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’ No-Hit King
Pitching a no-hitter is normally a once in a lifetime accomplishment. But for
Goodroe Realty righthander Cater Pierce it’s become a habit. The star hurler
of the Perry Junior League’s leading team has tossed three no-hit gems this
season to set an all-time league record.
While the blond-haired Pierce has been almost unbeatable on the mound, his
bat has also played an important role in leading his team to the league
championship. Pierce is leading the PJL in homers with six (he hit a pair of
two-run circuit shots last Friday night), and is one of the top batters and runs
batted-in performers in the history of the 22-year-old Perry league.
Read more about the hard-throwing righty in this week’s HHJ sports pages.
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f Public Invited To Attend
Chamber Sets Quarterly
Meet At Holiday Halls
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The Perry Chamber of
Commerce will hold its
quarterly membership
meeting next Thursday,
July 22, at the Holiday
Halls convention center at
the Holiday Inn. The
meeting will begin at 10:00
a.m. and is sponsored by
the Chamber's tourism
committee.
Guest speaker at the
meeting will be Robert
King, Deputy Com
missioner ot the Georgia
Bureau of Industry and
Trade. The meeting will
serve a dual purpose to
help bring attention to the
• convention center, ac
cording to Chamber
Executive Vice President
, Elwyn McKinney.
1 Coffee and doughnuts
will be served, and the
Chamber and the Holiday
Inn invite the general
public to the meeting.
■ There will be no charge tor
The Houston Home Journal
the refreshments.
McKinney added that the
Chamber plans meetings
for membership purposes
each quarter. The speaker
last quarter was Industry
and Trade Commissioner
Milt Folds.
Don Parkinson is
chairman ot the tourism
committee. He said that
officials ot the city and
county are invited, as are
chambers ot commerce of
surrounding towns.
Tuesday morning the
Chamber tourism com
mittee held a meeting in
the Holiday Halls to discuss
details ot next Thursday's
coffee. Pete Dlearo, vice
president ot McKibbon
Bros., Inc., which owns the
Perry Holiday Inn, con
firmed that construction
on the convention was
finished about ten days
ago.
Glen McGee, Perry
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Holiday Innkeeper, said
the L-shaped center can be
subdivided into three
rooms for smaller
meetings, or utilized as a
large meeting facility that
will hold upwards ot 300
persons, in a banquet
arrangement.
Those who come to next
Thursday's Chamber
meeting will notice the
striking beauty of the
convention center's yellow
and burnt orange Spanish
decor. Decorator wall
lamps enhance its effect.
Tuesday morning at the
tourism committee's
conference, Chamber
Executive Director Elwyn
McKinney said the
Chambers from Warner
Robins, Fort Valley,
Macon, Hawkinsville, and
Montezuma will be invited
to next Thursday's
meeting at Holiday Halls.
In addition, the Mayors of
Spends $900.86 Per Student
School System Winds Up
With $2 Million Surplus
The Houston County
school board disclosed
Tuesday that the school
system ended the 1975-76
fiscal year with a balance
of $2,066,749.70. The ending
Budget Adopted
Tax Millage Unset
The Houston County school board apparently
will wait until its August meeting to set a tax
millage rate for the 1976-77 school year. Tuesday
the board took no action after learning that a final
county tax digest has not been received from Tax
Commissioner Joyce Griffin. Last year the board
levied 16 mills for school operations, and has
given several indications they will again levy that
amount.
Tuesday morning the board learned the system
will have a beginning balance of over two million
dollars (see another article) to begin the school
year. Last month they adopted a $15,713,200
operating budget. That budget called for an en
ding balance of $455,489.
The two million beginning balance is about six
hundred thousand more than was budgeted. The
budget also makes no provision for federal IM
PACT funding, other than about $400,000 almost
assured of arrival. Should the Washington
lawmakers again provide more than a million
dollars for local use, the budget would again show
a large ending balance.
Two Others Charged
Perry Man Found
Innocent Os Rape
A Houston Superior
Court jury Tuesday found
19-year-old Willie Sparks
innocent of charges of
raping a Houston County
woman May 13 in Perry.
After a day of trial Mon
day, the jury got the case
Tuesday morning and
deliberated 30 minutes
Unadilla and Centerville,
as well as other area and
local officials are invited,
as is the general public.
Perry Pottery plans to
operate its London double
decker bus from downtown
on Thursday morning to
offer rides to the Holiday
Halls. The bus will leave
from Carroll Street about
9:45 next Thursday
morning, making as many
trips as necessary.
Capacity of the unique bus
is 46 passengers.
Tourism committee
chairman Don Parkinson
stated about Holiday Halls,
"We have an outstanding
facility here. We want
people to know about it,
and come out and enjoy
coffee and doughnuts with
the Chamber of Com
merce." He added that a
short question and answer
session is scheduled after
Bob King's talk.
balance is $700,000 higher
than the amount left over a
year ago.
In the 1975-76 school
year, the system had
$1,352,000.47 as a beginning
before finding Sparks not
guilty.
Sparks and two com
panions, Calvin Jones, 18,
and Don Edward Smith, 20,
were accused of picking up
a 21-year-old Perry woman
at a local motel, and
allegedly raping her while
driving on country roads
around Perry. Jones and
Smith have not yet been
tried on the charge.
The woman testified in
court that she was raped
twice by each of the three
men. A jury of 12 white
men heard testimony in
the case, prosecuted by
assistant D.A. Miriam
Wansley and defended by
James Harmon.
Testifying for the
prosecution were the
woman, two witnesses who
saw her before and affer
the alleged rapes, Perry
Police Detective Major
Giles Webb, and Dr. A.G.
Hendrick.
Sparks was the lone
defense witness in his case,
and said he had attempted
sexual relations with the
woman, but denied using
restraint or force. He said
he was unable to con
summate the sexual act.
To Houston Lake, Lake Joy
Water Lines Coming?
The Home Journal learned Tuesday night that
construction of county water lines in the Houston
Lake and Lake Joy areas may begin as early as
six months from now. The county commissioners
recently filed a grant application to run pipes
down Houston Lake Road from Feagin Mill Road
to Highway 127, past Houston Lake Country Club
balance. By a tax levy of 18
mills, a total of
$4,238,811.65 was con
tributed. The state
provided $8,794,765.55, and
the federal government
chipped in with
$1,412,523.99. Another
$14,939.32 was produced
from other sources,
making a total of
$15,813,040.98 available for
use last school year.
But the school board
spent just a little over
$13,700,000, leaving the
huge sum to begin the 1976-
77 school year. One major
reason for the surplus was
the unexpected of about a
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Slugging “T” Leaguer
Eight year old K. Jones of the "T” league Padres readies to advance to the
plate in a recent contest. The freeswinging. slugger plays third base, and is
hitting over .400 for the season. But No. 20 is not the ordinary third sacker,
because this hot corner prospect is named Kim Jones and is a girl! For more
information, read about her in this week’s HHJ sports pages.
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million dollars in federal
IMPACT funds last year.
But without the federal
"bonus”, the surplus
would still have ap
proached a million dollars.
School board business
manager Seable Hickson
gave the financial report
Tuesday, and his figures
showed that the system
spent $900.86 per student
the past year. This is a
$34.86 Increase over 1974-
75. School Superintendent
David Perdue said the
state average per student
is over a thousand dollars.
Hickson further said the
system had spent $438,876
to Lake Joy Road, up Lake Joy Road to Highway
96 and back to Houston Lake Road.
The grant application calls for similar work
around northwestern Bonaire, plus construction
of a water tank in Elberta. County engineers
Tribble and Richardson are handling the grant
application.
less last school year than
was budgeted. The ending
balance Is 13 percent of
revenues. Several times In
the past Hickson has said
that the state school ad
ministrators suggest
beginning balances be
budgeted, to take care of
expenses until property
taxes are levied each year.
In other financial
transactions, Hickson said
a total of $86,564.88 will be
paid for six new school
buses: $54,277.98 to Lewis
Truck and Tractor for
the bus chassis, and
$32,286.90 to Bluebird for
the bus bodies.