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112th YEAR. NO. 32, PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069 - A PARK NEWSPAPER
County demotes landfill chief; hires former employee
Once again the Houston County Commissioners have found it necessary to
demote a county employee, and this time, like the last, the employee’s name
was Goodwin.
Jim Goodwin, the county’s landfill director was replaced during their regular
meeting of the county commissioners Tuesday night after a lengthy executive
session.
Goodwin has been critisized in recent months by the commissioners for the
poor management of the landfill.
‘The general consensus is to have better operation of the landfill, and to
move someone out there to get things done,” chairman of the commissioners
Houston Porter said, after the demotion of Goodwin.
James Allen Phillips, 45, will replace Goodwin in his landfill position, and
will assume his duties immediately, possibly as soon as Thursday morning.
Phillips, who is a resident of Houston County, worked for the county prior
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Frank Bledsoe, of Houston Crop Service Inc. flies low over crops during a crop dusting run to "keep the plants healthy.”
PHS cheerleaders gain honors
The Perry High School
Cheerleaders were awarded first
place at the Dynamic Cheerleader
Association Camp at Stetson
University in DeLand, Florida,
recently.
After four days of training at the
camp, they scored 195 points out of a
possible 200 in the final evaluation.
They a Iso received top honors for the
Best Pom Pom routine, Outstanding
spirit, Outstanding Stunts and
Outstanding Leadership.
The Perry High Cheerleaders are
now eligible to compete in the
national level in Los Angeles,
California, February 18, 1984.
In order to participate in the
College prep courses urged
The Houston County School
System is going to begin en
couraging students to take college
preparatory classes, such as
English, math and science.
Betty Gray, Perry High School
counselor met with the Board of
Education Tuesday morning to
submit a tentative plan of academic
prepration for college in the Houston
County Schools.
Mrs. Gray told the board that too
many students are taking little more
than the minimum requirements to
graduate from high school.
She met with other guidance
counselors as well as teachers in the
junior and high schools to draw up
the plan.
Mrs. Gray, recommends that
students who will attend college take
four years of English, and three
each of math, science and social
studies. Mrs. Gray said that she and
the council also recommended that
college bound students take a
foreign language. French is taught
in all high schools in Houston
County.
The Houston Horn Journal
national event, the students will
have to earn the $2,500 necessary to
represent Perry High School and the
city of Perry. This is the first time
the Perry cheerleaders have ever
qualified for national competition.
According to Sunny Myrell,
sponsor for the cheerleaders, any
one interested may send their tax
deductable donations to her, in care
of Perry High School. All checks
should be made payable to the Perry
High School Cheerleaders.
“If each person in the city of Perry
would donate just one dollar it would
be possible for these hardworking
girls to fulfill this dream,” Sunny
She told the board that based on
the panel’s plan, graduating
students should have the basic
academic competencies, such as
reading, writing, speaking and
listening, mathematical, reasoning
and studying. She said that lack of
these basics was partly responsible
for low local scores on the SAT.
Mrs. Gray said that she and her
staff suggest that students enrolled
in the college preparatory
curriculum, also enter the joint
enrollment program with Macon
Junior College their Senior year.
Under the program, students who
qualify, earn simultaneous college
and high school credit.
Mrs. Gray also recommended to
the board that the system start using
a quality point system to determine
rank and graduation honors.
Any student in the gifted or college
preparatory program would receive
five quality points to his grade, while
students in regular courses would
receive three quality points and
students in basic courses would
receive one.
Serving The Finest People In Georgia’s Heartland Since 1870
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to his present position as landfill director, as a correctional officer until earlier
this year. He is presently self-employed, but will devote his full attention to
his new position.
There was some earlier speculation that Goodwin might be given a job at
the landfill under the new director, however the commissioners decided to
offer Goodwin a custodial position at the Houston County Annex in Warner
Robins.
The demotion for Goodwin will mean a salary cut for the former landfill
director. In his new position he will receive $10,300 per year, whereas prior
to Tuesday’s meeting, Goodwin was making "somewhere in the vicinity of
$17,500” Porter said.
Goodwin's son, J. Putney Goodwin was demoted from his position as Coun
ty Administrator in June, after his competency was questioned by the com
missioners.
Myrell said. “It is hoped that
everyone in our community will get
behind and support these out
standing girls and make it possible
for them to go to this competition,”
she added.
The girls on the 1983-84 Perry High
School Varsity Cheerleading Squad
are. Capitan Cindy Nelson, Julie
McGowan, Terry Johnson, Captain
Yvette Thomas, Vickie Hull, Tracy
Cannon, Goss, Patti Green,
Daphne Caldwell, Joann Garza,
Edie Thurmon, Beth Akridge, Cathy
Fudge, Merri Morrow,
Fuller, Letitia Rice, and Kim
Roundtree.
“We have got to motivate these
students,” said Mrs. Gray, who
along with the board agreed that the
quality points would encourage the
students to participate in the
academic college preparatory
courses.
In other news from the board of
education, the borrd heard from
Herschel Thompson, who gave a
study on the elementary summer
school program.
Thompson said that the program
went well, and he thought that the
students who had been retained last
year, and attended the summer
school program would benefit from
the program.
The students who participated in
the program were students who only
needed to complete not more than
two levels of reading or math to be
eligible to advance to the next grade
level.
Thompson stressed that although
the students who participated in
summer school completed the
levels, they would not automatically
advance to the next grade.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1983 THREE SECTIONS, 32 PAGES-PRICE 25 CENTS
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Several dozen members of the Georgia State Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution gathered at the home of Miss Martha Cooper on Main
Street in Perry for a reception Tuesday evening preceding the group’s
Southwest District Workshop Wednesday. Pictured at the reception are:
Mrs. Leyton Colvin, Regent, General Daniel Stewart Chapter, left, Miss
Martha Cooper, Honorary State Regent, center, and Mrs. Louis C. Aider
man, Jr., State Regent for the state society of NSDAR at right. See story
on Page 12A.
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In other news, Perry may be getting some new tennis courts if funding can
be found to cover the costs of the $48,180 four lighted courts at Rozar Park.
In the past several weeks, the newly formed Perry Tennis Association has
met with the Houston County Commissioners individually requesting tennis
court facilities at Rozar Park. They recently contacted State Representative
Isrry Walker to request possible funding for the courts from the state.
Walker met with several members of the tennis association, as well as the
commissioners to request funding from Governor Joe Frank Harris and the
Department of natural resources. Walker received word that Gov. Harris
would appropriate SIO,OOO out of his emergency fund to help construct the
lighted courts.
Walker did make one request however, and that was that the courts be nam
ed “The Eric P. Staples Tennis Center,” after the “winningest” basketball
coach in the United States of America.
Flying . ..
farming,
his life
What do you do when you can’t
decide whether to become a pilot
or a farmer? You might consider
compromising, and become a
crop duster.
That’s what Frank Bledsoe did.
Bledsoe, who is the owner of the
Houston Crop Service Inc., said
that he has always liked air
planes, and has Uked being
around them ever since he can
remember, and since be came
from a farming family, he
decided that crop dusting might
be the perfect solution to his
profession choke.
“Crop dusting was available to
me at the time, and I liked being
around airplanes and crops, so
this just seemed like the tiling to
do,” Bledsoe said. “It’s just a
job,” he added.
Bledsoe became interested in
flying airplanes while in college
working on a degree in Agronomy
and Animal Science at the
University of Georgia. He said
that after he graduated from
college and returned to Houston
County, he realized that he could
be doing the crop dusting that he
was paying someone else to do.
That’s when he began doing his
own crop dusting.
Bledsoe said that he did not
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Insurance
draws fire
A decision by the Houston County
Commissioners to accept a low bid
on casualty and property insurance
stirred some controversy Thursday,
after it was brought to the attention
of the commissioners that the ac
cepted bid did not meet the
specifications required.
During their regular meeting
Tuesday in Perry, the com
missioners took less than one minute
to open the bids and decide to accept
the lowest of two bids submitted, of
$67,938, without determining first
whether or not the bid met the
specifications. After close
examiniation of the low bid, which
was submitted by McNeal Insurance
Agency, the commissioners
determined that the bid did not meet
the specs, therefore calling a special
meeting of the commissioners
before the deadline of the county’s
current insurance ran out August 5.
Greenway Insurance company,
who was the only other agency to
submit a bid to the county, met the
specifications, and submitted a bid
of $99,108.
According to the specifications,
the county required that the in
surance carrier should carry an A
plus rating, based on the insurance
rating service, A, M. Best Co. of New
Jersey. According to the bids sub
mitted, the insurance carrier with
the McNeal company carried an A
rating, while the carrier with
Greenway met with an A-plus rating
as required. Both are considered
excellent carriers.
Glynn Greenway, and
O’Malley Jr. of Greenway Insurance!
critisized the commissioners sos
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