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Arguments in Fort Valley, Byron result
in two deaths, two murder charges
Peach County has experienced two vio¬
lent deaths during the past week, one in By¬
ron and one in Fort Valley. Both culminat¬
ed arguments between two men, both re¬
sulted in murder charges being filed.
In Byron, a maid at the Econo Lodge Mo¬
tel found the body of a man in a room on
Thursday morning. The man had been
struck and killed with the top from the
room's toilet tank.
Post Two
Commission
seat filled
Mrs. Rosetti Addams-Yates was
named to the Post 2 commission
left open by the death of Commis¬
sioner Chester Wilkerson.
Yates is a teacher in the Crisp
County school system. She gained
her bachelor’s degree in social sci¬
ence with a minor in library science
and her master’s degree in middle
grades education from Fort Valley
Stale College. Devoted to educa¬
tion, Yates is a member of many
educational associations. She vol¬
unteers much time to literacy and
advancing education in her own
neighborhood.
She was appointed by former
Governor George Busbee to be a
member of the Governor’s Special
Council on Family Planning and
participated in symposiums in
Washington, D.C. as a member of
that group.
She frequently works with other
teachers as they prepare for the
Teacher Certification Test and tu¬
tors older students in reading and
GED preparation.
Yates has taught school in Buena
Vista, Moultrie and Marshallville.
She has worked on advanced cur¬
riculum planning at FVSC.
Yates received a 3-1 vote in the
County Commission meeting on
October 8. Commissioner Jack
Taylor voted for Anna Lumpkin
who had received 139 separate rec¬
ommendations from constituents.
Landfill continues to fail inspection; state
could levy fines, eventually force to close
The Peach County landfill has
failed another inspection by Susan
Zimmer-Dauphinee of the Envi¬
ronmental Protection Division of
the Department of Natural Re¬
sources.
Mrs. Cornelia Nichols of Fort
Valley spoke as a citizen concerned
about the condition of the landfill.
“You need to start taking action in¬
stead of just talking about the land¬
fill,” she said to the commissioners.
“You need to consider consoli¬
dation of efforts among Byron, Fort
Valley and Peach County where
necessary to get the landfill to pass.
Ms. Zimmer-Dauphinee said that
she felt Paul Clark (landfill super¬
visor) knew what he was doing and
was trying to comply with the state
requirements but he needs your sup¬
port, too.”
“The imposed state mandates
should have financial assistance to
the counties,” said Chairman Dr.
Glenwood Hill. “They ask things
we are not capable of doing and of¬
ten just pass laws without consider¬
ing the resources of the counties.”
Four more arrested in drug roundup
Police Chief Frank Strickland re¬
ported this week that four more per¬
sons have been arrested in connec¬
tion with a undercover drug opera¬
tion within the city of Fort Valley.
Arrested and charged with sale of
Wednesday, October 16,1991
The victim was identified as Larry Wade
Harless, 34, of Clinton, Tennessee. Arrest¬
ed Friday and charged with Harless' murder
was Daryl Legault, a drifter whose last
known address was in Knoxville, Ten¬
nessee.
According to reports, Harless left Clinton
Oct. 7 after being arrested and charged with
criminal trespass and vandalism. Authori¬
ties said the man was arrested after he
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Congressman Richard Ray participates in F.D.R. Memorial groundbreaking
The Roosevelt Memorial, designed by Lawrence Halprin, will sit between the Jefferson and Lincoln
memorials and will face the Washington Monument across the waters ot the Tidal Basin. It will be park¬
like and will consist of four outdoor ’’rooms" which will be open toward the basin. The four rooms will
integrate landscape, sculpture, water and carved locations to depict Roosevelt's four terms. Ray is
pictured with David Roosevelt, President Franklin Roosevelt's grandson.
“We have taken some steps,” said
Commissioner Johnny Smith. “We
put scales out there, we are keeping
records and we are charging a tip¬
ping fee. The landfill is supposed
to be a 50-50 joint venture with the
City of Fort Valley. They need to
help more than they are.”
Nichols encouraged recycling
and separation of various items
such as aluminum cans, newspaper
and plastic to save space in the
landfill.
“We will take it under considera¬
tion,” said Hill. “We have the best
interests of Peach County at heart.”
The commissioners will be meet¬
ing with Zimmer-Dauphinee on Oc¬
tober 29 at 10:30 a.m. in the court¬
house.
Clean Community Commission
Director Charlie Short also spoke to
the commission regarding recy¬
cling.
“Unfortunately Dorothy Keys in
Byron is no longer in the recycling
business,” said Short. “She has
moved her business across the street
and no longer has the space to
house the various recyclables.”
Short then went on to suggest that
if the commission had not yet de¬
cided on a piece of land for the By¬
ron Annex that they consider a
piece of property across from the
Byron Library that already has a
large warehouse on it where recy¬
cling could take place.
“Granted, it looks like a shambles
now,” said Short, “but with volun¬
teer labor, it could be made into
quite a recycling center.”
Commission Chairman Hill ob¬
jected to having such an operation
on the same site with municipal of¬
fices because of its appearance.
Short urged the commissioners to
act promptly to do whatever it takes
to get the landfill in compliance
with state regulations and to give
serious consideration to recycling to
save space in the landfill.
Franklin said later that Bryan has
supplied personnel and equipment
to the landfill in the past and that
whatever needs to be done to get
the landfill in order is being at¬
tempted immediately.
Palm Beach, Florida, and will be
extradited back to Peach County.
The arrests bring to 33 the num¬
ber arrested as a result of a four
month undercover operation. More
arrests are still to come.
cocaine were Danny McCrary, 1814
Willow Lake Road; Curtis Harris,
114 Hiley Street; Len Postell, 142
Dogwood Circle; and Anthony
Newberry, 308-B S. Miller Street.
Newberry was picked up in West
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kicked in the door of his ex-girlfriend's
apartment.
Harless was on parole at the time for a
robbery conviction. Relatives said he sold
all his belongings and left to avoid going to
prison.
Somewhere on the trip south, Harless
picked up Legault. The two men reportedly
bought a large amount of beer and checked
into the motel room late Wednesday.
Legault later told detectives the two men
engaged in a drunken fight. He left the mo¬
tel in Harless pickup, later registering in his
own name at a motel in Warner Robins.
When Byron police sent out a lookout for
the man, the motel ow ner in Warner Robins
contacted authorities.
Legault said in his confession that he
took S520 from Harless, spending S300 of
it prior to his arrest.
Residents confront county
about ditch problem
Mrs. Dorothy Sheriff and neigh¬
bors living on Peach and Valley
Roads off Highway 49 in Byron ap¬
peared before the County Com¬
mission to complain again about the
conditions of their ditches. They
had come in August with com¬
plaints of flooding.
Mrs. Sheriff was complaining
about the damage done to her prop¬
erty when Road Superintendent Jer¬
ry Bryan brought a backhoe to
clean out the ditch.
“He mashed the comer of my lot,
destroyed trees anji broke my water
line,” said Sheriff. “Then he got the
backhoe stuck and destroyedmy
land getting it out. You never got
my permission to even come on my
land.”
Commissioner Smith explained
that the ditch was an easement for
which the county was responsible.
Mrs. Sheriff agitatedly refused any¬
one from the county to do any work
on her property.
Other neighbors described their
ditch problems and suggested that
since the ditch was cut by the coun¬
ty in the first place that an 18” pipe
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Relatives in Tennessee, however, say that
Harless should have had over S5(X)0 in his
possession.
Byron investigators searched the tw»
rooms and Harless truck, and if the man in
fact had that much money, no more of it has
been found.
Legault is lodged in the Peach County
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Development Auth.
details progress to
Co. Commission
Chairman of the Peach County
Industrial and Development
Authority Tim Dupree, authority
member Buddy Reddick, and Peach
County Chamber of Commerce
President Ray Hollificld appeared
before the County Commission to
report on the status of the Authori
ty
Wc arc here to give you an up¬
date on the progress of the Devel¬
opment Authority and to receive
your comments,” Dupree said.
He went on to explain the mar¬
keting concept developed for Peach
County as w'dl as the five year plan
done for industrial expansion under
the guidance and suggestion of Hol
lifield.
In 1990 the authority made 16
submittals to relocating companies
which represented 3510 jobs and an
approximate capital investment of
$228 million. Of those proposals,
six corporations came to Peaeli
County. The possibility was for 640
jobs and SI46 million dollars in in¬
vestment.
In 1991, there were 15 submittals
to entice 1390 jobs with an in¬
vestment of SI00 million. Twelve
visited the county, representing a
possibility of 1200 jobs and S50
million in investment.
Reddick told the commissioners
that contacts throughout the state
with the State Dept, of Tourism and
be laid in the ditch and the ditch
covered.
“Would you be willing to pay for
that pipe?” asked Commissioner
Smith? All the residents said no that
they would not be willing to pay for
the mess created by the county in
the first place.
Bryan tried to appease the group
by saying that the county was ca¬
pable of maintaining the ditches anc
offered to go back to the Sheriff
property to remove the trees from
her ditch and smooth the dirt sides
of the ditch and restore, as best they
could, the comer of the lot.
“Ya’ll promised us that an engi¬
neer would come out and survey the
problem and give both of us a rec¬
ommendation. What happened to
that engineer? None of us have seen
one,” said Sheriff.
Commissioner Smith attempted
to explain that County Clerk Tom
Franklin had been in the hospital
and “almost died,” and the engineer
had not been sought.
“But that was 90 days ago,” said
Sheriff, “it seems to me that some¬
one could have made a phone call
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Trade, Georgia Power, MEAG
(Municipal Electric Authority of
Georgia) and other bodies has
helped put Peach County in the top
12 counties that are recommended
by them for industrial recruits.
“The tax structure in Canada for
example, is so restrictive that many
Canadian companies arc looking to
relocate,” said Reddick, “and they
want to come to the sunbelt. The
work done by the Chamber and the
Authority is really paying off in the
numbers of times Peach County is
recommended.”
“It is critical to the five year plan
that the industrial parks be com¬
pleted,” he continued, “as this is our
best marketing tool. The ‘user’ park
for large power users is critical in
our negotiations with GNB. The in¬
come generated from the parks is to
be reinvested in future expansion in
the county. It will take time, but we
are not going to give up on the
plan.”
“Let me reassure the commis¬
sion,” said Hollificld, that both the
Chamber and the Development Au¬
thority arc being very good stew¬
ards of your money and your trust.
Many of you have been in on some
of the projects we’ve worked on
and it will only be a matter of time
before these come to fruition.”
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to an engineer even if the county
clerk was unable to do so.”
Smith and Bryan tried again to
explain to the residents that putting
a larger drain pipe in (the present
driveway drains are 12”) would cost
the residents the difference between
the 18” and 12” pipe and asked if
they would be willing to pay that.
Most residents agreed that that was
fair.
“That still doesn’t take care of the
ditches,” insisted Sheriff. “We’ve
come here lots of times and noth¬
ing has happened. When are ya’ll
gonna do what you promised us and
get an engineer out there to survey
the problem and make a
recommendation to ya’ll?’’
“We want to give you some re¬
lief,” said Chairman Hill, “but ya’H
have to work with us.”
Hill then went on to ask his fel¬
low commissioners if they would be
willing to go out to Peach and Val¬
ley Roads after their meeting on
October 29 to see for themselves
what was going on out there. They
all agreed to make the trip.