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I Vandals Strike Again
Recently in Perry vandals have been attracted to new targets- street signs. This
direction sign at the intersection of Jernigan Street and Tucker Road was almost
uprooted last week. The street sign at the intersection of Logue and Tucker had to be
replaced after being severely damaged. AAayor James McKinley urges that anyone
seeing someone damage public property immediately report it to City Hall, since
public funds have to be used to replace the damaged signs
Burial Set July 4
I Students Urged To Pen
| Letters For "Capsule"
On July 4, in a service
that will begin at 6:30 p.m.,
the City of Perry will bury
a "time capsule" that will
be opened in July 2076.
Earlier this week Perry
Mayor James McKinley
reported the latest
developments in the three
month long effort to fill the
(■bt capsule, which is the
& second largest in the
nation scheduled for in
terment in 1976.
The largest "time
capsule" so tar this year in
the nation is one scheduled
in a Nebraska town, ac-
Jjf cording to McKinley.
B Perry's vault will be only
slightly smaller.
, The latest items to be
placed for inclusion in the
vault are samples of the 11
types of soil found in
Houston County. McKinley
further said that also to be
* included will be samples of
water, air, and 46 different
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Also announced was
further details about how
the burial vault will be
prepared to insure
the preservation of the
documents and artifacts. A
stainless steel jacket will
line the vault, and the
seven foot, two inch
cement vault will be
pumped full of argon gas to
prevent acid in the cement
from destroying the en
closed materials.
Letters needed
Mayor McKinley has
also issued a call for any
students in the first
through the twelth grades
to write a letter to their
grandchildren to be placed
in the vault. He says the
letters should be limited to
one page and tell briefly
what life is like today.
"This is a great op
portunity for these
youngsters because their
granacrigren will be the
generation that will open
the vault in the year 2076.
We invite all Perry
students to get a letter to
city hall right away so
that we can prepare them
for the time capsule."
School Board Changes
State Testing Program
The state Board of
Education made changes
last week in its Statewide
Testing program for school
year 1976-77. According to
Hubert Hutcherson,
assistant superintendent
for instruction of she
Houston County School
Councilwoman Calhoun Suggests
Eastgate Auto Problem ?
Councilwoman Barbara
Calhoun Tuesday night
urged City Council to take
steps to prevent auto
parking next to the curb in
front of Eastgate Shopping
Center stores. The
suggestion came after
similar proposals were
made last year.
Mrs. Calhoun told the
Council that last year she
recommended to Council
that no parking signs be
placed along the curb in
front of the stores, "mainly
due to congestion on Wed
nesdays, Thursdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays".
She said the city received a
letter from Shopping
Center owners Murphey,
Taylor, and Ellis granting
permission to put up the
signs, and further stated
that the firm suggested
giving of "warning"
tickets first.
Continuing a capsule
review of the situation,
Mrs. Calhoun said that the
city placed the no parking
signs, at first gave war
ning tickets, then began
issuance of tickets.
Thereupon Murphey,
Taylor, Ellis sent another
tetter asking that the
practice be stopped.
She added, "Mayor and
Council, we ceased issuing
tickets there. Parking and
congestion is at a chaotic
state. There is about
twenty feet between the
curb and cars, It is a very
unsafe condition."
"We have to be con
cerned about citizens'
System, the changes will,
for the first time, provide
individual achievement
profiles on each student.
The new tests are called
Criterion Referenced Tests
(CRTs) and were given
earlier this spring to fourth
and eighth graders
throughout the state. They
were developed by Georgia
teachers and ad
ministrators especially for
use in Georgia.
State school board
members received sam
ples of computer printouts
showing results for in
dividual students and how
well he or she performed
on sets of objectives in:
reading, math, and career
development.
The CRT program
should provide more useful
information to teachers,
students, parents, and
administrators than has
even been available
before, says Dr. H. Titus
Singletary, Jr. who is
associate superintendent
for the state school system
in instruction.
Test results will be
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safety and welfare. Also
there could be a fire
hazard. If there was a fire
on Saturday afternoon I'm
not sure the firemen could
get to those stores," she
continued.
"I suggest we either
enforce the no parking or
get them to relinquish two
parking spaces on each
row, to allow safe passage
of two autos," she
proposed.
Mayor McKinley asked
city attorney Larry Walker
if the city has any
jurisdiction over the
private property, and
Walker replied that the
property could possibly be
construed as "quasi
public" since the public is
invited. McKinley then
suggested writing the
Shopping Center stores a
letter urging they help the
situation. His idea was
accepted.
In other activity the City
accepted a low bid of
$10,250 for purchase of two
tractors. They will be used
by the Public Works
department. The purchase
was made necessary when
a company leasing such
tractors decided to quit the
lease arrangement.
In other financial
matters, Councilman Dr.
Jerome Bloodworth
reported, "I'm pleased to
say that sanitation truck
number 27 is dead and out
of business. We're happy
to see it go. It was a 1969
model and broke down
provided on each student.
They will show how well
the student performed a
specific task or objective,
such as being able to tell
the difference between
sentence fragments and
complete sentences.
"For the first time,"
said Singletary, "Georgia
students, parents and
teachers will have some
hard information on just
how well or pooriy young
people are dong in school.
Instead of knowing only
where they stand in
relation to a national
sample of students with a
wide range of ability -a
national norm - students
will know where they are
in relation to where they
ought to be for their age,
grade level and ability."
System officials also
consider the new tests to be
simpler to understand and
explain to parents and
students, and they say
teachers are more com
sortable with this kind of
result,
about every day."
Bloodworth explained
that the truck simply quit
functioning. He said that at
the last Council meeting, a
motion to purchase a
sanitation truck chassis
had been tabled, due to a
price increase.
He added that, due to the
emergency nature of the
situation, he and the
Sanitation committee had
decided to commit the City
to purchase of a less ex
pensive chassis located by
Lewis Truck and Tractor.
Bloodworth commented
that the full Council agreed
with the decision.
Cost of the truck was
$9,178.13. Then the
Councilman commented,
"There have been 20 25
complaints from city
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Conservation- an often misunderstood term* will
become less confusing for Alan Roberson (L) of Perry,
Thomas Red of Warner Robins (R), and Robert Collins
of Bonaire (not pictured), who all are attending the isth
annual Natural Resources Conservation Workshop
being held in Tifton at ABAC through June 18.
The purpose of the workshop is to teach Georgia
youth the values of wise natural resource management.
Roberson and Collins are being sponsored by The Bank
of Perry and The First National Bank of Houston
County in co-operation with the Ocmulgee Soil and
Water Conservation District.
Approximately 250 young people are attending this
year's workshop. Nine state and federal natural
resources agencies furnish instructors and counselors
for the week.
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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., JUNE 17, 1976,
residents about trash not
being picked up. We had a
shortage of trucks and
men. We hope to catch up
within 10 days.”
Dr. Bloodworth further
reported the loss by fire
last Friday of the city's
front end dumpster loader
truck. He was highly en
thusiastic as he added,
"With Ed Warren
(Sanitation director)
helping out, the Houston
County Commission
Sanitation director (Joe
Harrell) within a couple of
hours sent a truck to give
us a hand.”
"We appreciate them
being so responsive. They
are going to help us out
until our truck is repaired.
And the insurance adjuster
told us to go ahead and 19
have it repaired,” he H
added. H
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the addition of I
Carl J.Barrett I
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To Its Staff Os Sales I
Associates ■
Mr. Barrett is a long- ■
time resident of Perry, H
having moved here in ■
1950 with his wife,
Eudelle, and their five H
children. He has
recently retired from H
Warner Robins Air H
Force Base where he ■
was employed in ■
Production Control in a H
supervisory position.
Carl is presently
Chairman of the Board *
of Deacons of the Perry |
First Baptist Church,
Zone Chairman for the
Lions Club, and in- "
coming President of the ■
Perry Lions Club. H
The Barretts ■
currently reside at 1306 ■
North Avenue. H