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“Clean Business ”
There’s lots of ways you can think to apply the words “Clean Business’’.
But the Clean Community Commission thinks of them in terms of litter
free appearance to the community. That’s why CCC is singling out 1 Hour
Martinizing at the corner of Macon and Swift streets in Perry. It’s a busy
corner and the curb in front and the fence along side trap litter that blows
from everywhere. But this Jeff Carter-owned business which is managed
by Marlene Wellborn is a “Clean Business’’ as well as a cleaning
business. Mrs. Wellborn ensures that regular litter collections are made,
and it shows; shows she cares. The CCC wants to spotlight One Hour
Martinizing to show they too care and appreciate the effort. Anyone who
needs clothes drycleaned knows Marlene. She’s been in charge here for
seven years and is a 16 year Perry resident. Her husband is with Brooks
Auto Parts and they both enjoy the good life in Perry. CCC and Perry
salutes Marlene, keep up the good work.
Perry Chamber Looks
For Bilingual Citizens
If you are fluent in
French, German,
Japanese or other
languages, the Perry
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Area Chamber of
Commerce needs your
help.
To assist foreign
visitors who might need
translation help in an
emergency, the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce
Executive Committee
and the Georgia
Department of Industry
and Trade will publish a
directory of volunteer
translators.
If you are fluent in
another language and
would be willing to help a
foreign visitor in our
area, if the need should
arise, please contact
Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce, P.O. Box 592,
Perry, Ga. 31069; or call
987-1234. We feel that this
kind of service to
foreigners visiting
Georgia would truly
demonstrate our
hospitality and frien
dliness.
College
Capers
One hundred thirty-six
students made the Dean’s
List at Fort Valley State
College for the Fall
Quarter 1979. Students
qualify who have a
quarterly average of 3.33
or higher on a 4.00 scale.
The following senior
made the Dean’s List:
Marva Grace, Perry.
Tift College in Forsyth
has named students to the
Dean’s List for Fall
Quarter. The Dean’s List
requires that a student
have a scholastic average
of 3.25 for the current
quarter on ten or more
hours and have an overall
college average of 3.0 out
of a possible 4.0.
Perry students on the
list are Karen Lorriane
Wood, day division, and
Martha Mitchell Norris, a
student in the Evening
Division of the college.
Card of
Thanks
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We have experienced
anew an appreciation for
your friendship in the
many kindnesses to us
during the illness and loss
of our brother, Gene.
Your love and prayers,
care and concern,
compassion and sym
pathy sustained and
comforted us.
We thank God for every
remembrance from you.
Woodrow & Eloise
Rush
"A bee is never as busy as
it seems; it’s just that it
can’t buzz any slower."
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980
Home Journal Survey
Food Prices Leaped 18% In
Houston County During 1979
Food prices have
jumped over 18 percent in
the Houston County area
during 1979, according to
a survey of five grocery
stores.
In the survey, 16 items
were priced at five
foodstores in the city,
averaged and compared
to prices in a December,
1978, survey.
The total market cost
of the foods in December,
1979, was $30.67 while in
1978 the total was $25.90,
showing an increase of
$4.77.
Fresh sirloin showed
the largest percentages
of increase during the
year as it rose over 36
percent, or from $2.41 per
pound to $3.29 per pound.
Fresh fryers were the
only articles checked in
the survey which actually
showed a decrease during
the year. Fryers
decreased from S.BO a
pound to $.71 or 11%
percent.
The Houston Home
Journal survey was
conducted at two other
times during 1979, in May
and September. In those
months, the total market
costs for the same 16
items was $30.71 and
$30.70, respectively.
According to these
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figures, the total market
cost at the 1979 year’s end
had decreased four cents
since September and five
cents since May, even
though individual items
had increased and
decreased in price since
those times.
Second Increase
The second highest
rising item was a five
pound bag of sugar,
which picked up an
average of 33 cents, or
nearly a 28 percent in
crease.
Next in line was fresh
ground beef, which
suffered a price hike of
almost 26 percent in 1979.
In several grocery stores,
lower prices per pound
were found on ground
beef packages weighing
three or more pounds.
One store offered a 30-
cent per pound reduction
on this type package.
Other than fryers,
which decreased, the
lowest rising item was
Blue Plate mayonnaise.
It increased slightly over
1 percent in the past year,
or two cents.
The second slowest
riser was white bread,
which showed a 2.7
percent increase of two
cents. All five stores
surveyed showed the
same price of 75 cents for
Colonial bread in the
December survey.
Prices varied on many
items, particularly
mayonnaise. At one
store, the quart jar
checked sold for $.94
while at the opposite
extreme, it was found
selling for $1.79.
Canned hams a*lso
varied from a low price of
$4.99 to almost $8 for the
same ham.
Home Journal Survey
Hem 12-28-79 12-26-78 Change
Loaf Colonial Bread, 18 oz. $.75 $.73 +.02
Whole white potatoes, 10 lbs. 1.19 1.04 +.15
Del Monte canned green beans, 16 oz. .48 .41 +.07
Whole milk, 1 gal. 2.31 2.01 + .30
Dozen fresh large eggs .94 .89 +.05
Maxwell House ground coffee, 1 lb. 3.13 2.49 +.64
Blue Plate mayonnaise, 1 qt. 1.44 1.42 +.02
Crisco shortening, 3 lbs., tin 2.18 1.93 +.25
White Lily flour, 5 lbs. 1.32 1.09 +.23
Tide detergent, giant box 1.49 1.39 +.lO
Dixie Crystals sugar, 5 lbs. 1.49 1.16 +.33
Hormel bacon, 1 lb. 1.68 1.51 +.17
Fresh fryers, lb. .71 .80 -.09
Fresh ground beef, lb. 1.65 1.31 +.34
Fresh sirloin, lb. 3.29 2.41 +.BB
Canned ham, 3 lbs. 6.62 5 31 +1.31
TOTAL MARKET COST 30.67 25.90 +4.77
Economists readily
expect inflation to con
tinue near its same pace
in the next year. What
will this mean to a
grocery bill?
If inflation continues at
a rate of near 13 percent,
the same 16 surveyed
items would sell for $34.66
at the year’s end.
Should food prices
exceed the inflation rate,
as they did in 1979, and
rise over 18 percent, the
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16 food items would cost
the consumer $36.19.
Using a 13 percent
inflation rate, sirloin
would rise to an average
price of $3.71 per pound.
Should fryers increase
13 percent in 1980, they
would rise to S.BO a pound,
or the same average
price paid for them at the
end of 1978. Fryers sold
for a high of $.95 per
pound in May of 1979,
according to the survey.