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I VOL. 100 NO. 28 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, OA. 31069, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1970 SINGLE COPY 15c
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MAYOR MALCOLM REESE PROCLAIMS "C*t Out
and Vote Week" in Perry. The public affairs committee
of the Perry Woman's Club is sponsoring a city-wide
register to vote and vote campaign. Standing I. to r., Mrs.
J. C. Meadows (president of the club), Mrs. W. S. Jack
Perryons Will Vote On $150,000
Library In Referendum August 25.
Perry City Council voted
I Tuesday night to hold a ref
fjjA crendum on August 25, to
1“ let voters in Perry decide
whether or not they want
the city to issue bonds in
the amount of $150,000 to
build a library.
Dr. J. R. Arnall and other
members of the library board
here appeared before Coun
cil and Arnall stated that
the money from the bond is
sue will be used to purchase
land and construct a build
ing of about 5,000 square
feet.
The Council decided to
set the bond issue vote up
so that it can be paid off in
15 years.
I Hollis Joins
Home Journal
As Adv. Mgr
Home Journal editor Bobby
Branch announced this week
the appointment of Robert F.
'Bobby) Hollis as advertising
manager for the newspaper.
Hollis is a native of Warner
Robins and attended Warner
Robins public schools and grad
uated from Warner Robins
High School. He attended Mid
dle Georgia College and Geor
gia Southwestern College.
• Before joining the staff of
The Home Journal. Hollis was
a sales representative for Wa
terman-Bic Pen Corp.
He is a member of the First
Lnited Methodist Church of
Warner Robins. Hollis, who is
unmarried, resides at the Tara
Apartments.
Branch stated, “We are hap
py to have a man of Bob Hol
lis’s caliber associated with
The Home Journal and 1 am
sure he is going to be a real
asset to the newspaper.’’
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The Houston Home Journal
The Perry library has been
faced with moving from the
present location in the base
ment of the courthouse be
cause of the lack of space
and because the county
needs more office space in
the courthouse.
Councilman Alton Hardy
told Coun :il that because of
the recent hot weather and
lack of rain that the City’s
water plant has been pump
ing an average of \ x k mil
lion gallons or water a day
for the past month. He point
ed out that it has been nec
essary to pump a consider-
Coming Events
The regular meetin.' of the
Newcomers Club will be held
Tuesday. July 14 at 6 p. m.
at Ochlahatchee Park with
a family picnic.
Teen Club, Saturday night,
Perry Country Club, 8:30-
11:30 p. m. for Teen Club
members and their guests.
Music will be furnished by
a combo from Statesboro,
The Critical Mass. This
group has a record out and
also will be backing up Step
pen wolf on Friday in Sav
annah. All members are urg
ed to be present.
The Perry Business Woman’s
Club will meet at 7:30 p. m..
Thursday, July 9. at Ochlahat
chee Park for their annual pic
nic.
Methodist Set
'Pick A Peach’
Sunday, July 12, is ‘‘Pick a
Peach” day at Perry United
Methodist Church. In a pre
vious “primary” election,
five finalists were chosen in
each of three categories,
‘‘Mini Peach” for grade
school girls; ‘‘Midi Peach”
for high school or college
girls: and “Maxi Peach” for
the adult ladies. Sunday the
“general eled on” will be
held to select the “Peach”
in each category.
Finalists for “Mini Peach”
are Cathy Cawthon, Nancy
Shelton, Jennifer Vogt, Tam
my Whitworth, and Fran
Worrall. “Midi Peach” fin
alists are Mary Chew, Lisa
Ogletree, Toni Paul, Judy St.
John, and Linda Walker.
“Maxi Peach” contestants
are Barbara Cochran, Jackie
Marshall. Coralie Nunn,
Chloe Staples and Frances
Worrall.
Perry's Hometown, Community Newspaper for the Past 100 Years
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son, Mrs. M. J. Van Atdalan, Mrs. F. G. Volz, Mrs. B. B.
Nall. Members of the committee not shown are Mrs. Ed
Willis, Mrs. Lewis Pearson, Mrs. William Edwards, Mrs.
Alex Vuxta, Mrs. Ed Hurley. (Home Journal Photo).
able amount of raw water
into the system to keep up
with the demand on the wa
ter. The raw water is not
dangerous to drink but it
has not been treated com
pletely by a chemical pro
cess that removes and excess
of iron and other deposits.
Hardy and City engineer
Bill Green reported that bids
for a new water treatment
plant in the city will be
opened next year and that
completion on the new plant
will probably take between
9 to 12 months. The new
treatment plant will elimi
nate the pumping of any
raw water into the system to
keep up with the demand.
The Council voted to al
lot SI,OOO to the Houston
Recreation Park for the op
eration of the swimming
pool and park for the re
mainder of the summer. The
park is being operated by
the Adult Training Union
Inc. Councilman Alton Har
dy said the funds will be
used to purchase chemicals
and supplies for the pool and
to pay the lifeguards.
Mayor Reese pointed out
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CHILDREN AT THE POP FESTIVAL cooled est the
best way they could. These two youngsters, who were
wandering around the festival, were playing in a mud
that the public hearing on
the new Comprehensive
Planning and Zoning Plan
for Perry will be held at
City Hall Monday night.
In other action, the Coun
cil entered a contract with
Gulf Oil Corp. for one year
for the purchase of all gaso
line for city vehicles. Coun
cil also decided to divide
the millagc of taxes in the
City to use 13Vfe mills for
general tax and Ms mill for
retirement of bonds. Total
tax millage in Perry is 14
mills and the Council must
decide at this time each year
how to distribute the tax.
Councilman John Barton
said he will report on a meth
od of underground garbage
pickup for the City of Per
ry. Barton said he has been
to Moultrie, Ga., and is
studying their method of gar
bage pickup.
Inside this week
Photos on Pop Festival
and School Vandalism
SIOO,OOO Modular Home
Plant To Be Built Here
Systems Structures, Ltd.
of Macon will conduct offi
cial ground-breaking cere
monies at 4 p. m. on Monday,
July 27, at the site of its
new $100,000,00 modular
home manufacturing plant
which will be constructed on
the east side of U. S. 41, ap
proximately two miles south
of Perry.
State Labor Commissioner
Sam Caldwell will be the
principal speaker at the
groundbreaking. A number
of other state, county and
municipal officials have been
invited to attend the ground
breaking ceremonies. The
public is also invited to at
tend.
Perry was selected by Sys
tems Structures as the loca
tion for its new facility be
Voter Registration
Drive Underway
! Vote as you please but
VOTE! The week of July 13-17
has been officially proclaimed
as Voter Registration Week in
Perry by Mayor Malcolm
Reese.
The Perry Woman’s Club
with Mrs. Elmo Meadows as
president and Mrs. B, B, Nall
as chairman of the Public Af
fairs committee are making a
concentrated effort to gel peo
ple of the county registered and
to vote in the primary election
on September 9 and in the gen
eral election of November 3.
To review the requirements
for voter registration, one
must be 18 years old, lived in
the State of Georgia for one
year and in the county for six
months. The deadline for regis-
Houston County Will
Now Be Lucky NO. 13
A 60 percent increase in pop
ulation in the last 10 years
places Houston County in the
number 13 place in the state,
running behind Fulton, DeKalb,
Cobb, Chatham, Richmond,
Muscogee, Bibb, Clayton,
Dougherty, Floyd, Gwinnett and
Clarke, in that order.
Along with the population
rise, retail sales are reported
hoi* mod* from th* drainag* of th* opon showers. Thor*
was a number of small children at the festival just walk
ing around entertaining themselves.
cause it afforded the three
primary modular manufac
turing plant considerations
of highway accessibility,
bountiful labor supply and
close proximity to support
industries and shops, accord
ing to an official of the com
pany.
The modern and industri
ally engineered facility is
scheduled to open October
1, 1970. The plant will be
capable of producing one
complete home each day,
and gross sales will be ap
proximately $2 million an
nually. The plant will have
capability for rapid inter
change between production
line models and a minimum
of twelve separate elevations
are currently planned. Mar
keting will be through estab
tration to vote in the elections
coming up are July 20 for the
Primary and September 14 for
the General election.
You should know that the
County Registrar’s Office in
the Court House is opened from
8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday
through Friday. To vote in the
city elections, you must also
register at the City Hall. The
office is opened from 8 a, m.
to 5 p. m. Monday through
Thursday and until 6 p. m. on
Friday.
Committee members of the
public affairs committee are
Mrs. Ed Willis, Mrs. W. S.
Jackson, Mrs. Lewis Pearson,
Mrs. William Edwards, Mrs.
W. G. Volz. Mrs. Alex Vuxta,
Mrs. Marlin Van Asdalan, Mrs.
Ed Hurley.
to be 27.2 percent higher during
the first quarter of 1970 than
during the same period last
year, according to Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce
figures. Sales in Houston Coun
ty ranked 15th in Georgia, with
sales of $26,213,000 this year.
For the same period last year
sales were $20,611,000.
lished distributor outlets, li
censed contractors, land de
velopers and through the
land development and sales
segment of the corporation
itself.
Systems Structures, Ltd,
was organized in July 1969,
and the officers of the cor
poration are: Virlyn Slaton,
Chairman of the Board of
Directors; Earle Williams,
president and director; Har
ry Keefe, vice president
manufacturing and director;
and Tommy Gregory, vice
president-marketing and di
rector. The other members
of the Board of Directors
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Why didn’t my daughter, Jeanette Grace, re
ceive her final six weeks grades from Perry High
School? She left an envelope at the school with
her address so they could be mailed to her, but
never received them. Can you help?
—Mrs. Pauline Allen, Perry.
Action Line contacted Mrs. Lillian Gammage,
secretary to Principal Hubert Hutcherson at Perry
High School, and learned that all grades were
mailed to Perry High students. Apparently your
daughter’s grades were lost in the mail. If she will
go by the school office, which is open all summer,
she can obtain another copy of her grades.
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We are two residents of the new Hermitage
Subdivision on Highway 341 (Hawkinsville Hwy.)
just outside Perry, and since we do not have city
garbage pickup have contracted with Tri-County
Sanitation ol Centerville to collect our garbage.
It is collected, but not on any kind of regular
schedule and sometimes piles up while we wait for
it to be hauled off. Can you help get our garbage
'picked up regularly?
—Mrs. Lohmeyer & Mrs. Mitchell, Perry
Garbage seems to be everybody’s problem these
days, and Action Line would certainly like to see
it solved. Mrs. Davis at Tri-County Sanitation was
also concerned, and explained that equipment
breakdowns were the main reason for irregular
pick-ups. She said that new equipment has been
ordered and the situation should be better soon.
*****
How many Negro and white teachers were
hired to teach summer school under Title I? Please
give this on the basis of individual schools par
ticipating.
—Robert Givins, Perry.
Action Line obtained figures from Milton Suth
erlm, Federal Coordinator of the Houston County
schools on this one. The total of 78 teachers in
cludes a health nurse and a psychological testing
director. Administrative staffs are at the school
centers, and also aides. The breakdown is 32 teach
ers and 6 aides at Pearl Stephens at Warner Rob
ins; 12 teachers and 2 aides at Kings Chapel in
Perry; 14 teachers and 3 aides at Southside in Per
ry; and 18 teachers and 2 aides at New Hope in
Perry. The ratio of white to black is the same
as during the school year, in keeping with the
redera! court desegregation order, which is 75%
white to 25% black.
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Who are the members of the City Planning and
Commission and how much salary are they
Harry Griggs, Building Official and Zoning En
forcement Officer for the City of Perry, told Action
Line that Jim O’Neal is Chairman of the commis
sion, with Richard Jones, Paul King, Ed Willis, and
Henry Casey serving as members with him. Thev
are not on salary, but on a set fee for each meet
ing and must attend the meeting to draw that
Jiairman s fee is $35 per meeting; members, |25
1 eetings are usually held around once each month
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Would you piease publish the hours of onera
Hon for the Perry Public Library?
Our librarian, Mrs. Alice Gilbert^satd thatTeg
ulai hours for the library are n m a •?
-t Wednesday, and during June, July and Aue
wV lbrary is open morn ings from 10-12 excent
HunT e an n d e t d H ay S>turd ** She and Mrs ToS
assist TO.. h th r y ° Ung belpers are happy to
assist you there, and newcomers are invited tn
make use of their facilities. ® d t 0
Eighteen Pages
Two Sections
are William H. Whatley, At
lanta; Prank H. Edwards,
Atlanta; Thomas Brown, Ma
con; and Charles A. Zaccari,
Macon.
Officials of the company
pointed out that initial em
ployment will be 36 persons.
They said that some hard
core unemployed will be
used in the plant and train
ed under a state labor de
partment program.
Virlyn Slaton stated, “We
are very happy to be com
ing to Perry and we think
we will be good citizens and
neighbors in your commun
ity,” he said.