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VOL. No. 101 NO. 27
Stolen Safe Recovered
Burglaries Plague
Perry Police Dept.
The Perry Police
Department has in
vestigated numerous break
ins and attempted break-ins
during the past week, and
recovered a safe stolen June
17 from the Top Dollar Store.
Patrolman Kermit
Beasley investigated rear
entrances of stores in the
Kastgate Shopping Center at
148 a.m. July 1, where locks
were fourtd boken off the
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July 7, so that employees can
have a holiday. The Home
Journal was open all day
Tuesday, July Fourth, so
that the newspaper could be
published on schedule this
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Eastern Star.
Perry Saddle Club Horse Show will be held on
Sunday, July 16 at 1 p.m. and is sponsored by The
Perry Rainbow Assembly No. 51
Newcomers Club will meet Thursday night,
July 6, at the Security Federal community room.
Speaker will be Elwyn McKinney, executive
director of the Perry Area Chamber of Com
merce, who will update members on the new
things happening in Perry and on the things
planned for the future.
There will be a Bingo and Buffet at the Houston
Lake Country Club Friday, July 7th for members
and guests.
Tourists Like Perry
;j:j: The Home Journal surveyed a sampling of
tourists the other night at several local motels in
ft an effort to get their reactions about Perry. Those
surveyed were all tourists who have stayed in
Perry before on their way south or back north and
•$ home.
The question asked the tourists was this: “Why
$ have you chosen Perry as a stopping place on your
| trip?”
Mr. E. R. Hannah, Cleveland, Ohio - “My wife
and I have stayed in Perry on many occasions. We
like the facilities here and the restaurants are
unusually good and they are not tourist robbers
like so many places we have stopped in from
ijij Florida to Ohio.”
Mr. R. Johnson Stevenson, Wayne, Michigan—
jx “We like to eat at the New Perry Hotel and the
town has always been friendly and clean looking.
You don’t feel too much like a tourist here.”
Mrs. J. R. Thornton, Fort Wayne, Indiana
% “We like to make Perry about dark on the way we
xj travel and get up early the next morning and drive
% straight through to our place at Ormond Beach,
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back doors at Piggly Wiggly
and Elliott’s. A side window
was broken at Sears.
At 8:15 the same morning,
Pt. Beasley was walking
around in the woods behind
the shopping center in an
attempt to locate the object
used for breaking the locks
when he found the Top
Dollar safe, which had been
virtually destroyed in being
opened. Approximately SSOO
was reported taken with the
safe.
A wheelbarrow and a
cardboard box were found
near the safe, and police
speculated that the safe had
been carted to the location in
the wheelbarrow with the
box turned down over it.
Investigation is continuing
on the matter.
On June 28, someone broke
into the back door of the
Perry Factory Outlet, rolled
the safe out the back door,
broke the safe open there,
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and took approximatey S2OO.
There was attempted
break-ins reported at George
C. Nunn and Son on June 29
and at Thrifty Foods on June
20.
On July 1, Rodgers Garage
reported a break-in but
nothing missing. On the
same date, James Dinkins
reported that someone threw
a brick through a window of
his automobile
On July 2, Howard Moll of
Pine Castle Apartments
reported a stolen tape
player. Also on that date, the
Perry Drive-In Theater
reported the theft of a tape
player, 10 tapes, ap
proximately 25 candy bars
an 112I 1 2 cartons of cigarettes.
Robert Ogles reported on
July 3 the theft of three
Social Security checks, in
amounts of $172.40, S7O and
S4O.
ACCIDENTS
Patrolman Kermit
Beasley investigated three
accidents in Perry on July 1.
An accident on Carroll
Street involved a 1966
Chevrolet driven by Cara
Turner Peavy, Rt. 1 Elko; a
1972 Honda driven by Willie
Frank Dwight, 1411 Swift St.
Perry; and a 1965 Chevrolet
owned by George Felton,
2417 Claton St., Macon, that
was parked.
The Peavy woman stated
that she was following a
truck, that when the truck
stopped her husband opened
the door on the right side and
started to get out when the
honda came up beside the
car and hit its door, bounced
off. and hit the parked Felton
automobile.
Two vehicles backing out
of parking spaces at the
same time ran together on
Jernigan Street. Involved
were a 1962 Chevrolet driven
by Debra Angela Bonnei,
Westwood Trailer Park, and
Henry George Andel, Rt. 2,
Florida.”
Mr. Robert N. Thomas, Pittsburgh, Penn.—
“You don’t have to worry about tourists traps in
Perry. Every place I’ve been here treats tourists
like home folks and you don’t have to worry about g
getting clipped. I wouldn’t mind living here
mainly because it is a clean town and the air *:•;
doesn’t stink like it does in Pittsburgh,”
Sol Cohen, Miami, Florida “I have to make
several trips up this way each year and I know I
can depand on getting a good meal and room in #
Perry ... You know what I mean?”
Joe Russell, Atlanta, Ga. “I travel Georgia :£
and 3 other states selling. I’ve got a lot of calls in :£
this area and I like to stay here because this motel
gives a break to the traveling man and the $:
location is just right for me.”
Perry is indeed a favorite stop for tourists and
the reasons they give are gratifying ones for the :£
tourist industry here. Tourism continues to be :£
Perry’s number one industry and it appears
Perryans have the know how and right attitude g
towards tourism that will insure an increasing
tourist economy to the community.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1972
Perry.
On Commerce Street,
Norman Thomas Tomlinson,
708 Ball Street, stopped at a
curb in a 1966 Plymouth to
mail a letter, then pulled out
to make a right turn, hitting
a 1970 Plymouth driven by
Ernest Benfus, Route 2,
Perry, who was also making
a right turn.
Perry Sets
Nunn Rally
Houston County friends
and supporters of Perry U.S.
Senatorial candidate Sam
Nunn are planning a fund
raising breakfast rally for
the candidate here on August
7, the day before the
primaries.
Ervin Goodroe, chairman
fur the breakfast rally here,
said his committee hopes to
sell 1,000 tickets to the
breakfast for $5 per ticket.
He said the breakfasts will
be held at the Holiday Inn
and the New Perry Hotel
here and that both Nunn and
his wife, Colleen, will appear
at both of the rallies.
Goodroe said, “We want to
show Sam Nunn that Perry is
really behind him and give
him a real boost the day
before the primary. We feel
we can easily sell the tickets
and we will be calling on
supporters and friends all
over the community to sell
them a ticket to the rally.”
Tickets for the rally will be
sold by individuals and will
be on sale at the Sam Nunn
state headquarters here on
Main Street. For further
information, interested
persons can call the
headquarters at 987-0292.
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Radio Operator Pete Henderson and Asst. Chief
Roy Shellnut of the Perry Police Department
14-Year Old David Shelnutt
Fund Set Up Here To
Aid Injured Perry Boy
The David Shelnutt Fund
has been established at The
Bank of Ferry to accept
contributions to help defray
medical expenses of a local
youth who was seriously
injured while working at his
summer farm job.
David, age 14, is the son of
Mrs. Mary Wilson and the
grandson of Hev. and Mrs.
George R. Hunt, of Hunt
Road, Kathleen. He is in the
intensive care unit at the
Medical Center of Georgia in
Macon and is unconscious
and partially paralyzed.
He was working for his
grandfather, who asked him
Local Realtors To Study
Housing Needs In Perry
Ferry realtors Hazel
Mitchell, Glen Van Fossen
and Richard Goodroe have
been appointed by the Ferry
Board of Realtors to study
the residential and industrial
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to check to see that the gates
were closed to a pasture
where cows had just been
moved. David put on his
helmet and rode his Yamaha
motorcycle to the pasture
and was on the way back
when he evidently hit rough
ground and was thrown to
the ground. He landed on his
face, suffering a hairline
skull fracture and ver
terbrae and spinal cord
damage in his back.
“He wasn’t stunt riding or
anything like that,” Rev.
Hunt said. “He was working
on a regular job for me and
doing a good job of it. Doc
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housing needs of Perry.
Billy Clark, president of
the Ferry Board of Realtors,
said the study is being made
at the request of the Ferry
Area Chamber of Com
merce.
inspect the damaged safe recovered by
Patrolman Hermit Beasley after it was stolen
from the Top Dollar Store here.
tors give us some hope that
David will talk again, but not
much hope that he’ll ever
walk. All of us appreciate the
wonderful people who have
helped with their prayers
and with their contributions
toward expenses.”
IwheresTheFire?
PERKY FIRE DEPT.
987-1212
The Perry Fire Dept,
answered two calls on June
30. An automobile ran hot on
Northside Drive, but no fire
resulted. A grease fire in the
oven at the Freeman Grace
residence on Creekwood
Drive was out on arrival.
Mrs. Grace had thrown
handfuls of banking soda on
the grease, extinguishing the
fire, a procedure recom
mended by fire and safety
experts for kitchen fires.
On July 3, the department
put out a fire in the mobile
home of Kim Mullins at
Westwood Trailer Park. Fire
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David was a student at
Perry Junior High School
last year, and would be a
high school student next fall.
Contributions may be
addressed in the name of
David Shelnutt to The Bank
of Ferry.
started from a clothes dryer
and did considerable
damage.
COUNTY FIRE DEPT.
923-1144
Centerville
DIST 1- The Centerville
Fire Dept, answered calls to
two grass fires during the
past week, and a car fire on
June 2G, On July 2, they
answered a call to the for
mer Top Hat restaurant
which had caught fire a short
time ago. This time it was
completely destroyed by
fire.
Bonaire-Kathleen
DIST 2 - No action.
Hayneville-Grovania
DIST. 3 - No action.