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Col. 1. B. Schoenburz (left) presents a 30 year certificate and pin to Joe 11.
Smith of Perry for thirty years of government service. Mr. Smith is employed
in the Helicopter and Utility Aircraft Division at Robins Air Force Base. Mr.
Smith, his wife and children, Greg and Gwen reside at 544 Linden Street in
Perry.
County To Print Maps
If the cast isn't too great,
Houston County Com
missioners decided Monday
night, they will go ahead
immediately with the
preparation of new county
maps, perhaps printed on
colored paper with a multi
color format.
According to figures ob
tained by Roy H. Watson,
clerk of the coiiunissioners,
the cost of maps with one
color ink would be about S7OO
for 10,000. Commissioners
instructed Watson to work
toward completion of the
Where Is The inflation?
Houston Counflans
Living The Good Life
There is more good-living today in Houston
County than there was ten years ago.
Despite inflation, higher taxes, unemployment
and the other economic pressures and un
certainties of recent years, most families in the
local area have managed to upgrade their stan
dard of living.
Evidence of it is to be seen in the greater
number of cars owned by local residents as well as
in the array of air conditioners, dishwashers,
clothes dryers, blenders and other household
gadets and conveniences that are to be found in
homes in the area.
The number of local households that are
equipped with such appliances has increased
considerably since 1960.
The findings are based upon a survey of
household ownership of durables, conducted in
each section of the country by the Department of
Commerce, and upon data from other sources.
One indicator of the more expansive living is the
rise in the number of two-car families. The figures
indicate that approximately 38.1 percent of the
households in Houston County now have two or
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1972
map and to get estimates on
the multi-color maps.
Watson told com
missioners Uial 15,000 such
maps obtained by the
Warner Robins Chamber of
Commerce had lasted just
about one year
Lamar Brown, postal
survey official for the
county, is working with
Watson to determine the
roads in the county which do
not have names and roads
with duplicate names, so
that necessary corrections
can be made before the map
is printed. According to
Brown, the information
should be available by next
week
Watson also told com
missioners that both city and
county maps will l>e marked
off with "grids'' to facilitate
the location of streets.
The present proposal is
that the county map will be
printed on one side and the
three city maps on the other
side of a single sheet. What
Watson described as “some
fancy art work ' will be on
the face of the multi-fold
map.
more cars, as compared with 25.4 percent in 1960.
Throughout the United States as a whole, 32.5
percent are two-car owners and. in the Southern
States, 31.5 percent.
The proportion of homes in the regional area
equipped with food freezers or refrigerators is
also at a high level. Some 85.9 percent of the
families now own them, it is estimated.
Similarly, television sets have become standard
equipment in the majority of homes. Many of
them have color sets as well as black and white
units.
As of last year, 96-0 percent of Houston County'
households had television sets as compared with
85.7 percent in 1960.
Marked increases are also reported in the
number of dishwashers, clothes dryers and hi-fi
units that have been acquired by the public in
recent years.
Rising incomes, over and above the heavy
carrying load caused by the increased cost of
living, have brought these and other conveniences
within the grasp of a growing number of local
families.
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New 1972-73 officers of the General Daniel Stewart Chapter
of the DAR are: seated, Mrs. David Hulbert, Ist vice regent;
Mrs. Heyward Boyette, New Regent; Mrs. Leon Green, 2nd
vice regent. Standing, Mrs. Stewart Bloodworth,
Whopping $10,224,643
Board Adopts Budget
A budget of $10,224,943 for
the 1972-73 school year was
approved by the Houston
County Board of Education
Tuesday This is $1,019,534
more than the budget for
1971-72.
Board members said they
may have to ask for a tax
increase of about 1.5 mills to
bring in some $290,000 more
in local funds this year than
they received last year.
In order to accomplish
this, board members would
probably have to ask the
county commissioners to
levy 18'mills for schools,
17*2 for maintenance and
operation and one mill for
bond retirement.
Supt. David A. Perdue said
that until Joyce B. Griffin,
Houston County lax com
missioner completes the 1972
tax digest around July 1 the
board can not finalize its
request for additional taxes.
A request that the student
bodies of Watson Elemen
tary School and Pearl
Stephens Elementary School
be combined and that Pearl
Stephens be phased out was
presented by five residents
of the Jefferson Hills area in
Warner Robins. John
I angdale, Mrs. Louise
Kiser, Mrs. Reba Dickson,
Mrs Essie Nasworthy and
Mrs. Barbara Walker said
there are empty classrooms
at Pearl Stephens school and
they couldn't understand
why more white children
from nearby areas couldn't
be transferred to the
school to form a better ratio
of white to black students
there
School board attorneys
David Hulbert and Tom
Daniel were present at the
meeting, and Hulbert ex
plained the court orders that
had led to the present zoning
Methodists
Get Pastor
Rev. Elick S. Bullington,
Jr,, the new pastor of the
United Methodist Church of
Perry, will preach at the
morning and evening wor
ship services next Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Bullington comes
to the Perry Church from the
Pittman Park Methodist
Church in Statesboro where
he had served four years.
A native of Macon, Ga. this
minister attended Mercer
University, graduated from
Emory University with an
AB degree, and received his
Bachelor of Divinity degree
from Yale University.
The churches he has
served are Liberty Church,
Macon, 1951-62; Swainsboro
First, 1963-68; and Pittman
Park, Statesboro, 1968-72.
Rev. Mr, Bullington is
married to the former
Margaret Traynham of
Macon. They have three
children, Steve, Sue, and
Louise. Steve will enter
Emory at Oxford this fall.
Sue will enter the eleventh
grade in high school, and
Louise will be in the seventh
grade at junior high.
The family will move to
Perry Thursday and occupy
the parsonage.
Police Seek Burglars, Vandals
Donald Gidney told Perry
police that two guns were
stolen from his truck, a 94
Winchester 30-30 and a .22
calibre Remington
H A Jackson of Elkin
Street reported that three
mail boxes were blown up
the night of June 8. his own
and those of two neighbors.
Howard Vaughn reported
that someone stole the tag off
his automobile while it was
parked at the Winn-Dixie
Store in Grant Plaza here.
The Pulaski County tag
number is CCU-501.
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Lewis B. Smyth, recording
secretary; Miss' Florine Rainey, registrar; Miss Ailline
Kyals, chaplain; and Mrs. W. B. Evans, treasurer. Not
pictured are Mrs. Paschal Muse, historian and Mrs. Allen
Pritchett Jr., librarian.
in the county. He explained
that there could be no
crossing zone lines except
for genuine hardship cases.
Board members said they
would consider the
possibility of using only one
school after fall registration
showed where the students
actually live. Urban renewal
is resulting in many shifts in
residential areas in Warner
Robins.
Mrs. Kiser said she sent
her children to a private
school rather than to Pearl
Stephens, and that “ from
what I hear a lot more
children from there will be in
private school next year if
something isn’t done.”
Dr. W. (i. Tolbert, board
member, said he felt parents
should keep their children in
the public schools and “get
in there and help the grade
$42,000 COST
Board Votes To Construct
Seats At Perry High Field
The Houston County Board
of Education voted Tuesday
to construct permanent seats
at the Perry High School
athletic field, using about
$42,000 in construction funds
from an available $66,000.
Board member Glenn
Heck suggested that the
remaining $24,000 be used to
construct a band room for
Perry High School, after
first saying he would rather
see a band room built ahead
of the seating. Supt. David A.
Perdue said that an
adequate band department -
including room for storage of
instruments and a band
library - could not be con
structed for that amount.
Heck was adamant in his
request for better band
Honny Harlow of Tara
Apartments reported that a
camera valued at $97 was
stolen from his apartment
while he was on vacation.
Both drivers involved in an
accident at the corner of
Washington and Commerce
Streets Tuesday morning
claimed to have the green
light, according to police
records. Dorothy Brown,
Route 1 Elko, was driving a
1964 Chevrolet sedan south
on Commerce Street and
Henry Alonzo Casey, Jr., 910
Godfrey Place, was driving a
1972 Ford sedan north on
mothers and PTA to make
improvements and be good
influences.” Mrs. Kiser
reminded him there are no
PTA’s in the county schools.
Mention was made to the
fact that each child who goes
to private school takes $3.00
a day from public school
funds received, and officials
claimed this is more than the
amount of taxes paid by
parents who have children in
private schools.
Chairman Neil Hollomon
said that new zoning maps
arc tentative now and may
be changed in the fall,
because of population shifts.
“We have to do the best we
can - somebody always gets
hurt in a situation when the
federal government says
you have to do something,”
he said
After the five left the board
facilities. “1 understand that
in the tin building they’re
using the Sousaphone
players can’t even stand
without touching the
ceiling," he said. Over a
period of several meetings
he has triea to get facilities
for band students and those
who favored literary pur
suits that would be equal to
those in the athletic field, but
his requests have been either
ignored or refuted by the
other board members.
Board members agreed at
the meeting to get an
estimate on the cost of a
band room.
A proposal to air condition
the Perry High School
lunchroom, which is being
enlarged, was postponed.
Washington Street when the
accident occurred. No
charges were made by in
vestigating officers,
Patrolman Kermit Beasley
and Cpl. Mac McCuan.
Sgt. Pat Padgett in
vestigated a Honda and
automobile accident
Saturday in which Susan
Belflower suffered a broken
leg, Martin L. Mosteller,
713 Washington Street, told
Sgt. Padgett he stopped at a
stop sign in the 1967
Chevrolet he was driving
and did not see the 1971
room, a delegation of two
persons, Mrs. Vivian Traylor
and Mrs. C. G. Pavick told
board members they are
satisfied with the education
their children are receiving
at Pearl Stephens and
Watson Elementary Schools
and at Rumble Junior High
School.
They said that the others in
the first delegation did not
speak for them; that they
are both Catholic and could
send their children to the
Catholic school but prefer
the well-rounded education
they get in public school.
“I have an opportunity to
move to another area,” Mrs.
Traylor said, “but my
children are getting a good
education where they are,
and have such good
teachers, that we prefer to
stay where we are.”
Supt. Perdue said the air
conditioning was considered
because doing it during
construction is more
economical than at a future
time.
“The library there will be
air conditioned in the con
tract for enlargement,"
Perdue said. “Everything
eventually will be air con
ditioned, and the time to do it
is when construction is going
on.”
Heck also reminded
members that the ROTC
students at Perry High
School have poor facilities
and no place for storage of
rifles and equipment. There
was no comment by other
members on this ob
servation.
Honda 750 driven by Tommy
L. Jones, 830 Carriage Drive,
Asst. Chief Roy Shellnut
and Ptl. Gene Langston
investigated an accident
Sunday on Macon and Swift
Streets. Leonard M. Tucker,
2795 Barrett Avenue, Macon,
was stopped at the traffic
light on Macon Street in a
1966 Ford Fairlane. Tom M
Scott, 108-E Tara Apart
ments, Perry, failed to see
the vehicle stop in time and
ran into it with the 1965
Dodge he operated. Dorothy
C. Tucker, passenger in the
Ford, was injured.