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Web ■ Infant cold medicine pulled off shelves ■ Will a Nobel Prize encourage Gore to run? LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUN TY' CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE Volume 137, Number 184 ** iWto . w** " WS^L*^ •■*•- fruoi**** ■ Ifra~rflßh'nVeWHiiHn %■ ■ V&^ s I I .JBTfta* ■ ' :: ’S''-" ■XrX'N-nv&ii' ~ ;ffljrsß* ■r x lay.„< ,4s? jft •jk." ' : A view of the midway entrance from the cable cars. .r f f. \ \ i -f/jf > ’IJhIbL Thrill seekers enjoy the Superman ride. For more fair sights and sounds, turn to 2A. ENI/Gary Harmon 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 PERIODICAL 500 Riiimii 8 ”55108 00001* 4 COS'? * Georgia Newspaper Project Mato Library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-OtGIT 306 Oct. 13-16, 2007 Skhvimi llnrsios ( 01 \n Snt i 1.571) 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 : fjp Up Up 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 ■II min nmrmit m m 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 ENI/Gary Harmon 11 Zu j re ne/£s/i/)ons niret ’ \ ry, 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 van Evans Family Newspaper ‘'* i w i i f i '** www.hhjnews.com 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 See NIGHT, page 8A 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. Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest