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Man Arrested Here
For Check Forgeries
A Tampa, Florida man
was arrested by Perry police
officers last Saturday on
forgery charges after he
allegedly cashed two checks
stolen from a local business
and made out to him under
an assumed name.
Harry Burton Croy, alias
Benjamin Taylor, age 20, of
Temple Terrace, Tampa,
was arrested by Cpl. Eddie
Findley and Ptl. Wayne
Cross in downtown Perry.
The two checks cashed were
reported stolen by Jones
Enco Station earlier. Both
had the signature of Gerald
Jones forged. One was
cashed by Thrifty Foods in
the amount of $89.73, the
other by Piggly Wiggly in the
amount of $97.36, and both
were made payable in
Benjamin Taylor.
Police Chief B. E. Dennard
said that other forged checks
on Jones Enco Station were
found in Croy’s possession at
the time of his arrest. The six
forged checks, two cashed
and four not cashed,
amounted to $1,091.79. Chief
Dennard also said Croy had
Nunn Runoff. . .
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More than 500 people bought
tickets to the $5 a plate
barbecue and the candidate
thanked his Houston County
friends and supporters for
their efforts in his campaign.
Others in Atlanta Tuesday
night besides Avon Buice,
included J. M. (Buddy)
Tolleson and Malcolm
Reese, who have both been
top figures in the state-wide
Nunn for Senate effort.
Nunn began his campaign
more than :i months ago with
a barbecue in Perry at
tended by more than 2,500
supporters. He started out as
a real dark horse but gain
ed strength and popularity
steadily during the cam
paign. The longer the
campaign went on the
stronger the Perryan got and
Houston Races . . .
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and Jim Harmon. l.ee got a
total of 4,521 votes while
Harmon polled 3,551. Third
man in the race was Warner
Robins attorney Joel Willis
with a total of 2,882 votes
That run-off will be held on
August 29.
There will also be a run-off
in the county commission
post 4 race between Frank
Rozar of Perry and Quinton
Moody of Warner Robins.
Rozar polled 4,767 votes
while Moody got 3,802.
Warner Robins city coun
cilman Archie Campbell ran
third in that race with 2,684.
The run-off will be held on
August 29.
Incumbent Commissioner
Alton Tucker kept his seat on
the commission without
much trouble. He polled 6,728
votes to his challenger Jerry
Broxton’s 4,130 votes.
Tucker will be going into his
fourth term on the com
mission.
Incumbent board of
education member Dr. W. G.
Talbert of Warner Robins
won his four-way race
PERRY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1972
$107.42 in cash in his
possession when he was
arrested.
Five of the forged checks
were dated July 28 and one
was dated July 29
A description of the man
and his automobile from one
of the stores where he
allegedly cashed a check led
to his being spotted by police
officers and his subsequent
arrest.
On August 4, police
received a report that a
speaker post had been pulled
up at the Perry Drive In
Theatre and both speakers
were missing.
On August 5, the Neigh
borhood laundry reported a
cracker machine taken out
and broken open.
Cpl. Ernest Carter and Ptl.
Don Chestnut investigated a
one-car accident on the
parking lot at Kwik and
Handi store, where a 1964
Pontiac driven by Willie
Norwood, Jr., 124 Vickie
Lynn Drive, Warner Robins,
jumped the curb and hit an
ice house. The automobile
received a dent in the middle
some observers said if there
had been about two more
weeks in the campaign he
would have made an even
stronger showing.
Houston Countians voted
8,585 for Nunn in the unex
pired term on the ballot and
7,791 for the full six year
term. Voters had to vote
twice in the U.S. Senate race.
Senator Gambrell got 1,473
and 1,164 votes in Houston in
the two way ballot vote.
Ernest Vandiver got 559 and
675; Bill Burson got 182 and
137; Wyman Lowe got 116
and 603; Hosea Williams got
473 and 463; J. B. Stoner got
320 and 357. Other minor
candidate got a few votes in
Houston but Sam Nunn by
far carried his home county.
without a run-off by polling
6,352 votes. His closest
challenger was Mrs. Sandy
Elliott of Warner Robins
with 2,710 votes. Next
highest was Perry school
teacher Mrs. Thelma T. Ross
with a total of 1,574 votes and
Len Showalter of Warner
Robins got 883 votes in the
race for post 2.
Incumbent Glenn Heck
will retain his post 4 position
on the county board of
education. He defeated
Glynn Greenway 6,063 votes
to 4,036.
Uncontested races in the
Democratic primary in
cluded Superior Court Clerk
Tommie S. Hunt, Judge
Willis B. Hunt, Ordinary
Clint Watson, Tax Com
missioner Joyce Griffin and
County Coroner Ben Tiller.
Herman Wills went un
challenged in his bid for
county commission post 3
but will face opposition in the
November general election
from Republican Dr. V. W.
McEver Jr. of Warner
Rolans.
of the hood, and an ice house
owned by the Atlantic Ice
Company of Macon was
demolished.
Norwood was charged with
driving without a license.
Action Group
Sets Election
Elections by the Houston
County Community Action
Committee have been
scheduled to elect two
Neighborhood Represen
tatives to serve on the
Committee.
The Houston County
Community Action Com
mittee has a total mem
bership of 21, with one-third
from Government, one-third
from private organizations,
and one-third from low
income citizens.
Representatives of the low
income citizens must be
elected democratically by
the low-income themselves.
The Houston County Com
munity Action Committee is
part of the Heart of Georgia
Community Action Council,
Inc., headquartered in
Eastman. The Council
serves twelve counties in
Middle Georgia. The local
committee furnishes three
members to the Council
Governing Board.
Election will be held at the
following location;
August 14, 1972, 7:30 p.m.,
Houston County Neigh
borhood Service Center,
Warner Robins, Georgia.
Community Action
Committees work with
government officials and
local agencies to carry out
projects and programs of the
Community Action Council.
The objectives of Com
munity Action are to develop
self-help and participation of
residents in overcoming
problems and meeting
needs. It is designed to
develop projects to upgrade
and help overcome problems
of the community.
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Chamber Sets General
Membership Meeting
By Bobby Branch
General Ixmis W. Truman,
head of the Georgia Dept, of
Industry and Trade, will be
one of the high spots in a
general membership
meeting of the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce at
the New Perry Hotel on
August 17. The meeting is
open to all members of the
chamber and the industrial
development committee will
host the breakfast meeting
beginning at 8 a.m.
General Truman will bring
several members of his staff
with him to the important
Perry chamber meeting to
discuss industrial and tourist
development among other
topics of interest to Perry
area businessmen and
farmers.
Elwyn McKinney,
executive veep of the
chamber, said Truman and
his staff will be given a tour
of Perry, after the meeting
that will incude industrial,
business and residential
areas of the community.
Chamber president Joe
Poole said he is expecting a
capacity crowd to attend the
general membership
meeting. He pointed out that
Ochlatchee
Sets Pool Hours
At the August meeting of
the Perry Club Council, Inc.,
the officers and trustees
voted to change the pool
hours and closing date.
Starting Friday, August
11, the following pool hours
will be observed: 1)
Tuesdays, 12 to 7; 2) Wed
nesday through Saturdays,
12 to 5; 3) Sundays, 1 to 7;
and, 4) closed Mondays.
The pool will continue its
daily operation until August
27. The pool will be closed
during the week of August 28,
but will re-open for Satur
day, Sunday and Monday,
September 2, 3 and 4. The
pool will cease all operation
after Monday, September 4.
These changes were
necessary to adapt the pool
hours to the preferences of
our club members.
A WiiUMiß
Votes By Candlelight I
By Bobby Branch
A raging electrical storm
swept over Perry and the
southern portion of Houston
County late Tuesday af
ternoon knocking out elec
tricity in Perry for more
than an hour and causing
some wind damage. Power
in the Hayneville area and
other surrounding areas of
Perry was off for more than
7 hours.
The power failure slowed
the vote counting in Perry
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topics discussed will be of
vital interest to all members
of the chamber.
Poole stated, “We want to
issue an invitation to all
chamber members to make
plans now to attend this very
important meeting designed
for the general membership.
We believe the program will
include a number of topics
and ideas that will be of vital
interest to everyone.”
Chamber members
wishing to attend the
meeting should notify the
chamber office by mail or
telephone as soon as
possible.
Poole pointed out that the
chamber is fortunate to have
a man of General Truman’s
caliber and experience to
headline the general
membership meeting.
Since he became the
Executive Director of the
Department of Industry and
Trade, General Truman has
made over 200 speeches in all
areas of Georgia pointing out
the operations and
responsibilities of the
Department, relating to the
value to communities of
industrial and tourist
development as well as to the
overall economic welfare of
Mrs. Lois McLendon
Gets Golden Deeds Award
Mrs. Lois McLendon,
Administrator for the
Christ’s Sanctified Holy
Church Home For The Aged,
last Tuesday night was
named recipient of the
Lxchange Club of Perry’s
Fourth Book of Golden
Deeds Award. The Award
was presented to Mrs.
McLendon for “her life that
has been devoted to helping
others.”
The Book of Golden Deeds
Award was designed by the
National Exchange Club to
pay public homage to “men
and women whose selfless
toil and sacrifice for public
good is motivated only by an
innate desire to help others. ”
Mrs. McLendon has been
Administrator of the Christ’s
and that linked with a large
number of absentee ballots
caused the Perry poll
workers to have to work until
after midnight before getting
a total of the local votes.
The power in Hayneville
went out but the poll workers
didn’t back away from their
duties. Soon after the power
failure, industrious
Hayneville poll workers sent
for a number of candles and
began counting the ballots by
candlelight. It was a real
the State as a whole. He also
has offered his and the
Department’s assistance to
community groups that are
interested in developing
dynamic leadership in their
respective communities in
order to attract industries
and tourists.
Until recently, the func
tions of the Department of
Industry and Trade have
centered, generally, on
developing and promoting
industry and tourist and
international trade aspects
of Georgia. In order to
achieve these goals in the
most efficient manner
possible, General Truman
has assembled one of the
most efficient, best informed
and most knowledgeable
industry and tourist
development and
promotional teams in the
Nation.
He has, also, developed a
program by means of
national TV, radio,
magazine and newspaper
advertising media, which
has presented and is
presenting Georgia as a
forward-looking, dynamic
and sophisticated place in
which to live, work and
vacation.
Sanctified Holy Church
Home For The Aged for the
past 12 years, since the
Home was opened in 1960.
Prior to coming to Perry,
Mrs. McLendon had served
as administrator of nursing
and-or children’s homes in
Columbia, S.C.; Camden,
S.C., and again in Columbia.
Mrs. McLendon has been a
member of the Christ’s
Sanctified Holy Church for
over 20 years.
Members of the Exchange
Club Award Committee
included John Kea, Julian
Massey, Ronnie Stanley, A1
Baggarly and Draper
Watson. Past recipients
include Miss Virginia Jones,
Dr. A. G. Hendrick, and Rev.
J. B. Smith.
chapter out of the past as the
only lights in Hayneville
flickered through the win
dows of the voting place and
poll workers hunched over
the machines and counted
the ballots by the light of the
fire. Vote counting in
Hayneville was not ham
pered long by the power
failure as they were one of
the first precincts to report
in their tallies to the County
Ordinary in the courthouse
here.
With the implementation
of the Governor’s
reorganization plan, passed
by the last General
Assembly, the Department
has been expanded to include
a Community Affairs
Division and a Crime
Commission office, both of
which were formerly under
the auspices of the Bureau of
State Planning.
The new Divisions’
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Perry, Georgia, 31069
What has happened to the money that the city
was supposed to return to the customers from the
gas company?
W.M. Perry
Did you happen to notice a set of red figures on
your City of Perry Utilities bill the first of August?
Well, that represents your share of the gas refund.
Is there a doctor in Perry that makes house
calls? Is there a surgeon in Perry? I have been
here for almost three years and I have never seen
a sign reading “Physician and Surgeon.”
Anyway, if there was such a thing in Perry, how
would a person ever get to a hospital, with no
ambulance or even taxi cab service?
M.G., Perry
Yes, there are definitely surgeons in Perry.
Doctors consider it unethical to advertise their
services, but all anyone has to do is pick up the
telephone and ask a doctor’s receptionist if he is a
surgeon as well as a physician.
Where did you get the idea that Perry has no
ambulance service? All of the funeral homes in
the city provide fast and competent ambulance
service. Numerous newspaper stories have
carried the account of the fact that the funeral
homes will no longer furnish ambulance service
after December 1, but after that date the
county, with perhaps some assistance from the
municipalities, will take over the service.
Perry is in the enviable position of having six
physicians, with a seventh due here soon, in a
town of approximately 8,000. It is very unlikely
that anyone would be caught without medical
attention when it is needed, day or night.
Do the doctors make house calls? There, again,
you should check with the individual physician.
Sometimes the answer depends on the cir
cumstances involved.
Can you tell me what finally happened to the
family with eight children and some ponies who
were walking from Tennessee to Florida and
camped north of Perry? Did they have to finish
walking all the way to Florida?
J. W.., Perry
No r the Downard family didn’t have to walk
another step of the way from their camp beside
U.S. 41 about 8 miles north of Perry. Their plight
was so well publicized in newspapers in the state
that the Citizens Band Radio Club of Hawkinsville
heard about it and provided transportation for the
family and their three ponies to Okeechobee,
Florida where Downard had two job offers
waiting at dairies. After working at one for a few
days, according to another newspaper report, he
changed to another job which he felt offered better
opportunities.
How many State Patrolmen are stationed here
to cover the six counties covered by the local post?
Do we have more men now that traffic is heavier
on 1-75?
M.L. Perry
In Perry there are Sgt. J. E. Moreland, head of
the post; two corporals, W. D. Blackstock and
John W. Wright; 10 troopers, W. I. Blount, G. F.
Boutwell, W. E. Cawthon, R. L. Coker, J. M.
Goswick, R. I. Hardin, J. L. Lancaster, C. W.
Sheffield, J. B. Smith, and J. G. Taylor. R. M.i
(Bobby) Burns is senior radio operator, and other
operators are Jack Bower, T. A. Evans and C. L.
Nutt.
License examiners are C. T. Dorminy and T. G.
Presley. Also stationed at this post are DOI
(Division of Investigation ) agents J. T. Cawthon,
C. J. Loggins, J. G. Hooks, and A. J. White.
No, the local post does not have more men to
cope with the heavier traffic, but hope that more
will be assigned here when possible.
responsibilities include local
and non-metro planning,
administration and
assistance, model cities
program and the respon
sibility for crime prevention
planning, and allocation and
administration of the Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration federal funds
which will amount to over
S3O million dollars in the next
two years.