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WEEKEND
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
f SATURDAY, JULY 18,1992
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HIGHLIGHTS
Register for investment
course
MGTI will offer a course to help
small-time investors. The story
is on page SA.
PHS trio will play in
All-Star Game
For the first time since 1990
Perry High will be represented
in the GACA North-South All—
-Star games next week. The
story is on page 18.
Know the candidates
Inside this edition are several
stories introducing various
candidates running the 1992
primary elections.
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
BRIGETTE HAMILTON 4A
CALENDAR 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
BOBBY TUGGLE 2B
COSBY WOODRUFF 1B
WOODS'N WAT|R 2B
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Peachstate
Cable will air
election results
Peachstate Cable TV will broad
cast election results for the County
Commissioners race as well as the
Board of Education race July 21.
Bill Mitchell, general manager
of Peachstate, said, “In the Perry,
Marshallville and Kathleen areas we
will interrupt our Channel Guide on
Channel 13 to print out the returns.
Our plan is to broadcast the first
time at 7:15 p.m. and then again at
7:30 p.m. From then on we will
interrupt every 30 minutes until all
ballots in all precincts have been
counted.”
This broadcast is a joint effort
involving the Perry Area Chamber
of Commerce, Warner Robins
Chamber, Cellular One, Cox Cable
and Peachstate Cable. This is the
first time that local returns will be
available to citizens in the area so
Please see RESULTS, page 10A
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Choose or lose! Go vote July 21
Co. Commission, School Supt. are hot races
By KELLIE ROWDEN
! Staff Writer
With the Democratic and
Republican primaries next Tuesday,
voters in Houston County arc faced
with some highly controversial
races and, at some voting locations,
a new balloting system.
Voting is scheduled for Tuesday,
July 21, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
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swimming at the Ochlahatchee Club. Pictured are Katie Beth Yelton, left, Petra Elmore, center
and Ashley Gray.
Don't rely on air units to stay cool
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
Things are definitely heating up
here in Middle Georgia, literally.
The annual summer heat is here and
taking its toll on citizens without
air conditioners, or those who aren’t
operating theirs properly.
Air conditioning units that aren’t
operated properly can rack up pretty
hefty electricity bills. David Carr,
section manager of energy services
at Flint Electric in Warner Robins
reports that while they haven’t had
Perry chamber will help Peachstate with returns
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce will join with Peach
state Cable and Cox Cable to
broadcast local election returns July
21, it was announced at the
chamber's regular board meeting
Wednesday.
Peggie Williams, executive
vice-president of the chamber said,
"We want to help get the returns to
the public in a timely fashion. Be
cause the board of elections has so
few phone lines there is a bottle
neck of people trying to call in and
out. We're going to post chamber
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at indicated locations throughout
the county.
The one location in south
Houston County that voters will
encounter the new balloting system
is the Henderson Fire Station.
Instead of the big, gray shoup lever
machines, voters will be told to
declare a party, Democratic,
any complaints about bills yet,
they have had plenty of calls from
concerned customers wondering
how they can beat the heat without
skyrocketing their electric bills.
Some of the advice Carr has told
his callers is to keep their air condi
tioners at 78 degrees.
“This will maintain a level of
comfort and is the most energy effi
cient temperature. Any higher will
create wasted energy and big bills,”
Carr explained.
members at the polling sites and
they will call the chamber with re
ports on the tallies. We will then
call Peachstate and the returns will
be broadcast on their channel 13."
Bill O'Neal, chairman of the
chamber's government affairs com
mittee, will organize the chamber
volunteers for the various polling
sites. The chamber will be work
ing with the Warner Robins
chamber sharing information on
poll results to Peachstate and Cox
Cable.
The chamber plans to update its
membership directory. With the in
Republican or non-partisan, and
will be handed a printed paper ballot
appropriate for their party.
The voters will then take the
ballot along with a “secrecy
sleeve”, a plastic flat container, into
a private booth. The voters will
fill out the ballots by pencilling in
oval spaces next to their choice.
Othcr advice was to try not to
use large appliances like dishwash
ers, dryers or ovens that may com
pete for high electricity.
If cooking is necessary, cook
after 5 p.m. so that the cooler tem
peratures outside won’t be forcing
air conditioners to be constantly
working. This will free up some
electricity for the ovens and stoves
and, again, keep electricity bills
reasonable.
Please see COOL, page 10A
crease in new members the current
directory is effectively out-dated.
Williams told board members the
chamber will try to place as much
information in the directory as
possible. In the past, she said, the
chamber has been using two or
three booklets to convey the infor
mation they deem important. The
chamber plans to begin accepting
bids for the work from member
printers in the next week.
The chamber nominating com
mittee, which is responsible for
nominating new board members,
will meet in the next month to put
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The ballots then go into the plastic
sleeve and are deposited into a
sealed ballot box which will be
brought to the Board of Elections
office at the end of the day.
The office workers will then Iced
the ballots into a high speed optical
scan that will be able to read 300
ballots per minute.
Two Perry Perot
supporters enraged
by sudden drop out
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Ross Perot's decision to drop out
of the Presidential race that he never
formally entered has left two com
mitted campaign workers from
Perry angry, confused and hurt.
"If I had the turkey I'd ring his
scrawny little neck. I'm real angry,
the media started hopping on him
and he took his ball and went home
like a spoiled little boy," Joan
Oglctrce, Perot volunteer, said Fri
day.
Oglctree worked closely with
Pete and Gayle Hall of Perry spend
ing many hours collecting signa
tures on petitions in an effort to
place Perot's name on the Georgia
ballot.
"When I first heard he wasn't go
ing to run I experienced a bunch of
different feelings. I was hurt and
angry and now I am just mad. I've
started thinking about trying to or
ganize an independent party nation
wide. The decision he made is
typical, if he doesn't like something
he picks up his marbles and goes
home," Pete Hall said.
Starting in early May at Mossy
Creek and over several weekends,
Oglctrce and Hall worked to support
a candidate that seemed to promise a
real change.
Health board approves
1993 fiscal year budget
By EMERY WARNOCK
Staff Writer
Houston County Board of Health
members approved the Peachbelt
Community Mental Health Cen
ter’s 1993 fiscal year budget at dieir
Thursday night regular meeting.
Members were also asked by Hous
ton Mental Health to provide funds
for its housing program in Warner
Robins.
Don Blair, director, said the men
tal health center needs to work to
wards being more service efficient.
“We are going to have to find
ways to be more efficient in the
services we provide to people,”
Blair said.
“We are also going to have to find
ways to support the administration.
When the state makes cuts, it cuts
administration,” he said.
The total budget amount is
together a list of candidates for three
board positions and the nomination
of treasurer and vice-president.
The names will be submitted for
board approval at the August meet
ing.
Upon board approval, a letter
will be sent out to chamber mem
bers to provide the Membership
with the right of petition for com
ment on the names or the opportu
nity to nominate additional candi
dates. Based upon the number of
names returned to the chamber, the
board members will then be se
lected.
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“This machine will be able to
give us a reading precinct by
precinct, race by race and percent
ages,” Jo Ann Shipes, Board of
Elections manager said.
The new system is part of an
experiment to estimate whether or
not this may be a quicker, more es-
Please see VOTE, page 10A
"I was very impressed with him.
I followed his actions in arranging
for the rescue of his people from
Iran. And I was fed up with Bush.
But he left people in the lurch, 1
feel like the whole tiling was a con
job," Oglctrcc said.
Hall estimates county-wide over
5,000 signatures were collected.
Calls to an organizing office in
Warner Robins reported a figure of
12,(XX) signatures.
"We had the highest number of
registered voters of any county in
the state. 1 felt good about the
work we did when we heard we had
met the required signature number.
There was no preparation for the
announcement he just slapped us all
in the face with it," Hall said.
Hall estimates he spent between
S3OO-500 on the campaign. He said
he has recovered some of the money
in the sale of T-shirts and bumper
slickers. During the petition drive,
Hall said he probably spent two to
six hours a day working for Perot.
"1 worked with a lot of wonder
ful people who did a great job.
Thank God Joan made all of those
phone calls. And the Penareeses in
Warner Robins were fantastic. If I
had a chance to talk to Perot 1
would ask him to reconsider. We
Please see PEROT, page 10A
$5,074,820. This amount includes
regional alcohol/drug services, sup
portive living staff, private training
centers, mental retardation outpa
tient, regional alcohol and drug,
high risk youth and expenses for
Pcachbclt Community Mental
Health Center. The majority
amount is for PCMHC expenses
which is $2,365,218.
“We did get cut $600,000,” Blair
said. He explained both mental re
tardation and supportive living ser
vices were traded for state dollars
but would be eligible for funds in
the following budget.
Blair also mentioned the federal
government will be allocating funds
for programs beginning in January
for the drug/alcohol and pregnant
and substance abuse budgets.
Bob Hawes, president of Houston
Please see HEALTH, page 10A
Surveys to be used to help the
chamber provide demographic
information arc expected to be
mailed out in the next week. The
chamber has been preparing the
mailing labels for the 750 surveys.
Williams said the chamber is
currently unable to provide accurate
demographic information.
Perry Hospital Administrative
Director, Jim Peak, thanked the
chamber board for their work in
welcoming new physicians to Perry
and said the addition of four new
physicians in Perry by September
Please see CHAMBER, page 10A