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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 214
Below the Fold: Police hunt suspects in shooting and robbery W One dead, one critical, driver in jail over fatal wreck
Tuesday
November 7, 2006
The Home Journal's
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
Look for: Pics from the National
Vintage Racing Association's annual
reunion Saturday, a story on Buddy
Ayer locking up the Perry Horseshoe
Pitcher's Club's summer series.
In addition, the Air Force
Association will be holding a golf
tournament and run.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Organizations waive
fees for holiday
According to a release, fees
for day use and camping on the
Chattahoochee-Oconee National
Forests will not be charged Friday
or Saturday in honor of the Nation's
active duty military, military veterans
and their families.
Day use includes fees for parking,
swimming, boat launch use, use of
shooting ranges arid off road vehicle
trails.
It does not include shuttle ser
vice from Brasstown Bald park
ing area to the top of the Bald
or concessionaire facilities at Lake
Winfield Scott. DeSoto Falls, Boggs
Creek. Morganton Point. Lakewood
Landing. Deep Hole or the canoe
launch at Sandy Bottoms on the
Toccoa River.
Museum department
to hold fund-raiser
The Museum of Aviation Education
Department is having a fund-raiser.
Proceeds will.be used to support
student educational field trips at the
Museum.
For sale will be barbecued Boston
butts for S2O, and tubs of chocolate
chip cookie dough for sl2. All orders
must be prepaid, and are due by
Friday.
Buyers will pick up their purchases
in the Museum of Aviation Freedom
Park on Dec. 2.
Contact Melissa Spalding at the
Museum of Aviation, 926-5558; or by
e-mail at mspaulding@museumofavi
ation.org for information on ordering.
BIRTHDAYS
E-mail your birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewstoapers.com or
donm@evansnewspapers.com or
send them to: 1210 Washington
St., Perry 31069; attn: Don
Moncrief. You can also call him at
987-1823, Ext. 231.
DEARLY DEPARTED
■ Wanda Elizabeth Williamson,
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■ Pattie Ree Leverett Couillard,
67
■ Ralph J. Ganus. 81
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Jr., 63
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When Olivia lost htr hair, she didn't
veally realize It for awhile. That first
routed of chemotherapy was rough. Htr
dad , Alan Culpepper, laughs as he remembers, her
reaction when she was finally well enough to care.
she took a mirror in her h and, looked at her
reflection for the first time and then salot bluntly,
"I'm not going 'anywhere' looking like this."
That's Olivia ...
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Journal Charlotte Perkins
Olivia Culpepper will be 4 in January. She was diagnosed with Acute Monocytic
Leukemia in September and came home last Thursday after seven weeks in the
Children’s Hospital in Macon.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
... She’s 3-going-on-4.
She has big brown eyes.
“But there’s a little bit of green in
them,” she explains.
She likes dolls and dollhouses, color
ing and crafts with glitter. Dora and
Sponge Bob are among her favorite
television characters.
When she’s feeling good she’s “a real
Chatty Cathy,” according to her mom,
Cindy.
Her dad describes her as a lively,
strong-willed little girl with a big vocab
ulary.
Just now, however, she’s pale and
fragile. She gets tired easily. She’ll
play awhile with her older brother
and sister watching over her carefully,
and then wind up in her mom’s lap.
She’s still getting used to being home
again after spending seven weeks in
the Children’s Hospital of the Medical
Center of Central Georgia waging war
with Acute Monocytic Leukemia.
It’s been six weeks that tested the
whole family’s strength. Drew, 14, and
www.hhjnews.com
How you can help
Donations may be made to
"Olivia’s Benefit Fund” at any
Security Bank.
Friends of the Culpepper family in
the Henderson community will sell
barbecue chicken plates Saturday
as a fund-raiser to help with Olivia’s
medical bills. The plates can be
picked up near the Perry High
School football field between 11
a.m. and 2 p.m. The cost is $6 per
plate.
To purchase tickets call Tammy
Pike at 258-0291 or Judy Kersey at
808-4024 by Thursday noon.
Elaina, 10, have spent most of this
school term in the care of their Perry
grandparents, Milton and Margaret
Culpepper and their great-grandmother,
Frances Bowen and Cindy Culpepper’s
mother, Sarah Smith has provided sup
port at the hospital.
See OLIVIA,page3B
Two sections •12 pages
He is a true
'Hogan's hero
Editor 'a Note: Following
is the first in a series salut
ing our veterans. Look for
a feature story each day,
culminating with a special
section Saturday.
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
The USS Hogan had an
illustrious cruise. It earned
six battle stars during
World War 11.
ItwasdesignatedDD-178,
July 17,1920. It was decom
missioned May 27, 1922 at
San Diego, Calif., laid up in
the Pacific Reserve Fleet,
then recommissioned Aug.
7, 1940, reclassified and
converted to a high-speed
minesweeper, DMS-6, Nov.
19, 1940, reclassified as a
miscellaneous auxiliary,
AG-105, June 5, 1945 and
then decommissioned Oct.
11, 1945.
From September of 1940
until October of 1945 it was
also the floating home of a
farm kid from Grovania.
Jimmy D. Abrams was
"There on the bow no one said a word.
We had seen many of the troops as
they fell during the battle."
-Jimmy Abrams, on watching the flag raised at Iwojima
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Police seek suspects in shooting, robbery
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police are
looking for suspects in a
shooting on Ignico Drive
and a robbery at Total
Beauty Supply.
The separate incidents
both occurred Saturday
night.
At 9:32 p.m., officers with
the Warner Robins Police
Department responded to
132 Ignico Drive in ref
t dead, 1 critical, driver in jail for tatal wreck
By RA Y LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Joseph Calvin Huckabee,
17, of Perry was killed early
Sunday morning in a sin
gle car wreck on Grovania
Road in Elko.
Huckabee and Joshua
Jackson Williams, 18,
born in Salem Church May
11, 1922. “That’s some
where between Montezuma
and here (Perry),” he said.
Four boys and one girl,
the Abrams family had
ventured out of Alabama
in the 20s because of the
rocky soil in Alabama.
“Work was hard in those
days,” Jimmy Abrams said,
“but we finished school. I
graduated from Perry High
School in 1939 and volun
teered to join the service.
I went to boot training in
Norfolk, Va.”
See HERO, page 6B
erence to a person shot.
Officers found the victim,
Yomar Riveria, with a sin
gle gunshot wound to the
leg.
The victim was transport
ed to the Houston Medical
Center, where he is listed
in stable condition. The
suspect was described as a
black male, 6-feet tall, last
seen wearing a white stock
ing cap with blue trim.
Earlier, at 7:43 p.m.
See SUSPECTS, page 6B
of Elko were passengers
in the vehicle driven by
Ronald Alan Sinyard,
20, of Elko. According to
Capt. Robert West of the
Houston County Sheriffs
Office Patrol Division,
about 5 a.m. Sunday the
vehicle left the roadway,
See WRECK, page lA