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Commissioners Talk
About Perry Road
Mayor-elect John Barton
of Perry appeared before
Houston County Com
missioners Monday night to
discuss a proposed route for
construction of a perimeter
road north of Perry to
reduce heavy traffic in the
city.
The proposed road would
run from Pabst Brewery to
Thompson road, where it
would intersect with High
way 41 north of Perry.
"This road would be a
solution to moving the heavy
traffic in the Perry area,"
Barton told commissioners.
City Councilman D. K.
Houghton asked the board to
aid in finishing baseball
fields and construction of
tennis courts at the Houston
Recreation Park in Perry.
He said more than 100 loads
of dirt would be needed. The
board voted to grant
Houghton’s request.
The board also voted to
spend $5,000 on additions to
the radio communications
system.
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Perry Highway Committee Makes Plans
Members of the Perry Chamber of Commerces
“highways and roads” committee look over a
map of the Perry area while they discussed a
frontage road and direct route road from 1-75 to
Pabst. The committee met this week and adopted
★ Income Tax In Houston Takes A Jump This Year ★
Houstonians Will Pay Uncle Sam $24,868,000
How much will Uncle Sam be collecting from
Houston County residents in income taxes on or
before April 17th, which is the day of reckoning
this year?
According to the government’s calculations, it
will be slightly more than was received from the
local area a year ago, when it amounted to
$24,794,000.
That is the estimate of what was turned in
locally, as determined by a breakdown of the
overall returns received throughout the State of
Georgia.
The statewide total was $1,642,000,000, the
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1972
They voted to ask the
Warner Robins post office to
make a study of the Byron
Mail routes west of the
Warner Robins area to High
Man Killed In Wreck Here
Nolan L. Colston, age 26, of
103-D Tara Apartments in
Perry, was killed when his
car ran off the road on 1-75
and struck a culvert .5 mile
north of Perry at 12:05 a.m.
Wednesday,
Colston was employed by
the First National Bank of
Macon and had resided in
Perry about one and one-half
years. He was originally
from Wrightsville, Georgia
and a member of Brown
Memorial Baptist Church
there. He attended
Wrightsville schools,
Brewton Parker College,
and Georgia Southern
College.
He is survived by his wife,
way 41, vyith the hope that
people on these routes will be
given a street address or a
Route 1, Warner Robins
address.
Mrs. Arlene Murphy Colston
of Perry; his mother, Mrs.
A. L. Colston, Sr. of
Wrightsville; one sister,
Mrs. Jewell Turner, Jr., of
Milledgeville, Ga.; two
brothers, A. L. Colston Jr.,
Mcßae, Ga., and Franklin L.
Colston, formerly of Macon
but now residing in
Islamorada, Florida; and a
number of nieces and
nephews.
Graveside services will be
held Thursday at 3 p.m. in
Westview Cemetery in
Wrightsville with Rev. R. C.
Smith and Rev. Oscar Cope
officiating.
Watson-Hunt Funeral
Home of Perry has charge of
arrangements.
a resolution calling for the roads to the City and
the County Commissioners. From left, Mayor
Malcolm Reese, chairman Ed Willis, George
Nunn, Yates Green and chamber president Joe
Poole.
Treasury Department reports. Included in the
amount is the portion of the Tax collected via the
withholding process.
Despite the sluggishness of the economy during
the past year, the budget makers in Washington
expect the receipts this year to be slightly higher
than last year’s.
The reasoning is that, despite the unusually high
unemployment rate, the great mass of the
working population was fully employed in 1971
and, for the most part, had bigger earnings than in
1970.
Consequently, they will have larger taxes to
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Miss Panther Padgeant Contestants Vie For Title
The Miss Perry Panther Pageant will be held April 1 at the
Perry High School with this lineup of contestants for the title.
Kneeling from left are Elaine Williamson, Victoria Noble,
Janet Roberts, Schanell Durham, Carole Hammock, and
Perry Hospital Operates In Black
The Houston County
Hospital Authority heard a
report Monday night that die
Perry-Houston County
Hospital has operated at a
profit for the first time in its
three-year existence. The
profit was reported by
finance committee chairman
W. E. Beckham, Jr.
“I am delighted that we
are operating in the black
now instead of in the red,”
local hospital administrator
Cliff Hamer said, “and I
certainly hope the trend
continues.”
Beckham reported that the
average daily census was 31
patients in the Perry
hospital. He said that with
the arrival of three new
doctors in Perry this sum
mer the census will very
likely be maintained and
increased.
The Authority
unanimously approved the
creation of a new job,
medical records clerk, for
the Perry hospital. Member
Hugh Beatty proposed the
job creation.
“We have a medical
records librarian, but with
the census increasing and
three new doctors arriving
soon we need someone to
assist her,” Hamer said.
A cost of living pay raise
for hospital employees will
be worked out by Lamar
Christopher and his per
sonnel committee. They will
meet immediately,
Christopher said, to work out
details and will specify exact
rate increases and vote on
them at the next regular
meeting in April.
Another report by the
personnel committee in
pay. For the others, who did not have steady
employment, the taxes will be lower.
On the basis of the figures, it is calculated that
residents of Houston County have been con
tributing approximately 1.51 percent of the per
sonal income taxes collected in the state.
Just how much more the Administration counts
on receiving this year is indicated in the budget
submitted to Congress in January. Nationally, it
expects $86.5 billion in such revenues, or only
about S3OO million more than was collected in the
past fiscal year.
Laura Whipple. Standing are Lane Fendley, Deborah
Costlow, Madelyn Stocks, Patti Dayton, and Sharon Cosey.
Admission to the Pageant is SI.OO and everyone is invited to
attend.
dicated that Dr. Wendell
Phillips will act as
spokesman for six Macon
doctors who will alternate
weekend duty at the
emergency room in Warner
Perry Merchants
Discuss City Wide
Promotion Ideas
The merchants committee
of the Perry Area Chamber
of Commerce met Tuesday
and discussed city-wide
trade promotions among
other topics.
Billy Bledsoe, chairman of
the committee, said he plans
for the committee to function
on a “stronger basis” than
ever before during the
coming year. He called on
merchant members of the
committee to “get involved”
and bring up new ideas for a
strong city-wide merchants
association.
The committee decided not
to conduct a “retail trade
area analysis study” after
considerable discussion. The
committee, however, in
dicated they would take
another look at such a study
at some time in the future,
Bledsoe appointed Aldene
Lasseter, Bobby Branch and
Bill Overton to a sub
committee to make a study
of possible promotions to be
Robins. Under this
arrangement, the doctors
will treat emergency cases
from 7 p.m. Friday until 11
p.m. Sunday.
Salary of $340 per weekend
sponsored by the merchants
all during the year. Lasseter
is chairman.
Bledsoe also appointed Bill
Nipper, Barbara Jones and
Smokey Harper to sub
committee to look into the
annual Christmas parade
and holiday activities for the
merchants this year. Nipper
was named chairman.
The committee also
discussed the parking
problems in the downtown
area of Perry, and it was
decided that the chamber
will coordinate plans with
the City Council on the
parking situation.
Members of the merchants
committee in addition to
Lass ter are: Margie Sugrue
Redding Talton, Louis
(Smokey) Harper, A1
Lasseter, Bill Nipper, Bill
Overton, Barbara Jones,
Randall Daniel, Bobby
Branch, Donald Simmons,
and Mrs. John Barton.
Taxpayers in the local area will be bearing their
portion of this increase. Their payments next
month will be close to $24,868,000, it is estimated.
The new budget presented by the Ad
ministration, projecting income and expense
figures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973,
calls for individual income taxes of $93.9 billion,
which is $7.4 billion more than this year.
If Houston County taxpayers are to produce
their share of this rise and maintain their present
standard of living, total income in the area will
have to go up by about 8.6 percent during this
fiscal year.
plus 50 percent of gross
business they handle has
been set; they will collect
their 50 percent whether the
hospital collects or not. It
was hoped that the new
service could be initiated on
Friday of this week, and it
will have a 30-day trial
period to determine whether
it is satisfactory to the
doctors and the hospital
authority.
Finance Chairman
Beckham also told the
Authority that $17,942 in bad
debts at both county
hospitals had been turned
over to the credit bureau for
collection.
A letter from Dr. V. W.
McEver Jr. of the Doctors
Clinic in Warner Robins in
which he requested that Dr.
John L. Anderson take X
rays for 11 doctors at the
clinic was read by Chairman
L. A. McConnell. He in
structed Christopher and
Hospital Administrator
Myron L. McDonald to meet
with Dr. Bobby Pilcher and
Anderson to work out details
of this arrangement.
FIRE REPORT
On Wednesday there was a
grass fire on Ochlahatchee
Drive. On Thursday there
was a car fire on 1-75.
Some pallets belonging to
B. B. Nall, in a building on
Elko Road, caught fire on
March 26. On that same date,
trash in a dumpster behind
Grant’s caught fire, and the
local fire department an
swered a call for assistance
at a house fire in Hayneville