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The Houston Home Journal
I Perry And Houston County's Independent Newspaper With An Independent Voice
I VOL. 104 NO. 42 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURS., OCTOBER 17, 1974 32 PAGES
I Medusa Has Special Plans
I Chamber Salutes
»
I, Perry Industries
Next week is “Industrial
Appreciation Week” in Perry
sponsored by the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce.
In conjunction with the
special week saluting the
industries in the Perry area,
Medusa Cement Company at
Clinchfield, will hold special
ceremonies and plant tours for
their board of directors and a
number of invited elected and
At 2:00 P.M.
»Shriners Parade
Slated Saturday
This Saturday, Oct. 19, the
Perry Shrine Club is planning
a big day. Perryans will be
treated to a big parade
beginning at 2:00 P.M. in
cluding a number of well
known dignitaries plus
members of the Shriners from
the State of Georgia.
The Shrine portion of the
parade will consist of the
units of several clubs,
along with motorcycle units,
Jeepster units plus other
special units including the
Oriental Band of A1 Sihah
Temple. Other local clubs and
bands will participate.
The Shriners are planning
this as a special day-long
event. The red-fezzed jolly
men who call themselves
members of the Shriners
i organization have been
working and planning for
weeks to make this a special
day.
Children recognize the red
fezzed men because they have
perhaps attended a Shrine
Circus. Fathers know them
because of the East-West
football game or other ac
tivities of charity. The
1 City Officials Listen
I Listening closely to a group of Beauty Shop
1 owners and operators after the regular City
■ Council meeting Tuesday night are, from left,
S Perry Mayor James McKinley, city clerk and
• treasurer Mrs. Ruth Bunting and City Councilman
civic officials in Perry.
Perry Chamber President
Harold Jennings said, “This is
a week in which the
management of all our in
dustries in Perry will get to
know each other better and
learn more about each other’s
companies. There will be in
house tours among the in
dustrial managers in our
community “during the week
By Larry Miller, Sec.
disadvantaged know them for
the 22 hospitals they run for
crippled and burned children -
and anyone who has seen them
parade in their colorful
regalia never forget their
antics as they move along in
costume and on their assorted
transportation.
As previously mentioned the
parade will begin at 2:00 P.M.
with the following invited
Shrine participants: clowns
present will include the A1
Sihah Temple Shrine Clowns
of Macon (with Perry clowns
as members), the Americas
Klowns and the Columbus-
Kort Penning Hi-Jinks. In the
Shrine portion of the parade
will also have the Jeepster
Motor Unit, 74 and Rejects
Motorcycle Units, Legion of
Honor (to present the flag),
the Patrol Unit, the Provost
Guard and the Lotus Unit.
Appearing with these groups
will be the Oriental Band in
complete uniform. They hail
from Thomas!on, Ga.
--All units line up for the
parade at Grants Plaza at 1:00
P.M.
-Parade begins at 2:00
and there will also be a lun
cheon given by the Chamber’s
existing industry committee.”
Jennings further stated,
“We just want to salute and
recognize the outstanding
industries we have in Perry
and hope to make this an
annual event. We in the
Chamber are extremely proud
of our industries and take
great pride in the products
manufactured in Perry for
P.M., going from Grants
Plaza down Sam Nunn Blvd.
and Ball St, to Carroll St., left
turn onto Carroll St. to
Meeting St., right turn onto
Meeting St. to Main St., left
turn onto Main St, to Eastgate
Shopping Center for parade
ending.
-At 4:00 o’clock the drawing
for a live steer will be in front
of the Houston County
Courthouse.
-Perry Shrine Day
Headquarters will be at the
Houston County Agriculture
Bldg, on Carroll Street from
Noon until 7:30 P.M.
-A Dance will begin at 8:30
P.M. at the Moody Body Shop
on Commerce Street, lasting
until approximately 12:00
Midnight.
The Shriners give their
time to aid in fund raising
projects (as the Perry Shrine
Flea Market) to help with the
Shrine Hospitals and other
projects of the Shrine
organization. Shrine Nobles
throughout North America
firmly believe that “never
does a Shriner stand so tall as
Cont. On Page 3-A
a a
Henry Casey. The shop owners were protesting
about the licensing of another beauty shop in
Perry they claim does not meet the license code.
(See story on Page 3-A)
nation-wide and world-wide
consumption.”
Among the larger industries
in Perry to be saluted next
week are: Tolleson Lumber
Co., Inc., producers of
“Wolmanized” lumber for use
in many areas of construction
both in the U.S. and abroad;
Pabst Brewing Company,
producers of Pabst Blue
Ribbon, Andeker and Red,
White and Blue beer here in
Perry that is distributed
throughout the southeast;
Kellwood Company,
manufacturers of bedspreads
and draperies sold by Sears
and other retail stores
nationally and in
ternationally; Quilted Textiles
Co., manufacturers of much of
the quilling material and
other textiles used by
Kellwood in their operations;
Perry Veneer Co., makers of
wood, veneer fruit baskets;
Mullins Homes, Inc.,
residential and commercial
contractors; Continental Can
Co., makers of cans for Pabst
and many other can users;
Medusa Cement Co., makers
of Portland Cement known
world wide; Magee Carpet
Co., manufacturer of world
famous carpet; National
Motor Homes and National
Chassis Co., manufacturers of
luxury motor homes and
chasses for use in motor
homes and other vehicles.
Medusa officials will be
flying into Perry from all over
the U.S. next week to hold
their regular board of
directors meeting here in
conjunction with Medusa’s
open house and plant tour.
Commenting on next week,
Perry Mayor James McKinley
said, “We are proud of the fact
that we have some of the finest
industries anywhere right
here in the Perry area that
have all made good citizens of
our community. The people
employed at our industries are
leading citizens and we in the
City Government salute our
industries and commend them
for the fine job they are
doing,”
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Investigating Rape
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Lt. Jim
Hooks (left) and Perry city detective Eddie
Findley take finger-prints from the door of a fuse
box in the apartment of the 15 year old girl
28 Year Old Perry Man Charged
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Arrest Made In
Perry Rape Case
Charles Wayne Cooper, 28,
white male, of the Westwood
Trailer Park in Perry, was
arrested and charged Tuesday
afternoon in connection with
the rape last Tuesday night of
a 15 year old Perry girl.
Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation Agent Lt. Jim
Hooks of Perry and Perry city
detective Eddie Findley
arrested Cooper at his mobile
home residence about 12 noon
Tuesday after a week of in
tensive investigation into the
first “reported, forcible rape”
in the last 25 years in Perry.
Cooper was placed in the
city jail when arrested and
then moved to the County jail
Tuesday afternoon awaiting a
hearing. Speculation is that
bond in the case will be set
high, as is usually the case in a
Legal Suit
Hearing Fri.
Friday morning (tomorrow)
at the Houston County
Superior Court courtrooms on
the second floor at 10:00 A M.,
a historic legal suit hearing
will begin, with Judge Willis
B. Hunt presiding. The suit
was filed on August 2 by five
Ferryans and seeks to enjoin
the County Commission,
Sheriff, and Slate Court Judge
from operating allegedly
illegally at places other than
the county seat of Perry.
The hearing has been
postponed twice, originally
being scheduled for Sep
tember 18, then for October 16.
Denmark Groover of Gray is
acting as attorney for the five
plaintiffs. Defense counsel is
County Attorney Walker
rape case in Georgia.
Cooper is charged with
allegedly raping the 15 year
old girl in an apartment she
shared with her mother at the
Tara Apartment Complex
here about midnight last
Tuesday night. He was em
ployed by a local ex
terminating firm.
Lt, Hooks said the rape took
place when a man entered the
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White , Blue Collar?
Perry City Council voted
Tuesday night to rescind
action taken at the last
regular meeting that
Burke, Solicitor Jack-
Kemp, and East Point
barrister Harold Sheats, who
is former County Attorney for
Fulton County and present
counsel for the County
Commission Association of
Georgia,
Reportedly, Friday's
hearing will deal only with the
issue of the Stale Court. The
suit seeks to halt operation of
the Court in Warner Robins
and further seeks to prevent
the commissioners from
constructing a 38,000 square
foot building on 55 acres of
land owned by the county at
the southwestern lip of
Warner Robins. Architect for
the planned building, which
would also house the Sheriff's
Department, is Henrv Corsini.
allegedly raped here last Tuesday night. Hooks
and Findley have been investigating the rape
“around the clock’’ since last week and arrested a
man this Tuesday in connection with the crime.
apartment of the victim by
breaking out the glass window
in the back door of the
apartment and unlocking the
door. The girl’s mother was
not at home at the time of the
alleged rape. The man then
pulled the main switch on the
lights in the apartment and
went to the girl’s bedroom. He
then allegedly raped the 15
year old girl and fled from the
apartment.
established city blue collar
workers as those “hired and
fired" by department heads
and white collar workers as
those “hired and fired” by the
City Council.
The action came on a motion
by Councilman Gordon
Scarborough, Jr., when he
said he did not like the way
the blue and white collar jobs
lined up. He said under the
present policy, police officers
are considered white collar
workers because they are
salaried and that some em
ployees in the street depart
ment are also lined up under
the white collar list.
Scarborough recommended
that the Council not take any
action to establish employees
job listings until a study now
underway by the Middle
Georgia Area Planning and
Development Commission is
completed on the City of
Perry’s personnel system.
The study will also set up a
merit system for city em
ployees and outline which
employees are white collar
and blue collar workers.
Councilman D.K. Houghton
said, “Here we go letting the
Federal Government run our
business again and what are
The Home Journal learned
from an informed source just
prior to press-time that Lt.
Hooks and Detective Findley
have been “on the trail” of the
alleged rapist all week long,
following up a number of
leads.
The young rape victim was
hospitalized at the Perry
Hospital for two days and is
now under a doctor’s care.
we going to do between now
and then?” he asked.
Scarborough said the city
would go back to the old policy
of hiring and firing but it was
unclear just what that policy
had been.
City Buys
20 Acres
Perry City Council voted
Tuesday night to purchase 20
acres of land adjacent to the
present sanitary land fill
owned by the city at a cost of
$1,025 an acre. The purchase
will be made from the estate
of the late H.E. Gordon.
Councilman Alton Hardy
pointed out the city now only
has 5 acres and that the ad
ditional land is going to be
needed by the city in the
future. Hardy also noted that
the “land isn’t going to get any
cheaper.”
City Attorney Larry Walker
wanted to know if it was
possible for the city to “get
terms” on the sale and Hardy
said the estate would prefer
the transaction to be a cash
arrangement.