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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
WEDNESDAY, July 15,1992
Deaths
Christian Alexander Hubbard,
Warner Robins; Ruby Carter,
Perry. For details, please see
page 3A.
HOME JOURNAL
HIGHLIGHTS
Special election issue
To better serve our readers,
we have printed the ballot to be
used for the elections next
week. Also there are profiles
on several of the candidates
running for office.
Agricenter
announces fair
entertainment
There will be an abundance at
the Ga. National Fair in Octo
ber including several popular
country singers. The story is on
page 6A.
Hill wins golf sectional
Geoff Hill shot a 73 at Perry
Country Club to win a state
junior golf sectional Monday.
The stotyHronpage-^OAr"-
INDEX
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CALENDAR 5A
CLASSIFIED 15A
EDITORIALS __ 4A
ENTERTAINMENT 3A
HOME & GARDEN 2B
KELLIE ROWDEN 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 4B
LIFESTYLE 1B
EMERY WARNOCK 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
SPORTS 10A
COSBY WOODRUFF 10A
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their voting location as well as
Representatives, Congressional and
school districts.
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precinct on July 21, 1992, General
Primary Day. Any voter who has
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ceived an ID card by July 16 should
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Local elections heat up
Election primaries will be held on Tuesday, July 21. For weeks campaign signs have been
dominating the sides of local roads in hopes to gain more votes for the respective
candidates.
BOE upset with budget process
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education met Tuesday for their
monthly meeting to finalize the of
ficial vote for the 1992-93 school
budget presented in May. Although
the board finalized their original
approval, members still expressed
regret that the budget did not
include a local 2.5 percent salary
increase for classroom teachers.
The teachers will only receive the
state mandated 2.5 percent increase.
Northrop provides schools with equipment
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
The Houston County School
System received an impressive gift
from Northrop this week. The
company has donated $75,000 of
surplus equipment it retrieved from
a warehouse in California. They
expect that amount to reach slso—
within the next few
months.
“We had the option to either sell
it, or donate it to a community ser
vice,” John Sundquist, Northrop
manager of human resources and
community relations, said.
“Northrop has been historically in
terested in education because it
means highly qualified workers for
our corporation. We like to help
out whereever possible.”
Some of the supplies that have
been donated are desks, lighting fix
tures, tables, assorted furniture, cof
fee urns, drafting tables, space
heaters, lifts for moving heavy ob
jects and sound-proof office di
viders.
The office dividers aren’t in
tended to create additional office
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“I still have a hard time not giv
ing the supplementary increase. I
can’t seem to get it out of my con
scious and will probably vote
against it,” Zell Blackmon said.
Blackmon was the only dissenting
vote in the six to one approval.
Ed Causey suggested the board
drift from its original budget
presentation time frame and allow
next year’s board more time to ex
amine the proposed budget.
“I think that next year we need
space for employees of the school
system, but will be used, instead,
to create a private in-classroom area
for a teacher to use for doing pa
perwork, or to issue private coun
seling for children.
“These are items that we feel the
system would eventually have to
purchase, so by donating them, we
are hoping to divert some of that
money to provide maintenance
services for the schools,” Sundquist
said.
Cuts in maintenance money was
a point of contention during the re
cent school board budget meetings.
“We have found this school dis
trict to be worthy of such a dona
tion. It has been very good for us
in that it has supplied us with qual
ified applicants and we feel that we
can tell any transfer employees with
families that Houston County has a
good system,” Sundquist explained.
Out of the 465 employees at
Northrop in Perry, 156 have Perry
addresses while 85 percent of the
employees live within 30 miles of
the Northrop facilities.
Please see PROVIDES, page 16A
to look at the budget prior to two
weeks before we have to approve it.
This may help us work little prob
lems like this out,” Causey said.
Another discussed motion before
the board was the proposal to pave
the parking area at Parkwood
Elementary in Warner Robins. The
area used by parents to pick up their
children was deemed dangerous by
the board and concerned citizens.
The SII,OOO project was approved.
Please see BOE, page 16A
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and Human Resources Manager John Sundquist. Behind them are some of the supplies donated
to Houston County schools by Northrop.
"1992■
Ray thanked by
Perry constituents
at Sunday reception
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Congressman Richard Ray and
his wife Barbara were the guests of
honor during a reception held Sun
day at die Welcome Center.
The event, was designed to give
Perry citizen's a chance to say diank
you to Ray for his years represent
ing the area and to wish him well
in his campaign in the newly drawn
diird district.
Approximately 160 people at
tended the event sponsored by a
group of the Ray's friends in Perry.
Arthur White Jr., one of the
event organizers and a long-time
friend of the Ray's termed die event
a success.
"We were very pleased with the
turn-out and we're happy to have
had so many people out here to
wish them well. They have had a
long association with Perry. And
Richard has served as a councilman,
mayor and then congressman. This
was a chance for all the people that
he has helped over the years to
congratulate and offer their
appreciation for he and Barbara's ef
forts," White said.
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall said,
"The day went real well. This was
a last chance to say thank you be
fore he assumes his new territory.
It's always tough to break into a
new area but I have every confi
dence he will come out on top."
Council will build
composting site to
increase recycling
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Perry City Council gave
approval for plans to build a com
posting demonstration site near
Houston Lake Drive and James
Street at a work session Tuesday.
The composting area would
demonstrate the stages of building a
compost pile out of yard refuse and
the process of maintaining the pile
until it breaks down. The area
would be constructed with a fence, a
gate, benches and signs explaining
the process. A full-time employee
will man the site. The position is
to be filled by the employee who
was previously responsible for the
gasoline distribution at the city
barn. A new computerized system
frees up the city from manning the
pumps.
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Richard Ray
Through his office Ray said he
was very grateful and pleased that
there were so many people out to
sec. him.
Ray served as the third congres
sional district representative since
1982. His newly drawn district in
cludes parts or all of, Harris, Up
son, Monroe, Jones, Baldwin,
Spalding, Clayton and Coweta
counties.
White said Ray has been an ex
cellent rcprescnlitive and will serve
his new constituents well.
"1 would say that his constituent
service record is second to none.
Please see RAY, page 7A
Landfill Coordinator Bill Halley,
Public Works Superintendent Hugh
Sharp and Sanitation Superinten
dent Willie Thornton presented a re
cycling plan to the council that
emphasized the value of compost
ing and outlined a proposal to place
collection bins around the area of
the composting demonstration.
City Manager Marion Hay said he
thought the entire composting site
could be constructed for around
$5,000.
"It will serve as an educational
tool for people. If we encourage
them to compost and teach them
the value of recycling then the peo
ple will respond," Hay said.
The city is faced with a recycling
mandate that requires a 25 percent
Please see SITE, page 16A