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f The Houston Home f Journal 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 Surprise! Halloween on time in city in ‘BB ■V Perry’s Lesley Walker makes toss in PHS 1055... SPORTS/RECREATION TlB PERRY LIFESTYLE IC^ FOOD /RECIPES ID Local deaths Henrietta Neff Larkin, 62--Arthur Randall Peterman, 61 --Bernice Thornton Harper. Obituaries appear on Page 2A. BACAS 4A MILLS 3C BIRTHS 6A PEOPLE 6A BLEDSOE 2D POLICE LOG 2A CALENDAR 2A RECIPES 2D CLASSIFIED 4B REV. 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" - PERRY, OEORqiAy.HQWETpWM NEWSPAPER SINCE 16711-fOR COVEHAaEOf YOW> EWMWUBM.L MMM3 ' ; : ~Hi 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 AUSTRALIA iiM iff 1 \ |E.|i :■■ tjh| u*■ I H ■' ? 3jf r 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 Continued on Page 2A 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. COMPLETE LOCAL SPORTS IB jt EDITORIAL 4A jr LIFESTYLE PERRY, GA. A PARK oc . NEWSPAPER pt -m 1 K I Bfe. ~ fr * C x ■•* .juv ’ atf „ ,-*j| _ If m (L ■» .v jtf \rmm wVdrflk -f'^'wr f I/: %j3Pr f aiy| . - i! , %al'Jill- mp/p*?* aHi 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 r 3»6 pGift NEMS PAre* CT ||| MIDWEEK WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1988 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- Continued on Page 2A 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- Contlnuad on Back Paga