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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Wuuaknt flatly .IJimnuti Perry Office 1210 Washington St. P.O. Box 1910 Perry, OA 31069 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www.hhjnews.com Reader . Llv IU KIJ 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 (or $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. 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This newspaper is a member of The Georgia Press Association, The National Newspaper Association and The Associated Press State Briefs Voters may get to decide photo ID law ATLANTA (AP) - The Republican who sponsored legislation requiring Georgia voters to show photo IDs at the polls has proposed a new idea: Let the voters them selves decide whether they back that idea. State Sen. Cecil Staton, R-Macon, pre-filed a reso lution Monday that would ask Georgia voters if the Georgia Constitution should give lawmakers the power to approve “procedures to verify the identity of elec tors.” It’s the latest response to repeated court rulings that have struck down the law as unconstitutional and an undue burden on voters. Echoing other GOP leaders, Staton called the rulings an attempt by the courts to “thwart what the General Assembly clearly wants to accomplish.” A majority of Georgia vot ers would have to approve the resolution before it becomes a part of the state’s constitution. First, though, it requires two-thirds of legislators in both chambers to approve the proposal to get on the ballot. While earlier ver sions of the photo ID law NOTICE TO ALL CITY OF PERRY Residential and Business GARBAGE CART CUSTOMERS Your Schedule CHANCES for THANKSGIVING , Nov. 23 Holiday THURSDAY, NOV. 23 PICKUP WILL BE FRIDAY, NOV. 24 a*. - ■ FRIDAY, NOV. 24 PICKUP WILL BE SATURDAY, NOV. 25 I TODAY’S Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Frt Sat Sun Mon Tue ** ‘ ji|' Jj|' / j£’ ■ jjC Jt 4 71/41 70/41 71/43 70/46 71/50 Mainly sunny Highs Mainly sunny Highs Sunny Highs in the Partly cloudy Highs Cloudy Highs in the in the low 70s and in the low 70s and low 70s and tows in in the low 70s and low 70s and lows in lows in the low 40s. lows in the low 40s. the low 40s. lows in the mid 40s the low 50s Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset 7:13 AM S:3IPM 7:14 AM S:3IPM 7:15 AM 5:30 PM 7:16 AM 5:30 PM 7:17 AM 5:30 PM LOOKS LIKE HOMEMADE, TASTES LIKE HOMEMADE.' Georgia At A Glance Moon Phases \ • *" \ Atlanta \ New First \ 66/40 Q 4. , \ Augusta Nov 20 Nov 28 \ X w\® 9/45 lr) <»§ \ ( */ ' Full Last \ Warner Robins \ Dec 5 Dec 12 \ 70/41 _ UV Index V * Savannah \ • \ 69/42 Fri 11/24 4 Moderate / Perry V_ I % ) 71/4t' S' r 7 Sat 11/25 4 Moderate ( / Kj Sun 11/26 pj Moderate I y Mon 11/27 3 Moderate l Valdosta V £ : 71/42 Tue 11/28 |2| Low \ The UV Index is measured on a O-1 1 , i number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin pro tection owm 11 Area Cities m H. .Lq Cond- J Albany 71 41 sunny Athens 67 39 sunny Atlanta 66 40 sunny Augusta 69 45 sunny Bainbridge 72 43 sunny Brunswick 65 49 mst sunny Cartersville 67 41 sunny Chattanooga.TN 62 38 sunny Columbus 70 44 sunny Cordele 71 43 sunny National Cities | City MLo Cond. j Atlanta 66 40 sunny Boston 52 40 mst sunny Chicago 52 40 cloudy Dallas 73 51 mst sunny Denver 52 28 sunny ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service passed the Republican-con trolled Legislature during the past two sessions, the most recent vote won just 55 percent support in the House. Ex-officer pleads guilty to bribery LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A former Gwinnett County police officer has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting he took bribes in exchange for tipping off massage parlors that were under investiga tion . Christopher In, 45, was also sentenced to 10 years probation, District Attorney Danny Porter said. In plead ed guilty Tuesday to a single count of bribery. The maxi mum sentence would have been 20 years. In, who resigned from the Gwinnett police vice unit in September 2003, had been suspected of accepting gifts in exchange for tipping off employees of massage par lors to pending undercover sting operations. 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Kwang Cha Yi, the manager of a spa, told authorities she paid money to In’s girlfriend to be warned about the stings, according to police. Yi was arrested for keeping a place of prostitution and obstruct ing a police officer, according to arrest records. Licensed* Fully Insured 100% Financing Visit Our Showroom For FREE ESTIMATES z Hometown Service Since 1979 7 1902 ELBERTA ROAD 478 929-2701 www.appleenclosures.com \b\* and Music Festival \ Starting (December through December 1 2006 Tor scfieduCedevents andadditionaCinformation visit l' y 2§r'' J www.perry downtown, com or contact fytarti ToCCeson at 987-0751. 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Survivors include her husband, three children, son-in-law, a sister and sister-in-law, 10 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. 4 in 10 U.S. children born in 'OS were out of wedlock ATLANTA (AP) - Out-of wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday. While out-of-wedlock births have long been associ ated with teen mothers, the birth rate among girls ages 10 to 17 actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record. Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s. Experts said the overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or liv ing together without getting married. They said it also reflects the fact that hav ing a child out of wedlock is more acceptable nowa days and not necessarily the source of shame it once was. The increase in births to unwed mothers was seen in all racial groups, but rose most sharply among Hispanics. It was up among all age groups except young sters ages 10 to 17. “A lot of people think of teenagers and unmarried mothers synonymously, but they are not driving this,” said Stephanie Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics, a co-author of the report. The government also reported that the rate of FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2006 ♦ births by Caesarean delivery continued to climb in 2005 to a record high, despite efforts by public health authorities to bring down the number. Many experts believe a large number of C-sections are medically unnecessary and done only for the conve nience of the mother or her doctor. The government report includes information from 99 percent of U.S. birth cer tificates filed last year. The information for 2005 is con sidered preliminary, but offi cials said it is not expected to change much. About 4.1 million babies were born in the United States last year, up slightly from 2004. More than 1.5 million of those were to unmarried women; that is about 37 percent of the total. In 2004, about 36 percent of births were out of wedlock. Out-of-wedlock births have been rising since the late 19905. Several factors may be contributing to the trend, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, an adolescent-medicine special ist at Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine. More women in their 30s and 40s, hearing their bio logical clock, are choosing to give birth despite their sin gle status. Younger women are not as worried about being unmarried, either, she added. 3A j 41024