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Volume 138, Number 87
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• Two arrested in Ecstasy
trafficing charges
• Medical problem possible
cause In man's death
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HHJ history
50 years ago:
Daisy Lee Churchwell,
a Macon attorney,
spends a night in the
Houston County jail after
being cited for contempt
of court. It was reported
that Churchwell refused
to withdraw a letter from
the case.
30 years ago:
The City of Perry's first
and only fire bell is dis
covered, restored, and
mounted. The bell was
located under the water
tank on the tower on
Sears Road.
10 years ago:
The PPG glass man
ufacturing plant at 801
Valley Drive in Perry clos
es its doors for good. The
last production is at the
end of August.
Also, the Perry Rotary
Club donates SI,OOO
to disaster relief in
Honduras, and collects
food to be sent. More
than 3,000 hurricane
relief kits are made.
Sources: The Daily Sun and
Houston Home Journal
- Compiled by Krystal Riner
Birthdays
Nov. 12
☆ Billy Townsend
Not 13
Joyce Carlton
Charles Brooks
Nov. 14
☆ (In memory) Darren
Bramblett
Susan Ganus
Connie Brown
☆ Scotty Alexander
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tual restore such a one
in a spirit of gentleness,
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you also be tempted.
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himself to be something,
when he is nothing, he j
deceives himself.
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Food
Pork perfection. Getting
creative with pressed
burgers. Bledsoe on holiday
shopping. More.
Donald Walker poised to return
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
You can’t keep a good man down.
Or at least that’s, how the saying
goes, and that statement might very
well apply to Warner Robins Mayor
Donald Walker.
He left on medical leave in early
September.
“When will you be back,” one of
the council members asked.
“When I get better,” he said.
Just around two months from that
Centerville taifes a new-approach
ENI/Gary Harmon
Holly Mills, far left at podium, expresses her concern to the Centerville mayor and council during a public hearing regarding the city’s proposal to
raise its property taxes, Monday at City Hall.
Votes to set millage with rollback rate
By KRYSTAL RINER
Journal Staff Writer
Monday night marked the third
public hearing held about the mill
age rates in Centerville. The once
again packed-out council chambers,
were full of discussion among hom
eowners, business owners, and con
cerned citizens regarding the city’s
proposal for a 27.06 property tax
increase.
The council instead unanimously
voted to set the millage rate at
10.781 with the rollback rate.
Councilman Edward Tucker spoke
ltoo arrested on trafficking charges
Special to the Journal
The Houston County
Sheriffs Office, according
to a release, arrested two
subjects Friday night and
charged them with traffick
ing Ecstasy. That was after
seizing an estimated two
ounces of Ecstasy tablets
following a routine traffic
stop.
According to the release,
at around 10:40 p.m. Sgt.
Tim Chapman stopped a
2002 Lincoln Navigator on
Houston Lake Road near
Corder Road for a traffic
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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WALKER
attend but it was on that date, that
they had seen him in Warner Robins)
'1 am honored and moved to see the honesty and
Integrity ol the citizens about this millage rate.
Your comments from the prion two public hearings
did not fall on deaf ears."
- Centerville Councilman Edward Tucker
to the citizens just before the motion
was made. “I am honored and moved
to see the honesty and integrity of
the citizens about this millage rate,”
he said. “Your comments from the
prior two public hearings did not fall
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violation.
Chapman
reported the
vehicle was
driving too
fast for con
ditions and
was follow
ing anoth
er vehicle
too closely.
During the
course of the traffic stop, he
discovered more than 180
tablets of Ecstasy pills.
The driver of the vehicle,
Dazida Warnetta Chaplin,
23, and her passenger, Randy
time - four months
early as the initial
timeline adver
tised was for “six
months” - Walker,
who has been back
in town since at
least Nov. 4 (two
councilmen stated at
the Hob Nob event,
which he didn’t
Berton
Francis Jr.,
25, both
of Warner
Robins were
arrested
and levied
with the
trafficking
chargesc.
Chaplin
was also
charged with too fast for
condition and following too
close.
The estimated street
value of the Ecstasy seized
is around $4,000.
Sports
Bacon leads Eagles into
playoffs. Local teams
compete at state cross
country meet. More.
is poised to return.
Monday he had City Clerk Stan
Martin send out a press release with
notification of a press conference
on his behalf. Nothing was stated
in terms of subject matter, but, “On
Friday afternoon,” said Acting Mayor
Clifford Holmes Jr., “Mayor Walker
called me and said, ‘Mr. Holmes, this
is Mayor Walker. I am calling you to
let you know that I will be returning
to work on Wednesday (today).
“I replied by saying, ‘OK.’ He then
on deaf ears.”
After the vote of the council,
Mayor Bubba Edwards opened up
the meeting for the citizens to give
their comments to the council.
Holly Mills a Centerville resident
CHAPLIN
Man dead in adto puzzle
Special to the Journal
Officers of the Warner
Robins Police Department,
according to a release,
responded to the area of
513 North ’ Houston Rd.
Sunday at approximately 7
p.m. in reference to a vehi
cle colliding with a utility
pole.
According to the release,
on scene investigation
revealed that Edward
Marcus Wiles, 63 and of
a Cochran address, was
operating his 2006 Silver
Mercury Grand Marquis
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said, ‘I will be having a press confer
ence at 12 (it was actually changed
to 11 a.m.). I responded: ‘I will be
present.’”
Walker’s injury, to his heel,
occurred some five or six years ago
when he reportedly jumped from a
scaffold he thought at the time was
about to fall.
He was reportedly going to check
in to Hughston Clinic in Columbus
to attempt to get it fixed (thanks to a
new medical procedure).
expressed her concerns Monday
night at the podium.
“I saw this tax increase as just
another bail out,” she said. “Thank
you for keeping our increase low.
(And) I hope this increase will take
care of our expenditures.”
She also asked the council, “ Is
there a policy for taking money
out of the accounts and a payback
system in place instead of raising
taxes? This proposed rate increase
would make us what is called a tax
nightmare, and it will turn people
away from Centerville.”
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southbound on North
Houston Rd. from Green
St.
Witnesses, according to
the release, advised that he
appeared to be having “a
medical emergency” as he
was seen slumping over in
the driver’s seat just prior
to the collision. According
to witnesses, his vehicle
“slowly coasted” down the
central turn lane until it
neared the intersection of
Woodlawn Ave.
At that time, the vehi
cle moved right and
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