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Lagrange (Allege Pres. Speaker
Westfield Schools
Graduation May 26
Dr Waights G. Henry,
President of LaGrange
College, will address the
graduating seniors of The
Westfield Schools on Friday
evening, May 26, at 8: JO
I' M Graduation exercises
will Im* held at the First
Baptist Church of Perry,
Speaking for the Class of
1972 as Valedictorian will be
Becky llooten Saluatorian
of the class is Melinda Poole
and Brad Bledsoe will give a
brief review of some of the
highlights of the class.
Members of the Westfield
Senior Class of 1972 are:
William T. Andrew
Lynn .Joseph Bacon
Bradley W Bledsoe
Wanda Gail Bragg
Debra Cawthon
Carol Chapman
Jeffrey Carl Dean
Sara Francis Dorset!
William B Ktheridge
News Briefs ...
Bum! Boosters To Meet...
Perry Band Boosters Club will meet Tuesday
May 231 h at 7:30 p.m. in the Jr. High Cafetorium
at Morningside.
Garden (.ltd) Meeting...
Perry Carden Club will meet on May 25 at 3:30
I P.M, at the home of Miss Martha Cooper, 1002
Main Street. Program will be on “Lighting Your
I Garden.” Arrangements will be May Baskets.
Hesl field Bitoster (Hub...
Westfield Booster Club will hold its final
I meeting of the school year on Tuesday, May 23rd
at the Westfield gymnasium. The meeting will
begin at7:3o P.M Several important matters will
be discussed and officers will be elected for the
coming year. All friends of Westfield are urged to
attend.
/)<• Malay Bar-he-que...
The Perry Chapter Order of DeMolay is selling
pork and chicken bar-be-que on Saturday, May
20th at the Masonic Lodge Hall from 11 A.M. to 6
P.M Price $1.50 per plate. Carry out only.
l*ilot Club Installation...
Mrs. Harry Dumas, Past President of District
One, Pilot International, will install the new of
ficers of the Pilot Club of Perry at the May
1 1 program meeting. This meeting will be held at the
New Perry Hotel on Tuesday, May 23, at 7:30 P.M.
All members are urged to attend.
Y.M.t '. 1. Pageant Set...
Miss V .M.C.A. Teenager Pageant will be held at
the Perry Junior High School Annex Auditorium
at Eight O'clock on Saturday, May 20, 1972.
School Pronutters To Meet...
Public School Promoters will meet Thursday,
May 18th, 8.00 p.m. in the Perry Elementary
Annex Auditorium. There will be an election of
officers. The seventh grade band, directed by Mr.
Don Erdman, will perform.
Cub Scouts Plan Meeting...
Cub Pack 216 will hold the May Pack meeting at
7.30 p.m., Wednesday, May 24 at the County
j Agriculture Building.
Reception To Honor Lash leys'
A reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Lashley Sr. on their Golden Wedding Anniversary
will be given by their children Mr. and Mrs.
William Carey Strong and Eugene Lashley, Jr.
| Sunday, May 21 at Ochlahatchee Club House on
Frank Satterfield Drive.
All friends and relatives of the couple are in
vited to the reception which will be held from 2
until 5 p.m.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1972
Timothy Greer
Sheila Ann Griffin
Beatrice Louise Hammock
Robert W Harrison
Rebecca I-ouise Hooten
Sandy Hudson
Richard Johason
Wendy Donnell Jones
John Greer Ixisseter
Deborah Ann McCown
William F. McDaniel
Mark Dean Maggard
Council To Refund
Gas Customers Here
Councilman James
McKinley made a motion at
Tuesday night's Council
meeting asking that gas
refunds in the amount of
$19,000 be returned to Perry
Missi Maggard
Marsha Moody
Rebecca Clair Morris
William Daniel Overton
Patricia Anne Peyton
Patti Melinda Poole
James Kenny Rodgers
Charles Kim Houghton
Robert Timothy Sims
Terry Alane Siias
Felix Marion Smith
Mary Shannon Tolleson
Nan Tolleson
customers in the form of a
credit on their gas bills.
Council had previously
decided to refund only to
industrial and large com
mercial users.
McKinley said he didn't
think it was right unless the
refund is returned to every
gas customer in the City. He
asked that Council hire a
clerk for the summer at the
rate of $l5O a month to take
care of crediting the 2,400
gas customers. Council
approves! his motion.
The refund came from
Southern Natural Gas,
suppliers to the City, when
a rate increase they had
asked for was tin ned down
by the Federal Power
Commission.
Councilman Alton Hardy
pointed out that the City had
absorbed a number of gas
rate increases without
passing on the cost to the
customers.
McKinley contended the
refund should be credited to
the customers and Council
voted to follow his
suggestion. It is expected
Uiat sometime this summer
gas customers in the City
will be receiving refunds in
the form of a credit ranging
from a few cents to several
dollars.
Police Report
For a change, the Perry
Police Department had a
fairly quiet week. Most of
their action consisted of
accidents and minor traffic
violations.
One theft was reported,
however, that of a
Remington rifle from the W
T. Grant store in Grant
Plaza.
Two accidents occured
Saturday. On Carroll
Boulevard, William E
Anderson, Gaines Drive.
Perry, started to make a left
turn across 41 south into
Baird Street in a 1956
Chevrolet; his failure to
grant the right-of-way to
William Alford. Route 1,
Perry, who was driving a
1969 Dodge, caused an ac
cident. Anderson was
charged with reckless
driving.
Connie Melissa
of 1-75 Trailer Park in Perry,
slowed dow n to crass speed
breakers on Spring Street in
1972 Ford Torino James
Edward Benton. Jr.. 110 S.
Elbert Street.
Milledgeville.told in
vestigating officers lie didn t
see the stop in lime and ran
into the back ot the first
vehicle with the 1971
Chevelle he was driving
203 To Get Diplomas
From Perry High May 30
A record number of
seniors will graduate from
Ferry High School this year
when 203 receive their
diplomas on May 30,
beginning at 8:15 p.m. on the
Perry High athletic field.
Principal Malcolm March
man announced that there
will be no special speakers at
the graduation exercises,
f ollows is a list of the
graduating seniors.
Jesse James Adams
Joseph Lawrence Adams
Shirley Elaine Allen
Walter Edward Arnold II
Corine Rogers Askew
l,eon Jerome Askew
Vera J. Askew
James Vaston Attaway
Jerry Edward Barnes
Gregory Karl Baumann
Curtis Edward Bass
Terry Neil Beck
Deborah Hackney Bennett
Margaret Francine Berry
Jacqueline Annettet Billings
Lewis L. Blackstone
Michael Boles
Richard Edward Bond
Curtis Rooney
Richard Glenn Brannan
Bertha Mae Brooks
Betty J. Brown
Charles L. Brown
Edward Brown
Johnny Brown
Dennis Martin Bryant
Lovie Gibson Buckner
Sheila Joyce Bynum
Sharon Lynn Byrd
Andrew Cherry
Bobbie Jean Clarington
Donald Clark
Harold G. Clifton
Bennie Collier
Emily Collins
Tommy Gary Cook
llene Copeland
Willie Frank Copeland
Willie Cosby
Deborah Collen Costlow
Joe Michael Cox
John Wayne Crowhorn
Robert Junior Daniels
Charlie J Datis
Deborah Davis
Jackie Davis
James Davis
Patti Marie Dayton
Erlene Dean
Lonzie Duhart
Sandra Gail DuPree
Schanell 1 Hirham
Terry Elaine Dykes
Ethel Mae Everett
Floise Felder
Geraldine Felder
J, T. Felder
Rosa Felder
Joel E. Ferguson
Jestine Findley
Marcus Lloyd Fleming
Treasure Floyd
Michael Thomas Forchette
Susie M. Fountain
Bobby R. Fowler
lamar Richard Fowler
Janice Lorraine Funk
John Barry Goheen
Charles Gordon
Kevin Gordon
Shirley Ann Grant
Julia M Gary
George Warren Greene
Henry Green
James Clyde Green
William H Guthrie 111
William Danny Hamsley
David K Hawk
Vicki Jean Hayes
Jay Henson
Georgia M Hill
Marvin Reeves Hill
Joyce \nn Holt
Arzell Jackson
Cleveland Jackson
David Jackson
Kura l,ee Johnson
Gerald Johnson
Ruby M Johnson
Barbara J Kendrick
Betty Kendrick
Mark Kelso
Anna Georgette Kidder
. Robert Louis King
Nancy Anne Knight
Cathy Ann Krall
Lelia Ramal Cravey Lan
caster
Katie Ume
Priscilla lane
Sara Diane Larimer
Herschel D lowborn
Ronnie LeClair
Marilyn Belinda Lester
Debra Little
Catherine Klise Logue
Douglas Barry Long
Charles J. Lowe
Vanna Vernice Lumpkin
Deborah Lee Luoma
David W. Mahon
Benjamin Thomas Marshall
Eleanor Diane Mayo
Essie Brenda McCoy
Albert “Groove” McCrary
Horace McGhee
Sheila Goodroe Mcl>eod
laverne McGhee
David Meyer
Barbara Ann Milton
Cathy Marie Mitchell
William Mark Mitchell
Lorenze I. Mobley
Deborah J. Morris
Patricia Elaine Mullis
Deborah Ann Murphy
Judy Carol Nash
Victoria Nobles
Henry Edward Ogletree
Baurice Jonanne O'Neal
Councilman Blasts Police
(ity Councilman D.K. (Dot)
Houghton, in a long and
heated discussion, took a
number of swipes at the
perry Police Dept, at
Tuesday night s City Council
meeting.
Houghton charged the
police with imposing “two
sets of laws" dealing with
restaurants in Perry that
serve beer and stay open
after midnight. He claimed
that the police have
harrassed lawrence Goss,
who owns and operates “Big
Daddy's " on Swift Street
and forced him to close when
they iiave allowed another
establishment located on
Spring Street to stay open.
He was referring to a
restaurant owned by Robert
bumpkin.
Houghton went into a long,
detailed story about how he
had went to “Big Daddy’s ”
at midnight recently and
witnessed the police there
harrassing customers,
according to him.
Police chairman Frank
Leonard flatly denied
Houghton's charges. He said
the police try to patrol the
places where the most
trouble is expected.
Houghton then said that
most of the tr ouble in Perry
takes place at The Royal
Castle and he asked
why the police don't stay out
there. said they do
patrol it regularly but that
they can't “sleep out there”.
Leonard said that such
accusations by Houghton
reflect on every man on the
police force and that it
makes it difficult for them to
do their job when some City
Councilman is always in
terferring with their job.
Houghton said his job as a
Councilman is to interfere
any place he feels needs
interferring with. Leonard
disagreed.
The discussion about the
Court Upholds
Perry Civil
Rights Case
The sth U S. Circuit Court
of Appeals upheld Tuesday
the dismissal of a suit
seeking to block Perry of
ficials from prosecuting
blacks under a city parade
ordinance.
The suit was filed as a
class action by blacks in May
1970 charging that the or
diance was unconstitutional
as to the rights of free speech
by blacks. The U.S. District
Court (or the Middle District
of Georgia refused to con
sider the petition.
In agreeing with the lower
court, it was the decision of
the sth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals at New Orleans that
the evidence failed to
establish a threat of
irreparable harm of a
purpose by the state to
harass, intimidate, or
otherwise discourage the
Negro citizens of Perry from
exercising their right of free
speech."
Kichard L. Owens
Joseph Willard Parker
Nathaniel Paster
Donna Jo Peake
Anita Gay Pettigrew
Birda Mae Ragin
Gwendolyn Lakeshia Ragin
Ronald Wayne Ragin
Barbara Susan Ray
Ronald Dean Reagan
Buddy Redmond
Jerry Ridley
Janet Roberts
Kenneth A. Rollins
Doyle James Rowland
James Rumph
Robert Rump
Teresa Faye Sanders
Susan Jane Schenck
lieon Eugene Scioscia
Michael Scott
police and the charges went
on for more than an hour
with Chief B. E. Dennard
sitting in the audience. It
was finally decided to hold a
meeting with the City At
torney, police chief and
City Denies Damage
Request By Citizen
Perry City Council denied
a request for damages
Tuesday night by Wallace
Sparrow who claimed about
SIOO worth of damage had
been done to his car because
of a man hole cover on
Halliburton Street he had
ran over recently.
Sparrow told Council the
cover was several inches
above the ground and that
when he ran over it, the
entire exhaust system in his
car was damaged.
Council voted not to pay
the damages because the
City would be "opening the
door” for future damages.
In other action, Council
voted to set the tax
City Gets Federal
Grant For $8,063
On Monday, May 15, Dan
Britton, Mayor Pro-Tern for
the City of Perry, was
presented a check for $8,063
by David Wilkes, Law En
forcement Coordinator for
the Middle Georgia Area
Planning Commission. The
check represented the
federal share of the costs of
radio communications
equipment purchased for the
Perry Police Department
under the Regional Com
munications Plan drawn by
the Middle Georgia Area
Planning Commission. While
the total of all com
munications equipment
19,106 Housing Units
Latest Census Figures
Reveal More Houston Facts
The 1970 Census of Housing
counted 19, 106 housing units
in Houston County, and
1 ,014 households had at
least one television set
1 11,952 UHF equipped), the
Bureau of the Census, U. S.
Department of Commerce,
announced today. The
figures are from the first
report for Georgia which
presents detailed statistics
on housing for each county.
The report shows that in
the county:
There were 14.028 housing
units with air conditioning
(7,753 with room units and
6,275 with a central system),
13,938 units with a clothes
washing machine, 7,888 with
a clothes dryer, and 3,642
Douglas James Seay
Charles Ronald Shipes
Stephen L. Skeen
Cynthia Statham
John Christopher Steward
Rhonda Freda Stewart
Madelyn Elizabeth Stocks
Allen Pierce Stone Jr.
Eddie Charles Stripling
Jacqueline Sturkey
Matthew R. Tacsik
Oria Mae Taylor
Albert Tharpe
J. C. Tharpe
Archie L. Thomas
Dennis R. Thompson
Lydia Maxine Thompson
Ricky Gene Thompson
Caroline Curtis Tobler
William Howard Tucker
Councilman Leonard to set
up a strong policy on closing
hours concerning
restaurants and other
establishments that stay
open late at night that sell
alcoholic beverages.
evaluation on property
owned by Richard Ray on
Swift St. (Kenwood Apts.) at
the same rate as the County.
The City now has Ray’s
property valued higher than
the County and it was
decided to follow the
County’s evaluation.
Council granted a request
to the Sing Food Store for a
wine license. Councilmen
Dot Roughton and James
McKinley voted against the
license.
Library board members
Jimmy Stubbs, Mrs. Cooper
Etheridge, Dr. Bo Arnall and
Mrs. Allen Pritchett Jr. were
all reappointed for another
term.
purchased for the City under
the MGAPC plan has
amounted to $10,291, federal
payments have covered over
ninety percent of this
amount, leaving the City to
pay $891.20.
The communications
equipment was funded under
provisions of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 and was
made available to the City
through the Annual Law
Enforcement Plan which the
Middle Georgia Area
Planning Commission files
with the State Crime
Commission.
with a dishwasher.
The 1970 population was
62,924, with an average of 3.5
persons per housing units.
A total of 3,453 housing
units were built before 1949,
5,379 during the 1950’5, 4,559
during 1960-64, and 5,705
within the five years
preceding the April 1970
census.
Utility gas was used to
cook the meals in 3,615
households, electricity in
another 12,361 and bottled,
tank or I,P gas in yet another
1,487.
There were 18,033 occupied
housing units with complete
kitchen facilities and 17,748
with complete bathrooms,
both for the exclusive use of
the households. The number
Betty Ann Turner
Donnie H. Vance
James Jerry Vance
Kathy S. Vickers
Angela P. Walker
Bettye Ann Walker
Priscilla Walker
Debbie Warner
Paul Lee Watkins
Alan J. Weidel
Thomas Richard Weik
Doris West
Geraldine West
Jimmy B. West
William West
Linda Joyce Wheeler
Charles E. White
Howard Winters
Susie Whitfield
Wilma J. Whitfield
Gloria Elaine Wilbanks
Cynthia Diane Williams
West Mitchell Williams
Deborah Annette Williamson
Rosa Willis
Jack Melvin Wilson
Joseph W. Witherington
Edwin B. Wright
Elmo C., Wright Jr.
Robert Wright
Tim Yawn
Dale Yawn
I.a Verne Ziegler
These Perry Junior High
EMR students will receive
certificates:
Sadie Bryant
Bonnie Washington
Helen Walker
Robert Johnson
Bobby Cumby
Freeman Jackson
Lloyd Everette
Felton Ragin
Eugene Stokes
Jennie Whitest
Henry Stantley
Hattie Brayant
Perry High
Names 20
Top Grads
Perry High School Prin
cipal Malcolm Marchman
announced this week that
twenty students would be
honor graduates this year.
These students were in the
top 10 percent of a class of
203, based on grade point
average in all major sub
jects for grades 9-12.
The names of the students
(arranged alphabetically
and not by highest average)
are Greg Baumann, Curtis
Booney, Lovie Buckner,
Lynn Byrd, Debbie Costlow,
J. B. Goheen, Danny
Hamsley, Jay Henson, Joyce
Ann Holt, Cathy Krall, Diane
l^rimer,
Cathy Logue, Tommy
Marshall, Cathy Mitchell,
Debbie Morris, Richard
Owen, Doug Seay, Jonanne
O’Neal, Mitch Williams, and
Debbie Williamson.
Graduation exercises will
be held May 30 at 8:15 p.m.
at the Perry High School
Athletic Field. There will be
no special speakers.
of bedrooms in all housing
units ranged from none (in
110 units) and one (in 1,500
units) to four or more (in
1,741 units).
Owners occupied 11,056
units, renters 6,569 units, and
a total of 1,471 units were
vacant year round with 361
for sale and 761 for rent.
Copies of the report,
Detailed Characteristics,
1970 Census of Housing,
Georgia, HC(1) 812, are
available for $3.50 each from
the Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. Govern
ment Printing Office,
Washington, D. C. 20402, or
from U. S. Department of
Commerce field offices
located in major cities.