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Perry, Georgia's Hometown Newspaper & Houston County's Legal Organ Since 1870-A Park Newspaper
SATURDAY, JUNE 17,1989-119th YEAR, NO. 48, 3 SECTIONS, 30 PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS
Agricenter contractor in default
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
After months of delays, promises and sub-standard
work, the contractor for the Georgia Agriccnlcr has
been declared in default of its contract as of Friday,
June 9.
"We've gotten a lot of promises about what's
going to happen," said Project Architect Jim Ingram
to the members of the Georgia Agricultural
Exposition Authority, the Agriccntcr's governing
board, at its monthly meeting in Perry Wednesday.
"The job continues to drag and it seems to be getting
worse."
The Georgia Slate Financing and Investment
Gunman fires
wildly in park
'People were running,
children were screaming,
it was a very traumatic
situation. He was just
shooting any way.'
Dry trash landfill
to open on July 1
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
City and county workers are
busy getting Perry's new dry trash
landfill ready for its scheduled July
1 opening.
Thursday, Houston County
workers bulldozed what will be an
all-weather entry road to the land
fill, one of the first steps in open
ing the location on Toomcr Road
off of Highway 224.
City officials decided to create
the landfill, which will accept grass
clippings, leaves and limbs, after
the city's Elko Road landfill was
ordered closed last year by the
Environmental Protection Division.
"We will continue to operate
the city landfill for sometime yet,"
said Bill Haflcy, who is organizing
the transition for the city. "The
closing process will have to be kind
of gradual."
Garbage will be dumped at the
Houston County landfill at a per
ton cost to the city.
Haflcy is optimistic about the
July 1 opening, and credits County
Engineer Milton Beckham with or
Thought for the day
"People who put on airs are
usually full of wind."— The late
John Hodges, Perry, Ga.
Local death notices
Henry T. "Hal" Gilbert Jr., 84 —
Lola B. Martin Akins, 97
James Brown Jr., 67. Death
notices appear on Page 3A
Index
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CLASSIFIED ADS 5,68
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DEATH NOTICES 2A
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Commission, the agency responsible for all state
construction projects, declared the Carlson Southeast
Corporation of Smyrna in default of its contract to
build at the Georgia National Fairgrounds. It is now
up to the bonding company insuring the job.
Seaboard Surety of Boston, Mass., to decide what to
do.
"The surety has the election to remedy or
perform," said Bill Roberts, director of the GSFIC's
construction division. The bonding company has 25
days from the declaration on Friday to decide to "set
guidelines and permit the current contractor to
complete the job or it could chose to hire a new
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Bill Hafley
...organizing transition
ganizing the county’s efforts to
open the landfill. The landfill will
be "a shared facility" between the
city and the county.
Along with preparing the entry
road, workers arc developing a sur
face water run-off system to divert
rain and storm water from the
working area of the landfill.
A sedimentation pond will be
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Houston County Probate Court Judge
Francis Annls, also known as the "Oreo
Mama," celebrated her birthday at work
Friday with her "Oreo Kids." Judge An
nis is so much like a second mother to
employees Mary Jo Cummings, Tammie
By OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
No one was hurt at Rozar Park
Wednesday evening, when several
shots were fired after an argument
over a basketball game.
Frederick Louis Whitaker, 29, of
1057 Lancing Court, was arrested
Thursday and is being held without
bail on charges of aggravated as
sault, possession of a firearm by a
convicted felon, and carrying a pis
tol without a license, according to
Perry police investigator Detective
Leyon Roberts.
After a fight broke out on the
basketball court, Whitaker went to
his truck and got a pistol, Roberts
said.
He returned and started firing
through the fence at the man he was
fighting with, who was standing
among a crowd of men on the
court, Roberts said. Then he cb sed
the man toward the picnic grounds.
Witnesses said there were about
20 people on the basketball court,
and that about four to six shots
were fired.
About six parents and eight or
nine children from a baseball team
for five- and six-year-olds were
having a picnic, when a number of
boys came running toward them
from the basketball court, witnesses
said.
"We thought it was firecrackers
at first," said one of the mothers.
"The kids were playing hide-and
seek. We saw some boys coming
from the basketball court, hilling
their stomachs like they were trying
to protect themselves. Then we saw
the one with the gun up at the top."
"The guy came toward the picnic
tables, yelling, T'm going to kill
you,'" another mother said. "People
were running, children were’
screaming, it was a very traumatic
situation. He was just shooting any
old way. He got in his truck and
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Happy Birthday Francis!
WEEKEND EDITION-250
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PPG Plant Manager Walter Scott is a dad proud of his four kids
...Here, he’s seen with the childrens' pictures in his Perry office
Perry dad Walter Scott taught
his kids to be optimists in life
By RALPH MORRIS
Managing Editor
Walter W. Scott of PPG Indus
tries is a professional man of many
achievements.
But to Scott, his greatest
achievements are found at home.
They arc his four children - three
girls and a boy.
Just about everyone here knows
Scott as the plant manager of
PPG's Works No. 18, Perry newest
industry. They don't know that he
is a dedicated and devoted dad who is
enormously proud of the accom
plishments of his children.
A modest man, Scott does not
like to talk about himself. But he
will open up when you mention the
children, or his wife Kay, his best
frend and companion.
On Friday, Scott was prepared to
drive all night, if necessary, to be
back in Pittsburgh today for the 10
a.m. graduation ceremony of his
third son Kevin. Scott was worried
the bad weather might delay his
flight out of Atlanta.
"I'll get there one way or the
other," said the determined Scott,
who added there was no way he will
Sutton and Diana Lowing that she gave
them matching T-shirts. She was
treated with a cake, gifts and a lovely
serenade by a trio made up of Diana,
Mary Jo and Mary Jo’s son Kelly.
Perry people
Walter Scott,
devoted father
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miss this milestone in his son's
life.
Since February, Scott has trav
eled to and from Perry to his home
in Pittsburgh, residing here a part
of each week, while the plant has
been under construction. The family
will move down by the first of
July.
The Scotts' oldest son is Jeff,
22, who is a senior in electrical
engineering at Grove City College
in Pennsylvania. He is following in
the footsteps of his dad, who has
his degree in ceramic engineering.
"I think he got into engineering
to please me and found he likes it,"
said Scott, who added that Jeff is
doing very well with his grades.
The second son is Brian, 21,
who also attends Grove City Col
Firm to seek rezoning
for shopping complex
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
To clear the way for its proposed
shopping center, the Jacoby Man
agement Company will request the
commercial re-zoning of 56.125
acres Tuesday night at the Perry
City Council meeting.
At the 7:30 p.m. meeting Tues
day, city councilmen will consider a
Swift Street four-laning
should be ready by Oct.
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
The "four-laning" of Swift Street is "well under way," but because of
problems with utilities, will not be completed until October.
Georgia Department of Transportation Area Engineer Francis Marshall
said, "We're working on it now and it should be done in a few months
lime."
The project completion date was extended because the city had to come
in and remove gas lines which were in the way of the roadwork.
Marshall also reported that the construction at Interstate 75 and
Marshallville Road is on schedule for its October 1 completion date.
lege. He's a senior, but he's study
ing music education. Right now,
he's playing the saxophone profes
sionally in the Pittsburgh area and
teaching 25 kids.
Third son Kevin, 17, will enter
either Georgia Southern College or
the University of Georgia in the
fall. He's not sure what he wants to
do, but he may study law.
Daughter Amy, 15, will be a
sophomore at Westfield High
School this fall.
All the kids are musical. Jeff
plays trumpet, Brian the saxo
phone, Kevin the trumpet and Amy
the clarinet.
That musical talent came from
the parents, who also are musical.
Each plays the organ and piano.
Also, Walt played the trumpet in
his high school band.
"When the kids were young, we
used to play along with them,"
Scott said.
Also, the three boys are Eagle
Scouts, also following in the foot
steps of dad, who earned his Eagle
award as a teenager. When time
permitted, Scott assisted the troop
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recommendation by the Perry Plan
ning and Zoning Commission to
approve the request to rezone the
property between Washington
Street and Perimeter Road from R-3
to C-2.
Richard Culpepper, project con
struction coordinator, was in Perry
Thursday looking at the site, and
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