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Newly elected court? officials were sworn la at the Perry courthouse
Tuesday morning by Houston County Ordinary Clint Watson. Shown from
left are Watson; Robert Byrd, county commissioner; Cullen Talton, county
commissioner; Hugh Brazell, board of education; Neil Hollomon, board of
Perry May (Ring - Ring) Get
Right Into Telephone Business
The Perry City Council, in a
dramatic move Monday af
ternoon, voted unanimously to
seek legislation through the
State General Assembly in
January to put the City of Perry
into the telephone business.
Mayor Malcolm Reese read a
resolution to the Council that is
COMING EVENTS
The Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy will meet Jan. 6,
1971 at 3:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ben
Newberry Sr. in Henderson. Anyone needing
transportation call 987-2535.
The Akikta Club will meet at the home of Mrs.
Clifford Grimes at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday,
January 6.
WSCS and Wesleyan Service Guild of the Perry
United Methodist Church will meet together
Monday night at 7 p.m. in the Social Hall for a
covered dish supper and joint installation service
of officers.
The Houston County Department of Family and
Children Services announced that Food Stamp
applications will only be taken on Thursdays and
Fridays in the Warner Robins office and on
Mondays and Wednesdays in the Perry Office.
Reese Gets Elected To
Federal Bank Board
Announcement was made this
week by Preston Marton,
chairman of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board, that Perry’s
Malcolm Reese has been
elected as a member of the
board of directors of the
national organization.
Reese will serve on the board
of Greensboro, North Carolina,
Federal Bank Board. The bank
in Greensboro, is one of 11
regional Federal Loan Banks in
die nation, and served 9 states
including the District of
Columbia. Reese will represent
die State of Georgia on the
board.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
of Greensboro, serves as a
source of credit and supervision
d> all the savings and loan
The Houston Home Journal
to be passed on to the members
of the Houston County
Legislative Delegation
authorizing them to draw a Bill
and introduce it into the
General Assembly that would
give Perry a Telephone
Authority.
The Resolution stated in part,
MAYOR MALCOLM REESE
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edacatioß; WOUain George, tcard of education, Paul Annttage, Judge of the
State Court of Houston Co., William Holloway, clerk of state court; Glenn
Heck, board of education; and J. Austin Kemp 11, solicitor of the state court.
Dr. W. G. Talbert Jr., elected as a board of education member, was not
present.
• “that General Telphone service
’ in the City of Perry has been
i inadequate and maintenance
standards have been below
desireable levels over the
years. The Resolution also
pointed out that General in its
operation of the existing system
is presently demanding an
- exhorbitant rate increase for
the use of telephones in the City
of Perry.
Mayor Malcolm Reese told
The Home Journal, “If we can
get this bill passed we can get a
certificate of convinience and
this will put us in the telephone
business and give us the right to
operate a system just as a City
utility,” he stated.
Reese said that once a
telephone authority was for
med, that funds could be raised
to finance the system based on
the amount of revenue that the
system will produce. The Mayor
said the Authority would not
be able to issue general
obligation bonds but could issue
revenue certificates to finance
the system.
Reese slated, “It may sur
prise a lot of people to find out
that the City might just be able
to finance its’ own telephone
system based on what we would
get from the subscribers at an
even lower rate than we are
associations in the Southeast.
Reese has previously served
as president of the Georgia
Savings and Loan League,
director of the U.S. Savings and
Loan League, director of the
Southeastern Conference on
Savings and Loan Associations
and is now serving as a member
of the Legislative Committee of
the U.S. Savings and Loan
League.
He is a graduate of the
Graduate School of Savings and
Loan at the University of In
diana.
Reese, who is also the Mayor
of Perry, is executive vice
president of Security Federal
Savings and Loan Association of
Perry, Fort Valley and
Hawkinsville.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., 31069, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31,1970
paying for phone service at this
time.” I
If the Bill is passed in the
General Assembly, it would also -
give the Perry Telephone
Authority the right to purchase
the phone company now here
owned by General Telephone of
the Southeast.
Reese further stated, “I’m
serious about the City going into 1
the telephone business. If we !
can’t get satisfactory service 1
and rates from General (
Telephone, then we’ll get into !
the telephone business. We’ve j
dug into this matter with the \
state legislators who have in <
turn gone to the State Attorney
General and we have every (
reason to believe that the City of «
Perry can get its’ own telephone <
service.” he said. 1
General Telephone’s District
Manager Kenneth Aldridge told t
The Home Journal that he was -
surprised to hear of the
resolution.
Aldridge stated, “We don’t
have any plans at this time as to
what we’ll do about the matter.
We will just take the entire
matter under study. That’s all I
have to say at this time,” he
said.
Perryans began to get
‘stirred up’ over their telephone
rates when the Georgia Public
Service Commission granted
General Telephone a rate in
crease here«of almost double on
Oct. 1. General telephone had
asked for more but was turned
down by the Commission so
they went to court to ask for an
even bigger increase. The court
granted that increase and that’s
when telephone subscribers
here and City officials began to
seek out ways to do something
about the rates.
Mayor Reese said that he has
at least one petition in his office
signed by more than 100
Perryans requesting the City do
something about the telephone
rates and service here. The
Home Journal has learned that
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
there are a number of other
petitions along the same lines
now circulating around Perry.
First Baptist
Sets Services
A churchwide New Year -
New Life Crusade begins at the
Sunday morning service at the
First Baptist Church and goes
through Wednesday, Jan. 6. The
Sunday night service will start
at 7 p.m.; Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights services will
start at 7:30.
Steve O’Kelly of Otoka,
Oklahoma will be guest
speaker. Bob Brewer, minister
of music at First Baptist, will
lead the music.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend these services.
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Col. Marvin G. Hawkins, (right) Deputy St. Director,
Selective Service System of Georgia presenting Mr. Paul
Hardy, Chm. Local Board No. 80 with certificate and pin of
City Engineer
Here Gets Boot
Perry City Council met at a
special called meeting Monday
afternoon and fired the present
Consulting Engineering firm of
Weideman and Singleton. The
firm has drawn plans for a
proposed water treatment plant
in Perry, and because the plans
were late in getting completed,
some of Council members feel
that it caused the costs to go too
high for the City to build the
plant.
Councilman James McKinley
made the recommendation to
Council to dismiss the
engineering firm.
McKinley stated, “In my
opinion, the Consultant
Engineering firm of Wiedeman
and Singleton, in their services
to Perry Concerning the plans
and specifications of a planned
clear water treatment plant,
should be dismissed for reasons
as follows:
(1) Lateness, by many
months, without adequate
justification, in providing plans
and specifications and the
advertising for bids.
(2) During this delay inflation
has caused an increase in
materials and labor which will
result in an unnecessary cost
burden to the city of Perry.
This, of course, we should not
have had to experience had the
plans been completed in a more
timely manner.
(3) The city will have to go
through another year, or
perhaps longer, without
adequately treated water. We
had hoped to prevent this.
(4) The low bid of the con
tracting firm, S. J. Curry,
approximately doubled what we
had been led to believe and
much more than our desired
and planned funding ability.
“In view of these and other
reasons I wish to make a motion
Perry Police Appreciate Gifts
Police Chief B. E. Dennard
expressed the appreciation of the
entire Perry Police Department to
Rev. Tom Harmon and the members
of Memorial Heights Baptist Church
for the Christmas boxes presented to
each member of the police force.
“It wasn’t just the gifts, it was the
kind thoughts behind them,” Chief
Dennard said, “that made them mean
so much to us. The ladies of that
that the firm be released as of
this date,” McKinley said. It is
regretable that this action must
be taken but I think we as
elected officials would be
negligent in our responsiblity to
the citizens if we did not.
All the members of Council
voted in favor of the motion with
the exception of Councilman
Alton Hardy.
The dismissal was brought on
when bids were opened last
month for the proposed water
treatment plant and the low bid
was $774,000 which was about
twice the amount the Council
thought it was going to be and
what the engineering firm had
led Council to believe. Council
had about $400,000 available for
the construction of the plant and
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church must have spent many hours
baking the cakes and things that went
into the boxes, and it is hard to find
words to express the appreciation we
feel.”
He also said that he and his men
want to thank the Perry merchants
and businessmen who remembered
them with gifts. Altogether, these
people made this a very merry
Christmas for the Perry Police
Department.
appreciation in grateful recognition of IS yean of Loyal and
Faithful Service rendered in the administration of the
Selective Service System.
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a new deep water well. Both
projects have been shelved for
the time being.
Mayor Reese stated, “We will
immediately appoint a com
mittee to investigate other
engineers and have them report
back to Council with their
recommendations.”
Reese also said that the
Council is going to look into the
possibility of getting some
temporary equipment into
Perry to handle the heavy
water demands here this
summer. He said the City just
couldn’t afford to go on with the
new water plant and that
temporary facilities will have to
be used until Council comes up
with some answers.