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Promoting Andersonville Trail
Peggy Shepherd of Andersonville is shown here
under the newest sign on Interstate 75 in Perry
promoting the Andersonville Trail. She is
chairperson of the Andersonville Trail
Association and plans are set for a major tourist
promotion of the Trail which begins in Perry and
Flaming Truck Abandoned
A pulpwood truck from
Roberta, which was
carrying a 200-gallon
tank of diesel fuel, burst
into flames here Monday
night on Tucker Road.
The blaze forced the
driver and passenger to
abandon the truck and
flee. The fire was
reported about 5:50 p.m.
by a Tucker Road
resident as the flaming
truck rolled past the
residential area.
It was reported that a
crowd of residents
gathered near the bur
ning truck.
Hank Banks, of 1404
Tucker Road, said the
flames were as high as
pecan trees in the area.
Banks, whose house
faced the flaming truck,
Perry Man Hangs Self
In The County Jail
Robert Joseph Maddox,
who was arrested last
Wednesday on charges of
public drunkenness,
hanged himself last
Thursday in the Houston
County Jail in Perry.
Maddox, 48, who lived
at the Moss Oaks Trailer
Park on Highway 41
Truck
Stolen
A 1973 Ford F-100
pickup truck was ap
parently stolen from a
parking space at the
Travel Host Motel here
sometime Tuesday night,
according to a report
filed with the Perry
Police Department.
Police Chief B.E.
Dennard said the stolen
truck report was filed by
Jason G. Woods of 1012
Crescent Circle in Black
burg, S.C. He said Woods
reported that he checked
into the motel Tuesday
afternoon, and later
discovered that the truck
was missing about 11
p.m.
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recalled that he was
trying to pack everything
up and move it back a few
feet from the fire.
Banks stated that one
of the persons in the truck
ran by him when the
driver and passenger
abandoned the truck.
Ed Hicks, a passenger
in the truck, said
someone called out that
the truck was on fire. He
said he looked back and
saw that the truck was
smoking and got out.
According to Hicks, the
blaze was shooting
flames over the entire
truck bed, and that the
flames were dangerously
near the diesel tank.
Driver Leroy Hicks
said the fire was all under
the tank, and that he
didn’t know what hap-
South, was found with a
belt looped around his
neck, hanging in a shower
stall about 1 a.m. by a
deputy making routine
rounds at the jail.
According to Houston
County Sheriff’s
Department reports, the
deputy ran to Maddox’s
cell, unlocked it and cut
the belt from around the
man’s neck with a pocket
knife.
Reports from the
sheriff’s department
indicate that Maddox was
carried to his bunk,
where deputies tried
without success to revive
him until an ambulance
crew arrived. County
Coroner Oscar Kiser said
an autopsy performed
last Thursday morning
revealed that Maddox’s
death was caused by
Breakfast Honors Ray
A breakfast honoring
former Perry Mayor
Richard Ray was held at
the New Perry Hotel last
Saturday morning. About
75 local men attended.
Ray is now serving as
U.S. Senator Sam Nunn’s
ends in Cordele. The association hopes to attract
a record number of tourists off 1-75 to drive along
the historic and beautiful trail which features
Andersonville National Cemetery and the local
Andersonville Museum as well as a tour through
Plains, Ga. (Photo by Frank Russo)
pened to cause it. The
Hicks men and Clarence
Lockett were cutting
pulpwood in the Tucker
Road area and had
started home when the
fire began.
The Perry Fire
Department responded to
the alarm and quickly
extinguished the fire
before it reached the
diesel fuel or the truck’s
gasoline tank. No injuries
were reported.
“It could have been a
very dangerous situation
if the gasoline
had exploded,” Banks
said. “But the fire
department got there and
put it out pretty quick.”
Fire Chief Sirah
Lawhorn said he had no
idea how the blaze
started.
asphyxiation.
Records indicate
Maddox was brought to
the jail about 10:30 p.m.
after being arrested on
the public drunkenness
charges. Kiser said a
deputy had talked with
Maddox about 30
minuters before the man
was found hanged in his
cell.
Warrants state that
Maddox had been
shooting a pistol in the
trailer park earlier in the
evening. He was arrested
after a woman who lived
in the trailer park called
the sheriff’s department
and reported that
Maddox came up to her
trailer making threats to
her and her daughter.
A coroner’s inquest on
Maddox’s death has been
scheduled for January.
administrative assistant
in Washington.
The hosts for the break
fast were; J.M. Tolleson
Jr., Allen Whipple,
Richard Goodroe,
Stewart Richardson, Bill
Sexton and Dr. Leonard
Bell.
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Full Gospel Dinner Set
The Perry Chapter of
the Full Gospel Business
Men’s Fellowship In
ternational will hold a
dinner meeting at the
local Holiday Inn on
Friday, Jan. 11, ac
cording to chapter
President Bob Folsom.
Folsom said the op
tional dinner will begin at
7 p.m. at a cost of $4.25,
followed by services at
7:45 p.m. He added that
the services will be non
denominational, and that
all faiths are welcome.
According to Folsom,
the guest speaker for the
event will be Gene Evans
of Gadsden, Ala. A
certified public ac
countant serving Gad
Man Killed By Truck
In Middle Os 1-75
John A. Pond, 22, was
struck and killed by at
least two and possibly
more vehicles on In
terstate 75 a few minutes
after midnight last
Saturday. The accident
happened about 10 miles
south of Perry. Pond, who
was from Montezuma,
was killed instantly,
according to Houston
County Coroner O.J.
Kiser.
A Florida tractor -
trailer driver, Randall
McLeod, told a state
trooper he saw Pond’s
body lying in the right
hand lane of the nor
thbound interstate high
way before his 18-wheel
truck hit the body.
It was reported that
Pond was then struck by
a Ford Pinto following
McLeod’s truck, ac
cording to a report field
by State Trooper Don
Sinyard.
Carl C. Arnold of
Byron, the driver of the
car, told Sinyard he did
not see the body until it
came out from under the
sden. Evans is married
and has two sons, ages 19
and 14.
Evans has served as
treasurer, Elder and
Bible Teacher in the
Inter - denominational
Church. He is an In
ternational Director of
the Full Gospel Business
Men’s Fellowship In
ternational, and has
served from 1969 to 1979
as president of the
Gadsden Chapter of the
gospel organization, and
is a member of the
Gadsden Lions Club.
“Jesus became a
reality in my life in 1962
under the ministry of
Reverend Alton Parris at
the Easton Gadsden
Methodist Church,”
truck. According to the
report, Sinyard said it
was possible that Pond
had been hit and killed
before McLeod’s truck
ran over the body.
According to Coroner
Kiser, an autopsy per
formed last Saturday
showed "traumatic in
juries over the entire
body, and one of several
which could have caused
death.”
Kiser told The Home
Journal Wednesday there
is a possibility an inquest
could be held to deter
mine the circumstances
surrounding Pond’s
death.
"If an investigation
being conducted by law
officers doesn’t deter
mine the exact cause of
death, we’ll have to order
an inquest,” Kiser said.
The Perry state patrol
post first received a call
of a body in the road at
12:05 a.m., according to
Sinyard. He was ordered
to the scene at 12:18 a.m.
No charges have been
filed against McLeod or
Arnold.
Evans said. “After
several frustrating years
of trying to do something
for God, I became aware
of the fact that I did not
have New Testament
power and could not
expect New Testament
results."
In 1969, Evans said he
received the baptism of
the Holy Spirit \ hile
visiting Levie Methodist
Church (Rev. Stan
Beason, Pastor), and that
his life has not been the
same since. He said his
life has been "exciting"
since the baptism.
Evans’ testimony was
featured in the Sep
tember 1975, issue of
Voice Magazine. He is the
founder, president and
director of Meet The
Believers, Inc., a non
profit organization
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DAR will meet Jan. 9, at 3:45 p.m. with Mrs.
Mel Tolleson at 1019 Country Club Rd.
The AFJROTC Parents Club of Perry High
School will meet Thursday, Jan. 3at 7:30 p.m. in
the high school library. All Parents of cadets are
urged to attend.
The Ladies Guild of St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church parish are giving a Farewell reception
for Father Hugh Marshall at St. Patrick’s Parish
Hall on Sat., Jan. 5 at 8:00 p.m. Father Mar
shall’s many friends from the community are
invited to attend.
The Delphian Club will meet at 3:30 p.m. on
January 10, at the home of Mrs. Thomas Mason,
Jr.
The Perry Garden Club will meet at 3 p.m,
Thursday, Jan. 3 at Eastgate Bank of Perry.
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