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Perry & Houston County's
official legal Organ
\ WEDNESDAY, MAY 20,1992
Deaths
Clifton Baxter Turk, Perry;
Emily Childs Moody, Perry;
Jack Johnson, Fort Valley; Ola
Mamie Veronica Gibbs,
Cordele; Jesse Willard Holland,
Kathleen; Lawrence Raymond
Wilson, Fayetteville. For de
tails, please see page 3A.
HOME JOURNAL
HIGHLIGHTS
HCCI to receive new ID
system
County Commissioners ap
proved the purchase of a new
ID system for HCCI at their
regular meeting Tuesday night.
The storty is on page 3A.
Westfield honors spring
athletes
Westfield held its spring sports
banquet Monday night with a
covered-dish dinner and a
trophy presentation. For com
plete details, please see page
BA.
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
PEGGY BLEDSOE 1B
CALENDAR ’ ~~ 5A
CLASSIFIED _____BB
EDITORIALS 4A
ENTERTAINMENT 10A
HOME & GARDEN 2B
GUEST COLUMN ~ 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 4B
TIM LEWIS 2B
LIFESTYLE 1B
EMERY WARNOCK 4A
POLICE REPORT _ ~2A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
SPORTS 8A
COSBY WOODRUFF 8A
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City begins
1993 budget
approvals
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry City Council began the
process of approving the city's bud
get for fiscal year 1993 at a meeting
Monday night.
City Manager Marion Hay cited
a lack of financial growth in the
city, the rise in insurance costs,
costly state mandates and a lack of
state financial grant assistance as
the primary difficulties facing the
city's finances.
"The state has given us mandates
related to recycling and other areas
that will cost us money to imple
ment, but they have stopped any
kind of grant assistance, and that
limits our budget."
The total budget figures are still
Please see BUDGET, page 7A
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Journal
I'Buckle Up America! Week' is May 18-25
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Georgia State Patrol an
nounced their annual Buckle Up
America! Week,” May 18-25 to
coincide with the summer travel
season beginning Memorial Day
weekend.
The national campaign is de
signed to encourage motorists to
use safety belts and child safety
seats on all automobile trips.
Sergeant Charles Parker, who
works in safety education for the
Georgia State Patrol, stressed the
importance of the campaign.
"An estimated 24,886 lives were
saved by safety belts from 1983
1992. In 1982 before any state had
safety belt laws, American's
buckled up 11 percent of the time.
In Georgia last year it was up to 59
percent. Our goal for this year is to
get Georgian’s to buckle up at least
70 percent of the time."
Georgia has two seatbelt laws.
There is a primary enforcement law
which requires children below four
years of age to be placed in some
type of restraint and children below
40 pounds to be placed in a
federally approved safety seat. The
law was adopted in 1983. The fine
for not properly securing a small
child is $25.
The other law requires both front
seat passengers to wear a seatbelt at
all times. This is a secondary
enforcement law which allows
police to cite a driver for not
wearing a seat belt after he has been
stopped for another offense. The
fine for not complying with the
1986 law is sls.
Sergeant Kenny Hancock of die
Georgia State Patrol said, "We'll all
be working Memorial Day weekend
doing a lot of checking of licenses,
insurance, registration, and
reminding people to buckle up."
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House Rep. Larry Walker addressed the Perry Kiwanis
Club Tuesday.
Walker describes 1992
session as the most
difficult in 20 years
By EMERY WARNOCK
Staff Writer
State Rep. Larry Walker told
Perry Kiwanis Club members
Tuesday that the 1992 legislative
session “was the most difficult ses
sion in 20 years” of service in the
Georgia Legislature.
Walker said the final reapportion
ment plan that will go into affect
was the fourth plan finally approved
by the United States Justice De
partment.
“We’re going to be stuck with it
for 10 years,” he said.
“The House plan is an abomina
tion,” he said. He stated Houston
“is not going to be represented by
anyone in Houston County.”
Walker called the Senate plan “not
bad.” He said the Justice Depart
ment intervened in 13 states under
the stipulation of the Voting
Rights Act.
He said the Justice Department
singled out the South, making alle
gations of civil rights neglect.
“I resent that. We are as good and
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Georgia State Patrol officers stop traffic on Highway 41 as part of a safety campaign planned for
Memorial Weekend. Troops will be setting up checks statewide. Pictured is Sgt. Kenny Hancock.
In addition to the "Buckle Up
Campaign" the state patrol will
also be involved in the "Avoid the
Summertime Blues Campaign",
which is a continuation of the
safely belt awareness campaign car-
decent people as you will find any
where in this country. Don’t single
out the South,” Walker said.
“It’s going to be chaos with two
congressman. It will be impossible
to hold elections in our area.”
The newly formed Third Congres
sional District will take Rep.
Richard Ray out of Houston
County, bringing Rep. Charles
Hatcher and Rep. J. Roy Rowland
into the Houston scene.
State Rep. Robert Ray of Peach
County will acquire a section of
Houston County, while Rep.
Sonny Watson would not live in
his new district and Rep. Jay
Walker will not seek re-election.
Walker said that his district will
cover Crisp County, with 95 per
cent in that section being minority
voters, and narrowing into Perry
and South Houston County, in
some places only a neighborhood
block spread.
“The other three (House Plans)
had Perry intact,” he said.
Please see SESSION, page 10A
ried on through the summer.
"The awareness program really
goes from Memorial Day to Labor
Day. We're making public service
announcements, increasing law en
forcement attention to the subject
Chapman kicks off campaign
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
Harold Chapman, school
superintendent of Houston County,
held a campaign kick-off at the
Perry Holiday Inn Monday. The
reception was held in preparation of
the upcoming general primary
election on July 21. Chapman is
seeking to be rc-clcclcd during the
run for Houston County’s
Superintendent of schools.
Earlier in the evening, Chapman
held a similar reception in Warner
Robins where he rcporicd there was
a “big crowd of enthusiastic sup
porters.”
Chapman addressed the crowd of
35 recapping the six promises that
he had made during his campaign
four years ago. He then cited how
he has been able to keep these
promises to the system by being
open for outside ideas, conservative
with tax dollars, stressing aca
demics, providing discipline when
facing social problems and incorpo
rating the support of the business
community.
He ended his speech with a quote
from Henry Ford.
Council supports loan program
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry City Council voted unani
mously to continue a program with
the Georgia Housing and Finance
Authority that provides low and
zero interest loans to homeowners
for the purpose of energy conserva
tion at their regular meeting
Tuesday.
The program was adopted two
years ago and has thus far received
little attention from Perry residents.
Janice Williams, Perry finance
director, described the terms of the
loans in response to questions from
Councilman Ralph Gentry.
"To be eligible for a loan at five
percent interest, the household in
come cannot exceed $43,000. To
qualify for a loan at zero interest,
household income cannot exceed
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and encouraging media coverage to
get the message out," Parker said.
Colonel Ronald Bowman,
commissioner of the Georgia De
partment of Safety said, "In spite of
the combined efforts of the suite pa
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Harold Chapman kicks off his
campaign at a Monday night
reception.
“You can’t build a reputation on
what you arc going to do.”
Chapman bases a lot of his
credibility on his accomplishments
and his experience as
$17,000. The maximum amount
available is $3,000 and it has to be
paid back in seven years."
Gentry responded, "More people
should get involved in this thing."
Other council members agreed
including Charles Lewis and Hcrvia
Ingram.
The loans arc to be used
specifically for the increasing of
energy efficiency around the house.
The money can be used for storm
windows, insulation, improvement
of heating and cooling systems and
other energy saving measures.
City Building Inspector Bill
Chambless is in charge of the pro
gram for the city.
The council approved a motion
to purchase a mounted hydraulic
trash loader to go on top of a city
trash truck.
irol and local law enforcement
agencies, we are predicting that 22
fatalities and 896 injuries will be
the result of 2,(X)0 vehicle crashes."
The Georgia Stale Patrol urges
Please see WEEK, page 10A
superintendent.
Doctor Chapman lias a combined
27 years of experience in the educa
tional system and several roles in
community and professional lead
ership. Included in these roles are
President of the Middle Georgia
School Superintendents Association
and serving on the Board of
Directors for the Perry Chamber of
Commerce.
During the reception many
community and education leaders
spoke in favor of Chapman's leader
ship abilities and educational fore
sight. Among the speakers was
Jack Steed, vice president of Bank
South.
Steed spoke of his recent visit
to Atlanta with Chapman to accept
the Georgia 2000 honor for his
strategic educational plan.
“It was during this visit that 1
could really see how much the other
superintendents in the state
respected Harold Chapman. He
really stood out from the rest,”
Steed said.
Another speaker was Robert
Brown, who is a realtor with
Please see CAMPAIGN, page 10A
Lewis asked Cily Manager Mar
ion Hay if the loader would help the
city in its planned recycling pro
gram.
"It will help the city to expedite
trash collection, but it isn't de
signed for recycling. Its purpose is
to improve garbage collection
around Perry."
There were six bids given to the
cily on the truck purchase. The
contract was awarded to the low
bidder Transportation Equipment
Company for 515,998.
In the pre-council session
Ingr;#n suggested that the city meet
with ministers and some youths on
the subject of the community re
sponse to the eventual release of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation re
port on the death of Anthony Hill.
Please see COUNCIL, page 7A