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'■THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1992
Perry viewpoint
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The Houston Home Journal
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JAMES B. KERCE
Editor & General Manager
BRIGETTE HAMILTON TERESA HAWK
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
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More needed?
The Pentagon is working hard these days to find new
enemies-to justify continued spending of almost S3OO bil
lion a year for defense.
Even Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, recently admitted, “I’m running out of villains. I’m
down to Castro and Kim II Sung.”
The Bush Administration has asked Congress for $290
billion in the coming fiscal year for the military; while no
one wishes to see defense spending excessively gutted,
surely in this time of huge federal deficits, more economies
in defense spending are justified.
And surely the number of Americans still in Europe to
defend European countries (against what now?)-320,OOO
can be reduced.
Health specialist clarifies
discrepancies
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the article on restaurant inspections you
wrote which was printed in the Journal (Saturday, June
20).
I would like to straighten out a few discrepancies in the
story and would appreciate if you could follow the article
up with the correct information.
Paragraphs 8-11 - By law I am required to inspect each
restaurant no less than twice a year. I am also supposed to
keep inspecting the facility every three days until all dis
crepancies are corrected. I have never had the time to make
extensive re-inspections in Houston County. In the past, 1
inspected each facility four times a year. If a facility failed
and inspection )(scored less than 90%) I inspected it every
three days until it received a passing score of 90% or
higher.
My procedure ar present is to inspect facilities three times
a year. If a facility scores excellently (97% or higher) on
two consecutive inspections, I decrease inspection fre
quency to twice a year. If a facility fails scores below 90%)
inspection, I inspect it every three days until it passes and
then inspect it again in one month. This allows me to con
centrate my time on the restaurants needing my attention, it
also helps me keep up with the increasing inspectors in
Houston County, I perform all the food service inspections
on my own. There are two other Environmental Health
Specialists in our office that perform other duties.
Paragraph 13-1 do get very detailed on certain aspects of
the inspection such as temperatures in freezers, refrigera
tors and steam tables. Many restaurants don't check the
thermometers in these units frequently so I always check
ever>- temperature controlled device. I give that a high pri
ority.
Paragraph 14 -1 do use judgement in scoring the inspec
tions. If a facility is sparkling clean, close to perfect and
has a good record, I may not write up a discrepancy and
only verbally ask that it be corrected. On the other hand, of
I go into a facility and it is in poor condition or constantly
repeats the same discrepancy I am likely to write up and
score points against every violation.
Paragraph 22 - I do not perform CPR training and this
training would not help improve inspection scores. I was
referring to food handler sanitation training. Florida has a
requirement for a food service sanitation trained manager to
be on duty at all times.
Other than these discrepancies, it was a great article. If
you have any questions feel free to call me at 542-2102.
Respectfully,
Bert M. Tilton
Environmental Health Specialist II
Physician praises local
hospital
Dear Editor:
Several days ago my young wife suddenly became quite
Please see LETTER, page 10A
“Apparently The Supreme Court’s Decision On
Abortion Was A Fair One. Nobody Seems
To Like It.”
Wild storm marks 1982 July Fourth
10 years ago
July 8, 1982
Houston County commercial
haulers would soon he paying
$3.50 more for each ton of trash
taken to the county landfill. The
amount of garbage had increased 25
percent from die previous year and
much of it was thought to originate
from Peach and Bibb counties.
* * *
The Fourth of July was marked
with a wild storm consisting of
high winds and hail. Damage con
sisted of several uprooted trees and
the need to re-plant soybean and
corn fields that had been leveled by
the wind.
* * *
Georgia Southern College busi
ness manager Robert E. Turner of
Perry was recognized as the out
standing senior management major
by the F.W. Taylor Award.
15 years ago
July 7, 1977
Houston County finally sought
officials such as Sam Nunn and
Governor George Busbec to survey
the drought damaged farm crops.
The officials were asked to declare
Houston County a disaster area and
to lend financial aid to suffering
farmers.
* * *
United States Attorney General
Griffin Bell was in Warner Robins
Good vs. bad difference can be vague
There is a lot of talk in philoso
phy about good and evil with spe
cial attention paid to defining the
two categories.
You know the standard philo
sophical approach: Is a man good if
he saves an animal from being run
over by a car. Obvious answer is,
Yes. But in philosophy things
aren't that simple. What if the guy
who saved the animal did it so he
could get his picture in the newspa
per? Would he still be good?
Those are the kinds of questions
philosophy students sit around and
ponder, taking cases far out into the
multiples of multiples range.
What I'm going to try and do is
spend a little time helping to clear
up some definitions on questions
that have come my way lately.
One other note, my dad, quoting
an old Indian proverb, (and probably
it can be found other places as well)
said, "Philosophy starts when the
stomach is full." I like the clear
summary that the statement makes
about priorities. Anyway, let's
begin.
Good: The efforts on the part of
Pastor Milton Wynn and the people
at his church to establish a home
Remember L
when? I
News items from issues
to dedicate the $1,400,000 State
Court Building of Houston County.
More than 1,000 invitations were
issued.
* * *
The Perry City Council denied a
$25,000 claim filed by Perry citizen
Donald Peck. Peck was falsely ar
rested on May 19, 1977 on charges
of alleged drug sales.
25 years ago
July 13, 1967
Contracts were signed for the
construction of the $250,000
Crossroads Cable Community
Antenna Television System in
Perry. This state-of-the-art cable
system would be able to offer eight
clear channels to its Perry cus
tomers.
* * *
The Houston Home Journal won
two state-wide awards in the 1967
Georgia Better Newspaper Contest
of the Georgia Press Association.
The Journal won first place for lo
cal news coverage and third place
for best editorial page.
"eK ■ Brian i
life j Lawson j
\PFy Staff writer
for homeless men.
Evil: The morons who have
been arrested for DUI with children
in the car over the weekend. 1 didn’t
think there was any way to com
pound the stupidity of driving
drunk, but doing it with children in
the car sets new standards for dumb.
Good: The discussion 1 wit
nessed between Senator Wyche
Fowler and Georgia citizens at a
fund-raiser Monday. The sides
didn't agree on much but everybody
spoke their mind. It was refreshing
to see important issues treated as
such, rather than the rampant Em
peror's new clothes approach to na
tional concerns...." Wow, things are
great. There is no recession.
America is back." It would be nice
to see more candor on the part of
politicians like what was
* * *
The City of Perry received
checks totaling $35,030 from the
State of Georgia. The money repre
sented Perry’s portion of the grants
to municipalities approved by the
General Assembly.
50 years ago
July 9, 1942
Plans for the Houston County
part in the nation-wide “Retailers
for Victory” drive for promoting
sales of U.S. War Stamps in July
were made at a luncheon called by
Max Moore at the New Perry
Hotel. The objective of the drive
was to sell $1 million worth of
bonds and stamps through U.S. re
tail stores.
* * *
A tentative cotton marketing
quota penally rate of eight cents per
pound had been set for the
marketing year pending establish
ment of the cotton loan rate. This
applied to cotton produced in excess
of the quota.
* * *
The Pepsi-Cola Company
started a nation-wide drive to save
and recover bottle crowns. The
metal they were made of was a pre
cious metal and Pepsi had hopes of
salvaging this metal.
demonstrated Monday.
Evil: Any system that talks
about the importance of family val
ues while at the same time ignoring
the problem ol a family's inability
to pay for basic medical care.
Good: The decision to move the
Braves out ot the Western division
and apply some sense to the align
ing of the teams. Maybe the NFL
will learn something as a result.
Evil: The statistics I have read
over the last few days about high
school drop out rates in the larger
urban cities. The numbers are say
ing 50 percent of all freshmen will
not be around for graduation.
Where are these people going to
go?
Good: All the attempts being
made in Middle Georgia to encour
age reading programs for kids and
literacy training for adults. Imagine
a world where the simplest word on
a piece of paper was a source of fear
and embarrassment.
Evil: Anybody that would go to
a house in the middle of the night
and set it on fire. Very few things
in the world lake less guts than an
act like that.
Please see LAWSON, page 10A
m The Houston Home f
Journal
Kerce |
Alexander’s
educational
reforms
Education Secretary Lamar
Alexander has offered a historic
watershed reform proposal to
improve the education of American
youngsters from country low
income homes. It's the brightest
new approach on the dismisal scene
of public education in the U.S.
In brief, the secretary’s proposal
would provide a million children
from low income families with a
SI,OOO scholarship, to allow
parents to send their children to the
school of their choice.
Wealthy families already may
take advantage of choice-between
public and private schools. But
poor families face the necessity of
sending their children to inferior
schools.
Alexander's proposal would
begin to change that. It's in line, to
a large degree, with a proposal for
choice in California-expected to be
on the ballot there in November.
The California reform would
grant students who prefer to attend a
private school a $2,600 state
scholarship. Instead of costing
money, it would save money
because the cost of educating a child
in the public schools of California
is estimated at more than $5,000 a
year.
There arc indications long
opposition to choice by public
school teacher unions and most
Democrats in Congress may be
eroding. One of the encouraging
developments in recent weeks was
the decision of Senator Bill Bradley
(D-NJ) to votCifor a biU-io begin a
pilot program allowing)students to
use federal money to attend private
schools. The situation in the public
schools is so bad in many of the
nation's larger cities reform is
urgent. A good example is
Chicago. There the public high
school graduates less than half their
students. Private Catholic schools
graduate 99 percent of their
students, three fourths of whom go
on to college.
(Hall the teachers in the Chicago
public school system send their
own children to private schools!)
There's traditional, well-founded
opposition in this country to federal
aid to church and other private
schools. Those who favor
scholarships to students allowing
them to attend private schools,
believe the need for a quality
education among America's young
people outweighs in importance the
limited support of private education
federal scholarship grants would
provide.
Democrats in Congress have
opposed choice in the past as
favoring the rich. The Bush
Administration proposal is aimed at
helping the poor, and will be much
harder for them to oppose.
A black leader in California,
Starr Parker, notes that over 70
percent of minorities there support
choice. The rich now have a choice,
she says, and scholarships for poor
children would give them a choice
also.
Wealthy Democrats in Congress
who have opposed choice have
often sent their own children to
private schools, which reflects the
same attitude found in Chicago
among public school teachers.
Finally, despite leadership
opposition to choice by teacher
unions, many teachers in the public
schools favor scholarships for poor
families. They're frustrated by lax
discipline and the psycho-behavioral
courses that now pass for education
in the public schools, which results
in so many minority students,
practically illiterate, now being
graduated from public high schools.
The hope of most Americans is
that the Bush Administration
reform advanced by Alexander, a
former outstanding Tennessee
governor, will be enacted by
Congress this year-given a trial at
the very least, in the interest of
poorer families who want the best
education they can find for their
children.