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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL I Pgwffy Office 1210 Washington St P.O. Box 1910 Parry, QA 31089 (478) 987-1823 See us online at www. hhjnews. com Reader DG3P® Classified Advertising: Call (478) 987-1823 between the hours of 8 a m. 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 mall: 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 for $62 per year by Evans Newspapers Inc., 1210 Washington St., Perry, GA 31069; (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 Funeral service for Brown rescheduled AUGUSTA (AP) Hometown fans of the late James Brown will have an opportunity to view his body Saturday afternoon and a public funeral service will be held later that day, an associate of Brown’s said Wednesday. Frank Copsidas, Brown’s professional manager, said Wednesday that the public service will be at 6 p.m. at the 8,500-seat James Brown Arena in Augusta. The view ing will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the arena, Copsidas said. Earlier, Copsidas had said the public funeral service would be at 1 p.m. Saturday On Thursday, members of the public will be able to view Brown’s body Thursday at the Apollo Theater in New York, Copsidas said. A private ceremony will be held Friday in Augusta. Brown, who died Monday of heart failure in Atlanta at age 73, will be buried later Saturday in Augusta, Copsidas said. Mystery shot kills motorist on 1-85 ATLANTA (AP) - Two men were shot, one of them fatally, while driving on an interstate highway just north of Atlanta, according to police. Gwinnett County Police said Celso Jose Villalobos, 24, of Norcross and Jesus Los Angeles Gonzales, 20, of Lawrenceville were head ed north on Interstate 85 at about 4:15 a.m. Sunday when someone shot at them near Ga. 316. Villalobos was able to drive to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he was treated and released. But his passenger, Gonzales, did not survive. Police said Villalobos could not provide any motive for the shooting or a description of the vehicle from which YOUR WEATHER TEAM! iffiinafri’i MGT Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast M- .. .. >v. - .. .. .. , . .. ~. . Sat 12/30 74/54 Scattered thunder storms. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the mid 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:37 AM 5:39 PM Fh 12/29 / 72/57 Mostly cloudy. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the upper 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:37 AM 5:39 PM ftawmt/Wi/(• - Georgia At A Glance \ 63/52 0-z. Augusta \ / -—CN*. 68/58 Robert XS ' N \ \ * ( \ Savannah —t \ ,[* p \ V 76/59 / —~j 72/57 ' '"X n Jf I Z v Valdosta fa \J — LI , 79/60 Area Cities | City ULo Cond, | Albany 75 57 pt sunny Athens 62 52 cloudy Atlanta 63 52 cloudy Augusta 68 58 pt sunny Bainbridge 78 62 pt sunny Brunswick 70 62 pt sunny Cartersville 64 53 cloudy Chattanooga,TN 60 48 pt sunny Columbus 73 59 cloudy Cordele 75 59 pt sunny National Cities Cond. Atlanta 63 52 cloudy Boston 41 29 pt sunny Chicago 47 41 cloudy Dallas 62 42 t-storm Denver 28 17 snow ©2005 American Prolile Hometown Content Service the shots were fired. Police say they are looking for motorists who may have been traveling north on the interstate around that time. 3 killed in suburban Atlanta plane crash LAWRENCEVILLE, (AP) - A twin-engine plane fly ing from Florida to Georgia crashed in an industrial park near an airport in the northeast Atlanta suburbs, killing three people, authori ties said. Ted Bailey, chief forensic investigator for the Gwinnett County medical examiner’s office, told the Gwinnett Daily Post on Tuesday that Michael Allen Mucha, 44, of Davie, Fla., was the pilot of the twin-engine Cessna Chancellor 414 that crashed near Gwinnett’s Briscoe Field. Also aboard were Mucha’s wife, Norma Ann, 43, and 16-year-old daugh ter, Samantha Mucha. All three were ejected from the plane during the crash and died at the scene, police said. The plane had taken off from the Palm Beach County Glades Airport, near Pahokee, Fla., and was approaching Briscoe Field when it crashed Monday night, officials said. “It is my understanding that it was very foggy at the time,” said Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington. Frank Taylor, a National Weather Service meteorolo gist at Peachtree City, said the tower at Briscoe Field reported fog and visibility of only a half mile in the hour before the crash. Lt. Craig Stanley of the Gwinnett County Fire Department said there were reports of an explosion at about 9 p.m. and confirmed there were at least three fatalities. Stanley said the plane’s >4B wiifs air nlfsrtaßsw— if i®vf cmigisi JlHrrjf ■War* MM«t OssrfSs Turns Nr News* miM Sun £* 65/38 Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the upper 30s. Sunrise Sunset 7:37 AM 5:40 PM I We Celebrate Hometown Life | city lo&ond. | Dalton 63 51 cloudy Dillard 59 44 pt sunny Dublin 73 55 pt sunny Duluth 62 51 cloudy Gainesville 60 51 cloudy Helen 62 50 cloudy Lagrange 69 55 cloudy Macon 70 56 cloudy Marietta 62 52 cloudy Milledgeville 69 56 cloudy pilot had radioed that the plane was having trouble and that he was attempting to land. An air traffic control ler then called authorities after seeing an orange glow in the distance, he said. The plane, registered to a company in Pembroke Pines, Fla., disappeared from radar at about 8:30 p.m., said Brown. The cause of the crash will be determined by the National Transportation Safety Board. Paul Schlamm, spokes man for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, said one of its investigators was already on the scene and probably would be joined by FAA and Cessna representatives. “They’ll be document ing the accident,” he said. “They’ll be looking at the wreckage and they’ll move it indoors for further examina tion as needed.” County using landfill to produce energy ATLANTA (AP) - When thousands of Georgia resi dents flick their light switch es, their rooms are being brightened by rotting food scraps and moldering paper in a DeKalb County landfill. DeKalb is the first county government in Georgia to harness the power of landfill gas. Since October, two 20- cylinder engines have been creating electricity by burn ing methane emitted from a county-owned landfill. They now consume about two-thirds of the methane emitted from the decompos ing garbage. It’s a tiny amount com pared with the massive coal Famous Homemade Cinnamon Rolls 1-75 Exit 130 • 067-0877 41554 STATE AND REGION Mon 1/1 59/36 Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 30s. Sunrise Sunset 11:59 12:01 PM AM Moon Phases a First Full Dec 27 Jan 3 # • Last New Jan 11 Jan 19 UV Index Fri 12/29 3 Moderate Sat 12/30 % Low Sun 12/31 3 Moderate Mon 1/1 H Moderate Tue 1/2 3 Moderate The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin pro tection o mm mmm 1 1 j&lty Ml Lo Cond. | Peachtree City 66 51 cloudy Perry 72 57 cloudy Rome 65 51 cloudy Savannah 76 59 pt sunny St. Simons Island7o 62 pt sunny Statesboro 76 56 pt sunny Thomasville 79 61 pt sunny Valdosta 79 60 pt sunny Warner Robins 71 57 cloudy Waycross 78 58 pt sunny Phoenix 61 38 mst sunny San Francisco 57 41 pt sunny Seattle 43 36 cloudy St. Louis 56 48 rain Washington, DC 56 44 pt sunny fired plants that dot Georgia. But it’s a start for consum ers willing to pay extra for “green” energy. “We’re producing enough electricity for about 3,000 homes,” said Billy Malone, an assistant director with the county’s sanitation divi sion. RF(U OFFICIAL SALES LIST • WATSON BRANCH DESCRIPTION SERIAL# PRICE | MILEAGE COMMENT 1997 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 720308-L-65 $ 6,650.00 105,971 V6.4WD,CASS/CD 1997 PONTIAC TRANS SPORT 165716-Ll3 $ 5,699 00 79,928 V6,CD 1997 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 142645-L1 $ 5,899 00 182,337 V6,AT,CASS 1997 FORD RANGER A38136-L26 $ 5,488.00 172,892 V6,AT,CD 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER 175446-L25 $ 4,299.00 108,693 V 6 1999 HONDA PASSPORT 408793-L6 $ 6,899 00 78,221 V 6 1999 DODGE DURANGO 648837-Ll7 $ 6,399.00 158,612 VB,AT,4WD 2000 LINCOLN LS 889992-LlB $ 12,499.00 58,360 V 8 > 2000 FORD EXPEDITION A70528-L7 $ 8,999.00 96,670 VB,AT,CASS,LR 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 116394-L2l $ 9,699 00 114,810 VB,CD/CASS,LEAT 2000 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE 029747-L57 $ 2,199.00 151,252 4CYL 2001 VOLKSWAGON BEETLE 463184-L54 $ 10,199.00 55,996 4CYL 2001 CHEVROLET CAVALIER 220011-L27 $ 3,599.00 110,912 4CYL,MT,CD 2001 GMC SIERRA 244951-L2O $ 5,999.00 123,235 VB,CD/CASS,LEAT 2002 FORD THUNDERBIRD 110222-L5 $ 17,999.00 1 00,436 VB,AT,CD 2002 DODGE RAM 223728-L9 $ 12,999.00 82,845 VB,AT,CD/CASS 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM 231986-LlO $ 6,999 00 82,701 4CYL 2003 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER 091235-L24 $ 16,175.00 62,545 V 6 2003 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER 165760-L56 $ 12,899.00 78,567 V 6 2003 SUZUKI GRAND VITARA 101815-L64 $ 13,999.00 93,396 V6,CD/CASS,LR 2003 DODGE NEON 164692-Lls $ 5,999.00 89,306 4CYL 2003 MITSUBISHI LANCER 008533-L6l $ 6,899.00 86,902 4CYL 2004 COACHMAN 275 RLS J07151-Ll6 $ 21,499.00 . 0 32’X83' SUPER SLIDE 2004 HONDA RANCHER 004314-L22 $ 3,250.00 0 YELLOW 2005 POLARIS TRAILBOSS 555538-L23 $ 3,999.00 0 YELLOW/BLACK 2006 CHEVROLET COLORADO 171515-L3 $ 21,500.00 10,459 AT,VS,CD 2006 GMC SIERRA 258098-Ll4 $ 23,188.00 10,138 V6.AT PRICES GOOD AS OF DECEMBER 27, (*** New Units) "‘PRICES GOOD AS OF DECEMBER 28,2006 FOR UNITS CAN BE VIEWED ONLINE AT www.robinsfcu.org UNITS CAN BE SEEN AT ROBINS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, 803 WATSON BLVD WARNER ROBINS. YOU MAY CALL TOMMY AT 923-3773, EXT x 2420 OR x 2400. VIEWING TIME FOR UNITS ARE MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 9:00 A.M. TILL 5:00 P.M. AND SATURDAYS FROM 9:OOAM TILL 12:30 PM. IF AFTER VIEWING THE UNITS, YOU WISH TO PURCHASE ONE, YOU MAY CALL OR STOP BY ANY OF OUR BRANCHES. ALL UNITS SOLD AS ISM ALL UNITS ARE SOLD ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS IN THE EVENT THAT MORE THAN ONE PERSON EXPRESSES AN INTEREST IN THE SAME VEHICLE AT THE SAME TIME, THE VEHICLE WILL BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. UNITS CAN BE PURCHASED AT ROBINS FCU CAR SALES LOT OR FROM OUR COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT, 803 WATSON BLVD. SALES TAX OF 7% WILL APPLY TO ALL INSTATE SALES, OR WHERE APPLICABLE. SALES TAX RATE BASED ON PURCHASE LOCATION OF 'HOUSTON COUNTY'. Tue 1/2 61/33 Mostly sunny. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 30s. Sunrise Sunset 11:59 12:01 PM AM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2006 ♦ Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93 By JEFF WILSON Associated Press Writer RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared “Our long national nightmare is over” as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93. The nation’s 38th presi dent, and the only one not elected to the office or the vice presidency, died at his desert home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday. “His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country,” his wife, Betty, said in a statement. Ford was the longest living former president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who died in June 2004, by more than a month. Ford’s office did not release the cause of death, which followed a year of medical problems. He was treated for pneumonia in January and had an angioplasty and pace maker implant in August. Funeral arrangements were to be announced Wednesday. Former President Carter described him Wednesday as “one of the most admirable public servants and human beings I have ever known.” Former President Clinton said, “all Americans should be grateful for his life of service.” Ford was an acciden tal president. A Michigan Republican elected to Congress 13 times before becoming the first appointed vice president in 1973 after Spiro Agnew left amid scan dal, Ford was Nixon’s hand picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straightforward as Nixon was tightly controlled and conspiratorial. He took office moments after Nixon resigned in dis grace over Watergate. “My fellow Americans,” Ford said, “our long nation al nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a govern ment of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.” And, true to his reputa tion as unassuming Jerry, he added: “I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots. So I ask you to con firm me with your prayers.” He revived the debate over Watergate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed, contributed to Ford losing election to a term of his own in 1976. But it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on. The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S. during his presidency with the fall of Saigon in April 1975. In a speech as the end neared, Ford said: “Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.” Evoking Abraham Lincoln, he said it was time to “look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” Ford became the first vice president appointed under the 25th amendment to the Constitution. He assumed the office on Aug. 9, 1974. The next morning, he still made his own breakfast and padded to the front door in his pajamas to get the newspaper. After the Watergate ordeal, Americans liked their new president - and first lady Betty, whose candor charmed the country. At a joint session after becoming president, Ford addressed members of Congress as “my former col leagues” and promised “com munication, conciliation, compromise and coopera tion.” But his relations with Congress did not always run smoothly. He vetoed 66 bills in his barely two years as presi dent. Congress overturned 12 Ford vetoes, more than for any president since Andrew Johnson. In his memoir, “A Time to Heal,” Ford wrote, “When I was in the Congress myself, I thought it fulfilled its con stitutional obligations in a very responsible way, but after I became president, my perspective changed.” Some suggested the par don was prearranged before Nixon resigned, but Ford, in an unusual appearance before a congressional com mittee in October 1974, said, “There was no deal, period, under no circumstances.” The committee dropped its investigation. 3A 8 9