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v<rj nfl BP aJ ni Jj II? j| '., M^ a^^HP*yfayw^K li % The 1968 Graduating Class of Perry High School @A Prize-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contests 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. HR " ‘ ■VI. «VDhs9H l iM^^I J i ■*' rVx '’i ■■ ’j^^9^^^ r f i jOKM- Vyml j ; | 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 I" M l fete ■ i I fe ( ' .„i-s K | m | | ! |. % 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 i 11 ” 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 i 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. 10c PER COPY SIXTEEN PAGES TWO SECTIONS ESTABLISHED 1870 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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