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Volume 137, Number 187
Out of the wild blue yonder
WWII airplane makes forced landing in farm field
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Raymond Bryant, who is a World War II veteran, points out structural damage that was
done to a PT-22 aircraft that made an emergency landing in a field in Houston County.
"There couldn't
be a better school
than this."
- Bailey Notes, fifth grader at
Lake Joy Elementary School
Dedication held
lip Late Joy
ES campus
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
One way to understand
how rapidly Houston County
is growing is to consider the
short history of Lake Joy
Elementary School.
The first Lake Joy
Elementary School was
opened in 2003 with 684 stu
dents, and as Superintendent
of Schools David Carpenter
pointed out Sunday after
noon, it was built in an area
which then had few homes
and no retail business.
School leaders expected
the new school to reduce
the overcrowding in other
elementary schools, but it
attracted development even
as it was being built, and
in three short years, there
were 1,045 students and 16
portable classrooms on the
campus.
See DEDICATION, page ioA
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
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ANNIVERSARY
Oct. 23
■ Kaye and Johnny Evans (Happy
31stl)
Wednesday-Friday, October 24-26, 2007
This week in HHJ history:
30 years ago:
Perry-Fort Valley Airport officials accept a grant for $52,854 from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The money will reportedly be used to pay for over-run costs for the airport expansion project. Also, accord
ing to a nationwide survey, more Houston County residents can be found in the “higher income” bracket
than the “lower income” bracket, and Perry residents are prompt - as compared to the year prior - in pay
ing their city tax bills. According to a report, 68.5 percent had paid their taxes prior to the delinquent date
(it was 63 percent in 1976).
20 years ago:
The Houston County Health Department advertises the availability of flu shots. Surprise! Some things
never change. Have you gotten yours yet?
And, just like the Panthers of today, Perry stunned then 10th-ranked Peach County. The final was 7-6
with Perry’s touchdown - the Trojans scored on their opening drive - coming from Tony Brown, from the
10-yard line with 44 seconds left.
10 years ago:
The book: Houston County, Georgia, Evergreen Cemetery: Tombstone Transcripts 1827-1997 is pub
lished. The book, according to a report, includes a brief history of Evergreen Cemetery in Perry, some
sketches, a poem and transcripts from every tombstone in the cemetery dating back to its then 170 years.
Also, Hayley Godbee-Greene, executive director of the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce announc
es she will be leaving to take over as section manager for Flint Electric’s public relations and three from
Perry get a court date of Dec. 1 in regard to charges they burned down a church in Houston County.
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By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
It’s usually quiet along
County Line Road in South
Houston County, which is
why the rumbling sound
outside caught Raymond
Bryant’s attention.
He and his son thought
it was a tractor at first, but
they went outside and saw a
bright yellow airplane with
red, white and blue trim cir
cling over the field next to
the house, and then coming
down for a bumpy landing.
It wasn’t any ordinary
airplane either. It was an
Army Air Corps P-22 from
the early days of World War
11.
Not a replica. The real
War games
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thing.
Bryant, 82, is a World
War II veteran who served
as a combat medic across
Europe. He is also a welder
who worked for a half centu
ry on contract with Robins
Air Force Base and knows
his aircraft.
The little yellow, double
cockpit airplane sitting in
the grassy field brought back
plenty of memories, because
he recognized the P-22 as
the aircraft used for training
new pilots by the Army Air
Corps in the early days of
World War 11.
His brother, Walter Lee
Bryant, died at 21 with a
crew of 10 in a B-24 bomber
in an air fight over France,
and is buried there.
How did this historic air
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craft wind up in Houston
County with parts of its pro
peller lost somewhere in a
nearby cotton field?
The pilot, Joseph Ford,
who wasn’t injured in he
forced landing, was appar
ently flying the P-22 to an
air show in Atlanta.
According to Bryant, he
said that he and another
pilot with an antique air
plane (who flew straight on
to Macon) had left Valdosta
in the morning. Ford, who
works for Belew Group in
Tennessee, left his card with
Bryant and caught a ride to
Perry.
The accident has been
reported to the Federal
Aviation Commission, but
the plane can’t be flown
See AIRPLANE, page iaA
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some agency that could
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Send your “Kudos" to
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