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s'* NATIONAL''' Urn Houston Home Journal NEWSPAPER^/ PAGE 2-A 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. / T - m ■ W;' t* BIBIL 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 ftaMi * - f .. *' 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