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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Houston fWtystfurnnl Perry Office 1210 Washington St P.O. Bom 1910 Parry, GA 31069 (478)987-1823 See us online at www. hhjnews. com Reader oK]p© Classified Advertising: Call (478) 987-1823 between the hours of 8 a m and 5 pm 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 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 am. to 5 pm. 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 Youth charged in murder of visitor COLUMBUS (AP) - Police have charged a 19-year-old in the robbery-murder of a Missouri real estate agent who had come to town to attend a basic training graduation at nearby Fort Benning. Joseph Allen Curry, 19, of Columbus was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with murder ing James Hallam, 49, of Springfield, Mo., who was gunned down Dec. 14 while unloading his rental SUV in a motel parking lot, police said. Hallam, his girlfriend, her sister and at least two chil dren were visiting Columbus to watch the girlfriend’s son graduate from basic train ing. He was unpacking their vehicle about 11 p.m. when Curry and possibly two oth ers approached him, robbed him and shot him dead with a 9 mm pistol, police said. The assailants left Hallam face down in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to the back of his neck, police said. In addition to murder, Please don’t forge This Christmas season please help poor and suffering souls in our community. Your gift today will let someone in desperate need know they haven’t been forgotten. Remember to give. YES, I want to help provide food and shelter for needy people in our community: Q S2O to help feed a hungry person. □ $35 to help provide toys for needy children. □ SSO to help feed and shelter a hurting family. □ $ to help as much as possible. NAML ~~~— AUDKESS VaiivsiisfKfzi'i’ CLIP AND MAII. WITH YOUR GOT TODAY YOUR WEATHER TEAM! MG T Today's Weather Local 5-Day Forecast Mon 1/1 68/42 Few showers. Highs in the upper 60s and tows in the low 40s Sunrise Sunset 7:37 AM S:4IPM Sun 12/31 72/57 Rain and thunder. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the up per 50s. Sunrise Sunset 7:37 AM 5:40 PM [\n« 'timfirM' ' Georgia At A Glance \ Atlanta \ 61/52 Augusta 1 / 73/61 \ ( Vv'N'V'K'X ''''V \ Warner Robins t \ \ 72/57 j V, % . \ ) \ Savannah -rtsrp \ i*l \ 79/58 «K f Perry r > I 73/57 K \, ~ • 79/58 / r "'"~-^ Area Cities I City Hi Lo COnd. Albany 74 55 t-storm Athens 62 53 rain Atlanta 61 52 rain Augusta 73 61 rain Bainbridge 76 59 t-storm Brunswick 73 59 pt sunny Cartersville 63 52 rain Chattanooga.TN 62 44 rain Columbus 71 58 rain Cordele 75 59 t-storm National Cities E3E— !■ I Ihi I ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service Curry was charged with two counts of armed robbery, one count of aggravated assault and two counts of possession of a firearm during the com mission of a crime, his arrest report stated. The additional armed rob bery and possession charg es stem from the shooting of Juan Martinez, 23, in Columbus about 30 minutes before Hallam was killed. Martinez was walking home about 10 p.m. when he was approached by three men. He was robbed, pushed to the ground then shot in the face, police said. According to Curry’s arrest report, Martinez “suffered serious life-threatening, life changing injuries.” Republicans want tn change name ATLANTA (AP) - A Republican lawmaker is try ing to strip an honor from a politician named McKinney - but this time it’s not the controversial congresswom an. Rep. Rich Golick, R- Smyrna, Gov. Sonny Perdue’s floor leader in the House, has filed a bill that Doing the MOST GOOD Please send your tax-deductible gift to: The Salvation Army P.O. Box 2408 Warner Robins, GA 31093 To make a gift by credit card I -800-SAL ARMY HHttcorokflat Jerry Matheweon «m»i Mi M nil r* - ■■a# Ml fflWfl Turn* tar News- dim Tue e|l * 64/39 Mainly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the upper 30s. Sunrise Sunset 7:38 AM 5:42 PM 5 • We Celebrate Honicfou n lAfe ■ Stories tor and about hometowns just like yours. Loot for us | City HI Lo Cnnd. 1 Dalton 67 49 rain Dillard 63 48 rain Dublin 75 57 rain Duluth 60 51 rain Gainesville 60 56 rain Helen 63 52 rain Lagrange 69 53 rain Macon 71 57 rain Marietta 61 51 rain Milledgeville 70 57 rain Hi Lo Cond. Houston 68 43 sunny Los Angeles 68 45 pt sunny Miami 80 71 mst sunny Minneapolis 37 30 rain New York 47 37 pt sunny would remove the designa tion of 1-285 as the James E. “Billy” McKinney Highway in Cobb County. McKinney, a former long time state lawmaker, is the father of U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who lost her re election bid in July. State Rep. Len Walker, a Republican who repre sents Gwinnett and part of Walton County, has also filed legislation to switch Cynthia McKinney Parkway in DeKalb County back to its original name, Memorial Drive. State lawmakers passed legislation in 2000 designat ing a stretch of 1-285 as the James E. “Billy” McKinney Highway. Goliek’s resolution would end the designation of the Billy McKinney Highway at the Chattahoochee River - leaving part of Fulton County but eliminating the part of Cobb County it cur rently covers. Golick told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he wants to name the Cobb County portion for Joe Lee Thompson, a Cobb County commissioner and former state senator. | v - * STATE AND REGION Wed 1/3 . 63/42 Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s. Sunrise Sunset 7:38 AM 5:42 PM Moon Phases lb First Full Dec 27 Jan 3 # • Last New Jan 11 Jan 19 UV Index Sun 12/31 |§ Low Mon 1/1 3 Moderate Tue 1/2 3 Moderate Wed 1/3 3 Moderate Thu 1/4 §f Low The UV Index is measured on a 0-11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin pro tection 0 M 1 I City Hi Lo Cond. | Peachtree City 68 50 rain Perry 73 57 rain Rome 68 49 rain Savannah 79 58 t-storm St. Simons Island 73 59 pt sunny Statesboro 78 56 t-storm Thomasville 78 59 t-storm Valdosta 79 58 t-storm Warner Robins 72 57 rain Waycross 80 58 t-storm El Phoenix 65 42 sunny San Francisco 56 40 pt sunny Seattle 46 35 rain St. Louis 57 44 pt sunny Washington, DC 49 44 cloudy V Mg Enjoy the World Wide "world wide wad” sign up today! ■k If > ifppu Hf x M KBteulk ■ x Mm W fe * ,'VT . I -1 /t vBHv Thu 1/4 69/47 Showers. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the upper 40s. Sunrise Sunset 7:38 AM 5:43 PM KISliiiS&T: - v IG DIAL-UP? Speed mum 111 Wan II? Si II §1 ghbors SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2006 ♦ National mourning for Ford began Friday By A LLISON HOFFMA N Associated Press Writer PALM DESERT, Calif. - The nation’s six days of for mal mourning of Gerald R. Ford, starting Friday after noon with a private service for his family, will include a day of silence on Wall Street, with the major stock mar kets closed. The New York Stock Exchange announced Friday that it would join the Nasdaq in closing on Tuesday, the day of Ford’s state funeral in Washington, D.C. The Wall Street tradition dates to the 1885 burial of President Grant and was last observed after President Reagan’s death in 2004. Other U.S. financial markets were expected to close for at least part of the day Tuesday to honor Ford. In California, tight secu rity and traffic detours surrounded St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, where Ford and his family had worshipped for years after leaving the White house. A family prayer service was scheduled there before the start of a public viewing that was expected to draw thou sands to the resort town of Palm Desert, 110 miles east of Los Angeles. Former first lady Betty Ford, 88, and her four grown children were to receive Ford’s casket from a military honor guard at the church, where the cou ple sat in “The President’s Pew” every Sunday starting in 1977. Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, among oth ers, had joined the Fords there over the years. Mrs. Ford will then accompany her husband’s body across the nation for a series of ceremonies that includes two funeral services in Washington and anoth er in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will be entombed Wednesday. Ford died Tuesday at age 93 with his family at his bedside. He assumed the presi dency when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal, but was defeated by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election. The Fords began attending St. Margaret’s after retiring to Rancho Mirage. Tight security was planned at the church, with the entire campus locked down for Secret Service sweeps and surrounding residen tial streets blocked off. In a nod to Ford’s Navy service, a sailor was deputized to fly the presidential seal from an ebony staff as Ford’s casket is taken from the hearse. People hoping to pay their respects to the nation’s 38th president during the public repose will be shuttled to the church from a tennis cen ter several miles away, and will not be allowed to bring personal items including cameras, cell phones, purses or flowers. After arriving at Andrews Air Force Base on Saturday, the coffin will be taken to the Capitol in a funeral procession, then car ried up the steps of the East Front of the House by a mili tary escort. It will then lie in repose in front of the House cham ber ahd be carried into the Rotunda for a ceremony and public viewing before being moved to the National Cathedral for funeral ser vices there Tuesday. Some of the most regal touches of a full state funeral are being bypassed, by request of his family and, most like ly, according to Ford’s own wishes. In Washington, a hearse rather than a horse drawn caisson will drive Ford’s casket to the Capitol. Fighter jets will do a fly over with a “missing man” maneuver only in Grand Rapids, where Ford will be interred on a hillside north of his presidential museum. Enjoy the Internet at high speed from Com South. It's much faster than dial-up - up to 100 times faster - plus you do not tie up a phone line and you are always connected! ComScwith Perry Office: 135745 Sam Nunn B!vd. Perry, GA 31069 224-4001 questtons@cemsouth.net Unadilla Customers: 627-3002 ' \ 4 y* tr. all areas. High Speed Internet speeds are an approximation and can vaty. 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