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VOL. 103 NO. 12 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURS., MARCH 22, 1973 3 SECTIONS 42 PAGES
Strict Enforcement Urged
City To Adopt
Dog Leash Law
Citizens Favor Ordinance
Perry City Council voted
Tuesday night to officially
adopt a leash law for dogs in
the City at the next Council
meeting on April 3.
Nearly 75 citizens crowded
into the small Council
chamber and the hallway at
City Hall to speak out either
in favor of a leash law or
against such an ordinance.
The majority of the opinions
of those at the Council
meeting were in favor of the
adoption of a leash law.
The dog controversy
developed at the March 6
Council meeting when Mrs.
Joann Ogletree protested to
Council about the “stray
dogs" in the City and asked
Home Improvement
Special Section In
This Week's HHJ
Home Journal readers will
want to take special note of
the special section in our
"New Homes and Home
Improvement” in this
week’s newspaper.
The special 14 page edition
covers a variety of subjects
dealing with home im-
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Drug Abuse Awareness Set
Perry Mayor John Barton puts his signature on
p Drug Abuse Awareness Week proclamation
Ues day. Next week, March 25 through April 1, is
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The Houston Home Journal
that a leash law be con
sidered. Mayor John Barton
appointed Councilmen Dan
Britton, Henry Casey and
H.H. Hack worth to study a
leash law and bring one to
this Tuesday night's meeting
for discussion. Councilman
Britton read a two page
leash law to the Council and
audience and then made a
motion to table the proposal
until the ordinance could be
put on the December City
ballot and let the voters
decide the fate of a leash
law.
Britton said, “This is such
a controversial matter that I
believe we should let the
people decide if they want a
provement, decorating and
repair. There are also many
advertisements from local
merchants to aid those who
are planning home im
provements, adding a new
room or building a new
home.
Published Weekly In Perry , Georgia , Home Os Senator Sam Nunn
leash law or not.”
Councilman’ Britton’s
motion brought a number of
comments from the citizens
in attendance, all favoring
the Council to take some
immediate action.
Marlin Van Asdalan, a
citizen in the audience, told
Council, “The people elected
you to make the decisions, so
why are you considering
putting off this decision until
December?. I think an or
dinance ought to be passed
tonight”, he stated.
Several other citizens
spoke out in favor of the law
including Mrs. Allen Tabor
who told Council she has had
a problem with a dog in her
neighborhood for the past 5
years. Councilman James
McKinley told of two in
stances concerning his
children being bitten by dogs
running loose and other
citizens had similar com
ments.
Mrs. Robert Vance,
another outspoken citizen,
said, “There is a big dog in
my neighborhood that blocks
me from getting into my
storage room and what are
you going to do when such a
dog growls at you and his
hair stands up on his back
while you are trying to get to
your washing machine?”
The law Council is con
sidering will require dog
owners in the City to keep
their dogs on their property
at all times. If a dog strays
from the owner’s property he
Phil Wetherington; Commission Chairman Alton
Tucker; (in background) Virginia Wetherington;
Sheriff Cullen Talton; Warner Robins Mayor Ed
Bryant; Doctor David Harvey, Houston Drug
Action Council Chairman; and Rev. William
Beshears, co-ordinator for the Drug Abuse
Awareness Week.
can be picked up by the dog
catcher and impounded. The
law does not state that a dog
must be “penned up” but
that the dog only stay on his
owner’s property. However,
if the owner walks the dog
anyplace other than his
property, he must have a
leash on the animal. The law
also provides for fines in City
Court for those owners who
violate the ordinance. The
entire ordinance will be
published in The Home
Journal when Council passes
final approval on April 13.
There was no indication
Tuesday night when the law
will become effective.
City Council stressed that
the law will be strictly en
forced when passed.
Councilman Henry Casey
emphasized that there is no
sense to pass the law if tiie
City is not going to enforce it.
Council took a strong
position to enforce the law
and Councilman Alton Hardy
said a full time City em
ployee is going to be needed
to enforce the law properly.
The City now has a part time
dog catcher.
After lengthy discussion,
Council closed the matter
when they voted to have the
City attorney Larry Walker
draw an ordinance for
adoption at the next Council
meeting. It is expected a
large crowd will also attend
the April 3 meeting,
especially those opposed to a
leash law.
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Council Spends $500,000
These members of the Perry City Council and
the City’s engineers are looking seriously over a
set of plans for the construction of $500,000 in
sewerage expansion programs for Perry. The new
sewerage and water lines will virtually touch all
areas of the City and improve the sewerage
Stewart Bloodworth Gets Honor
Perryan Named Top
U.S. Young Farmer
Houston County farmer
Stewart Bloodworth was
named Tuesday night as the
Outstanding Young Farmer
for 1972-73 in the United
States at a banquet in St.
Haul, Minnesota. Blood
worth won the prestigious
honor for his operation of a
2,038 acre farm near Ferry.
Bloodworth was
nominated for the Young
Farmer award by the Perry
Jaycees. Outstanding Young
Farmers from 41 states
attended the banquet in St.
Paul. Their acheivements in
agriculture were judged by a
panel of experts including
Herb Plambeck, Assistant to
the Secretary of Agriculture
in Washington; Robert
Hupp, Editor of the FAR
MER magazine; William
Richards, an Ohio farmer
who is President of the
Fraternity of Past Out
standing Young Farmers;
and Richardson, Editor
of BID FARMER magazine.
Three other young farmers
were named along with
Bloodworth for the honor.
They included Jerry Dale
King from Illinois; Gary I>ee
Baker from Kansas; and
Keil from Montana.
Stewart Bloodworth, 32,
operates his 2,038 acre farm
and raises a variety of crops
and livestock. He cultivates
peanuts, cotton, soybeans,
corn, barley, pecans, timber
and wheat. His livestock
activity is centered on a 550
feeder pig operation, but also
includes a small cattle herd.
He has attended several
colleges including Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural
College in Tifton and the
University of Georgia.
Bloodworth also has a
Master of Forestry degree
from Yale University.
This was the 17th year of
the Outstanding Young
Farmer program. Georgia
has had only one other OYF
in the history of the awards,
that being Dolan E. Brown of
Twin City, Georgia in 1964-
65. The OYF awards were
originated by local Jaycee
chapters to honor farmers in
their communities. The
program was set up to foster
better urban-rural relations
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Stewart Bloodworth
system. The plans also call for a number of hook
ups. The final plans were approved here Tuesday
night at the Council meeting and work is expected
to begin soon. About 75 per cent of the funding for
the program is coming from the Federal
Government’s Environmental Protection Agency.
by creating a greater in
terest in, and understanding
of, today’s farmers and their
problems.
Co-Sponsors of the event
were The United States
Crew Also To Quit
City Sanitation
Director Resigns
Perry sanitation depart
ment director, Herbert
Allen, resigned his post
Tuesday night over a dispute
with the City Council. Allen
has supervised the sanitation
department for the past
several years and is said to
be the most efficient
sanitation supervisor the
City has ever had. Council
accepted his resignation
effective April 3.
Allen claims he and his
crew were not treated fairly
by the Council in a dispute
over being paid for legal
holidays on which his men
worked to pick up the gar
bage in the City. Council did
not agree with his claim and
Allen quit in the face of the
Jaycees, Chevrolet Motor
and Frigidaire Divisions of
General Motors. Guest
speaker was William Erwin,
Assistant Secretary of
Agrilculture for Rural
Development.
dispute.
Allen told The Home
Journal Wednesday morning
the day he quits his entire
crew will walk out along with
him. Allen, who lives in
Vienna (27 miles south of
Perry) brings his crew with
him to Ferry each day, who
also live in the Vienna area.
Councilman D.K.
Houghton, co-chairman of
the sanitation department,
indicated after the Council
meeting Tuesday night, the
City is in a position to face a
garbage collection crisis if it
arises when Allen leaves.
Hdward Warren, City
Superintendent, will take
back over the sanitation
department under his office
effective April 3.