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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 »!•!< '•>*» ’•* * '»V 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 ( V* The Houston Home Journo! The Perry Area’s Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years 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 SPECIAL SECTION r INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER 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. $ PAGE 1-A 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. ' - jflfc^KgjfcMi mTm- JWjjj .\ t .. ■', v :K» yvl ,* 4 v ym ;i J|i. | Pt^^ 1- " ' *” * j| &* % "\\ | : i,s _'i-JVSsßnT^Sl^■’l r t*'- ** k . * ** * * ■ - • , i: . •■** ... * a jf **<,■ ■v -^pMfe^fe > « \ S . ~ * >y V— ■ * ~.; ■ ■ * ' ■■" ■ * f;;i% I 4 - ’A • ' T.Jfe. V'^’ * •>'••'',?/. ,;' ,f v - ; ■ * *<' 'rS '* ■ /l ' s■* '? '* * W-' *4v 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 38 PAGES 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.