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Perry, Georgia's Hometown Newspaper A Houston County's Legal Organ Since 1870
117th YEAR, NO. 70,4 SECTIONS, 24 PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS
Road expected late next year
By SUSANNAH THOMAS
Staff Writer
If right of way can be obtained
from residents in the path of the
perimeter road to run from U.S. 41
North to U.S. 341 South, work
promised by the county to clear and
grade could begin as early as "the
winter months" of this year, county
engineer Milton Beckham said.
In a letter read to county com
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Perry’s Lesley Walker makes toss in PHS 1055...
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Local deaths
Henrietta Neff Larkin, 62--Arthur Randall Peterman,
61 --Bernice Thornton Harper.
Obituaries appear on Page 2A.
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Computers
considered
for Perry PD
By ROB COLLINS
Staff Writer
Perry’s police chief is looking
closely at a new weapon in his de
partment’s fight against crime.
Computers.
Computers would help the po
lice keep accurate records, collect
unpaid fines, and keep track of
warrants from across the state, Po
lice Chief Frank Simons said.
Recently Simons asked city
council members to consider
spending more than the budgeted
$9,000 for a police computer sys
tem.
A computer-aided dispatch pro
gram (CAD) would replace the
manual card-filing system now used
to keep records of cases.
The CAD system would allow
“almost immediate” access to spe
cific information, Simons said. In
vestigators could quickly find out,
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missioners at their regular meeting
Tuesday, Mayor Lewis Meeks said
the Department of Transportation's
survey is near finalization, and re
quested the project be put on Beck
ham's construction schedule.
"We told the mayor it would be
'B9 or '9O before we could do it,"
commissioner Gene Harrington said
during the meeting.
However, Beckham's project
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Joyce Compton shows friend Willie Rumph how the computers are used in the adult education program
...Compton said there Is a battle with Illiteracy
commitments dated May 18, 1987
put the Perry Perimeter routes in
1988, "depending on right of way."
Os the priorities rated a month
before, Beckham said four out of
the six are completed. The two
outstanding are Perimeter Road East
and the activities building for Rozar
Park.
Discussion of the road started
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By ROB COLLINS
Staff Writer
In a move that was more sur
prising than it seemed, the Perry
City Council decided Halloween
will be held Oct. 31 this year.
At its Tuesday night meeting,
the council set this year’s Trick or
Treat Night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
on Monday, Oct. 31.
“Os all the years I have been
down here,” Mayor Pro Tern Ralph
Gentry said, “this is the first lime
we’ve had trick-or-treat on Hal
loween night.”
In past years, he said, Halloween
night has usually conflicted with
football games or other events.
In presenting his motion
proposing the October 31 date.
Councilman Eddie Wilson specified
that the date was approved on con
dition that it not conflict with
Board of Education events.
The measure passed unani
mously.
In other business, the council;
• approved closure of Carroll Street
for the Farm-City day Festival OcL
1, and for a 5:30 p.m. Chamber of
Commerce event on Sept. 22.
• approved a $170,834 change order
for the Thompson road sewer Pro
ject.
• approved action to construct a
water main and fire hydrant on
Wisdom Street “at a cost not to
exceed $12,000.”
• rescinded an earlier measure
authorizing upgrading of the city’s
gas delivery point metering system,
on the grounds that the project was
costly and “not absolutely essen
tial” at this point.
• tabled a petition to rezone proper
ties on Elko Road, until council
could be certain nearby property
owners had been notified.
• appointed Herman Ragin to fill
the unexpired term of James Stubbs
on the Perry Housing Authority.
W.J. Sexton was also re-appointed
to a five-year term on the board.
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Bev Garrison and her cream colored French Bull Dog took to the road for a show
...C.B. received one trophy and three ribbons from the appreciative judges
How 'bout dat dawg! Her good
buddy C.B. wins in first show
By SUSANNAH THOMAS
Staff Writer
This is bulldog season, in more
ways than one.
Bev Garrison of Kathleen
showed her cream colored French
Bull Dog for the first time this past
weekend at a dog show in Macon.
The "for fun" show was
primarily for conformation,
obedience, and junior
showmanship. All dogs AKC
(American Kennel Club) registered
were eligible to enter.
He won a trophy and three
ribbons. Not bad for the new guy
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on the block, and only one year old
at that.
"It's to get out and have a good
time," Garrison said. "The judges
are usually breeders, and knowl
edgeable. Dogs will be there that
have never been on leads and there
will be people who think they have
a good dog.
"It's a chance for newcomers to
get their feet wet and not get hurt,"
she said.
Garrison, by comparison, is no
newcomer to shows. She got her
first show dog, a poodle, in Eng
land in 1959. When her husband
1,000,000 adults in
Georgia can't read
By MELODY BACAS
Staff Writer
One million adults in Georgia
can't read and write.
That's what the Joyce Compton
at the adult education facility says
and that's why the facility, sup
ported through the Houston County
Board of Education, has began as
sisting the literacy campaign.
"They can't read medicine bottles
or safety brochures," Compton said.
"One of the most important things
we can do is help them protect
themselves."
There is special emphasis on
literacy this month because
September is Literacy Month,
Compton said.
Compton said there are two
kinds of illiterate people.
There are functionally illiterate
who can read small words and know
the alphabet, but can't read direc
tions or a newspaper.
Then there are the completely
illiterate who don't even know the
was transferred to Texas, she joined
the kennel club and worked in obe
dience and grooming, she said.
From poodles, she fell in love
with Lhaso Apsos. Onto Kansas,
and then to Houston County, where
there were "very few" of the breed
in residence, she said.
Here she met Corky Gauger,
who worked with her to champi
onship the dogs by defeating a cer
tain number of other dogs and ob
taining a specific number of points,
she said.
"In the meantime, I got Scot-
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alphabet.
Compton said the number of
people targeted for literacy training
in Houston County is 15,894.
The figure is based on the num
ber who didn't finish school or go
to school at all compared to the ra
tio of literacy in Georgia.
Compton said she had 48 stu
dents for literacy last year in the
Perry office.
But people at the adult education
center don't work only with those
who can't read and write. They also
help those earn credit for a high
school education and receive their
GED, Compton said.
In fact, Compton said helping
drop outs was the original purpose
of the education center.
"A lot of people have had unfor
tunate things happen where they
couldn’t finish school," she said.
"Then we have a number of
people who have graduated and who
want to take refresher courses be-
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