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SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2008
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Saturday at the picture show
During my growing
up years in Perry,
one of the high
lights of the week was going
to town on Saturday after
noons.
Everybody converged on
the down
town area.
Some
came to
buy gro
ceri e s ,
others to
get a hair
cut; a few
just sat
in their
cars and
.
Billy Powell
Columnist
watched the rest mill up
and down the street. Many
went to the local “picture
show.”
On Saturdays, there would
always be a western, a double
feature, a continued serial, a
comedy, and world news.
A theater ticket cost 14-
cents. You could buy a bag
of popcorn for a dime and
a coke or a candy bar for a
nickel.
Movie aficionados came
when the show opened its
doors and did not leave until
it closed around mid-night.
The westerns featured
such famous cowboys as
Roy Rogers, Gene Autry,
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triple win,” Walker says. “It helps
our community, it helps Robins Air
Force Base and the Department of
Defense and it helps the state, pro
tecting the Ocmulgee corridor.”
JULY
□ Country music artist Lee
Greenwood highlights the county’s
annual Independence Day celebra
tion.
AUGUST
□ The Warner Robins and Perry
Area Chambers of Commerce
announce they will look at a county
wide organization. Eventually the
initiative is voted down.
□ Robins Air Force Base, it is
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this effort.
5. Traffic will worsen in
the Atlanta area - if this is
possible! New approaches
to funding transportation
needs, involving the public
and private sectors, will be
utilized. Big money must and
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as organ donors. It will also make the organ
allocation system fairer. People who aren’t
willing to share the gift of life should go to
the back of the waiting list as long as there
is a shortage of organs.
Anyone who wants to donate their organs
to others who have agreed to donate theirs
can join Life Sharers. Life Sharers is a non
Quote of the day
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs
unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the
joys of creation.
- Thomas S. Monson
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''There is a future television spectacle,
however, that the entire world will see.
Revelation 11 speaks of two witnesses
who appear on earth during the
latter days and prophesy for a period of
1,260-days."
the Lone Ranger, Hopalong
Cassidy, Johnny Mack
Brown, Bob Steele, Zorro,
and Lash Larue.
A few moviegoers became
vicariously involved in the
gun fighting. A friend who
grew up in Vienna told me
of an incident at their local
theatre during the late 40s.
There was a man named
Bubba who was about 40
years old but had the mind
of a child.
He was very vocal during
the shoot-outs in the cowboy
shows. Often the theater
manager had to step inside
to calm him down.
One Saturday, Bubba
was watching Johnny
Mack Brown about to get
ambushed as he rode down
through a canyon. Bubba
yelled for Johnny Mack to
watch out, then pulled out a
38-revolver and unloaded it
announced by IJ.S. Sen. Saxby
Chambliss and U.S. Rep. Jim
Marshall, will be the recipient of a
s2l million software support facil
ity.
□ Local officials cut the ribbon
on a traffic signal at U.S. 41 and
Perimeter Road.
□Warner Robins Animal Control
officers find 99 cats in a Pleasant
Hill Court home in Warner Robins
- 51 of them discovered dead in a
freezer.
□ The Perry City Council votes
“yes” to adding impact fees, the
money raised reportedly going
toward fire protection, parks and
such.
SEPTEMBER
□ The bridge to Robins Air
Force Base is named after for
mer chairman of the 21st Century
Partnership and longtime base
advocate Eddie Wiggins.
□ Perry wins the Governor’s Cup
"There will be malor political developments
at the local level - specifically at Perry’s
City Hall and involving the Houston County
Commission. New leadership will begin to
emerge."
will be spent. have more than one major
6. Houston County will and significant industry
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into the screen.
The bullet holes in the
screen indicated he killed all
the crooks.
The manager called the
police who came and led
Bubba from the theatre.
In Perry there was a man
nicknamed Sambo, who
would holler out to warn his
hero of impending danger
and whooped it up when his
hero was beating up the bad
guys.
Lash Larue once visited
our Perry movie theatre. He
drove into town in a white
Cadillac.
He appeared on stage
and demonstrated numer
ous skillful tricks with his
bullwhip such as popping a
cigarette out of a volunteer’s
mouth.
The advent of television
gradually put the old home
town theatres out of busi
profit network of organ donors who agree
to offer their organs first to other organ
donors when they die. Membership is free
at www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-
ORGANBB. There is no age limit, parents
can enroll their minor children, and no one
is excluded due to any pre-existing medical
condition.
Life Sharers has 10,250 members, includ
ing 199 members in Georgia.
- David J. Undis Executive
Director Life Sharers
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Dierks Bentley was just one highlight of the Georgia National Fair.
ism.
ness. Although many cities
have multi-screened movie
houses, the vast majority
of people now watch movie
DVDs on their television
sets.
There is a future televi
sion spectacle, however, that
the entire world will see.
Revelation 11 speaks of two
witnesses who appear on
earth during the latter days
and prophesy for a period of
1,260-days. .
Although not identified,
most theologians identify
them as Elijah and Moses,
who also appeared at the
transfiguration of Jesus.
At the end of the 1,260-day
period, the Antichrist kills
them.
No one is allowed to bury
them - their dead bodies
lie exposed in the streets of
Jerusalem for three and a
half days. Every television
network in the world will be
trained on them.
Suddenly God’s spirit
will enter them and the
two witnesses will become
alive. Great fear will spread
through the whole world.
As a Heavenly Voice sum
mons them and they rise
toward heaven in a cloud,
the forces of evil will know
their defeat is eminent.
□ The Georgia National Fair
opens its gates in what will turn
out to be another record-setting
year.
□ A dedication is held for the
announcement.
7. U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson,
will continue to consider a
return home to run for gover
nor of Georgia in 2010.
8. Macon, under leader
ship of its new Mayor, Robert'
Reichert, will start to real
ize its great potential - so
long talked of and so long
delayed.
9. There will be major
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is significant yet what are state
and local governments doing
to alleviate the situation and
those seriously affected?
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' Let the spirit move yon "
Resolved to keep the
Christmas spirit alive
May I be the first to say
Happy New Year and Merry
Christmas! This year I am
renewing my New Year’s Resolution,
which was made in 1983 and continued
for several years.
The motive being to keep the
Christmas spirit alive in my mind and
heart throughout the year, I resolved to
mail monthly Christmas cards, noting
that “Christmas is not a date ... it is a
state of mind.”
The monthly Christmas greeting proved to be a means of
lifting spirits of the sender and the receiver. The resolution
was a fun one. It proved to be rewarding to me and to oth
ers who were involved. Perhaps someone else will want to
discover the rewarding experience of bringing Christmas
into homes January through December.
From a personal standpoint, the project stimulated a
deeper awareness that Christmas is far more than an
annual observance.
C. Neil Strait has written, “Christmas is a time for grow
ing - growing through giving, through sharing, through
serving.” As this Merry Christmas TODAY is extended,
your prayers are solicited that I will GIVE, SHARE and
SERVE in such a way that Christ will be glorified and His
existence magnified.
A special note of thanks to each one who has encouraged
the writing of “Reflections.” Without your support, the
column would not be.
“Whoever renders service, as one who renders it by
the strength which God supplies; in order that in every
thing God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him
belongs glory and dominion for ever and ever.”
political developments at the
local level - specifically at
Perry’s City Hall and involv
ing the Houston County
Commission. New leadership
will begin to emerge.
10. The Georgia Bulldogs
will announce its best recruit
ing year, ever, and in the
fall will contend for the SEC
Championship and possibly,
thereafter, the National title!
Our own (Gov.) Sonny
Perdue announces the cre
ation and construction of huge
fishing ramps and facilities by
the end of 2009 - this in the
middle of a huge drought and
no new reservoirs in sight, or
a state-wide water plan, (and
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NOVEMBER
Lake Joy Elementary School cam
pus.
□ A dedication is held for the
Mossy Creek Middle School and
Hilltop Elementary School cam
puses.
DECEMBER
□ The Georgia National Fair
earns six Awards of Excellence.
□ The City of Perry holds “Snow
Day”.
□ Perdue announces that the
City of Perry will be the future
home of the Go Fish Georgia
Center - representing a sl9 mil
lion investment, as well as an esti
mated 200,000 visitors per year to
Perry.
□ Perry Hospital Administrator
Lora A. Davis, MBA, FACHE ten
ders her resignation.
The big prize would be in
2009, wouldn’t it?
So, there you have it - my
look at the past year and
my guesses about the future.
The most certain thing that
I can say about the uncertain
future is that God is good,
and we are blessed to live at
this time and in this won
derful place. For that, I am
thankful. Selah.
with) no public concern for our
citizens whose homes were
foreclosed (on) or about to be
...a complete lack of com
passion, leadership, or any
attempt at assistance. Sonny
has let us down again.
- Frank IV. Gadbois,
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