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VOL. 192 NO. 14 ACTION LINE Can 4T U 987-1823 Writ* P.O. Drawer M Worry, Georgia, 31049 I read in The Home Journal about a month ago that the Chamber of Commerce finished last year with a surplus of $6,000. The city furnishes them with office space, utilities and janitorial services without charge and also makes a generous donation of cash to them. What was the amount of the most recent contribution the City made to them? How did Council vote on it and by what authority do our trusted elected officials have to give away large sums of much needed funds? When will the Chamber become big enough to stand on its own without accepting charitable contributions from the City? (Name and initials withheld by request) Action Line will be happy to answer yoar questions. We’U take your first question first. The City of Perry, since 1*66, has granted 25 per cent of the tax that Georgia Power Co. pays the City annually which is 4 percent of the power com pany’s gross sales here. This is done because the Chamber of Commerce is budgeted in the City’s budget each year and this is the place where the funds originate. It is not considered a “donation” as you put it because the Chamber is a part of the City, being included in the Perry City Charter. The Chamber operates as an arm of the City. Council, in the past, has deemed it a necessary part of the City by helping support it with the budgeted funds from the Georgia Power rebate. The amount paid most recently from the City to the Chamber was $9,628 or 23 per cent of Georgia Power’s payment to the City of $38,552. To answer your next question. Council agreed to make the payment as a formality. The money is set up in the City budget and Council agreed this year, as in the past, to fund the chamber. At the time Council agreed to disperse the funds, it was a unanimous agreement among the Council. Your next question concerning the chamber standing alone. The Chamber is an important arm of the City. The Chamber is set up in the Perry City Charter and provided for. Chamber President Joe Poole told Action Line that each year thousands of man hours are devoted to the Chamber by local businessmen and officials with the only compensation being the satisfaction that they have helped to promote the community. Poole noted that the Chamber works on behalf of everyone in Perry and that the Chamber and the City go together. The Chamber has a number of working com mittees made up of local businessmen, elected officials and individuals such as the committees on tourism, industrial development, downtown development, community promotion, airport, governmental affairs, military affairs and many, many more. The Perry Chamber of Commerce, by the way, is looked on by other Chambers, as one of the most progressive and best managed Chambers in Georgia. Elwyn McKinney, executive vice pres, of the Chamber invites you and anyone else to drop by the Chamber office at anytime for an orien tation into all the facets of the Chamber operation. You better come prepared to stay awhile because the Chamber does so many different things for the community that it is bound to take some time to explain the operation to you. ★ Georgia Red Carpet Tour To Visit Perry This Week ★ A colorful three-day ground and aerial inspection of Georgia's industrial ad vantages kicked-off Tuesday as M prominent in dustrialists began arriving m Atlanta for the State's 12th annual Pled Carpet Tour. The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce has been working for the past several months on getting the coveted tour to pass through Perry, and the industrialists will get to view Perry Thursday after a tour of the Pa fast Brewing Company. Chamber President Joe Poole painted out that Perry The Houston Home Journal The Perry Area’s Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years Chamber executive vice pres. Ehryn McKinney and others in the Chamber started working on getting Perry put on the tour about two years ago. The tour officially opened in Atlanta Wednesday morning with a breakfast at The Regency Hyatt House followed by a tour of Atlanta Accompanying the in dustrialists on the tour are some 45 Georgia businessmen who will serve as hosts along with Governor Jimmy Carter. In all. some GO Georgia communities will be viewed on the tour. The lour will breakfast at PAGE 1-A City Council Appoints New Attorney , Judge Larry Walker City To Fight Telephone Rates Councilman James McKinley asked Council to have Perry’s new City At torney, Larry - Walker, prepare data to represent the City at the Public Service Commission bearings in Atlanta on the proposed increase in telephone rates in Perry by General Telephone Co. McKinley pointed out that Perry s telephone rates are higher than any other community in Middle Georgia and that he is op posed to any increase in the rates He reminded Council that the City adopted a resolution several weeks going on record as opposing the rate increase. Councilman McKinley also called for a meeting as soon as possible with officials of General Telephone Co. to negotiate a new franchise agreement between General Telephone and the City of Perry. He said that the phone company's 30 year old franchise ran out in 1971 and that they are now operating in Perry without a franchise. Interim Mayor Dan Britton said he would arrange a meeting with the Telephone officials as soon as possible. In other action. Council voted to hire a the Officers Club on Warner Robins Air Force Base Thursday morning and the featured speaker will be James C. Windham. President of Pabst Brewing Company. The tour will also visit the Pabst Brewery here on Thursday followed by a tour of the City of Perry*. Perry Chamber President Joe Poole stated. “It is in deed a signal honor for us at the Chamber and the citizens of Perry and Houston County to have such a distinguished group of businessmen and industrialists visit our community. We are roost PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1972 TWO SECTION'S 30 PAGES ■ ksL George Nunn "professional” to come to Perry to revise and update the City's business license schedule. Councilman D. K. Houghton asked for the action because he said he felt the City needs some professional" advice on the licensing schedule. He said it will probably cost the City* about COO Councilman Frank Leonard reported that the Fire Underwriters Association had visited Perry's Fire Dept, recently and had made a list of recommendations to meet for the City to become eligible for a lower fire in surance rating. Council will look into the matter, it was decided. Councilman Henry Casey said a study by the State Highway dept, has been completed for a traffic breaker at the intersection of highway 341 south and Houston Lake Drive. Council approved the study and the State Highway Dept, will install the traffic breakers in the near future. Councilman James McKinley told City Supt. Edward Warren that “mosquito season” has arrived early in Perry this Cool on Page 5-A honored and the Chamber is gratified to have been able to play a vital role in this year's lour The tour is sponsored annually by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. On Friday . April 7. the two party will continue on to Augusta where they will see the second round of the Masters Golf Tournament. The tour concludes in Atlanta early that evening Mr. Pattillo pointed out that many of the industrial visitors would take ad vantage of special ac commodations in Augusta to w*e the remainder of the Walker, Nunn Perry City Council, on a motion by Councilman James McKinley, voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire Larry Walker as the new City Attorney and George Nunn as the City Court Judge. McKinley stated, “I feel with all the expansion programs going on in our City and all the other activity that we are going to need an attorney near-by that we can call on frequently and I feel Larry Walker will fill our needs." Tom Spencer of Cen terville is now serving as the City's interim attorney. He took over in January when long-time City Attorney David Hulbert resigned because of what he termed “lack of full cooperation and backing" from all the members of the City Council. Walker now serves as the City Court Judge but will have to resign that post to accept the City Attorney’s job. George Nunn will take over the Judge's post McKinley specified that Walker be hired under the same arrangement as the previous attorney. He said a retainer will be paid and then fees for legal work will also be paid to the new at torney. The City pay's the Judge $l5O a month and a S2OO a month retainer to the City Attorney phis legal fees. Walker is a partner in the law firm of Walker and Richardson and has prac ticed law in Perry since 1965. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. Cohen Walker and he and his wife, Janice, and two children reside on Swift Street George Nunn is associated with the law firm of Nunn, Geiger and Rampey, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Nunn and he and wife, Janet, reside on Marshall Circle. Both attorneys were at the Council meeting Tuesday night and said they would accept the positions. Walker noted there were a few details he would have to work out with Council. Masters Tournament. James R. Lientz, Chair man of the 1972 Red Carpet Tour Committee, said that more than 10 months preparation has gone into the forthcoming event. Com panies to be present on this year's tour include: Allen Products Co., Inc., Alien town, Pennsylvania; American Hoechsl Corp., Somerville. New Jersey; American Oil Company, Chicago. Illinois; Armco Steel Corp., Middletown. Ohio. Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Baxter 3H H^B MBHBHHMBB HHHHI HHHBHHi Will The Real Mayor Please Stand Up? Former Mayor .Malcolm Reese is telling Perry’s interim Mayor Dan Britton (left) all about how to run the City. And Mayor-elect John Barton listens. Reese stepped down from office last Friday and Mayer pro tem Dan Britton look over. Barton is awaiting the outcome of a court case contesting the election before he can take office. Many observers have posed the question as to how many other towns anywhere has three Mayors atone time. For the time being, Mayor Britton is heading the City government. But some time this year Barton will probably take over and the year 1t72 will go down in the history books as the year Perry had three Mayors. At Cost Os 8175,000 County To Build New Jail Houston County Com missioners decided Tuesday to build the proposed new Houston County Correctional Institution and a new county jail at an estimated cost of $175,000 Chairman Robert Byrd said that prison labor will be used to construct both buildings to keep costs at a minimum Commissioners Laboratories. Inc., Morton Grove, Illinois; Chrysler Corp., Detroit Michigan; Dayco Corp., Dayton, Ohio; De Soto. Inc.. Des Plaines, Illinois: E. I du Pont de Nemours U Co., Wilmington. Delaware; FMC Corp.. New York. New York; Harris Calorific Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Hearin Products. Inc., Portland. Oregon; Portage Plastics Division of Kent Industires, Kent, Ohio; Kerotest Manufacturing Corp., Pitt sburgh, Pennsylvania; Knoll AG, Ludwigshafen. West Germany; Lancaster Colony agreed that the money for the new buildings will come from the county treasury and no bonds will be necessary to finance the budget. Warden Allen Stone said he had obtained an estimate of $67,968 for materials only for the Correctional In stitution building. He said that an estimate had not been received for materials Corp., Columbus, Ohio. Lester Industries, Inc., Bedford. Ohio; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., Saint Paul. Minnesota; National Spuming Co., Inc., Washington. North Carolina; Nease Chemical Co., Inc., State College, Penn sylvania: Neptune Meter Company, New York. New York; Neville Chemical Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania; PPG Industries, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania; Panacon Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio; Phillips Petroleum Company. Bartlesville, Oklahoma; for the county jail to be buildt on county property adjacent to the work camp building, but he estimated costs to be about half those of Lia facility. When the new buildings are occupied, the old buildings will be razed. The work camp will bouse 100 men, and the jail will house 50 men and women. Robertshaw Controls Company, Youngwood, Pennsylvania; Roper Corporation, Kankakee, Illinois; Schaefer, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; St Regis - Paper Company, Washington. D. C. ; Sum mers Electric Company, Dallas, Texas; Swift, Agricultural Chemicals Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Talley Industries, Inc., Mesa. Arirooa; Uarco Incorporated, Barrington, Illinois; Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut.