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VOL. 102 NO. 19
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Perry, Cearqia, 310*9
I have noticed a lot of low flying jet planes flying
over Perry recently. These are not the big jet
bombers but they look like fighters and this is the
first time I have ever noticed these kind of planes
flying low over Perry, even though we are close to
Robins Air Base. What’s going on?
J.N., PERRY
Action Line found out that the low flying planes
you have been seeing are U.S. Air Force RF-4C
Phantom aircraft from the 363rd Tactical
Reconnaissance Wing at Shaw Air Force Base,
South Carolina. They are currently flying low
level training missions in the Perry area.
The information office at Shaw Air Force Base
says the purpose of the low level flights is to
provide training for combat-ready RF-4C air
crews who will be assigned to tactical squadrons
through-out the w0r1d.... And that’s what is going
on.
There is a person in our neighborhood that
dumps all his trash on a vacant lot close to our
house each time he cleans his yard. This creates a
hazard for snakes and it doesn’t look very nice.
Isn’t there something Action Line can do?
C.A., PERRY
Action Line called the person who owns the
vacant lot and he said he would look into this
matter and contact the person dumping trash.
Action Line also contacted the City Sanitation
Dept, and reminds your neighbor that they
pickkup yard trash and leaves every Wed. All you
have to do is pile trash on the curb in front of your
house and the City will pick it up. There is really
no need to dump trash on the vacant lot.
Help. We live in the City limits, in what we think
is one of the City’s nicer neighborhoods, but we
have a problem with snakes. Not just your or
dinary kind of snakes, but rattle snakes and water
moccasins. The snakes are coming out of the
woods behind our subdivision and are crawling
over neighbor’s yards and patios. It has gotten to
the point that some of our neighobrs won’t go out
in their yard after dark. The area behind our
neighborhood has been partially cleared but there
are big stacks of underbrush still there. Can
anything be done?
G.M. PERRY
Action Line took your problem to Perry building
inspector Carlos Merritt. He said he would look
into the problem right away and determine if
there is any action the City can take to help
eliminate the snakes’ hiding places. Merritt is
sympathetic with you over the snakes and so is
Action Line.
Is it permissible for a student to use a driver's
permit for the few days after her birthday, when it
is on a Monday, till she can get to the State Patrol
Station on Friday when the next examination is
given, to take her driver’s test?
E.C., PERRY
Action Line checked with your local State Patrol
Station, and learned that any license, learner’s
permit or regular license, expires on midnight of
your birthday and that is final. There is no grace
period, and you would be breaking the law if you
drove before the next regular licensing day.
Incidentally, we were also reminded that on
each driver’s license you’ll find these words:
’’renewable 90 days before expiration. So anyone
who has a birthday approaching within ap
proximately three months should check out his
license • a large number of experienced drivers let
the time slip up on them and find they re tem
porarily grounded!
WHERE’S THE FIRE?
One house fire and one
grass fire were the only calls
answered by the Perry Fire
Department during the past
week.
Chief Sirah Lawhorn said
an empty house on Oldfield
Lane was completely
destroyed by fire on May 4.
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He said it had burned almost
completely down before it
was reported to the fire
department.
Last Saturday, May 6, the
department answered a call
to put out a small grass fire
at the intersection of Ball
and Jemigan Streets.
PAGE 1-A, PERRY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1972
Supreme Court Hears
Perry Election Case
Attorneys argued the
controversial “Perry
Election Case” before the
Georgia Supreme Court
Monday. Macon attorney
Carr Dodson presented the
case for three Perry
petitioners who contested the
December 7, elections.
Perry attorney Tom Daniel
represented Mayor-elect
John Barton and former
Perry City attorney, Tom
Spencer, represented the
City before the highest court
in the State.
Perryans N.C. (Skeet)
Chapman, C.C. (Bubba)
Pierce and Paul Barrett filed
a petition with Houston
Superior Court Judge Willis
Hunt soon after the
December 7, elections. They
filed the petition, calling for
the City Charter section
pertaining to a plurality vote
be ruled invalid, after the
City Council voted 3 to 2 to
uphold the election and the
ruling by the City’s attorney
at that time, David Hulbert.
In the Dec., 7, three man
Mayor’s race, John Barton
won over opponents Richard
Goodroe and Don Parkinson.
HHJ Columnist
Gets Natl. Honor
Home Journal columnist
and Perry High School
senior, Susan Ray, has been
admitted to the National
league of American Pen
Women. She is one of the
youngest members of the
organization and the fact
that she had been accepted
was announced on the U.S.
Senate floor by Senator
Herman Talmadge and
printed on the Congressional
Record.
Susan is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ray.
She and her father visited
Washington D.C. last week
and visited Senator
Talmadge and Congressman
Jack Brinkley.
County Feels The Burden Os
Rising Spiral In Rental Homes
In Houston County, for home owners and for
apartment dwellers alike, housing costs have
been on an upward spiral in the last ten years, the
figures show.
The home owners in the local area - there are
11,032 of them - have been confronted with bigger
and bigger bills for fuel, repairs, taxes and the
like.
For the 6,572 families who are living in rental
units, costs have been zooming similarly. They
have seen their rents rise from a median of $54 a
month to SB6 in the last ten years. This is exclusive
of the cost of utilities and fuel.
For half of them, the rents have been lower than
those contract amounts and, for the other
half,higher.
The facts and figures are from data compiled by
the Commerce Department in connection with the
lates Census of Housing.
They show how rentals in Houston County have
been moving as compared with the changes that
have been taking place in other parts of the
country.
In the local area the rental increase in the ten
year period was 59 percent, according to the
He beat Goodroe by only a
plurality and the petitioners
claim there should be a run
off but City attorney David
Hulbert ruled the City
Charter proposes election by
plurality and not majority.
Also affected by the case is
Councilman -elect H.H.
Hackworth. He won over
incumbent Frank Leonard
but did not beat him by a
majority.
Barton’s attorney Tom
Daniel is standing firm on
his claim that the City
Charter ruling made by
Hulbert is correct while
Dodson claims the City
elections should be run by a
majority vote.
The high court took the
case Monday afternoon after
listening to all three at
torneys. Perry observers
feel the court will make a
ruling in about two weeks
because of the situation here
in Perry caused by not
having a full Council and
Mayor. Many feel the court
will rule in favor of the City
while others say it would be
impossible to rule any other
except for the petitioners.
May 30 Set For
Clerk Os Court
R unoff Election
A runoff election has been
scheduled for May 30 to
choose between two leading
candidates for the post of
clerk of the State Court of
Houston County.
Ray Bliss got 1,475 votes
and James Cannon received
1,364, leading the field of five
candidates. Bliss operates a
dry cleaning establishment
and Cannon is a Warner
Robins Dept, of Public
Safety employee and clerk of
the Warner Robins Recor
der’s Court.
Tommy Wright, Houston
County Police Chief, came in
third with 1,215, votes.
Collins Garrison, insurance
agent, got 818, and Paul
Clements, civil service
employee, got 476 votes. All
candidates live in Warner
Robins.
The election was held to fill
the vacancy left by the death
of William J. Holloway of
Warner Robins in March.
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delegation at last week’s U.S. Chamber of
Commerce convention in Washington, during the
Congressional dinner. At right is chamber
DA Buice To Step Down
Avon Buice announced this
week that he will not seek
election as District Attorney
of the Houston County
Judicial Circuit this year.
Buice was appointed to the
post he now holds by
Governor Jimmy Carter last
year when the new circuit
was created.
Buice said he will return to
the private practice of law in
Perry and Warner Robins in
January 1973.
“I do expect to fulfill the
duties of my office to the
fullest extent until the ex
piration of the present term
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findings. Elsewhere in the United States the rise
amounted to 55 percent, on average. In the South
Atlantic States it was 62 percent and, in the State
of Georgia, 78 percent.
By the same token, for those who have been
buying homes, prices went up sharply in the
period. In Houston County, the median value of
occupied homes climbed 54 percent.
Inflation was the culprit. Because housing is the
most heavily weighted component of the Con
sumer Price Index, it has been a principal victim
of the rising costs. It has had to cope with bigger
fuel and electric bills, with tax hikes, with higher
insurance rates and with increases in other
operating expenses.
Because of the growing concentration of people
in urban and suburban areas, the price of land has
been pushed higher and higher. The economic
pressure upon builders, therefore, has been to
stack family units upward rather than to produce
one-family homes far from job centers.
Houston County families, for the most part,
have been able to take the rising costs in stride.
Their incomes, since 1960, have gone up 61 per
cent, on average, the figures show.
December 31, 1972,” Buice
said. “I appreciate more
than I will ever be able to
say, the warm expressions of
confidence that have been
given me by many, many
citizens of Houston County.”
Buice said that he has
received the full support of
all county agencies and
officials.
“This has been a most
difficult decision for me to
make,” he said, “as the
members of my office staff
and I have worked hard
during this first year that
this Circuit has been
operative to make the Office
of District Attorney more
aggressive and more ef
fective. I feel we have made
some progress.”
Buice said he has tried to
bring the criminal docket
current in the county and
will continue to do so during
the remainder of his term.
He said that he finds he is
sometimes frustrated in his
efforts as prosecutor by what
he considers " antiquated
laws, and by outmoded
procedural requirements
that should be changed.” He
expects to work as a private
citizen and lawyer to work
president Joe Poole and left is New Perry Nursing
Hume pres. Ed Willis. Also attending the con
vention was chamber executive vice pres. Elwyn
McKinney. The Perry delegation also had a
meeting with Senator Herman Talmadge.
for these changes.
Buice said he does not
know yet whether he will
Supt. David A. Perdue
To Seek Re-Election
David A. (Dave) Perdue
announced this week that he
will seek re-election to the
post of Houston County
School Superintendent in the
Democratic Primary this
year.
A native of Houston
County, Perdue is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Perdue,
Sr., Bonaire, Georgia. He
received the Bachelor of
Arts Degree in chemistry
with minors in physics and
mathematics from Mercer
University, the Master of
Education Degree in School
Administration from Mercer
University, the Sixth-Year
Specialist Degree in
Educational Administration
and the A-6 Certificate in
School Administration from
the University of Georgia.
He has been a classroom
teacher and coach in Dodge,
Bibb and Houston Counties;
served as principal of
Bonaire and Lindsey
Elementary Schools and
Warner Robins High School;
and as Houston County
School Superintendent.
For the last three years,
Perdue has served as
Director of the Georgia
Association of Educators,
representing teachers of the
22 counties of the Third
District. He is president of
the Third District
Superintendent’s As
sociation, member of
H.A.E., G.A.E., N.E.A.,
Georgia and National
Superintendent’s
Association, Georgia and
National School Board’s
Association, Georgia
Association of Specific
{.earning Disabilities, and
the American Association of
School Administrators.
Perdue served during
World War II in the
European Theater of
Operations and was recalled
to active duty with the
U.S.A.F. for two years
during the Korean Conflict.
He is a member of the
First Baptist Church in
Warner Robins, chairman of
the Houston County Board of
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practice law privately or join
a firm. “I have made no
committments yet,” he said.
Health, Director of the
Citizens State Bank, and
member of the Optimist
Club.
Perdue and his wife,
Gervaise, and their three
children reside at 213 Ber
nard Drive, Warner Robins.
Their daughter, Debbie, is a
ninth grade student at Tabor
Junior High School; Dennis
is a junior at the University
of Georgia; and David is a
senior at Georgia Tech.
In announcing his can
didacy, Perdue said, “The
Houston County School
System has progressed
through some challenging
years to become one of
the major educational forces
in the state. This progress
didn’t just happen. It evolved
through planning, hard
work, and help from
students, parents, and school
personnel.
“As I have talked with
people throughout the
county, I have found their
main concern is that existing
educational opportunities for
youth and adults continue to
be assured, and that
projected programs continue
uninterrupted under the
guidance of competent,
aggressive, and consistent
educational leadership.’’
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David Perdue