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VOL. 102 NO. 20
Council Talks
Garbage Again
McKinley Says
Fee Not Clear
Perry City Councilman
James McKinley, who has
been an outspoken opponent
of the City’s newly created
garbage collection fee, told
Council Tuesday night there
are some businesses in
Perry that will have to pay
as much as S3O, S4O, S6O and
$l2O a month under the City’s
new garbage fee ordinance.
McKinley said he does not
believe all the merchants
involved actually realize
what they are going to have
to pay under the ordinance.
The Council later officially
adopted the ordinance as
proposed at the last meeting
with only McKinley voting
against it.
McKinley said, “I did not
know this was going to be
“hell raising” night at
Council meeting but I think
these things ought to be
brought out in the open.”
McKinley said he objected
to an advertisement placed
in The Home Journal last
week by Mayor Britton
explaining the garbage fee,
which becomes effective
June 1. He said there are
already about 100 Perry
citizens who pay a garbage
fee that was imposed on
them in 1965. He explained
that the fee was spelled out
as a garbage fee because
these citizens were not
connected to City sewer
lines. He said they were
charged 30 per cent of their
average water bill to help
pay for the sewer bonds and
it was called a garbage fee,
according to the Council
minutes.
“What are we going to do
about these citizens”?,
McKinley asked. Mayor
Britton said they are paying
a sewer tax just like all other
Perry citizens but that it was
called a garbage fee for
some reason he could not
explain. The matter will be
looked into by Council.
7,555,000 Packs
Houston Countians “Puff”
Away $3,090,000 Last Year
How much smoking have residents of Houston
County been doing since cigarette commercials
were ruled off the air, a little more than a year
ago.
Have they cut back as a result? Are they
smoking more or less today than people in other
parts of the country?
Judging from the latest regional figures,
although many people are smoking less than they
did before or have given up the habit completely,
others have started smoking for the first time.
The overall picture appears to be, according to
tobacco distributors, that the decrease is chiefly
among older people and among those who
have never been heavy users.
On the other hand, for every one of them who
quits, there are two or three young persons who
are just beginning to smoke.
The net result of these ups and downs, reports
the Department of Agriculture, is that there has
been an increase of nearly three percent in the
past year in the number of cigarettes smoked by
Americans.
The Houston Home Journal
The Perry Area's Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years
Mayor Britton asked
McKinley to work another
advertisement to place in
The Home Journal ex
plaining commercial gar
bage fees as well as the
residential fees. Beginning
June 1, a $1.50 a month fee
will be imposed on
residences and commercial
establishments with dump
sters will be charged at the
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Bump , Bump
“I’m going to put speed
bumps all over town if that’s
what it takes to stop
speeding and people com
plaining to me about
speeders,” Councilman D.
K. Roughton said at City
Council Tuesday night.
Roughton said he is
adopting a new policy, as
head of the speedbreaker
dept., to begin placing more
speedbreakers around town
to muzzle the speeders. He
said if a person calls him to
complain about a speeder in
their neighborhood and gives
the name of the speeder, he
will have a speedbreaker
placed on their street (the
caller).
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rate of $7.50 per cubic yard,
according to the size of the
dumpsters. Stores with the
largest dumpsters in the City
will have to pay as much as
$l2O a month, according to
McKinley.
The Home Journal learned
Wednesday morning that
some stores in Warner
Robins (food stores) pay as
much as $125 a month for
garbage collection.
“I just think this ordinance
needs clarification,”
McKinley said, “so that
everyone involved will fully
understand the fee”.
The Home Journal will
publish the garbage
collection ordinance as well
as a notice explaining the
rates in next week’s
newspaper. In the mean
time, Council voted 4 to 1 to
put the ordinance on the
books. McKinley voted
against the ordinance.
Councilman D. K.
Houghton said he voted for
the ordnance in the final
approval even though he had
voted against it being im
posed at the last Council
meeting. He said he wanted
to abide by the will of the
Council although he is still
not in favor of the fee.
Roughton said he has
already begun this policy
and that he wanted to bring it
before Council. He said he
may have to put speed
breakers on every street but
that he was going to stop
speeding in the city limits.
He pointed out that he had
instituted his policy on Lee
Street and that because
speeding is persisting, he
may put another breaker on
the street. “I’ll hem in the
speeder,” he said.
Mayor Dan Britton warned
Roughton that he should
keep in mind the fire dept,
having to rush to fires as he
places speed breakers
around town.
In Houston County, on the basis of a breakdown
of statewide figures released by the Tobacco Tax
Council, an estimated 7,555,000 packs of cigarettes
were sold in the past fiscal year.
It was equivalent to 177 packs for every local
resident over the age of 18.
In some sections of the country the rate of
consumption was much greater than this and, in
other sections, smaller. Nationally, the average
rate among persons over 18 was 202 packs. In the
South Atlantic States it was 204.
It is pointed out that these figures are based
upon the number of packs on which taxes were
paid. They do not take into account the large
quantity of cigarettes that were bootlegged to
avoid taxes.
Because the tax on a pack of cigarettes has been
rising and now averages 19 cents in the United
States, bootlegging has become more of a problem
and smoking a more expensive luxury.
In Houston County, an estimated $3,090,000 was
spent last year by local residents for cigarettes. It
was at the rate of $72 per smoker.
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First Shovel Os Dirt Turned At Library Site
GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES for the new Perry-
Houston County library were held here Tuesday morning.
Construction on the library began Wednesday. Taking part in
the ceremonies are kneeling, library board chairman Judge
Perryan Kevin Sumner To Run
For State Representative Post
Kevin Sumner of Perry
announced his candidacy
today for the Georgia House
of Representatives from the
newly-formed district 100.
Sumner is the second can
didate to announce for the
post. Perry attorney
Walker announced two
weeks ago that he will seek
the post.
The new district includes
the southern part of Houston
County (Perry) and the
Montezuma and Oglethorpe
portions of Macon County
and all of Schley County.
Sumner is a native
Georgian, having been born
and reared near Norman,
Park, Ga. He is a 1955
graduate of Mercer
University and has been in
the insurance business in
Perry since 1%8. He is a
member of the board of
directors of Houston County
baseball for youth, chairman
of the board of directors of
the public recreation
boosters organization and is
managing a 13-14 year old
youth baseball team for the
third year.
Sumner told The Home
Journal he is entering the
race to “represent all
citizens with impartiality
In Hapc Os 15 Year Old Macon Girl
Perry GBI Agent Leads Arrest
Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation special agent
Jim Hooks of Ferry, played a
leading role in the arrest last
week of the three Negroes
charged with the rape of a 15
year old Macon girl on April
7 The case has been one of
the most talked about and
investigated cases in recent
years in the Middle Georgia
area.
Agent Hooks has been
assisting the Bibb County
Sheriff's Dept, in the case
since the rape and lead the
arrest of the three charged
youths last week.
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Kevin Sumner
Hooks said he and the
Sheriff's investigators found
evidence in the car of the
alledged three suspects that
lead to the arrest. They were
first allerted last Thursday
morning when three Negro
youths driving two cars
attempted to run down a
woman delivering
newspapers near Warner
Robins. She fired four shots
and hit one of the cars and
Hooks and the Bibb
authorities then got close on
their trail. The latter
arrested two of the suspects
in Macon and one at P3lberta.
Paul Armilage (1) and architect Lee Oliver. Standing from
left, Dr. Bo Arnall, James Stubbs, contractor John Brooks,
Mrs. Alien Pritchett Jr., Mrs. Tommie Hunt, Mayor Dan
Britton, Mrs. Cooper Etheridge, former Mayor Malcolm
Reese, Gene Smith, Mrs. Hugh Lawson, Mrs. Alice Gilbert.
and fairness”.
He stated, “One of the first
things that needs attention is
the paving of state controlled
dirt roads in the three county
area and another is the
construction of a State of
Georgia tourist center
facility convenient to 1-75
and the beginning of the
Andersonville Trail and
Walker Qualifies
Perry attorney Larry Walker, who announced
his candidacy 2 weeks ago, officially qualified for
the Post of State Rep., district 100, with Secretary
of State Ben Fortson at the State Capital in
Atlanta Wed.
Walker is presently serving as the Perry City
Attorney and is a former City Court Judge here.
Agent Hooks stated, “This
has been a 5 week nightmare
and there have been
thousands of man hours
expended in the search for
the persons involved in this
crime.”
Hooks indicated that some
of the prosecution in the case
could take place in Houston
County since one of the
alledged rapes took place in
Houston while the abducted
couple were held for about
six hours by the suspects.
They were released near
Byron in the early morning
hours.
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Camellia Gardens. There is
also a great need to push for
the continued development
of Whitewater Creek State
Park.”
Sumner also stated, “This
should be an interesting
campaign and I only hope
that enough candidates will
qualify to make it a
challenge”.
Hooks said the case has
created considerable in
terest in the Houston County
area and that he has had
numerous inquiries about
the case. He reported that
the 15 year old rape victim is
recovering very well and
that she has gone back to
school.
Hooks is still involved in
the investigation of the case
and will be with it until the
trial.
Almost SIO,OOO in reward
money was pul up by Bibb
and Houston Countians for
information leading to the
arrest in the case.