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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1972
School Board Considers
Expanded Music Courses
Dr. Frank Crockett, music
coordinator for the State
Department of Education,
told members of the Houston
County Board of Education
Tuesday that educators on
both state and national levels
are trying to make music a
relevant part of education.
“TTie key to the music
program on a local and
national level is to make it a
part of the overall education
of children,” Dr. Crockett
said, ‘it is our goal to create
musically literate in
dividuals.”
First Baptist
Offering Stolen
The Annie Armstrong
Easter offering, a
missionary offering, was
stolen from the Perry First
Baptist Church last Saturday
night. There was ap
proximately $225 in checks
and cash in the offering. Also
stolen was a tape player
valued at S2OO.
The thefts were reported to
the Perry Police Depart
ment at 9:50 a.m. Sunday
when they were first
discovered. Entry was made
by breaking out the glass in a
door, and a cabinet door had
been forced open.
“There was someone at
the church late Saturday
afternoon, so the items had
to be taken during Saturday
night or in the early Sunday
morning hours," Anita Ray,
church secretary, said.
A police investigation of
the theft is being conducted.
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Winner of the Kite Contest held Saturday for
Cub Scout Pack 216 were John Cocke and Alex
McWhorter, highest flying store bought kites;
Ricky Funk and Ken Payne, first and second
place winners in best homemade kites; and Jeff
Hill in most unusual Kite. The winners were given
a free airplane ride by Jim Brown, manager of the
Perry-Ft. Valley Airport.
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| Tornado Season Approaches . . . What To Do I
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With the approach of the tornado season, the
•i-j American Red Cross today urged residents of
:|i|; areas most prone to this type of storm to take
:•>: special precautions against death-dealing
twisters.
“Last year 157 persons lost their lives in the 879
tornadoes recorded by the National Weather
Service, and 73 persons were killed in 1970,” Enso
:|i V. Bighinatti, national director of Red Cross
S: disaster services, said.
“While tornadoes have occurred in every state
g of the Union, they are most prevalent in the South,
•jij: Southwest, and Midwest" he continued. “In the
:j:j periods 1953-71, the states with the greatest totals
of tornadoes were Texas with 2,068; Oklahoma,
p 1,131; Kansas, 944; Nebraska, 637; Missouri, 561,
and Florida, 537. Some in the Florida total were
waterspouts which became tornadoes after
He said that Houston
County could make an im
portant contribution to the
field of music because of
county growth. "Houston
County was once rural and
now it is a metropolitan
county,” he said. "This
makes it a significant county
in the total picture of
Georgia.”
He reminded board
members that the music
industry is the fifth or sixth
largest industry in the
United States, perhaps in the
world.
Some of his suggestions for
expanded music education in
the schools include written
programs of music
education, an updated
personnel program, annual
budget allowance for the
purchase of instruments,
and a counseling service.
Other suggestions include
a job description for music
teachers for the protection of
both teachers and the school
system, the same working
hours as other teachers;
encouragement for teachers
of music to make
post-graduate studies;
detailed plans for each
music teacher for all
lessons; orientation of all
new music staff members;
travel in the county for each
teacher kept to a minimum;
and programs for all types of
exceptional children.
“I think this county can be
unique in its music
program,” he said.
Dr. Crockett was In
troduced by Hubert Hut
cherson, Director of In
struction for the county.
Supt, David A. Perdue said
that music education is
limited in elementary
schools in the county to those
under the Title I program.
He said that there are choral
music and band programs in
the junior and high schools,
both geared to performance.
Herb St. John, Main
tenance and Transportation
director for the school
system, said that property
damage, most glass
breakage, was up again from
that of previous months.
Asked for an estimate of the
cost of replacing broken
glass, he said it cost ap
proximately $7 to replace a
regular window pane, and
S4O to $45 to replace a broken
door glass. He said that
while there were occasional
accidents causing glass
breakage, most of it oc
curred at night and on
weekends.
Joseph Williamson, Asst.
Supt. in charge of personnel,
told the board that he has
visited around 25 colleges
and universities to date for
teacher recruitment and
would be going to Mississippi
for that purpose this week.
"Most of the applicants
are very sharp looking and of
high calibre,” he replied in
answer to a query by board
member Glenn Heck. ‘‘They
know that jobs are not as
plentiful as they used to be
and that if they’re going to be
hired they’ve got to qualify.”
Williamson said that the
teaching field is not over
crowded except in certain
areas, with shortages
remaining in other areas.
Seabie Hickson Asst. Supt.
in charge of finances for the
system, reported that at the
end of eight months of
operation for the fiscal year
the system is still operating
within its budget.
“The crucial period will hit
in May if we haven’t
received our anticipated one
half million dollars in public
law 874 funds,” he said. He
mentioned the fact that
payments to supply teachers
for the past month was the
largest amount it has every
reached. He attributed this
to the great amount of
sickness from flu in the
schools, which hit numbers
of teachers at the same time.
Marcia Meadows, Title
111 Speech and language
therapist in the system, gave
a skit with another instructor
demonstrating the vast
difference between the old
concept of the Itinerant
speech therapist and the new
passing over land."
Bighinatti listed these safety rules as
precautions against death and injury in tor
nadoes:
As an over-all rule, pay close attention to and be
guided by the tornado warnings of the National
Weather Service.
When a tornado approaches, immediate action
may save your life. Seek inside shelter, preferably
in a tornado cellar, underground excavation, or a
steel-framed or reinforced concrete building of
substantial construction. Stay away from win
dows.
In office buidings, go to an interior hallway on
the lowest floor, or to the designated shelter area.
In factories, move quickly to the section of the
plant offering the greatest protection in ac
Commissioners
Vote Down Self
Service Gas Stations
Houston County Com
missioners voted Monday
night to draw up an or
dinance prohibiting self
service gas stations in the
county. Clerk Roy H. Wat
son, Jr. told the board a
request for the ordinance
was made by Ernest Wood,
assistant director of the
Warner Robins Public
Safety Department.
Watson said Wood told him
that two stations had been
planned at food stores in the
area, one on South Pleasant
Hill Road and the other on
Arrowhead Trail.
“Wood said the stations
would be dangerous because
people might use the pumps
while smoking. They might
drop gas on the ground,”
Watson told commissioners.
After agreeing
unanimously that the
stations would be a source of
potential danger, com
missioners voted to have
County Attorney Walker
Burke draw up an ordinance
prohibiting the construction
and installation of self
service gas stations in
Houston County.
Watson told the board that
although state law does not
prohibit the stations, the
county could pass this kind of
ordinance.
Building Inspector Fred
Beard told commissioners
that “quite a few” mobile
homes are not hooked into
septic tanks. County
Sanitarian Wiley Bowman
said that raw sewage runs on
top of the ground near many
mobile homes.
Commissioners voted to
ask the cooperation of Flint
Electric Membership Corp.
concerning new mobile home
hookups. Beard told the
board that Flint has already
agreed to notify the county
when a mobile home is
provided with electricity,
adding that “so far Flint has
cooperated with us 100
percent."
“This will let us make sure
they have septic tanks for
sewage before people start
living in the homes,” Beard
said.
The problem of stray dogs
in the county was also
discussed with Bowman.
The board decided to try to
work out a deal with the
cities of Perry and Warner
Robins in which the county
would pay the cities to pick
up dogs that bite persons.
The board also began
investigating the possibility
of providing a retirement
program for many county
employees.
They voted to request the
survey of the extension of the
proposed Industrial Park
Hoad from Bateman Road to
the proposed southern ac
cess road by the State High
way Department. Com
missioners want to have the
extension added to the list of
urban bond funds as part of
the Indistrial Park Road.
mobile speech and language
labs. Mrs. Neva Bridges,
speech and language aide
from Centerville Elemen
tary School, gave a
demonstration of their
programs
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Jaycee Sidney Bledsoe and Jaycette Yvonne
Huff were among those stopping motorists in
Perry Sunday asking contributions to the
Muscular Dystrophy fund. The drive was
Burglaries Continue To
Plague Perry Police
Tolleson Supply Company
reported to the Perry Police
Department that someone
stole 30 or 35 gallons of
gasoline out of their trucks.
Two bicycles were
reported stolen from Perry
Junior High School. Phillip
Gentry, 1405 Cambridge
Road, reported that his 26
inch Firestone bike was
taken. It was orange with
white seat, silver fenders,
and two rear baskets.
David King, 1432 Duncan,
reported that his stolen bike
was also a 26 inch model, red
with white seat and two rear
baskets. Both thefts were
reported at 1:45 p.m. last
Thursday.
Horace Woodruff reported
that tires were cut on two of
his automobiles.
Assistant Chief Shellnut
and Patrolman Langston
investigated an accident on
Second Street March 12.
Steven Jay Howard, 1421
Nancelon Street, backed
from a parking space in a
1969 Oldsmobile, according
to police records, and backed
into a parked Oldsmobile
owned by William Jackson
Smith, Route 1, Box 949,
Warner Robins.
Patrolman Beasley in
vestigated an accident on
March 7 on private property
cordance with advance plans. In shopping cen
ters, go to the designated shelter area--not to your
parked car.
In a home, the basement offers the greatest
safety. Seek shelter under sturdy furniture, if
possible. In homes without basements, take cover
in the center of the house, on the lowest floor, ina
small room such as a closet or bathroom, or under
sturdy furniture. Keep some windows open on
the side of the house away from the storm but stay
away from them.
Mobile homes are particularly vulnerable to
destructive winds. Proper tie-downs to prevent
overturning will lessen damage. A warden should
be appointed in mobile-home parks to scan the
skies and listen to radio and television for war
nings. There should be a designated community
shelter where residents can assemble during a
at 916 Bess Street. Eddie Lee
Taylor, 500 Betty Street,
parked a truck owned by
Cornell Young Company, 320
N. First, St., Warner Robins,
in a yard across the street,
got out and left the truck out
of gear. The truck rolled
down grade across the street
and hit the brick wall of the
house owned by Clarence
Dixon, police records show.
School Board
Approves Four
Quarter Schedule
The Houston County Board
of Education approved
Tuesday a new school year
calendar for 1972-73, showing
the first quarter opening on
August 28, This will be the
start of the first four-quarter
school year system in the
Houston County schools,
replacing the three semester
schedule.
Principals of all 26 public
schools in the county were
reappointed for another
year.
A low bid of $38,268 for 8
chassis from Lewis Truck
and Tractor Company in
Perry was accepted by the
board. The purchase of 8
sponsored by the Jaycees, who were assisted by
the Jaycettes, and was pronounced a success.
Busness chairmen of the drive are Marion Brown
and Louis Harper.
school bus bodies from Blue
Bird Body Company had
been authorized at an earlier
meeting.
The request of the Com
munity Development
Program for use of school
buses and school buildings
was denied.
Also denied was a request
for the use of Russell
Perry News Briefs ....
The Potpourri Club will hold its monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 28th in the county
agricultural building at 10 a.m. Mrs. Harry
Thompson will bring a number of quilts so that
members can get ideas for patterns and learn
procedures used in quilting.
The Houston Educational Secretaries
Association will meet Monday, March 20th at 7; 30
p.m. at the Houston County Board of Education
Bldg. Mr. Hubert Hutcherson will be the speaker.
The March meeting of the Westfield Booster
Club will be held in the Westfield Gymnasium on
Tuesday, March 21st at 7:30 p.m. This is a very
important meeting. Several large expenditures
are scheduled to be acted upon. All members of
the booster club are ured to be present.
The next regular meeting of the Houston County
Community Action Committee will be held March
21,1972 at 7:00 p.m., at the Neighborhood Service
Center, Warner Robins, Georgia. Mr. Robert
Beckham, Chairman, urges all members of the
Committee to be present.
The Public is cordially invited to attend this
meeting.
Perry Women’s Club will hold its regular
meeting Monday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Security Federal Bldg. Please bring personal
items for Jr.. High Girls.
tornado warning. If there is no such shelter during >:j:
a warning, do not stay in a mobile home. Take
refuge in a sturdy building or a ditch, culvert or
ravine.
In a school, if a shelter has been designated, go
to it. Otherwise, go to an interior hallway on the ;:j::
lowest floor. Avoid auditoriums and gymnasiums
or other areas with wide, free-span roofs. If a
building is not of reinforced construction, go
quickly to a nearby reinforced building, or to a |:J|;
ravine or open ditch and lie flat.
In open country when there is no time to find g:
suitable shelter, lie flat in the nearest depression
such as a ditch or ravine. |:|i;
Remember that “Tornado Watch”, is used by $
National Weather Service, means tornadoes are :j|::
expected to develop. “Tornado Warning” means a
tornado has actually been sighted. Persons close
to the storm should take cover immediately. $£
Elementary School in
Warner Robins for the
organization of a new
Methodist Church.
The board approved
purchase of microfilming
equipment costing $5,000 to
protect and save space for
student records, some of
which date back to 1925.