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The Houston Home Journal
109TH YEAR NO. 45
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Indian Culture In Perry
Perry Father And Son
Enjoy Indian Culture
By Angela Martin
Alter seeing only a few
of the authentic Indian
objects Bobby and Rob
Tuggle have made, the
first word one might say
is “How.”
How do they manage to
take leather, beads,
rawhide and feathers,
and fashion them into
items that reflect a
culture which now exists
only in history books?
The answer is easy;
they work with their
hands. But the craft itself
is not so easy. Each part
of every moccasin, every
necklace, every doll they
make is intricately
designed and carefully
made. Bobby and Rob
spend months on each
item, using as many
authentic materials as
possible, to satisfy
themselves that each
detail is correct.
For Bobby, of Tuggle
and Mosteller Insurance
and his son Rob, a senior
at Westfield Schools, the
more appropriate
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Steve Chasse, left, accepts the 1980 corporate
contribution from the Pabst Brewing Company.
Presenting the check is Robert Knighten, center,
president of the local 353, Pabst Brewery
Worker * of Georgia and John Lieberman. Pabst
Operations manager.
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question is “Why?” The
question is more
meaningful, but is more
difficult to answer than
“How?”
“I don’t know why; I’ve
just always been in
terested in Indians,” Rob
says. Rob and his father
are constantly resear
ching the culture of the
Plains Indians, which
lasted from 1790 to 1890,
Rob says. The articles
they make are designed
to reflect the lives of that
group.
The most impressive
single item they have
made is a tipi. Measuring
18 feet tall and 18 feet in
diameter, it is made of
canvas and is decorated
with approximately
200,000 beads that were
hand strung by Bobby
and Rob. When asked
how long it took them to
finish it, they say about
five years; however, they
are quick to add that it is
not finished. “You’re
never really finished with
it,” Bobby says. “You
Serving The People In Georgia’s Heartland Since 1870
keep on adding.
The tipi is being
exhibited this week at the
rotunda of the State
Capitol building in
Atlanta, as part of a
display there in ob
servance of National
Indian Inheritance Week.
Two years ago, the tipi
was dedicated by an
Indian at a pow-wow in
Florida. Bobby and Rob
take it with them to sleep
in when they go to join
other Indian cultirists at
pow-wows in Florida,
Alabama, Texas and
Oklahoma.
One of the most notable
activities at a pow-wow is
the Indian dancing. Rob
began dancing when he
was six years old. He has
danced with the local Boy
Scout Indian dance
group, and has won
numerous awards for his
skill.
Now, both Rob and
Bobby simply dance for
enjoyment. “You do it for
your own satisfaction,”
Bobby says. “You don’t
do it to show off in front of
people. It’s hard to ex
plain; when you hear that
music, it’s just nearly
impossible to sit down;
you’ve got to dance.”
Among the most in
teresting of the
seemingly countless
Indian articles made by
the Tuggles, one is a
cradle board, which
consists of a pouch
fastened to a frame. The
pouch was made to hold a
baby, and the frame
enabled it to be hung
PCA Stockholders
Meeting To Be Held
The annual meeting of
stockholders of Central
Georgia Production
Credit Association will be
held Thursday,
November 20, 1980 at the
Perry High School
cafeteria in Perry,
beginning at 7:00 p.m.
The agenda for the
meeting will include a
barbeque dinner followed
by a brief business
session. Afterwards, Mr.
McKinley S. Franklin,
Regional Vice President
for the Federal In
termediate Credit Bank
of Columbia, South
Carolina, will be the
guest speaker. Mr.
Franklin, a resident of
from a tree limb or from
a saddle. As all of the
items, it is colorfully
decorated. “The Indians
decorated everything
they had,” says Rob.
Bobby adds, “They loved
colors and brightness.”
Tied to the cradle board
is a small beaded pouch
that looks like a lizard.
Rob explains that, when
an Indian child was born,
the umbilical cord was
placed in the lizard pouch
to ensure the child a long
life.
Another item is a
prayer pipe, commonly
known as a peace pipe.
Bobby says the prayer
pipe was believed among
the Indians to have
special powers; the
smoke from it served to
carry their prayers to
heaven.
Bobby adds that the
Indians believed it was
impossible to tell a lie
while holding a prayer
pipe. That is the reason,
he says, why they took
their prayer pipe to
negotiate treaties with
the white men.
The Tuggles also have
an authentic “medicine
bottle,” in which Indians
would place items that
were valuable to them.
“Any object that had
religious significance or
any special meaning to
them, they would save it
for the rest of their lives
in their medicine bottle,”
Bobby says . “And they
would keep it in a special
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Perry, Georgia, is the
former President of
Central Georgia PCA.
Central Georgia PCA
offers short and in
termediate term
financing for farm and
farm family needs - in
cluding capital ex
penditures, rural home
improvements, operating
expenses, and equip
ment. The counties
served by this association
are Bibb, Crawford,
Houston, Jasper, Jones,
Macon, Peach, Pulaski,
Twiggs, and Wilkinson
counties. Central Georgia
PCA currently serves 387
members with a total
loan volume in excess of
$25,000,000.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 PRICE 20 CENTS
County Commission Adopts
New Soil Erosion Ordinance
The Houston County
Commission Tuesday
adopted an ordinance
which will upgrade the
soil sediment control
program in the county.
The ordinance requires
that land developers
carry out an effective
erosion prevention plan
during development.
The previous county
soil sedimentation
control ordinance was
overridden by state law
concerning erosion
control. As a result,
enforcement was handled
at the state level.
With the authority of
enforcement being
placed at the local level,
“it’ll make it a lot easier
to administer the law,”
said Elmo Richardson,
county engines.
Commission Chairman
Charles Carter said, “It
will save the taxpayers a
lot of money if we can
follow these guidelines.”
County Building in
spector Thomas Mason
explained that the local
ordinance will give the
developers the respon
sibility of seeing that
areas meet certain
requirements before
development begins, and
that they maintain those
requirements during
development. This will
relieve the county of
some maintenance costs.
Richardson added that
the ordina
ce will also benefit the
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Holiday Schedule
Due to the
Thanksgiving holiday
next week, you will
receive your Houston
Home Journal on Wed
nesday, instead of the
usual Thursday.
Copy deadlines for next
Beer License Revoked
By Perry City Council
Margaret Crenshaw’s
license to sell beer at
Margaret’s Place on Ball
Street was revoked
Tuesday evening by the
Perry City Council.
Mrs. Crenshaw was
arrested Oct. 19 for
selling beer on Sunday.
She pled guilty at her
trial last week in
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19H0-fil Pantherettes
The Perry Panthers and Pantherettes take to
the court Friday night as the basketball season
opens in Middle Georgia. First game will be
against Tri-County High School andwillbe played
developer through the
convenience of working
with local authorities.
‘Their problems can be
corrected at an earlier
date,” he said. ‘‘lt will be
a more workable law and
Father Burke To Lead
Thanksgiving Service
Father Michael Burke,
the new priest at St.
Patrick’s Roman
Catholic Church, will
deliver the sermon at the
Perry United
Thanksgiving Service in
the Perry Presbyterian
Church Wednesday, Nov,
26 at 7:30 p.m.
Father Burke, 39, was
born and reared in
Ireland. He came to
Georgia in 1967 to be a
priest: he is now a United
States citizen.
Father Burke has
served at both St.
Patrick’s and St. Juliana
(Fort Valley) churches
since August. He says he
will serve as a priest in
South Georgia for the rest
of his life.
He says the worship
service Wednesday
evening will be for all the
local churches. “We
ignore denominational
boundaries; we just come
together to give thanks to
Almighty God,’’ he says.
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return to its regular
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week
municipal court, and she
appeared at a hearing
before the Council
Tuesday to request that
her license not be
revoked or suspended.
“I am trying to make a
living; that’s all there is
to it,” she told Council
members, after she
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a more workable
program all the way
around.”
Betsy Wigington,
associate planner for the
Middle Georgia Area
Planning and Develop
Father Burke
The service will include
participation by the Rev.
Jim Shipley, pastor of the
Bush Appointed
At Ga. Federal
Joe Ferguson, vice
president and division
manager of the Perry
Division of Georgia
Federal Savings and
Loan Association, has
announced the ap
pointment of Walter S.
Bush, Assistant Vice
President, as Division
Operations Officer. The
Perry Division includes
offices in Perry, Fort
Valley, Montezuma,
Hawkinsville, and
Warner Robins.
Bush is a native of
Vienna, Georgia. He is a
graduate of the
University of Georgia
and of the Institute of
Financial Education. He
currently lives in Fort
Valley with his wife,
Latrelle, and their three
children, Lori, Glen and
Kirby. They plan to move
to Perry in the near
future.
“I am pleased to an
nounce this ap
pointment,” Ferguson
said. “It is important to
Georgia Federal to
provide as staff members
qualified persons who are
experienced in the
at the Perry High gym. Look for complete
basketball coverage in the Houston Home
Journal starting next week.
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merit Commission, said
the ordinance is “lenient
without being weak.
Further restrictions
placed on (developers)
tends to slow down
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Perry Presbyterian; the
Rev. Dan Ariail, pastor of
the First Baptist Church
of Perry: Ralph McAtee,
of St. Patrick’s: the Rev.
Tom Johnson, pastor of
the Perry United
Methodist Church and
Bob Brewer, of the First
Baptist.
An anthem will be sung
by the members of the
Crossroads United
Methodist Church Choir.
The offering received
Wednesday evening will
be given to the Salvation
Army Christmas Fund.
Walter Bush
Harold Clay
savings and loan
business, and who have a
high degree of interest in
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