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Volume 138, Number 7
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
The City of Perry orders all
dog owners to pen them up for
the next 30 days due to a rash of
complaints of children being bit
ten and strays travelling packs.
After 30 days, all dogs which do
not have registration and inocu
lation tags will be subject to
being impounded or shot, says
the city’s police chief at the time.
Also, the December Term grand
jury of Houston Superior Court
receives notice from Judge A.M.
Anderson to reconvene again to
discuss “proper” matters. The
judge does not elaborate on
what “proper" matters are to be
discussed.
30 years ago:
A Macon company is granted a
30-day extension on the comple
tion of two new elevated water
tanks being constructed in the
county. The work is reportedly
delayed due to bad weather.
Also, home construction in the
county continues to rise at a fast
rate. The county reports 35 build
ing permits are issued - double
that of the previous month. The
average cost of a house at this
time: S4O-45,000.
10 years ago:
Reportedly responding to the
scheduling pressures created
by new state requirements for
graduation, the Houston County
Board of Education approves
a plan for flexible scheduling.
The board also approved a new
approach that would allow stu
dents to take elective courses in
summer school.
Also, according to a source in
Atlanta, Perry customers vote
unanimously - 79 percent - to
pay extra on their phone bills
(approximately $2.95) to make
phones calls to and from Macon
go from long distance to local.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
Jan. 23
Mary Gentry
Josh Peterson
Charles Hatcher
Meshiunia Young
Jan. 24
Penny Savage
Jan. 25
Scott Poole (Happy 29th!)
Al Hammock
Anniversary
Jan. 24
Scott and Tara Poole (Happy
10th!)
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January 23,2008
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
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'Heeling power
Blood drive to be held in honor of ‘Mama’ Nichols
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Freddy Nichols is quite
the woman - from head to
toe, or in her case it’s more
appropriate to say head to
“heel.”
More by way of explanation
in a bit, but first: Tomorrow
from 2-7 p.m. Shirley Hills
Baptist Church will hold
a Red Cross Blood Drive
at their 615 Corder Road
address in Warner Robins,
an in honor of Nichols, the
woman they affectionately
call “Mama”.
“Freddy Nichols is a fan
tastic lady,” said her pas
tor Andy Cook. “She’s been
keeping the children of our
church for nearly 15 years,
which means hundreds of
families have come to know
and love her.
“To have this blood driver
in her honor, especially as
she battles cancer, is a great
point of joy for us.”
He added: “We have blood
drives all the time in this
community, and it’s impor
tant to remember that real
people are waiting for help.
When we put a face like
Freddy’s behind a blood
drive, we all understand how
personal the help is, and how
important it is to give.”
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What makes Nichols that
important is: A lot! But, let’s
stmt with the head to heel
comment.
She recently visited the
doctor for what turned out
to be a heel spur. And the
heel spur in turn resulted
in surgery that in turn has
left her in a wheelchair this
past year. It still isn’t fixed
she said because “I still have
cramps and the Achilles ten
don (the operation involved
some sort of removal/replace
ment of it) is so tight I can’t
hardly move my foot up and
down.”
Even worse was that while
this whole process was going
on, she was shampooing her
hair one day and discovered
a lump.
“I kept telling him (the
doctor) every two weeks or
so,” she said, “that it was
getting bigger, but he kept
telling me it was nothing.”
That wasn’t good enough.
Not for Freddy Nichols.
When she was born in
Bleckley County Nov. 23,
1936, one half of a twin - she
Freddy Chance at the time,
her sister named Peggy
Chance - an aunt suggested
to her mother that she be
named “Frederica,” and have
the nickname “Freddy.”
“My mother said, ‘No, if
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Pictured is 71-year-old Freddy Nichols, who is currently
undergoing treatment for follicle center lymphoma,
a rare form of cancer. Tomorrow, Shifley Hills Baptist
Church in Warner Robins will hold a blood driver in her
honor. It is slated from 2-7p.m. at their 615 Corder Road
address.
I’m going to do that, I might
as well go all the way and
call her ‘Freddy.’”
ENI/Danny Evans
Perry Fire Department responded to a call Tuesday to
downed powerlines and grass fire. When units arrived
they found a log loader that had been used to remove
logs from an earlier accident in the middle of the road
covered in power lines. The loader struck a low hanging
phone line attached to Georgia Power lines and pulled
the pole and line down. The transformer on the pole
caught fire spreading it to the grass and the building
that houses Embro. Perry FD, Warner Robins FD stand
by while Georgia Power crews cut the power to downed
lines on Main Street. (Inset) Warner Robins firefighters
wait patiently on Georgia Power to cut the lines so they
can attack the fire. For more, see BA.
Turns out it was more
than appropriate. She was
a tomboy.
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“My daddy (the family
owned a farm) had a dump
truck,” she said. “I drove
that dump truck everywhere
I went... I was a rough bas
ketball girl.
She was also, as she said,
the kind of person that if
something needed to be
moved. “I’d just move it
myself.”
In, 1957, she married
Charles Nichols, a military
man. He was an electrician
who worked on airplanes
and was stationed at Robins
Air Force Base at the time.
Together they went to assign
ments in Idaho, Delaware
and then in Japan before
coming back here. He died
of a heart attack in 1991.
They had/have two children,
Susan and Mike. Susan lives
in Bonaire, is married and
has two children.
Mike died at the young age
of 19, electrocuted in 1986
while working at a local cab
inet shop.
“That was the death that
almost took me,” she said,
calling herself a born-again
Christian since high school,
and the night she got saved
during a revival. “I guess
that’s why I’m as strong as
I am.”
See NICHOLS, page 6A