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WEEKEND EDITION 250 Perry & Houston County's official Legal Organ \\ SATURDAY. JANUARY 30,1993 ’ Jf " ' ; \i r |9V , x ' n « >+i\\ru£ f '■ MW ij£k ■&ks“ *?»». I ■ ik_'' v sT l * !r 1 ..-le3SWBBP£^J [■MWgfi - v . 1 -2 JJ&MjI ' ~" 1 V . 4*[ (HHJ photo by Eric Zellars) Workers design new pathway Workers are pouring cement for a new bus thoroughfare at Perry Elementary School due to the closing of School Street. Perry City County voted recently to close the street because school administrators felt the traffic was endangering students’ safety. Deaths Susie Toomer Blaine, Brook lyn, N.Y.; Ray Bozeman Sr., Jacksonville, Fla.; Cyrus Milton, Perry; Lehman Cummings, Perry. For details, please see page 3A. INDEX ~ AGRICENTER EVENTS 7A ANISSA CLEMONS 4A CALENDAR 7A CLASSIFIED 4B DEATH NOTICES 3A EDITORIALS 4A PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A POLICE REPORT 2A SPORTS IB JIM SHIPLEY 4A STREET TALK 4A JOHN TRUSSELL 2B BOBBY TUGGLE 2B BRIAN LAWSON 1B WOODS 'N WATER 2B Perry FOL to hold membership tea Perry-Houston County Friends of the Library will be hosts at a mem bership tea at 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31, at the library. Guest speaker will be Gen. Robert Scott, author of God is My Co-Pilot. He will autograph copies of his book which will be available at the tea. Membership in Friends of the Library will be available at $5 for individuals and $lO for families. The membership tea is open to the general public. AARP sponsors driving course AARP will sponsor the 55 Alive Mature Driving Course Feb. 4-5 from 1-5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. The course is open to all persons age 50 or over. AARP will provide a certified instructor and all course material. The cost for each person taking the course is sß._ Please see COURSE, page 7A PERRY, GEORGIA'S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1870-FQR COVERAGE OF YOUR l I The Houston Homeff Journal Hospital's maternity care department offers several services Perry Hospital believes that childbirth is a natural experience and one of the most important life events for a family. In keeping with this thought, Perry Hospital offers a complete maternity care depart ment providing a realm of services from prenatal classes to individual ized mother-baby care. To ensure a safe delivery, moth ers are offered a variety of educa tional courses to assist them in making choices during their preg nancy. Changes, Choices and Challenges is a five week course that prepares the mother to cope with the changes and fear of labor. The course is taught by Kay Hartley, RN, to provide informative options and resources to each fam ily, while assisting in their lives. A tour of the labor and delivery de partment is offered as a part of this course to familiarize the mother with the area in which she will de 4H| m s Mm JWPi pH ■■■ -''lHh {■ fc ; IT ' » 1 M lir® > ,_ cll 4%v j? UK §4 §4 ;, f P:A iiMr • J§ I is f »*r -Hr gill -Hllr^lt Herrington retires DOT engineer Van Herrington, center, was honored with a plaque and special lunch Friday by the city for his retirement. Presenting the plaque to Herrington is Perry Mayor Pro-Tem James Moore, left, as Brink Stokes looks on. 2 SECTIONS^IgJPAGESj^PLUSSALE^CIRCULARS liver. The labor and delivery department is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to ensure mothers the optimum care they need and de serve. A birthing room is also available to mothers. This room creates a home-like atmosphere for mothers. The birthing room is ac cented with pastel colors, televi sion, radio and telephone for the mother's convenience. There are also fetal monitoring equipment and two nurses available to monitor the mother and baby’s recovery. The birthing room provides a family centered atmosphere to mothers who wish to have family members join in the bonding of their new loved one soon alter she delivers. A new service offered to new mothers is postpartum home visits. A registered nurse employed by the hospital will make two visits to the home within the first six weeks of delivery. An casement of both mother and baby will be made in an effort to identify any problems or concerns that the mother may have once she is released from the hospi tal. Another option to mothers is Outpatient Delivery. This is where mother and infant arc allowed to go home within 24 hours of delivery, if there arc no complications. "This type of delivery is a real asset in a time of rising health costs as pa tients without delivery insurance can deliver at lower out-of-pocket cost, without compromising care," said Jalcnc Bennett, RN nurse man ager of labor and delivery. Dr. Larry Stewart, local practi tioner, works closely with the nurs ery team which averages 25 babies a a month. Pat Dent, RN, nursery manager, said the staff is willing to teach mothers the necessary skills required to care for their baby once City Council reviews annual reports By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Perry City Council met Thursday night to hear the city's annual budget report and annual natural gas report from last year. Engineering Consultant Bobby Ellis reviewed the Natural Gas Annual Report for the council. He said the demand charges of natural gas increased $250,000 last year, as transportation costs decreased. This On the blotter Sheriffs' officials rule Styles' death a suicide By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Houston County Sheriff's Department officials along with rel atives of Ernest Styles found his body in a wooded area between Bonaire and Kathleen Tuesday night, according to Investigator Perry investigator captures escaped prisoner By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Houston County Detention Center prisoner John Sorrows escaped Wednesday afternoon while participating in a work detail at Creekside Park but was captured / QQ _ JO6 "‘■HHiIUiS Authority elects Cotton as new 1993 chairman By TERESSA ULIN Park News Services The Houston County Hospital Authority Wednesday voted unani mously to name board member Hal Colton as its new chairman for the coming fiscal year. Carl Beard, a member of the au thority since 1987, was appointed vice-chairman. Cotton, who is completing his first year as a hospital authority board member, accepted the nomi nation with the intent to continue within the philosophy established by current chairman Pete Rucker. "Pete has brought a new plane ol leadership to this authority," Colton said of Rucker. The chair man-elect said he intends to dele gate functions and responsibilities to Beard and to members of the au thority, continue to improve rela tions between the county hospital system and the community and to oversee a fiscally conservative bud get. Pushing lor the board to be "frugal with the public's money," Cotton said it is the authority's re sponsibility to utilize taxpayer dol lars in "the best and most prudent manner possible," he said. Cotton and Beard will assume their new positions March 1. ■p PS Mothers-to-be and their partners are special projects to the Perry Hospital staff. they leave the hospital. Videos arc also shown to mothers who need further education on how to care for brought a net increase cost on pipeline charges to $150,000. "You need to be thinking about some kind of method to handle that in crease," Ellis told the council. Perry City Manager Marion Hay said, "1 will meet with the Public Works Committee to discuss what we're going to do." He said he will also meet with other gas authorities to devise a plan to compensate for Robert Clark. Clark said, "Styles had last been seen early Tuesday morning. He didn't show up at work, and his boss called his relatives." One of the deputies met Styles' father to help locale him, but dur- after dark according to Capt. Jim Hardy of the Perry Police Department. "Sorrows was last seen 20-30 minutes before we received a call from authorities asking us to be on 123RD YEAR—VOLUME sTI apt — r : J£ *d^a^Bp. s V ,^4 Jfc mJffi Hal Cotton In other action, the authority: •Approved a three-year contract with Service Master to provide for biomedical equipment services for the health care complex. Although Service Master was the only com pany to respond to the solicitation, their annual cost of $627,874 for service to the Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital was $21,000 less than the current an nual cost with the company. Please see COTTON, page 7A their baby. Perry Hospital labor and delivery Please see SERVICES, page 7A the increased pipeline costs. He said a change in rates and pricing methods could be the an swer, but nothing is definite. "Firm customers, which arc residential and business gas customers, could have their rates based on a rolling 12- month average." The "interruptible" customers, who don't solely rely on natural Please see REVIEWS, page 3A ing their investigation a relative found Styles' car. "A relative found his body first," Clark said. Styles suffered a "single gun shot wound to the chest." The Sheriffs Department ruled his death Please see RULE, page 7A the lookout for the escapee," Hardy said. A citizen called Perry Police Department and reported the escapee was seen on Macon Terrace. Please see CAPTURES, page 7A