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The Houston Home Journal
Serving The People In Georgia’s Heartland Since 1870
OUR 110th YEAR NO. 21 15 CENTS PER COPY PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1980 PHONE 987 1823 TWO SECTIONS 24 PAGES
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Fire Destroys Perry Home
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bloodworth at 822 Oakridge Drive
was totally destroyed by fire last Thursday morning. The fire apparently
broke out in the kitchen while no one was at home but that has not been
definitely determined as the cause. The family lost all their belongings
in the fire and Perrydfls are urged to donate clothing in a women’s size 20
pants, size 40 blouse and size 8 shoe. Clothes are also needed in a boy’s
size 20 shirt (or men’s small), a size 34 pants and size 7 shoe. Donations
and clothing should be taken to the Perry Fire Dept. (Photo by Frank
Ellis).
‘Dear Love' Set For Holiday Inn
Arts Council Will
Present Play June 23
“How do I love thee,
Let me count the ways”
begins one of the poems
of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. On Monday,
June 23 at 8:00 p.m. at the
Holiday Inn the Perry
Arts Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce
will present “Dear
Love”. This is a two
Perryans Appointed
To Bancshare’s Board
J.M. Tolleson
J.M. (Buddy) Tolleson,
Chairman of the Board of
First National Bank of
Houston County, has been
appointed to the Board of
Georgia Bancshare’s,
Inc. First National Bank
of Houston County is the
newly acquired sub
sidiary of Georgia
Bancshare’s, Inc. Also
appointed are, James B.
Stubbs, President of First
National of Houston
County, and Jerry A.
Davis, Jr., one of the
original organizers and
directors of the Bank.
Mr. Tolleson is
President of Tolleson
character play based on
the lives of poets
Elizabeth Barrett and
Robert Browning. The
play done by Callanwolde
Theatre in Atlanta
opened last October and
received outstanding
reviews.
“Dear Love” is not
comedy and it is not
Lumber Company in
Perry. He is a graduate of
Davidson College, and is
involved in various
business assoc. Included
in these are the National
Forests Products
Political Committee for
which he serves as the
Chairman: past
president of Southern
Forests Products Assoc.;
and director of the
Georgia Forestry
Association.
Mr. Stubbs is a
graduate of the
University of Georgia
Business School. He has
had past experience with
the F.D.1.C., and was
employed by the Bank of
Thomas County,
Thomasville, Georgia,
for twelve years before
accepting the position of
President of The First
National Bank of Houston
County, Perry, Georgia.
Mr. Stubbs is a director of
First National of Houston
County.
Mr. Davis is a graduate
of Georgia Tech. A
commissioned officer in
the Marine Corp, Mr.
Davis now manages
extensive acreage in the
Houston County area.
tragedy though there are
elements of both in it. It is
truly a love between two
people and how it
changed their lives. When
Elizabeth Barrett, who
had not been out of her
sick room for seven
years, first met Robert
Browning she was 38 and
he was 32. She considered
herself over the hill, ugly
and sickly. She felt her
only loveable asset was
her poetry. Browning was
filled with both youthful
energy and idealism and
saw himself as a social
worker who could save
people.
There are other
characters in the play,
though they are never
seen. Through the
dialogue we learn of Miss
Barrett’s possessive
father, hear of her guilt
about the drowning of her
brother and of her great
attachment to her dog,
Flush. In two years love
conquered all.
“It is phenomenal what
happened to this woman
in those two years,” says
Ms Lebow, the Director.
"The most exciting thing
dramatically about the
play is her complete
metamorphosis with
Browning acting as the
catalyst.”
The Callanwolde
production of “Dear
Love” will be laced
together with Chopin
music. Ms. Lebow says
the choice is sppropriate
because Chopin was
composing in the same
Victorian period as the
Brownings lived, and it
would have been the
music they heard.
Tickets for this play
will be $4.00 and can be
reserved by calling the
Perry Chamber of
Commerce office at 987-
1234.
Dr. Bloodworth Elected To Council Post
Perry Voters Elect First
Woman Mayor In 156 Years
Perry voters have
elected the first woman
mayor in the city’s
history since it was
CAty Buys Property
For Use By Elderly
On a recommendation
by Councilman George
Nunn, Perry City Council
Monday night voted
unanimously to purchase
a building and lot on
Bradley for use the the
Older Americans Council
for a price tag of $9,500.
The Council has been
using the property for
about a year to conduct
various activities for the
elderly in the community
as well as serve a hot
meal each day at lunch to
approximately 150
elderly residents a week.
In the past, the City
Council has paid SIOO a
month rent for the
property to the owner.
R.R. Johnson. He
recently decided to sell
the property and the
Older American Council
went to City Council to
ask the City to purchase
/
Council Raises Fees
At City Landfill
Perry City Council
Monday night voted to
amend the City’s landfill
ordinance to raise
dumping fees. The
Council passed the new
fees on a motion by
Councilman Thomas
Mayo.
Councilman Mayo had
two weeks ago brought
the matter of the low fees
to the Council’s attention,
Teacher Assaulted
At Tucker School
A Tucker School
teacher was allegedly
assaulted in the hall of
the school last Friday by
a parent of one of her
students, according to
police reports.
Mrs. Minnie Barrett of
718 Elaine St. was
charged with simple
battery after she
allegedly grabbed the
teacher, Mrs. Mable
Collins and pushed her up
against a wall. She then
allegedly hit Mrs. Collins
after she asked her if she
was satisfied with what
she had done with her
child. School principal
Perry Youth Drowns
In Motel Swimming Pool
Herman Askew Jr., 13,
of Perry, drowned
Sunday afternoon in the
pool of the Colonial Motel
while swimming with a
group of other children.
The boy’s mother
worked at the motel and
was on duty at the time he
drowned. The youth lived
with his parents at 1017
Spring St.
According to reports,
Askew was taking
swimming lessons and
usually did not go into the
deep end of the pool. But
at some point during the
afternoon, according to
eye witnesses, Askew
dived off the diving board
founded 156 years ago in
1824.
In the special election
Tuesday former Council
the property so that the
program can continue.
Nunn said, “I have
visited the center and I
can tell you there is a lot
of good being done for a
lot of our elderly citizens.
I am convinced many of
these people would not
get a hot meal every day
if it were not for this
program and this facility
in our community.”
Nunn also pointed out
that the O.A.C. will pay
the city SIOO rent for use
of the property.
The Bradley Street
facility was formerly a
church sanctuary but has
been converted to
Federally authorized
nutrition center complete
with kitchen facilities.
Sale of the property to
the City will lake place in
the next two weeks.
pointing out the City was
charging far less on
commercial use than the
county’s fee structure.
The commercial fees
are now: pickup load, S 3;
five cubic yards or less,
sls; five cubic yards or
more $25.
Coupons for use of the
landfill by commercial
customers can be pur
chased at City Hall.
Gene Henderson had to
pull Mrs. Barrett away
from Mrs. Collins, ac
cording to reports.
Reports also show that
Mrs. Barrett hit the
school secretary while
she was attempting to get
her to leave the school
grounds.
Mrs. Mrs. Collins, the
teacher, swore out a
warrant on Mrs. Barrett
and she was arrested and
released on a SSOO bond.
The Houston County
School Board and their
attorney Tom Daniel are
looking into the incident.
and came up gasping for
air. Others at the pool at
first thought he was
playing but when he went
down for the third time
the other swimmers
began to panic. They
tried to reach him with a
pole but he was not in
reach.
An employee of the
motel was summoned
and jumped in the pool
and pulled Askew out. He
said the boy was dead at
that time but he was
pronounced dead at the
Perry- Houston County
Hospital after a medical
emergency team rushed
to the scene.
member Barbara
Calhoun received 697
votes while her unofficial
write-in opponent Bobbin
Jackson got 1 3 write-in
votes.
Also on the ballot was
former City Councilman
Dr. Jerome Bloodworth
who won Mrs. Calhoun’s
unexpired seat without
opposition with632votes.
The special election
came about when former
Mayor James McKinley
resigned unexpectedly in
April, leaving the
remainder of his three
year term in 1980. Mrs.
Calhoun resigned her
poston council to seek the
job and Dr. Bloodworth
qualified for her post.
Bobbin Jackson at
tempted to qualify as an
official write-in but he did
not meet the 20 day notice
requirement. However,
he said he was running in
any event. Poll workers
gave those voters who
asked a write-in ballot
and showed them to use
it.
Mayor Calhoun told
The Home Journal
Tuesday night, “I am just
real happy this special
election is over and I will
be glad to get back down
to the business of this
city. We have some very
important matters to be
taken up right away with
the budget at the top of
the priority list.”
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New Band Booster Officers
New officers for the Perry Band Booster Club, 1980-81 are Wayne
Nappier, President; Betty Goss, Secretary; Willis Graham, Vice
President; Helen Moore, Treasurer (not pictured). (Photo by Emily
Montgomery).
Old Perry Visitor Returns A
Ron Vanes of Munster, Indiana returned to Perry Thursd'/
Fire Chief Sirah Lawhorn and the Perry Fire Department. Ro Ml
Perry in August 1971 on a bicycle trip to Florida. Ron, 18 at t' I
a high school graduate worked after school hours to earn I
the 1300 mile trip from Indiana to Florida. Pictured frc ft
Sirah Lawhorn, Ron, and his parents, Eleanor and Bill T I
(Photo by EM.)
Barbara Calhoun
She further stated, “I
want to thank those
voters who did go to the
polls Tuesday. Such a
turnout is very gratifying
in an election of this type.
I just want to say that my
efforts will be devoted
towards providing the
same services, if not
better, we have enjoyed
in the past and this will
all require a close
working relationship
between the mayor’s
office and council and I
don’t have any reser
vations about that at all.
This administration and
the council will be
working hand in hand on
everything that takes
place in city government.
I look forward to ser-
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Dr. Bloodworth
ving.”
Dr. Bloodworth told
The Home Journal
Tuesday night, “I am
looking forward to get
ting back in the business
of this city. There are
some things I began when
I was formerly on council
which I would like to
continue but I am
especially looking for
ward to working with the
mayor and other
members of council on
projects to move this city
forward in the eighties.”
Dr. Bloodworth said he
will focus much of his
efforts on new and ex
panded industry here to
create new jobs and to
insure Perry’s unem
ployment is low in the
future.