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VOL. 101 NO. 29
Unfair Fees Charged
City Talks
Garbage Again
By Bobby Branch
Councilman Henry Casey
Tuesday night told Council a
number of businesses in
town are complaining about
their commercial garbage
fee. He said those com
plaining are small
businesses that don’t create
much garbage and they
are saying the commercial
rate is not fair. “We’ve got a
lot of garbage,” Casey said.
Herbert Drews, executive
vice pres, of the Building
Material Merchants Assoc,
of Georgia, appeared be
fore Council on the matter.
He presented a proposal to
Council on the garbage fee
concerning smaller
businesses and those that
don’t create garbage.
He recommended the
following companies be
assessed a new and lower fee
than they are now being
charged. Insurance,
realtors, associations, at
torneys, accountants,
building, plumbing and
electrical contractors,
finance and loans, and all
service organizations that do
not carry an inventory of
merchandise for sale, such
as dry cleaners, beauty
shops, doctors and dentists
be assessed a fee on the
following basis. For an
organization with two per
sons, $2.50 a month; three
persons, $5.00 monthly; four
or more persons, $7.50 a
month.
Councilman James
McKinley said he believes
Drew’s proposal is a fair one
and he urged the sanitation
dept, to give it close con
sideration. Councilman
Henry Casey said he would
study the matter right away
and make a recom
mendation before the City
sends out bills for next
months garbage fee.
Councilman Dot Houghton,
co-chairman of the
Washington Merry Go Round
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sanitation dept., said he
wasn’t having anything to do
with the matter. He said
Casey would have to handle
it. He stated that he was
opposed to the fee from the
City Seeks Aid
From County
By Mlaxine Thompson
D. K. Houghton, Perry
City Councilman on the
public works committee, and
Ed Warren, street
superintendent for the City
of Perry, asked Houston
County Commissioners
Tuesday for the use of county
trucks for two days on city
streets.
Houghton also requested
assistance in getting the
right of way cleared on a new
street from the new water
treatment plant, to run
across Valley Drive. He said
the street will be about 3700
feet long, with a 12 inch
water main.
Commissioners agreed to
grant the request, and
suggested that the men work
out a mutually agreeable
time for the work with
Warden Allen Stone of the
Houston County Correctional
Institution.
In other action involving
the City of Perry, com
missioners noted that the
county had voted to grant the
Airport Authority $30,000,
and that Mayor John Barton
had requested payment of
SIO,OOO of that amount at this
time. Authorization for
payment was made.
Warden Allen Stone
reported that the Houston
County Correctional In
stitution has a total of 51
to begin publishing a special
weekly column of the Jack
Anderson “Washington
Merry Go Round.” Anderson
is the 1972 Pulitzer Prize
Winner for investigative
reporting and has become
one of the most popular and
controversial newspaper
men of all time with his
revealing column that tells
all about the federal
government in Washington.
Branch said, ‘i am very
proud that we have been able
to get the Jack Anderson
column and at the same time
we are initiating a new op
posite editorial page in the
newspaper that will be
headlined with the Anderson
column. It is another step in
our long range plans to
continuously improve and
offer our readers and ad
vertisers a better com
munity newspaper.”
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beginning and that he was
not now going to get involved
with setting other fees ...
“This was shoved down my
throat and now I’m giving it
back,” he said.
inmates at present, 31 of
whom are felons.
His grading crew graded
on Watergate Road, cleared
Connie and started
grading it. Johnson Road
will be their next project.
They graded and installed
pipes on a street off
Woodland Drive.
The shotgun crew burned
right-of-way on Watergate
Road, cleared Connie Lane,
and filled washes and built
slopes on Green Street.
The base and truck crew
mixed and set up base on
Houston Road and streets off
Nelson Road. They hauled
dirt to Centerville
Recreation Park and did
other small projects in
cluding covering pipes.
The paving crew patched
and paved the road and some
driveways on Houston I>ake
Road, paved a street off
Nelson Drive and Houston
Road in front of Zayers.
The work camp hauled 243
loads of dirt to Centerville
Recreation Park.
Crews installed pipe, in
cluding 20 feet of 12 inch and
832 feet of 15-inch.
Warden Stone helped to
evaluate the Macon County
Correctional Institution on
June 13, and on June 14 at
tended the Middle Georgia
Area Planning Meeting.
On June 15 he carried a ball
team to Upson County. While
he was there, Warden
Hancock showed him his
landfill and garbage
operation, and Stone
suggested to commissioners
that their method of
operation would appear to be
what Houston County needs.
■it's a one-man operation,
with 53 dumpsters set out
over the county and one
truck. The area around each
dumpster was clean as a pin.
The dumpster lids are so
light weight a lady can lift
them easily,” Stone said.
• They placed them in
places like a road in
tersection, and just right so
people could drive off the
road right up next to them.
Most of the women who use
them just get out of their
cars with their plastic bags
full of garbage and drop
them in with no trouble.”
He said he would for
our commissioners to go look
at the operation. They ex
pressed interest and
discussed the operation.
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U.S. Senatorial candidate Sam Nunn of Perry and Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox toured the Harvest Festival Jubilee parade
and a crowd of 5,000 in tandem Saturday on a two-seated
bicycle. Nunn aide Gil Hargett was pedaling Nunn down the
parade route, when they passed by the handshaking Maddox.
The lieutenant governor bumped Hargett to the delight of
Mayor, Councilmen Disagree
City Council Hassles Over
Building Inspector’s Salary
By Hobby Branch
City Council got into a little
hassle Tuesday night over
whether or not the City
should designate the building
inspector, Carlos Merritte,
as secretary to the Planning
and Zoning board at a salary
of $25 a month to take the
place of city clerk Mrs. Ruth
Bunting.
The friendly hassle began
when Mayor John Barton
pointed out that Mrs. Bun
ting was paid only $1.42 for
taking minutes at the last
planning and zoning meeting
and he said that it was his
opinion that she should be
paid more. Councilman D. K.
Houghton asked what her
hourly rate for covering the
meetings is and the Mayor
told him $2,00 an hour
Barton said the planning and
zoning commission
recommended she be paid
$25 per month for her ser
vice.
At that point, Councilman
James McKinley took the
floor and said that some
neighboring cities designate
the building inspector to
attend the meetings and
serve as the secretary.
McKinley said that Perry's
building inspector
'Merritte i was hired 18
months ago at $6,000 a year
and at that time was
promised in 12 months he
would get a SI,OOO a year
raise. McKinley said
because of the President's
wage freeze, Merritte got
only a 5 percent increase
along with the other city
employees. McKinley
proposed that Merritte be
given the job as secretary to
the planning and zoning
commission and be paid a
salary of $25 a month over
and above his present salary
to compensate him for the
promised salary that he
never received McKinley
further said that the promise
was made to Merritte by
someone on the Council at
present but he would not
name names at that time.
McKinley’s motion to give
Merritte the job then came to
vote and Councilmen
McKinley, Dot Houghton and
11.11. Hackworth voted for
the motion and Councilmen
Alton Hardy, Dan Britton
and Henry Casey voted
against it throwing the
motion into a tie and giving
Mayor Barton the deciding
vote The Mayor cast his
vote against the r "'tion and
Merritte wasn’t named
secretary of the planning
and zoning commission.
At that McKinley took the
floor again and told Mayor
Barton that he (Barton)
was the man who promised
Merritte the SI,OOO raise 18
months ago when he was
hired. Barton then
responded by telling
McKinley that he didn’t
U.S. Senate candidate Nunn and took the lead seat. After
circling the parade route several times, Maddox dropped off
Nunn in the crowd for some handshaking and gave several
other candidates equal time on the back seat. The jettisoned
Hargett was favored with the last Maddox tour.
believe McKinley’s
statement could be proven.
Barton said he didn’t think
he had ever promised
anyone such a thing and said
he didn’t recall it at all. At
that point, Councilman Dot
Houghton broke in and told
the Mayor he was almost
positive Barton was the one
who promised Merritte the
raise. Barton said he had
told Merritte he needed a
raise but that he had never
promised him any specific
amount as was charged.
There was no further
discussion at that time on the
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Perry Mayor John Barton (left) and Warner Robins Mayor Homer J.
Walker got together for chat Monday afternoon prior, to a meeting with Ellis
MacDougall on the location of state work release center for prisoners here.
Barton has just taken office in Perry and Walker is running for re-election in
Warner Robins.
matter
in the meeting, the
hassle boiled back up again
when Councilman Dot
Houghton made a motion
that all department heads in
the City be required to attend
all Council meetings. His
motion passed with only
Councilman Dan Britton
voting against it. At that
point, Councilman H. H.
Hackworth came up with a
motion that all depart
rnentheads be paid $25 a
month extra for attending
the meetings. Councilman
Houghton pointed out that
Street and Gas Supt. Edward
Warren and City Clerk Mrs.
Hath Bunting are already
being paid (25 a month to
attend the meetings. He
asked that they not be raised
an additional $25 a month.
Hackworth’s motion carried
with the exception of a
descending vote by Coun
cilman Britton.
In the end, building in
spector Carlos Merritte got
his $25 a month and he is
usually at attendance at all
Council meetings, anyway.
The only department head
not present Tuesday night
was the Chief of Police.