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Home Journal Opinions PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1970 We want to urge our readers to vote in favor of the proposed bond issue for a new library here. Perry City Council has called the special referendum to vote on the bond issue of $150,000 for August 25. Perry needs a new library. We need a modern facility with adequate space. The library, which is now located in cramped quarters in the basement of the courthouse, is one of the finest of its size in the state. The County Com missioners have already stated that they need the additional room in the We don’t think the Houston County Commissioners treated Perry fairly in action they took last week to grant ths Perry Area Chamber of Commerce $1,250 for the promotion of our com munity on television. Officials of the Perry Chamber ap peared before the Commissioners and asked that they assist financially in the Miss Central Georgia Pageant in the amount of $3,000. The Commis sioners gave Perry $1,250 and they said the figure was based on popula tion of Perry and Warner Robins. The Commissioners granted $5,000 recent ly to Warner Robins to promote that City on both Macon television stations. We have no axe to grind with War ner Robins. We’re glad they’re aggres sive enough to promote their city. We think it Shows good community inter est and pride. We just don’t think it was right for the Commissioners to base the giving of funds on what they called population. Welcome To Systems Structures We want to offer a hearty welcome to System Structures Limited, Inc., to the community of Perry. Officials of the Macon based com pany announced last week their plans to construct a modular home manu facturing plant here on U. S. 41 south. The new plant will begin operation in October with 36 employees. We are impressed with the manage ment of Systems Structures and we I ke the things they have said about Fix-Up For Television Cameras The color TV cameras will roll in Perry this Saturday. A crew from WMAZ-TV in Macon will arrive here early in the morning to begin shoot ing commercials for the live colorcast of the Miss Central Georgia Pageant to be televised on August 22. All the commercials on the telecast, which is being sponsored by the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce and pro duced and directed by the Perry Jay- Know The Meaning Os Peace Symbol A popular fad with young people is the “peace symbol”. It is seen every where, but few people know its origin or meaning. One of the nation’s most sophisticated magazines, the New Yorker, has some interesting things to say about it. It is most popular with protesters, draft card burners and flow er children. It is worn also by many thousands of unsuspecting youth. They wear the emblem as a necklace, stamp it on sweatshirts, draw it on notebook covers, even carve it on trees and scrawl it on restroom walls. The New Yorker says the emblem was adopted by various youth organi zations on direct orders from the Com munist Party. This, says the publica tion, is part of a long range propagan da campaign of the Communists to en courage youth to express contempt for adults, for authority, and for the ideals that built the United States. The symbol is old, but it has never been associated with peace, according to the magazine. It actually is an an cient sign of evil known as the broken cross, sometimes called the "crucified cross”. It is the Christian Cross per Vote For A New Library Perry Deserves A Fair Share basement for other offices and that the library must be moved. We hope the voters of Periy will vote in favor of this very worthwhile bond issue. City Council and the Coun ty Commissioners have shown much interest in the future of Perry’s library and now the time is coming on Aug. 25, for the people of Perry to show their interest in the future of their library. We whole heartedly endorse the proposed project for a new library. —B. B. We wish the Commissioners would have given the money on the basis of the merit of the live TV colorcast that will originate from Perry on August 22. The pageant here will rank right along with the Miss Georgia Pageant in excellence. Hundreds of thousands of Georgians will view the telecast all over the state because of the WMAZ hook-up on cable TV around the state. The show is outstanding and Perry and this area will be highlighted on all the commercial spots. We want to thank the Commission ers for the $1,250, anyway. We just think it is a shame they didn’t con sider the merits of the upcoming pro gram about Perry. ... We hope in the future the Commissioners don’t get the words population and VOTES mixed up. . . . And we hope this case is no indication of things to come in the future. . , . We think Perry de serves its fair share. ... No more. No less. —B. B. Perry. They are determined to be good citizens and their outlook for the fu ture of the plant here and for Perry is one of high optimism. We in Perry are always pleased to welcome new industry into our com munity ... no matter how big or small. Perry is the industrial center of Houston County and we are proud of that fact. Welcome, new neighbors. cees, will highlight community life, business and industry in Perry. We want to urge everyone to clean up and fix up whatever needs repair ing. We think the City of Perry is one of the cleanest and loveliest anywhere, but some places can use a little clean ing up before the cameras get here Saturday. Let’s put on our best face for the color cameras. Smile, you’re ‘ on TV. —B. B. verted. with the crossbars broken down to signify Satan’s contempt for Christian principles. So. young people, wear it if you must. Draw it, stitch it into your cloth ing. But be sure you know' what it really means. Do not be so naive as to follow the crowd without thinking for yourself. The pirate flag cross bones and skull is now almost a play thing because it represents no threat to our security. Perhaps the same can be said for the Nazi swastika. But the so-called “Peace Symbol” is an enemy flag of godless tradition, cleverly foist ed on the unsuspecting. —Baptist Courier. irp ■- f ;^§|Hi axins. dp^aj^K A Happening In Perry I: J / While the invansion of the Pop Fes tival, the big “Happening” as the long hairs call it, was going on at Byron, a completely different kind of “Happen ing” was getting off to a good start in Perry among its young people. The hippies and others among what is called the hooked generation give a two-finger salute meaning “peace.” This different youth group gives a three-finger salute meaning “God is Love.” It started in Asbury College in Ke:>- tacky back on February 3 of this year. That night a television reporter on the evening news told viewers to put down their newspapers and listen and watch the scene he had filmed earlier that day. “In my 34 years of newscasting,” he said, “I’ve never seen anything like it. And I still can’t believe it.” What had happened that day was that the little college community of Wilmore, Kentucky, had been invaded —by the Holy Spirit. All academic and administrative work stopped and classes were suspended. Asbury Col lege’s auditorium was crowded with penitent students on their knees; one by one, after prayer, they stood and testified of God’s deliverance and of His presence. One student expressed the situation when she declared, “I sit in the middle of a contemporary Pent ecost.” Townspeople joined in, and before the week was over hundreds of “pil grims” from across the nation had joined those on the campus. From dis tant points information was sought, from other colleges, other towns, from a Senator’s office. Before the end of June over 70 schools had been effect ed. including Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Teams from Asbury spread out to share the love they had found when they experienced the love of Jesus in their own hearts. Revivals sprang up in churches, and spread to whole towns; city halls and hotels are opened lo meetings. People around Perry were expect ing the Pop Festival, because it had been a source of newspaper and tele vision publicity for weeks before it actually started. They had no idea that something bigger and better would ar rive almost simultaneously, but quiet ly and, at first, almost unnoticed. The First Baptist Church in Perry had supposedly secured a youth di rector for its customary summer pro gram but something happened so that the person who was to take the job could not come and someone else SUPPORT PERRY had to be found. A young lady named Miss Carole Proctor came to Perry in stead. An accident, a coincidence, the fact that this young lady was involved in one of these spontaneous revivals at her school? With God there are no mistakes, no accidents, no coincid ences, and this past week saw a spon taneous revival break out among the young people in Perry First Baptist Church. They led their own services on a night-to-night basis, discussing the Bi ble, giving testimonies, praying for themselves and for their families, friends, and everyone else who didn’t know the love of Jesus as they had found it. Meetings sometimes lasted far into the night, and parents, at first reluctantly and then joyfully, came to support the young generation who had found something solid on which to get “hooked.” For they say they have found their “thing,” that they are “hooked on the love of Jesus,” and in contrast to their contemporaries who are hooked on drugs and sex they want to do something constructive to help the adults to build a better world. While the hippies are completely self-absorbed, copping-out on life and its responsibilities, dull-eyed from drugs, these young people are bright eyed, alert, filled with zest of living and of having a purpose in life. I saw a young man, after kneeling in pray er, stand and apologize for leaving early. “There is a young lady who means very much to me,” he said, “and I feel led by the Spirit to go and tell her what I have found and share it with her.” At the moment, other teams were out visiting their friends; people came from other churches, for the Holy Spirit has no denominational barrier. “I am a Methodist, but I found God’s love here in a Baptist church,” a young lady smiled radiantly. “I wasn’t sure what to do about it, but I prayed and the Spirit is leading me to go back and share what I have found in my own church and try to spread it there.” The main opposition to these young people has come from some adults in the churches—staid, unbending, who don’t like the monotony of their week ly religious rites disturbed. These are the same people who condemn the hippies, the freaks, the militants. Now they would even condemn these tender young friends of Jesus Christ. But, then, that’s what the Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ, didn’t they? Bobby Branch 4 ■ (Note: The following column was written by Perry Area Chamber of Commerce President Tom Daniel and published in this month’s Chamber newspaper, The Pacesetter. The column deals with a timely and important subject and if Tom will per mit, I am re-pr.nting the column in this space.) There is one thing that every community desir ing to expand its industrial growth must have in order to attract desirable industry to its area and that is some type of industrial park. We in Perry have recognized the need for an industrial park for a long time and on numerous occasions have been told by the experts at Georgia Tech and else where this was the one most important thing miss ing in the Perry area. The basic reason for the need of an industrial park is so industry can be quoted a land price they can count on without feeling they have been gouged by a price far beyond the present day market value. Industry has shown time and time again it is not out looking for a steal in property but it just wishes to be treated like any other person trying to buy land. Second, an indus trial park will provide the necessary utilities and transportation routes that are required by heavy in dustry. We have recently embarked on a program in coordination with the City of Perry, the Middle Georgia Area Planning Commission, and the Coast al Plains Planning Commission which we hope will enable our area to get the necessary resources needed to enable us to purchase a large tract of land and develop it into a complete industrial park with the utilities and transportation routes neces sary. It is anticipated that the industrial park, when developed, will be located on a site that will fit with the overall plan of growth and development of our community as proposed by the local plan ning and zoning commission in coordination with the Middle Georgia Area Planning Commission and the local county and city governments. If our community is going to continue to grow and yet retain the vestiges of a small town atmos phere that we have long enjoyed, it is necessary that planning be done and each expansion be made m an orderly fashion according to well thought-out plans so that we do not end up with a hodgepodge community. 6 F 6 .. our , th °ughts and ideas are greatly needed by the local planning commission and governing bod ies. Make your ideas known and help Perry grow m the direction most advantageous to all. Dear Mr. Branch: Surely most residents of Perry were sickened by the picture of two little child ren playing in the drainage from the “bathhouse” at the Pop Festival. However, you could have topped that right here in Perry a few months ago. As a result of the heavy rains of late March, sanitary sewer manholes on Forest Avenue, US 341 South, and perhaps in other parts of the city, overflowed for a bout two days. This over flow, well fortified with hu man waste, covered streets, lawns, drives, and walks. At the junction of Elizabeth Avenue and Forest Avenue small children washed their hands in the open manhole like it was some lovely mountain spring. Larger children threw sticks and stones into the mess to see it splash. School children disembarking from the bus, dropped their books into the filth, scooped them up, and went merrily on their way home. Adults raced up and down the street, splashing the polluted fluid all over their cars, as well as every thing else in range. On one occasion this included me. This is not the first time this has happened. In 1966 the manholes in this area of town overflowed twice. In the meantime, a new sub-di vision and a hospital have been added to the load that “Perry’s Hometown, Community Newspaper For The Past 100 Years” The Houston Home Journal BOBBY BRANCH President-Editor-Publisher MAXINE THOMPSON Associate Editor BOBBY HOLLIS Advertising Manager WOFFORD SINYARD Production Manager Published Every Thursday By THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, INC. G. OGDEN PERSONS, Vice President LEWIS M. MEEKS, Secretary-Treasurer Entered at the Perry, Georgia Post Office, 31069 As Second Class Mail Matter the sewer serving our area inust accomodate. In the meantime, this city has spent thousands on an airport, in cluding shrubbery I’m told, thousands more on a gas line to the brewery, and quite a bundle promoting Perry as a wonderful place to live. How much to cor rect this malfunction of our sewer system? I don’t know. Maybe some of you who read this can get the answer. Two months ago my wife and I were told that the city was in touch with a com pany that had a gadget that could locate the problem and correct it. The city officials were just waiting for their engineer to tell them it was trfe thing to do. Interesting ly, this fellow has been the city’s engineer through most, if not all, of the time that this problem has existed. I sincerely believe that the fouled-up sewer system in Perry is a serious health haz ard. If they are given the facts, I believe the physi cians in Perry will concur. What will it take to get act ion from Mayor and Coun cil? Beats me. My wife and I tried, and except for a few days when we refused to pay a portion of our utility bill, we have been well ignored. Maybe a picture on Page 1 of the HJ would help. Mr. Editor, the next time it hap pens, I won’t chase the kids away. I will just call for you and your camera. PERRY F. DOMINY 924 Forest Avenue