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BELOW THE FOLD: City of WR spends strong message against selling alcohol to minors
Volume 138, Number 49
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“My soul faints with longing for
your salvation, but I have put my
hope in your word.”
- Psalm 119:81
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HHJ history
50 years ago:
Two pilots, both from Perry
and both crew members on the
same plane, escape injury when
the charter plane they are on is
involved.in a landing accident.
30 years ago:
Maj. Gen. John R. Spaldin Jr.,
commander of Warner Robins
Air Logistics Center, announces
his retirement after 26 years of
service.
Also, U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn
announces his intention to see
re-election via a campaign fund
raiser on family farm.
10 years ago:
Perry rescue members extri
cate several animals from the
back of an overturned moving
van. The accident occurs on
Interstate 72. Rescued are one
dog and five cats, with an addi
tional feline being unaccounted
for.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
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By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
For Chief Joel Gray and the six
firefighters who just happened to
be on duty during the storm, it
all started with a crack of lighting
so powerful, and so loud that they
WR sends strong message against selling alcohol to minors
By DON MONCRIEF
'Journal Managing Editor
The Warner Robins City
Council administered pun
ishment and also sent a
clear signal to any other
establishment within its
boundaries: Selling alcohol
to anyone under age will
not be tolerated.
The group, during its
Several iiyured in
motor vehicle crash
Special to the Journal
Members of the Houston
County Sheriffs Office,
according to a release,
were called to investigate
a two vehicle car crash
on Georgia 127 near Bear
Branch Rd., Wednesday
at about 2:45 p.m.
According to the release,
a 1998 Chevrolet 1500
pick up truck driven by
Rex Lee Jarriel, 46, from
Perry, was north-bound
on Georgia 127. He then
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
knew it had struck nearby.
Veteran firefighter Robbie Rowell
said, “We’re probably going to get a
call,” and within 60 seconds, at 4:45
p.m. the call came.
It was the 9-11 dispatcher saying
that a citizen had reported smoke
coming from the roof of a building
meeting Monday, voted in
favor of suspending the
alcohol license of the Stop
N Go on Gawin Drive in
Warner Robins for 30 days
for selling beer to a person
under the age of 21.
If that doesn’t seem like
much - to the owner you
know it did - it should,
especially considering what
attempted to illegally
pass another vehicle in a
marked “no passing zone”
and subsequently collided
“head on” with a south
bound 2006 Saturn lon,
driven by Frankie Mae
Shennett, 42, and from
Hawkinsville.
Both Jarriel and
Shennett, a female, were
transported to the trau
ma center at the Macon
Medical Center.
See CRASH, page SA
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went into it.
For starters, the prelimi
nary recommendation from
Warner Robins Police Lt.
Lance Watson, who initiated
the case, was for probation.
Initially, explained City
Clerk M. Stanley Martin,
Watson was going to request
the council suspend the busi
ness’s license for 10 days.
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A fireman checks his medical bag after responding to a motor vehicle crash on Georgia
127 near Bear Branch Rd., Monday.
at the corner of Ball and Carroll
Street.
More calls came in even as the
firefighters were rushing to the
scene in the pounding rain.
Gray says he thought the torren
tial rain, which continued for a half
hour longer, would be holding the
But after delving deep
er - taking into consider
ation several things includ
ing it being theirs and the
store clerk’s first offense,
as well as having no prior
complaints there, and the
incident occurring during a
shift change (plus he said
he had “about” six others
worse that were coming the
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smoke down, that they wouldn’t be
seeing much of it when they first
got to the downtown area.
He was wrong.
By that time a pillar of dark
smoke was rising from the one
story Ball Street wing of Snyder
See BLAZE, page 6A
council’s'way) - he opted for
something different.
“So I would be OK,” he
said, “if we just went to a
probationary period where
we could just go back and
check. I feel comfortable with
them saying they were going
to correct the problem.
“On circumstances
See MESSA GE, page 9A
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