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The Houston Home Journal
Official Organ City Os Perry And Houaton County, Georgia
BOBBY BRANCH
A Pritt-Winninie
PRESIDENT-EDITOR-PUBLISHER 1974
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Next Tuesday, April 1, is the
deadline for purchasing the decal for
automobile tags. To date, about 15,000
Houston County auto owners have
failed to buy their decals at the
courthouse in Perry or the county
building in Warner Robins. The
procedure can also be done by mail
for those who received a notice from
Mrs. Griffin’s office.
Tax Commissioner Joyce Griffin
has warned that stiff penalties await
Arts N Crafts Circus Sat.
We are pleased to note more and
varied types of entertainment being
brought into the Perry area. A good
example of this is the Idaka Club’s
annual Circus of Arts and Crafts to be
held all day this Saturday at the
Perry National Guard Armory. Some
65 artisans and craftsmen will be on
This year Easter Sunday will fall on
March 30. Since the very early days of
the Christian church, this has been
the great event of the year, com
memorating the resurrection of Jesus
Christ and the fulfillment of the
promise of salvation for all people.
Since ancient times, churches and
altars have been decorated for the
occasion; candles have been burned;
and, in the medieval cathedrals of
England, the Easter or paschal
candles were often of huge dimen
sions. They were held in gigantic
brass or silver candlesticks and
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Perry lost a good and devoted man
last week with the death of our friend
Dan H. Britton.
He served this community many
years in an unselfish and fair manner
as a city councilman and mayor pro
tern. He was active and devoted to his
church as well as his business. But
above all that, Dan Britton was a
Perry Tornado Warning
r
Because of the severe weather in
recent months, the Perry Police and
Fire Departments have established
certain procedures for citizens to
follow in case of a tornado touchdown
in or near the Perry area.
We call the readers’ attention to the
front page story this week that sets
out what to do in time of a tornado.
There will be one, long blast of the fire
County Vehicle Bid Questioned
Board of Houston Com
missioners
Houston County
P 0 Drawer 2007
Warner Robins. Georgia 31092
Thank you very much for
being kind enough to even
consider me as a possible
vendor for quality mer
chandise that would meet your
knowledgeable specifications,
more particular is your bid
invitation on two medium duty
trucks with heavy duty
qualities of March 5, 1975 To
be considered March 18
In reading the invitation I
was very careful, as 1 always
am when trying to interpret
any invitation from a political
subdivision, not to overlook
the least word. Now. I do as all
interested dealers do. spend
many hours in considering
every angle before turning in
a bid, to be sure that I'm sure
Otherwise I might loose my
shirt because, at the bottom of
your invitation it says (we
agree to furnish any or all of
the above items in accordance
with prices and terms herein
quoted). Three other things I
saw and understood loud and
clear.
1. Please quote your lowest
price F O B. Perry, Georgia
Get Decals Or Else!
Easter Sunday
Dan Britton
2 Houston County reserves
the right to reject, accept, or
negotiate any bid submitted.
3 Please quote firm prices
and delivery date
To me the subject would be
prices for a truck like we
want But I slipped again, I
see now the last two words in
quote no. 3 above (delivery
date). It registers now what
you're saying, Get me a
truck" To hell with the price
Sixty days will save the tax
payer money Like, give us the
land, get the wire, we’ll put up
the post Sirs, you’re being
very kind in using the words
(delivery date) in lieu of
rejected What you're saying
is, sorry sonny; look closer
next time Thank you, I am
Sincerely,
Idus W. NeSmilh
P S. Keep me on your mailing
list; maybe I'll make a real hit
next time.
(EDITOR'S NOTE:
NeSmith's letter is in
reference to a decision made
last week by the Houston
County Commission to reject
his LOW BID and award a
contract for purchase of two
dump trucks for the Houston
County roads department to a
higher bidder. The Corn
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those who have not yet purchased
their decals. The Georgia State Patrol
and other law enforcement agencies
will begin issuing citations next
Wednesday morning to those
motorists who fail to comply with the
state law.
■Jake care of the matter im
mediately. The lines will be mighty
long next Monday and Tuesday...and
slow moving.
—B.B.
hand to display skills and handmade
products, many out of the past.
Tickets are only $1 and the entire
family will enjoy this show. Make
plans to stay in Perry Saturday and
attend the Circus of Arts and Crafts.
The Home Journal wholeheartedly
endorses this event.
—B.B.
reached a combined height of as
much as 60 or 70 feet.
This Easter, sunrise services,
children hunting Easter eggs,
families attending church together
and the, sometimes frivolous,
profusion of new "easier bonnets”
will be outward evidence of the 2,000-
year continuity of the Christian
celebration of Christ’s resurrection
and spiritual reality. It is a time to
reaffirm our faith in Him who rose to
lead mankind in the ways of peace
and brotherhood and fulfill the
promise of eternal life.
—B.B.
family man and that speaks well for
the kind of person he was and will be
remembered as by all those who knew
him and valued his friendship.
Dan Britton was a good and fair
man. That is a good way to be
remembered. We shall miss him and
we extend our sympathies to family
and many friends in this community.
—B.B.
siren to warn people in the area.
Those in isolated areas of the City will
be warned by police officers in cars.
Take note of these warnings. Clip out
article on page one and paste it in an
area in the home where all family
members can see it in time of an
emergency weather situation. This
piece of advice could save your life.
—B.B.
mission apparently rejected
NeSmith's bid because it
specified a delivery date in
June The bid that was ac
cepted noted that delivery
could be made in two days.
The winning dealer according
to reports had talked about the
bids with Commissioner Alton
Tucker, and Tucker said last
week at the Commission
meeting that the trucks had
been located out of state,
similar to specifications )
Perry Scouts
Thank Journal
Dear Mr Branch:
On behalf of Cub Scout Pack
216 I would like to thank you
and your staff for the excellent
coverage you gave our Cubs in
all of their activities The
pictures were excellent, and
you were most generous with
the space provided for written
coverage
We greatly appreciate your
continuing interest in our
scouting endeavors
Sincerely,
Mrs. Joan Aucoin
Publicity Chairman
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The Slanted Side
By Joe Hietl
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The scene is 1985, and the Houston
County Hospital Authority is meeting
in an attempt to finalize plans to
expand the vastly overcrowded
Warner Robins and Perry Hospitals.
The population of Houston County has
burgeoned from a large 68,000 in 1975
to upwards of 125,000 in 1985.
In the 45 bed Perry Hospital,
patients are bedded down in the
laboratory, in the emergency room,
and still spilling over into the
hallways. Average daily occupancy is
58, 13 over capacity. In the sister city
of Warner Robins, at the 212 bed
Warner Robins Hospital, the situation
is much the same. There too patients
are overflowing the available space.
In the conference room in Warner
Robins, the nine man county Hospital
Authority is figuring out when to build
the additions at both hospitals. Funds
are no problem, since the complex
has working capital of over three
million dollars available. Even the
once-troubled ambulance service is
showing a profit.
Yet, after the three hour planning
session has narrowed alternatives
and a plan of construction has been
decided, an almost anonymous man
rises to his feet and authoritatively
says, “You cannot build onto either
hospital. We won’t approve it. If you
build without our approval, you will
not receive any further federal
subsidies of any kind, including
Medicare and Medicaid.”
The stranger is a member of the
Middle Georgia Health Board, a
powerful commission that regulates
planning in the Macon area. The
health board is an outgrowth of a bill
signed into law in 1974 by then U.S.
President Gerald Ford. The bill was
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THE THIRD DAY
" K FIRST BAPTIST
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He rose again the third day
affording to the scriptures,
•1 ('or. 15:4
In the secular and com
mercialized world in which we
live. Easter gets very little of
our attention except on Easter
Sunday For the most part, we
approach the whole thing
either as an unlikely miracle
story or by saying: ‘So
what?"
The former attitude, that
the Resurrection was
probably a mistake at best or
a hoax at worst, holds that it
didn t happen Some have said
that Jesus was in a coma when
sponsored by then-Senator, now
United States President Ted Kennedy
of Hyannisport, Massachusetts.
The preceding is all fantasy, of
course. But knowledgeable people say
that just such a scenario could be
forthcoming from the bill, which IS
fact and WAS sponsored by Ted
Kennedy and WAS signed into law by
Ford. The Health Plan Act will
establish “health service agencies in
every state.” Each agency will be set
up along SMSA lines (Southern
Metropolitan Statistical Area), which
in Houston County’s case, means that
the 68,000 inhabitants of Houston
County would be lumped together
with Bibb County and Macon.
Medical trade areas would be
established by the bill, and the local
“health agency” would allegedly
govern planning in the SMSA. On
each agency would be at least 51
percent “non-medical” personnel.
Non-medical would eliminate doc
tors, nurses, dentists, hospital staff
and anyone remotely connected with
medicine.
Conceivably, the board would
govern growth of hospitals within its
area. If, for instance, the Houston
hospitals were overcrowded, and the
Macon hospitals still had space, then
the “agency” could prevent Houston
from adding on to its hospitals. This is
conceivable because the federal
governments look with favor on
“area” planning.
Health, Education and Welfare
(HEW) Secretary Casper Weinberger
asked that agencies be established by
May 4,1975, in each state. In Georgia,
several alternatives have been put
forth, ALL of which lump Houston
County with Middle Georgia, in
cluding Bibb County.
they buried him and that he
later revived; others hold that
someone came and stole the
body so as to make an empty
tomb Both theories leave
Jesus now in a grave.
But that would mean that
several things are true. First,
falsehood is stronger than
truth; Jesus' enemies were
successful in getting rid of
him. Secondly, evil is stronger
than good; Satan may well be
king of this world and the next
as well Thirdly, hatred is
stronger than love; if God is
love and Jesus is like Him,
then the hatred of man
conquered the love of God.
Fourthly, death is stronger
than life; Jesus claimed to
offer life to those who follow
him, both now and in the world
to come, but he was himself
the victim of the Grim
Reaper. Fifthly, and worst, it
makes Jesus to become either
a tragically mistaken mental
case or the greatest liar who
ever lived. As Henry Swete
puts it: "The intellectual
difficulty of believing in the
Resurrection of our Lord’s
body to be a baseless story will
always be greater than the
intellectual difficulty of
believing it to be a substantial
fact , ” that is, it is harder not
to believe than to accept the
Biblical record.
As to the “so what?” at
titude, the Resurrection was
and is an event which is
unique in history, an event
which vindicates the power of
God and love and life, and an
event which points toward
God’s desire to overcome the
power of death and sin in your
life.
BOBBY
BRANCH H
OUT ON A
BRANCH
Everyone is upset over the recent spiraling
costs of electricity rates passed on by Georgia
Power Company in recent months. The jump in
rates has touched the lives of us all and in many
cases has created a financial burden for people on
fixed incomes.
It has been suggested to me that the City of
Perry ought to look into the possibility of going
into the power business. The City of Fort Valley
owns and operates that community’s utility
company. The idea sounds good but in order to do
this the City would have to get permission from
the Georgia Public Service Commission and then
purchase all the power lines and facilities from
Georgia Power. In the end, the City would have to
buy electricity from Georgia Power. But it all
might be interesting to look into to see what
of a rate the city would have to charge even after
buying the electricity. After all the City would not
be concerned with high profits and floors of high
salaried executives. Very interesting. I think The
Home Journal will look into this just for the heck
of it. In the meantime, the kilowatts are clicking
off and power bills keep rising. It’s a shock, to say
the least.
Hold on to your chairs, while we look at
McGraw-Hill Economics Department’s
“Tomorrow’s Technology Forecast”. The initial
date in parentheses represents the date of
economic feasibility; the second, the date of
widespread application.
Manmade “cotton” with properties of natural
fiber (1977-1985).
Prebirth detection of defects (1979-1980).
Effective weight and appetite contr#
(1980)1988).
Computer hookup between homes and stores
(1980-1985).
Use of computers for household operation (1980-
1988).
Industrial wastes in highway pavements (1980-
1990).
Inexpensive plastics, stronger and lighter than
metals (1980-1988).
Fibers that change color with temperature
environments (1980-1984). .
Direct conversion of heat to electricity (1981-
1986).
Automatic language translation (1984-1990).
Use of moving sidewalks for local tran-;
sportation (1985-2010).
Transplantation of the nucleus of human cells:
(1985-1995). 9 :
Automic energy powered railroad (1985-2000),
Autos powered by atomic energy (1988-1990).
Human “hibernation” (1989-2010).
Weather modification of small areas (1990-
2005).
Chemical methods for improving memory and :
learning (1990-1995).
Artificial eyesight for the blind (1990-1995). :
Plastic bridges (1992-2000).
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Increase in life expectancy to 100 years (1995-
2000).
Chemical control over some hereditary
characteristics through molecular engineering
(1995-2000).
Changing sex of baby prior to birth (2000-2005).
Drugs to permanently raise the level of
telligence (2005-2010).
Weather control over sizeable regions (2010-
2020).
Underwater plastic cities (2020-2060).
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V /? Panderings
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Dear Mistur Editor,
Me and the boys at the hog parlor been gettin
mighty upset about the way them Georgia Power
folks have kept sending the rates up. Heck, it has
done got so expensive for us that the electric bill
on the hog parlor is neqr about as much as the
mortgage payment me and the boys got with
Security Federal on the hog parlor. Now, Mistur
Editor, that ain’t right. 4|
Looks like to me, Mistur Editor, them big boys
with the power company up there in Atlanta, have
fiddled away a lot of dollars and us poor folks is
paying the price. Dadburnit we just can’t stand
the rising costs of electricity. It sure is too bad
Georgia Power don’t have competition. Now, that
would make a difference.
Me and the boys know that everyone can’t do it
but we had our electricity cut off and we dug out
some old kerosene lamps. We just poor folks and
we just can’t afford to pay the power costs no
more. Heck, there’s a lot like us out here in this old
world. But I don’t reckon Georgia Power much
cares.... Rip, rip, rip off.
Kindest Regardless,
PORKY