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MIDWEEK
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
WEDNESDAY, September 2,1992
Deaths
George A. Lipford, Perry; Annie
Pearl McCoy Cullers, Fort Val
ley. For details, please see
page 3A.
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HIGHLIGHTS
PCC to hold men's golf
tournament
Perry Country Club will host
their club championship
tournmt this weekend despite
last week's fire. The story is on
page 10A.
Special picture
page
In honor of Medusa's 100th
birthday we visited the
Clinchfield plant this week to
provide an indepth look at their
production process. Please see
page 6A
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS SA
PEGGY BLEDSOE 8A
CALENDAR 5A
CLASSIFIED 12A
EDITORIALS 4A
ENTERTAINMENT 8A
HOME & GARDEN 2B
BRIAN LAWSON 4A
TIM LEWIS 2B
LEGAL NOTICES 4B
LIFESTYLE 1B
KELLIE ROWDEN 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
SPORTS 10A
COSBY WOODRUFF 10A
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GSP urges all
motorists to use
caution during
Labor Day
weekend
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Georgia State Patrol is
preparing for a busy Labor Day
weekend with a planned increase in
troopers on the highways, traffic
checks and crackdowns on drinking
drivers.
Corporal John Daniels of the
Perry Office of the Georgia State
Patrol said, "We will have traffic
checks throughout the state depend
ing on the weather conditions. If
the weather is decent we will have a
number of checks, if the weather is
unfavorable then the checks would
be an additional traffic hazard.
South Florida is the area most di
rectly affected by the hurricane so it
could cause a decrease in the traffic
Please see GSP, page 14A
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Journal
Dan Quayle speaks in Perry
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
The City of Perry was pleasantly
surprised by Vice President Dan
Quayle’s visit Tuesday afternoon.
A crowd of approximately 300
Perryans waited patiently in the
sweltering sun for the vice president
to arrive after his stop in
Columbus. Quayle is currently
travelling around the country in
preparation for the upcoming presi
dential race in November.
Crews worked on the area sur
rounding the gazebo on the comer
of Ball and Commerce Streets
setting it up for the earlier
announced arrival of Quayle. Perry
Police and service men began
monitoring the area within half an
hour of Quaylc's arrival.
A loud cheer rose when the large
Bush/Quaylc campaign bus pulled
up and Quayle stepped out grinning
broadly and waving furiously. After
being greeted by Mayor Jim
Worrall and other city officials
Quayle stepped up to the podium
set out in front of the tour bus.
“I’ve been on several stops today
throughout Georgia, I’ve seen big
supportive crowds and there is abso
lutely no doubt in my mind that
Georgia is going to vote for George
Bush,” Quayle said.
The Bush/Quaylc ticket lost to the
Buchanan ticket and Clinton ticket
in primary votes held in Houston
County earlier this year.
Quayle also voiced his support for
Bob Cunningham in Congress and
Paul Covcrdell in the U.S. Senate.
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Medusa Cement Company's Clinchfield plant has been open since 1925.
Clinchfield plant joins the celebration
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Medusa Corporation owners
of the Clinchfield Cement Plant
celebrated their 100 year anniversary
in July.
2 SECTIONS—IB PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS
One of the topics of Quaylc’s
speech was the benefits the country
would experience if Bush were re
elected. He stated that Bush would
create new jobs, reform the educa
tional system so that parents would
have a choice where to send their
children to school and to reform the
legal system.
“We arc currently spending S3OO
billion a year on legal services. We
arc the ones to make this less
costly and burdensome,” Quayle
said.
Quayle also brought up his feel
ings towards the president being
able to serve only two terms in his
office.
“I understand that’s a good idea,
but if it’s such a good idea, why
don’t we cut the time served by
Kennedy?” Quayle asked the crowd
and was answered with thunderous
cheering.
The last subject Quayle brought
before the crowd was the hot topic
of family values. The vice presi
dent referred to his previous ideo
logical encounter with actress
Candice Bergen concerning the con
tent of her show Murphy Brown.
“I understand that she won an
Emmy. Well, I’m not going to
back down from talking about tradi
tional family values,” Quayle said,
“they can laugh all they want, but
we arc not going to back down.”
The statement was again greeted
with supportive cheering.
Quayle concluded his visit to
The company was founded in San
dusky, Ohio and has been providing
building materials through two
world wars, a depression, major
U.S. highways, bridge and dam ex
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Quayle stops to talk with Perry Mayor Jim Worrall during his visit here Tuesday.
Perry with several handshakes with
the audience and the farewell tunc of
“On the Road Again” by Willie
pansion and through cycles of
slowdowns in production and sales.
"It is unusual in this day and time
for a company to survive for 100
Please see JOINS, page 14A
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Nelson playing out of the bus
speakers as he pulled away.
Quayle was next scheduled for
Local Salvation Army
warns Perryans of
hurricane relief frauds
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Salvation Army community
corps responsible for Houston and
Peach Counties has received nu
merous reports of fraud since
Thrusday concerning indiviuals go
ing door to door soliciting funds for
hurricane relief and claiming to rep
resent the Salvation Army.
"We do not do door to door solici
tation. Anyone who represents us
has a red shield on his person, on
the collection bucket, on our trucks
or temporarily placed on a rented
truck. If the red shield is not visi-
Council will ask DOT for
help with bypass project
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry City Council voted to accept
a preliminary project agreement
with the Georgia Department of
Transportation, a move which
brings the West Perry Bypass pro
ject one step closer to DOT ap
proval, at their regular Tuesday
meeting.
With the council vote, the city
has now agreed to conduct a number
of engineering tasks to facilitate
DOT work in the area of the pro
posed bypass which will run from
Thompson Road across Highway
341 and end near the Agriccntcr and
Interstate 75.
Entire county will get
new voting equipment
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Houston County Commis
sion voted to purchase new voting
equipment for the entire county,
reaffirmed the current $1.50 charge
per phone for 911 services and ap
proved the appointments for a
number of county board positions
at their regular meeting Tuesday.
The commission heard a presenta
tion from Todd Mullen, a represen
tative of American Information
Systems, a voting equipment man
ufacturer.
"We demonstrated our equipment
in four of your precincts during the
primary and the run-offs and I think
stops at the Northrop Corporation
in Warner Robins and Robins Air
Force Base.
blc the person docs not represent
the Salvation Army. The spirit
people have is great but they should
be careful who they give to. We
had reports of people going door to
door in Houston County, of an
individual sitting outside of a shop
ping mall collecting canned goods
and cash in a cardboard box and se
vcal calls from people who wanted
to know if we had started conduct
ing door to door collections. All of
those appear to be cases of fraud,"
Major Milton Wood of the Houston
Please see FRAUDS, page 14A
Councilman Hervia Ingram read
the resolution to the council.
"Perry agrees to provide all
rights-of-way and/or easements
needed for the construction of the
project and remove existing struc
tures or obstructions within the
rights-of-way. The city agrees to
all utility re-locations, adjustments
or betterments of publicly owned
utilities that are in conflict with
construction of this project, reim
burse Georgia DOT for any dam
ages paid to the contractor for delay
of construction caused by a delay in
re-locating the publicly owned util-
Please see HELP, page 9A
we passed with flying colors. 1
would recommend that you pur
chase two of the ballot readers for a
county this size. You don't want to
have slow returns with two issues
on the November ballot which are
expected to draw a lot of people to
the polls. The lottery will bring in
a lot of voters and you have a hot
presidential race this time," Mullen
said.
The commission decided to pur
chase one of the ballot readers rather
than two due to concerns about the
cost of the systems. The county
does not have the tax digest for sis-
Please see NEW, page 14A