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WEEKEND
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
[l SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1992
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Westfield 1992 Homecoming Court
Westfield Schools will hold Homecoming Oct. 16 with a home game against Monroe. Named to the 1992
Homecoming Court this week were 10 girls from the freshman through senior classes. They are Gina Neely
sophomore, front row left; Meredith Pierce, senior; April Horsting, senior; Leslie Davis, sophomore; Mandy
McDaniel, senior, back row left; Chalese Lassiter, senior; Jeanna Bishop, junior; Mary Margaret Brannen, junior;
Jennifer Smith, freshman; and Holly Hartley, freshman. Not pictured is football sponsor Nova Davis.
Hospital authority extends Peak's contract one year
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Hospital Authority of Hous
ton County voted unanimously
Wednesday night to extend the con
tract of Perry Hospital Administra
tor Jim Peak for another year.
Peak began at Perry Hospital
September 16, 1991 and the board
approved a six percent raise in
salary retroactive to his anniversary.
Peak had received a favorable evalu
ation from the board on his first
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Deaths
Harold Powers Duncan,
Milledgeville; Edward L. Law,
Warner Robins. For details,
please see page 3A.
INDEX— -
AGRICENTER EVENTS 3A
BRIAN LAWSON 4A
CALENDAR 3A
CLASSIFIED 8A
HAROLD CHAPMAN JA
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
POLICE REPORT _ 2A
SPORTS _______ IB
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
STREET TALK 4A
JOHN TRUSSELL 2B
COSBY WOODRUFF 1B
WOODS'N WATER 2B
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year’s performance.
At the end of the month Perry
Hospital will contribute over
$300,000 to the Georgia Depart
ment of Medical Assistance. Fed
eral matching funds will be pro
vided at the end of the year and
Perry Hospital is expected to re
ceive back approximately SBOO,OOO
on the deal.
Os the SBOO,OOO, 15 percent is re
quired to be spent on primary care,
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Tolleson helps kids
Tolieson Lumber Company's Vice President, Sales, Grady Davis, center,
accepts the seventh annual Business Recognition Award given annually by the
board of directors of the Houston County Regional Youth Fair from Ted Pulsifer,
left, president of the organization. The award was in recognition of Tolleson's
support of the fair through the Perry High School FFA, headed by Argene
Claxton, advisor, at right. Tolleson Lumber contributes wood shavings and
lumber for the youngsters to use for building livestock displays.
County AP scores better than average
The Houston County Board of
Education recently announced their
Advanced Placement Scores results
from the previous school year.
Os the 227 county high school
students who took the various AP
tests, 74 percent received a qualify
ing score or better. The score com
pares favorably with the state-wide
average of 67 percent, the regional
average of 59 percent and the re
ported global average of 65 percent.
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subject to the approval of the
County Health Department. The
hospital's new patient transport
van, with the driver's $25,000 com
ing out of the fund, has been ap
proved. The remaining 15 percent
of die funds marked for primary care
will used over the next two years to
provide free mammography screen
ings for patients determined as indi
gent by the Health Department.
The hospital is expected to set
The grading system for the tests
works on a numerical scale. A
score of five indicates "extremely
well qualified," a four is "well qual
ified", a three is”qualified", two
means "possibly qualified," and a
one is "no recommendation."
Ninety percent of of the colleges
that most AP candidates have at
tended give credit and/or advanced
placement to students whose AP
examinations grades are considered
aside the remaining $350,000 for
future projects. Among the consid
ered projects will be a new Surgery
Department, Labor and Delivery
area, nursery and new patient wing.
Architect Doug Hays has begun
working on a master facilities plan.
The plan will be submitted to the
board for further discussion upon
completion.
Perry Hospital will receive $6,600
of air conditioning improvements
acceptable.
Houston County is offering 28
AP classes this year, up from 19
last year.
"We are so proud of the quality of
teachers in the Houston County AP
courses. Test scores are the ulti
mate form of accountability for
teachers and these results arc an
indication of the hard work put in
by the teachers and the commitment
Please see SCORES, page 8A
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Dev.authority
adopts new
policy Wed.
Statement declares board nor employees
will support any political candidate
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Houston County Develop
ment Authority adopted a new pol
icy during their Wednesday meeting
regulating ius political activities and
heard good news for local industry
from Executive Director Dick Ulm.
The adopted statement declares,
"The Development Authority will
not cither as a body or through its
employees and/or the Board of Di
rectors engage in partisan political
activities or sponsor any activity of
a political candidate....as to indicate
in such away the Houston County
Development Authority is any way
supporting any particular political
candidate for public office. The
Houston County
Development Authority shall not
sponsor any activity which may
indicate to the general public that
the Authority is supporting a par
ticular political parly or political
group." The statement was signed
required for the renovated CAT Scan
facility.
"The change order for the CAT
scan will provide sufficient air con
ditioning for that area but our sys
tem is full and we arc going to have
to add air conditioning to the hospi
tal," Peak said.
Work on the Perry Hospital
Pharmacy is nearly completed. The
facility is expected to be occupied
in October, following the installa
Agricenter, fair
employees are
getting ready
Ga. National Fair is two weeks away
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
With the Georgia National Fair
less than two weeks away, Agricen
tcr staff and fair workers arc putting
in long hours to ensure all will be
ready when the gates open.
Agricentcr Director Mike
Frochlich's Friday schedule included
meetings with Governor Zell
Miller, Agricentcr Authority
Chairman Gene Sutherland and Ge
orgia Commissioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin.
"The phone rings 1,000 times a
day and while you're in the middle
of one project working on a dead
line the phone rings pulling you
away from that to deal with some
thing equally urgent. Every year is
different but I don't remember the
past two years being this hard. But
the job is so fun, as the tension
builds so docs the excitement and
the excitement overshadows every
thing else," Agricentcr Marketing
Director Johnny Webb said.
Workers from Rcilhoffcr Shows
Inc. based in Gibsonton, Fla. have
begun putting together some of the
roller coasters and other midway at
tractions.
"We're going to have a lot of new
rides that we didn't have last year.
There is only one Tornado in the
country, and we have it and kids
love it. There will be a Sky
Wheel, which is a double ferris
wheel and plenty of others. We'll
be bringing in all of the crews and
rides on Monday night and we'll be
putting it all together starting
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by the authority's members and
Chairman Walter Whiting.
The policy was adopted after ques-
Please see NEW, page 6A
Who paid for
Rowland’s visits
still not clear
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
and BRIGETTE HAMILTON
Managing Editor
The question asked Houston
County Development Authority
Chairman Walter Whiting and Ex
ecutive Director Dick Ulm last
week about whether taxpayer
money was used to support the re
cent local political appearances of
Congressman J. Roy Rowland has
still not been specifically answered.
Friday morning, Sept. 18, Ulm
Please see CLEAR, page 6A
lion of the computer system.
The board also approved a capital
equipment request of $6,500 for a
new ob/gyn stretcher.
During construction of the CAT
scan facility, the ICU, physical
therapy, respiratory therapy, emer
gency room and pharmacy will suf
fer a three hour interruption of
power. Peak said plans arc being
made for auxiliary power. The
Please see EXTENDS, page 8A
Tuesday," Ride Supervisor Joe
Alberts said.
Alberts would only give some of
the names of the other new rides,
which include Super Loop,
Kamikaze and High Roller.
Actual assembly on one roller
coaster began Friday with a crew of
eight Reithoffer employees. The
men follow the equipment nation
wide eight months out of the year.
Two weeks ago they were in York,
Pa., this week there is a fair in
Bloomsburg, Pa. Following the
Georgia National Fair they arc
headed to Tallahassee, Fla.
"I've been doing this for seven
years. I do it mainly 'cause I love
to sec little kids happy," Gabreal
Wesley said.
Stephan, who had been a butcher,
has been with Reithoffer for 18
years. He is the foreman on the
Ragnz Roller Coaster.
"My family was in this business
and I was getting tired of the smell
of meal. So, now I build roller
coasters," he said.
The numerous exhibits and dis
plays in the Georgia Living Center
have started pouring in and work on
setting up the displays is in full
swing.
"Today, we have taken in every
thing from ships' models to art deco
people, there has been about a mil
lion pieces of peg board put up and
we have begun building houses to
display the various items to be
judged in their appropriate setting.
Please see READY, page 6A