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MftMleschool honor rolls-5A u jma 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, 61 ■ Pattie Ree Leverett Couillard, 67 ■ Ralph J. Ganus. 81 ■ Herman Fredrick, “Fred" Klein. Jr., 63 PERIODICAL 500 8 (nm in 4 Award-Winning ydSjjis. Better Newspaper VjCjrfjaji/ Contest 'vbajgJ?' COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Man Library UN (V OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 November 7, 2006 SHR\ r.\(; Hoi sro v Coivn Si\a:.lß7o 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 ... m A I a tie to save 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 i —a" -• .■• ■ - --B • ■ —— ■■■ tr a; na «■ b B&-. JB . Jb. ,;J§ I wa .^Mliili^liMß «fc ' : '|BB#»MmBI jhH JggsfiHHfe. jj™ 1 ■" ■>’ . 1 "' l> Hk fl -, ,-. v~v ■■■ V> ~„/. . [L- \ Jimmy Abrams, then and today. 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