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NEWS Woman shot, Lowe’s robbed. Also, man gets 30 years for cocaine trafficking. fl tm fims) jMttMt l MttVtYWVtl 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!) Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest PERIODICAL 500 HIM 8 ™5 510 8 0 0001™ 4 Ittllilltiiillatlliciitlilltldl Georgia Newspaper Project Main library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 30602 ALL FOR ADC 301 January 23,2008 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE m ft \ I V JEjl WtM* ' Hi > \ i to Hmr- Si&BtlkwEjaßb&r-‘ Mhi ■‘&F ■ * f u i'iiMmii f A i m, ' Ml- , HKHjps&ja IJi IMepIISB 4 LmhmmK I : 1 -55- —- '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.” BUS^ESS Jj BBNBBBBBBBHHBBfIP^NMHNBBiBBB Robins AFB, state sign agreement; provides more production space for WRALC. Local youth hoops Part IV; high school basketball wraps and more. Wednesday, January 23, 2008 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 FOOD N The Art of Chocolate comes to Perry. Chocoholic dreams and more. Log jam '•fail}!;’ I'r p l ’•* ’ M Courtesy 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. M lljs .figMl l EIMiMKI When a trip to the Emergency Room is warranted. Flu facts and more. www.hhjnews.com “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