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The Houston Home Journal
OUR 109TH YEAR NO. 58 PHONE 987-1823
City Faces
Problems
With Water
Is there any end to
problems faced by city
council?
Apparently not.
The meeting Tuesday
night started out peaceful
enough, but then up stood
Don Svoboda of 1012
Talton Place, and Rod
Strickland of 1013 Talton
Place.
The two men com
plained about the
sediment in their water
line on the one hand, and
on the other hand, about
the faulty sewer con
nection that caused
sewerage to back up into
commodes and tubs.
Mayor Pro-Tern
Barbara Calhoun,
chairman of the city
utilities committee,
promised an immedaite
investigation of the
problems on Talton
Place, and to direct the
Water Department and
Fire Department to work
together in opening a fire
hydrant to expell excess
sediment.
Mayor James
McKinley promised
Svoboda and Strickland
that the city would put the
two items on a priority
list for improvements
when money becomes
Election Officials
Appointed By City
Perry city council
Tuesday night appointed
officials to handle the
Dec. 4 election of three
city councilman, and
election workers to assist
them.
Acting on a motion by
Councilman Draper
Watson, the city
governing body ap
pointed City Clerk F.
Marion Hay as election
superintendent; Shirley
Hardin as absentee ballot
clerk, and Herbert Moore
as registrar.
Forest L. Purdom was
designated as chief poll
manager to be paid sllO,
and Prudom’s two
assistants - to be paid SSO
each - will be William E.
Kelly and Dorothy G.
Sandefur.
Poll officers to be paid
S3O each are Lorraine
Bagnall, Ruth Daniel,
Ethel Ellis, Terri Malone,
Helen Mason, Mary
Vance, Gale Watkins,
Westfield To Host
Southeastern Meeting
The Westfield Schools
will host the 1979-80
Southeastern Association
of Independent Schools
Teachers Convention on
Monday, November 'l2.
Over 400 headmasters
and teachers are ex
pected to attend the
SEAIS meeting here in
Perry. Seventy-four
schools affiliated with the
SEAIS will be
represented at the con
vention.
Registration begins at
8:30 a.m. Monday
available. He said the
water line would either be
“looped” or extended to
connect with another
water line.
Acting on a motion by
Councilman Thomas
Mayo, council approved
Mayor McKinley’s
recommendation to buy
tickets for members of
council to attend the
annual meeting of the
Middle Georgia Area
Planning and Develop
ment Commission. The
meeting will be held in
Macon on Nov. 15, and the
featured speaker will be
Georgia Transportation
Director Tom Moreland.
Council approved other
motions by Mayo con
cerning beer and wine
licenses. These motions
included a management
Council Spends
Some Big Money
Big money was ap
propriated for essential
equipment during
Tuesday’s session of city
Dawn Watson, Randolph
Brewster, Paul LeVan,
Emmett Rainey, John
Turner and Luther Vance
Sr.
Sgt. Mike Hopkins will
be paid sls for providing
custodial services at the
National Guard Armory,
where the election will be
conducted from 7 a.m. to
7 p.m.
All of the incumbents -
Councilmembers Bar
bara Calhoun, Gene
Smith and George Nunn -
have qualified for
relection. Nunn will be
opposed by Walter R.
Rembisz, and Smith will
be opposed by Charles C.
Allen. Qualifying for the
three council posts ends
today (Friday) at 5 p.m.
To conduct the election,
officials and workers will
utilize six voting
machines to be rented at
the rate of S3O each for a
total of SIBO.
morning with the opening
remarks and directions
given at 10 a.m. The
keynote address speaker
is Linton Cox, Registrar
of Georgia College in
Milledgeville. Dr. Judson
R. Trippe, Speech and
English professor at
Brewton-Parker College
in Mt. Vernon, will
preside at the General
Meeting from 11-12 nooh.
Lunch is scheduled for
12-1:30 with the General
Session of the SEAIS
from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Departmental meetings
Serving Hie People In Georgia’s Heartland Since 1870
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., 31069 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER », 1979
change for Jamas
Ethridge at Pizza Hut,
David T. Coley of Revco
Drugs at K-Mart Plaza
and Paul J. Tar for tha
Highway 41 North Con
venience Store.
Mayo’s motion to refer
an application from
Edward Lee to install
coin-operated pool tables
at the L.L. Shell Service
Center to Police Chief
B.E. Dennard and
Building Inspector Lanny
Coffman was also ap
proved by council.
In other action, council
approved the ap
pointment of Ethel
Ethridge, Alfonza Owens,
Jake Goddard and
Elwood Waites to tha
Perry Clean Community
Commission.
council.
The first appropriation
was approved after
Mayor Pro-Tern Barbara
Calhoun explained that
all of the pros and cons
had been reviewed since
last June concerning a
decision on whether to
buy or lease the city’s
new Systems 32 IBM
computer.
She said it was decided
in June that the computer
should be acquired on a
lease-purchases plan.
Since then, however,
council had moved to
update the computer and
had decided that it would
be best to purchase it
outright at a cost of
$28,203.
Council also approved
Mrs. Calhoun’s proposal
to program the city
payroll into the computer
at a cost of SI,BOO.
Acting on a motion by
Councilman Draper
Watson, council approved
the purchase of a new
garbage truck and a
Leach Packmaster at a
cost of $24,201.24.
Watson explained that
the truck would cost
$12,706.24, that the packer
would cost $10,945, and
that an additional $550
would be needed to pay
the expenses of a person
to drive the truck to
Wisconsin to have the
packer installed on the
truck.
will be held during the
Session. The Head
masters will meet at 2:45
p.m.
Westfield is looking
forward to hosting the
SEAIS Teachers Con
vention this Monday. An
SEAIS member school,
Westfield is celebrating
its tenth year as an in
dependent school,
Monday, November 12
will be a holiday for the
students and they will
resume classes on
Tuesday, Nov. 13.
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Mrs. W.C. Graham, president of the Perry Garden Club,
and Mayor James McKinley, look on as city workmen pour
the foundation for a gazebo being constructed at the
Garden Club To Donate Gazebo
The Perry Garden Club
has announced plans to
erect a Gazebo in
Evergreen Cemetery as a
gift to the City of Perry.
The project was
unanimously approved
Mayor Criticized For
Publicity On Crime
Mayor James
McKinley was criticized
during a regular city
council meeting Tuesday
night for disclosing the
time that the city’s law
enforcement capability
would be beefed up.
The fact that McKinley
had requested and
received two deputies
from Sheriff Cullen
Talton and one state
trooper from Sgt. John
Wright to patrol the city
between 10 p.m. and 6
a.m. had been widely
publicized in area
newspapers.
McKinley had
requested that the police
department be
augmented by deputies
and troopers after six
armed robberies had
been committed here in
six weeks. The sixth
robbery took place at
10:45 p.m. on Oct., 31. The
mayor submitted his
request for extra lawmen
on Nov. 1.
The criticism came to
light when Councilman
Thomas Mayo, chairman
of the city Police Com
mittee, observed that the
police department was
under the gun for the
robberies and holdups,
ton Cher* Were possible
solutions, and that he
could go along with the
proposed activities if they
were not so well
publicized.
(Photo by Bobby Branch)
Workmen Pour Foundation For Gazebo
by at the club’s Sep
tember meeting.
The cement foundation
was poured Tuesday by
the city, with Mayor
James McKinley looking
on. Construction by the
Mayor McKinley asked
Mayo to explain his
remarks, and Mayor Pro-
Tern Barbara Calhoun
told Mayo that she did not
understand what he was
talking about, to “stop
beating around the
bush,” and to come right
out and "call a spade a
spade.”
DA Makes Staff Change
Staff changes and
expense accounts sub
mitted by District At
torney Stephen Pace
were approved by county
commissioners Tuesday
at Perry Courthouse.
Perry Woman Gets
Top National Honor
Miss Rena Kay Rider of
Atlanta, daughter of Mrs.
Erma Rider of Elko and
the late Wilbert Rider has
been selected as one of
the ten Outstanding
Young Women of
America for 1979.
The purpose of this
awards program is to
recognize the many
young women who give
their time, talents, and
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Evergreen Cemetery by the garden club. The gazebo will be
located in the center of the cemetery and will be an at
tractive addition to the history-laden cemetery.
Industrial Arts Depart
ment of Perry High
School, under the
guidance of William
Loudermilk, is expected
to take the next few
weeks.
Specifically, Mrs.
Calhoun asked Mayo if
his remarks were in
reference to newspaper
articles about the
mayor’s response to the
crime wave.
"I’d like for things to be
done, but not publicized
in the news media,”
Mayo said. "I’d like to
“In keeping with my
previous visit with the
county commissioners
concerning my desire to
replace my investigator
with an attorney - in
vestigator, please be
unselfish service to
enrich the quality of
American life. The
nominees are selected by
the Board of Advisors
submitted by respected
business and civic
Madera throughout {be
country.
Miss Rider is employed
at Atlanta Air Center as a
marketing director.
The plan calls for an
eight-foot square
structure of white lat
ticed panels, with an
opening in each of the
four sides, covered by a
shingled roof topped with
make some recom
mendations on some
steps to be taken during a
closed session.”
Mrs. Calhoun said that
she had heard several
comments about the
matter. She said the
comments implied that
the mayor had already
disclosed what police
advised that I have
employed Anthony Allen
Wilhoit, graduate of
Mercer University and of
the Walter F. George
School of Law at Mercer
University and a member
of the State Bar of
Georgia, as investigator -
attorney to fill the
position to be vacated by
my investigator, Gary
Trawick,” Pace stated in
his letter to com
missioners.
“According to my
understanding, the
commissioners have
agreed to allow me to hire *
Mr. Wilhoit at a grade 26-
A,” the district attorney
continued. "I would like
for his employment to
begin the 15th of
November, and at the
same time, I would like
a white latticed finial.
Progress on the Gazebo
will be reported regularly
in the Houston Home
Journal, and a dedication
ceremony is planned
upon completion of the
were going to be doing
and where they would be.
Mayo then made a
motion that the police
depai cment be allowed to
purchase two sirens and
two light bars to install on
police cars at a cost of
$1,378, and the motion
passed by unanimous
vote.
for Mr. Trawick’s em
ployment to terminate on
the 14th of November,
which, I believe, is a pay
period termination date.”
The- - district attorney
stated that in accordance
with his conversation
with the county gover
ning body, he would like
for expense allowances to
be established
for Assistant District
Attorney Jim Hardy and
Wilhoit in the amount of
SSO per month.
Pace told com
missioners that 1..a in
crease from the regular
investigator’s regular
pay to the new assistant’s
pay, and funds for ex
penses In connection with
travel would come from
money that was put aside
for the purchase of an
investigator’s vehicle.