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116th YEAR, NO. 51. 3 SECTIONS, 20 PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS . IV « I^l
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1987 * IV||U"W“d\
Funeral services held for the Reverend Dr. Leonard Cochran
Funeral services for the Rev
erend Dr. Leonard Hill Cochran
of Perry were held Tuesday
morning at Perry United Metho
dist Church, with interment at
the new section of Riverside
Cemetery in Macon.
Dr. Cochran died Saturday
after being admitted to the Perry
Hospital. He was 82, and had
resided in Perry since 1968.
A retired Methodist minister
who had pastored at Perry
United Methodist Church from
1968 to 1972. Dr. Cochran had
served Methodism for 43 years
prior to retiring from the Perry
Church. He began serving in the
South Georgia Conference in
1929.
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David Mills and Stewart Bloodworth show current results of this year’s
first experiment In growing white potatoes commercially In Houston
Experimental potato crop
showing signs of success
By HOWARD COLEY
Staff writer
The first experiment in growing
potatoes commercially in Houston
County is showing signs of
becoming successful, with the an
ticipated harvest just a couple of
weeks away.
Members of the press corps
were given the opportunity Mon
day of taking a look at the 80-acre
potato patch near Grovania and
receiving an update from County
Extension Director David Mills
and Farmer Stewart Bloodworth.
Bloodworth, who does exten
sive and diversified farming
locally, joined Mills in beginning
the experiment early this year. It is
planned to be continued through
several years of “learning ex
perience.”
“We’re not out of the woods
yet,” stated Mills, referring to
possible heat and moisture con
ditions up to the harvest.
Although he admitted the ex
periments “are encouraged to this
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Dr. Cochran was eulogized by
the Rev. Carter Berkeley, pastor
of Perry UMC. Pallbearers were
Harold Green, Colton Sexton,
Harold Clay, David Muse,
George Brown, Larry Johnson,
Larry Walker and George Nunn,
Jr.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Perry Kiwanis
Club and the Methodist Men’s
Bible Class, in both of which he
held membership, and members
of the Methodist clergy of
Georgia.
A native of Fulton County, Dr.
Cochran was a former trustee of
both Wesleyan College and
Andrew College, was a dele
gate to the North American
point," extreme heat could hinder
or prevent development of the
smaller and mid size potatoes.
The first-growth spuds already
have reached desired size for
“chipping,” a term used in
referring to a potato that is ideal
for making potato chips.
The farm is divided into plots
for results study, involving variety
of potato, date of planning, type of
insecticide use, and prior crop
rotation. The data then is
analyzed.
The idea of commercial
potatoes in Houston was not to
replace any existing farm crop.
Mills pointed out, but to sup
plement farm income.
Frito-Lay, who soon is to open
a snack food processing plant near
Kathleen, expressed interest in
purchasing suitable potatoes to fill
a contract void during late May
and June each year.
Teaming up to learn if they
could be grown successfully here,
the county agent and Bloodworth
Missionary Conference and the
Ecumenical Conference and was
a clerical leader of the South
Georgia delegation to the Gen
eral Conference in 1956, 1960
and 1964.
He also was chairman of the
Southeastern Committee on
Evangelism 1956-60, served four
years on the General Conference
Commission to study the Juris
dictional System, and was a
delegate to the Jurisdictional
Conference each quadrennium
from 1948 to 1964.
He attended Emory-at-Qxford
and received his bachelor’s
degree and an honorary docto
rate from Asbury College, Wil
more, Ky.
County. They expect harvesting the 80-acre farm to get under way in
about two weeks. (HHJ photo by Brenda Gibson).
faced an adverse start last spring,
when excess rain held up planting
until a questionable late date.
The late planting, however, has
established item number one of
the experiment, that of successful
later planting provided other fac
tors prove favorable.
“No one could have told me
that, with all of the adversity we
have faced, we’d be seeing an ac
ceptable yield and quality,” said
Mills.
He made the comment as he
and Bloodworth shoveled up
another bunch, this one with no
less than a dozen beautiful
potatoes hanging in sizes from
“chipping” to that of a golf ball.
Mills advised that 250 100-
pound bags of spuds is considered
a good yield per acre.
Bloodworth, smiling as he ad
mired the samplings, volunteered
that he thought “about a million
pounds” would be a better figure,
the optimism of both experimen
ters showing through.
The Rev. Dr. Leonard Cochran
PERRY, GA.I
News...
Free tours will be provided Saturday
to folks interested in seeing the Air
Museum at Robins Air Force Base.
See story on Page 3A.
Sports...
With graduation time upon us, it's
time to start thinking about the school
year that just passed. On the field of
competition, 1986-87 was definitely
an exciting one in Perry. For a look
back at the past year in high school
sports, see Page 18.
Index...
Deaths 2A
Viewpoint 4A
Social 6A
School nows 8A
Sports IB
Business news 8B
Food 1C
Television sc
3C
During his active career, Dr.
Cochran pastored churches
throughout the South Georgia
Conference, including St. Luke’s
in Columbus, Asbury Memorial
in Savannah, First Methodist of
Valdosta and Mulberry Street
Methodist in Macon.
Besides bringing spiritual en
richment to his congregations, he
inspired them to improve or
extend the churches’ physical
properties for religious teachings
and growth wherever he served.
He came to Perry from First
Methodist of Albany.
“He might have been the
greatest preacher this conference
ever had,” stated the Rev.
Berkeley in leading the eulogy.
Commission
slating cuts
in ’BB budget
By DAVID GRINDLE
Staff writer
The Houston County Commis
sioners preposed $1.6 million in
cuts to the nearly $12.6 million
proposed 1987-1988 budget Tue
sday night during the last of their
preliminary budget hearings at
the Houston County Annex.
The proposed cuts will put
almost every department below
the request that they made for
the coming year. The proposed
cuts will put many of those
departments below this year’s
budget.
The commissioners will have
to make the cuts in order to keep
the budget balanced with the
expected revenues which could
vary between $10.9 million and
$11.2 million. The cuts will also
enable the county to pay the
regular employees a merit
increase and the non-classified
supervisors a raise.
Throughout the budgeting
process, the commissioners have
warned that the budget will not
please anyone. Much of the
discussion after the meeting
QBE will cause
school tax hike
By HOWARD COLEY
Staff writer
Requirements of the Quality
Basic Education Act will cause
Houston County Board of
Education to come up with an
additional $1 million in local
funding during next school year,
resulting in higher school taxes.
This can be handled through
provisions of the tax cap, Supt.
Matt Arthur told board members
assembled for a 1988 budget
meeting Monday evening.
Although talks will continue in
formulating a budget to start the
new fiscal year on July 1, it is
estimated that QBE require
ments will place the school
millage at 5.16 mills, some .32
mills above this year’s rate.
Arthur said the required QBE
budgeting Iran local funds saw
an increase from $919,260 in
1986 to $2.4 million this fiscal
year. The total contribution in
fiscal 1988 is placed at about $3.3
million, Arthur said.
“He was a towering figure
unique.”
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Barbara Davis Cochran of Perry;
two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn
Hopkins and Mrs. Laverne
Moorehouse, both of Atlanta;
four sons, Norman Cochran of
Wayland, Mass., and Arthur H.
Cochran, Thomas T. James and
Davis James, all of Atlanta; a
sister, Mrs. Charles Notson,
Seattle, Wash.; three brothers,
John Cochran, Temple City,
Calif., the Rev. Charles Cochran,
Covington, and Horace Cochran
of Atlanta; and 10 grandchild
ren.
Watson-Hunt Funeral Home of
Perry had charge of arrange
ments.
centered around how the board
and individual members should
best deal with complaints from
the many department heads once
they meet with them next week.
The commissioners proposed
over $124,000 in cuts just from
the reduction of grants that the
county gives to various *state and
charitable organizations.
“If the organizations can show
us how to raise money, we can
give the money back,” one
commissioner said in response to
the expected criticism. “We
didn’t cause this problem with
the budget.”
During the earlier hearings,
the commissioners tried to pro
pose cuts that would get the “fat
out of the budget” as one
commissioner said.
That process called for the
elimination or reduction of non
essential line items such as
books, pamphlets, training, and
travel. The cuts were further
sparked by the endless amount of
budget adjustments the com
missioners have to deal with at
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Annette White
According to the board’s com
ptroller, Mrs. Annette White,
the board would need to levy an
additional 3.56 mills in compen
sating for the increases in requir
ed local effort the past two years.
White pointed out that without
the additional 3.56 mills in
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