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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 004
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BELOW THE FOLD: Houston County District Attorney’s office names new assistant m Metro WR unemployment rate declines
Weekend
January 6, 2007
The Home Journals
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
Northside. with its state football
title under its belt, made a signifi
cant jump in the Georgia Athletic
Director's Association's Dodge
Director's Cup standings.
Also, Perry native Herman
Ragin Jr. is selected to the Triple
Crown Hall of Fame and a youth
with ties to Perry competes in the
National Bull Riders Finals.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Gator Club invites
fans for game
The Middle Georgia Gator Club
would like to invite all University of
Florida Gator fans and Oh ; o State
University fans to join them at
Neighbors Grill. 198 S. Houston
Lake Road. Centerville, Monday.
Some of them will gather at 7 p.m.
for dinner before kickoff at 8 p.m.
For more information call Russ
Winge at 929-1260 or Linda Horky
at 953-8366.
Lodge to sponsor
youth awareness
The Warner Robins Moose
Lodge and Women of the Moose
will sponsor a youth awareness
program today in the Moose
Lodge Family Center located at
400 Carl Vinson Parkway.
The program is slated to begin
at 10 a.m. and is for sophomores,
jjr.iors and seniors. Three schol
arships, $7,000, $3,000 and
$2,000 are available as part of the
program. Contact Walter Zurowski
at 922-4367 for more information.
BIRTHDAYS
Jan. 2
■ Mary Rodriguez
Today
■ Jay Branam
Sunday
■ David Thompson
■ Patrick Ross
■ Geraldine Norwood
■ Gabe Holt. 9
■ Kim Branscom Crook
Monday
■ Jack Southerland
■ Cliff French
E-mail your birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewspapers.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.
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Crook makes off with bag of cash
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police are
looking for a back male sus
pect in Thursday’s “snatch
ing type situation.”
At 2:01 p.m., uniformed
officers were dispatched to
the parking lot of BB&T at
127 Russell Parkway and
Southland Station Drive in
reference to a robbery by
snatching.
The victim, an Indian
female told police that
person(s) unknown had
grabbed a bag containing an
undisclosed amount of cash
from the inside of a 1995
Honda Odyssey.
She said the suspect then
ran south through the
parking lot toward Moody
Road where the victim and
witnesses lost sight of the
See CASH, page fA
■i pressure came in. We knew to l|fj
’ us. Then came the heat, like you r
then you thought it count not get
lore were times I thought I could
my hands as i lay face down in
Courtesy Department of Defense
Shown is the blast from a detonation during Operation Hardtack.
Operation Hardtack
WR resident tells his story of nuclear detonations
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins resident
Glenn Roberts was born in
Stuttgart, Ark.
He graduated from
Brinkley High School and
joined the service at 21 years
of age. He had a pretty good
idea - positive feedback -
about the Army, Navy and
Marines provided by a large
set of uncles who had all
served, but he preferred to
enlist in the Air Force.
After boot camp in 1956,
he went to Scott Air Force
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Police investigate the scene of BB&T bank Thursday after a crook had made off with an undisclosed amount of cash,
snatched from a bank customer.
Base, 111., for training in
electronics, basically learn
ing to repair the highway
navigational markers in the
sky. Doing so kept him busy
in a 20-year career. •
After a tour at Stewart Air
Force in Nashville, Tenn., in
1957, Roberts accepted an
assignment with the 1925
EE Squadron stationed at
Eniwetok Atoll, an assign
ment that stared into the
face of history.
Roberts was to be a mem
ber of the support team for
Operation Hardtack.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
were social shockwaves of
historical proportions. Still
those were not the last time
for a nuclear detonation.
Eniwetok, he said, was
not a bad assignment if you
liked the sun and sand and
surf. An Atoll is an unusual
geological formation, but
the station was pretty well
equipped for his duties as
a maintenance technician,
working on navigation aids.
While having a security
clearance, he said he was
not privileged with much of
the main operations.
See STORY, page 6A
Three sections • 16 pages
WR makes plans for
more development
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The city of Warner Robins
is making plans for the con
tinued growth of the city.
This includes more devel
opment on the west end
of town and redevelopment
on the east side.
The mv will be relocat
ing its natural gas main
to accommodate the pro
posed Kroger/Kohl’s/Best
Buy commercial develop
ment off Watson Boulevard
near Margie Drive. Mayor
Donald Walker said the
site adjacent to Toys R Us
between Willie Lee Parkway
and Tom Chapman Drive
DA's office names new assistant
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Houston County
District Attorney’s Office
has announced the new
assistant district attorney.
District Attorney Kelly
Burke said in a press release
his office was pleased to
announce the addition of
K. David Cooke as an assis
tant district attorney. Cooke
Metro unemployment
declines in November
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Georgia Department
of Labor reported that the
unemployment rate in the
metro Warner Robins area
decreased to 3.8 percent in
November, down one-half
of one percent from 4.3 per
cent in October. The area’s
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will be accessed off Margie
Drive and Willie Lee
Parkway.
Councilman Dean Cowart
asked if the existing Kroger,
at Watson Boulevard and
Houston Lake Road would
be closed and was told it
would.
The city council also
approved a moratorium
on permits necessary for
remodeling in its target
area for redevelopment.
The moratorium for 120
days on electrical, plumb
ing, building and other
permits applies only to
the target area, defined as
See PLANS, page §A
has a wealth of experience
in prosecution including
almost Five years in Fulton
County where he tried more
than 100 jury trial cases as
lead counsel. Burke said.
Those cases include mur
der, rape, armed robbery,
kidnapping and other seri
ous violent felonies.
“David is an excellent
addition to our office.
See ASSISTANT, page *4
jobless rate was 4.5 percent
in November of 2005.
The metro Warner Robins
unemployment rate, at 3.8
percent, remains below the
Macon metro area - 5.3
percent, the state - 4.4 per
cent, and the country - 4.3
percent.
See DECLINES, page $A