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Perry & Houston County's
offical Legal Organ
| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1991~
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HIGHLIGHTS
Deaths
Samuel Lee Oakes, Lucious
Jessie, Robert Wayne
Shiver. For a complete
listing, please see page 3A.
Have a good day
. . . Guardsman SPC Little J.
Dixon. For a message and pic
tures from your wife and chil
dren, plus a list of those busi
nesses sponsoring your free
subscription, please see PIOA.
Who is the new Miss
Panther?
The annual Miss Panther
competition took place
Tuesday night. For a photo
of the winner and the Miss
Panther court, please see
page 2A.
What's so great about
Julia Roberts?
Jackie Cooper has the
inside scoop and he's telling
ALL. To read about his
personal interview with Julia
of 'Pretty Woman' fame, see
page 6A.
Are there two Houston
Counties?
Allen Willis takes an
interesting look at this
concept in his commentary.
To read it, please turn to
page 4A.
INDEX
MARK BLUMEN 1B
CALENDAR 3A
CLASSIFIED 4B
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
FOOD FEATURE 1D
JAN HAMPTON 4A
ENTERTAINMENT 6A
LEGAL NOTICES 4C
VOLUNTEER H.C. 5C
LIFESTYLE 1C
POLICE REPORT 2A
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Westfield will
hold super
auction Sat.
Westfield School will have an
auction Saturday, Feb. 16 at the
school to raise funds for various
projects.
"It’s a great opportunity for the
community to come out and
support Westifield," Warren said.
"Plus they will be able to pick up
some great values."
Patrons of the school have been
gathering up a variety of interesting
items.
"We have every thing from hand
made doll houses to unique lamps
and crafts," he said. "It’s a chance
for the entire family to come out
and enjoy the day. The entire event
is offered in a Christian type
•"•r osphere, the kind of atmosphere
tliJl Westfield has always fostered
yr■? :akcn pride in."
There is no admission to the
auction, which begins at 9 a.m. and
ends at 8 p.m.
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Perry Elementary students share their love on Valentine's Day by making cards for their
adopted grandparents at New Perry Nursing Home.
Voc-ed makes difference
Hill says 'invisible student' benefits most in program
By ALAN WILLIS
Staff Writer
On the Tuesday of Vocational
Education Week, Dr. Charles Hill
told the Houston County School
Board that "Vocational Education
will and must make a difference
with the invisible student."
The invisible student, Hill noted,
is neither an outstanding success or
failure and is not a bchav : oral
problem. Instead it is the student
who "drifts through school getting
little attention.”
Hill said the danger is that if one
student is invisible, any student
could be invisible. For that reason,
it is important for Vocational Edu
cation "to reach every student."
Hill told the board there is a differ
ence between teaching students and
City of Perry will participate in making
comprehensive plan with Houston Co.
In order to remain eligible for
state and federal grants, Perry will
join Warner Robins and Houston
County in formulating a
comprehensive plan.
City manager Marion Hay told
members of the Perry Planning and
Zoning Committee that five
subcommittees will be formed in
the following areas: economic
development, natural and historic
resources, community
facilities,population and housing
and land use.
-The mayors and city managers
from each municipality will form a
joint policy committee.
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Perry Elementary School newspaper staff gets ready for their first edition. Story and
pictures are on page IC.
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reaching students.
As of now, Hill said "we do a
good job of tracking the students.”
He pointed out that 95 per cent of
the systems students take at least
one vocational education course be
fore they graduate. "Our computer
literacy course is very popular,"
said Hill.
Hill presented a list of things he
believes the schools must do to
help students "go on in school or
go out and get a meaningful job."
The schools must look at "how
we can use technology in the voca
tional labs," said Hill. He pointed
out that new laws mean the system
will get less money, but have more
control over how that money is
spent. "We may get more for our
money," he noted.
"This is an outgrowth of some
legislation called the Georgia
Planning Act, that was passed in
the state legislature in 1989," Hay
said. "To remain eligible for state
and federal grants we must compile
a comprehensive plan. The state is
asking us to plan on the grassroots
level."
The following people were
chosen to serve on the committees:
economic development, James
Moore and Buddy Roper; natural
and historic resources, Charles
Lewis and Willie King; community
facilities, Hervia Ingram and Larry
Mosteller; population and housing,
The system also needs to look at
transportation. Not every school
has ever piece of equipment and
students are transported from school
to school. In fact, Hill pointed out
that transportation runs between
Norlhside High School and Warner
Robins High School every two
hours.
Houston County also needs to
look at how to best utilize the cur
riculum materials which are pro
duced by the State of Georgia.
"We think we've done a good
job," said Hill.
Board member Eddie Causey
probed the issue of increasing the
math and technology courses in the
Vocational Education program and
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Bobby Glover and Martin Becland;
land use, Ralph Gentry and Paul
Cosey.
Hay said the first draft of the
comprehensive plan must be
finished by Aug. 31, 1991.
"Each municipality will be
choosing people to serve right
along with our members on these
committees," Hay said.
"This is an example of all of
Houston County working together
for the good of everyone," he added.
”1 think it is a step in the right
direction."
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County gets
glimpse of new
restructuring
By ALAN WiLLIS
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education got its first look at a
proposal that would "resfucturc all
Perry Elementary Schoo's, accord
ing to Superintendent Dr. Harold
Chapman.
The restructuring involves mov
ing the sixth grade to the middle
schools and the ninth grade to the
high schools. As a result, all ele
mentary schools will be kinder
garten through fifth grade.
The re-zoning will drastically ef
fect Perry, Tucker and Morningsidc
Elementary Schools. The zones,
however, will also impact Bonair,
Russell and Miller Elementary
schools.
The Morningsidc Zone will be
bordered by Highway 11 south to
Langston Road then cut across
Farm Estates to Houston Lake
Road to where it meets Main
Street. On the East it will be bor
dered by Arena Road up to Houston
Lake Road where it will cut across
to Hunt Road staying west of
Houston Lake.
Perry Elementary will follow the
County Line in the north east to
Airport Road then come down Air
port Road to Highway 341 where it
cuts across to Interstate 75. It then
follows Crcekwood Drive to
Courtney Hodges Blvd and moves
south along the railroad tracks to
the creek. It would follow follow
the border with Morningsidc from
there.
Tucker Elementary takes in Perry
south of Highway 341 and south
west of Crcekwood Drive At Flat
Creek it would follow Interstate 75
south to the County Line.
Kings Chapel Elementary School
would include all of south-east
Houston County. Added to the
Kings Chapel School zone would
be the area south-west of the inter
section of Moody Road and High
way 96 and the Langston Road area
in Kathleen. The re-zoning would
mean that 208 students from Bonair
Elementary would be zoned into
Kings Chapel Elementary.
The Figures, in the end, would be
414 for Perry, 595 for Kings
Chapel, 520 for Tucker, and 309 for
Morningsidc.
"In keeping with the pilot pro
gram at Morningside, we kept it
smaller," explained Chapman.
The racial make-up of the three
Perry schools would between 41 per
cent and 45 per cent minority at
Quail Run residents
ask board for change
By ALAN WILLIS
Staff Writer
Residents of Quail Run North
returned to the Houston County
Board of Education office Tuesday
night to again request reconsidera
tion of the recent high school zon
ing.
Again, the Board took no action
upon their request.
The residents presented a number
of speakers, beginning with a stu
dent, Troy Nuss. He told the Board
"I feel the plan is not fair." Al
though he said he and his family
supported Northside, he could not
understand why the Board zoned for
two schools (Northside and Warner
Robins) to be overcrowded and for
the new school to be one-third
empty.
A1 Nuss, Troy Nuss' father, told
the board "I'm not an uncooperative
parent, I'm a concerned parent."
Nuss said he wanted answers to a
list of questions concerning North-
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each.
By moving the 208 students out
of Bonair Elementary, some over
crowding at the school would be
relieved while only increasing the
enrollment at Kings Chapel by two
students.
However the proposal would then
move some students from Russell
into the Bonair zone. The increase
from that, though, would only be
34 students. Additional students
from the Watson Elementary zone
would be moved south to help the
racial balance both there and at
Bonair, making a total increase of
48 students. Still, the schools en
rollment would be reduced to 657
students.
A separate, but closely tied pro
posal would change several zones
for the Warner Robins Middle
Schools. Chapman explained that
next year would be an ideal time to
change those zones because two-
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Should Perry
have a new
post office?
Post office officials from
Birmingham will be in Perry this
Friday to talk with citizens about
the possibility of building a new
post office in the city.
"They will be at the city hall at 2
p.m. Friday to talk with citizens.
We hope everyone will show up
and share their thoughts," Mayor
James Worrall said.
Worrall said he thinks a new post
office building would be a great
thing for Perry.
"Our postal workers are doing a
fine job," he said. "But they sure
could use a little more space."
"We get complaints all the time
about how few public parking
spaces there are at the post office,"
he said. "As the county and Perry
keep growing, it just seems wise to
strive to improve our postal
facilities."
First the officials will tour the
Perry post office, then proceed to
city hall.
"This is the public's chance to
come voice their views," Worrall
said. "These people can't know
what we want if we don't tell
them."
side and overcrowding. He wanted
information on the student teacher
ration, the number of lockers avail
able, where the extra class rooms
would come from, honors classes
and extracurricular opportunities.
Board Chairman Billy Edenfield
said he would deliver answers to
Nuss' questions in writing.
Nuss then pointed out that under
current zoning, Northside would
need to loose about 21 per cent of
its students and the new high
school would need an increase of 85
percent. He said his economic data
did not suggest that growth in the
County would accomplish that.
Finally, Nuss said "I think your
zoning lines are ridiculous."
Marsha Nuss, whose name alone
appeared on the agenda, asked the
Board "do any of you know the ca
pacity of Houston County High.
Superintendent Harold Chapman
responded "about 1,000.”