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VOL. 103, NO. 21 Six Cities Studied Perry Rated High For sMillion State Agriculture Coliseum State Representative Larry Walker told The Home Journal today he is of the opinion Perry still has a “good chance” of landing a proposed million dollars plus Georgia agriculture coliseum-complex. Rep. Walker’s statement was prompted by study released this week by the University of Georgia, listing Perry as one of the top cities con sidered out of six in the Middle Georgia area for the complex. Serious discussion about constructing the coliseum first came up in the Georgia General Assembly in 1971, but there were no funds available to conduct a study. The State allocated funds in 1972 for a study by the University and the results Hospital Authority Action Perry Nurse Has Charge Os Ambulance Service Ambulance drivers at Perry hospital are going to be put under the authority of the Director of Nursing, as a result of action taken at Monday night’s Houston County Hospital Authority meeting in Warner Robins. Previously, the ambulance attendents were under the direction of the Ad ministrator at Perry. Personnel committee chairman Hugh Beatty reported that the medical staff had written a letter recommending the change and Beatty stated that the medical staff also wanted to discuss the present twelve hour ambulance shifts being cut back to eight hour shifts. Mrs. Betty Howard is Director of Nursing at the In Houston County, how much of the income received by local residents during the course of a year comes in the form of government checks? To what degree do the Federal, state and local governments add to the financial well-being of the population? As in most parts of the country, a sizeable portion of the income they receive is traceable to public funds. A special study of the sources of personal in come, covering all parts of the country, indicates that about 25.2 cents out of every dollar received The Houston Home Journal were released this week. Those cities studied as possible sites besides Perry, include Albany, Columbus, Macon, Tifton and Valdosta. Walker said the concept of the coliseum will be to hold various agriculture-related shows, sales and programs and also for concerts, youth programs and wide range of various civic, community and regional activities. Perry was ranked high in the six city study. The report noted that, for example, there would be over 800 South Georgia manufac turing plants as potential users within a 100 mile radius. One day of exhibits or conventions by only 10 percent of these firms would account for nearly three months use of coliseum. Perry hospital. An apparent misun derstanding between the ambulance drivers and the rest of the hospital was cleared up by the shift in authority. The drivers are going to be put to use in other ways when not answering emergency calls. Since the service was taken over by Perry in December, the ambulances have averaged less than two calls per day. The subject of changing the drivers' shifts from twelve hour to eight hour shifts was to be worked out by Administrator Beverly Chester, Assistant ad ministrator Charles Hall, and Nurse Howard. Recently the entire operation of the ambulance 25 Per Cent Os Houston Countions Work For Government Published Weekly In Perry , Georgia , Home Os Senator Sam Nunn The report was also highly complimentary of Perry’s civic leaders for the success over the years of attracting major manufacturers, even though Perry is the smallest City in population in the study. The report further stated, “The greater Macon area is growing in a southward direction. The new 1-475 by pass has attracted Macon’s growth in that direction. In fact, both the municipal airport and Warner Robins are closer to Perry than to Macon. Therefore, it is not unexpected that the growth of Macon will continue to push into Houston County. As a result, Perry is very much on the dividing line between the urban sprawl of Macon and the rural communities to service by Perry hospital came under fire by the County Commissioners. The county solons objected to the deficits being rung up by the service, which took in only $925 in the first five months of operation, as opposed to a total deficit of over SIB,OOO. In other action at the Monday night meeting, it was revealed that the Warner Robins kitchen opened Monday morning. For several months, the Perry hospital had been providing lunches for her northern sister. The meals were transported in a specially equipped truck to Robins. The kitchen was closed and enlarged as a part of Phase I expansion at Warner Robins hospital. by people in the local area comes from some agency of government. For the most part, the money represents wages and salaries paid to civil employees, benefits to those getting social security, unemployment compensation, pensions, public assistance and interest on bonds. According to the latest figures, approximately $44,417,000 a year is reaching the local area from such sources. The study was made by the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit organization. It was PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1973 the south. Either market can be served by Perry," the report read. Criteria for the study in cluded the areas of cen trality, concentration, ac cess, potential draw, non duplication and local compatibility. Out of the other five cities studied, only Perry received “high” rating on both centrality and concentration but on the other hand it received a low rating for non-duplication because it is not too distant from the Macon Coliseum and this seems to be a conflict for attracting other than agriculture related exhibitions and concerts. Perry Area Chamber of Commerce officials assisted the surveyors with the study while they were in Perry. Rep. Walker concluded, “I believe Perry will be high on the consideration list when the final site selection decision is made. Certainly we have much to offer for such a facility and the im pact locally would be a far reaching, tremendous asset to our community.” Hospital Board Sports Minded The crack of a baseball bat meeting the ball, added to the thud of bodies crashing together on the gridiron proved to be too much to overcome Monday night at the Houston County Hospital Authority. The board voted to change their official meeting date from the last Monday night in each month to the last Tuesday night in each month. The sports telecasts evidently played a part in the decision because one member observed before the vote that fifteen major league baseball games were scheduled for television this summer, to be followed by Monday Night Football. Whopping $44,417,000 Annual Payroll \t V '■ '* ■L JB? "■ JB V "•’"'-'V 'V. i ’'-,- * » B : fIK< 4 I p ... \ nuivy ; v . ..jB K bF -•! flKm. * H *• >s. ’ jjr s \u :f 4 r w W • -k* ;** Ready For Summer! These Perry cuties are getting ready for the opening of the Ochlahatchee Pool on June 2. Shown at poolside are from left, Rhonda Goodroe, Tonda Marshall and Cheryl Bragg. The pool hours this summer will be Tuesday thru Friday from I "Misleading, Inaccurate" Doctors Respond To Robins News Story (EDITOR’S NOTE: In a Monday afternoon Warner Robins newspaper appeared an article entitled "Will Doctors Leave Perry?” The two doctors in question, Walter Simpson and Wayne Hulsey, say that many parts of the article are, at best, misleading and false. The following news story takes comments from the Robins article and gives the doctors’ comments.) The Warner Robins paper stated “We are going to lose them, one Perry citizen said. Once they pay off their debts, they are going to be based upon data compiled by the U.S. Office of Business Economics. Taking the average figures for the State of Georgia and adapting them to Houston County, it appears that the 25.2 cents of the dollar received locally from public treasuries comprises 15.9 cents that came from Washington and 9.3 cents from state and local funds. The proportions vary widely from one area of the country to another. Nationally, 24.3 percent of income is from government sources, and, throughout the South Atlantic States, 28.4 percent. long gone.” The two physicians answered the statement by making the following comment; “After the fire, we had an opportune time to leave Ferry if we so desired. The equipment was destroyed and our leased office was a shambles which in effect cut our ties to this area. Os course, it can not be said that we did not consider the possibility of leaving at that time. There are few times in life that a person receives a chance to look back and decide if his original decision was appropriate, then be p.m. to 6 p.m. The Saturday hours will be from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Sunday from I p.m. to 6 p.m. There is also a number of other recreational activities being planned for the park this summer that will be announced at a later date. able to remake a decision. The fact that the decision was made to locate tem porary office facilities and to re-invest in new equipment should emphasize the fact that Perry is truly our home.” The Robins article also said, ‘Another reliable source tells us that the doctors had records of about $20,000 in accounts receivable when they were burned out on Feb. 11. These records were destroyed by the fire, according to our sources.” Doctors Hulsey and Some communities get an exceptionally large proportion of their income in that manner, it is noted, due to a large number of their people on public payrolls or due to a high concentration of retired people in their areas. In Washington, D.C., for example, the ratio of government payments to personal income is the highest in the country, 51.8 percent, because of the many Federal employees there. In Connecticut the ratio is lowest, 18.3 percent. As for the state and local contributions to in come, they are highest in New Mexico and Alaska and lowest in Ohio. 28 PAGES Simpson remarked, “In fact all accounts receivable were recovered as they were protected by fireproof files.” The article in the Warner Kobins paper further stated, “To make ends meet, Hulsey and Simpson have signed contracts to treat emergency room patients at an Albany hospital.” The doctors commented by saying: “We do alternate daily at emergency room coverage at Albany. Reason? Our inability to find immediately available adequate facilities for two doctors to practice Cont. on Page 2