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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 1 TrSk * mm f| James McKinley 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). PAGE 1-A 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. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1972 ■ - - dflfigH JBhA|9 y* *1 i /^l A . J,„v ”»1 i g Hgßt/ v —1 A <9m| ®|| '‘■wrV.* «pt M., ; : |fe |fl SK& - ■{ 3,.s£♦. '<4) .&V ■’ flra < f J9H|B9CSk. 'V ' 1 *• * - jjjfsji .-f . < * t *, A / *.fl« ) 'f?gJrr^~yj* I *» *,. ■ ■ ■; * *u-i * * %if l f(P , *^^ l frv<k w i: It *JWBH - / - u'^-t^'j? \- • • , '->^-• ~ ]jl!>lik'iigSfifciy-I^^^-SFiy * •-•'■*** i .J * *>«g^fo^V^/--Jl^,Sw *sF*%&!&!aM rßv'.■«*“.*\Jilyil’ 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. 4 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. 30 PAGES 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.