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VOL. 101 NO. 33
Casey Says Solution Near
Casey Says Solution Near
Garbage Oozes To
Surface Again At
Perry City Council
By Bobby Branch
“This City is in an
uproar’over the garbage
collection fee”, Councilman
James McKinley said
Tuesday night at the Perry
City Council meeting.
McKinley said he has had
several complaints from
citizens who have told him
they will no longer pay the
Public Schools Set
Registration Date
Registration for all
Elementary School pupils of
the Perry area will be held
on Tuesday, August 22, from
8:30 - 4:00 P.M. in the
various elementary schools.
All students, those who are
returning to the same school
which they attended last
year, as well as new
students, should register on
August 22 at the elementary
school in their school at
tendance zone.
Registration for students
will be held on three con
secutive days next week at
Perry High School, starting
at 10 a.m. each day.
Seniors will register on
Tuesday, August 22. Juniors
will register on Wednesday,
August 23, and sophomores
on Thursday, August 24.
Children of all grades 1-12
who will be attending a
Georgia school for the first
time are required to furnish
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Swat, Don’t Slap Gnats
j Perry’s Gnats Are Here
By Bobby Branch
•jl: An invasion took place in Perry this week. The
intruders swarmed over the Perry area by the
:j: millions and attacked backyard barbecuers,
jv swimmers, yard workers and almost anyone else
that was in the outdoors over the weekend ... The
gnats have arrived.
:j;i Persons who have lived in Perry, know all too
well the itching sting of the tiny insects. For many
years the annual invasion of the gnats has been a
way of life in Perry during this time of the year.
They are pesky and almost impossible to wipe out.
Newcomers to Perry, who are experiencing
their first gnat invasion, are somewhat alarmed
$ at the creatures. Calls have been made to The
Home Journal inquiring about the insects and
:j:j what to do about them. As difficult as it is to
| believe, there are actually citizens of Perry who
have never seen a gnat until now.
Several years ago, according to an unofficial
| report we have on file, a federal government
agency contracted with a pest control firm in this
:$ area to come up with away to eradicate the
| dreaded Middle Georgia gnats. The pest fighters
worked diligently on the project for some time but
never could devise a method to do away with the i
$ gnats. They claimed the gnats had unusual i
| breeding habits and that baby gnats were born i
faster than the adults, could be killed. They also (
found it difficult to spray insecticide on the (
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garbage fee because of what
they claimed to be unfair
rates. He said one bus
inessman told him. he was
going to have his dumpster
removed and replace them
with garbage cans. He says
the city now charges him S3O
a month for the dumpster
and if he replaces it with
garbage cans he will only
school officials a completed
Certificate of Immunization
before they can be addmitted
to classes. These forms are
available at doctor’s offices
and'Stt the Houston County
Department of Public
Health. There is no charge
for this service at the
Department of Public
Health.
In order to enter a Georgia
school for the first time a
child must be immunized
against Diphtheria, Per
tussia (whooping cough),
Tetanus, Poliomyletis,
Measles and Rubella.
In addition to the Cer
tificate of Immunization, all
children registering for
enrollment in the first grade
must also furnish a birth
certificate to the school in
which they register.
Children entering first grade
in Houston County Schools
must be six years old on or
before September 1, 1972.
have to pay $7.50. McKinley
also cited a beauty shop
operator paying the com
mercial fee of $7.50 a month
who only has a 20 gallon
garbage can.
McKinley wanted to know
what the City is going to do
about the people who are so
bitterly opposed to the fee
that they refuse to pay it.
The City attorney, Larry
Walker, said the City can
not make a case against
anyone for not paying the fee
but that deliquent fees
would be charged against the
citizen in the same manner
as unpaid taxes.
Councilman Henry Casey,
co-chairman of the
sanitation dept., told
McKinley he realizes there
are some unfair portions of
the garbage fee. He said he
is working on the matter
and that in the next 30 days
he will come up with a
solution that will be fair and
equitable for everyone in
volved.
Casey said, “Just give a
little more time and we will
work this thing out. We want
to do what is fair and we are
working on this problem
right now.
The garbage hassle has
been going on ever since
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swarming gnats who are famous for diving down $
out of a clear sky in swarms and suddenly :$
disappearing. So no effective control method of
holding the gnats in tow has ever been discovered,
although the problem has plagued scientists for $
years.
Our Perry gnats are black gnats. They are the $
most dreaded. They get in your hair, your clothes,
your eyes, your nose. They especially like to $
swarm on men who wear sweet-smelling shaving $
lotion and “greasy kid stuff”. And the black gnat ||
is a devotee of women’s hair spray. If you are
going to be in the outdoors the next couple of
weeks, refrain from using these products, else $
you expose yourself to an attack by the gnats. :j:j:
Another tip for newcomers to gnats, is how to $
keep them off of you. Never ... Never ... Never
swipe at a gnat with your hand. You always
“swat gnats. Those who make the mistake of
trying to swipe at or slap at gnats will find it does |i
absolutely no good. The proper way to swat gnats : :*i
is: Hold your hand loose so that the fingers are not
tight; then at half speed with strokes back and $
forth, swat loosely in the area where the gnats are $
bothering you. g:
No one ever really gets used to gnats. But |j
certainly they are more of a nuisance to
newcomers to the south than those who have
grown up with the annual gnat invasion ... It’s just
one of the small sacrifices of having the pleasure &
of living in the south. $
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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1972
Council voted to impose the
garbage fee effective June 1,
of this year. Council, at the.
time, figured a garbage fee
was the only way to get much
needed extra revenue
without raising ad valorem
taxes. The fee, as set by
Council, is $1.50 a month for
residential service and $7.50
per cubic yard for dumpster
users and a minimum of
$7.50 a month for all com
mercial establishments.
A citizen-leader in the
garbage hassle has been
Perry businessman Herb
Drews. His office is located
in a building with two other
businesses and he claims
that each tenant having to
pay $7.50 a month is not fair
He says each office has only
a small amount of trash
each gathered in waste
baskets. Drews asked
Council to survey the
businesses in question and
use a formula he has devised
to come up with a fair fee
according to the type of
business served.
Councilman Henry Casey
announced Tuesday night
that his dept, is planning a
survey as part of their study
to solve the hassle over the
garbage fee.
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PERRY CITY COUNCIL tourned the City’s new
water treatment plant under construction on
Woodlawn Drive adjacent to the Drive-In. The
Council noted much progress on the million dollar
facility Tuesday that will boost Perry’s output of
treated water almost by twice as much. The plant
is expected to be in operation by early next year.
sl3 Million Expansion Set
Medusa Has Big Plans
For Perry Cement Plant
By Bobby Branch
Medusa Corp. has big
plans for its recently
acquired Penn Dixie Cement
Corp. plant near Perry,
according to vice pres, in
charge of operations, Chuck
Hewlett. The Medusa official
was guest speaker at the
Perry Kiwanis Club
Tuesday.
Hewlett said Medusa has
scheduled an expansion and
improvement program for
the Perry plant that calls for
more than sl3 million in
expenditures by Jan. of 1974.
He pointed out that the plant
will completely be rebuilt
and that by 1974 Medusa’s
Portland cement plant here
will be a completely new
facility. He said the
production will be increased
by the new equipment from
2.2. million barrells a year to
3 million barrells and the
plant will use only half the
fuel to produce the increase
in cement.
Hewlett also said Medusa
is taking steps to bring the
air pollution under control.
He indicated that with the
completion of the im
provements, motorists on
highway 341 adjacent to the
plant will not hardly know it
is there. At the present,
smokestakes puff away at
the plant around the clock.
Hewlett said Medusa is
concerned about pollution
and they will bring it under
control at the plant here.
Hewlett stated that the
plant now has 173 employees
and that with the new plant
completed some of the
employees will no longer be
needed. He did not indicate
how many employees no
longer will be required but
seemed to think it would not
be many.
Hewlett announced at the
Kiwanis meeting that Perry
plant manager B. B. (Bill)
! Nall will probably be sent to
Germany for about a month
to study and learn the
. techniques that will be used
in the new operation here. He
said he (Hewlett) had spent
time in Europe studying the
most modern cement plants
MEDUSA OFFICIALS were in Perry Tuesday to tour the Perry cement
plant recently purchased by Medusa from Penn Dixie. From left, Director of
safety Ralph Richie, plant manager B. B. Nall, vice pres, of operations Chuck
Hewlett, industrial relations director Peter Geis.
500 Students Expected At Westfield
The Westfield Schools opens
its third year of operation
when its 525 students return
for classes on August 28th. In
addition to having an in
creased enrollment, several
new programs of study will
be added to the curriculum.
The athletic program will
expand to include midget
and varsity football, and sue
new teachers will join the
faculty.
New curriculum in
novations will include an
From left, Councilmen H. H. Hackworth, Alton
Hardy, Mayor John Barton, Councilmen Henry
Casey, Dot Roughton, James McKinley,City water
supt. A1 Meens, Mayor Pro Tern Dan Britton and
city attorney Larry Walker. The plant is expected
to be one of the most modern in the state upon the
completion of construction.
and that the ideas and
technology for the Perry
plant came from his trip to
Europe.
Medusa’s main office is in
Cleveland, Ohio, and they
have other plants in
Michigan, Penn., Wisconsin
and Illinois. It is the oldest
independent study program
for seniors called Inquiry, a
Business Education
department, an expanded
math program, and a new
elementary reading
program placing greater
emphasis on phonics and
comprehension skills.
New teachers include?
Janet Nunn - sth grade;
Charles Cook - Junior High
Math; Jeannette Arrington-
Business Education; Marvin
Arrington - High School
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cement company in America
and is ranked seventh in size
of all cement producers.
Hewlett said, “Our move
to Georgia has been a good
one for us and we are en
thused about the future of the
plant here.”
Math; William Gottwals -
French and Dorothy Bledsoe
- Social Studies.
Westfield is a member of
the Southeastern Association
of Independent Schools and
will make annlication for
accredition in the Fall with
the Georgia Accrediting
Commission. Plans for the
immediate future call for the
creation of a full time library
program, guidance
department, and a physical
education program for the
elementary school.