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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUN TY'
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Volume 137, Number 184
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Thrill
seekers
enjoy the
Superman
ride. For
more fair
sights and
sounds,
turn to 2A.
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WR says ‘yes’, Perry ‘no’ on chamber consolidation
From staff reports
The cities of Warner Robins and
Perry will continue to have their own
Chambers of Commerce, following a
vote by members of the Perry Area
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COMMU NITY - 1C
Scout given Award of Merit for his
lifesaving efforts in a swimming pool.
Also, weddings, engagements, birthdays
and much more.
View from the top
Chamber not to go along with a pro
posal to consolidate the two groups
as the Houston County Chamber of
Commerce.
The proposal, which required
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BIRTHDAYS
Oct. 12
■ Jordan Kushinka (Happy 12th!)
Oct. 15
■ Brianna McCrary
■ Emily Graham
Oct. 16
■ James Beeland 111
■ Gale Green
■ Mary Henderson
E-mil birthdays to:
hhi@evansnewspapers.com or
donm@evansnewspapers.com.
Mail to: 1210 Washington St., Perry
31069 attn: Don Moncrief. Or, call
987-1623, Exi. 231.
ANNIVERSARY
Oct. 16
■ Robbie and Torrie Minter
OCt. 17
■ Judy and Byron Etheridge
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Saturday-Tuesday, October 13-16, 2007
This week in HHJ history:
30 years ago:
Perry's football team ends “six years of frustration” by beat
ing Dodge County. Also, the County Commission votes to instruct
the warden to tear down the old jail in Perry, the Federal Aviation
Administration approves a $52,000 grant for the Perry-Fort Valley
Airport and Maj. Gen. John R. Spalding, commander of WR-ALC is
announced as the grand marshal for the Christmas parade.
20 years ago:
The Perry City Council sticks to its guns voting to continue the
requirement that liquor stores remain apportioned at one store per
2,500 persons of the city's total population. Also, Dr. Vincent Mallory,
who was convicted in the shooting death of Shelby Fields, was back
in the courtroom this time to face arson charges.
10 years ago:
Perry Free Will Baptist minister Gene Cross keeps his pledge and
preaches from the rooftop of the Marshallville Highway church. Also,
Perry residents in the Chelshire Subdivision show up at the Houston
County Board of Education meeting complaining that construction of
Perry Middle School is causing flooding in their neighborhood.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
the approval of both chambers,
was approved by a majority vote in
Warner Robins, but failed in Perry
with a vote of 73 opposed to 32 for
the merger.
SPORTS - IB
FOOTBALL: Valdosta regains its
former glory - visits Warner Robins.
SOFTBALL: Northside wins region;]
Perry eliminated. Much more. i
"I told my boss I didn't think the bull
should be shown, but he said 'He
can't be that bad. I want you to
take him.'"
-John Ellison, from a witness statement form
Hie night the
bull got loose
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
What do you do when an
agitated 1,300 pound Black
Angus bull breaks free from
his trailer and rushes out
into the crowd at the Georgia
National Fair?
If you’re one of Perry’s fin
est, you protect the public
and go after him any which
way you can, even if that
means doing some bull wres
tling, jumping up on cars and
trailers to keep from get
ting stomped, holding back
crowds and shooting at an
animal whQ seems to be bul
letproof.
Here’s the story:
Around 8 p.m. Monday,
John Ellison was having
trouble with a bull he had
reluctantly brought to show
at the fair.
This was no ordinary bull.
As Ellison told Ptl. Brian
Mixon of the Perry Police a
short while later, the bull had
a history of being “crazy”,
and was the most aggres
sive bull he had ever seen in
his 18 years of working with
cattle. In fact, Ellison told
Mixon that the bull had been
nicknamed Satan.
“I told my boss I didn’t
think the bull should be
shown,” Ellison wrote on a
witness statement form, “but
he said ‘He can’t be that bad.
I want you to take him.’”
Ellison had given the bull
a tranquilizer to get him
into the trailer to start with,
and then more tranquilizers
when they arrived at the fair,
but, even with the maximum
injection of Xylazine, Satan
had an attitude.
Calvin Losh, another han
dler, who tried to help Ellison
get the bull into his trailer
to leave the fair, described
the bull as “very aggressive
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Georgia Southern University
students Sarah Anzjon, of Kathleen,
Casey Griffin and Carolyn Petty,
both of Warner Robins, were
selected as resident assistants
for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Anzjon is the daughter of Leslie
and Lynn Anzjon and is an RA in
Eagle Village. Griffin is the daughter
of Doug and Melanie Griffin and is
an RA in £agle Village. Petty is the
daughter of Mike and Brenda Petty
and is an RA in Sanford Hall.
Anzjon, Griffin and Petty are
three of 80 RAs selected through
a highly competitive process to
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toward the other animals.”
Losh wrote in his state
ment for the police that he
helped Ellison get the bull
into the trailer, but then the
big Angus “knocked the back
gate loose and went out onto
the midway at the fair.”
Minutes later, a woman ran
up to Ptl. Justin West and
Det. Tony Sellers, who were
patrolling the fairgrounds on
foot, and told them there was
a bull running loose.
She pointed toward the big
teepee near the Roquemore
building, and while West and
Sellers couldn’t see the bull
at that point, they did see 20
or more people running..
In terse police terminology,
West later wrote, “Multiple
civilians were screaming and
yelling at this point, some
running away from the
building, some running in
the direction the bull went.
Det. Sellers called out the
situation over the radio as I
attempted to catch up with
the crowd.”
Cops and cowboys
From that point on, all
the officers who got involved
would be dealing both with
the wayward and unpredict
able bull and with “civilians”
who had no intention of stay
ing out of the action, some
times even made a clear shot
at the bull impossible, and at
other times offering to prove
their worth as wranglers.
“After circling the
Roquemore Building on the
North side,” West wrote in his
report later, “I saw a group of
four to six men attempting to
wrestle the now very agitated
animal. I then ran to help
these subjects.”
West grabbed the bull’s tail
and ear to try to control him.
Sellers got the bull’s lead line
and helped pull him towards
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assist the Department of University
Housing. RAs are a live-in member
of the University community who
work with a group of 25-48 students
living in one of nine residence halls
and two apartment complexes.
The primary role of the RA is
to create a positive community
environment through programming,
administrative tasks and on-call
responsibilities. In addition to their
job responsibilities, RAs must main
tain a minimum grade point average
of 2.25 and pass a related leader
ship course for academic credit.
Anzjon is a sophomore pre-nurs
ing major. Griffin is a junior sports
medicine major. Petty is a sopho
more biology major.
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