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The Houston Home Journal
OUR 110th YEAR VOLUME NO. 2 PHONE 987-1823
Members of the local library board and other officials are
shown here looking over the final plans for the new library
expansion which will double the size of the present facility.
From left, library board chairman Cohen Walker, Miss Carol
Hancock, Mrs. Hugh Lawson Sr., Mrs. Judy Golden, Mrs. Sue
Arnall, Mrs. Anna Pritchett Jr., building committee
Mayor Combines Police, Fire
Depts. Into Public Safety
The establishment of a
new city Personnel
Committee was an
nounced during a regular
council sessoin at city
hall last Thursday night.
Up To $250
County Sets Fines
For Illegal Dumping
County Commissioners
acted last Thursday at
Perry Courthouse to stop
the illegal dumping of
garbage and trash
anywhere else except in
county dumpsters and the
county landfill.
Henceforth, persons
guilty of illegal dumping
will be subject to fines of
from SIOO to $250 for
dumping waste in the
unincorporated areas of
the county.
In discussing the
matter, commissioners
noted that citizens are not
supposed to dump such
items as appliances and
furniture in the dump
sters. Commissioner
Jimmy Griffin said
illegal dumping has
posed a problem for
years.
Market Hog Show
Set Here O Feb. 9
George C. Nunn
Tractor Company on
Jernigan Street will once
again be filled with oinks,
squeaks, and curly tails
when the 4th Annual
Houston County Market
Hog Show begins at 1
p.m. on Sat., Feb. 9, 1980.
The show is sponsored
by the Houston County
Young Farmer
Association in
cooperation with local
merchants. Thirty-eight
4-H and FFA members
will be showing 66 pigs in
competition for the
Library Plans Are Finalized
In order to establish the
new committee, the
mayor said he was
combining the Police
Committee and Fire
Department Committee
Commissioner Alton
Tucker said it seemed to
him that almost
everybody wanted a
dumpster located near
their home, but that it
was very difficult to find
locations to put them.
“They really filled
them up at Christmas,”
Tucker said. “I think one
problem is that we don’t
have enough containers.”
Once the dumping and
litter problem was
resolved, commissioners
elected Charles Carter as
commission chairman for
1980, replacing Com
missioner J. Frank
Rozar. Commission
members elected
Commissioner VW.
McEver to replace
Carter as vice chairman.
Carter said com
Grand Champion pig.
There will also be two
showmanship classes
with a grand champion
showman selected. The
showmanship awards are
sponsored by Walker-
Rhodes Tractor Com
pany.
There will be an
awards banquet held that
night in the Perry High
School Lunchroom for all
exhibitors, their parents,
sponsors, and Young
Farmers with the meal
sponsored by Triangle
Chemical Company.
Serving The People In Georgia’s Heartland Since 1870
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ 31069 THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980
chairman Hugh Lawson Jr., contractor Jack Wilcox, ar
chitects Jack Holliday and Bill Hollis, Mayor James
McKinley, county commission chairman Charles Carter,
Mayor Protem Barbara Calhoun, Mrs. Thelma Collier.
(Photo by Bobby Branch)
into a single Public
Safety Committee.
Chairman of the new
Personnel Committee
will be Mayor Pro-Tern
missioners have already
put into effect measures
to conserve energy, and
at the same time still
provide services. He
appealed for the
cooperation of com
missioners and citizens in
solving the county’s
problems during his term
as chairman.
“During 1980 I plan to
work for more con
servative measures
because of the energy
situation,” Carter said.
“The number one
problem is inflation, and
our problem will be to
fight that and still
provide services
needed.”
Later in the session,
Tucker said he wanted to
make some motions that
“needed to be on the
books”. His first motion
was to require all
wholesale distributors of
beer, wine and whiskey to
furnish a monthly sales
report to the county
whether they have any
sales or not. The motion
passed by unanimous
vote.
Also receiving the
board’s approval were
Tucker’s motions to
compile a list of all
maintenance agreements
on leased equipment, and
to require insurance
companys to send
policies and invoices to
the accounting depart
ment.
Tucker’s final motion
to receive the board’s
unanimous vote was to
require the stale health
department to submit an
immediate audit.
Barbara Calhoun, with
Councilman Draper
Watson serving as a
member.
McKinley said he was
also forming a Personnel
Review Committee to be
composed of Mrs.
Calhoun, Watson, City
Clerk Marion Hay, Police
Chief B.E. Dennard,
Public Works Director
Ed Warren and Utility
Department Director
M.M. Cloud.
According to the
mayor, the purpose of the
review committee will be
to review established
personnel policies, make
recommendations to
council as deemed
necessary, to review
applications for em
ployment to assure all
applicants are given
equal opportunity for
employment, and to
review actions taken by
department heads and
other employees to
assure full compliance
with policies contained in
the Perry Personnel
Manual.
McKinley said the
Personnel Review
Committee should meet
not less than every two
weeks to review per
sonnel matters and bring
recommended changes
before council for con
sideration. He added that
final decisions regarding
personnel matters will be
left to mayor and council.
In other appointments,
McKinley named
Councilman George Nunn
as chairman of the
Budget ad Finance
Committee, with
Councilman Thomas
Mayo serving as a
member.
Watson was named
chairman of the new
Public Safety Committee
with Councilman Gene
Smith serving as a
member. Mayo was
named chairman of the
Sanitation Committee
with Mrs. Calhoun ser
ving as a member.
Smith was appointed as
chairman of the Public
Works Committee with
Councilman Ralph
Gentry serving as a
member. Gentry was
appointed to serve as
chairman of the Utilities
Committee with Nunn
serving as a member.
McKinley named
Watson to serve as
council's liaison to the
Planning and Zoning
Board and the Board of
Adjustments and Ap
peals. Gentry was named
by the mayor as Perry’s
representative on the
Natural Gas Tran
smission Line Board.
Nunn was selected by
the mayor to represent
Perry on the Perry-Ft.
Valley Airport Authority,
and Smith was named to
serve as the city’s liaison
on the Recreation
Committee.
Rounding out the list of
individual appointments,
the mayor named Mayo
as the city’s represen
tative to the Hotel-Motel
Tax Advisorty Com
mission, and Mrs.
Calhoun ws selected as
the city’s representative
to the Clean Community
Commission.
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Newly elected members of the Perry City
Council were officially sworn in at the first
meeting of the new year last Thursday night.
Swearing in the re-elected members at left is city
Council Appoints
Officials For ‘Bo’
City council’s first
session of the new year,
which was conducted last
Thursday night, featured
City Attorney Larry
Walker administering
oaths of office to re
elected council members
Barbara Calhoun, Gene
Smith and George Nunn.
Following the oath
taking ceremonies,
council voted
unanimously to re-elect
Mrs. Calhoun to serve
another two-year term as
mayor pro-tem.
Council also voted,
without dissent, to
reappoint Walker as city
attorney, Herb Wells as
city judge, and Edgar
Barfield as city auditor.
Acting on a motion by
Councilman Smith,
council agreed to enter
into a contract with the
Georgia Department of
Transportation to assist
in paying a portion of the
cost for paving a parking
lot to serve the new ad
dition to Perry City
Library.
Council adopted two
motions by Mrs. Calhoun
to improve city water
facilities. Reacting to her
first motion, council
agreed to spend $892 to
install a 750-foot water
line from Main St. to
Talton Place. The action
was taken after two
residents of Talton Place
had complained about
muddy water.
The second motion
concerned approval to
install altitude valves
near Holiday Inn and
Sears Rd. at a cost of
$2,910.
Responding to a motion
by Nunn, council voted to
authorize City Clerk
Marion Hay to split four
plot cemetery lots to two
lots. Previously, the city
had specified that only
four-plot lots could be
sold in city cemeteries.
Nunn stated that from
time to time the city
receives requests to
donate grave plots for
paupers. He said that it
was his impression that
these graves were un
marked, and he wanted to
remedy the situation by
authorizing the city to
spend up to $25 to pur
chase a marker for each
pauper’s grave. The
motion was approved by
all members.
Mrs. Calhoun offered to
Taking The Oath
amend Nunn’s motion to
allow the city to purchase
markers for paupers
already buried in city
cemeteries, but Mayor
Budget Changed
To Assist r The Elderly
A request for changes
in the 1980 CETA budget,
as requested by Houston
County Personnel
Director Charles
Cloniger, was approved
by county commissioners
during a regular meeting
in Perry last Thursday.
Included in the new
budget was a Community
Action Agency project to
weatherize the homes of
elderly persons. Ap
propriation for this
project, Cloniger ex
plained, will be $51,000.
He said this figure in
cluded SI,OOO for travel at
15 cents per mile.
Other adjustments to
County Approves New
Fees For Developers
A plan recommended
by the Houston County
Planning and Zoning
Board to charge
professional engineering
fees to home builders and
subdivision developers
was approved by county
commissioners last
Thursday at Perry
Courthouse.
As presented by
Building Inspector
Thomas Mason, the new
regulation will require
the builders of individual
homes to pay $lO each
time the consultant visits
their homesite to solve
drainage problems.
Developers, on the other
hand, will pay all
professional engineering
fees for preparing a new
subdivision site.
Mason told com
missioners that some
builders are complaining
about his enforcement of
strict building codes that
specify compliance with
minimum requirements
outlined in the Southern
Building Code.
He said a group of the
builders took him to
lunch, and that he was
attorney Larry Walker, councilman George
Nunn, mayor protem Barbara Calhoun, coun
cilman H E. (Gene) Smith. (Photo by Joel
Ferguson)
McKinley said Mrs.
Calhoun’s proposal could
be accomplished without
an amendment to the
motion.
the CETA budget in
cluded:
4-Changing a fire
educator position to fire
fighter for the city of
Warner Robins.
4- Changing a teacher
position to two teacher
aide positions for the
Board of Education.
Estimated cost of this
change was $1,588 or less.
4- The deletion of two
nurse positions ($23,463)
and the addition of one
clinic housekeeper
position ($5,965) for the
health department.
4- Increasing the wages
of three CETA janitorial
workers from $3.01 per
hour to $3.13 per hour.
told they were losing
money because of the
strict codes. Mason said
the builders told him
there were separate
guidelines, one for in
dividual builders and one
for the subdivision
developers.
Commissioners in
formed Mason that they
concurred with his belief
that codes should be
enforced equally for
individual home builders
and developers. They
agreed that the
guidelines should be
applied to everyone,
whether they were
building one house or 50
houses.
Commissioner Jimmy
Griffin said he believes
most people would not
mind paying extra to
know their house was
well built. Commission
Chairman Charles Carter
said he thought com
missioners should assure
the people that they are
getting good recom
mendations when the
building inspector ap
proves the construction of
a home.