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WEEKEND
EDITION
250
Perry & Houston County’s
official Legal Organ
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1991
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HIGHLIGHTS
Deaths
Carlos Milton Daniel, Perry;
Clyde V. Jones, Byron; James
D. Pace, Perry; Bessie Davis,
Perry; Dollie Toomer Dean,
Perry. For details, please see
page 3A.
Hayneville native
heads teachers union
Jimmie Jackson hasn't lived in
Hayneville for a long time, but
she sure got her start there.
Now she is president of the
Washington D.C. Teachers
Union Local No. 6. See page
3A.
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
CALENDAR 5A
CLASSIFIED 4B
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
JIM MOODY IB
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
SPORTS IB
JIM SHIPLEY ~~ 4A
STREET TALK 4A
JOHN TRUSSEL -J®
BOBBY TUGGLE 2B
WOODS 'N WATER 2B
TODD YOCUM 4A
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Program lets students work, earn credit
By TERESSA ULIN
Staff Writer
Kari Underwood has the ideal
part-time job she works weekday
afternoons, gets paid a salary and
gets school credit for her duties.
Kari, a senior at Perry High
School, is a student in the school’s
Cooperative Business Education
program. The CBE program is de
signed to teach students viable
working skills while they attend
classes.
The program allows students to
work within their field of interest,
Kathleen’s Log Dogtrot House
makes list of historic places
By EMERY WARNOCK
Staff Writer
One of Houston County’s rarest
dwellings has received national
recognition.
About one-half mile east of
Kathleen is the Log Dogtrot House
that was listed in the National
Register of Historic Places on May
30.
Thought to have been built
between 1834 and 1848, the house
is a rare example of the once
common “dogtrot house” or open
hallway from the front to the rear.
“This is one of the few log houses
of this type,” said Carole Moore,
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources preservation education
planner.
The house is set in a clearing in
the woods in a once-swept dirt yard
covered with large pine, cedar and
magnolia trees. One outbuilding
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Perry High band members, decked in Panther T-shirts, got the crowd worked up at their spirit
assembly Friday afternoon.
SPIRIT DAY IN PERRY
Mayor proclaims
Friday day of pep
Perry celebrated its first official
Spirit Day Friday with pep rallies
at both Perry High School and The
Westfield Schools.
The City Council proclaimed ev
ery Friday as Spirit Day at its Sept.
17 meeting.
Mayor Jim Worrall, reading the
proclamation to the City Council,
said “Cheerleaders boost positive at
titudes toward all school activities;
(they) offer encouragement and sup
port for their student body.
“In recognition and appreciation
for the cheerleaders and their efforts,
we proclaim Fridays to be School
Spirit Day.”
Perry High School principal Phil
Smith said PHS has always cele
brated a spirit day on Fridays but
thinks it is a good idea to make it
official.
“Spirit Days are a good way to
build morale in kids,” he said. “It
boosts the team and the kids who
support the team.”
from a college preparatory work
program to a vocational training
program.
“The students have to plan early
on what type of diploma they are
going to work to receive,” said
Linda Johnson, a coordinator for the
program. “Those whose course of
study fits our program usually start
by the time they are sophomores.”
Johnson said students usually ob
tain their jobs in their senior year
of school. They also usually get a
choice over what kind of work they
would like to do.
remains behind the house and is
thought to have been used as a
kitchen at one time.
The main part of the house is a
one and one-half story dogtrot made
of hand-hewn logs. There are two
rooms on either side of the central
hallway. A stairway in the hall
leads to an open attic room.
Each cut log is joined together at
the comers in square notches. The
horizontal joints are covered with
narrow wooden battens between the
logs. The roof is side-gabled and is
covered with corrugated metal.
The front of the house consists of
a shed-roofed porch and an enclosed
room on the right hand side facing
the front facade. The enclosed room
is thought to have been used as a
physician’s office by Dr. Robert
Campbell Bryan, who purchased the
house in 18S6.
The Bryan family currently uses
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Westfield Juniors Kimberly Marshall, left, and Mandy McDaniel
work to get their spirit signs ready for an afternoon pep rally.
Some students, like Kari, start
working as juniors.
Kari’s CBE job this year is as an
office helper at Kings Chapel
Elementary. She had worked in the
library there and expressed an inter
est in working in the front office
when another senior graduated.
Her duties range from making
copies to making sure the children
get on their afternoon bus safely.
She said her range of duties has
given her the opportunity to try dif
ferent things.
“I work about two and a half
the house as a rental residential, but
the house changed ownership three
times before it was purchased by
Dr. Bryan. Since his purchase it has
remained the property of his
descendants. It is believed that
Hugh L. Dennard built the house
when he owned the property from
1834 and 1848.
There were originally four
chimneys that stood on the outside
end walls of the four rooms. Os the
four there are only three still
standing, but the base of the fourth
chimney is still intact. Both the
chimneys and the entire house rest
on stone bases.
Neither electricity nor plumbing
has been introduced to the house in
all of its existence. However, still
standing in the yard is a hand
operated water siphon pump that
dates back to the turn of the
century.
hours a day and receive two units
for it,” Kari said.
“Working in the office gave me
the chance to learn how to work
with people. I used to be shy, but
this has helped.”
One of her most challenging du
ties is assisting the children to their
afternoon bus.
"It is a real learning experience,”
she said. “I like watching the kids
and how the act and to see how I
treat them and how they react to
that.”
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The Log Dogtrot House sits beyond the end of a dirt road east of Kathleen. The house is listed in
the National Register of Historic Places.
| PERRY, GA.
Authority wants
more Welcome
Center visitors
By TODD YOCUM
Staff Writer
The Perry Convention and Visi
tors Bureau Authority is looking
for better ways to promote the
Perry Welcome Center.
Members discussed possible
means of advertising at the Author
ity’s regular meeting Wednesday.
According to numbers compiled
by the Convention and Visitors
Bureau 361 people have visited the
center since it opened Aug. 5.
Bill Westbrook, promotions
committee chairman, said that
something needs to be done to in
crease visitation at the center.
“We’ll have some good visita
tion during the fair, but something
needs to be done now,” he said.
Authority Chairman James
Bouverie said that a survey of peo
ple that visit the center would help.
He said that the survey would
help the Authority better understand
how visitors found out about the
welcome center.
Bouverie also suggested that
promotion of the Perry center from
others further south along Interstate
75 would be a big help.
“We need to get people further
south to help us promote,” he said.
A suggestion that all Authority
members agreed on was the use of
billboards along the interstate to
promote the center.
The only promotion the center
would otherwise get would come
from signs that the state puts up
indicating tourist information avail
able.
Fay Riddles, executive director
of the Convention and Visitors Bu-
City trying to stop
flooding problem
By TODD YOCUM
Staff Writer
The City of Perry is in the pro
cess of of finding away to fund a
project that would alleviate the
flood problems in the James Street
area.
The issue was discussed by the
Public Works Committee of the
Perry City Council Thursday.
Heavy rains over the past few
months have caused a great deal of
problems for residents of the area.
In an attempt to solve the prob
lem, Council spent $4,900 to
investigate the flooding problem
and attempt to come up with a
solution.
Local engineers Tribble and
Richardson conducted the study and
made a report two weeks ago.
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reau, said that she had meet with
other Authority members to discuss
possibility of using billboard adver
tising.
She also said that she will meet
will the promotions committee to
look into the matter.
Bouverie said that because of the
tight budget the authority is run
ning under it needs to prioritize
what they are spending.
He also said that the promotion
of the welcome center was the most
important thing to consider.
In other business, Walter Lewis,
in charge of landscaping the wel
come center, said that his crew has
been doing work at the center this
week to repair damage to sprinkler
heads that ocured during lawn mow
ing.
Riddles reported that Turner
Network Television will be filming
a 30 minute television program in
the area.
She says that filming will begin
October 19 and 20. Area to be fea
tured include Mossy Creek, Massee
Lane and the Museum of Aviation.
Riddles also reported that the bu
reau sponsored Race Around Geor
gia held at the Agricenter last
month was a success. Seventy run
ner participate in the event.
She also reports that all systems
are set up for the second Georgia
National Fair. Information on all
activities will be available at the
Welcome Center.
Also, Riddles reported that con
struction of the Welcome Center is
100 percent complete.
According to City Manager Mar
ion Hay, the drainage problem now
has a solution, but the only
question that remains is if the city
can afford it.
“We want to make sure how
much it would cost,” he said.
When Tribble and Richardson
made its report, estimates reached
more than $190,000 to complete an
entire project from King Circle
through James Street.
Hay said the engineers are being
asked to come up with a plan that
the city will be able to take to con
tractors in order to get estimates on
cost.
He said that getting estimates
would avoid a muttled formal bid
ing process.
Please see STOP, page 6A