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/'''NATION AL JkoHomtooHemo Journal V NEWSPAPER / Qmilsfhv& PAGE 2-A 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. . . Cont from Page 1 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 . . . Cont from Page 1 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. Want Ads Get The Job Done CALL 987-1823 warn i a i v yia > m Br * h —- 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 .r^-i#^ :i!? '■ ■ * %f£Z %t*'& t' G . X' > '»H3r ‘ JL* .1 j Sk mi j/ I 9 =JL ji }Ji I v s .»/ agjy* # - r ■ Up ''■3BßT * B |S9f| ,,■ ifllfe' sl^3^ sp _Bfe *Ba.. I • ■»•.■ -• Heavy Turnout At Perry Precinct 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’ ACTION LINE £J 987-1823 Write P.O. Drawer M 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.