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WEEKEND
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,1992
Getting
ready for
the fair
Parade preparations
are being finalized
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Georgia National Fair kick
off parade is only a week away.
The parade will feature everything
from truckloads of dancing children
to unicyclists, with marching
bands, beauty queens, Shriners,
horses, carnival vans, floats minia
ture animals, local dignitaries and a
color guard or two thrown in for
good measure. The parade includes
a total of approximately 70 units
that will begin on Washington
Street, proceed to Carroll Street,
head down Courtney Hodges
Boulevard and finish at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds.
Newly included in the jam packed
parade line-up is the now famous,
"WHATIZIT", the official mascot
of the 1996 summer Olympics.
"Getting ’WHATIZIT’ is a big
coup for us. He has literally hun
dreds of requests for appearances
each week. His presence in the pa
rade will help put Perry on the
map," Parade Coordinator Bill
Hafley said.
Agricenter Director Mike
Froehlich is credited with doing the
work necessary to bring
"WHATIZIT' to Perry. Froehlich
sent a letter to the Atlanta Commit
tee for the Olympic Games two
weeks ago and was notified last
week of "WHATIZIT’s' availability.
The mascot was chosen by the
Deaths
Laverne Cole Evans, Kathleen.
For details, please see page
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INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 3A
HAROLD CHAPMAN 4A
CALENDAR 3A
CLASSIFIED 4B
DEATH NOTICES 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
SPORTS 1B
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
STREET TALK JA
JOHN TRUSSELL 2B
BOBBY TUGGLE 2B
COSBY WOODRUFF 1B
WOODS 'N WATER 2B
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Olympic committee out of a field
of roughly 1,000 entries.
"WHATIZIT" is described by the
Olympic committee as a futuristic,
animated, computer-generated char
acter wilh large starry eyes, over
sized sneakers, and lightning bolt
eyebrows. He is 62 inches tall,
has a 57 inch waist, with size 22
sneakers. His most unique feature
is his ability to "morph", that is
change, into any form he wants.
This includes the ability to symbol
ize athletes performing in their var
ious Olympic events and other
symbols of the Olympics.
He will first be seen in Perry rid
ing around in a golf cart, during the
parade line-up Washington Street.
Next, he will be near the front of
the parade route near Grand Mar
shall Bobby Tuggle, who will be
dressed as a Sioux Indian Chief.
After a resting period,
"WHATIZIT" will be available for
pictures at the Georgia National
Fair at 1 p.m in front of Reaves
Arena.
The Perry Kiwanis Club is spon
soring the parade and over 20 club
members will be on hand helping
organize the participants, handling
communications and assisting
where needed.
Perry city employees have been
putting the finishing touches on the
city trimming trees, painting curbs,
cleaning up trash and engaging in
other beautification efforts.
"We are encouraging people to
watch the parade on Courtney
Hodges Boulevard. It will be less
crowded than Carroll Street so you
will be able to see belter, have an
easier time parking and I think have
a better time watching the parade,"
Hafley said.
Also among the parade partici
pants arc the Southern Sparklers a
team of 40 majorettes, a historical
Georgia mule team and wagon, an
tique trucks and cars, classic cars,
fire trucks, homemade floats, recre
ation football players and cheerlead
ers and at the end the Perry Public
Works street sweepers.
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Mayor signs proclamation for Natural Gas Week
Mayor Jim Worrall, far left, Issued a proclamation Friday praising the economy, efficiency
and environmental soundness of natural gas. The proclamation affirms the city's use of
natural gas and it honors the city's natural gas employees. Utilities specialist Bill Gore,
second left, Utilities Superintendent Harold Deal, City Manager Marlon Hay and city gas
workers,Tracey Floyd, top row left, Doug King, third from right, Russ Allen, second from
left, and Lee Harvey participated in the ceremony.
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City employees Jeff West, in bucket, and William Deese "spruce up" Carroll Street Tuesday afternoon for the
Georgia National Fair Kick-off Parade to be held in downtown Perry next Friday. Besides trimming trees curbs
have been painted and streets and sidewalks are being cleaned for the big event.
City receives $1.9 million
Bond revenues will be used for North Perry Bypass sewer and water lines
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Following a series of wire transac
tions that originated in Atlanta
Thursday, Perry has an additional
51.9 million to be used for city wa
ter and sewer construction.
The funds were generated by the
city's issuance of a 54,765,000 rev
enue bond Sept. 15.
The bond issuance was conducted
by Stephens Inc. of Atlanta.
Mayor Jim Worrall, City Manager
Marion Hay and City Attorney
David Walker met with Gene Allen
of Stephens Inc. to sign the neces
sary documents finalizing the Oct.
1 settlement date.
"With the bond market at a 30 year
low, we were able to re-finance our
current debt and generate new rev
enue through the issuing a Water
and Sewer Revenue bond," Hay
said.
"The mayor and council had set up a five year plan for growth and
project priorities and as they looked at the big picture they saw
the need for infrastructure work around the bypass. That area
(around the bypass) will be a center of tremendous growth in the
coming years and we are trying to plan ahead to accommodate
that growth," City Manager Marion Hay said.
The available $1.9 million is to
be used specifically for water and
sewer infrastructure work in the area
of the North Perry Bypass.
In order to generate the new rev
enue, the city had to pay off the
outstanding debt service on its 1977
bond issue, re-pay six Georgia En
vironmental Facilities Loans that
had been used primarily for infras
tructure work around the Agriccntcr
and set aside funds for debt service
reserve.
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The issuing of the bond came after
a study was performed by the city's
auditor W.E. Barfield Jr., of Mc-
Nair, McLcmorc and Middlcbrooks
and Co., which indicated the funds
would be available if the city in
creased its debt service roughly
511,000 per year.
"The mayor and council had set up
a five year plan for growth and pro
ject priorities and as they looked at
the big picture they saw the need
Former Ross Perot
supporters' views
differ on his return
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Supporters of Ross Perot's initial
petition drive in Houston County
had mixed reactions to the an
nouncement of his renewed cam
paign Thursday.
I "I'm not going to support him
r again. His reasoning for dropping
| out doesn’t cut the mustard. I no
| ticed the press wasn't invited to the
| meeting he had on Monday with the
two major parties and he may have
been cutting a deal," Joan Ogletrec
of Perry said.
Pete Hall of Perry, who had
worked collecting signatures, said
1 he will support Perot.
"I think he realized he made a mis
take by dropping out. I'm glad he’s
back in the race but he has lost a
lot of creditability with people in
Perry and Houston County. The
reason I'm still willing to support
him is he seems to be the only can
didate willing to the face the serious
economic problems this country
for infrastructure work around the
bypass. That area will be a center
of tremendous growth in the com
ing years and wc are trying to plan
ahead to accommodate that growth,"
Hay said.
Tribble and Richardson Inc. of
Macon is currently working on the
specifications for the work around
the bypass. According to Tribble
and Richardson Project Engineer
Mike Windham, "Wc arc right in
the middle of putting the plan to
gether. It should be ready in De
cember and we should be able to
start taking bids on the work in
January and February."
Following the completion of the
specification work, the city council
will have to decide how to issue
bids on the project. Tribble and
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has. Wc have tremendous problems
due to the deficit and there arc a
number of companies who arc clos
ing factories here and shipping
those jobs to other countries. We
need to start taking care of those
problems right away,” he said.
Perot had been chided in the past
for talking in gcnralitics but being
short on specifics. Ed Panarcse,
who is the chief Perot organizer is
Houston County, disagrees with
those contentions.
"If you read his book 'United We
Stand', you'll find its full of spe
cific plans. People say Perot
dropped out and now he wants back
in but I think that is a misinter
pratation. While he was not ac
tively campaigning I kept my Perot
button on and my eyes on the hori
zon. He is not the kind of guy who
would break a commitment. The
media was not allowing him to dis
cuss issues, now he is in a more
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