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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 Jack Anderson Column Begins Home Journal Publisher Bobby Branch announced this week that the newspaper has signed a contract with United Features Syndicate w » Jack Anderson ★★★★★★* i The Houston Home Journal The Perry Area’s Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years 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.” *★★★★★★★ PAGE 1-A 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. Want Ads Get The Job Done 987-1823 PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1972 3 SECTIONS 34 PAGES w WwPm 1 " PBwp ' Perry Senatorial Candidate Gets Ride From Lester # 0 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 ,^^^^^H^^B^EBh|S&' ; f*y d- f "; '\j /l HH \ jlb h[[ i , 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.