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VOL. 102 NO. 23
Ramada Inn
200 Room Motel
To Be Built Here
Perry City Councilman
James McKinley announced
Tuesday night that Ramada
Inn plans to construct a 200
room motel in Perry, with a
convention complex and
restaurant. McKinley said
the motel will be located on a
9Vi acre tract of land located
behind the Royal Castle and
in the plot where the present
driving range is located on
highway 341 north at In
terstate 75. The an
nouncement came during
Tuesday night’s City Council
meeting.
McKinley said
negotiations of the sale of the
property which belonged to
Mr. and Mrs. Yates Green,
was handled by Clark Realty
and Investment, Inc. of
Money Is Tight
Council Kills
Gas Plant Here
Perry City Council voted
Tuesday night to hold off on
building a proposed oropane
gas plant here this summer
at a cost of $93,000. The
action was tabled on a
motion made by Councilman
James McKinley who said
we “just don’t have the
money” to build the plant at
this time. The Council had
talked about the plant
several months ago and had
a study made by the city gas
engineer Robert Grey of
Athens. The action was
considered because Grey
told Council Perry would
face a gas shortage along
with the rest of the south in
the next 2 or 3 years. Grey
said a propane plant would
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Nunn Supporters
Urged To Join
Motorcade Tuesday
Plans are being made by
the Sam Nunn for U.S.
Senate Committee to
organize a motorcade of
Nunn's supporters from
Houston County to go to
Atlanta next Tuesday when
the candidate officially
qualifies for the Senate race.
The motorcade will form
about 9:30 at the Nunn
headquarters in Perry. Nunn
supporters in the Perry area
are asked to call the
headquarters prior to next
Tuesday at 987-0292 if they
plan to go or drive a car in
the motorcade. The cars will
be deocrated in Perry and go
first to the Nunn Atlanta
headquarters at the
Travelodge on 1-85 at the
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Perry. The Councilman said
he and Mrs. Margaret Gark
had been working
closely with Ramada Inn
officials for some time.
McKinley stated, “This
facility will be equipped with
convention facilities and
meeting rooms. Perry has
needed facilities for con
ventions for a long time and
the new Ramada Inn should
make the dream of such
facilities a reality. Ad
ditional commercial
facilities are planned in the
future on this large tract but
the first phase is to be the
construction of the Ramada
Inn.”
Councilman McKinley
further stated, “Perry
should benefit greatly by the
supplement the gas shor
tage. At a precouncil
meeting, Grey recom
mended the City build the
plant.
McKinley pointed out to
Council that the City is now
about $200,000 behind in bond
payments and sinking fund
payments and that “a
breathing spell” is needed
for the City to catch its
breath before any more big
money is spent.
McKinley said the City will
just have to gamble on the
weather and hope that
another mild winter will
come next year and hold
down on the gas con
sumption.
“We just don’t have the
money,” McKinley said.
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North Druid Hills exit. A
picnic rally will be held there
between 12 and 12:30 and the
motorcade will depart there
for the capital and Nunn’s
qualifying.
A spokesman for the Nunn
campaign said they are
seeking as many as possible
of Nunn’s supporters and
friends to join the motorcade
and rally in Atlanta,
“We want to make this a
big occasion for Sam and we
hope a good crowd will be
able to go with us to Atlan
ta,” the spokesman said.
Friends and supporters of
Nunn’s from Warner Robins
will form their motorcade at
the Enco Station on 1-75 at 10
o’clock next Tuesday
morning.
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addition of employment
opportunities for our local
people. Also the additional
revenue brought to our
merchants and to our local
city and county governments
will be boosted by this out
standing facility.”
Mrs. Margaret Clark of
Clark Realty and In
vestment, Inc., said, “I want
to express my great ap
preciation to local officials
and to other realtors for their
excellent spirit of
cooperation in making this
transaction possible. We are
proud to be realtors in Perry
and to have an apportunity to
promote our growing area.”
It is not known when
Ramada Inn will begin
construction but with the
completion of the new
facility, Perry will offer
tourists well over 1,000 motel
rooms.
City Will
Move Junked
Cars Free
Carlos Merritt, Perry
building inspector, an
nounced today that the
Perryans will have an
opportunity to get junked or
abandoned cars removed
from their property at no
cost beginning June 15.
Merritt said the City will
remove the cars, providing
the owner signs an
authorization form available
at City Hall. Merritt said
persons who want the ser
vice must sign up between
June 15 and July 15.
He said he urges anyone
with junked cars to have
them removed while the City
is offering the service free.
Casey Wants
Paving Funds
Councilman Henry Casey,
co-chairman of the City’s
street dept, with Councilman
I). K. Roughton, asked
Council Tuesday night to
allocate the street dept.
$17,500 for new paving from
a state grant coming to City
in the amount of $55,000.
Casey said he and
Roughton had been forced to
, cut some $30,000 from their
street dept, budget for new
paving and he wanted a
share of state grant to go for
paving. He said the grant
comes from a General Ap
propriations grant and will
go into the City’s general
fund for capital im
provements. He also noted
that the City will also get
$75,000 for new paving from
the county this year.
Councilmen James
McKinley and Alton Hardy
said they would go along
with Casey’s request if he
and Roughton would submit
a priority list of paving at the
next Council meeting.
Roughton and Casey said
they would.
Roughton also submitted
to Council a petition with 48
names of Old Field residents
requesting paving. Council
took the petition under
consideration.
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KELLWOOD GETS AWARD - From left, Kellwood division
manager Bill Rhodarmer, Perry plant manager Jim
Bullock, 14 year employee Mrs. Sally Loving, Sears Buyer R.
E. Williams, Stanfield Group pres. Frank Prins. Mrs. Loving
Symbol Os Excellence Award
Sears Honors Perry ’s
Kellwood Employees
The employees and
management of Perry’s
Kellwood Company were
honored Tuesday by Sears
Roebuck and Co. The Perry
plant makes softline goods
for Sears.
R.E. Williams of Chicago,
Sears national softline goods
buyer, presented a Sears
“Symbol of Excellence
plaque during a plant lun
cheon Tuesday for all the
employees held at the Perry
plant. The plaque was ac
cepted on behalf of all the
Kellwood employees by Mrs.
Sally Loving, an employee of
the plant here for the past 14
years. Mrs. living works in
the sewing dept, of Kellwood.
Also attending the lun
cheon were Mayor Dan
Britton, chamber of com
merce president Joe Poole,
Home Journal
Plans Special
Farm Edition
The Home Journal will
publish a special “Farm
Edition” on June 29. The
special issue, to be delivered
along with the regular Home
Journal, will carry a number
of stories, features and
photographs about farming
and farm operations in
Houston County and Middle
Georgia.
The Home Journal is being
assisted on the edition by
County Agent Emmett
Whelchel and the University
of Georgia Extension Ser
vice. Watch for the “Farm
Edition”, you don’t want to
miss it.
County Commissioners Alton
Tucker, Cullen Talton,
Robert Byrd, Frank Rozar,
Edward Bryant, District
Attorney Avon Buice and
other community leaders
and officials.
The award was one of 394
Sears is presenting this year
to suppliers judged most
outstanding among its 20,000
major merchandising
sources. The Perry Kellwood
plant also received the
award in 1968.
“This award is based
primarily on the excellence
of merchandise produced by
the Perry plant for Sears
during the past year,”
Williams said.
“It also recognizes the
general excellence of the
Perry employees per
formance in such matters as
shipping goods on schedule,
and intitative in developing
new and improved mer
chandise,” he added.
“This award is our salute
to those suppliers who have,
through their excellence,
made great contributions to
Sears reputation for quality
merchandise. It also
recognizes the contribution
of each employee for his
contribution to the superior
performance of the plant.”
Medusa To Expand Plant Here
Medusa Cement Company,
division of Medusa Cor
poration, today announced
plans to modernize and
expand its recently acquired
cement plant at Clinchfield,
near Ferry. A new dry
accepted the Sears “Symbol of Excellence” award on behalf
of the Kellwood employees. She is an employee of the sewing
department and one of the original Georgia Decor employees
when the plant was first started here.
Williams said the Perry
employees were selected for
the Sears “Symbol of Ex
cellence” by a committee
representing the company’s
retail stores, catalog plants,
national service department,
quality control section and
merchandise development
and testing laboratory. The
committee screened
Crossroads Named
Church Os Year
Second Time Around
The Crossroads United
Methodist Church has been
chosen as “Church of the
Year’’ in the Americas
District of the United
Methodist Church. This is
the second time during its
brief four year history that
the Crossroads Church has
been so honored. This church
process kiln will increase
clinker capacity from 2.3 to
4.0 million barrels. It is
anticipated that the ad
ditional capacity will be on
line by January 1, 1974.
The new facility will in
nominations from Sears 49
national buying depart
ments.
President of the Stanfield
Group of Kellwood Co. ex
pressed his appreciation to
the employees of the plant.
He noted that the Perry
plant is a three way
operation with the em
ployees, Sears and the strong
ties with the community of
was formally constituted as
a United Methodist Church
on June 16, 1968. In June of
1970 it was honored as
“Church of the Year” and
during the South Georgia
Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church in
Albany, Georgia this week it
will again receive this
corporate the most modem
technology available to
reduce air pollution, but
even these controls cannot
meet EPA standards 100
percent of the time and EPA
approval of the facility must
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Perry. He said Kellwood is
proud to be a good citizen of
Perry and deeply ap
preciates the spirit of
cooperation that has long
been a bind between
Kellwood and the local
community.
Plant manager Jim
Bullock served as master of
ceremonies of the luncheon.
award. The award will be
presented during the Town
and Country Banquet on
Thursday, June 8. A large
delegation from the Church
is expected to attend.
The Crossroads Church
will celebrate its fourth
anniversary this Sunday
June 11 at the 11:00 A.M.
Worship Service. The public
is cordially invited to attend
this and all other services of
the Church.
be received before it can
become operational.
This expansion is un
dertaken to meet the future
growth of construction in the
southern Georgia and nor
thern Florida markets.