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WEEKEND
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1992
Deaths
Clyde Edward O'Kelley, Perry;
Green Berry Wood,
Gaithersburg, Md.; Daisy Bell
Little, Perry; Hazel Cromer
Harris, Oglethorpe . For de
tails, please see page 3A.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Review of 'Noises Off
HHJ Entertainment Writer
Jackie Cooper attended the
opening night performance of
the Perry Players production of
"Noises Off" to review the Brit
ish comedy. For more details,
please see page SA.
Foreign exchange
student attends
PHS
Sixteen year old Ulrike Abratis
has arrived in Perry from Ger
many to experience the Ameri
can lifestyle. The story is on
page 3A
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
BRIAN LAWSON 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 WATER 2B
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GSP releases
Labor Day
traffic update
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Georgia State Patrol Post area
15 including Houston County had
only five traffic accidents and two
resulting injuries during the busy
Labor Day weekend from 6 p.m.
Friday to midnight Monday.
Those small figures contrast
sharply with state-wide results
which included 2,144 accidents and
746 injuries during the same time
period.
"The results are low considering
the kind of weather we had Saturday
afternoon. 1 think our officers and
officers state-wide were committed
to working and keeping those num
bers down," Sergeant Kenny Han
cock of the Georgia State Patrol
said.
The Georgia State Patrol made
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Bypass construction progresses
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The North Perry Bypass project
has passed the clearing stage and
work on the sub base for the high
way will begin next week.
The project was started in March
and workers from Ross of Georgia
have cleared roughly 77 acres of
trees and shrubs.
Utility relocations, including wa
ter pipe laid by the city of Perry,
power, telephone and gas line relo
cations and some planting of tem
porary grass has taken place simul
taneous to the clearing work.
Mark Mosely, project manager for
the bypass and transportation engi
neer for the Perry office of the Ge
orgia Department of Transportation,
said, "The project is about 25 per
cent complete. We arc almost ready
for the sub-base, which involves
the contractor building up the road
to a certain grade and compacting
the dirt to a required density level.
We should be completed with the
sub-base in a couple of weeks, de
pending on the weather."
The next level after the sub-base
is soil cement. Soil cement is
rarely used in Middle Georgia, ac
cording to Mosely. It is used pri
marily in South Georgia where the
clay is sand based and doesn’t suffi
ciently support the rock level.
"The soil cement is a high clay
substance mixed with early strength
concrete that produces a quicker sta
bilization. It is very hard when it
stabilizes and is ready to have as
phalt laid on top of it,” Mosely
said.
The soil cement phase is expected
to be finished in mid-October and
then the job of laying the asphalt
would begin.
Mosely estimated the project
would be halfway finished if they
had not encountered so much rain.
"The contractor is ahead of sched
ule and if we had dry weather we
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Major General William P. Hallin
New base commander
says 1993 will be tough
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Major General William P Hallin,
the new commander of the Warner
Robins Air Logistics Center, said
1993 "will be a tough year for us,"
during a session with the media
Thursday.
Hallin has been in his current po
sition for six weeks after taking
over command from Major General
Richard Gillis.
”1 have been here for a month and
I don't plan any dramatic changes.
My leadership style is one of evolu
tion not revolution," Hallin said.
Hallin served at Robins AFB from
April 1984 to August 1986 as di
rector of material management. He
talked about changes that have
taken place on the base and in the
Air Force since he was last in
Warner Robins.
"We are looking at substanative
changes in the Air Force in terms
of budget, people and force struc
ture. From a high point in 1985 to
fiscal year 1995 we will have had
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Workers from Ross of Georgia work on a catch basin for the North Perry Bypass project in the area between Highway g y n^ cDaniel)
and Highway 41. The 4.3 mile project could be completed as early as May of 1993. Work on the sub-base begins next week.
would be way ahead right now,"
Mosely said.
The asphalt work is likely to lake
at least two months Mosely said,
the Air Force budget cut in real
terms by 43 percent. We will sec
active duty personnel drop by 32
percent from 600,000 to 400,000.
When people talk about downsizing
our force sturcturc they look at this
facility and think there will be
fewer planes to work on. But our
equipment is also gelling older so
there will be more maintennance re
quirements. Repairing aircrafts and
spare parts makes for a fairly stable
environment," Hallin said.
Hallin singled out the Museum of
Aviation for praise, citing it as an
area to build on basc/community re
lations.
"I remember when the museum
was in phase one. The people in
volved have done a magnificent job
with the museum. It is a place that
the installation, the towns, the
Middle Georgia region and the state
can be proud of. With phase two
open it provides an excellent eco
nomic opportunity," Hallin said.
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and after that phase is completed the
work remaining is primarily sign
work, lights, curb and gutter work
and landscaping.
Perry Hospital begins new
program to transport patients
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry Hospital has started a pro
gram designed to provide access to
health care for residents who don’t
have any other means of transporta
tion.
The program began August 31. It
is a non-emergency transportation
service for Pcrryans who need a ride
to see a doctor or visit the hospital.
Kathy Joiner, emergency room
supervisor for Perry Hospital and
the program’s coordinator, talked
about the program’s origins.
"It is absolutely a need in the
community. There arc people go
ing without medical treatment be
cause they have no means of get
ting to the doctor or the hospital. 1
was sent by the hospital administra
tor, Jim Peak, to a seminar on
Primary Care Program Involvement
last December. The program was
designed to get hospitals involved
in areas that they traditionally had
not been involved in. Patient
transport in non-emergency situa
tions was one of «he areas discussed
and it made sense for us to begin to
explore the possibility of putting a
program together," Joiner said.
According to Joiner, Peak and the
hospital board were very supportive
of the idea.
Using money from an indigent
care trust fund, the hospital pur
chased the van shortly after the De
cember seminar. The van was then
outfitted with a wheelchair lift and
locks and the process of getting li
censed by the Department of Medi
cal Assistance for the program.
Approval for the wheelchair and
ambulatory j-ansport was given in
late August.
"We had hired a driver and we were
waiting for the approval for quite a
while. The driver, Calvin Wadley,
is trained as a medical assistant, he
knows CPR and will be a tremen
dous asset to this program. While
we were waiting for our license,
Calvin spent the week before last
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The project is scheduled to be
completed by January 1994 but,
weather permitting, Mosely said it
could be finished as early as April-
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The new Perry Hospital non-emergency transport van. The
program gives patients who don't drive, access to health care.
driving all over Houston County
for three days collecting and loading
supplies donated to the Hurricane
Andrew victims," Joiner said.
Hunt will deliver new home
to La. hurricane victims
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
A state trooper in Louisiana and
his wife, who were left homeless
by Hurricane Anderew, will be the
recepients of a mobile home com
plete with all the amenities
Wednesday courtesy of Riley Hunt
and several other volunteers.
Hunt will be escorted during the
two day drive to Louisiana by a
Georgia State Patrol Car.
Hunt began working with Marti
Marchant of Perry Hospital, in the
aftermath of the hurricane. In addi
tion to helping send two truckloads
of supplies to Florida, Hunt wanted
to do more.
"An anonymous donor had pro
vided a 14 foot wide by 60 foot
mobile home. It needed some re
pair work, so we spent five days
working on it. That included tear
ing out the floor, putting in new
carpet, putting in all the appliances
May 1993.
The 4.3 mile project is estimated
at a cost of $1 million a mile. The
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The program will begin by serv
ing primarily in the Perry area.
"If the care that is required is not
Pleasa see NEW, page 6A
and furniture people have donated
and getting it ready to move," Hunt
said.
Dade County had decreed no more
mobile homes were to be allowed
into that area, so Hunt began to
look elsewhere for someone in
need.
"We decided to try and find some
one in Louisiana who had been left
homeless. We were in contact with
Georgia State Patrol and the
Louisiana State Police when we
heard about a trooper who had his
trailer destroyed in the hurricane.
That was Wednesday The last two
days we spent clearing it with the
legal department in Louisiana and
making plans to bring the trailer
down there," he said.
Hunt said 19 people had donated
time and items in getting the trailer
ready for the trip and 20 people
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