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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13,1993
State may close Houston ASCS office
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
The Houston County Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service office, which is located
on Carroll Street in Perry, made the
list of offices targeted by the state
Agriculture Dcparuiicnt to close.
The Houston County ASCS is
one of 126 offices in Georgia being
considered to close. According to
County Executive Director of the
Houston County ASCS James
Taunton, the Agriculture Depart
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Students getting ready for the show
King’s Chapel students Steven Kelly Althea Childs, Stephanie Duckworth and Jennifer Laney turn in
applications to teacher Peggy Zonn to participate in the school's annual variety show to be held Jan. 29 at
the school. Two practices will be held prior to the show on Jan. 22 and Jan. 26, both beginning at 6 p.m.
Should our method for electing presidents change?
Council discusses re-naming a Perry street after M.L. King
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Perry City Council discussed
the possibility of naming one of
Perry’s streets after Martin Luther
King during their work session
Tuesday afternoon.
“I’ve been asked by several
when we’re going to (name one of
our streets after Martin Luther
1993 legislation
Counties could receive the authority to deny sludge
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Local legislators will introduce
a bill in this General Assembly
Session that proposes giving coun
ties receiving sludge the authority
to deny the sludge disposal or to
charge fees to the generators of the
sludge.
Senator Sonny Perdue, Rcpre
Commissioners may change meeting site in Perry
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Houston County Commission
Chairman Sherrill Stafford said he
has asked Representative Larry
Walker to introduce legislation in
the General Assembly that will al
low the County Commission to
meet somewhere else in Perry be
sides the Houston County Court
house.
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ment is proposing to combine
county offices in Houston, Peach,
Bibb and Crawford counties
together in Byron.
“They’re saying no jobs will
be effected, but I think it’s possible
jobs will be eliminated down the
road,” Taunton said.
Closing the centers is part of
the Agriculture Department’s plan
to streamline the offices, Taunton
said. He said he doesn’t sec how
closing the Houston County office
King),” Councilman Hcrvia Ingram
said.
Ingram suggested Perimeter
Road be named after King since
there aren’t many addresses that
would have to be changed on that
road.
City Manager Marion Hay
suggested cither Elko Road or W.F.
sentatives Johnny Floyd, Robert
Ray and Larry Walker, and Houston
Commission Chairman Sherrill
Stafford met with EPD officials last
Friday in Atlanta to discuss sludge
disposal practices in the State. The
meeting was held in response to lo
cal residents resisting sludge dump
ing on farms in South Houston
Stafford said Perry City Man
ager Marion Hay has offered Perry
City Hall as a meeting place for the
Commission. Stafford said, “It
doesn’t matter if the legislation
specifically says the Commission
has to meet at City Hall or can
meet anywhere in Perry.”
Stafford said there’s not enough
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"We're not going to let offices that
provide a valuable service close
without a fight"
-Congressman J. Roy Rowland
will save money if no jobs are
eliminated because the county gives
the office free use of the building
Ragin Drive could be changed to
honor King. Councilman Charles
Lewis said, “I don’t think W.F.
Ragin’s name should be changed
because he did more for Perry than
anybody else I know.”
Hay said die issue will be added
to council’s agenda for the next
meeting.
County.
“The meeting went extremely
well,” Walker said.
Stafford agreed with Walker.
“I’m very pleased we had the
meeting and pleased with the way it
went. That is the way to deal with
problems of that nature,” he said.
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room at the courthouse to hold the
meeting. He said Walker has agreed
to introduce the legislation soon so
the Commission can begin meeting
elsewhere. He said they will proba
bly hold their meetings that are held
in Perry at City Hall, but the Wel
come Center has also been sug
gested.
on Carroll Street.
Peanut farmer Ralph Dorset!
said, “It would pul somewhat of a
Hay told council the city is due
a $48,971 refund from the Mu
nicipal Gas Authority. The council
agreed to take credits toward in
voices and receive five percent
interest on the unused portion until
it’s used.
Hay said, “Tax money’s com
ing in pretty heavy this time of
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hardship on some of the farmers,
especially those in South Houston
County.”
He said a lot of farmers have to
go to the ASCS office frequently
depending on the time of year. “We
can’t do everything over the tele
phone.”
Dorset! said, “A lot of farmers
plan to write their congressmen and
senators. That’s all we can do.”
According to a release from
Congressman J. Roy Rowland’s of
Perry school will
be affected by
BOE decisions
King's Chapel will lose Principal Kim
Shoening and around 36 students
By TERESSA ULIN
Park News Services
The Houston County Board of
Education made two decisions
Tuesday that will have a direct im
pact on Kings Chapel Elementary
School.
The board voted unanimously to
appoint Kim Schocning as the
principal of a new county elemen
tary school.
Schocning, who currently is the
principal at Kings Chapel
Elementary School, will assume
her new position at the end of the
school year. The school system
will advertise for a replacement at
Kings Chapel.
Kings Chapel is also expected to
be affected with re-zoning for the
new elementary school, currently
under construction on Hwy. 96.
School system officials have sub
mitted a re-districting proposal to
the board, drawing from the middle
of the county to fill the new
school's projected enrollment of
530.
Kings Chapel could stand to lose
36 students living in the area be
tween Lake Joy and Houston L.akc
roads and Hunt Road and Hwy. 96.
The 36 students would bring
Kings Chapel's total enrollment
year.”
He discussed with council
where the City should pul the
money as it comes in. The council
agreed to put die money in a local
bank even though the state has a
plan where the city can earn 3.79
percent instead of 3.40 percent from
the local banks. Hay said it’s al
Perry will
receive a
TV station
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Perry could have its own tele
vision station in 1993 if the Federal
Communications Commission ap
proves the modifications proposed
by Lowell Register who has been
granted the right to build a TV sta
tion in Perry.
He said the original plan was
to locate the lower for the station
where Highway 96 and Interstate 75
meet. Now they want to put the
tower in Warner Robins which
means the tower will have to be
more powerful to meet FCC regula
tions. Register is asking for 2.8
million watts instead of the original
750,000 watts.
“If the FCC will go ahead and
approve our modifications soon, we
can begin construction in the
spring,” Register said.
The station will be a Fox affil
iated station with the call letters
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fice, Congress has the authority to
reverse the Agriculture Depart
ment’s plans to close the agricul
tural field offices.
Rowland said he’d be accumu
lating information in support of the
Eighth District offices to present to
the House Agriculture Department
Operations and Nutrition Subcom
mittee which will meet in February
to determine which closings, if any,
arc in the best interest of farmers.
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from 515 to 479.
The board is expected to hold pub
lic hearings later this month to hear
public opinion about the proposed
changes.
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In other action, the board:
•Approved a measure that would
continue the current meeting time
and place of the board. The board
will continue to meet the second
Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m.
with morning work sessions when
necessary.
•Approved the restoration of funds
for furnishing the new elementary
school. Funding had been cut from
the fiscal year 1993 budget until it
could be determined what items
could be transferred from other
schools.
•Voted to allow the school sys
tem’s gifted program to hold an ed
ucational enhancement summer
program for selected students. The
fee for the program was raised from
565 to $75.
•Voted to approve a Chapter I
summer enrichment program for
educationally deprived students. The
program, in its second year, would
serve more than 500 students.
ways been their policy lo do busi
ness with local banks because
they’re the ones who loan them
money.
Lewis reminded everyone they
needed to give Hay their ideas they
have for the upcoming year before
they make the budget. Hay asked
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Mayor James Worrall
Mayor returns
to Emory for
more surgery
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall went
back into the hospital last week for
surgery at Emory University Hospi
tal.
Mayor Pro Tern James Moore
told Perry City Council at Tuesday
night’s workshop the mayor had to
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