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|**"****jH I II II HI HI It HI HP: II l| Kffl ff* IS II II H*i 111 l II II l| Hf HI If Bl .^ra^Hj VOLUME 137, NUMBER 129 BELOW THE FOLD: WR Fire Dept, fights two Sunday fires Tuesday July 3,2007 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH IN BRIEF Houston County Landfill to be closed The Houston County Landfill, according to landfill officials, will be closed Wednesday for the July 4 holiday. Houston Daily Journal to not print July 4 Due to the holiday, the Houston Daily Journal will not have a Wednesday paper. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Houston County Board of Health to meet The Houston County Board of Health will meet at noon July 12 in the conference room at the Houston County Health Department, which is located at $8 Cohn Walker Drive in Warner Robins. Byron to hold community yard sale Byron Better Hometown will be sponsoring a community-wide yard sale, Aug. 4 from 8 a.m.-until. Locations, according to a release, are available throughout town. The tailgate market will also be open with fresh produce, arts and crafts, baked goods, fresh eggs and more. For more information, call 478- 956-5555. BIRTHDAYS July 1 ■ Robert Dayton July 2 ■ Horace Schwalm Today ■ Tara Dent ■ Sharnell Myers 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. ANNIVERSARY Toriay ■ Sharon and Tim Johnson News tip hotline 6 a m.-4 pm: 987-1823 Ext 231 4 p.m.-until. 397-8811 PERIODICAL 500 (Hill 1 11 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Heller Newipaper Conletl LH.il. »««»»■ ■ corn • 36CRGSA NEWSPAPER =**CJECT Mar Übfar* UMVaTGE-ORGM ATrOiS GA 306B&3BB 3-0K3T306 Mp 4, mr < ( <> i .'. - / < / / Today ‘ Weather Ear| y showers High: 88 Low: 68 Hhjnews.com i WflH Bibles versus bul- VVell n es . taking back the : neighborhood High risk jobs, high risk future Part I: Perry's early-retirement proposal up in the air L "I'm a person who feels It been done a long J ftPk Councilman Glover v~ Sel OM HL M : %mr A fc , . M es wjl , ;. w *■ 'l, - > f ; v.. 1 ■ *V/V - , _ ...>■).»; vv• V * \ ENI/Gary Harmon Chris Kersey is a Perry firefighter whose specialty is equipment operations. When on the job fighting a blaze, fire fighters typically are weighed down with as much as 60 pounds of protective gear. Firefighters have a higher rate of coronary disease and heart attacks than the general population. By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer The Perry City Council has a deci sion to make at some point in the months ahead. They have to decide whether fire fighters and police officers should have the option of retiring at 55 with full pension, and with their city health insurance continuing until they are eligible for Medicare. There are two requirements. The employee has to have worked for the city for 25 years in a hazardous duty position. The bottom line is that these are peo ple who have spent their entire careers working for the City of Perry doing WR Fire Department fights 2 Sunday fires By RAYLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Two Sunday fires remain under investigation Monday. Warner Robins Fire Deportment responded to the Watson Boulevard Hardee’s Sunday afternoon about 2:30 p.m. Only two employees were in the busi ness at the time of the fire und no it\juries were report ed, Around H p.m., Tim Krepps was taking out the trush when he noticed an unusu al smell. He first thought it wus a grill, but noticed smoke coming from the attic area ol one of his neighbors’ houses across the street, “1 looked up und saw smoke that looked differ ent," Krepps said "When I went over to look, I saw See El RES, page 6A LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville v, mm -.‘il. I Joiinul/JamM Tidwell Smok • rises out of a house In Kathloon aa Warner Robins firefighters put out a fire Sunday evening. Christ Lutheran Church, Apptobee* cut ribbons. 2A By the numbers ■ A total of 1,649 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years in the U.S. That’s an average of one death every 53 hours or 165 per year. There were 145 law enforcement officers killed in 2006. ■ On average, more than 56,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted each year in the U.S., resulting in over 16,000 injuries. ■ Nationwide, 115 firefighters were killed while on duty during 2005. ■ Fire killed more Americans than ail natural disasters combined. ■ Nationwide, An estimated 80,100 firefighter injuries occurred in the line of duty in 2005. Almost half of those injuries occurred during fireground opera tions, while others occurred during non-fire emergency services. Sources: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; National Fire Protection Association; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics work that by its nature gets harder It’s not called hazardous duty for and riskier, and sometimes impossible, nothing. with age. See FUTURE, page 6A www.hhjnews.com 8 Independence Day organizers add big screen to big show HHB I * .-.^S SPORTS: HJMLDJmI tourney JUso, Music, TopSOgoH results and JR more. in ,i\ I-aws I win y \i:wsn\n.R One section • 12 pages ' * * up ■ Mangels 5 years for porn By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Nathan Evan Gardner, 21, of Warner Robins, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for posses sion of child pornography. There is no parole in the Federal System, noted Maxwell Wood, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, so Gardner will serve the entire five years in prison, plus another five years of supervised release. Gardner entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of child por nography last year, after being found in possession of more than 300 images of child pornography. The charges against him arose from an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Tampa, Fla., area, where an individual using the screen name “teen boy 18” distributed child pornography in interstate commerce by transmit ting such material via the Internet. Wood said, a search of the computer belonging to “teenboy 18” revealed e-mail addresses belong ing to Gardner. The FBI interviewed Gardner in Warner Robins, and at that time, he admitted using his computer to obtain child pornogra phy- Gardner gave the agents consent to remove his computer and a com pact disc. FBI analysis of the compact disc revealed depictions of minors See PORN, page 6A Organizers add big screen tn big show Special to the Journal While the home town audience will get a greater view, the full audience for the 24th Annual Independence Day Celebration will grow to worldwide with addi tions to the show today at McConnell-Talbert Stadium on South Davis Drive in Warner Robins. The addition of a giant projection screen will give everyone in the stadium a front row view of the Band of the Air Force Reserve and guest artist Lee Greenwood. “The 18 by 24 screen comes up from inside a semitrailer and goes up to 33 feet,” explained Dave Ballengee, deputy commander of the band. “We’ll do our best to set it up so everyone in See SCREEN, page 6A