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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, -1C
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 241
BELOW THE FOLD: Sex offender back in jail ■ Perry thanks WRFD for review ■ Habitat for Humanity receives $5,000 donation
Wednesday
December 20,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
Houston County High School
is preparing to host its annual
Chick-fil-A Bear Brawl basketball
tournament. Read the review.
Also, the Bears and Lady Bears
both took first in the tournament
hosted by them and Northside
Saturday at Fort Valley State
University. Elsewhere, Warner
Robins' girls finished second yet
again, this time at the Landmark
Christian meet.
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IN BRIEF
Museum offers
special ornament
To honor the legacy of Brig.
Gen. Robert L. Scott, the Museum
of Aviation has created a com-
memora
tive orna
ment of
his P-40
soaring
in the
clouds.
The
ornament
is limited
to 1,248
■BSi
y
pieces and is three-dimensional,
24 carat gold-plated brass and
hand painted with a red silk hang
ing ribbon.
The cost is S2O and it is avail
able at the Museum of Aviation.
Efforts under way to
recover films
Efforts are under way to gather
Ralph Tabor’s films of first grade
classes in Perry. These will be
converted onto DVDs for preser
vation. Missing films are of the
classes that graduated in 1959,
1961, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1971,
1980, 1981 and 1982.
Anyone having these or infor
mation is asked to contact Floyd
Tabor at 987-2984 or e-mail
floydtabor@pobox.com.
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Washington St., Perry 31069
attn: Don Moncrief. You can
also call him at 987-1823,
Ext. 231.
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Man follows through on suicide threat
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Sta ff Writer
A Bonaire man threatened to and
later followed through with a suicide
early Monday morning.
He reportedly placed a hunting
rifle in his mouth and initiated a
self-inflicted gunshot wound while
deputies from the Sheriff’s Response
team and the Negotiations Team were
attempting to negotiate with him at
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Members of the 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group on Robins Air Force Base has been busy col
lecting gifts for needy Middle Georgia families. The gifts were loaded up Monday and turned over to the
Salvation Army. TOP: Base workers Kevin Warnoch, Freddie Fudge, Eugene Stinson, Chris Hays and
Sharon Sullivan load the gifts on the trailer. ABOVE: Sullivan hands gifts to Hays.
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City of Perry thanks WRFD for review
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Perry officials went to a Warner
Robins City Council meeting Monday
to say “thanks.”
Mayor Jim Worrall, councilmen
Brian Bowen, Riley Hunt and James
Moore, as well as Public Safety
Director George Potter and Deputy
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3:17 a.m. He was pronounced dead on
scene at his home on Hiawassee Drive
in Bonaire.
“The name is not being released
at this time,” said Lt. Jon Holland
from the Sheriffs Office Criminal
Investigations Division. Holland said
the incident remains under investiga
tion.
Deputies were initially dispatched
to a residence on Enchanted Oaks
Drive in Bonaire to a possible sui
Fire Chief Joel Gray were there to
show their appreciation for the help
and the review provided recently by
the Warner Robins Fire Department.
“We turned to Warner Robins to seek
some guidance,” said Worrall.
“We got a lot of help,” said Potter,
whose previous title was police chief
before being named public safety
director after former Perry Fire Chief
cidal person about 12:19 a.m. Monday.
Upon arrival the subject had fled the
scene and a lookout was placed on
the subject’s vehicle. “He was located
at his residence on Hiawassee Drive,
Holland said, about 1:52 a.m.
A resident on scene reportedly
told deputies the subject in question
was home. When deputies made con
tact with the subject, he reportedly
placed the barrel of a hunting rifle in
See SUICIDE, page pf
Freddy Howell’s resignation.
“I was at a loss,” Potter said. “I
didn’t know a thing about flrefight
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ing.
That help included a former WRFD
Chief, Frank Fennel, serving as interim
chief for three months, a peer review
of the department by WRFD Chief
Robert Singletary and Deputy Chief
See THANKS, page fA
Three sections • 18 pages
City OKs 2
rezonings
Accepts donation
from developer
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins, during its
city council meeting Monday,
approved two rezonings
for Charlie McGlamry and
accepted a $15,000 donation
from the developer.
Mayor Donald Walker said
the donation, one of many
McGlamry has made for the
city, will help the city acquire
and clean up more property
along Commercial Circle.
Walker said McGlamry has
also donated money for park
space and land greenspace
for the Wellston Trail.
The city council also
approved two rezoning
requests for McGlamry, one
on Sandy Run Road at Ga.
247 and the other at Gunn
Road and U.S. 41.
The 7.32-acre tract off
Sandy Run Road, east of Ga.
247 was recommended for
rezoning from R-l (3/4-acre
lot single family residen
tial) to C-2 (general com
mercial). It is adjacent to
Wisteria subdivision off Old
Hawkinsville Road.
Walker said the property
is near the new liquor store,
which is not within city
limits and across from the
Landmark shopping center.
The second request was
for four tracts totaling about
See REZONI NGS, page 6A
Sex offender
back in jail
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Marlon Jermaine Stubbs
was picked up Friday for
a probation violation stem-
ming from a
2004 statu
tory rape
conviction.
He also
violated his
restrictions
as a regis
tered sex
offender.
“They could
not find
another place for him to live, ”
explained Sgt. Charlene
Giles of the Houston County
Sheriffs Office.
Giles explained “his
momma takes care of him
and couldn’t pay his proba
tion fees anymore.”
Stubbs, 22, is being
See OFFENDER, page fA
Habitat recipient ot
$5,000 donation
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
State Farm wants to give
back to the community.
Proof came via Friday’s
$5,000 donation, which
brings to about $17,000
the Andy Thomas State
Farm Insurance agency has
given to the local chapter of
Habitat for Humanity.
Thomas said the donation
from State Farm was given
on behalf of State Farm poli
cyholders, customers and
employees.
John Sillers, Habitat for
Humanity executive direc
tor thanked Thomas for the
See DONA TION, page fA
STUBBS