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Some Perryans Will Get Smoother Ride
Motorists who live on
six Perry streets will be
treated to smoother rides
home by September,
according to an an
nouncement Monday by
Mayor James McKinley.
OUR 108TH YEAR - NO. 9
‘We Mean Business,’ Farmers Say
Politicians from
Atlanta and Washington
assembled at the Perry
High School cafeteria
Tuesday night to hear
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$127,000 Grant
| Contract Set
For New Lights
Mayor James
McKinley announced
Tuesday that a contract
for erecting seven light
towers on both sides of I
-75 where it intersects
with Sam Nunn Blvd.
(Highway 341) will be let
on April 21.
City council voted on
Feb. 15 to authorize the
mayor to sign a
resolution accepting a
$127,000 federal grant to
erect the light towers at
the heavily-travelled
junction.
McKinley, who
predicted at the time that
the towers would light up
the intersection "like a
small city," said each of
the seven towers will
support six separate
lights.
Once the light towers
are installed, McKinley
said the 10 street lights on
the off-ramps at the in
tersection will be
removed, repaired,
painted, and installed In
city cemeteries and
parks.
The mayor said the city
has also submitted
another request for a
federal grant to install
light towers at the In
tersection of 1-75 and
Highway 41. He said the
accident rate at the High
way 41 intersection had
"increased con
siderably'' during the
past few months.
McKinley said ap
proval of light towers for
the 1-75 and Sam Nunn
Blvd. intersection was in
response to a request
submitted by the city In
Jan., 1977. He said the
request was based on the
accident rate at the In
tersection.
The mayor said 52
wrecks were recorded at
the intersection of 1-75
and Sam Nunn Blvd
during a three-year
period. He said the city's
previous request for light
towers for the In
tersection of 1-75 and
Highway 41 was based on
the fact that 15 accidents
occurred there during a
two-year period.
Under the terms of the
McKinley said the news
was disclosed to him
after a joint an
nouncement in Atlanta by
Rep. Larry Walker and
State Sen. Ed Barker.
The two legislators said
The Houston Home Journal
words they probably
didn't want to hear.
The harsh messages
were issued by
spokesmen for about 500
agreement entered into
with the Federal High
way Department, the 100-
feet high towers will be
erected, and all conduits
and lighting fixtures will
be instal led by the federal
agency.
Once the towers are
installed, the city has
agreed to maintain and
repair the light towers
and pay bills for elec
tricity.
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the Georgia General
Assembly had approved
funds in the fiscal year
1978 to pave two miles of
Perry streets.
McKinley said roads to
be resurfaced include
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1978
500 Farmers Gather At Perry Rally
Georgia farmers and
their families who had
come to Perry from 14
Middle Georgia counties.
Their message was
simple. They said they
were fed up with low
prices and empty
promises. What's more,
they said they're only
going to plant 50 percent
of their cropland this
year in order to get better
prices for farm products.
Clyde Fulford, the
farmer's keynote speaker
from Wheeler County,
lambasted President
Jimmy Carter's attitude
toward farmers and Sen.
Herman Talmadge's five
point farm plan.
"They're already
talking about a library to
house Jimmy's papers
when he leaves the White
House," Fulford said.
"Well, if he doesn't do
right by the farmers, he's
going to be able to house
those papers in a country
toilet."
Fulford said he couldn't
understand why "the
senior senator from
Georgia" though the
farmer's demands were
unreasonable.
"We've been led down a
dark alley by some of the
old time politicians,"
Fulford said.
He added that he was
surprised that nobody has
been "chainganged"
because of Sen.
Talmadge's five-point
farm plan.
The farmer's rally and
barbeque, which was
organized by local far
mers Stewart Bloodworth
and Steve Langston, got
underway at about 7:30
p.m. when Cohen Walker
delivered an invocation
asking God to bless men
who till the soil and work
with nature.
State Sen. Ed Barker
and Rep. Ted Waddle
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League baseball will
begin this Saturday from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
Ochlahatchee Park.
Signup for both leagues
will continue each
Saturday through March.
Players who are 13
years of age on or before
July 17,1978 are ineligible
to participate in junior
league baseball. Pee Wee
leaguers must be six
years old by May 30, 1978
to participate.
A ten dollar
registration fee, per
family, will be charged.
Norfhside Drive, Godfrey
Place, Pineridge Drive,
Duncan Avenue, Nor
thside Road and Lawson
Drive.
"The work contract on
these streets will be let by
were among the first
legislators to arrive, and
both expressed concern
and sympathy for
Georgia farmers. Waddle
said he wanted to know
what could be done to
alleviate their problems.
Barker said the far
mers have done a good
job of communicating
their problems to the
people and elected of
ficials. He said he shared
their frustrations and
concerns, and said he was
hopeful their strike ef
forts and tractorcade will
prove beneficial.
"The state could and
should provide tax relief
for the farmers," Barker
said.
After Bloodworth read
a statement of support
from Congressman Jack
Brinkley, E.H. Cheek,
Sen. Sam Nunn's local
administrative assistant,
read a message from
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Leighton Kersey
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Perry Area Chamber of Commerce president Bobby
Branch presented the Mayor and City Council with honorary
memberships in the chamber last Tuesday night to kick off
the chamber's annual membership drive. From left,
Councilpersons George Nunn, Barbara Calhoun, Al
Baggarly, Mayor James McKinley, Bobby Branch, Coun-
the Georgia Department
of Transportation on
March 24th," Sen. Barker
said, "and the work has
to be completed by Sept.
15th."
Mayor McKinley said
Perry State Representative Larry Walker
speaks to several hundred Middle Georgia
farmers and their families at a rally held in
Perry Tuesday night. Looking on and also ap
pearing on the program are from left, Rep. Ted
Nunn. Cheek said Nunn
told him more than 2,500
Georgia farmers had
visited his office in recent
months.
Arriving late because
their flight from Atlanta
was delayed by bad
weather were Rep. Larry
Walker, Georgia
Agriculture Com
missioner Tommy Irvin,
Rep. Sonny Watson, Rep.
Joe Frank Harris, Rep.
Marcus Collins, Rep.
"Shorty" Foster, Rep.
Terry Coleman, Rep.
Charles Hatcher, Rep.
Randy Karrh and Rep.
Bryant Culpepper.
Council Receives Chamber Memberships
that by the state
providing the funds under
the Local Assistance
Road Program (LARP)
the city will not have to
use money from its local
budget.
Rep. Walker Speaks To Farmers
Rep. Walker in
troduced his colleagues
from the Georgia House
and read letters ot sup
port tor the farmers from
Gov. George Busbee and
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller.
''The people
represented by this
movement are, indeed,
the hardest working
segment of our society
who daily overcome
tremendous odds to
produce food and fiber tor
our people," Gov Busbee
wrote. "Those who are
insensitive or simply
unaware should be in
formed of the crippling
Walker and Barker
said as members of the
General Assembly they
were pleased to be able to
support the Department
of Transportation
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Waddle, Senator Ed Barker, Rep. Joe Frank
Harris, Rep. Marcus Collins, State Agriculture
Commissioner Tommy Irvin, Leighton Kersey,
keynote speaker Clyde Fulford of Wheeler
County, and Steve Langston.
results ot spiraling
production costs, con
stantly decreasing
market prices and the
effect of a devastating
drought in 1977.
"Please know that you
have my full support In
your efforts to assist our
farmers," the governor
concluded, "and I pledge
that I will continue to do
everything within my
power as Governor ot
Georgia to help our farm
community rise from its
current economic
slump."
In his message to local
farmers, Lt. Gov.Mlller
cilpersons Ralph Gentry, Draper Watson, and city clerk
treasurer Marian Hay. The Mayor also proclaimed the week
of March 13 thru 17 as chamber week in Perry. Joe Ferguson,
president of Security Federal Savings, is chairman of the
membership drive. Details an the membership drive and
chamber week will be outlined in next week’s edition.
program.
"The money will be
used to resurface our
local streets, and that will
be of great benefit to the
motorists of Perry," Sen.
Barker said.
v
said, "First, we can - and
in my view we must -- do
someth i ng about
property taxes on far
mland. Our present
practice of assessing ad
valorem taxes on the
basis of land value rather
than on land use is
placing an unfair share of
the total tax burden on
you, and we need to start
now in revising the whole
tax structure of Georgia.
Prolonging It means
nothing less than driving
farmers off their land."
In introducing keynote
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