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Downtown Merchants Plan Art Show
Twenty-two downtown
area merchants met
Monday night with the
promotions committee of
the Perry Redevelopment
Authority and all agreed to
sponsor an art show and
sale on Saturday,
December 13, Mrs. Bar
bara Glassford, owner of
The Perry Flower and Gift
Shop and chairwoman of
the committee, said the art
show and sale will be held
in the old Perry Home
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In School Board Tuesday Decision
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Teacher Pay Hike Request Denied
The Houston County
Board of Education
Tuesday afternoon
rejected a request by the
Houston Association of
Educators (HAE) for a
seven (7) percent teachers
pay raise. The raise, if it
had been granted, would
have in effect replaced a
cut in a raise once
proposed by the Georgia
General Assembly.
The school board when it
set the 75-76 school system
operating budget did grant
non teaching personnel a
seven percent pay in
crease. But Perdue said
that most of those pay
raises had to be made to
bring the workers (such as
custodians and lunch
personnel) up to new
minimum wage
requirements.
School board member
Glenn Heck made the
motion to deny the raise
request, and stated that he
did not feel the board
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This is the newly renovated shop in downtown
Perry owned by Mell Tolleson. The inset in the
upper right hand corner is a view of the rear of the
shop in the alley. The Mullins Construction Co. of
Furnishings building in
downtown.
Mrs. Glassford said
Perry native and well
known Columbus, Ga.,
artist, Wyndell Taylor, will
be featured In the art show
along with local amateurs
and professional painters.
Local artists will be judged
on their works and
Bicentennial savings
bonds will be awarded to
the winners. There will be
two SIOO first prizes; two
should begin a subsidizing
it could not continue in
future years. He later said
that his indications (as a
director of the Georgia
School Board Association)
are that education cuts on
a statewide level in the
future may continue
Heck further said the
local board cannot keep
making up a difference.
For years the Houston
County public school
system has paid each of its
teachers a SI,OOO yearly
supplement in wages, at a
cost of almost a million
dollars to the county. This
supplement Is in addition
to state teacher salaries.
The Houston Association
of Educators executive
board had voted a month
ago to ask the local school
board for the seven per
cent pay hike The hike
once was a part of an
education budget passed
by the Georgia General
Assembly, but a special
Saturday December 1 3 Date Set
SSO second prizes and three
$25 third prizes. Taylor will
also have several of his
paintings on display In
cluding some works he has
done in the Perry area.
The art show is being
fully underwritten by the
merchants association of
the Perry Downtown
Redevelopment Authority.
The downtown area is
defined as a 6 block square
area in the downtown
section of Perry; it is not
made up entirely of
merchants on Carroll
Street.
Mrs. Glassford also
announced that several
shops in the downtown
area will hold open house
on Sunday, December 7,
from 2 P.M. until 5 P.M.
She said the shops holding
open house will be an
nounced in the next few
weeks.
"I am extremely
delighted that the down
town area merchants are
united in this project and
that we plan to bring more
attractions to the con
sumers of Perry
throughout the coming
months,” Mrs. Glassford
stated.
Logo Adopted
Merchants at the
budget whacking session
earlier in the year trim
med the cut from the state
budget.
If the seven percent hike
had been passed in
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Downtown Projects . . .
ahead.”
Tolleson said he could
not make an an
nouncement about a tenant
for the completed shop at
this time but that he ex
pects to have the shop
leased in 30 days. He also
pointed out that the old
Perry Pharmacy will be
converted into two
Williamsburg design
buildings and that at the
time extensive renovations
are complete he will have
Perry did the extensive renovations which in
cluded re-doing the rear entrance. A tenant is
expected to lease this building within the next 30
days, Mell Tolleson said.
meeting were also shown a
new "logo" that will be
used to identify the
downtown area. "The
Crossroads Village" is the
theme used on the logo
with two pine cones and a
pine branch at the bottom
of a Williamsburg design
sign. Large signs will be
placed at strategic en
trances to the downtown
and shops in the area will
place the logo sign on their
store fronts. At a later
date, The Home Journal
will publish a full ren
dering of the logo when the
final rendering is com
plete.
Miss Barbara Jones,
Jones Jewelers, who is a
member of the downtown
merchants association,
presented the new logo to
the merchants Monday
night and stated, "This
logo will identify the shops
in the downtown area of
Perry as something
special to our local
customers as well as
tourists."
More details on the art
show and other events
planned by the downtown
merchants will be an
nounced in next week's
Home Journal.
Houston County, school
superintendent David
Perdue indicated it would
have cost the county about
$750,000 this fiscal year.
The school board
tenants for those two
shops.
A recently completed
study by the University of
Georgia School of Business
Administration suggested
types of shops that would
be appropriate to go into
the downtown area of
Perry which include:
sound entertainment, arts
and crafts, shoe shop,
apothecary, book shop,
bake shop, cheese and
wine shop, ladies boutique
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Chairwoman Barbara Glassford Presides
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currently has a half million
dollars invested, drawing
interest against the day it
is needed. But the 75-76
ending budget of the
system forecast an ending
shop, antique shop, kitchen
shop, old fashioned ice
cream shop, sporting
goods shop, emporium,
deli ship, variety shop and
a pets and plants shop.
Authority Chairman
Lewis Meeks said anyone
interested in putting a shop
downtown can contact the
authority for further in
formation and details
about the long range
revitalization plans for
downtown.
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This is the old Perry Pharmacy building, now
standing vacant. Mell Tolleson has purchased this
building and Mullins Construction Co. of Perry
will do extensive renovations on the building
balance of over three
hundred thousand dollars,
a margin considered only
"safe" due to the fact
uncertainty each year
hangs over the system's
financial receipts because
of IMPACT funds the
system receives from the
federal government.
In other school board
activity, School Board
Attorney Tom Daniel told
the five member panel that
"any raffle in Georgia is
illegal". He said that state
school regulations
recognize this fact. His
statement came in
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Tour Os Homes . . .
Perry.
Mrs. Larry Brannen is
president of the Sogadera
Club and invites you to
take part in "An Olde
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., OCT. U, 1975,
response to a request by
Superintendent Perdue to
bring the board up to date
on its rules and
regulations.
More specifically, the
board dealt with a
situation that had the PHS
Panther Booster Club
seeking to set up a raffle to
raise funds. Booster
President Tom Grant, at
the meeting to request
system funds to improve
seating at the PHS football
field (see another HHJ
article), said the club
would comply with the
rules.
Fashioned Christmas at
the Crossroads" and en
courages you to have the
spirit of '76 by attending
"A Fireside Holiday".
creating two new shop buildings. The rendering of
this building by the Mullins Construction Co. is
shown on the front page.
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Daniel added, "We all
realize that raffles are
quite prevalent. I can
hardly remember going to
a football game when I
wasn't offered a chance on
a cake, or a football
program carried "lucky"
numbers. But all of it is
illegal and unauthorized,"
Grant enlivened the
somber note with his
version of what is illegal
and what is legal in the
state. He said, "Two men
sitting at a bar gambling is
legal from what I hear. But
three men sit there, and it
is a game of chance!"
Each home will be
presented in future
editions of the Journal
before the parade of
homes.