the moment they learned Gardner had been swept off a sandbar, the Gardner family had been at the site watching others search and doing so them selves. “We were bred to do what needs to be done,” R.D. Gardner, the victim’s father, said Wednesday morning. “We’ve got a job to do right now. We’re going to do what it takes.” As the sun rose over the beach, R.D. Gardner remarked to his daughter in-law, Beverly Gardner, how beautiful it was. He would have rather seen it rise at home in Mclntosh County. It was his fourth straight morning on the beach as his family endured the grim business of looking for the youngest of his six sons. One dead in bizarre fire, accident WATKINSVILLE (MNS) - A man rammed his truck into a rural barn Wednesday afternoon and burned to death as flames engulfed the building, the climax to a bizarre series of events that one investigator said was the strangest he’d ever seen. The man, still unidentified Wednesday evening, drove a -^^l Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Bun 10/15 78/54 Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid 50s Sunrise Sunset 7:39 AM 703 PM Sat C/ 75/48 Abundant sunshine Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the up per 40s. Sunrise Sunset 7:39 AM 7:04 PM LOOKS LIKE HOMEMADE. Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta M V \ 69/46 q 1 i Augusta / " 75/50 Warner Roblps 'y \ \ \ Savannah ) { AVAr V 76/47 > / ) 76/47 / \ £ % Valdosta lllll— 1 j Area Cities Cllv Hi _ L 1 Albany 80 50 mst sunny Athens 71 45 sunny Atlanta 69 46 sunny Augusta 75 50 sunny Bainbridge 83 53 mst sunny Brunswick 75 55 sunny Cartersville 70 45 sunny Chattanooga.TN 65 45 sunny Columbus 74 53 sunny Cordele 78 49 sunny National Cities Atlanta 69 46 sunny Boston 59 41 sunny Chicago 52 38 pt sunny Dallas 79 67 rain Denver 69 41 pt sunny <02005 American Profile Hometown Content Service truck off Georgia Highway 316, looped through two nearby farm fields and forded a creek before crash ing into the barn at 1951 Pete Dickens Road in rural Oconee County. The path he took seemed to show the man was in con trol of the truck as he drove, said Trooper A. Wilkins of the Georgia State Patrol. “Right now, it’s one of the strangest incidents I’ve ever investigated,” Wilkins said. Why the man left the high way and rammed through the barn was just one of the mysteries state and local law enforcement and fire offi cials were trying to unravel Wednesday evening. The bizarre series of events began to unfold some time before 3 p.m. when the owner of the property, Audrey Rowden, stepped outside to let out her dogs. Prosecutors: DNA points to suspect SAVANNAH (AP) - Prosecutors in a southeast Georgia rape trial say DNA evidence ties the defendant - suspected in a series of rapes in Georgia and South Carolina - to assaults on five Savannah women. The prosecution rested its case Wednesday against Ron Oneil Young after call ing more than 30 witnesses who recounted the attacks, the steps that led to Young’s capture, and the science that resulted in a 31-count indict ment. Young, 24, was arrested the morning of July 6, 2005, after a Walterboro, S.C., woman told police she had been abducted and 1 forced at gunpoint to perform oral sex by a man wearing a white ball cap and driv ing a blue Dodge Intrepid. A Hardeeville, S.C., police offi cer testified Wednesday he saw the car traveling south on Interstate 95 and began tailing it around 4:15 a.m. He and two Port Wentworth, police officers stopped the car after it crossed the Georgia-South Carolina state line. STATI AND REGION ■ Mon 10/16 78/62 Showers, maybe a rumble of thunder Sunrise Sunset 7:40 AM 7:02 PM jsm Ifaiy . .-H..10-CT Dalton 69 44 sunny Dillard 66 38 sunny Dublin 77 44 sunny Duluth 68 44 sunny Gainesville 68 48 sunny Helen 67 42 sunny Lagrange 72 46 sunny Macon 75 47 sunny Marietta 69 44 sunny Milledgeville 75 46 sunny rcnT— — HILTC°nd. 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Sunrise Sunset 7:41 AM 7:00 PM TASTES LIKE HOMEMADE. Moon Phases n Full Last Oct 7 Oct 14 • « New First Oct 22 Oct 29 UV Index Sat 10/14 7] High Sun 10/15 « High Mon 10/16 4 Moderate Tue 10/17 4 Moderate Wed 10/18 4 Moderate The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin pro tection 0 tgMHM 11 Peachtree City 71 44 sunny Perry 76 47 sunny Rome 70 44 sunny Savannah 76 47 sunny St. Simons Island7s 55 sunny Statesboro 80 48 sunny Thomasville 80 52 mst sunny Valdosta 79 49 mst sunny Warner Robins 75 47 sunny Waycross 79 47 sunny i c '*y Mi lo Cond. Phoenix 82 67 t-storm San Francisco 65 53 mst sunny Seattle 65 50 cloudy St. Louis 64 49 sunny Washington, DC 61 42 sunny Cox makes first post-primary appearance - with Perdue By DOUG GROSS Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - Democratic Secretary of State Cathy Cox on Thursday made her first mtgor appearance since losing her party’s nomina tion for governor - with the Republican governor she had hoped to defeat. Cox, who lost the Democratic nomination to Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, joined Gov. Sonny Perdue at the state Capitol to unveil a new exhibit at the building’s his tory museum. The appearance of bad blood between Taylor and Cox has persisted since the end of a bruising pri mary face-off. Cox has not appeared with Taylor since the primary ended, including at the state Democratic con vention, which she skipped, and former President Jimmy Carter even stepped in to help settle a lawsuit between the two campaigns. On Thursday, Cox said the appearance was not a politi cal statement. “Pm still secretary of state until the first of the year,” Cox said. “We’re simply doing my job today.” Cox said the ribbon-cut ting at the exhibit, which chronicles the role of reli gious faith in the state’s his tory, had been planned for months and could just as easily have been held in the spring, when she was still a candidate. “If we would have done this MONTREAT COLLEGE invites you to their Fall Open House November 10-11 For Information: 1-100-822-8888 or e-mail your RSVP: adraißSions@nuHitrßat.Bdu Christ-Centered • Student-Focused • Sendee-Driven Montreal, North Carolina » www.montreat.edu FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2000 ♦ in the spring, we would have done this in the same way, with the same people,” said Cox, who said Taylor and all members of the Legislature were invited. Perdue, too, downplayed the political significance of the event. But he praised Cox, saying she has done “a great job serving the peo ple." “This is the people’s house,” he said. “It’s all the people’s house and we stand here today as a Democrat and a Republican doing the people’s business.” Taylor campaign spokes man Rick Dent did not immediately return a phone call and e-mail from the Associated Press for com ment. With Perdue at her side, Cox declined to say who she plans to vote for in the Nov. 7 election. She said isn’t ruling out appearing with Taylor, but that she’s been too busy to do so before now. “We’re kind of taking it as it comes,” said Cox, who has appeared at fundraisers and other events for several legislative candidates. During the Democratic campaign, a Taylor sup porter sued Cox press secre tary Peter Jackson for libel. Jackson publicly apologized after Carter stepped in, but partisans on both sides, including Cox’s husband, Mark Dehler, continued bickering about it days after the deal to drop the suit was reached. 2A