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VOLUME 107 NO. 44
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Bennett Accepts Award
Pictured above left to right are Bill Bennett, president of the Perry
High FFA chapter and Glen Smith, President of the Georgia Association
of FFA. Bill is pictured receiving the State Award for Chapter
Achievement.
Perry High FFA
Number 1 Again
In ceremonies at the
recent Georgia
Association of Future
Farmers of America
State Rally in Macon, the
Perry High Chapter was
recognized as the top
chapter in Georgia.
Present to receive the
F.W. Woolworth spon
sored award plaque and
SIOO check were chapter
president Bill Bennett
and chapter reporter
Charlie Davis.
The honor is bestowed
each year upon the one
chapter in Georgia which
has carried out the most
outstanding program of
activities in the eleven
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Olde Fashioned Christmas Set
With Tree, Parade, Open House
"Olde Fashioned
oTA Christmas At The
Q * , \Tm I Crossroads” celebration
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areas of supervised
agricultural occupations
experience; cooperation;
com m unity service;
leadership; earnings,
savings and investments;
conduct of meetings;
scholarship; recreation;
public relations; state
and national activities;
and alumni relations.
Two years ago the
Perry chamber members
set winning of this award
as a goal. They developed
a challenging program of
work, delegated
responsibilities thr
oughout the mem
bership and applied
themselves. For their
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1977
efforts they won the
honor of being the top
chapter in Southwest
Georgia. This served to
motivate the members to
work harder this past
year and led to their
achieving this goal.
Bill Eaves and Jake
Redmon, advisors of the
Perry chapter, stated
that the achievement of
such an honor would not
have been possible
without the support of the
school, school ad
ministration, parents and
community. “With this
thought in mind we wish
to express our gratitude
to everyone concerned,"
they added.
Monday. Events will
include: 1) decorating the
giant Christmas tree on
the Courthouse lawn; 2)
the annual Christmas
parade; 3) a downtown
merchants' Open House;
4) a Candlelight
procession to the Cour
thouse for a Christmas
oriented address; and 5)
lighting of the tree.
At a meeting held in the
Home Journal offices
Monday morning, three
of the celebration com
mittee gave details of the
upcoming observances.
Mrs. Kathy West,
Tsungani Club president,
said the decoration of the
huge Christmas tree will
begin Saturday morning
December 3 at 10:00 a.m.
A letter has been sent to
all clubs, churches and
schools requesting aid In
making weatherproof
decorations. Mrs. West
said members of the Fire
Department will pick up
decorations, or they may
be taken to the Fire
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$300,000 Outstanding
City Comes Up
Short On Taxes
With twelve days left
before city ad valorem
taxes are past due
(November 15 is the final
due date), over three
Department. Councilman
Gene Smith is in charge
of the tree selection and
transportation to the
Courthouse lawn. For
more information call
Mrs. West at 987-2885 or
Al Baggarly at 987-1522.
The annual Christmas
parade is being spon
sored by Perry Moose
Lodge No. 1026 and is
scheduled Saturday
afternoon, beginning
from Grant Plaza at 3:30
p.m. and proceeding to
Eastgate Shopping
Center. Parade chairman
is Walt Rembisz, who
said units are to assemble
no later than 2:30 p.m. at
Grant Plaza on Saturday
December 3.
He added that three
prizes: of $25, sls, and
$lO, will be given to the
three best non
commercial floats. For
more information call
Rembisz at 987-1908. A
Grand Marshall will be
named at a later date.
The parade will follow
Dr. Bloodworth
H. E. Smith
fourths of Perry's 1977
city taxes have not been
paid. Tuesday night City
Council learned through
Tuesday a total of around
Sam Nunn Boulevard to
the forks and continue up
Ball Street to Carroll
Street. At Carroll Street,
it will turn left and
proceed on Carroll to
Meeting Street, at the
Post Office. After a right
turn onto Meeting Street,
and then a left turn onto
Main Street, the parade
will continue down Main
Street to Eastgate
Shopping Center, where It
will end.
Sunday December 4,
the merchants in the
downtown Perry area
will hold their annual
Open House from 2:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be
available for the large
crowd that attends the
festivities. The many
Early American
storefronts will display
the downtown merchants'
wares well.
Sunday evening
December 4, beginning at
7:00 p.m., will be the
Candlelight Procession
Politics
Are On
In Perry
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Barbara Calhoun
$94,000 in city taxes has
been paid, but $303,533.77
was still outstanding.
Sewage Bonds Sales
Councilman Ralph
from neighborhood
churches, walking to the
Courthouse square.
Candles will be provided
to all churches that
choose to participate, and
those churches will not
hold their regular Sunday
evening worship that
night.
The speaker will be
announced by the Perry
Ministerial Association,
Rev. Jim Stewart
president. Special music
will be provided by
groups led by Brad
Kidwell, Bob Brewer and
Margaret Hill. For more
information call these
four persons.
Immediately following
the address the mam
moth Christmas tree's
lights will become
lighted. Chairman Al
Baggarly said more
committee meetings of
the ''Olde Fashioned
Christmas At The
Crossroads" group will
be held at dates to be
announced.
The lines are drawn for
the Perry City Council
race on Dec. 6, but the
political atmosphere is
cool. Interest in the
campaign probably will
not get cranked up until
after qualifying officially
closes this Friday.
In the race right now
for post three is Perry
attorney and city court
judge George Nunn, who
is seeking to unseat in
cumbent Dr. Jerome
Bloodworth, a Perry
veterinarian.
For the post one
position on city council,
Ervin Goodroe Is out to
capture the seat occupied
Gentry was the lone
member not present at
Tuesday night's meeting.
Among the activity of
note was a motion by
Gene Smith to sell
sewage bonds for the 1978
venture through Jared-
Mulcay of Atlanta. The
notes will be retired on a
20-year schedule.
Proceeds from the
revenue bonds will match
a federal grant, and will
expand the sewage plant
on Frank Satterfield
Road from Its present
capacity of 1,000,000
gallons of sewage a day,
up to 3,000,000 gallons a
day capacity.
Registrars Named
Appointed as registrars
for the December 6 City
election were Lewis
Bledsoe, Hilt Gray and
Herbert Moore. Forrest
Purdom was named polls
manager, and a list of
polls workers named by
Purdom was adopted.
Total cost of the election
for polls workers pay,
plus voting machine
maintenance, will be
$614.50.
Shrubs on Hand
Shrubs for
beautification of the
medians on U.S. 341
North have arrived,
according to Barbara
Calhoun. Over 500 shrubs
purchased with a state
grant will be planted by
the Beautification
Commission headed by
Jake Redmon. Topsoil for
the planting will be ob
tained from Walter
Forbes Jr., who will be
reimbursed by giving of
fill dirt from the city.
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by incumbent H.E.
(Gene) Smith. Goodroe Is
executive vice president
of the Building Material
Merchants Association of
Georgia, which is
headquartered In Perry.
Smith is employed by
George C. Nunn & Son
Tractor Co. of Perry.
Barbara Calhoun, who
is seeking re-election to
post two, at press time
this week had no op
position for her seat on
the city council. Mrs.
Calhoun Is retired from
Warner Robins Air Force
Base.
Early in the week there
was speculation that at
least two other political
hopefuls would go to City
Hall and put down their
SIOO qualifying fees, but
at press-time Wed. there
were no other candidates
qualified.
Home Journal reporfs
indicate all the can
didates are dong the
things that candidates
normally do in a city
election; having political
cards printed, organizing
telephone campaigns,
shaking hands, attending
public functions (such as
football games), running
political advertisements
in the newspaper and
generally being seen
around town more than
usual.
It Is expected that some
3,000 Perryans will be
eligible to vote when
voter registration closes
at the end of this month.
However, based on past
city elections, a 50 per
cent turnout is considered
about the maximum.
The Home Journal
interviewed several
"long-time" political
observers on the Perry
scene and they indicated
that the Dec. 6, election
may very well produce a
record voter turnout.
Their reasons were that
recent, political cam
paigns on both the state,
national and local level
have made voters more
aware of the Importance
and Involvement of
themselves and their vote
in a political race.
One of these political
observers said, "Voters
are looking for new Ideas
and new faces; they want
to try out somebody and
see If they can make a
difference."
On the other hand, a
political observer told
The Home Journal,
"Folks get sort of set In
the way they do things
and the way they vote and
they feel like they better
stick with what they
have."
From early indications,
the Perry city election
will be a hard-fought
battle between political
newcomers and In
cumbents. The next few
weeks will surely see a lot
of effort from all camps
in the Perry political
arena.