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VOL. 100. NO. 26 PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. ill (Mi!), THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1970. SINGLE COPY 15*
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PABST BREWING COMPANY PRESIDENT JAMES C. (JIM)
WINDHAM leeks on as Pabst Vice President Augie Pabst (center) ac
cepts some Perry pecans from Pabst Southeastern Manager Bill Gra
JBaiOH p UNE
What are the duties of the police officer recent
ly hired by the County Commissioners?
—N. C., Perry.
Action Line checked this one out with Sonny
Watson, clerk of the county comm ssioners. He
said that the new county police officer, Tommy
S. Wright, will be primarily working in the alcohol
control field. It seems that some people have ques
tioned Wright’s authority, but Watson quoted Sec
tion 23-1403 of the Georgia Law which states that
the officer has the “same power to make arrests,
and to execute and return all criminal warrants
and processes, in the county of their appointment
only, as sheriffs now have; and shall, under the
same direction and authority, have all the powers
of sheriffs as peace officers in the county of their
appointment.” Wright will be checking liquor and
beer store licenses, working for the control of non
county-tax paid liquor, among other duties.
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I have noticed an invasion of mosquitoes in
Perry recently. I read in the Houston Home Journ
al a few weeks ago that the city is now spraying
for the mosquitoes from an airplane. I would like
to know how often they spray and just how much
does it cost the City each time they spray?
—J. M., Perry.
Action Line contacted city commissioner Gene
Smith, who said that the first spraying for mos
quitoes was supposed to start last week but was
delayed by crop dusting activities by the sprayer.
First spraying should come this week, with repeats
every 2 - 3 weeks. Each spraying will cost the city
S4OO.
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Can Action Line tell me how much money the
Mayor and City Councilmen of Perry make?
—T E„ Perry.
City Clerk Mrs. Ruth Bunting gave Action Line
the figures on this one. The Mayor’s salary is SSOO
per month; each Councilman gets S2OO per month
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How many registered voters are there in Hous
ton County?
—A. 8., Perry.
Action Line learned from Mrs. Ann Smith in
the Houston County Tax Commissioner’s office in
Perry that at the lime of the last election, a special
Board of Education election, there were 18,597
registered voters in the county. The figure is high
er now due to new registrations, but the exact
figure was not available on short notice.
Jfe Houston Home Journal
Perry's Hometown, Communitf Newspaper for the Past 100 Years
Perry City Council Sets
Public Hearing July 13
A public hearing is sche
duled at the Perry City Hall
Monday night, July 13, at
7:30 p. m. lor the purpose
of presenting new “Compre
hensive Planning and Zon
ing Ordinance.”
The recently completed or
dinance was drawn up for
the City by the Middle Geor
gia Area and Planning Com
mission, after several months
of an intensive study made
by the MGAPC on Perry’s
present and future needs in
the area of planning and
Branch’s
Off To Press
Convention
Editor and Mrs. Bobby Branch
and children, Hobby and Lee
left Perry Wednesday night
after the publication of The
Home Journal to attend the
84th annual convention of the
Press Association at Jekyll Is
land.
Highlights of the four day
convention will feature Govern
or Lester Maddox’s annual
state of the stale address and
an appearance by gubernatori
al candidates.
Dr. Bell Heads
Optometrists
Dr. Leonard \V. Bell, of
Perry, has been installed as
President of the Sixth Dis
trict Optometric Society, a
unit of the Georgia Opto
metric Association. All State
and local officers took of
fice at the recent conven
tion of the group at Bucca
neer Motor Lodge, Jekyll
Island.
Dr. Bell has served as
chairman of the Visual Train
ing and Children’s Vision
committees of the GOA. He
recently completed a one
year post-graduate course in
the subject at the Gesell In
stitute of Child Develop
ment.
He has served as a mem
ber of the City Council and
as Vice-Mayor. Dr. Bell has
been a member of the Board
of Stewards of the Perry
Methodist Church and com
mander of the American Le
gion.
ham. The Pabst officials flew into the Perry-Fort Valley Airport priday
for a tour of Pabst Plant in Perry. Graham, who lives in Atlanta, will
move to Perry when the plant opens in August or September.
zoning.
Mayor Malcolm Reese said,
“This new ordinance is very
important to Perry for the
present needs of the City as
well as a long range need
for the future. We want to
invite taxpayers of Perry to
come down to City Hall on
July 13, and find out all a
bout our new ordinance on
planning and zoning. The
Council, along with represen
tatives of Middle Georgia
Planning Commission, will
try and answer any questions
the public has about the new
ordinance,” the Mayor said.
Mayor Reese pointed out
that the new plan is the first
major change the city of Per
ry has made in planning and
Council
Opposes
Festival
The members of the Perry
City Council have gone on
record unanimously as oppos
ing the “Pop Festival” to be
held at Byron, Ga., July 3-5,
According to a resolution pre
pared by James O. McKinley
and introduced on June 18 to
the other councilmen, their ob
jections are on the grounds of
their feeling that “certain ele
ments of our society are de
generating to low standards of
morality and conduct;” and
they feel that “our best efforts
of leadership are necessary to
see that only programs bene
ficial to the culture, good char
acter and good citizenship of
our youth are carried out.”
The resolution was approved
and signed by council mem
bers James O. McKinley, H. E.
Smith, Frank Leonard Jr., Al
ton Hardy, Dan Britton, and
John Barton.
Teen Dance
Saturday
Teen Club Saturday Night
at Perry Country Club, 8:30-
11:30. The visiting combo
will be the Ladenstone Odys
sey. For members and their
guests only.
zoning since it was first ado
pted here.
Councilman James McKin
ley, who heads up Council’s
planning and zoning commit
tee, told The Home Journal
that if the new ordinance is
adopted it will pave the way
to putting Perry in line for
a number of Federal loans
and grants and other govern
mental programs.
McKinley said the propos
ed planning ordinance for
Perry is one of the most
modern and up to date in the
state.
The plan, which is lengthy,
was sent out to local attor
neys, realtors, builders and
other interested persons sev
eral weeks ago.
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DR. A. G. HENDRICK wa< honored by the Perry Ex
change Club Friday for his long years of service to his
profession and to the community of Perry. John Lynn,
vice president of the Perry Exchange Club, presents Dr.
Hendrick with a "Book of Golden Deeds Award", one of
the highest awards presented by the National Exchange
Budget Released
By School Board
Houston County School
Board officials released a
tentative copy of their an
nual budget Tuesday after
noon with some very definite
doubts about receiving en
ough Federal funds to bal
ance the budget.
The tentative budget for
the 1970-71 school year is
$7,990,071.23 compared to a
budget for the 1969-70 school
year of $7,349,556.
The thing that has school
officials worried is the pos
sibility of not receiving some
$700,000 in Federal funds.
The officials are not sure
whether they will receive
all the Federal funds due to
the county because of a
hold up in the Congress on
the funds and because a Bill
now in Congress that would
release the funds has been
pushed aside while the Sen
ate debates the Cambodia
situation.
County School Supt. David
Perdue left Wednesday night
for Washington to talk to
Senators and Congressmen
about trying to get the bill
through, which would re
lease some $425 million for
public education around the
country.
If the Federal funds do
not come through to the
County, the board will have
to ask for a tax increase to
make up the more than $700,-
000 loss, according to Per
due.
Assistant Supt. Seabie
Hickson said other reasons
for a higher budget include
Perry Enters Stay and See Contest
The official entry of Perry
in the 1970 Stay and See
Georgia Program has been
announced by Don Johnson
of Columbus, Third District
Chairman, and Elwyn Mc-
Kinney, Executive Director
of the Perry Area Chamber
of Commerce.
District Three includes Co
lumbus, Fort Valley/Peach
Co., Hamilton, Lumpkin,
Montezuma/Macon Co„ Per
ry, and Pine Mountain.
Stay and See Georgia is
a statewide program design
increased teacher’s salaries,
vandalism in the schools,
new airconditioned buildings
being put into use, increased
SCHOOL BUDGET
TENTATIVE GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET
FOR 1970- 71
July 1, 1970—June 30, 1971
HOUSTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
ANTICIPATED RECEIPTS:
Local Sources $1,942,408.29
State Sources 5,272,392.34
Federal Sources 772.270.60
Non-revenue 3,000.00
GRAND TOTAL RECEIPTS $7,990,071.23
ANTICIPATED PAYMENTS:
Administration $ 168,542.00
Regular Instruction 5,953,073.24
Special Instruction 76,630.81
Attendance Services 11,574.00
Transportation 281,283.00
Operation of Plant 507,825.00
Maintenance of Plant 205.562.80
Fixed Charges 455,250.00
Capital Outlay 188,200.00
Textbook & Library; sick
leave—transfer 142,130.38
GRAND TOTAL PAYMENTS $7,990,071.23
The above operating budget for 1970-71 was
tentatively adopted by the Houston County Board
of Education on June 18, 1970, and is published
herein in conformity with Act. No. 523 (SB 180) of
the 1964 Session of the General Assembly of Geor
gia. It will be adopted in its final form at its meet
ing on July 14, 1970 at 10:00 A. M. in the County
Board of Education Office Building, Perry, Geor
gia.
DAVID A. PERDUE, Superintendent
L. C. WALKER, Chairman
ed to help communities pro
mote tourism by means of a
do-it-yourself program of at
tracting, serving and enter
taining travelers. Tourism,
the fastest-developing indus
try in our nation today, is a
$646.8 million dollar per year
industry for Georgia.
Participants in Stay and
See Georgia form five com
mittees; “Clean-up and Beau
tification,” “Courtesy and
Hospitality,” “New Attrac
tions,” “Points of Interest,”
and “Accomodations and Fa
cilities.” Projects are under
Club to outstanding citizens in tha community. Mrs. Hen
drick it holding another part of tha special award that
is designed to be placed on Dr. Hendrick's desk. Dr.
Hendrick has long been recognized at one of the most de
dicated and hard working physicians in the state. (Home
Journal Photo).
salaries for nonprofessional
employees of the schools and
the increase costs of supplies
and maintenance.
taken in these areas and the
results will be judged by a
panel of out-of-state travel
editors in October.
Prizes will be awarded to
the communities judged as
having done the best job of
developing their overall tou
rist potential through the
program. Presentation of a
wards will take place at the
Stay and See Georgia “Car
nival of Awards” Banquet
and Ball in November, 1970,
at the Martinique Motor Ho
tel in Columbus, Ga.