Newspaper Page Text
itinisioß Jbtit) MovivtVcit
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 52
BELOW THE FOLD: Flying Tigers may be grounded Club to celebrate 96 years INSIDE: Infrastructure bill makes its return
Today
v Weather Showers
High; 69 Low: 41
hhjnews.com
Friday
March 16, 2007
The Home Journal s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Jazz benefit to be
held for CASA
An Evening of Jazz will be
held at 7:30 p.m., March 31 at
the Wellston Center, 155 Maple
Street, Warner Robins.
Proceeds, according to a
release, will benefit CASA of
Houston County, Inc. Tickets are
S2O each in advance and include
dinner. There will be door prizes
and a sifent auction.
CASA stands for Court
Appointed Special Advocates for
Children. The organization trains
and supervises volunteer citizens
from our community to speak up
and advocate for abused and
neglected children in Houston
County.
Contact Terry Terry Di Diego,
Executive Director, said, “Our
organization is always looking for
new volunteers and ways to edu
cate the community, please let
me know if you can help us out.
In 2006 CASA of HC served 84
abused or neglected children in
our community.”
Contact Di Diego at 396 2185
or hccasa@alltel.net
WR rec to register
for ‘Spring Dayz’
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin registration
Monday for “Spring Dayz", a day
camp for spring break.
The camp will be held from
7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday (five days). April
2—April 6 for boys and girls ages
7-12 years old. The cost is $54
for city residents, $lO2 for county
residents and $l6B for out-of
county residents. Bring a sack
lunch every day - drinks and
snacks will be provided. For more
information, call 929-6945.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ George Cyphers
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.
PERIODICAL 500
11:1111111
8 ,, 5 510 8 00001 1 4
Award-Winning
Better Newspaper
Contest vag/
corn *
GEORGIA ÜBNSPAPER PROJECT
Main Library
UNiV OF GEORGIA
ATHENS GA 30602-0002
3-DIGIT 306
March 16, 2007
Si KVim lioi siov ('oi vn S/\n IS7O
- —————————————————
Jk fc
ppr
|p
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Auditions for the Perry Idol
contest will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday at the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce, 101 Gen
Courtney Hodges Blvd.
The competition is open to all
singers, professional or amateur.
There is an audition fee of $lO
per person. An application must
be completed by 5:30 p.m. on the
day of the audition.
Judges will be Mary Therese
Tebbe, Todd Wilson of the WNNG
Morning show and others.
Those who are selected
through the audition process will
The end for the Tigers?
Aviation group makes perhaps its last flight together
"You can see we do not move as
well as we did in those photo
graphs. Got my cane and a good
piece ot wall, (however). I am set.”
- Flying Tiger A l Love
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
A 1 Love comes
from Vermillion,
Ohio. He does
not claim to be a hero.
But Love, like many oth-‘
ers in a select group, is
just too famous to be
denied.
In 1941 Maj. Gen.
Claire Chennault orga
nized the American
Volunteer Group, or
aviators, who flew
American-supplied mis
sions and maintained
aircraft against Japanese
forces months before
the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor and
America’s declaration of
war against Japan on
Dec. 8, 1941.
China was not looked
upon very favorably
until “Madame Chiang
Kai-Shek” asked for
help and the special
training and assistance
group, the Flying Tigers
www.hhjnews.com
Geffing ready i|S} ydM
tor thousands jmtW
homes All L^^wfrJH*|
be announced after all auditions
are completed.
The Perry Idol Finale, a high
point of the 19th Annual Dogwood
Festival, will be held on an out
door entertainment stage in
downtown Perry from 7-10 p.m.,
April 14.
The cost will be $5 per person
and $25 for a family of five. Those
attending will be able to cheer on
their favorites while enjoying fes
tival food.
The grand prize will be a
recording studio package.
To obtain an application for
the audition, visit the chamber
office or contact Tammy Vice at
tammy@perrygachamber.com.
Squadron, was formed.
Like the Americans of
this present day, the
Tigers also went where
they did not belong and
fought for people they
did not know.
Under Chennault, the
group became the first
effective fighting air unit
in World War II shoot
ing down 297 Japanese
planes in six months
while only losing 12 of
their own pilots.
Another of those in
attendance at the spe
cial meeting held at the
Museum of Aviation this
past week was Maj. Gen.
Fred W.O. Chiao from
Norcross. He was cred
ited with shooting down
four enemy aircraft. He,
too, was shot down in
January 1945, but sur
vived to later become
the first Chinese Air
Force F-86 fighter com
mander in Taiwan.
“We needed help,” he
said of that era, “there
package
Other events being planned for
the Dogwood Festival, which will
be April 14 and 15, are the Perry
Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, a
5K Run/Walk sponsored by the
Perry Hospital, a motorcycle
show sponsored by Wayne
Morris Ford and Goin’ Postal,
children's rides and an arts and
crafts festival in downtown Perry,
the annual Dawg Jawg, and a
Dessert Contest at the Front
Porch Tea Room.
For more information on any of
these events, call 987-1234.
a 'mSsEs \ m
Jr
Hi mmt k i
1 M ihH hL /.
Journal/Nancy Hawk
Al Love looks over artifacts from World War II
during the Flying Tigers’ meeting March 9 at the
Museum of Aviation.
was no question that
the flyers helped change
what the world thought
of China then.”
As Love and the other
warriors - dozens of
them including fam
ily members - worked
through the mundane
Bears lose more than AT
a game. Panthers Jpjjsj'
wta again but
Hornet lose QA ?
fourth straight. Oft ’MfIHtfES
- wait here, go there,
pause for pictures
among the displays of
their younger selves - it
was hard to grasp that
the real purpose of their
gathering was to resolve
this meeting would
See TIGERS, page fA
One section • 10 pages
2 rezonings
draw strong
opposition
"The basic major problem
is we don't know what
this land will be used for.”
- Macon Attorney llale Almond
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A standing room only crowd came out
to Tuesday’s Warner Robins Planning and
Zoning Commissipn to object to two rezon
ings.
Despite the objections, both requests
were recommended for approval to the
mayor and city council, which will have
the final say.
The tracts in question are 134.89 acres
at the southeast corner of U.S. Highway
41 and Crestview Church Road and 92.655
acres south of Ga. 96 and east of Golden
Pond Boulevard, Elmdale Circle and Pine
Drive.
Both groups were very vocal with some
catcalls and name-calling and lots of ques
tions. One group hired an attorney who
said he represented 178 homes and fami
lies. The others had a petition signed by
104 residents.
The residents around the 134.89-acre
site were even more upset that the appli
cant for the annexation and rezoning, the
Houston County Hospital Authority was
not there to present its request and then
Commissioner Clayton Mays called for
a recess. “Since no one seems to want a
recess,” Mays said, “we’ll continue.”
The residents hired Macon attorney Hale
Almond to act as spokesman. Resident
Robbie McLain explained after the meet
ing they are letting Almond do the talking.
“We’ll have to live with these people, we
don’t want any hard feelings.”
The Hospital Authority is selling the land
to a developer identified only as Highway
41 East LLC, and accepted the offer of
$43,000 an acre on the tract, for a total
selling price of $5,798,980, in October. The
deal included a 90-day inspection period,
which began Oct. 31, the day the contract
was signed and SIOO,OO in earnest money
has been accepted.
“The basic major problem is we don’t
know what this land will be used for,” said
Almond.
His main concern was the 97-acre pro
posed commercial tract, which fronts on
both roads.
The remaining 37.75 acres are to be
rezoned from R-AG to R-3, which has
a 7,500 square foot lot minimum. The
residential component is adjacent to the
adjoining Oxton Plantation and Crestview
See REZONINGS, page fA
Exchange Club to
celebrate 96 years
Special to the Journal
The Exchange Club of Perry will cele
brate the 96th anniversary of The National
Exchange Club by hosting an anniver
sary open house March 27 from 6-7 p.m. at
Priester’s Restaurant in Perry.
Anyone interested in learning more
about the Exchange Club and its mission
and programs of service are invited to
attend.
Founded in 1911 by Charles A. Berkey,
The National Exchange Club is a com
munity service organization that works
to make our communities better places
See CELEBRA TE, page $A t