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SATURDAY, MAY 20,1989--119th YEAR, N 0.40, 3 SECTIONS, 32 PAGES, PLUS SALES INSERTS WEEKEND EDITION 250
Chamber to recommend
appointees to new board
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
Board members of the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce arc expected
to recommend potential appoint
ments to the newly formed
Convention and Visitors Bureau,
the governing bexly for the proposed
local welcome center.
At its Wednesday board of direc
tors’ meeting, the chamber will
recommend five appointments to
the bureau, which was created as a
commission by a City Council or
dinance Tuesday night. The bureau
will be in charge of promoting
tourism in Perry, creating a local
area welcome center in Perry and
spending some of the hotel-motel
lax money, recently increased to 5
percent.
Members of the chamber's
tourism committee discussed some
possible recommendations to the
bureau at its Thursday meeting.
Three of the chamber's recommen
School
rewards
Moody
'Positive parent'
volunteers time
By MELODY BACAS
Staff Writer
People like Jim and Nancy
Moody arc like breaths of fresh air
in an age where divorce is rampant
and where everyone is talking about
teen drug-alcohol alternatives.
Jim Moody received a lapel pin
this week at Perry High School
which said "Positive Parenting,"
along with a certificate and a letter
of commendation from the gover
nor. The award is in honor of
"Positive Parenting Awareness
Week" and was established to honor
those who volunteer their time and
efforts in all parts of the school
system.
"They called me last week to say
they wanted to give me a certificate
and I was excited about that,”
Moody said, "but I didn't know that
it was an award. I was very sur
prised."
Moody, who is the Perry pur
chasitg agent, works sound for
many school functions such as
"Showtime" and the "Perry Panther
Pageant." He also works sound for
the First Baptist Church of Perry.
His wife, Nancy, also works in
many ways in schools volunteering
for projects and offering support to
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Shoney's
Inn to be
built here
By RALPH MORRIS
Managing Editor
McKibbon Brothers Inc., which
owns and operates two motel inns
and a restaurant in Perry, announced
plans Friday to build a Shoney’s
Inn Motel here.
The new inn will be the first
major facility to be constructed in
Perry since the Georgia Agriccnlcr,
and it will be McKibbon Brothers'
fourth business here to fly the
company flag.
The inn will be built on a three
acre tract directly behind the
Shoney's Restaurant on Sam Nunn
Boulevard at 1-75. The Shoney's
Restaurant is owned by Restaurant
Management Services Inc. of Ma
con.
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dations arc to be hotel or restaurant
Owners, operators or managers. The
other two must not be involved in
those industries.
The council will consider the
recommendations of the chamber
and each councilman and the mayor
will appoint one member to the
commission. The mayor and coun
cil will jointly appoint two regular
members. Neither of those two can
be a hotel or restaurant operator.
'Hircc ex off icio members of the
commission will be the city man
ager, the executive director of the
chamber and executive director of
the Perry Area Convention and
Visitor's Bureau, who will be hired
later by the commission.
The city council is expected to
appoint and approve commission
members at its next meeting.
The bureau's first order of busi
ness will be hiring an executive di
rector. Tourism committee Chair-
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Jim and Nancy Moody with daughter Holly at their home
...They also have a son, Jim, who is away at school
Cosby, Mizell top PHS scholars
By MELODY BACAS
Staff Writer
Chris Cosby, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Cosby of Kathleen,
has been chosen at Perry High
School’s 1989 valedictorian. Amy
Mizell, the daughter of Debbie and
Ricky Prater and Tony Mizell, is
the salutalorian.
Cosby has been accepted to
seven universities including Har
vard, MIT, Caltech, Duke and
Georgia Technical Institute. He has
received six scholarship offers, but
the one he’s taking is to Old Do
minion University. Cosby will
major in electrical engineering.
Cosby attended the Naval
Academy Summer Seminar in En
gineering and was 1 out of 1,800
j nationwide winners of the National
Merit Scholar Scholarship. He was
also named the county's STAR
student.
The senior has won a Dixie
Crow Engineering Scholarship, two
; Daughter of the American Revolu
tion citizenship awards, and was
one of the two named "Youth of the
Year" by the Perry Exchange Club.
He was an Exchange Club "Youth
; of the Month," He has participated
i in the Kiwanis Club Mentorship
; Program.
t He also received the Houston
County Supporters of the Gifted
Scholarship and has received the
Georgia Certificate of Merit, along
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Perry native Kelly Jerles
...launches her acting career
with the Presidential Academic Fit
ness Award. Cosby has also won
the Presbyterian College Junior
Fellow Award and the U.S.
Achievement Academy Award.
The senior has had perfect scores
on math sections of the Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT),
Amy Mizell and Chris Cosby In front of PHS
...They are the salutatorian and the valedictorian
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the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
and the American College Test
(ACT).
Cosby has received honors in
biology, honors chemistry, physics
and American history for having the
highest grade-point-average. He has
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Jerles will star Sunday
in her first acting role
Kelly Jerles, the Perry native who moved to Burbank,
Calif., to pursue an acting and singing career, will be seen in
her first role in a two-hour Mike Hammer movie on CBS
Sunday night.
"It’s a small part," said proud mom Peggy, who added,
jokingly: "She gets murdered in her first role."
The movie is "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer; Murder
Takes All," and the detective is pursuing bad men in Las Ve
gas. Stacy Reach reprises his role as Hammer.
The movie will air on CBS stations Sunday, beginning at 9
p.m.
Kelly, the Miss Georgia of 1987, relocated to the Los An
geles area last August to seek opportunities in the film and en
tertainment industry.
Kelly has been auditioning for roles since she arrived on the
West Coast. Each week, she stars in a play at the Pepper Street
Theater in Burbank, where she takes acting lessons. She also
has a vocal coach to help her perfect her singing.
Kelly has a manager and an agent working with her in her
career.
"She's going on a lot of calls," Peggy reported. Kelly re
cently received a call back on an audition for another movie. If
she gets the part, she would have two scenes - and get
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Go on killing
'pesky' bugs
Callers back
city spraying
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
An overwhelming majority of
the Pcrryans responding to a tele
phone poll want the city to keep
spraying for "pesky mosquitoes."
One hundred and twenty Perry
residents said they were in favor of
spraying, while 18 called in
against, during an informal tele
phone poll taken by the Houston
Home Journal this week. The poll
was conducted at the request of
Mayor Jim Worrall, who has
received many complaints from
citizens about the spraying.
"My kids go outside and play
and come back with welts all over
them," said one respondent. "I be
lieve spraying is necessary."
"I think they should continue
because (without it) we'll be over
whelmed with mosquitoes, and
we'll have a lot of disease," said
another Perryan in favor of spray
ing.
Another caller said, "You only
have to have encephalitis once.
Perry lost a very dear lady last
year."
"Please keep spraying for those
big bugs around here," said another.
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Kathie makes sure
reports are correct
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
When a patient goes into the
hospital, he depends on doctors and
nurses to make him feel better.
But the behind-the-scenes people
at a hospital often go unnoticed.
"Nobody thinks about the people
typing up reports when you're in
the hospital," said Kathie Holland,
a certified medical transcriptionist at
Perry Hospital. As one of the few
transcriptionists in the area, she is
hoping National Medical
Transcriptionist Week, May 15-19,
helped raise public awareness of her
litUe-known profession.
Kathie, a Dublin native, entered
the profession like most do —by
accident. In October of 1977, she
had applied for a job at a local
company, which didn't have any
openings. She was referred to the
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Thought for the day
"When you reach the end of
your rope ... tie a knot and
hang on." — Kathy Caldwell,
907 Carroll St., Perry.
Local death notices
Ahmad Davis, 3—Madge
Griggs Foreman, 82—Leanna
McGhee. Death notices ap
pear on Page 3A
Index
BOBBY BRANCH 4A
BUSINESS SA
CLASSIFIED 6B
ENTERTAINMENT 7A
808 EVANS IB
FISHING REPORT 2B
RALPH MORRIS 4A
POLICE LOG 2A
SHERIFF'S REPORT 2A
SPORTS IB
STOCKS SA
JOHN TRUSSELI 3B
BOBBY TUGGLE 2B
TV WEEK 1C
MARTHA WHIDDON 4B
Perry people
Kathie Holland,
medical transcriptionist
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hospital, which had an immediate
position for someone who could
listen to doctors dictate medical re
ports and transcribe them.
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