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VOL. 101 NO. 26
295 Rural Accidents In A Year
State Patrol Reveals
High Hazard Roads
In Houston County
Through June 15 of this
year there have been 295
traffic accidents in rural
Houston County alone,
resulting in 100 injuries and
15 fatalities.
Most automobile accidents
in this county occur on
Fridays and Saturdays, with
Hospital Dumps $5,867
A total of $5867.20 was
written off as uncollected
during the month of May,
1972 by the Perry-Houston
County Hospital. These
figures were released
Monday night at the monthly
meeting of the Houston
County Hospital Authority.
The meeting which was held
in Perry, was given figures
by finance chairman Billy
Beckham showing $3764.25 in
profit and loss as uncollected
in in-patient care. $1727.00 in
indigent care and $60.00 in
indigent medicare was
uncollected.
In outpatient care, $282.45
Home Journal Publisher Bobby Branch and
Sports Editor Phil Byrd place second place state
sports coverage award on wall with other Home
Houston Countians Are Richer Than They May Think
How well off are Houston County residents
financially? Are they richer than they think?
Taking into account the cash savings of the
average local family, together with the equity in
its home, its car, personal property, furniture,
insurance, pension reserves and other assets,
what is its net worth?
A family balance sheet, with assets listed in one
column and liabilities in another, may provide
a pleasant surprise, since most people have never
taken stock of how much they have acquired over
the years.
The Houston Home Journal
The Perry Area's Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years
peak accident periods bet
ween 7 and 9 o'clock in the
morning and between 2 and 5
in the afternoon.
Sgt. Johnny Moreland,
head of the Perry Post 15 of
the Georgia State Patrol,
compiled these figures while
making a survey to deter
mine when and where
was written off as un
collected in profit and loss.
$33.50 in digent care was also
written of.
The total for the two
hospitals Perry and Warner
Robins, for the month of May
was $22,258.10 written off. Os
this sum, $16,918.78 was
turned over to the credit
bureau for collection. Mr
Myron McDonald, hospital
administrator in Warner
Robins said that ap
proximately 38 percent in
gross was being collected by
the bureau. He said this
compares favorably with
area hospitals.
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concentrated traffic en
forcement was needed.
The largest number of
accidents occurred on
Georgia 247 in the main
stretch in front of Robins Air
Force Base. There were 86
accidents here, plus another
25 on the Highway 247
Connector, which is a con
tinuation of Watson
Boulevard running toward
Centerville.
None of these figures
reflect any city accidents,
only those outside the
municipalities, worked by
State Patrolmen.
Second highest on the
accident list is Interstate 75
with 38, and third highest
was U. S. 41 with 36.
During the peak accident
periods this year, 21 ac
cidents occurred between 7
and 8 a.m. and 11 between 8
and 9 a.m. In the afternoons,
there were 24 accidents
between 2 and 3; 20 between
3 and 4; and 30 between 4 and
5.
More than half of the total
number of accidents, 153 of
them, occurred between 2
and 9 p.m. Four fatalities
Journal Georgia Press awards won in the past.
The Home Journal sports pages were cited for
excellence by a panel of judges from the South
Carolina Press Association.
Some guidance in this direction is available
now, based upon local figures and upon national
studies made by the Federal Reserve Board and
others.
They show, as would be expected, that there is a
direct relationship between a family’s average
earnings and its net worth. Those in the high in
come brackets have assets equal to several times
their annual income while those with modest
incomes have accumulated proportionately less.
Applying the national yardstick to Houston
County and to the earnings levels in the area, the
PERRY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1972 32 PAGES
occurred between 8 and 9
a.m., and four more oc
curred between 11 p.m. and
midnight.
Cpl. John W. Wright and
pi. W. D. Blackstock made a
chart with clock-like circles
indicating 24 hours each, one
for each day of the week, and
when an accident occurs pins
are used to indicate the day
of the week and the time on
the chart. Fins are also used
to mark the location on the
adjacent wall map.
White pins indicate
property damage only; blue
pins show injury; and red
pins indicate fatalities..
“Our main concern is for
speeding, running stop signs,
and failure to grant right of
way,” Sgt. Moreland said.
“We are making a special
effort to eliminate as much
of this as possible..
“A policy referred to as
selective enforcement is
being initiated on the basis of
this study. We will con
centrate on areas where the
most accidents are hap
pening at the times when the
most accidents are hap
pening.”
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Sgt. Johnny Moreland, head of the State Patrol
post in Perry that covers six counties, stands by a
wall map of his area. To the left of it, circles
divided into 24-hour segments representing
At Georgia Press Convention
Home Journal Wins
Award For Local Sports
The Home Journal sports
pages were recognized for
excellence at the 86th annual
convention of the Georgia
Press Association in the
Georgia better newspaper
contest.
The Home Journal won
second place in the state for
local sports coverage during
1971 for Georgia weekly
newspapers. The first place
award went to The Newnan
Times Herald of Newnan,
Ga.
Judges in the newspaper
contests made these com
ments about The Home
Journal sports pages:
“Sports seem to be one of the
vital organs of The Houston
Home Journal and they do a
very fine job with local
sports coverage. We
examined a few issues and
we saw enough to know that
this newspaper captures
readership with a very well
done sports section. A good
indicated net worth of the average local family
comes to approximately $19,500.
The figures apply to the so-called average
family. Lumped together are all age groups - the
older ones, who have been adding to their assets
over the years, as well as the younger ones, who
are on the way up
For typical families in specific brackets, the
estimates are as follows: Those with after-tax
incomes of $6,000 to SB,OOO, a net worth ranging
from about $13,000 to SIB,OOO, those with $9,000 to
$12,000, from $21,000 to $38,000, and those in the
job.”
The Home Journal sports
pages are written, prepared
and edited by sports editor
Phil Byrd each week. Byrd is
assisting during football and
basketball season by ad
vertising manager Joe Hiett
with the sports coverage.
Home Journal Publisher
and editor Bobby Branch
said, ‘‘l am very pleased and
gratified that our sports
pages have been recognized
for their excellence. Our
staff, especially Phil Byrd,
works very hard to cover
local sports. It is indeed an
honor.”
Branch added, “We have
found that our readers in the
Perry area are interested in
sports and that hundreds of
people and families are
involved in local sporting
events. That is why we try so
hard to provide com
prehensive local sports
every day of the week are shown. Pins on the map
show where accidents occurred; on the circles
they show the day and time of each accident. Both
represent the year to date.
coverage and will continue to
do so in the future.”
The Home Journal has
been cited in recent years for
other GPA awards honors
such as local news coverage,
editorial page, typography
Talton To Resign
Commission Post
Cullen Talton, Houston
County commissioner, has
announced that he will
resign as commissioner
August 1. Talton is running
for sheriff in the August 8
Democratic primary.
He said he selected August
1 as the effective date of his
resignation so the county
ordinary can call a special
election to choose his suc
cessor at the same time as
$15,000 to $20,000 bracket, assets ranging from
$68,000 to more than $140,000.
For the entire Houston County population, on
this basis, the total net worth is approximately
$360,700,000.
On the plus side is the market value of all real
estate, business interests, bank deposits, jewelry,
household furnishings, clothing, appliances and
other property.
Deducted from it to arrive at net worth are
mortgages, installment debt, medical bills, bank
loans and all other obligations.
and general excellence.
year The Home Journal was
named a National Blue
Ribbon Newspaper by the
National Kditorial Foun
dation of Washington D.C.
the general election in
November. This will avoid
the expense of having
another election at a dif
ferent time.
Talton has served six
years as a county com
missioner and was chairman
one year. In the race for
sheriff he will oppose Sheriff
Albert Hudson, who is ser
ving his eighth year in that
position.