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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1972
Gov, George C. Wallace
We were shocked and outraged at
the senseless and brutal shooting
down of Governor George C. Wallace
in Maryland, Monday. Such an act is
a blot on the Democratic process in
America, and evolves right back to an
old campaign issue of Wallace and
many others ... the break down of law
and order in this country.
Wallace is a daring man and was
not fearful of speaking out on con
troversial issues that seem to be
nagging away at an awful lot of
Americans. Such a man is always in
Roughton Hits Police
Perry Councilman D. K. Roughton
has “jumped” the Perry Police Dept
again, especially Chief B. E. Den
nard. This time he is accusing them of
“harrassing” Lawrence Goss of Big
Daddy’s Place. He says they are not
treating everyone the same. In this
particular instance, Roughton was
referring to establishments in town
that are both owned by blacks.
In our opinion, Roughton makes it
difficult for the police dept, to operate
the way they should. He has on many
New Perry Library
Groundbreaking for the new Perry-
Houston County Library was held
Tuesday and construction on the new
$150,000 facility began Wednesday.
When completed, the citizens in this
area will have a library second to
none and it has not been an easy task
for the library board to get to the final
stages of pre-construction that
climaxed here Tuesday with the
groundbreaking ceremonies.
The library board, headed by Judge
It’s about that time of the year
again and the excitement in Perry
has grown high during the past
several weeks.
You see, it’s graduation time for
our high school seniors and a time for
joy and sadness ... Joy that school is
out, sadness that long years of
friendships and youthful experiences
change their complexions, as this
group of Perry teenagers gain a new
status as high school graduates about
to enter a brand new world ... A world
full of challenge as well as problems
for them to face.
Many of the Perry graduates will be
preparing to enter college this fall to
seek a higher education. Many will
begin making plans to enter the
We Support Mining
We support President Nixon’s
actions of last week to mine Haiphong
Harbor and six other ports in North
Vietnam. In our opinion, the action
was necessary, even if it is a little late
coming.
It was a very serious and
courageous step for the President to
take but Vietnam is a serious matter
that is splitting this country apart and
it is going to take bold steps such as
this to bring the conflict to an end.
We are gravely concerned about the
situation as this time but if such
action was not taken the war could
continue for the next 20 years at the
rate it is going. We suspect the
That Time Again
danger but it is a disgrace to this
country for a candidate for the
Presidency to be unable to campaign
in the public without fear of being
savagely murdered.
We hope for Governor Wallace a
speedy recovery and resumption of
his campaign. And we hope for
America, that a solution to this
sickness can be discovered soon. This
sickness that causes the tragedy that
occurred in a Maryland shopping
center Monday afternoon.
occasions publicly criticised the Chief
and other members of the department
and we are sure his actions have
caused some to lose respect for their
police.
We hope, in the future, Roughton
airs out his complaints directly with
the Chief and Councilman that heads
up the police dept, before bringing
them to Council. Such public airing is
not always good. There is bound to be
two sides to a story and somehow the
police side never gets told.
Paul Armitage, is due kudos for their
long months of efforts. And former
Mayor Malcolm Reese has done much
to make the library a reality along
with other members of the City
Council.
We are extremely pleased that,
after such a long and tedious period of
planning, the new library will soon be
a reality. This is a project that will
benefit all citizens and we look for
ward to the opening in a few months.
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competitive world of being an adult,
looking for ways to earn a living.
Some will face the grave reality of the
draft for service in the military
services.
Any direction these youngsters take
will probably be painful and most
certainly challenging.
But we have a deep faith in our
Perry young people. We have never
judged the teenagers here on the
basis of the actions of a rotten few in
the country. Faced with the very real
challenges, which will confront them
the day after they get their diplomas,
it is our firm belief that most of our
graduates will meet the future with
heads high and spirit of success.
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President will take more bold steps in
the face of the North Vietnamese
treat to the south at this time. We
hope American citizens back the
President This is a time of crisis
when we all need to stand together.
The small hand full of demonstrators
that seek to cause chaos and dilemma
among many are not living up to the
true American tradition of unity in a
time of crisis. We deplore the actions
by many of these persons who ob
viously have nothing more to do than
demonstrate against the United
States of America.
Just Keep It Up, Governor...
I’ll Tell You If the Big Boys Start Watching...
JW axins. *Ufiomlii.on I -jH
The View From Here
Cement is one of those things we
take for granted, almost the way we
do air and water and trees and earth.
It’s been around a long time as a
matter of fact, cement was used for
paving and other purposes during the
days of the Roman Empire.
As I recall, cement was used mostly
for sidewalks, driveways, and other
paving projects during my early
childhood, although some other
construction was probably done with
probably done with concrete. But it
was later that the cement block really
came into its own, working its way up
from walls, utility buildings and
garages to the finest places of
business, apartment complexes,
hotels and motels.
We have Medusa Cement Cor
poration (formerly Penn-Dixie
Cement Corp.) with its huge cement
operation here in Houston County,
and the last thing we would ever
expect to become scarce is cement
But it’s becoming scarce as hen’s
teeth.
Warden Allen Stone told our county
commissioners last week that the
cement shortage in the state is
holding up county paving projects
and interstate paving as well. He said
1-16 crews could only work two to four
hours a day with the amount of
cement they can obtain. That’s bad.
But things could be worse. In
central Florida they’re much, much
worse, and there’s no telling when
things will get better. The Orlando
Sentinel reported recently that
cement blocks for construction
were so scarce that contractors who
had been paying 18 to 20 cents each
for blocks would be willing to pay as
much as 40 cents each for them - if
they could get them.
The paper ran a cartoon by a staff
member depicting an old mining
prospector yelling that he had struck
it rich. Asked if he'd struck gold, he
yelled, “No, cement blocks!”
Anybody with a bunch of extra
cement blocks lying around could
clean up right now.
As anybody might guess, the high
price of land in that central Florida
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area (land that was selling for SIO,OOO
an acre suddenly shot to $25,000 an
acre) coupled with the sky-high cost
of construction at 40-cent concrete
block rates, is going to make the area
around Walt Disney World a fantastic
place to live - fantastically expensive,
that is. It is reported that in some
areas the idea of single family
housing units has been completely
abandoned in favor of multi-family
complexes. Townhouses and con
dominiums are the thing now, as are
huge luxury mobile home parks.
I suppose that growing pains are
normal in many places now - cer
tainly they are in Houston County. All
anyone has to do is sit through a few
city council, county commission,
board of education or other official
meetings to wonder why anyone
wants the responsibility of having to
make decisions that will keep pace
with the times. Construction started
in Houston County since the first of
the year runs close to $1.5 million,
with new people being transferred by
businesses or just moving in from
adjoining counties. Our growth is
pretty fast, but it is gradual.
Imagine the impact of thousands of
people converging on central Florida
atone time, looking for the pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow. I wonder if
many officials sleep well there, trying
to keep sane control of the situation?
Many who travel down are unsilled
and find no jobs; they become a
burden on the people who live there.
Traffic is bumber-to-bumper, and one
man in Kissimmee complained bit
terly that his former 5-minute trip
home each day now to takes 30
minutes./
I don’t suppose a scarcity of cement
will slow down promoters and
developers for long - they usually find
what they need and adadd it to the
price tag.
Central Florida was a place of quiet
beauty last year - very much like
Georgia in the area around Walt
Disney World, with pine forests and
cattle ranches as well as the typical
orange groves.
I hope that next time I see it, the are
won’t look like a concrete jungle.
BOBBY V(*f
BRANCH
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BRANCH
MRS. PAUL MCCRORY of Byron ran a
classified ad with us a few weeks ago advertising
some “Nubian” goats for sale. The McCrorys’ are
breeders of special type goats at Byron.
Mrs. McCrory called our attention this week to
the fact that the ad ran but we had “Nudian”
goats advertised. She said she had a good laugh
from it and sent the ad to the “Dairy Goat Jour
nal”.
Mrs. McCrory said, “I guess people around here
don’t know the difference between a Nubian goat
and a Loggenburg goat.”
Speaking of goats, I wonder what ever happened
to the “goat man”. Has anyone seen the “goat
man” recently?
THE GROUP FROM Perry that recently toured
Europe and the Holy Land for more than 3 weeks
kept up with the local goings on by reading The
Home Journal. Cohen Walker sent a copy of The
Home Journal to his wife, who was on the trip,
and after Mrs. Walker read the news the paper
was passed around among the group.
One traveller told me it was great to read the
local paper while in Paris, Israel and other points
a long way from Perry. They also received their
paper only 2 or 3 days after it was published.
I GET TIRED of reading about big business all
the time and it was refreshing to see the following
piece come across my desk recently. A true story
about “little business.”
“A candy wholesaler received an order for
$11.50 worth of candy to be shipped on credit to the
‘Horsie Hollow Candy Co.’ The wholesaler asked
for a credit report from Dun and Bradstreet,who
investigated, and promptly sent back this report:
‘The Horsie Hollow Candy Company is a small
business house, retailing candies at Horsie
Hollow, a small Mississippi community.
Proprietors are: Royal White and Thomas
Flippen. Both are 11 years old; both unmarried.
Value of cash and merchandise on hand: $13.25,
largely in chocolate bars, gum drops and Tootsie
Rolls. Fixtures and store building, which was
remodeled from an old chicken coop valued at $45.
No liabilities.” The candy was promptly ship
ped.”
The following was republished recently in
another newspaper. It came originally from a
speech made in Hinesville, Ga., several years ago
by the Chatham County State Representative Bart
Shea. The title of the poem is “My Town” and it is
well worth reading and cutting out of the paper to
save.
My town is the place where my home is found
Where my business is situated;
Where my vote is cast;
Where my children are educated;
Where my neighbors dwell;
Where my life is chiefly lived.
It is a home spot for me.
My town has the right to my civic loyalty.
It supports me, and I should support it
My town wants my citizenship, not my par
tisanship;
My friendliness, not my dissention;
My sympathy, not my criticism;
My intelligence, not my indifference.
My town supplies me with protection, trade,
friends,
Education, schools, churches,and the right to free
moral citizenship.
It has done some things that are better than
others.
The best things I should seek to make better,
The worst things I should help to suppress.
Taken all in all, it is my town
And it is entitled to the best there is in me.
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