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The Houston Home Journal
S Published Every Thursday At Perry Georgia’s Peal Welcome Center
li VOL. 105 NO. 12
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| "Great Improvement," Dooley Says
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The Houston County
Hospital “Board of Directors”
i Tuesday night announced that
the Perry Hospital financial
picture was substantially
improved over a year ago. The
“Directors” - the Hospital
Authority - told member Mrs.
Eleanor Granum that the
Perry facility was running a
current deficit of $29,287, more
than twenty thousand dollars
better than the same time a
year ago when the deficit was
over fifty thousand dollars.
Mrs. Granum had inquired
about the financial picture and
said that “it sort of bothered”
i.Jt that “the biggest part of
our deficit is from the Perry
Hospital. Yet Warner Robins
Hospital patients pay this.”
Quickly, several Authority
members assured her that the
Perry Hospital was in much
better shape than a year ago.
Barry Jones of Warner Robins
lauded the facility, remarking
on the $29,287 deficit as much
lower than last year. Finance
Committee Chairman Jim
Dooley of Perry echoed
agreement, saying, “There is
a great improvement in
Perry.”
Jones further said, “This
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hAurder Victim's Reward
Fund At First National
The Houston County Sheriff’s Department
Tuesday released information on the fund set for
reward in the Mrs. Zellie Mae Hamsley murder
case. The reward was set at SI,OOO three weeks
ago by Mrs. Hamsley’s family.
Since then, many people have called the
Sheriff’s Department wishing to make a con
tribution to the reward fund. Deputies Harry
Enckler and Jerry Stewart said the fund is
through the First National Bank of Houston
County in Perry, and any donations can be made
at the bank.
Mrs. Hamsley was murdered five weeks ago
( yesterday (Wednesday) at her home in
Hiayneville.
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month, not including
depreciation, which is simply
a "book” figure, the Perry
Hospital shows only a $273
actual loss.”
Executive Director of the
Hospital Complex, James
Wagner, stated, “This is true.
Actually, based on staffing,
the Perry Hospital is better
staffed than the one we’re
setting in now (Warner Robins
Hospital). It operates more
efficiently than this one. This
institution (Warner Robins) is
a little high on staffing and
we’ve instituted a freeze on
hiring here.”
Wagner continued, “To turn
the tide in Perry (and make it
sustaining), we’re talking
about adding just two doc
tors.”
Dooley added, “As you can
see on page 15 of this analysis,
patient days in Perry are
substantially the same, so the
improvement is in operation
and costs.”
Authority member Don
Parkinson of Perry noted,
“Last week we had four
meetings in Perry regarding a
search for new doctors. We
need two, but one would help.
Hopefully within 30-45 days a
Perry attorney Robert M. (Bob) Richardson
(left) was named the Perry Rotary Club’s “Man
of the Year” last week at the Ladies Night
banquet held by the Rotarians at the New Perry
Hotel. Presenting the award here is Rotarian
Harold Jennings, vice president of The Bank of
Perry. Richardson was cited for his service to the
community, church and to his profession. He has
long been active in charitable and civic projects in
Perry and has served as chairman of the United
Fund and Cancer Society. Richardson is also
active in the Perry United Methodist Church and
serves as a Sunday School teacher there.
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concerted effort will begin. By
the end of the year we hope to
have the two doctors.”
He added, ‘‘The lab
situation in Perry is a bright
spot.” Parkinson referred to a
decision by the board to retain
$17,000 of lab equipment for
the Perry Hospital, He ob
served that the lab was a
City Gets
State Funds
For Streets
Perry Mayor James
McKinley and State
Representative Larry Walker
of Perry, in a joint an
nouncement Tuesday af
ternoon, said State Dept, of
Transportation Director
Downing Musgrove awarded
the city of Perry a total of six
and three fourths miles of
street resurfacing funds. The
total amount is $74,391.
Mayor McKinley said part
of the approved funds came
last week and the funds
granted this Tuesday con
cluded all the City had asked
for from the D.O.T. McKinley
said the City had gotten 5
miles of resurfacing funds last
spring to being the project
when he, former city coun
cilman D.K. (Dot) Roughton
and Rep. Larry Walker had
appeared before Musgrove
seeking the funds.
McKinley told The Home
Journal, “The city is indeed
grateful for these funds and I
want to thank Rep. Walker for
the work he has done over the
past year to help the city get
these additional resurfacing
funds. It has been by a
cooperative effort between the
city and Rep. Walker that we
were able to get this money
and we appreciate his ef
forts.”
McKinley said the City
Council will take bids for the
resurfacing project right
away.
profit-making wing and
paying for itself
At a special meeting
Monday night with the
Houston County Commission,
the subject of new doctors for
Perry had also been
discussed. Commissioner
Steve Byrd had asked if a
search for physicians for
Perry was underway, stating
he thought a definite need
existed.
Wagner said then, “All it
would take would be a couple
of doctors to bring Perry
Hospital from a deficit to a
beautiful operation- better
than breakeven. The national
average patients per doctor in
a hospital is eight, so two
doctors could produce 16 more
patients a day at Perry if they
reached the national
average.”
Commissioner V.W.
McEver added, ‘‘We’ve
worked to get doctors in
Perry. That’s the whole
solution down there. Os
course, G.P.’s (General
Practitioners) are at a
premium. Perry is a real nice
little city- real attractive. One
of these days they’ll have two
or three new doctors. I really
don’t understand why
someone hasn’t already come
down.”
Security Fed.
Gets City Bid
Perry Mayor James
McKinley announced at the
regular City Council meeting
Tuesday night that he had
taken bids from all three
Perry banks for some $74,000
in sewage and water depart
ment sinking funds. The
Mayor said he took bids of
interest on the money from the
local banks.
Security Federal Savings
and Loan Association of
Middle Georgia won the bid by
offering the city 6 */ 2 percent
for 12 months on the sinking
funds.
AARP Hears
Judge Watson
The America Association of
Retired Persons met March 11
in the Community Room of the
St. Christopher’s Episcopal
Church. Milo Medlock,
president, presided. He urged
members to take advantage of
the many services the
organization gives its Senior
Citizens.
Mrs. W.B. Evans, program
chairman, introduced Clint
Watson, judge of the Probate
Court of Houston County, who
talked on “Growing Orchids”.
Home Improvement
Section This Week
The Home Journal’s annual “Spring Home
Improvement” section appears on pages 13-B thru
19-B in this week’s newspaper. The section con
tains many advertisements from local merchants
and Realtors and information on how to improve
your home the most economical way.
Be sure to read and save this important section
of your Home Journal this week. You will find
many helpful hints and money-saving suggestions
on how you can make your home a better place to
live.
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Local Lawmen Praised
State Representative Larry Walker of Perry
recently presented Perry State Patrol Post
Commander Sgt. W.D. Blackstock (left) and
Perry Police Chief B.E. Dennard, with resolutions
thanking them and their departments for their
assistance in the Fort Valley tornado disaster.
Judge Hunt Signs Order
On County Seat Legal Suit
(Editor’s Note: Houston
County Superior Court Judge
Willis B. Hunt late Tuesday
afternoon signed his order
concerning a suit filed last
August 2 by five Perryans
against various parts of the
county government. The
entire text of Judge Hunt’s
ruling is herein printed,
courtesy of Superior Court
Clerk Tommie Hunt’s office.
The ruling, in effect, says the
State Court is valid, the county
can have offices in Warner
Robins, but limits the Com
mission to holding official
meetings in Perry.)
CIVIL ACTION NO. 14758
ORDER
The foregoing matter
having come on to be heard
before me, after hearing of
evidence, entry of stipulations
and consideration of
argument and briefs of
counsel, the Court makes the
following findings of fact and
conclusions of law.
AS TO COUNT ONE
FINDINGS OF FACT: I find
that the State Court of Houston
County was originally created
as the City Court of Warner
Robins by an Act of the
Legislature, Georgia Laws
1965, Pages 2650-2664 The Act
creating said Court and
amendments thereto,
changing the name of the
Court to the State Court of
Houston County, placed the
situs of the Court in Warner
Robins, outside the county
site. As created and amended,
the Court continues to sit in
Warner Robins as the State
Court of Houston County.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: I
find that the State Court of
Houston County is not a
constitutional city court
regardless of the name given
it by the Georgia Legislature
in the Act creating the Court
or in amendments thereto,
because it fails to meet the
test required for constitutional
city courts, Welborne vs, The
State, 114 Ga 793, 809 , Barlow
vs. Story, 117 Ga. App. 309(3).
i find further, that said Court
is a valid statutory court
created by virtue of the
exercise of the authority given
to the General Assembly
under the Constitution of the
State of Georgia, Article VI,
Section I, Paragraph I (Sec. 2-
3601, Ga. Code Ann.), to
establish courts other than
those enumerated in the
Supreme Court Justice Here
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Conley Ingram (center) was the guest
speaker at the Perry Kiwanis Club here Tuesday. He was introduced to the
club by Perry Realtor Allen Whipple (left). Looking on is Kiwanis president
George Nunn. Justice Ingram talked “obedience for the laws’’ and also an
swered questions from Kiwanians concerning recent Supreme Court dicisions.
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Rep. Walker had the resolutions passed in the
Georgia House of Representatives recognizing the
two law enforcement officers. Both the State
Patrol and Police Department from Perry had
officers in Fort Valley minutes after the tornado
to assist local authorities.
Constitution whenever the
necessity exists for the
establishment of such a court,
Daughtry vs. The Stale, 115
Ga. 819, 822. The Court further
finds that the State Court of
Houston County, as a
valid statutory court, is
permitted to sit in Warner
Robins as authorized by law,
and that the Board of Com
missioners of Houston County
may in the exercise of their
discretion, fund and provide
facilities therefor.
Neither the existence, nor
Refraction
In a front page news story last week about the
kidnapping and robbery of an insurance agent in
Perry, the name Willie Bass, Jr., was carried in
the story erroneously as one of the three men
charged in the kidnapping. The man arrested was
Charlie Bass. We regret the error and are happy
to correct it in this retraction.
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the operation and funding of
the State Court of Houston
County is subject to any of the
objections raised by the
plaintiffs; therefore, the relief
sought in Count One of their
Complaint is denied.
AS TO COUNT TWO
FINDINGS OF FACT; I find
that pursuant to purported
statutory authority (Georgia
Laws 1963, page 2169), the
County Commissioners have
been holding meetings and
taking official action in
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