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The Houston Home Journal
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Primaries Coming Up
Some Houston County voters still
are not clear on the voting procedures
in the General Primaries August 8
especially some voters casting their
ballot for the first time. There are
those, we understand, who believe
they can still cross the party lines and
vote in both primaries. You can’t do
that anymore. You have to vote in
either the Republican or Democratic
Primary.
When you enter the polls on August
8, a poll worker will ask you in
which primary you will be voting. If
Coaches Do Great Job
We want to tip our hat to all those
dedicated people in our community
that have donated their time and
efforts to junior league, tee league,
pee wee league, A and B league and
all the other baseball programs for
the youngsters in our community this
summer. They have done an out
standing job and both the programs at
Ochlahatchee and the Perry Public
Recreation programs have been
tremendous successes.
Bring Back Postmark
“Don’t it make you want to go Ho-o
o- me?”
The all-too-familiar strains of a
country song recently heard around
the air waves can well apply to the
familiar postmark on a letter from
one’s hometown ... that is, unless the
postmark now says “Postal Station
No. 45” or “U.S. Postal Service”. You
don’t get quite that same feeling of
nostalgia somehow.
A recent bill introduced by S.C.
Senator Ernest Bollings to “retain a
Interested in a private vocational or
home study school?
Before you enroll you should be
familiar with the guides issued
recently by the Federal Trade
Commission, which are:
1. A school should not misrepresent
its facilities, equipment or
qualifications for enrollment, the
qualifications of instructors, or future
employment opportunities for
graduates.
2. A school should not offer any
degree if its award of the degree has
not been authorized by the ap
propriate state educational agency or
approved by a nationally recognized
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5 YEARS AGO • Opening of Houston
County schools has been delayed one
week due to delays in construction of
school projects, Supt. David A.
Perdue announced ... Construction of
the million dollar Perry-Houston
County Hospital began this week,
with occupancy scheduled about Jan,
1,1969 ... Cooper Etheridge, Editor of
the Home Journal, has been ap
pointed to the Board of Managers of
the Georgia Press Association. He is a
past president of the association.
10 YEARS AGO - Frank Hague 111
will join the Houston Home Journal
staff Aug. 1 as advertising salesman
and news editor ... The temperatures
continued to soar to the 100-degree
mark this week ... Perry industries
employ 523 people and pay them
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1972
Home Study Courses
you vote in the Republican, you will
be given blue slip to hand to the
voting machine worker or a white slip
for the Democratic primary. No
crossing party lines in the primaries.
You must vote a straight ticket, even
though you do not have to vote for
everyone on the ticket.
But come November and the
General Election, you can cross party
lines at that time and vote for can
didates in both parties. Be sure to
vote Augusta. It’s important that you
do.
—B.B.
It takes a true spirit of devotion to
youngsters and a pride in the com
munity for the many persons who
have spent long afternoons, nights
and Saturdays working with the kids
and teaching them a lot more than
just how to hit and field a baseball.
The programs mean much to our
community and we look forward to
their continuation through the years
to come.
—B.B.
meaningful postmark” has our vote.
The soul rebels atone more sign of the
computerization of life. “Podunk
Junction’’ just doesn’t translate
without loss of color into a sterile
name such as “Post Office Station.”
The names of small towns (and
large; throughout the country bring
to mind a wealth of memories to
natives spread far and wide and add
charm and engaging warmth to a
plain white envelope!
accrediting agency, unless it clearly
discloses in all advertising referring
to the degree that its award has not
been authorized or approved by such
an agency.
3. Before signing up the student, the
school should furnish him in writing
such information as standards
required of him for achieving
satisfactory progress, a listing and
price of recommended or required
equipment and services not included
in the contract price of the course,
and the extent and nature of its
service or assistance in finding
employment for graduates.
$1,604,000 annually, J. M. Gooden,
Chamber of Commerce manager
reported ... The Davises won out over
the Smiths in the new phone book, 26
to 25, with Jones coming in third with
15.
20 YEARS AGO - William Hubert
Gwillim, a young farmer from Wales,
was the guest of the Perry FFA
chapter Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week ... The
Houston County grand jury, after
sweltering only one day in the jury
room in the new $325,000 courthouse,
suggested that some kind of cooling
system be devised for the jury rooms
... Houston County school officials are
pressing their efforts to get more
school housing ready as soon as
possible. A ten per cent increase in
enrollment is expected this year.
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I really got a charge out of Warner
Robins Mayor Homer J. Walker’s
reference to newspapers as “mullet
wrappers,” because the only
newspapers I saw as a small child
were those in which fish were
wrapped. I can recall smoothing them
out and avidly reading their smudged
columns during the depression days.
Like so many others, perhaps the
mayor resents the newspapers
because they print what he says, not
what he thinks he says. That’s why so
many members of the news media
have started using tape recorders.
It’s pretty hard for anyone to deny the
evidence of his own voice blurting out
something he never intended to say.
Councilman Dot Roughton
remarked to me after I wrote about
my “dream” that what he intended to
say didn’t always come out that way.
On the one hand he wants the papers
to “tell it like it is,” and on the other
he says words that don’t come out the
way he intended. Well, the press can’t
read minds and print intentions. We
can’t edit what they say and at the
same time give exact quotations.
As the old saying goes, sometimes
we’re caught between a rock and a
hard place.
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From somewhere down the hall the
staccato taps of a typewriter in action
seemed magnified. While the air
conditioning system was on, the room
was comfortable; when the ther
mostat turned it off temporarily it
took only moments for the heat to
move in.
The windows that formed the front
wall were covered with attractive
large-mesh white curtains. End walls
The Will To Work
According to late reports, wages
and salaries climbed four times as
much as output per man-hour during
the first three months of 1972. U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Peter G.
Peterson has urged a “crusade” to
boost productivity. A business
spokesman warns that, “The real
issue today is the survival of this
country as a significant factor in the
world’s economy. This predicament
is the result of many things, including
the high costs of labor and material,
backbreaking tax loads imposed by
government at all levels, an aging
industrial plant and the absence of
real incentives to improve it, trade
were buff brick; stark white and a bit
of paneling completed the
wallcoverings.
Translucent panels of glass or
plastic allowed the silhouettes of
everyone who walked down the hall to
attract the attention of those facing
them, which proved to be a bit
distracting.
The men who run the county’s
business sat around makeshift tables
in large, comfortable red chairs set
on green carpeting. Overhead
lighting was achieved by rows of
cylindrical fixtures hanging on slim
rods from the wide-beamed slanted
ceiling.
I was covering my first county
commission meeting since the county
office was moved into the new city
office building in Warner Robins. We
were in an upstairs conference room
that was far from soundproof. Since
the building doesn’t seem to be
completed, it is hoped that this
condition will be corrected.
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Although few people are aware of it,
there is no longer a Georgia Bureau of
Investigation (GBI). The name has
been changed to Division of In
vestigation (DOI). Agent Jim Hooks
says that when he tells someone he’s
with the DOI, they give him a very
strange look.
Maybe the trouble is that whoever
thought up that name didn’t realize
how similar the initials are to DUI,
the common designation for someone
caught driving under the influence of
intoxicants.
I suppose they knew what they were
doing when they changed the name,
but somehow GBI had a sound of
dignity that DOI just doesn’t have.
barriers which inhibit our com
petitiveness in foreign markets, and
society’s legitimate demands for
increasing expenditures for en
vironment control.”
The business spokesman also ob
served that greater productivity
cannot be legislated or achieved by
Presidential decree. He called for the
restoration of the “will to work”
together with pride and quality as an
integral part of productivity. Possibly
the bitter taste of retreat from the
good life that the people have taken
for granted will someday revive the
will to work.
Industrial News Review
BOBBY
BRANCH
OUT ONA
BRANCH
MAYOR JOHN BARTON might turn out to be
the “votingest” mayor in Perry’s history. The
only occasion when the mayor is allowed to vote
during a City Council meeting is when the Council
is deadlocked in 3 to 3 tie. He got his first chance
last Tuesday night when Councilmen Dot
Roughton, James McKinley and H. H. Hackworth
voted for a motion by Councilman McKinley to
appoint City building inspector Carlos Merritte as
secretary of the Planning and Zoning Board and
pay him a salary of $25 a month. Councilmen Dan
Britton, Alton Hardy and Henry Casey voted
against the motion.
No group of elected officials think alike all the
time, or even part of the time, but it looks as
though our Council’s thinking has split right down
the middle. For those of you who have never been
to a City Council meeting, the Mayor sits directly
in the middle of the Council and to his left sit
Councilmen Britton, Casey and Hardy. On his
right are Councilmen Hackworth, Roughton and
McKinley. A pattern appears to be forming that
could evolve on controversial and important
issues that come up on Council. The right side
votes one way and the left side votes the other
way. That leaves the Mayor with all the power to
cast the deciding vote.
I’m not sure this pattern of voting will continue
but there is a good chance it will. If it does, then
John Barton could become the most powerful
Mayor in Perry’s history with his one deciding
vote. Now the Mayor cast his lot with the Coun
cilmen on the left last Tuesday night. Could that
be a pattern? Very interesting.
I HESITATE to bring up the subject, but that
“good ole summer-time” is creeping into the
coming Fall season. It really doesn’t seem like it
with 95 degree temperatures and summer thunder
storms.
The first high school football game will be
played in just a little over 5 weeks and school
begins before that. Chalk this up as another one of
those summers that slipped away and I didn’t get
to do nearly all the things I had planned....Oh well,
maybe next summer.
A READER told me he saw the following sign in
a park in North Carolina recently;
If you with litter do disgrace
And spoil the beauty of this place
May indigestion rack your chest
And ants invade your pants and vest.
IT’S A SNAKE; While at the beach, a friend and
I were fishing off the dock one night and I hooked
into what I thought was a whopper. As I pulled the
giant up over the dock railing into the light, I
found out it was an enormous eel. My friend,
sitting in a chair adjacent to me, broke the world’s
record for back pedalling away from the awesome
looking creature of the deep. “It’s a snake, It’s a
snake,” he shouted, as he ran over three children
and four chairs on his backward journey to the
safety of the house ... Some folks are just
downright afraid of snakes ... and eels.
POLITICAL POSTERS: There are plenty of
good reasons why candidates ought to keep their
posters off telephone and power line poles. They
don’t only look bad but a lineman climbing with
leg irons risks a fall that could cause serious in
jury if a pole is studded with nails, staples, tacks
and other foreign objects which cause spikes to
slip. That’s reason enough to keep posters off
power poles.
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What’li You Give Us To Keep
That Silly Fonda Woman?