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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1972
We Meed Airport
Final approval on the plans for the
expanded Perry-Fort Valley Airport
is expected in the next few weeks. The
enthusiastic project, which has been
in the works for the past several
years, will soon become a reality and
the Perry area will have one of the
most modern airport facilities in the
area.
But it’s going to take money. Back
when the Airport Authority was try
ing to get their funds together to
match federal and state grants, both
the counties of Houston and Peach
and the cities of Perry and Fort
Valley agreed to kick in SIO,OOO each
for almost one half million dollar
Big Senate Rate
The race for U.S. Senator is going to
be an interesting scramble to watch
between now and August 8, with 19
candidates seeking the seat now held
by Senator David Gambrell.
We don’t understand why many of
the candidates entered the race. It
appears to us that the only leading
candidates on the Democratic side
are the incumbent Senator Gambrell,
Sam Nunn, former Gov. Ernest
Vandiver and state treasurer Bill
Burson. The Republicans strong
contender is, of course, Congressman
O'Sullivan Leaves Perry
Dave O’Sullivan, who has been
plant manager of Continental Can
Company here since 1969, will leave
this week to take over a new plant in
Los Angeles, California. We hate to
see him leave our community. He has
been a real asset to this community,
serving as director and vice president
of the chamber of commerce and
taking an active role in numerous
civic affairs.
Dave O’Sullivan and his wife are
two of those newcomers that came
into our community when the Pabst
and Continental Can plants were
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5 YEARS AGO • The State Highway
Dept, will let a contract July 7 for
grading and paving of the Perry to
Montezuma road, a distance of 7.4
miles on Stale Route 224... The City of
Perry is taking steps to grade and
pave Tucker Road from the end of the
existing pavement to the city limits
on the east.. The dedication of Magee
Carpet Company is scheduled for next
fall.
10 YEARS AGO • Mrs. Aurelia Evans
has been named chairman of the
Perry Division of the United Givers
Fund campaign to raise 1963
operating funds for the 18 affiliated
services ... The Houston Home
Journal has won third place award in
Typography in the 1962 Georgia
Better Newspaper Contests spon
sored by the Georgia Press
project. They were happy to do it to
get the airport money and new
facilities we need so badly.
Now it is almost time to come up
with the money. The City of Perry
Council is going to have to do a little
looking around and scratching to
come up with the SIO,OOO but the
money must be found. We cannot
afford to let all the work and effort put
into our airport falter now. We need
the new runway and other facilities.
We must have them to insure the
continued progress and growth of
Perry The Council will just have to
dig up the funds from some place.
-8.8.
Fletcher Thompson.
There will no doubt be a run-off for
the Democratic nomination and many
slate wide observers now feel that
Gambrell and Perry’s Sam Nunn will
square off in a run-off. It’s no secret
that Sam Nunn’s campaign has
picked up momentum in the past
month and he is pushing hard on
Gambrell.
This will be the most interesting
race in the state this summer. Voters
certainly have a choice in this
campaign for the Senate.
-8.8.
preparing to crank off their
operations. The O’Sullivans, along
with the rest of the newcomers, have
meant a great deal to Perry, with
their interest and activity in the
community. They have made good
citizens.
It is unfortunate that we will lose
such a community leader as Dave
O’Sullivan, but we wish him well in
his new venture in Los Angeles. We
want him to know, however, he will
always be a citizen of Perry. Good
Luck, Dave.
-8.8.
Association... Perry High Basketball
coach E. P. Staples has been named
South Coach for the annual North-
South Atlanta Journal sponsored All-
Star basketball game.
20 YEARS AGO • Houston County’s
two-million dollar peach crop began
moving to market this week ... The
Horace and Mildred Shop has in
stalled air-conditioning ... Gardner
Watson Funeral Home installed air
conditioning in the chapel this week...
Union Motor Company this week
started paving the used car lot on Ball
Street.. Among the many downtown
improvements in Perry is a new coat
of paint for Johnson’s Store... Clifton
Turk and Dan Nelson will have a
formal opening of their new Gulf
Service Center on Macon Street
Saturday.
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Mrs. Anna Marie Meens, the good
natured dietitian at Perry-Houston
County Hospital, has taken a lot of
teasing during her years in this
country about her still thick Dutch
accent. Recently she had a good laugh
at some local citizens who couldn’t
read dutch and the tables were tur
ned.
Three years ago a young man from
Holland, Walter Brinks, spent two
weeks in Perry under the sponsorship
of the Perry Kiwanis Club. During
that time he made his “headquar
ters”at Flint Electric here, and
Moody Mulkey was in charge of
seeing that he enjoyed his stay. The
two became quite close during that
time, and have kept up a written
correspondence ever since.
Recently Moody received a formal
announcement from Walter - in
Dutch. Assuming that the young man
had graduated from school Mr. and
Mrs. Mulkey sent him a small cash
gift, followed by another from the
Kiwanis Club.
When he later showed the an
nouncement to Mrs. Meens and told
her about the gifts, she doubled up
with hilarious laughter.
“It’s a wedding announcement -
and you sent graduation gifts!” she
laughed. “The Dutch don’t send
graduation announcements, but send
engagement and marriage cards.”
“I got even for some of the laughs
about the way I talk,” she told me
over the phone, still tickled pink about
the whole thing. The kidding never
makes her angry, she just picks it up
and kids back.
Moody said he didn’t write an ex
planation to Walter - he’s waiting to
see what his reaction will be when he
receives his “graduation” gifts!
Reading about a shortage of cement
in booming central Florida seems like
reading about something on the other
side of the world until you go down
there and are confronted with - if
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The Houston Home Journal
Keeps Perry Citizens Informed
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you’ll pardon the pun -a concrete
example of it.
After an enjoyable but exhausting
afternoon at Walt Disney World,
Lydia and I were thankful we had a
motel reservation at Kissimmee
when many were having to drive back
as far as Daytona Beach, and we had
finished our stay there.
The East Gate Motor Inn at the
Corner of Vine and Magnolia was so
new the restaurant wasn’t open and
the pool wasn’t completed, but the
accomodations were wonderful and
the employees friendly and helpful.
We couldn’t ask for more. And we got
a lower rate too.
The manager explained that the
pool should have been finished weeks
ago - but the cement supply was still
so short that his contractor had to
keep waiting.
Newspapers in that area report that
wood is being substituted whenever
possible for cement, thereby causing
a wood shortage. Which reminds me
of Gene Brown and his plastic homes -
I should think that if the time has ever
been ripe for them it is now. I wonder
if Unico, Inc. is about ready to go into
operation? I’ll have to check with
Gene, since 1 haven’t heard from him
lately. I only know that a prototype
home was under construction at the
time of our last conversation.
Between Kissimmee and Walt
Disney World a Holiday Inn complex
will be constructed soon by John
Glenn, the first American astronaut
to circle the earth, with two partners.
Groundbreaking ceremonies were
held earlier the day we were there.
A nearly completed Howard
Johnson's is a high-rise of unusual
shape. Other chains and independent
builders are trying to build now to
grab the tourist dollars. It’s a pity
they didn’t have the foresight to do it
before Walt Disney World opened, for
whoever head of a Disney production
that wasn’t a success?
BOBBY
BRANCH
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I have worked feverishly on this week’s edition
in advance so that I can sneak away from Perry
early this week to attend the Georgia Press
Convention on Jekyll Island. I have always been
hesitant about leaving town prior to the
publication of the paper but the staff assures me it
will come off the press as usual. And I know they
are right.
To an editor, though, a newspaper is a very
personal thing, kind of like one of his children. It
has to be pampered and disciplined at the right
times and there are times in the paper’s difficult
life that the editor makes mistakes with it and
there are other times when something is done that
makes it all worthwhile.
The Home Journal has won an award (or
awards) in this year’s Georgia Press better
newspaper contests and I will pick it up at Jekyll
at the awards banquet Friday night. But whatever
the award, it will be for every member of the staff
who works so hard each week to put out the
hometown paper...l will leave town early, but the
paper will be in good hands. And it gives me a
secure feeling to know that... But I’ll still worry
about everything. That’s life in this business.
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The fountain park adjacent to the Methodist
Church has grown to be a real beauty spot in
Perry, thanks to the ladies of the Perry Garden
Club and especially Mrs. Frances Nunn, who
works in the little park about two days a week.
I would like to see the City, along with the
Chamber of Commerce, undertake a
beautification project to place more such parks
around the community. If the City initiated the
projects, some civic clubs in town might be willing
to take over a portion of the construction and
maintenance and use the parks as one of their
yearly projects. I know the City does not have the
funds on hand for such a project, but Council could
lead the way and offer the projects to clubs in
town. What about it?
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An interesting fact about the birth rate in this
country came across my desk this week. The
national birth rate plunged to its lowest level in
our history during the first quarter of this year. If
the birth rate remains at this level, or moves
lower, the country’s traditional population growth
would be reduced to zero.
The National Center for Health Statistics
reports a 1972 rate of 15.8 births per 1,000
population, which compares with a 1971 rate 17.3
per 1,000. It reports the estimated average
number of children of women of childbearing age
has dropped to about 2.14 as a result of the decline.
An average of 2.11 per woman would produce zero
population growth, the Center report estimated.
Certainly we need to bring our population under
control but the over sight in these figures and
estimates is that they do not take ino account
immigration. Since immigration, much of it
illegal, continues to pour Spanish-Americans into
the nation, especially into Florida, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California, the nation’s
population is certain to continue to grow.
As a result of this lower national birth rate, it is
very likely that we will have a considerable in
crease in the percentage of people of Latin
American extraction. Most of these immigrants
have been taught that it’s sinful to use the birth
control pill and therefore have larger than
average families, even with much lower than
average incomes.
Oh well, there’s always bad news to go along
with the good news.
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