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Suspect shoots
guard, kills self
STOCKBRIDGE (AP) - A
suspect in an armored car
robbery in which a guard
was shot and wounded, shot
and killed himself as author
ities closed in on him.
The robbery happened
Monday afternoon in a
Bank of America parking
lot, Henry County Police Lt.
Jason Bolton said.
Police followed the sus
pect to a nearby parking lot,
Bolton said. But the man
shot himself while in his car.
His name was immediately
released.
The injured guard was
airlifted to Atlanta Medical
Center, where he was listed
in critical condition Tuesday
morning.
Cathy Cox to teach
at UGA law school
ATHENS (AP) - Georgia
Secretary of State Cathy
Cox, who will leave office
in January after losing in
her bid to become governor,
will spend a few months as
lecturer at the University
of Georgia’s law school,
the university announced
Monday.
Cox has been named the
school’s Carl E. Sanders
Political Leadership Scholar
for the 2007 spring semes
ter.
During the appointment,
Cox will teach courses in
political and election law.
“Cathy Cox not only will
help to teach our students
about the law, she will also
provide them with a first
hand account of the impli
cations and applications of
the law at work,” said Paul
M. Kurtz, UGA’s associate
dean for academic affairs.
“It would be hard to imag
ine somebody with better
qualifications to teach these
courses.”
Cox served as secretary of
state from 1999 to the pres-
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A Democrat, she was
defeated in her party’s pri
mary for governor by Lt.
Gov. Mark Taylor, who faces
Gov. Sonny Perdue in next
month’s election.
Since then, she has raised
political eyebrows by failing
to publicly support Taylor.
She has not campaigned with
Taylor - despite lending her
support to other Democrats
- and her first post-primary
appearance was at a ribbon
cutting with Perdue.
At that event, she would
not say who she plans to
vote for in November.
Coca-Cola to donate
land for museum
ATLANTA (AP) - The
Coca-Cola Co. announced
Monday it would donate
$lO million worth of prime
downtown land to the city, to
develop a civil rights muse
um in the home town of the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Coca-Cola chairman and
CEO Neville Isdell said his
company is donating 2 1/2
acres for the museum near
the Georgia Aquarium and
the new World of Coca-Cola,
now under construction.
Coke previously donated
nine acres for the aquari
um.
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“There is no more appro
priate home for a civil rights
museum than the cradle of
America’s civil rights move
ment,” Isdell said.
“This city is the princi
pal guardian of Dr. King’s
dream. It our duty - as citi
zens of Atlanta - not just to
preserve his dream but to
build upon it.”
Isdell said the idea for the
museum came from Mayor
Shirley Franklin, who said
in January a civil rights
museum belongs in Atlanta.
“We believe an investment
in the city’s future is an
investment in our future,”
Isdell said.
A spokeswoman for
Franklin said Monday she
had no details on the muse
um or who would develop it.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis said
Atlanta is the “capital of
the modern day civil rights
movement” and should have
a civil rights museum, just
like other cities that were
prominent in the movement,
such as Birmingham and
Montgomery in Alabama
and Memphis in Tennessee.
Lewis said the proposed
museum will complement
the Martin Luther King Jr.
Center for Nonviolent Social
Change, where King and his
wife Coretta are buried.
“There is a role for the
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King Center but there is a
role for a major civil rights
museum” in Atlanta, Lewis
said.
Atlanta also is home to
King’s collected papers.
In June, a group of Atlanta
philanthropic leaders and
businesses - including Coca-
Cola - bought the papers
from the King family. King’s
alma mater, Morehouse
College, will house the col
lection.
No timetable has been set
on when construction of a
new museum would begin.
The new World of Coca Cola,
featuring multiple exhibits
highlighting the soft-drink
giant, is expected to open
May 24.
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NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
The City of Centerville has tentatively adopted a millage rate which will require an increase in
property taxes by 6.36 percent,
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held in Council
Chambers at City Hall, 300 E Church Street, Centerville Georgia; October 30. 2006 at
10:00am., November 2, 2006 at 4:00pm.. November 6, 2006 at 6:00 pm. Centerville
Governing Authority does hereby announce that the millage rate will be set at Regular Council
Meeting to be held on November 7,2006 at 7;00 om.
Pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A 48-5-32, Centerville does hereby publish the following
presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy along with the history of the tax digest and
levy for the past five years.
CURRENT. 2QM..IAX PI6EST AMP 5-YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY
CITY 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Real & Person 77,486,185 85,589,255 96,522,729 108,710,498 134,373,532 159,094,387
Motor Vehicle 9,435,450 9,874,780 10,529,130 10,978,040 10,837,810 11,159,330
Mobile Horn 1,451,044 1,623,072 1,569,502 1,542,386 1,556,780 1,802,651
Timber-100% 7,506
Heavy Outy Equipment 30,120 51,947 101,297
Gross Digest 88,372,679 97,087,107 108,621,361 121,261,044 146,820,069 172,165,171
Less M&O Exemption 3,029,236 4,193,336 5,664,160 8,149,898 11,357,754 13,992,934
Net M&O Digests 85,343,443 92,893,771 102,957,201 113,111,146 135,462,315 158,172,237
Gross M&O Millage 8.99 8.99 10,2 10.7 10.700 10.700
Less Rollbacks 0.01 -0.014 0 0
Net M&O MHlage 8.99 8.98 10.2 10.7 10.700 10.700
Net Taxes Levied 767,238 834,186 1,050,163 1,210,289 1,449,447 1,692,443
Net Taxes $ Increase 77,165 66,948 215,977 160,126 239,158 242,9%
Net Taxes % increase 11.18 8.73 25.89 15.25 19.76 16.76
AS CERTIFIED BY TAX ASSESSORS TOTAL NET ASSESSED VALUE ADDED BY REASSESSMENT 9,982,919
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2006
Obituaries
CLAUDIA 1L LUCKEY
PERRY - Claudia K. Luckey of Perry died Sunday. She is
survived by her husband Robert L. Luckey and daughters
Beth Loyd, Barbara Stanley, Nancy Luckey, six grandchil
dren and three great grandchildren. Her body was donated
to the Georgia Medical College in Augusta. There will be no
memorial or funeral service.
STEVEN ROSS MATHER
BONAIRE - Steven Ross Mather, 49, passed away Saturday.
Mather was born on February 27, 1957 in South Gate, Calif.
Survivors include his wife, Lisa Mather, sons, Marshall
Mather and Steven Webb, daughter, Sara Bell, mother, Lisa
St. Onge, two brothers, a sister and a niece.
MARY FRANCES KISER ETHRIDGE MOORE
WARNER ROBINS - Mary Kiser Moore, 84, passed away
on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at Summerhill Senior Living
Center in Perry, GA. Visitation will be Wednesday from 7:00
until 9:00 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home. Services will
be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 26, in the chapel
of McCullough Funeral Home with interment following in
Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be given
to the Alzheimer’s Association Georgia Chapter 277 Martin
Luther King Jr. BLVD, Macon, GA 31201-3498.
Mrs. Moore was born on April 8, 1922 in
Twiggs County, Georgia. She was a mem
ber of First Baptist Church of Centerville.
In addition to being a licensed practical
nurse for twenty years, Mary retired from
Robins Air Force Base civil service where
she worked in electronics. Her husband,
William P Moore, her parents, Samuel F.
and Mary Stone Kiser, her sister, Mamie
Lee Hasty, one grandchild and two great
grandchildren, all preceded her in death.
Survivors include her children, Joel T.
Ethridge (Carole), Macon; Joyce E. Reagan, Fort Valley;
Mary E. Spivey (Wendell), Eatonton; Lloyd T. Ethridge,
Jr. (Judy), Byron; Linda E. Kell (Wayne), Macon; Sheila E.
Duncan (Patrick), Warner Robins; Macon; two sisters, Katy
Wynn (Henry), Macon; Ruby Moore, Danville; nineteen
grandchildren, twenty nine great grandchildren and six
great-great grandchildren.
Go to www.mcculloughfb.com to sign the Online Registry
for the family. McCullough Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
State gasoline tax to drop
more than 2 cents a gallon
ATLANTA (AP) - The
state’s gasoline tax will dip
by 2.7 cents a gallon begin
ning in December, the state
Department of Revenue
reported on Monday.
The change comes because
the market price for gaso
line has dropped 25 percent
below the average retail
price for gasoline in Georgia.
That automatically triggers
a recalculation of the state
rate under the law adopted
in 2004, state officials said.
Although the announce
ment comes just two weeks
before the Nov. 7 general
election, state Revenue
Commissioner Bart Graham
said the change was driven
by state law, not by political
considerations.
“If there’s a 25 percent
movement in the market
price up or down we are
required by law to reset the
price,” Graham said.
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The change affects only
the prepaid state sales tax
portion of the motor fuel
tax. That portion of the tax
drops from 10.2 cents a gal
lon to 7.5 cents a gallon. The
price for a gallon of gaso
line also includes a 7.5 cent
state excise tax, 18.4 cents
in federal taxes and a local
tax portion that varies from
county to county.
In July, the state boosted
the state sales tax on gaso
line by 2.4 cents a gallon,
driven by a formula which
automatically adjusts the
state motor fuel sales tax
every six months.
This summer Democrats
were calling on Republican
Gov. Sonny Perdue to roll
back the state sales tax on
gasoline to combat soar
ing prices as he did after
Hurricane Katrina. But gas
prices across the nation have
taken a dive since then.
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