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ONE YEAR AGO
MAY 30,1974 - A series of forums on
downtown revitalization was being
held by officials from the Georgia
School of Business. They were to offer
retailing suggestions for downtown
Perry.—A legal suit against Houston
County was rumored to be a
possibility, to be brought by a group
of Perryans. The alleged suit was to
challenge legality of county offices
operating outside the county seat of
Perry.—ln a related move, Warner
Robins Mayor Ed Bryant was
spearheading an effort to move the
county seat to Warner Robins. Cir
culations were being submitted in an
effort to raise 9,100 signatures to hold
a referendum on the situation. So far
only 2,000 had been collected.™
Houston County public schools
banned a novel by Nobel Prize winner
John Steinbeck, “Os Mice and Men”
from its supplementary reading lists.-
--Perry’s Second Annual Clean Up
day was held, with few volunteers.
FIVE YEARS AGO
MAY 28, 1970 - L. Cohen Walker
decided not to offer for re-election to
the county Board of Education. He
had been on the school board for 20Vi
years, 20 years as the chairman.
Walker is owner of Gray-Walker
Tractor Company.—A tornado blew
apart a guard house at Pabst
Brewery. Over a hundred thousand
dollars in damage was done to other
parts of the huge brewery.—ln an
address to the Exchange Club of
Perry, Gov. Lester Maddox praised
leadership of Perryans.—The May,
1970, marches and demonstrations in
Perry cost the city about SIO,OOO.
Money went for housing and feeding
Georgia State Patrolmen, police
salaries, gasoline, and housing and
feeding the 500 prisoners.—The
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TEN YEARS AGO
MAY 27, 1965 - Three Perry High
School juniors were selected to attend
Girls State: Donna Bryant, Judy
Colvin, and Susan Smith. They were
named by the American Legion
Auxiliary.—By court order, Houston
County public schools were to in
tegrate five grades the next fall.
Grades One, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and
Twelve were to be integrated under
Judge W.A. Bottle’s order, and all
were to be integrated by 1968.—The
Perry Junior League season was to
get underway Tuesday night with
“Miss Perry of 1965”, Brenda Roper,
to throw out the first ball.—The city of
Perry had no fatal accidents in 1964,
according to Georgia Department of
Public Safety figures. Houston
County had 24 traffic fatalities in 1964.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
MAY 26, 1960 - By census count, the
population of Perry was 6,059, a fifty
seven percent increase over the 1950
figure of 3,849. County population in
1960 was said to be 39,068- an 86
percent increase. The population of
Warner Robins was 18,534.™ Paul
Stalnaker of Centerville qualified to
oppose incumbent Herman Watson of
Warner Robins for Houston County’s
Georgia General Assembly House
post.—The Perry High FFA String
Band won District Honors. It was
composed of; Hearn Bennett-guitar;
Jerry Horton-guitar; Wayne Stewart
guitar; Larry Horton- washboard;
Sidney Bloodworth- drums; and
Verlon (Fuzz) Bell- bass fiddle.
“Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain...’’ Those
stirring words from “America The Beautiful’’ aptly describe this field of grain
just inside the Perry City limits on Houston Lake Road. The majesty of blue
sky on the horizon made the HHJ photographer wish for a roll of color film.
The wonders of nature seem to be splendidly framed in this testament to
spring and life.
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I really enjoyed appearing
on “Noon Over Middle
Georgia” with Anne Johnson
last week and I appreciate all
of the nice comments you
made about my appearance.
Remember, if you have some
information concerning local
entertainment that you would
like for me to mention on that
show and here in this column,
please let me know about it.
I urge you again to make
plans to attend the Perry Art
Club Show at The Bank of
Perry this Friday and
Saturday. Whether you are an
art lover or not, I am sure that
you will be impressed by the
talent demonstrated by our
local artists. So make your
plans to attend the show.
This Thursday night CBS
will present the movie “The
Great White Hope”. This is the
story of boxer Jack Jefferson
and it stars James Earl Jones.
This is of special interest
because James Earl Jones is
one of the actors who will be
coming to Macon to film the
story of Satchel Paige. He is a
very good actor and this is
probably the role that first
gave him public exposure.
“The Great White Hope” was
a hit Broadway play and then
the cast was moved almost
intact to the movie version.
Competing for viewers that
night on NBC will be a made
for TV movie entitled “Terror
On The 40th Floor”. This is a
poor man's version of “The
Towering Inferno” but it still
is a suspense packed movie
that will entertain you. It
stars “Dandy" Don Meredith
and he is popping up all over
the TV screen this year. He is
a surprisingly good actor.
With Howard Cosell having his
own variety show this fall, t.ie
Monday night football crew is
doing all right.
For movies this week, you
can choose from watching
Clint Eastwood hang off a
mountain in “The Eiger
Sanction", Charles Bronson
blow up a Mexican prison in
“Breakout", Kirk Douglas
swagger through a western
called “Posse”, or James
Mason set back southern
dialect three hundred years in
“Mandingo". Each of these
movies has a few females but
none in starring roles. Be
thankful for Barbra Streisand
ladies, she is the only really
big female movie star around
these days.
I anr not a big Kirk Douglas
fan so I generally would not be
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Vol. 105 No. 22
The Houston Home Journal
is published every Thursday
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Inc. Entered at the Post Office
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interested in seeing his latest
movie “Posse”. However, I
am interested in seeing how
James Stacy performs. He is a
young actor who lost an arm
and a leg in a motorcycle
accident a few years back and
“Posse” is his first acting job
since the accident. I hope that
he is successful in the role and
can get his career going again.
Up until the accident his
movie roles had been minor.
His biggest break had been as
a regular on the “Lancer”
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series. Too he had gained a
large amount of publicity by
being married to Connie
Stevens and Kim Darby.
Someone mentioned to me
that if the Annex is torn down
that that would be a good
location for a Perry Civic
Center to be built. It sounds
like a good idea to me if the
funds can be raised and all of
the legal problems overcome.
I certainly think it would be
nice for Perry to have a Civic
Center.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS.. MAY 29, 1975,
Saturday Night
Perry's Zippy »
Mart Held Up'
The Zippy Mart Food Store
on Highway 341 South was
held up about 10 P.M.
Saturday night by a lone,
armed bandit. According to
reports filed at the Perry
Police Dept., the robber got
about $45 in cash.
Mrs. Linda Baxley, who was
running the store at the time
of the robbery, said the black
man walked in the store and
pulled a 25 or 32 caliber pistol
telling her to give him all the
money in the cash drawer. She
said she thought the robber
was “kidding” at first but then
he reached in his pocket and
placed an ammunition clip in
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the pistol.
The robber is described as
being about 5 feet 5 inches tall
and weighing about 140
pounds. He was black and
thought to be between 16 and
20 years of age. He was
wearing red and brown plaid
trousers and a blue shirt. He
had a stocking over his face
with holes cut out for his eyes
and was wearing a green
baseball cap.
The robbery was in
vestigated by officer Pat
Padgett, Sgt. Ernest Carter
and assistant chief of police
Roy Shellnut.