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Moss Outstanding Rotarian
Jimmy Harrell was named the Most Outstanding
Rotarian 1988-89 at the club's annual Ladles' Night at
the Houston Lake Country Club. Harrell also received
the club's 14-year Perfect Attendance Award for his
faithful membership to Perry's club. He received the
award from 1988-89 President Horatio Cabasares.
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Passing the Gavel
The Rotary Club's new President Snyder Chapman
stands with outgoing President Horatio Cabasares and
Dr. Cabasares’ award for serving for the past year. At
the club’s end of the year function, members were
honored for perfect attendance and outstanding club
service. The late Dr. A. G. Hendrix was posthumously
honored with the Distinguished Service Award, which
will be in the form of a memorial at Perry Hospital. "He
was Perry, itself," said Dr. Cabasares.
WW II pilot reunion
plans are taking off
By OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
Work is under way on a reunion
of World War II bomber crews at
the Perry-Fort Valley Airport
October 20 and 21.
The airport authority Monday
night heard preliminary reports
from staff personnel involved in the
project, which has been dubbed
Operation Camelot.
Authority member Dennis Her
bert outlined possibilities for enter
tainment at the reunion, as well as
ideas for excursions for crew mem
bers' spouses, such as trips to
Camellia Gardens or Callaway Gar
dens.
Frank Smisson, chief organizer
of the event, suggested an air race
to Callaway and back.
In addition to entertainment,
Smisson said awards would be pre
sented in such categories as oldest
aircraft arriving at the reunion,
one coming from farthest away,
fastest, slowest, etc.
Dr. Willis Webb reported on lo
gistical concerns that will have to
be addressed, including traffic,
parking, gas and oil, transportation
to motels, food and rest facilities.
Smisson said the Air Force Mu
seum in Dayton, Ohio, would sup
ply a computer readout of bomber
groups, and that each would be
contacted to determine expected at
tendance.
He said Troy Sallicr, in charge
of history, is writing letters to each
group, requesting that they submit
a war story accompanied by pictures
to be featured at Lite reunion.
He said Brig. Gen. Robert Lee
Scott Jr. would be asked to act as
task force commander for the pro
ject, and that a command post
would be set up at the Museum of
Aviation at Robins AFB.
"We want to time it so it will
complement the Robins open
house," Smisson said. "I think
we'll work hand in glove with
them."
The open house at Robins will
be the same weekend as the re
union.
Several members of the author
ity and reunion staff will be attend
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ing the Experimental Aircraft
Association Annual Fly-in in
Oshkosh, Wise., July 28 through
August 3, and the feasibility of
having a booth to publicize the re
union was discussed.
It was generally agreed that it
would be too difficult to man a
booth, but Webb said promotional
materials could be distributed at the
various area headquarters at the
show.
Webb said about a quarter of a
million usually attend the fly-in.
Smisson said he would ask
Danny Evans to publish a special
edition of The Aviation Times for
distribution at the fly-in.
Smisson reported that Jimmy
Yancey would be in charge of secu
rity at the reunion, and that Eric
Newsom would handle industry and
trade participation.
"We're a little behind," Smisson
said. "Things go kind of slow when
you're working with volunteers, but
I think it will all come together."
In other business, Herbert said
the Houston County Commission
had agreed to sign the contract with
the Georgia Department of Trans
portation for construction of a 500-
foot safety at the south end of the
runway.
He said representatives of the
airport authority, the construction
company, the DOT and the Federal
Aviation Administration would
meet for a pre-construction hearing
in July.
The authority referred to its at
torney a request from Dr. Luther
Vance that he be allowed to sublet a
portion of his hangar to Murv Bel
son, of Coastal Planes Airways
Inc., for performance of aircraft
maintenance.
Any sublease would require the
consent of the authority.
Authority member Bob
McClendon voiced his reservations
about entering into such an ar
rangement without a clear legal un
derstanding.
Vance was asked to have his at
torney draw up the necessary papers
so that authority members and at
torney Skect Hulbcrt could review
them.
Three injured during wreck
By J.J. COOPER And
OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer*
Three Perry residents arc in in
tensive care at the Medical Center
of Central Georgia after a two-car
collision on Houston Lake Road
near Langston Road Monday after
noon.
Ladonna J. Womack, 28, of 751
N. Houston Road, was travelling
cast on Houston Lake with her son
Corey Bass, 8, when she lost con
trol of her vehicle, attempted to
correct, and pulled into the path of
Wilson Moody, 70, of 1105
Kingston Road, according to Cpl.
Charlene Giles of the Houston
County Sheriffs Department.
Bass and Moody were listed in
serious condition Tuesday after
noon, while Mrs. Womack was
listed in stable condition.
Moody, driving west on Hous
ton Lake about 2 p.m. in a Ford
Escort when impact occurred, struck
Mrs. Womack's Volkswagen Jctta
on the driver's side, Giles said.
Kiwanians
get updated
on Frito Lay
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
Bob Blais, plant manager for
Frito Lay, gave the Perry Kiwanis
Club an update on progress at the
facility after its first 15 months of
operation.
During the club's meeting at the
New Perry Hotel Tuesday, Blais, a
Kiwanian, said that the snack food
manufacturer's success in Perry is
largely due to the quality of work
force found in the area.
He reported a very low employee
turnover rate, particularly for a new
plant, and a growing, developing
managerial staff.
The Perry plant now employs
323 people here and will produce
about 35 million pounds of corn
and potato products this year.
In addition to winning corporate
awards for leadership and material
handling, the local plant was hon
ored by the Minority Business
Council in Atlanta for its efforts in
minority business development.
And because of strong employee
support, the plant won three awards
in the 1989 Walk America cam
paign and won the United Way
Gold Award for corporate and
employee contributions. "We arc
sincerely proud to be a part of this
community," he said.
Blais said that a full-time re
search engineer will be studying the
potential for growing potatoes in
Georgia, which could be used in
potato chip manufacturing. The
study will be conducted with the
help of the extension service.
Blais said that the plant has a
commitment to the community and
will do all it can to grow potatoes
in Georgia. But, he asked for
patience, explaining that the
process would be a long one.
In other club news:
•The Kiwanis Scholarship Fund,
in honor of the late Wendell
Whipple, stands at over S3OOO.
Contributions are still being
accepted by fund Chairman Cohen
Walker. Checks should be made
payable to the Kiwanis Scholarship
Fund.
•The newsprint station on Main
Street for the Happy Hour
Workshop is reported to be doing
well. The Workshop picks up an
estimated 10 tons a week with its
Tuesday and Friday collections.
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Traffic had to be rerouted for
over an hour.
Off-duty Perry fireman Wayne
Hall came on the scene shortly after
the accident, and attempted to render
what aid he could.
Hall said Bass had lost con
sciousness, had a weak pulse and
was bleeding about the head.
"I wanted to put him in my car
and lake him to the hospital right
then," Hall said. "It's an awful feel
ing when there's nothing you can
do."
Hall said an ambulance arrived
about 15 minutes after the colli
sion.
He said Mrs. Womack had gaso
line on her, and that Moody was
suffering great pain in the chest
area.
"I was afraid he was going to
have a heart attack," Hall said.
Giles said no charges have yet
been filed, as the Sheriffs Depart
ment has been unable to talk with
either driver.
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Seated: Thelma McCoy, Larry Wood, Lossie Glover, Joyce Compton, Hazel Jackson
...And members Doug Boss and Mayor Jim Worrall, standing, all met Monday
Committee organizes to deal
with the problems of ’Our Kids ’
By MELISSA CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
During their first organized
meeting, the "Project Our Kids"
committee outlined their goals to
try to help Perry children and
teenagers deal with drugs, depres
sion, relationships and other prob
lems.
"Our one concern is the chil
dren," said project organizer Joyce
Compton, "all of the children."
Comprised of community and
church leaders and educators, the
group is working towards three
goals: establishing a volunteer
manned hotline to help young peo
ple to confidentially deal with rela
tionships with friends, family and
school as well as the problems of
alcohol and other drugs; providing
peer-tutors for academic needs; pre
venting youth depression which
may lead to drug abuse, dropping
out of school, crime or suicide.
"So many kids today have a poor
self-image," said Mayor Jim Wor
rall, who helped the group apply for
the SSOOO "Local High Risk Youth
Grant" from the Georgia Depart
ment of Human Resources. "If they
get more confident, they are less
likely to rely on artificial stimu
lus."
The grant, if approved, will be
used for maintaining the hotline,
paying tutors, training volunteers
and community recognition of tu
tors and students during the school
year.
One of the projects that the
committee members discussed was
the peer tutor program, which will
initially be for students between the
fifth and ninth grades, during the
years "kids begin to lose their foot
Garbage fee increase starts July 1
Effective July 1, 1989,
residential garbage rates will be
increased from $6.75 to $8.50.
During a called City Council
meeting Tuesday night, council
members approved the ordinance
raising garbage fees to account for
the cost of dumping in the county
landfill after the city closes its
sanitary landfill.
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Fireman clear the road of debris after Monday's accident
...The wreck sent all three involved to the hospital
ing socially and academically." This
will be a one-on-one matching of
students who need help with an
older "peer tutor" from high school
to meet regularly and help with
academics and other problems.
Mrs. Compton said, "A little bit
of help (early on) can make a big
difference." The committee mem
bers agreed that those were good
target grades, but help was also
needed in earlier and later grade lev
els. Math and reading will be the
main areas for tutoring, because
teachers agree that problems in
other subjects are often attributed to
deficiencies in those areas.
Training for the tutors and other
volunteers will initially be done by
the Houston County Drug Action
Council (HODAC), and eventually
by committee members. The com
mittee will be looking for volunteer
help, contributions, meeting places
for tutors, and transportation from
members of the community to ac
complish the goals of the project.
One suggestion for the peer tutor
program made by committee mem
ber Thelma McCoy was to gel the
parents of the child being tutored to
take responsibility for their own
child.
"We need to make the parent
commit, gel their confidence and let
them know we care about their
child," she said. Some of the other
educators agreed that getting back to
the old system of home visitation
by teachers would be a good idea to
give the program a solid base at
home.
That program will include regu
lar social functions and special
recognition for tutors and students.
"It's important just to show them
That increase will not affect
those who have been accepted for
the city's garbage fee exemption
program for elderly and handicapped
residents. Only the 99 people who
have applied for exemption will not
have to pay the fee. Those deemed
exempt by the city will have to re
apply every year for the status.
you care," said committee member
Larry Wood of the extra things they
can do to make the program work.
The Project Our Kids committee
members are Mrs. Compton,
Mayor Worrall, Wood, Mrs. Mc-
Coy, Lossie Glover, Hazel Jackson,
Doug Boss, Nelson Granadc, Jim
Moody, Margaret Hill, Sandy
Smith and Sherry While.
The committee's next meeting
will be at 1 p.m., Monday, July 10
at the Houston County Annex on
Main Street.
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town
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Clubs and organizations
The Perry Exchange Club
will meet at 12 p.m. at the Holiday
Inn June 29.
Government meetings
The Houston County
Board of Education will have a
special called meeting Wednesday,
June 28, at 6 p.m. at the Warner
Robins board office.
The Houston Hospital
Authority will meet at 7;30 p.m.
at the Houston Medical Center.
Events and Happenings
The Perry United
Methodist Church will have
their Vacation Bible School June
26-30 at the church. For more
information, call 987-1852.
Community News
Houston Speech School
will offer a preschool class for the
hearing impaired beginning June 19
and ending July 31. For further in
formation, please contact the school
at 923-1787 or 922-2895.
The Houston Extension
Service 4-H group will have a
class called "For the Love of
Horses" July 13. The limit is 30
and registration ends June 30. It is a
free class.
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