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The 1968 Graduating Class of Perry High School
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VOL. 98 NO. 23
Pabst to Break Ground
Near Here on June 18
Groundbreaking ceremonies for
the Pabst Brewing Company near
Perry will be held Tuesday, June
18, according to an announce
ment today by Pabst officials in
Milwaukee.
Mayor Richard Ray of Perry
said local and chamber of com
merce officials from all over the
Middle Georgia area are among
those expected to attend the
groundbreaking.
The ceremonies will be held
at the brewery site located near
the intersection of U.S. 341 and
Ga. Route 247, six miles south
of Perry.
The $49 million Pabst brewery
is expected to employ 500 per
sons and produce 1.5 million
barrels of beer annually.
James C. Windham, president
of the Pabst Brewing Co., will
be the principal speaker at the
exercises, A native of Alabama,
he was reared and educated in
the South The Windhams main
tain a home in Noxubee County
near Macon, Miss.
He is an honor graduate of
Aliceville High School, Alicevitle,
Ala., and East Mississippi Junior
Scooba. Miss. He receiv
ed his bachelor and masters de-
Sree in accounting and financing
Irom Benjamin Franklin Uni
versity, Washington, D. C.
From 1934 to 1942, he was em
ployed in various capacities by
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
From 1943 to 1945. he handled all
tiscal planning, budgets and ad
ministration for the First Army,
which was in Europe in World
J|ar li He was assigned to the
‘lute House by the Army in
ttH5, where for six months he
made linaneial surveys and re-
Ports lor President Truman. He
! "as honorably dischaged from
, Army in 1946 with the rank
of major.
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The Top Honor Group of Perry High School
I r ' seat *d, Susan Thomason, Martha Hawkins,
Lina, n ■ Deann >e Forehand, Pat Hicks, Karen Wright,
av,s and Judy Pace. Standing, I. to r., Don Rich
JAMES C. WINDHAM
In 1958, Mr. Windham was
named president of Pabst Brew
ing Co. He is a director of the
Marine National Exchange Bank
of Milwaukee and in May of this
year he was elected as a di
rector of the Marine Corp., which
directs the affairs of 12 banks
in the slate of Wisconsin.
He is a co-chairman of the
Greater Marquette Program, a
member of the board of regents
of Marquette University, a mem
ber of the Governor’s Advisory
board on Economic Development,
a director of the Greater Mil
waukee Committee, a member of
the Hospital Area Planning Com
mittee and a member of Teams,
Inc.
County School
Budget Inside
The Houston Home Journal
Commission
To Tighten
Water Control
County Attorney David P.
Hulbert told Houston County
Commissioners Tuesday that
present laws cover the tampering
with water hydrants and all they
need to do is catch someone at
it.
The comment came in a dis
cussion of reported tampering
with county water hydrants in
more than one place in the coun
ty. County Water Supt. Hollis
Moulton told the commissioners
that he was quoted correctly in
a Home Journal article that the
county is pumping more water
than it is being paid for in the
Henderson area and this indi
cated that someone is getting
water from roadside hydrants
without paying for it.
Mr. Moulton said he has been
contacted by farmers in other
sections of the county seeking
to work out some arrangement
for obtaining water from county
hydrants. The county charges
them 50 cents for 1,000 gallons
of water.
Commissioner Alton Tucker
said he fears that meters to
1 control the possible abuses of
’ the water hydrants might cost
more than the loss of the water,
but Commissioner Gene Wall
’ said the county must have better
control.
County Attorney Hulbert said
• the water bond ordinance itself
> gives law enforcement officers
the right to make arrests for
tampering with water hydrants.
The commissioners agreed
that they appreciated farmers
who will keep the record of
water usage because this is a
valuable service to farmers.
The commissioners com
plained that they had not been
informed about a $5,000 side
walk paving contract obtained
erson, Charles Walker, Maynard Cliff, Peggy Griffin,
Patsy Bynum, Randy Chew and Lee St. John. (Home
Journal Photo).
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1968
KEY ATTENDING I
METHODIST MEET |
Rev. Billy Key, pastor of the |
Perry Methodist Church, is at
tending the annual sessions of
the South Georgia Conference
in Macon this week. He is ac
companied by Mrs, Key.
Pastoral assignments will be
announced at the conference
Friday, Mr. Key has been pastoi
of the local church for four
years. The new Methodist
church being established in
Perry will be assigned its first
minister at the conference.
Mr. Key will be in his pulpit
Sunday.
Hodges Attending
Houston Sessions
Rev. Dan M. Hodges, pastor
of the First Baptist Church,
accompanied by Mrs. Hodges,
flew to Houston Monday miming
for the annual session of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodges will
return home Saturday and Mr.
Hodges will occupy his pulpit
at both services Sunday.
by the City of Perry. They said
they feel the commissioners
ought to be kept informed be
cause the county road program
might be jeopardized.
- E. S. Dixon of U. S. 41 North
appeared before the commission
ers to ask that a better traffic
signal light be placed at the
intersection of U. S. 41 and Ga.
96 at Highway Haven. He said
that he has seen many motorists
run right through the present
umber sign on Ga. 96, crossing
U. S. 41 without slowing down.
He said one person has died
in a wreck there and he pre
dicts more deaths unless some
thing is done. Commissioners
said they will call this situation
to the attention of the State
Highway Dept., which controls
all traffic signs on state and .
federal highways.
Four Charged with Theft
Os TVs at Motels Here
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Top Foreign Language Student at PHS
Dawn Marshall, center, received the Perry Kiwanis Club's first academic
award for excellence in foreign language at the Kiwanis meeting Tuesday. The
presentation was made by Moody Mulkey, Kiwanian, as Dawn's teacher, Mrs.
Judith Wilson, looks on approvingly. (Home Journal Photo).
'Experimental City Manager’ Hired
By City; Five Streets to Be Paved
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Perry’s city council Tuesday
night hired a June college
graduate as an administrative
assistant to the mayor for three
months and voted to pave five
streets.
Tom Cook Jr., who graduated
from Davidson College last week
and will return to enter law
school in September, was en
gaged for three-months at *7O
a week. Mayor Ray said this
would be an experiment in the
use of an administrative as
sistant,which has been proposed.
The streets to be paved, with
property owners paying two
thirds of the cost and the city
one third, are Lucille St., Wal
cott St,, Poplar St., Old Field
Lane and Bradley St.
City council approved a Fire
Prevention Code that meets
requirements of fire under
writers. Fire Chairman John
Barton and Councilman Dot
Roughton urged passage of the
code.
The councilmen voted to give
the seven schoolboy patrolmen
at Junior High School a *25
U. S. Savings Bond each for
their services during the lust
school year.
After considerable discussion,
the tux assessments of Thrift
Court, Travelodge and Cross
roads Motel were left as ap
praised despite protests from
property owners. The tux us
; sessment of Quality Court was
held up for further study after
councilmen split 3 to 3. Mayor
Ray said he was not going to
vote on this matter but would
order further study. There was
considerable difference between
. the city and county tax as
sessments on all four of the
' pieces of property.
Councilman Roughton said he
would like for the city to spon
sor a house-numlienng program
since many houses do not dis
play their proper numbers. The
mayor said the new administra
tive assistant could start to
i work on this problem imrnediate
• ly.
Graduation
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Photos Inside
Methodists to Use
Old Baptist Church
The New Methodist Church,
which met first on May 26, will
change its meeting place to the
Sanctuary of the old Baptist
Church building. The church
has previously met at Ochla
hatchee Clubhouse.
Church School will begin at
10:00a.m. with a general as
sembly in the Sanctuary and the
morning worship at 11 a.m. Dr.
David Duck, Arnericus District
Superintendent, is tentatively
scheduled to preach at the
morning hour. There will be no
evening service since the pew
congregation will meet with
the 'Ferry Methodist Congrega
tion.
The church will be officially
constituted on Sunday, June
16, with the new pastor and the
District Superintendent present.
After the church is constituted,
an official Board of Stewards
and other Church officials will
be elected.
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State and City
Officers Arrest
3 Men, I Woman
City and .state officers this
week announced the • arrest ot
three men and a woman on
charges of stealing television
sets from motel rooms in Hous
ton, Dooly and Turner counties.
Police Chief B. E. Dennard
listed the four while persons,
who were charged with "larceny
from a house”, as Joseph C. Wil
liamson, 30, Charles F. Gilman.
22, Charlotte Diane Thomas, 18.
and Frank 11. Cain, 27, all resi
dents of Macon. The woman had
a baby with her at the time of
her arrest.
Sgt. C. D, Leverette of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
said TV sets stolen in the three
counties have been recovered
and that the investigation is con
tinuing.
Charles Bozeman, manager of
the Sandman Motel of Perry,
called police the night of May
27, when he became suspicious of
three persons who registered in
his motel. One man used the
name of "Charles W. Ewing”,
which name had been used in
another local motel that recent
ly lost a TV set.
Assistant Police Chief Roy
Shellnut and Officer Marvin
Johnson set up a watch at the
, Sandman Motel and arrested
Williamson, Gilman and Mrs.
Thomas after they look a TV set
and pul it in their car. The baby
was turned over to the Houston
County Family and Children Ser
vices, the chief said.
Chief Dennard said a TV set
was missing from the Capri Mo
tel of Perry on May 22, after a
man using the name of "Charles
W. Ewing” registered there. The
chief said Gilman and Cain also
were charged with stealing a 'TV
set from the Sandman on the
night of May 14.
Os the four TVs reported stol,
en ,two were recovered and two
others had been sold, Chief Den
nard said.
Chief Dennard said he and GBI
Agents Leverette and Jake Caw
thon arrested Cain in a panel
truck belonging to Williamson at
the Perry Truck Stop.
GBI Agent Leverette said Cain
is wanted at Moultrie in connec
tion with a safe burglary and
alsu is charged with being a
federal parole violator.
Leveretle added that a motel
association says this area of
Georgia has a bad record for
TV thefts.
"These arrests should certain
ly slow down the TV thefts in
this section,” Leverette said.
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