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WEEKEND
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Perry & Houston County's
Official Lfgal Organ
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| SATURDAyTjUNE 13,1992
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Deaths
John Sparks, Hawkinsville;
Hattie Brazeal Knight,
Hawkinsville; Minnie Miller
Brush, Perry. For details,
please see page 3A.
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HIGHLIGHTS
County students rate
above national average
Results of two nation-wide
tests reveal Houston County
students scored above aver
age compared the rest of the
nation. The story is on page
7A.
Buy Macon Braves
tickets for June 18
Perry Recreation Department
Night at the Macon Braves will
be held June 18 with $1 from
each ticket sale going to the
local rec program. The story is
on page2A.
Legislators meet at
Houston Lake
Several local state legislators
met at Houston Lake Country
Club Thursday to support the
re-election of state labor
commissioner Al Scott. The
story is on page 6A.
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AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
EMERY WARNOCK 4A
CALENOAR 5A
CLASSIFIED 4B
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
SPORTS 1B
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
STREET TALK 4A
JOHN TRUSSELL 2B
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Four arrested, vouth shot in fiaht
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
An argument that started last
Saturday night in Warner Robins
erupted in Perry early Thursday
morning with gunshots being fired,
. one youth shot in the hand and four
men later arrested for aggravated as
sault.
The youth who was shot in the
hand was treated and released by
Perry Hospital.
Captain Jim Hardy of the Perry
GBI hands
over Hill
report
DA will decide if case
should be closed
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Ending weeks of speculation, the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation's
report on the events surrounding the
shooting of Anthony Hill by Perry
Police Officer John Hardage was
given to Houston County District
Attorney Ed Lukcmire Thursday
afternoon.
Jack White, agent in charge of
the GBI, presented the report to
Lukemire with Perry Police Chief
Frank Simons and GBI case agent
Kay Fulford present.
"The district attorney was given
the entire file, including the lab re
ports and the autopsy results. The
report is two volumes and it's
roughly a couple of hundred pages
long. The report is an attempt to
show the order in which events oc
cured.. It is very meticulous work.
We try to show a naturally flowing
sequence based on the accounts of
all respondents to the occurrence,"
White said.
Lukemire is now faced with the
responsibility of reading the report
and making a decision on the next
step in the case. If he decides the
...erits further consideration he
can present the evidence to the
grand jury. If he determines that
the shooting was not justified, he
can charge the officer in the case.
Or depending on the evidence,
Lukemire can decide that no further
investigation is necessary and close
the case. It is also possible that the
district attorney could call the GBI
back in for additional work on an
area of the case or seek a
clarification on a particular point.
Lukemire was not available for
comment. Shelley Howard, chief
assistant district attorney said, "We
received the report. We have noth
ing further to report at this point."
Simons, who requested the GBI
investigation, said, "We delivered
the report to the district attorney. I
think all of us, the district attorney,
the GBI, and the Perry Police De
partment certainly understand the
urgency in completing the analysis
of the report and being able to reach
a conclusion on these issues. We're
certainly hopeful it can be com
pleted without great delay," Simons
said.
Simons said that the does not
have a copy of the report but ex
pects to receive one in the near fu
ture.
White said that he contacted the
Please see REPORT, page 6A
Chapman and Causey weary of Channel One
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education has recently given the go
ahead in a six to one vote to im
plement the controversial Channel
One program into Houston County
schools next fall. Some are excited
about the venture, but a few remain
wary.
Channel One is a program dis
tributed by Whittle
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Police Department said the event
should have never been allowed to
escalate to the point that it did.
"This never should have
happened. Our society has gotten
more violent than in the past and
it's a shame that kids resort to
shooting rather than talking to each
other," Hardy said.
Hardy described the events that
led to the shooting.
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Rains hinder construction
Perry Marketplace workers cleaned up Friday during the light showers. Crews are
about two weeks behind schedule because of the rains.
Two Perry students receive PSA
awards at state capitol ceremony
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Tony Milne, an upcoming se
nior at Perry High School, was the
winner of a state-wide public ser
vice announcement contest promot
ing the use of seat belts that in
volved over 30,000 students from
187 counties.
Milne received the SIOO first
prize at an awards banquet at the
state capitol in Atlanta May 28.
The awards banquet included win
ners from the high school, middle
school and elementary school
levels. Dr. Thomas Coleman, di
rector of the Governor's Office of
Highway Safety presided over the
event and handed Milne his win
ning check.
Milne chose the theme, "A mes
sage from your mind. The message
concerned different interests that
teens have; sports, fashion, gradua
tion and then contrasted those inter
ests with the graphic results of not
Please see AWARDS, page 6A
Communications out of Tennessee.
The program consists of a 12-
minute morning newscast program
that is complete with two minutes
of commercials.
The news covered in the
programs consists of up-to-date
world issues that are presented in
such away to attract a broad base of
youngsters.
“It’s an MTV approach to the
news,” board member Ed Causey
marily two kids, got into an argu
ment at the Teen Palace in Warner
Robins Saturday night. The con
frontation was verbal, no punches
were thrown. The next day one of
the youths allegedly started follow
ing another in his car, harassing
him. On Wednesday several of the
youths came from Warner Robins
to McDonalds in Perry, where a kid
from the other group works. The
group from Warner Robins report-
PSA contest winners Tony Milne (second left) and Ken
Bannister, with Ann Relnfeld (left) program coordinator and
Perry High teacher Emily Heath.
said. Causey was the one board
member to vote against the pro
grams implementation.
Under the contract the board
signed, Whittle Communications
will install cable wiring to the
schools, lease one television set per
23 students and two VCRs per
school without cost. The schools,
in return, must have 80 percent of
their students viewing the programs
each school day.
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edly created a ruckus. We were told
that the youth’s left when the man
ager of McDonald's threatened to
call the police," Hardy said.
The next evening, Hardy re
ported, some of the young men
from the Warner Robins group were
visiting friends in the Oldfield area
of Perry. They were allegedly ap
proached by eight to 10 youths
from' the Perry group and an
argument ensued.
During Whittle’s presentation to
the board, they explained that if the
system was in any way displeased
with the program, call the company
and they will come disconnect the
cable wiring and paint over any
holes the wiring had caused.
Although the whole deal sounds
hassle-free, Ed Causey remains cau
tious of accepting this “too good to
be true” venture.
“Instead of rushing head first
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"Reportedly they argued for a
while, then the situation seemed to
cool down. The Perry group started
to walk away when one of the
group, a juvenile, allegedly threw a
rock through the back window of
the car belonging to the man who
later allegedly did the shooting. As
the group started to run away, the
driver of the car grabbed a gun and
four men got in the car and
Please see FIGHT, page 6A
C&VB will
help fund
horse show
Authority hopes to
attract revenues with
$20,000 donation
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Perry Area Convention and
Visitors Bureau Authority voted
Wednesday to contribute $20,000
toward the requested $50,000 to
help bring a special event cutting
horse show to the Perry Agricenter
January 13-18.
Harold Sumerford of the Georgia
Cutting Horse Association asked
for the money to help file an appli
cation with the National Cutting
Horse Association to bring a spe
cial event cutting horse show to
Perry. The money will not be
given to Summerford until a later
date, but confirmation that the
funds would be available as asked
for "as soon as possible."
Montgomery, Ala. officials met
with cutting horse representatives
this past week in an effort to
persuade horse officials to bring the
show to Montgomery where it has
been successful in the past, rather
than moving the show to Perry.
The money the authority has
committed will be taken out of the
promotions fund.
Tom Peck, a member of the
authority explained the decision.
"This S2O,(XX) would bring a lot
of money to Perry. The cutting
horse association is talking about a
three to five year commitment.
This is a small investment for what
is going to happen to Perry as a re
sult of bringing a show like this in.
The visitor authority is all seeing
eye to eye on this. It’s good for
Perry business and it’s good for the
Agricenter which we need to pro
mote," Peek said.
The show in Perry would be
timed to take place a week before a
national cutting horse event held
annually in Augusta.
Sumerford made a presentation
to the Perry City Council, the
Convention and Visitors Bureau and
members of the Agricentcr at a
meeting Tuesday. During the meet
ing Sumerford asked for a contribu
tion of $50,000 from any sources
that might be interested in bringing
the show to Perry.
City Councilman James Moore
was asked by Mayor Jim Worrall to
look into it and determine if the
show is a worthwhile venture.
"City money was not asked for
and there is no City money avail
able. Perry has a lot to gain by
bringing the show here, but time is
of the essence. Harold would like us
Please see SHOW, page 6A
into this deal, I would have liked to
have waited awhile to check out all
points of view,” Causey said.
Causey feels the company’s
strict compliance with the 80 per
cent guideline is a point to be wary
of.
“Everywhere they’ve introduced
this it’s been controversial. I have
to wonder if where there is smoke,
there’s fire,” Causey explained.
Please see WEARY, page 6A