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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1989-119th YEAR, NO. 70, 4 SECTIONS, 26 PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS
Council votes for four-year terms as of 1993 elections
By ROBERT BRANCH Jr.
Staff Writer
Perry's City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday night which will
change the term of a city council member to four years by 1993.
Perry City Attorney David Walker was on the agenda, and read into
the record a new city election ordinance.
The new ordinance, which goes into effect January 1, 1990, stales
that the councilpersons elected to District 1, Post 2, (currently held by
Bobby Glover), District 2, Post 2, (currently held by Eddie Wilson who
will not be running again), and District 3, Post 2, (currently held by
Jim Hendrix), shall serve for a term of two years.
Walker said that after 1993, the people serving in those posts will
Water plant
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Death notices
Willie Atkinson, 69 —Capus David
Jones, 73—Minnie Mae Felder, 66
Dora Bell Walker—Cressle M
Gilbert —Death notices appear on
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Thought for the day
"You've got to have tunnel vision, you
can't look down the road"—PHS
Coach Ronnie Royston on future
games.
Index
PEGGY BLEDSOE ID
CALENDAR 3A
CLASSIFIED 4B
MELISSA CRADDOCK 4A
DEATHS 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
JIM KERCE 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 5B
TIM LEWIS 4C
LIFESTYLE 1C
PEOPLE N PLACES 6A
POLICE LOG 2A
SCHOOL NEWS 2C
SHERIFF'S REPORT 2A
SOCIAL NEWS 6A
SPORTS 1C
STREET TALK 5A
RUBY THARPE 6A
MILDRED WARREN ID
WE SALUTE 5A
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Fighting
rail cuts
By OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
More anti more small communi
ties arc having their railroad lines
sold or abandoned, but there are
strategies towns can use to try to
maintain continuation of their rail
service.
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall at
tended the Rail Abandonment and
Short Lines workshop in Albany
Aug. 23, at which "short lining"
was advanced as the recommended
method of dealing with railroad
abandonment.
Short lining is the purchase of
branch lines, local lines and spurs
by small companies which can
eventually operate them at a profit.
The Norfolk Southern Corpora
tion, which operates the largest rail
system in Georgia, currently has
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Southern invaders
Dynasty will face Hornets Friday. P-1B
By ROBERT BRANCH Jr,
Staff Writer
In city council action Tuesday
night a motion was approved to
award a contract to Southern
Champions Construction to expand
the city's number two water plant
from a two million gallon to a four
million gallons per day treatment
capacity facility.
The project carries an $853,223
price tag, with the money coming
from a Georgia Department of Nat
ural Resources grant, as well as
from a loan provided by The Geor
gia Environmental Facilities Au
thority said Perry City Manager
Marion Hay.
As pointed out by Councilman
Eddie Wilson, the larger capacity
will provide for Perry's present, as
well as future, water treatment
needs.
Hay said the construction crew
for the expansion should "be on site
within 30 days."
In other business, the council:
• Approved an application for a
manager change for beer and wine
sales at Sing Food Store #l, 1205
Main Street from Allen Brooks
Cagle to Palsy Ann Irvin.
• Officially set Trick-or-treat for
Halloween night, Tuesday October
31, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m..
• Adopted a resolution which allows
the Mayor and City Manager to
make an agreement with The Geor
gia Department of Natural Re
sources for a grant of $15,000 for
improvements to Rozar Park.
• Authorized the Mayor and City
Manager to make a contract be
tween the City of Perry and the
Perry Area Chamber of Commerce
for $25,000 for the purpose of
promoting Perry.
• Approved a request for street im
provements on Lovely Lane.
Mayor Pro Tern Ingram intro
duced a petition signed by residents
of the Lovely Lane area. The im
provements requested include
repaving, curbing and water chan
neling.
Ingram said two-thirds of the
money for the project will be pro
vided by the citizens of Lovely
Lane, with the rest of the funds
coming from the City of Perry.
• Approved the Kiwanis Club's re
quest for the 1989 Farm-City Day
Festival. This means they will not
have to pay a parade fee; that Car
roll Street can be cordoned off for
the day: the Lion’s Club will not be
required to purchase a business li
cense; and the FFA can hold a bar
beque in the court house parking
lot.
• Approved the contract to replace a
four inch water line with a six inch
water line at Tollcson Lumber
Company.
•Approved the award of a contract to
investigate some problems with a
deep water well at plant number
two.
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serve for a period of four years.
The ordinance stales that the elections this year will be held on De
cember 5, and that should a runoff be necessary, it will be held on De
cember 19. «
Each candidate must file a notice of his or her candidacy in the mu
nicipal superintendent's office on or before November 10, 1989 at 5
p.m„ but not before October 30, 1989 at 8 a.m..
Each candidate must declare the post to which he or she seeks elec
tion.
He or she must also meet the requirements set forth in section 2.11
ol the City of Perry Charter.
The ordinance goes on to stale that the hours of the election will be
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Honors given
Perry Exchange Club president Pete
Powell and immediate past-president
Wayne Lowrey were given plaques for
their service at the annual club dinner
Fingerprint kids at crime prevention event
By OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
Parents can have their children
fingerprinted and photographed
when the Perry Police Department
holds its crime prevention work
shop at K marl Plaza Sept. 16.
The Arrive Alive Club will pro
vide eight high school students to
do the fingerprinting, under police
supervision, and PDQ Photo Shop
School bus overcrowding problems continue
By MELODY BACAS
Staff Writer
There arc still overcrowding
problems on a local school bus,
even after parents have complained
to both school and board of educa
tion officials.
The bus is number 891 and the
route runs along Keith Drive, Gray
Road and King's Chapel Road. The
children are transported to King's
Chapel Elementary School.
Parents say they are concerned
because their children, along with
others, have to stand in the bus
aisle while it makes its stops,
adding danger to the trip to school.
There are not enough seats, they
said.
"It was so crowded that children
had to get off to let others off the
bus in -the afternoon," said Anise
Hayes, a mother of an 8-ycar-old
student. "They don’t even have
enough room to wiggle."
Another mother, Cathy
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Local home ablaze with flowers. P-1C
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last week. Powell was named
'Exchangite of the Year’ and Lowrey re
ceived the 'Presidential Plaque."
and Creative Photography will
make 3 1/2 by 5-inch photographs.
The pictures will be affixed to
the fingerprint cards and sent to the
parents within a week, according to
Pll. Jerry Hamilton of the Perry
PD.
"Thai's the whole reason behind
this, to provide that service,"
Hamilton said.
The workshop is part of the ag
Karchclla, said the crowded situa
tion has been the same ever since
school started. She said she had
called BOE Transportation Director
Emory Procter about the problem,
but that he didn’t seem 100 inter
ested.
"They didn't have to stand
Wednesday morning, but yesterday
afternoon they were standing. One
was standing by the bus driver and
the steps," she said.
Hayes said, "Our concern is
safely. What if they have an acci
dent? Thai's all I’m worried about."
Kim Schoening, principal of
King's Chapel, said she and Proctor
were waiting on the buses Wednes
day to count heads. There were 79
children on a 66-passenger bus that
day, she said.
The principal said the problem
centers around the rezoning of some
of Perry Elementary's district. That
added more children to the routes.
She also said school officials
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between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on December 5. If a runnoff occurs it will
be during the same hours on December 17.
The qualification fee for running for a council post will be 5126.00.
Any person who is a resident of Perry and who has registered to vote
at least 30 days prior to Dec. 5, is eligible to vote in the election.
Walker said the current ordinance stales that the city council elec
tions must still be held in December until 1993, when the elections can
be changed to November.
The ordinance, number 89, was written in accordance with the Char
ter of the City of Perry, the Official Code of Georgia Section 21-3-126,
and the laws of the slate of Georgia.
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gressive crime prevention program
the department has undertaken.
Other activities include
participation in the Down with
Drugs day at Houston Mall last
month, the DARE program in the
elementary schools, starting in
January, the Neighborhood Watch
Program, and a campaign of public
information in the newspapers and
through speakers provided to civic
weren't sure how many were going
to ride the bus until this week.
"We’ve had a lot of new kids in
our zone, not just from the rezon
ing but from people moving," she
said.
Houston School Superintendent
Dr. Harold Chapman said officials
were working to smooth out those
routes.
"We're holding off until Tuesday
to sec how many students we actu
ally have riding," Chapman said,
adding he would hate to change the
schedule now and then again next
week.
Procter said there are overcrowd
ing problems with a only a couple
of buses and that the problem with
those buses isn't that bad. He said
the parents have exaggerated their
stories in order to gel attention.
"You know how parents are,"
Procter said.
Procter said many kids don't sit
because they're uncomfortable sit-
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Architect
is hired
by board
By OLIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Commissioners Tuesday morning
approved a contract hiring David
L.Richardson of Macon to provide
architectural and engineering ser
vices for the 8,000-square-fool
Health Services Building to be
constructed at Rozar Park.
The contract calls for the archi
tectural firm to prepare basic design
drawings, assist in negotiation and
award of a construction contract,
and to administer the construction
contract.
A site plan is not included,
County Administrator Charles
Cloniger said.
County Personnel Director Steve
Engle said Richardson had agreed to
provide the services for 525,830,
almost $4,000 less than the
$29,520 in his original bid.
The facility will be built with a
$400,000 state grant the county re
ceived in June, and will house
physical and mental health services,
as well as agencies offering a num
ber of related services.
in other business, the board took
a number of personnel actions, only
nine weeks after passage of the cur
rent fiscal year budget.
By a 3-2 vole, with Commis
sion Chairman Charles Stewart
breaking the lie, the board voted
against adding an employee re
quested by Probate Judge Frances
V. Annis.
Annis wrote that the court needs
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organizations.
The workshop will run from 9
a.m. until 4 p.m.
At 11:30, Marjorie Gay Pcttcr
son, assistant director of education
of AID Atlanta, will speak about
AIDS.
At 1, Mike Antlcy, one of 12
national speakers from the Ameri
can Association of Retired People,
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ting, not because there's no room.
"Sometimes the larger kids
woura*rather stand and let the little
kids sit. Sometimes, it's just un
comfortable to sit next to them," he
said.
Procter said buses can legally
carry up to 20 percent over their
capacity. Thai’s 79 students, he
said. The director said he is satis
fied as long as there aren't more
than that.
Both Procter and Schoening said
there would be a new, larger bus on
the route beginning Thursday.
But there wasn't. Bus 891 picked
up children as usual Friday morning
on Keith Drive around 8:10 a.m. At
that lime, four children were stand
ing in the aisle. All scats were
filled.
Four slops and seven children
later, there were nine children
standing in the aisle. Three children
silling in the back scat squeezed a
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