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Perry Needs New Roads
THE HIGHWAY AND ROAD
Committee of the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce has adopted a
resolution proposing a frontage road
along side of Interstate 75 and a
perimeter road around Perry leading
to Pabst Brewing Company and Penn
Dixie Cement Corp. We attended the
committee meeting when the action
was decided and we were impressed
with the deep concern by the mem
bers of the committee about Perry’s
future and what should be done to
keep pace with the ever-changing and
growing community of Perry and its’
environs.
The Home Journal is in favor of a
frontage road along 1-75 and the road
to Pabst and Penn Dixie. Bearing in
mind that a frontage road would not
only open up more property along the
interstate for development but that it
Homer J. Wins First Round
OUR WARNER ROBINS neighbor,
Mayor Homer J. Walker, has won his
first round in the court battle here this
week. The jury found the Mayor in
nocent of any wrong doing that the
grand jury had indicted him for last
year. He was accused of defrauding
the City of Warner Robins.
This first round victory for
the political Mayor Walker
April has had the origin of its name
lost in the mist of antiquity. Probably
the most common theory is that it is
derived from the Latin verb
‘‘aperire,” meaning “to open”. This
is an allusion to the opening of buds
and flowers, a beautiful process in
April.
April’s Fool Day is the source of
wide disagreement as to origin but
Easter, which falls on the 2nd this
year, is the anniversary of one of the
great events of Christendom.
The 6th (dating from 1830) is the
anniversary of the founding of the
Mormon Church. On the 9th, in 1865,
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to
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FROM THE HOME JOURNAL FILES
5 YEARS AGO • The long-awaited
Perry Hospital should be occupied by
Jan. 1, 1969 it appeared this week,
following announcement from
Senator Talmadge and Congressman
Brinkley that federal funds for
the project have been released ...
There will be a “Tom Thumb”
wedding Friday night in the Perry
High School Gymnatorium ... Even
though Governor Lester Maddox has
extended the deadline for buying car
fags, you still have to buy your city
tag by March 31 and make your tax
returns by that date.
10 YEARS AGO - Mrs. Joe M.
Borders of Rt 2, Perry, was awarded
second place in district competition of
the annual statewide poultry cooking
contest... About 18,000 acres of land
in Houston County will receive the
second application treatment of
insecticide to kill imported fire ants
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1972
April Arrives
would also create a much needed
relief of local traffic and commerce
vehicles travelling and delivering
locally from the interstate, we en
dorse the concept. We are also
strongly in favor of a perimeter road
leading to the area of the Pabst plant
Certainly it is easy too see that such a
road is needed to link two of our prime
industries with the vitally important
interstate via a direct route instead of
a route now travelled by hundreds of
trucks through Perry.
We hope the City Council, County
Commissioners and Perry Chamber
can get together on this vitally im
portant project and convince the
Slate Highway Dept, of the im
portance and necessity of the roads.
Both a frontage and perimeter road
are necessary, in our opinion, to the
future of Perry.
-8.8.
shoots his stock straight up for his
chances of being re-elected Mayor
this year.
Wc will watch with interest the race
between Homer J. and Commissioner
Ed Bryant for the Warner Robins
Mayor’s job. We’ve got our ideas
about the outcome, but we’ll keep
them to ourselves for the time being
... very interesting.
-8.8.
General U.S. Grant, ending the
bloody Civil War. The 10th, the bir
thday of William Booth in 1829, is
observed as Founder’s Day by the
Salvation Army.
The 13th in 1743, is remembered as
Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. The
early American statesman born at
Shadwell, Virginia, was President
from 1800 to 1809. The 13th is also
Huguenot Day in America dating
from the Edict of Nantes in 1598,
which gave Protestants some peace
and protection after many years of
persecution. It lasted until 1685 when
Louis XIV revoked it.
... Construction of a church building
for Perry’s Episcopal congregation,
St Christopher's at the Crossroads,
was started this week on the Church’s
big lot on Macon Street ... Perry
Heart Fund Chairman Charles Jay
said the citizens of Perry have con
tributed $1,317 to the 1962 Heart Fund.
20 YEARS AGO • The Houston Fac
tory Baptist Church, Houston Lake,
announces a Bible and Missionary
Revival April 20-27, conducted by
Rev. Paris W. Reidhead Jr.,
southeastern deputation secretary of
the Sudan Interior Mission ... Lee
Price. Jr. of Swainsboro, president of
the U.S. Junior Chamber of Com
merce, was honored with a luncheon
at the New Perry Hotel on March 26,
given by the Perry Junior Chamber of
Commerce ... The Peach Bell District
monthly Roundtable of scouts was
held at the Perry High School Monday
night
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Easter, with its message of hope to
those of us who believe in a risen Lord
and Saviour, Jesus Christ, comes at a
time of year when the whole earth
seems to shout a message of renewal,
of rebirth.
Suddenly the grass is greener,
flowers burst into magnificent colors,
and birds seem determined to sing
their hearts out. The sun warms away
the shivers of winter.
But the Easter message doesn’t
have to be a once-a-year experience.
When we arise from our beds each
morning, we experience the birth of a
new day, of new hopes and joys,
sorrows and disappointments; a day
that has never been lived before and
will never be lived again.
We were never promised a perfect
world. And it isn’t likely that we’ll
ever experience a perfect day here on
this imperfect earth. But we have the
promise of the Lord’s presence, to
help us to live each day to its fullest If
we stumble, His hand reaches out to
steady us; if we fall, He will pick us
up again.
Since He is with us at all times, we
don’t have to find a special place to
pray. We can talk to Him all through
the day, doing dishes or making beds,
pounding a typewriter or driving a
car or truck; sitting in a classroom or
hunting or fishing.
If we have an Easter heart all year,
we won’t worry about whether we
have a new Easter hat. The scales
drop from our eyes and we see things
in the light of their true importance.
What we wear in our heart will
Dear Editor:
I hope this letter will en
courage other women who do
not support the Women’s
Lib, to write letters to those
in authority and do anything
else that will help prevent
women being drafted.
We think it won't happen -
but you can be sure, if we
don’t make a stand against
it, the day will come because
of the dis-satisfied women
who have failed in gaining
the selfish recognization
they want in the role of being
a woman. They’re going to
cause trouble for all women
if we permit it.
I don’t want my daughter
drafted, nor does she have
any desire to be drafted.
show on our face. God gives us the
face, but we make our own coun
tenance.
Abraham Lincoln, the fellow who
suffered so many defeats on the road
to success, offered this bit of advice -
“When you come to the end of your
rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!”
The heaviest piece of wood in the
world is the chip a man carries on his
shoulder.
Education is what you have left
over when you subtract what you’ve
forgotten from what you learned.
Economy is away of spending
money without getting any fun out of
it.
If you’ve never made a mistake ,
then you’ve never done anything.
An optimist is one who thinks the
good old days are yet to come! Also,
an optimist is wrong as often as a
pessimist, but he has a lot more fun. If
you give a pessimist an inch - he’ll
measure it.
Bachelor
She; “And how is your bachelor
friend?”
He: “When I saw him last he was
mending very slowly.”
She: “Indeed. I didn’t know he’d been
ill.”
He: “He hasn’t been. He was darning
his socks.”
How about you and your
daughter?
Mrs. Robert Cole
Rt. 1 Box 30
Bonaire, Ga.
Dear Editor:
Gratitude is due each and
ever>- individual who con
tributed clothes to the
Sheriff’s Boys Ranch, at
Hahira Georgia; to the
Organizations which made
announcements erf the need.
Praise is extended to the
ladies who volunteered their
help in packing and sizing
clothes. Their reports of the
quality and cleanliness of the
clothes was, indeed, heart
warming.
It is important that the
residents of Houston County
remember that the Sheriff’s
Boys Ranch is maintained by
voluntary contributions. The
boys range from kin
dergarten age through High
School. They are normal
boys who wear out and out
grow clothes. Contributions
will be accepted at any time
at the Sheriff’s Office.
Gratefully,
Albert Hudson
Houston Co. Sheriff
Dear Mr. Branch:
Recently a mother with
several children came to our
Ferry office to request
emergency assistance as her
house had burned. For
tunately, no one was injured,
BOBBY
branch
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BRANCH
MILDRED WARREN and The Home Journal
really get around. In Mildred’s weekly column,
“The Cook’s Nook”, recently she wrote about a
letter she had received from Mrs. James Edward
Davidson in Australia. The Davidson’s, who were
a prominent family at Kathleen in the farming
and grocery business, left Houston County a
couple of years ago for Australia. Mrs. Davidson
wrote Mildred that there’s a lot of things she
missed in Australia like a good loaf of Sunbeam
bread.
Well, Mrs. Davidson is going to get that loaf of
Sunbeam compliments of Flowers Baking
Company in Thomasville, Ga. Bill Chapman, a
Flowers vice pres., saw a copy of Mildred’s
column about the Davidsons’ and he wrote me to
let me know that the loaf of bread is on the way.
He also said that they have a special way of
shipping the bread and that it should arrive in
Australia good and fresh.
CITY OFFICIALS in Perry are always getting
lambasted by citizens and that’s all part of their
job, of course. Griping at or about City Council
members is one of the privileges of being a citizen
of the community. But it seems to me that a lot of
those folks that complain or agree with someone
else’s complaint, ought to ask themselves what
they have done for the community recently. Think
about it.
TELEVISION VIOLENCE could cause violent
prone children to behave more violently, ac
cording to study made recently by a lot of
scientists. The boys with the brains hastened to
state in their report that the violent children
might have turned out mean and violent anyway
whether they watched the tube or not The
government spent over $1 million on the study.
They could have saved a lot of money and learned
just as much about violence on tv by calling any
parent and asking their opinion.
Much of television programming stinks. I see a
trend developing toward better television but it
has a long way to go.
I LIKE WHAT a writer in the Covington, Tenn.
Leader wrote recently ... “Man has made and is
making great strides in transportation facilities,
but no form of transportation will ever be more
popular than a ride on the gravy train.”
YOU MAY NOTICE a new look in The Home
Journal this week. Then on the other hand you
may not notice it at all. But we have started
making many of our photos larger than ever
before and it gives a new look to the paper. Let me
know your reaction.
A SALESMAN told me this week that an op
timist is a man who marries his secretary
thinking he’ll be able to continue to dictate to her.
PARKING in the downtown Perry area has long
been a problem. But it is especially bad during a
heavy court session such as we had in Perry this
week. The downtown merchants committee is
hard at work now trying to come up with a solution
to the problem and it looks as though they are
going to make some progress this year.
Some have said the downtown area is dead. I
don’t agree. The business folks downtown are all
“steamed” up over doing something about the
parking and other problems in that area and I
wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see a surge in the
downtown area in the next few months. There are
some mighty progressive and aggressive mer
chants downtown and I wouldn’t call their
businesses dead by any means. ...Good things are
going to happen to downtown Perry.
however all belongings were
destroyed. In the past, the
only help available to per
sons living in the Perry area
was located in Warner
Robins. This many times
meant that a person in a
crisis situation had to find,
and pay for transportation to
Warner Robins. In February
of this year, the United
Givers Fund of Houston
County allocated money to
be utilized by our Agency for
emergencies in the Perry
area. Since that time, money
grants have been given to
twelve persons. Their
problems have ranged from
a man stranded without
gasoline on his way to a job
in Florida, to a mother
whose husband had deserted
the family leaving no money
for food.
The United Givers Fund
has made immediate help
possible on a local basis. We
wish to express our ap
preciation to that
organization for providing
this important service to the
public.
Sincerely,
Miss Kathryn Harris
Director Houston County
Department of
Family and Children Ser
vices
Dear Sir,
We would like to take this
time to thank the people of
your community for the way
they responded when the car
my son and his friend were
driving caught fire and
burned near your city.
People helped get their
clothes, get the fire dept, the
fire dept, responded quickly
and the fire chief personally
took them in his car to the
Holiday Inn explaining what
had happened. The kind
people took them in.
We truly are grateful for
all the help and concern that
was shown them while in
Perry. You truly have great
people.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. Haynes
Buford
Paducha Kty.