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VOL. 98 NO. 28
We Need Our Guns to Protect Us
From These Terrible Highway Signs?
Back at
The Ranch
r he sign on the other side
says "45", showing the
spi'sd limit, not the caliber
,°J ’he bullets which went
through the sign. This
sport" seems popular in
f err V- (Home Journal Pho
tos;.
■vey NeSmith Jr., Senior at
ia Institute of Technology,
named to the Dean’s List
Spring Quarter,
had an average of 3.5 out
possible 4 for the. quarter.
Julie Tabor was named
Jean s list at the Univer
tieorgia for the spring
She was a freshman and
T he daughter of Mrs. Floyd
Tabor of Perry.
Rains Save Some Crops
Rot Corn Badly Damaged
fal rains of the last few
,ve saved some crops, but
'owers will suffer a loss
10 30 per cent, County A
■mmett Whelchel Jr. said
yesterday.
-ston County received
"Tread rains Monday, and
al rains July 4 and 5, a
°f 2 to 3 inches.
helchel said the rains came
PERRY. HOUSTON GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1968
City of Perry Receives
$42,158 in State Aid
Vole Registration
:
Offices Opening
Next 2 Saturdays
i
Voter registration offices in |
Perry and Warner Robins will be ,
open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on
the next two Saturdays, July 13 |
and 20, to register citizens who
are not already qualified voters. (
Mrs. Joyce B. Griffin, tax com- ]
missioner, said the deadline for (
registration to vote in the joint ,
Democratic and Republican pri
mary is July 22.
The offices will be open in
the County Courthouse in Perry
and the County Office Building
in Warner Robins.
Mrs. Griffin urged that all per
sons who are not registered to
vote come to one of the two of
fices and qualify.
J^osprrA^jEWsJ
Cater Rogers was dismissed
from the Macon Hospital last
Saturday
Houston County Hospital
Warren Smith dismissed.
Georgia Greene dismissed.
Inez Harding dismissed.
Rochelle SL.mons dismissed.
Bennie Richardson admitted.
Anita Hall dismissed.
David A. Willingham dismissed
Karen J. Lindsey dismissed.
Peach County Hospital
Freda Livingston dismissed.
Elizabeth Jackson admitted.
May Mindenhall admitted.
Patricia Bannister admitted.
Collis Griffin admitted.
Thelma Batchelor admitted.
Molly Hines dismissed.
Blanche Dampier dismissed.
in time to save the peanut crop
and the farmers should get a
normal yield if normal rainfall
continues.
Soybeans also will be all
right, he said, if normal rainfall
comes.
Peaches, which quit growing
because of the severe drought,
are sizing up well now, but the
overall yield has been reduced,
he said.
The Houston Home Journal
The City of Perry received
$42,158.02 from the state last
week as this city’s share of
state grants totaling sl4 million
for 1068.
Tne city received $35,030 in
1967.
The allotment is based on the
1960 census of population, and
this makes the growing cities
mad and the fading cities glad.
Perry, for instance, has gained
about 1,500 people since the
1960 census, but gets no credit
for the increase.
Mayor and Council will de
cide where the state money will
be spent. State law requires that
a certain percentage be used for
capital improvements
County Considers
A Merit System
Houston County commission
ers, moving toward setting up a
merit system for county employ
ees, has hired a man to work up
a merit plan. The total cost of
the study will be $5,500.
W. S. Wells of Macon, who
does job description work for
Bibb County, will receive S3OO
a month for 15 months for draw
ing up the plan, which will cost
another SI,OOO when completed.
The City of Centerville’s con
trol of a wide area around its
city limits for planning and zon
ing was approved by the county
commissioners in last week’s
meeting.
The commissioner has re
ceived numerous complaints a
bout the application of planning
and zoning rules in a wide area
around Centerville. Mayor Cedric
Jones said he thinks most of the
problems have been solved. The
commissioners apparently agreed
that the peripheral control ex
tends too far at Centerville but
would the situation as it is tem
porarily.
Water customers complained
to the county officials that water
pressure in the Sandy Run water
system is inadequate and that
the rates for water served by
Centerville is too high. Sandy
Run water system is owned by
the county and the City of Cen
terville owns its own system.
Centerville raised water rates to
customers living outside the city
limits after city officials failed
to get an annexation bill passed
in the last General Assembly.
ANDERSON SPEAKS
TO KIW'ANIS CLUB
A. M. (Phil) Anderson, trust
officer of the First National
Bank in Macon, spoke on Estate
Planning at the luncheon meet
ing of the Perry Kiwanis Club
Tuesday. He was introduced by
Earl Lewis, program chairman.
Houston School Board Rejects
Plea for Speedier Integration
'Choice' System
Is Working Well,
Board Declares
The Houston County Board
of Education has denied alle
gations made by Negro plain
tiffs who have asked the federal
courts to void the "freedom of
choice” plan and require the
county board to speed up inte
gration of schools and faculties.
The county board of education
declared that the system of
“freedom of choice” is working
properly and that a change would
require extensive study by
school officials. The Negro
plaintiffs want a plan, by next
Monday, under which all schools
will be racially balanced.
Judge W. A. Bootle of the
U.S. District Court in Macon has
not handed down an order on the
Houston County court case, but
only Monday gave Walton Coun
ty 10 days in which to submit a
plan acceptable to the court. A
higher federal court already has
held that "freedom of choice”
plans are not effective in ba
lancing the races in schools,
and that "unitary schools” (no
schools with an overbalance of
one race) should be achieved.
Defendants show that allega
tions of plaintiffs in paragraph
two are not accurate. Defendants
report filed with the Court on
May 31, 1968, shows that on the
basis of 3085 choice forms re
ceived from negro students, 576
elected to attend previously
white schools which is approxi
mately 19%. The defendants do
not know the number of negro
students who will attend school
during the school year 1968-1969
but show to the Court that first
grade enrollments and choices
thereon to be made at school
opening will result in an in
crease in such a percentage,
this averment being predicated
on the experience of the defen
dants in the 1967-1968 school
year. In addition, a certain num
ber of students have not made
their election at this time and
same will be forthcoming when
school opens. Further, it is
shown that defendants have no
way to positively identify the
the race of the person exercis
ing his choice and only when it
is known that the applicant is
a negro, does defendant include
this choice in the negro trans
fers.
Defendants allege that free
dom of choice in its school sys
tem has not failed.
Defendants aver that plain
tiffs’ allegations set forth in
paragraph three are inaccurate.
Defendants state that such al
legations are “taken out of con
text” and that the case cited
does not hold that the court has
retreated from its initial hold
ings and directives addressed to
school boards in the Brown &
Jefferson cases.
Defendants deny the allega
tions set forth in paragraphs
four and five of plaintiffs’ mo
tion and for further answer sets
forth that in any event the de
fendants would be unable to
perform and comply to a decree
such as prayed for by plaintiffs.
WHEREFORE, defendants pray
that the prayers of plaintiffs be
denied.
Defendants’ li-ief
I. Freedom of Choice Plans
are acceptable:
Mr. Justice Brennan’s initial
paragraph in the Kent County
case, Green V. County School
Board of New Kent County, Va.,
88 S. Ct. 1689 (1968) negatives
a position that our Courts have
now discarded "Freedom of
Choice” for it states clearly that
he is applying factual circum
stances peculiar to Kent County
and making a determination whe
ther same constitutes adequate
compliance by the Kent County
Board.
Justice Brennan’s decision
states "there is no universal an
swer to complex problems of de
segregation, there is obviously
no one plan that will do the job
in every case. The matter must
be assessed in light of the cir
cumstances present and the op
tions available in each in
stance” "Where the court
finds the board to be acting in
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Hurley, Chris Wilkerson, Craig Wright, Robbie Poole
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good faith and the proposed plan
to have real prospects for dis
mantling the state imposed dual
system at the earliest practica
ble date then the plan may be
said to provide effective relief.”
Defendants have been informed
of their responsibilities by the
Court and have met same to the
best of their ability.
11. Houston County’s Plan is
effective in its initial stages:
As factual matters now stand,
the court has available for its
review of Houston County’s
Freedom of Choice Plan, only
one full year of experience, and
preliminary information on se
cond year. This year at the ter
mination of the preliminary peri
od the percentage is approxi
mately 19%. As stated in the
answer, because of unknown
negro choices, the percentage is
probably greater than this and
same will increase when first
grade choices are tabula ted. It
is submitted that this demon
strates a "working” plan and
that same should be continued
until it is demonstrated that it
is failing.
111. Compliance with decree as
requested:
Without conceding in any
fashion that plaintiffs are en
titled to the relief sought, to re
quire an attempt to comply with
plaintiffs’ prayers prior to the
1968-1969 school year, would
constitute undue hardship and
expense on the defendants.
The Court’s attention is in
vited to Prayer I. a. wherein the
residence, race, and grade of our
15,000 students is required to
be placed on a rm p of the Hous
ton County School District which
embraces all of Houston County.
Obviously this must be an im
possibility.
Justice Brennan uses the
phrase "at the earliest practica
ble date” in the Kent decision
and it is submitted that to re
quire compliance with Prayer II
would be a deviation from this
Justice’s intent. Defendants
strongly submit that such chang
es in the school system should
be studied carefully and same
would require many days of in
quiry and research. An ill-con
ceived plan for compliance would
result in chaos and great injury
to all of the students, the school
system, and its employees.
In summary, the defendants
assert that" Freedom of Choice”
is a doctrine compatible to a
citizen’s rights and privileges.
Any step taken to deprive a per
son of free choice and to force
or cause an event diminishes
the freedoms of bqth black and
white. Further it is evident in
an objective review of school de
segregation in Houston County,
that same is being accomplisfTed
in a prudent, businesslike fash
ion, and that all of its citizens
have been afforded complete
and nondiscriminatory opportuni
ties to pursue their own incli
nations. It is respectfully sub
mitted that defendants are pro
gressing on an apt and appro
priate course of conduct worthy
of continuance and judicial ap
proval.
House Numbering Project
Is Undertaken by City
Three city streets and parts
of a fourth will soon have new
street numbers as a result of
City Council action last week.
Approximately forty houses and
several vacant lots will be af
fected by the first step to im
prove Perry’s numbering system.
Northside Road, Frank Satter
field Road, King’s Chapel Road
and Tucker Rond from Logue to
Clinton streets were all re-num
bered to conform with the correct
numbering system within the
city.
In another action, Council of
ficially changed the name of the
section of Ball Street between
Five Points and the city limits
to Highway 341-North.
‘‘Council took these actions
with a look to the future,” Ad
ministrative Assistant Tom Cook
Coming Events
Golf Pro Wiltz Bernard will
hold a free junior golf clinic at
Perry Country Club for members’
children, beginning Thursday,
July 18, at 9:30 a.m. Cull Mr.
Bernard for information.
The Session of the Perry
Presbyterian Church will meet
at the church at 7:30 p.m. today.
The Crossroads United Metho
dist Church will have an open
house at its new parsonage,
734 Forest Avenue, from 3 to 5
p.m. Sunday, July 14.
The July meeting of the New
comers Club will be held Thurs
day, July 11, at 8 p.m. at the
Security Federal Building. This
will be the annual "Fun and
Games” night. All newcomers
are invited to attend and share
I the fun and prizes. Each member
is asked to bring a gift and a
guest.
The Wesleyan Service Guild
will meet at the home of Mrs.
•W. M. Haywood, Tuesday, July
16 at 8 p.m.
Another series of swimming
lessons to last for two weeks
will be given by lifeguard Ed
ward Lee at the Houston Lake
Country Club beginning July 16.
TWO BUSSES GOING
TO BRAVES GAMES
Two busloads of Perry people
will go to Atlanta .today for
tonight’s game between the
Braves and the Dodgers, The
, trip is sponsored by the Perry
Kiwanis and Perry Rotary Clubs.
The bus leaves about 5 p.m.
Young, manager; Doug Hutson, Bobby Irwin, Kevin Sor
rells, Earl Brown, Clay Kirk, Seabie Hickson Jr„ Seabie
Hickson Sr., manager. (Home Journal Photo).
noted. "After an extensive study,
several streets were found to
need re-numbering. Satterfield
and Kings Chapel roads are num
bered backwards and Northside
and Tucker do not conform with
the city system. These four
streets all represent areas of
future growth and changing the
numbers now is more desirable
than waiting for future problems
to occur.
Residents whose numbers were
changed will be notified by mail
immediately, Cook slated. Cor
rected addresses will also be
furnished to the Post Office and
General Telephone Company.
Ball Street was changed to
Highway 341-North because of
the lack of continuity with Bull
Street south of Five Points and
because of the commercial nature
of the section. Cook noted that
house numbers will be the same
as the former Ball Street num
bers.
“Council is very interested in
gaining public support and use
of house and street numbers,”
Cook noted. "The benefits of
displaying a correct house num
ber are many, and the disadvan
tages are few. These major
changes are the first steps to
execute the Council’s wishes.”
With Telephone Co, 20 Years
Mrs. Estelle F. Hunt received a 20-year service
award from Kenneth E. Aldridge, Perry District man
ager of General Telephone Co., at a luncheon at the
Holiday Inn recently. Mrs. Hunt is a service represen
tative in General's Perry office. (Home Journal Photo).
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ESTABLISHED 1870
Error in Audit
Is Corrected
The Home Journal commit
ed a serious typographical er
ror in the Houston County Au
dit last week.
Under statement of expendi
tures for the County Commis-.
sioners and Clerk office, tem
porary salaries were listed at
SI 5,100. The figure should have
been $165 .... quite a dif
ference.
The Home Journal regrets
the error.
NEWCOMERS
Newcomers to Perry in re
cent days, as reported to the
Chamber of Commerce, in
clude:
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lund
quist, Kenwood Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Adna R.
Mohr, 1406 Windsor Road.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K.
Bellflower, 1210 Georgia Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Herring,
1204 Vi Charles Ave.