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Vol. 101 No. 30
ACTION LINE
m 987-1823
Write P.O. Drawer M
Perry, Georgia, 31069
Our church group would like to open a clothes
bank for anyone who needs them. The generosity
of people in donating clothing and other articles
has been gratifying, but we have been unable to
locate a rent-free building for storage and
distribution. Can Action Line help? We’re giving a
name, address and phone number in case any of
your readers can help.
Mrs. R. F. Lowe
1219 Sunset Ave., Perry
Phone 987-1804
Action Line is printing your request and adding
our appeal to anyone who can help with this
worthwhile project to contact your represen
tative. Good Luck.
Instead of Perry getting so many more ham
burger places - we’ve heard another one besides
the new MacDonald’s is coming why don’t we get
a pizza place? It would probably get more
business than another hamburger place.
D. J. Perry
Since we live in a free enterprise system D. J.,
people who operate different kinds of hamburger
places often build close together in good business
spots and depend on good advertising and word-of
mouth to try to get the most customers. Action
Line would like to have a pizza place here, too, but
it’s up to some individual to either build an in
dependent one or get a franchise from a chain,
and we haven’t heard of anyone who is working on
that. Maybe if folks let us know their reaction to
the idea of a pizza place here and enough were
interested, the right person would build one.
I’ve heard that plastics are not suitable for
sanitary landfills such as we have in Houston
County because they aren’t biodegradable. Is this
true?
M.H. Perry
Not true. As a matter of fact, there are several
plastics that do degrade, and polymer chemists
are busy making more if they are needed. There is
even a plastic that will dissolve and disappear in
water, such as the plastic bag of pre-measured
soap or bleach that the housewife drops into the
washing machine, bag and all.
Non-degradable plastics make a very stable
material for a landfill operation because they do
not break down and pollute the water table with
decaying matter or chemical residues. Also, they
do not continue to settle over the years, and a
landfill with mostly plastics in it would be turned
into reclaimed land area quickly.
What is meant by the term "The Wicked
Bible?”
5.8., PERRY
In a 1631 edition of the Bible there was an error
in Exodus 29:14 so that it read "Thou shalt
commit adultery.” The publisher was fined three
hundred English pounds for this mistake.
Isn’t it true that anyone charged with a crime
can get a lawyer without having to pay a fee? I’ve
been told this is not the truth.
Well it’s not exactly. The U.S. Supreme Court
has declared that any defendant in a criminal
case facing a jail term is entitled to appointed
counsel. Thus, defendants in all State and local
courts, if indigent, must be afforded free legal
counsel if a jail term could be imposed. So, it is not
true that anyone charged with a crime gets free
legal assistance.
Can Action Line tell me if there is such a thing
as giant frogs. A friend told me he knew of a pond
near Perry where there are gigantic frogs living.
Is he putting me on? N . s „ perry
We think your friend is putting you on but we
would like to visit the pond with our camera.
Actually a giant variety of frog native to West
Africa, grows to a length of a foot and weighs as
much as a small dog.
The Houston Home Journal
The Perry Area’s Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years
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-¥■ Perry Plant Moves Towards Expansion *
Pabst Nets Record Earnings
Pabst Brewing Company
posted record earnings,
sales and shipments during
the first 6 months of 1972 it
was announced this week by
James C. Windham,
chairman and president of
Pabst,
Net income for the 6
months period ended June
30, at $13,156,000 or $1.38 a
share, a 17 per cent increase
over income of $11,243,000 or
sl.lß a share for the same
period last year.
Sales for the first half of
1972 reached an all time high
of $226,820,000 up more than
10 percent from 1971 first
half sales of $205,452,000,
Windham said.
During the first 6 months
of 1972, Pabst shipments
totaled 6,362,000 barrels of
beer compared with ship
ments of 5,838,000 barrels for
the same period last year.
This is an increase of 9 per
cent.
Windham stated that in
furtherance of the
President’s economic
gSM
James Windham
Ambulance Service Here Looms In
Face Os Heavy List Os Restrictions
By Bobby Branch
In the near future, if a current proposal by the
Houston County Hospital Authority and the
County Commissioners is ever adopted, the people
of Houston County will witness a two-eyed mon
ster with one huge rear door and a long list of
extras, answering the call for help within the
county.
These monsters are appearing in more and
more sections of the state as a result of a recent
Georgia Health Dept, ruling on ambulance
equipment and attendants.
The funeral homes in Houston County have told
the County Commissioners they will no longer be
able to provide ambulance service here after
December 1, of this year. The funeral home
operators have long complained that operating an
ambulance service is a losing proposition and
when the new list of requirements came out
recently for ambulance services, the funeral
home directors issued an ultimatum. They say
there is no way to meet the requirements and buy
the new ambulances and equipment and for them
to even reach near a profit
The Houston County Hospital Authority is
pondering the question right now and it is believed
they will be the body that finally has to initiate the
ambulance service operating from the hospitals in
the County and perhaps other strategic locations.
W hatever the final decision, the county really
doesn t have any choice. Ambulance
service anywhere shows a profit or even breaks
even. That’s the main reason both the Hospital
Authority and the County Commissioners are
looking into every angle of the service before
recommending a program.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1972
stabilization program Pabst
has not increased prices
since August 15,1971. He said
that the improvement in
sales and earnings was
achieved in the face of
substantially increased costs
for packaging supplies, labor
and other expenses.
Earlier this year Windham
announced that Pabst is
increasing the annual
brewing capacity of its
Pabst, Georgia, plant near
Perry from 1.7 million
barrels to 4.5 million barrels
annually. The plant will have
a 2.5 million barrel capacity
by early 1973 and will reach
the. 4.5 million barrel
capacity during 1974, Win
dham said.
Nunn Rally
Plans Set
The Perry rally for U.S.
Senatorial candidate Sam
Nunn will be held at 6 p.m. on
August 7, on the vacant lot
behind the Nunn
headquarters on Main
Street. The rally has been
changed from a breakfast to
a barbecue meeting. Tickets
I that have already been sold
to the breakfast are good for
* the barbecue rally and they
I can be purchased for $5.00
I each at the headquarters.
I Co-chairman of the Perry
a rally are Ervin Goodroe and
I E. H. Cheek. Cheek, who is
I famous for his preparation
I and putting on of barbecues
| in the area, is in charge of
■ the barbecue.
Perry Student Takes Top State Forestry Award At Tifton
Tim Lewis was awarded a placque and SSO
savings bond as first place winner in the field of
Forestry at the Natural Resources Conservation
Workshop held in Tifton in June. Presenting the
The regulations, spelled out by the National
Highway Safety Act and adopted by the County,
endorse only three types of vehicles. They are: the
carry-all, which is a raised roof version of a
carryall-type body; a van, a basically unchanged
forward control delivery van body; or a
demounted medical package, which is a
specifically constructed medical body mounted on
a light truck cab-chassis body.
The act spells out in four legal size, typewritten
pages the minimum requirements for each type
vehicle.
The vehicles, which must be white with an
orange stripe on each side, must have 54 inches of
headroom in the center of the patient com
partment and 60 inches is recommended. The
regulations state, “Any fractional inch less will
not be accepted.”
It must have at least 100 inches of space from
the partition behind the driver to the rear door and
116 inches is recommended.
The vehicle must be powered by at least a 300
cubic inch v-8 engine with a 70 amp battery, power
disc brakes, heavy duty springs, and an approved
gyro safety control device to keep the vehicle
level.
“ECNALUBMA”, which is ambulance spelled
backwards, must be painted on the nose of the
vehicle (in orange) so it can be recognized easily
in a rear view mirror.
Two revolving or flashing red lights must be
mounted atop the vehicle along with a siren. The
electronic type is suggested. The vehicle must be
equipped with a two way radio with a “roof top
antenna complete with coaxial cable.”
The list of extras seemingly goes on and on. The
placque is Cohen Walker, District Supervisor,
Ocmulgee Soil and Water Conservation District,
which co-sponsored Tim with the First National
Bank and The Bank of Perry, and Drew Bynum,
District Conservationist.
vehicle must be equipped with hanging hardware
for two overhead stretchers with a minimum
weight of 150 pounds. It must also be equipped
with two aluminum folding cots, a Ferno cot, a
removable squad bench, and a “comfortable”
attendant seat.
An approved bag type mask resuscitator, built
in oxygen equipment, and a portable oxygen
system must also be installed in the vehicle.
The specifications state, the inside of the vehicle
must be “constructed of heavy duty material that
would tend to decrease noise and yet stand up
under heavy duty use ... easy to clean and has a
nice appearance.”
The list also states that cabinets capable of
holding all the equipment required must be in
stalled inside the ambulance in such a manner
that the attendant can reach anything even with
the ambulance fully loaded with injured persons.
The requirements also include a list of medical
supplies such as splints, pillows, pumps,
catheters, and a portable first aid kit containing 96
items.
It must also be equipped with an emergency
childbirth kit, an emesis basin, a bed pan, a urinal
duct, a poison kit, a blood pressure meter with a
cuff and a stethoscope.
An emergency rescue kit must be stowed in the
vehicle containing a hacksaw with 12 wire (car
bide) blades, a 36 inch pinch point crowbar, a one
and a half ton hydraulic jack, a 49 inch shovel with
a pointed blade, and two 50 feet lengths of three
quarter inch manila rope.
And the list goes on and on.
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