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WEEKEND
EDITION
250
Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1992
Deaths
Russell Edward Burns, Perry;
Maggie Walker, Perry; Mark
Brandon Nasworthy, Macon.
For details, please see page
3A.
HOME JOURNAL
HIGHLIGHTS
New chamber member
profile
Kimberly Barbeque is an old
tradition recently returned to
Perry. The story is on page7A.
Accident claims life
Thursday
A Cordele woman was killed in
a car accident on Elko Road
Thursday. For details please
see page2A.
Americans top
Nationals in Pee-Wee
baseball
The Ochlahatchee Pee-Wee
American team defeated the
National team 10-6 in the All-
Star game Thursday. The story
is on page 18.
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AGRICENTER EVENTS 3A
BRIGETTE HAMILTON 4A
CALENDAR 3A
CLASSIFIED 4B
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
SPORTS 1B
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
STREET TALK 4A
JOHN TRUSSELL 2B
BOBBY TUGGLE 2B
COSBY WOODRUFF 1B
WOODS 'N WATER 2B
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Teachers to
gain better
job training
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
Harold Chapman, superintendent
of Houston County schools and
members of the Fort Valley State
College faculty announced a
“revolutionary” professional devel
opment program between the
schools at a televised press confer
ence Wednesday. The program is
designed to provide field experience
for Fort Valley education students.
The two participating counties in
this program are Houston and
Peach.
This program is one in five pro
grams being funded in the state.
The funds are being obtained from a
$8,500 Coca-Cola Foundation grant
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Building a pathway to Georgia’s coast -
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(HHJ Photo by Amy McDaniel)
A crew from Reeves Construction of Americus are shown' here working on the Golden Isles Parkway near the
Medusa Plant off of Limerock Road. The completed four-lane road will begin in Perry and lead to the state’s
coast.
City hopes GIP will attract tourists
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Construction on the 9.81 mile
phase of the Golden Isles Parkway
extending from Elko Road and fin
ishing south of Hayneville began in
early May and the $11.6 million
project is expected to completed by
March 1995.
The phase of the GJ.P. currently
under construction will connect
Peachstate responds to complaints
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
After months of discussion, sub
scriber frustration and company re
quests for patience, Peachstate
Cable will be sending out the first
of two letters in the next seven to
10 days informing subscribers that
the highly unpopular cable
converter boxes will no longer be
necessary provided the customer
has a cable ready TV or VCR and
does not subscribe to a pay or
Authority amends hospital bylaws
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
After weeks of debate and meet
ings to work out a compromise, the
Hospital Authority of Houston
County voted Wednesday to
approve amended changes in the
Perry Hospital bylaws which
include the removal of the boards
unilateral authority over the medical
staff, joint participation on a
conference committee to work out
grievances and the removal of
financial and compensation infor
mation on contracts submitted to
the medical committee for review.
Members of the hospital staff
and board members met three to
four weeks ago to work out a com
promise on the bylaws after the
local hospital staff had rejected the
bylaws unless certain items were re
solved.
Jim Peak, Perry Hospital admin
istrative director said the staff had
approved the amendments two
weeks ago. The board approval was
the final step in removing objec
tions the staff had to the previous
unilateral authority the board had
over the Perry Hospital staff by
laws.
Also, at the meeting Dr. Luther
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Elko Road to Limerock Road,
where it will follow and eventually
replace Limerock Road and continue
out to connect with Highway 341
past Hayneville. The road will be
four lanes wide with a 44 foot me
dian. Other parts of the G.I.P. are
being constructed further south, but
the completion date for the entire
project is still unknown.
Van Herrington, area engineer
movie channel.
Customers that do have a pay
channel will be given a free A/B
switch that will allow them to by
pass the converter box when the
movie channel is not on.
The second letter, to be sent out
sometime in mid-July, will inform
customers of program changes in
cluding the additions of TNT and
Black Entertainment Television
(BET) on the first tier package
rather than the second tier on which
Perry Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Luther Vance Is sworn In
as a member of the hospital authority by Probate Judge
Frances Annis.
Vance, chief of staff at Perry
Hospital was sworn in as a member
of the hospital board after a vote
last month by the board and a
recommendation by the Profes
sional Affairs Committee. Dr.
J.W. Spivey of Houston Medical
Center was to be sworn is as well,
but he was unable to attend the
for ihe Georgia Department of
Transportation, said the project is
designed to help traffic flow to the
coast.
"We're trying to build a main ar- •
terial out to the coast in order to
provide quicker access in that direc
tion,” he said.
Perry City Manager Marion Hay
said the project will make Perry a
major thoroughfare for tourists.
it is currently listed, the
elimination of two Atlanta channels
that have been a source of much
complaint and three weeks of full
cable programming before cus
tomers must contact Peachstate and
declare what channels they would
like to delete.
Billy Mitchell, Peachstate gen
eral manager said the changes are a
recognition that citizen concerns as
expressed by the mayor, city coun
cil and subscribers deserved to be
meeting. The two chiefs of staff
for the the respective hospitals now
have voting rights as members of
the authority. In the past, the
chiefs attended board meetings, par
ticipated in discussions but had no
voting power.
The board also approved a
Please see CHANGES, page 8A
PERRY, GA.
"People from New York, Canada
and other northern areas visit the
Golden Isles of Georgia. With the
G.I.P. starting in Perry it will help
our tourism development and in
crease the number of visitors. Be
fore they could bypass Perry and
take Interstate 16 to Interstate 95,
but when this project is completed
they wiM have a four lane highway
Please see GIP, page 8A
addressed.
"When we first started meeting
with the council and listening to
subscriber concerns, we began
studying the issues. As we studied
them it was clear that we needed to
make some changes," Mitchell said.
Mayor Jim Worrall, who had
personally sent out a questionnaire
on the subject of customers feelings
about Peachstate in March, said he
Please see RESPONDS, page 8A
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Horse sftow tfi/s weekend
Jonl Patten of Cordele competes In one of the
many different events at the Registered Quarter
Horse Show being held this weekend at the
Agricenter.
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Kris McGee
McGee is
new PPG
manager
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Kristy McGee has been named
the new plant manager of Perry’s
PPG facility.
He will begin his new position
July 1 repicing Walter W. Scott,
who has been promoted to manager
of the glass, technology, trade and
automobile division at the PPG
glass research facility in suburban
Pittsburgh. Scott has been the local
plant's manager since its 1989
groundbreaking.
McGee 37, was bom and raised
in Pittsburgh and holds a B.S. in
civil engineering from Lehigh Uni
versity, an M.S. in structural engi
neering from the University of Al
abama and an MBA from the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh.
"1 have a tremendous amount of
learning in front of me. Things arc
really on a growth note here and I
want to continue the good work
that is being done. The whole
plant has done an excellent job of
overcoming the problems associated
with new technology," McGee said.
Jim Soggs, director of human
resources at the Perry plant, com
mented on the management change.
"Walt Scott will be dearly
missed but we look forward with
anticipation to Kris’ arrival and
smooth transition ," he said.
McGee worked for U.S. Steel for
11 years, primarily in project man
agement roles. That experience in
cluded operations management and
purchasing but McGee said he was
primarily doing engineering work.
He spent three years working for
Nucor Steel Co. which is based in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
McGee has been with PPG for
nearly three years. His most recent
position was manager of construc
tion in the glass engineering group
Please see McGHEE, page 8A