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(®y EIGHTEEN PAGES \ Sl xi^l wmm' Awm ▼ Art .X 1 * sjp * Y WMgmm '■' \ 7Bfe|rv - jpH . r $. k §c ■// gIJSSr f 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 "The Perry Area's Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years" 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. hi -I rs | ,|- - I; n gm, I k mlm . •'•* .»ii >. \ ibw nv, 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 IfSSII I HAPgf.« | | NEW Vt** | Another year is begin ning ... we hope it's a good one for you! 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. 1 jll '' j SINGLE COPY 15c 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.