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P* (SRDQKKt Jlnitf nm Volume 138, Number 87 Below the fold • Two arrested in Ecstasy trafficing charges • Medical problem possible cause In man's death Front Porch 1 Where neighbors meet I 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 E-mail birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers. com or donm@evansnewspapers. com. Mail to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief. Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231. ho Front Door Always open " Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any tres pass, you who are spiri tual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. For if anyone thinks I himself to be something, when he is nothing, he j deceives himself. - Galatians 6: 1-3 PERIODICAL 500 mm 8 ,1 55108 00001 1 4 l..ll.ll..,.ll„l| l . tll | I|| 1 ||| lll || 111 || 11ll ,| i || iii || COOI Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 Serving Houston County Since 1870 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE 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 B 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 FRANCIS JR. 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 ■ an Evans Family Newspaper! — J www.hhjnews.com jgtt HHHHRnidHHHBjIK~ki>_JHjJ 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.” See MILLAGE, page <tA 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 See MYSTERY, page j*4