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VOL. 102 NO. 19 ACTION LNN gj Write P.O. Drawer M 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. The Houston Home Journal The Perry Area's Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years 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. 'H- ■■ Bki « wftitefc' . t*!' WBfr- ■ - £f %■ ik V . fl K £ ' ». 1 I Third District Congressman Jack Brinkley (center) sat with members of the Perry 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 |p| • 4t Avon Buice 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 26 PAGES 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.’’ ' Jr. V David Perdue