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Allison Whiddon Explains Downtown Plans
Westfield Literary Winners
Westfield High School literary meet was held at Mercer on March Ist.
Overall, Westfield came in second place and all first and second place
winners will go to state which will be held at Georgia College March 23rd.
Here are the winners and how they placed:
Piano - Fran Worrall, First Place; Girls Essay - Kimberly Poole, First
Place; Boys Essay - Lee Bledsoe, First Place; Girls Extemperaneous
Speaking - Doris Bell, First Place; Spelling - Evelyn Ann Adams, Second
Place; Boys Quartet • Matt Jerles, Eddie Wilson, Bill O’Neal, Kevin
Rogers, Second Place; Girls Solo - Cam Foreman, Third Place; Girls
Reading - Lynn Sizemore, Second Place, Boys Reading - Ken Coleman,
Third Place.
Seated left to right are Lee Bledsoe, Kimberly Poole, and Lynn
Sizemore. Standing left to right are Ken Coleman, Camille Buice, Burt
Brown, Cam Foreman, Bill O’Neal, Evelyn Ann Adams, Matt Jerles,
Doris Bell, Kevin Rogers, Fran Worrall, and Advisor Mrs. Florence
Harrison.
In connection with “Perry Chamber of
Commerce Week” this weefe, the chamber
honored past presidents of the organization with
a breakfast at Holiday Inn Monday morning.
Past chamber presidents are shown here from
left, Earl Lewis, Tom Daniel, Wendell Whipple,
Lewis Meeks, William C. Graham, Riley Hunt,
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About 300 persons visited the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce's newly remodeled of
fices on Washington St. Tuesday morning during
an open house as part of Perry Chamber Week.
Shown here from left, J.M. “Mr. Jimmy’’
Gooden, Perry’s first chamber executive vice
president, current chamber president Bobby
Branch, chamber director Mrs. John L. “Miss
Ruby’’ Hodges, chairperson for the open house
Past Chamber Presidents Honored
300 Attend Open House
Joe Poole, Malcolm Reese, James Geiger, Jack
Ragland, Harold Jennings. Those who could not
attend are William Purser, Senator Sam Nunn,
Glen Van Fossen, and Bill Nall. Deceased past
presidents are Hubert Aultman and Stanley
Smith.
Mrs. Watson Richardson of Richardson Realty,
Warner Robins chamber president Albert
Harrell, Ann Oliver of the Robins chamber staff,
Perry chamber president-elect Robert JVf.
Richardson, chamber secretary-treasurer Tony
Edmondson of The Bank of Perry and James
Dooley of Pabst Brewing Co., a chamber
director.
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Expansion Plans Proposed To Council
Downtown Redevelopment
Is Spreading Perry’s Fame
Perry's fame is
spreading far and wide as
a result of downtown
redevelopment and
beautification, according
to Redevelopment
Authority Chairman
Lewis Meeks.
Meeks disclosed the
impact Perry has made
on other cities Monday
after Mayor James
McKinley and members
of council approved
extending the
redeveloped area of
Carroll St. from the in
tersection of Washington
St. to the intersection of
Meeting St.
Meeks said presen
tations on Perry's
downtown redevelopment
have been given to
representatives from
Ridgeland, S.C., and
Madison, Fla. He said
many downtown
redevelopment groups
have been escorted to
Perry by staff members
from the University of
Georgia.
Meeks said the
Downtown Waycross
Committee has also
submitted a request to
bring their group to
Perry to review how the
city has been tran
sformed to Old Town
Perry.
Mayor McKinley asked
Meeks and members of
the redevelopment
authority to meet with
city council in April to
discuss inserting $20,000
in the city budget for
extending the
redeveloped area of
Carroll St. beyond the
post office to Meeting St!
"I would like to ask you
and your group to meet
with us in mid-April to
consider funds tor this
project in next year's
budget,” McKinley said
to Meeks.
The comments by
Meeks and McKinley
followed a detailed
presentation of the
project by Miss Allison
Whiddon of the Middle
Georgia Area Planning
and Development
Commission.
Miss Whiddon said the
new project would extend
the redeveloped area for
one more block, and that
OBITUARIES
Rites Held
For Mrs.
Lashley
Mrs. El lie Lashley, 98,
died Sunday March 12,
1978. Services were held
at 11 a.m. Wednesday
March 15 in Memorial
Chapel. Burial was at 3
p.m. inMt. Zion Lutheran
Church Cemetery in
Macon County.
Mrs. Lashley, a native
of Clay County, Ala., had
lived in Macon since
moving from An
dersonvllle two years
ago.
Survivors include two
daughters, Mrs. L.B.
Holloway of An
dersonvilleandMrs. Paul
Norris of Macon; three
sons, Durell Lashley of
Thomaston, Eugene
Lashley of Perry and
Clinton Lashley of
Orlando, Fla.; a brother,
Homa Roberts of
Dadeville, Ala.; and two
sisters, Mrs. Emmie
Carter of Craigford, Ala.,
and Mrs. Ethel Gray of
Perry.
Memorial Chapel,
Funeral Directors, had
charge of arrangemenfs.
R ites Held
For Mrs.
Duncan
Mrs. Luella Grace
Duncan, 80, died Monday
March 13, 1978 in a local
nursing home after a
brief illness.
Arrangements will be
announced by Bobby E.
Glover Mortuary.
The family is at the
home of Mr. and Mrs.
M.L. Mobley, 621 Poplar
St., Perry.
Rites Held
For Stacey
Benson
Stacey Lynn Benson,
age 4, died Thursday
March 9, 1978 in a
Charleston hospital after
a brief illness. Services
were held at 3 p.m.
Saturday, March 11 in
Lakeview Baptist Church
in Bleckley County.
Burial was in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Stacey would have been
5 years old Friday,
March 10.
Survivors include her
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Lamar Benson of
Charleston, S.C.;
maternal grandparents,
Idus and Sybil NeSmith of
it would greatly enhance
the appearance of the
Methodist Church.
She said the sidewalks
would be bricked using
the same design used In
the first phase of
redevelopment from Ball
St. to Washington.
The plan reviewed by
Miss Whiddon calls tor a
variety of planters,
shrubs and trees. She
said the plan also
specifies the same type of
benches and lamp posts
Perry, paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Grady
Benson of Cochran; and
great - grandmothers,
Mrs. Dave NeSmith and
Mrs. Joe Floyd, both of
Cochran.
Mathis Funeral Home
of Cochran had charge of
arrangements.
Land Condemnation
Work Continues On
Russell Parkway Plan
Houston County
commissioners con
demned one parcel of
land for Russell Park
way, listened to two
alternatives for treat
ment of sewerage from a
proposed housing project,
and agreed to review
Centerville's request to
re-enter the county
recreation program
during a regular session
in Warner Robins
Tuesday night.
Acting on a resolution
for condemnation
prepared by County
Attorney Walker Burke,
commissioners voted
unanimously to condemn
parcel 24 on Russell
Parkway right-of-way
list.
Parcel 24 is listed as
belonging to the Merit
Homes Corporation of
Warner Robins, and
commissioners had
previously offered the
corporation $18,662 for
the property on Dec. 9,
1977.
Parcel 24 is one of 58
parcels being negotiated
to make way for Russell
Parkway, which begins
with a cloverleaf in
terchange at Highway 127
at the southern corner of
Robins Air Force Base,
and will eventually end at
South Houston Lake Road
near the new county
complex in Warner
Robins.
Negotiators say
agreements have been
reached with owners of
most of the parcels along
the route of the new super
highway.
In outlining options
available to com
missioners for the
treatment ot sewerage
from a proposed low-rent
housing project in
Elberta, Assistant
County Clerk Putney
Goodwin said com
missioners had two
alternatives.
He said the two
alternatives for handling
about 16,000 gallons of
sewerage per day when
completed in about two
years would either in
volve providing an
oxidation pond or
building a holding tank
which could hold
sewerage for three or
four days during peak
periods and then
discharge it to the
Warner Robins sewer
system when the city's
used in the redeveloped
area.
In addition to bringing
new beauty to the area,
Miss Whiddon said the
proposed streetplan
would make it safer for
pedestrians crossing the
street near the post of
fice.
When Meeks was asked
by Councilman Gene
Smith If there was any
reason for extending
redevelopment in the
proposed direction,
Meeks replied that there
was no priority list tor
redevelopment, but that
the extension to Meeting
St. seemed to be "the
next logical step."
Smith also wanted to
know if plans existed for
developing lower Carroll
Street.
"No, the authority has
no plans at this time,"
Meeks replied. "We
haven't formally and
officially put it into the
plan."
peak use periods are
down.
Goodwin said that
during rainy weather the
Warner Robins sewerage
treatment plant is unable
to carry an extra load
such as the Elberta
project because of
seepage of rainwater into
the city's sewerage
system,
Goodwin explained that
either alternative
choosen by com
missioners - oxidation
pond or the holding tank -
would be temporary
facilities until the Warner
Robins seepage problem
is solved, and he
estimated that the
problem would be solved
by 1983.
Commissioners agreed
to study the problem
after Goodwin informed
them that both plans
would be acceptable to
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Meeks noted, however,
that the development
authority is reviewing a
proposed sign and design
ordinance to be sub
mitted for city council's
approval.
Rep. Larry Walker said
he was very enthused
about downtown
redevelopment, and
promised to assist Meeks
and the city governing
body in any way possible
to gain state aid tor the
project.
Mayor McKinley and
Councilmen Smith,
Draper Watson, Ralph
Gentry, George Nunn and
Al Baggarly commended
Meeks and the authority
tor their outstanding
achievements in
redeveloping downtown
Perry.
They also singled Miss
Whiddon out for praise in
preparing and delivering
the presentation on the
new phase of
redevelopment.
the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Centerville Mayor
Sherrill Stafford ap
peared before com
missioners to review
Centerville's request to
re-join the county
recreation program after
a year's absence.
Recreation program
proposals for Centerville
were presented by both
Stafford and Tommy
Stalnaker, county
recreation director.
Commissioners dir
ected Stalnaker to
compile and combine the
proposals and present a
final draft to com
missioners for approval.
Under the terms of an
agreement reached by
Mayor Stafford and
commissioners, the final
draft would be forwarded
to Centerville for ap
proval by city council.