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Volume 138, Number 005
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
The Houston County Health
Department warns Perry proper
ty owners to comply with its reg
ulation requiring “approved toilet
facilities in each residence, place
of business where people are
employed or in any other build
ing where people are congre
gated. (No kidding.) The warn
ing is reportedly given because
“several” have been cited - the
complaints apparently stemming
from residents who believe they
are being discriminated against
- plus, “other notices are being
mailed out.”
30 years ago:
Houston County schools get
a mixed bag of results from a
four-month survey conducted by
Dr. Phillip McKillup, professor of
mathematics at the University of
Georgia. On one hand he says
the local school system pres
ents the best atmosphere for
teaching of any in the state. On
the other, he notes a “slippage"
in test scores for those grades
three through five and recom
mends several suggestions.
10 years ago:
Dodge County snaps Perry
High School's basketball team’s
19-game win streak. Also, the
$750 million supplemental bud
get passed by the Georgia
House of Representatives con
tains $9.7 million for a new build
ing and several other improve
ments for the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
Jan. 15
Steven Tennant
Jan. 16
Chrissie Tomlinson
Po Harris
Jan. 17
Rita Davey
Scott Josey
Jimmie Carol Daniels
Elouise Simon
I Jerry Johnson
Steve Skipper
Doretha Bennett
Jan. 18
Joey Barlow
Linda Gentry
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
The courage of Cora
There stood Cora Williams. Her husband gone, and although they were her main source of inner
strenth, circumstances were made worse by the fact she still had four children to raise...
What to do? Well, for one thing, whatever she did, she was not going to do it alone...
Contributed
Cora Williams sits surrounded by some of the children at the Houston County Child Development Center during her retirement ceremony Dec.
28, 2007. She did so with 35 years of service.
35 years plus a lifetime of memories
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Cora Williams’ memory
banks are plenty full.
“It’s all theje,” she says
when asked to recall the
past, “I just tells people I
have to think about it for
awhile.”
Group recognized for preserving landmark
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
For all the memories they
hold, school buildings usual
ly don’t stand forever. They
give way to overcrowding,
to wear-and-tear, to new
construction, to changing
needs.
Across Georgia, the
schools built in the first
half of the 20th century are
disappearing from the land
scape, but the old Perry
High school, built in 1925
for $85,000, is still standing
and is in pristine condition,
and is the hub of the coun
ty’s rapidly growing school
system.
The brick building on
Main Street that now serves
as the central offices for
the Houston County Board
of Education, could easily
have gone the way of other
old schools.
Empty and falling into
disrepair at one point, it
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BUSINESS
Goodwill Industries elects
seven new board members.
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Local youth hoops;
high school basketball,
swimming and wrestling wraps.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
One event is the excep
tion. It was the day she vis
ited the Veterans Hospital
in Dublin to check on her
husband, who had just been
moved there.
What branch of service he
had been in, she couldn’t
recall (see “think about it
for awhile”). She did, how
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Seated in the vintage classroom at the Houston County Board of Education are Mayor Jim Worrall, local histo
rian Bobbe Nelson, former Ga. House Majority Leader Larry Walker, Author Billy Powell, former Superintendent of
Schools Tony Hinnant and former school facilities director Bill Loudermitk.
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From cheesy chicken and rice
to beef taco bake...
“comforting casseroles”. More.
ever, know he had been cap
tured, and was pretty sure
the timeframe was World
War 11.
“When he came home, he
was hurt,” she said. “He
was on disability, and he was
always sick. But they said
he wasn’t (disabled), so one
time they finally cut him
off. They said I could come
in and try to get it back (it
wasn’t much, she added) but
I never was (able to come in,
thus unable to get it back).”
“And I finally got him to go
to the doctor and the doctor
sent him there. (But), when
I got down there they told
me (at this point her voice
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begins to crack from the
painful memory) he didn’t
have very much time.”
There stood Cora
Williams.
Her husband gone,
and although they were
her main source of inner
strenth, circumstances
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