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MIDWEEK EDITION 250 Perry & Houston County's official Legal Organ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1993 Council tables vote to re-name street By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Perry City Council voted four to one to table the recommendation to re-name Elko Road in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. after hearing discussion from advocates who want to name the North Perry By pass after King at Tuesday night’s Perry City Council meeting. Council members Hervia Ingram, Buddy Roper, Charles Lewis and Bobby Glover voted to table a vote. Councilman Ralph Gentry was the only councilmcmber who opposed delaying the vote. Council has told citizens the plan to re-name tire bypass is unrealistic since the council has no authority to name it after King because it is a state-owned road. Ingram told the crowd, “You have placed a burden on the council and caused it to be divided.” Glover, who is also chairman of the city’s Public Works Committee which agreed to propose to council Elko Road be named after King, told opposing citizens, “It is very unfair to put us in a position of having just one alternative.” He said, “(Citizens) said give us (the North Perry Bypass) and noth ing else. We can’t give them what we don’t have.” Glover said he would have had to vote against naming the North Perry Bypass in honor of King if it had been voted on because the Pub lic Works Committee made the de cision to propose renaming Elko Road. He said he has to do what the committee suggests. * Good morning, Perry Deaths Raymond Irvin Greene, Reynolds; Raymond E. Harris, Macon; James Henry Johnson, Kathleen; Geraldine A. Jones, Fort Valley; Willie Lee Marshall, Perry. For details, please see page SA. INDEX AGRICENTER EVENTS SA CLASSIFIED 10A CALENDAR EVENTS 6A JACKIE COOPER 3B DEATH NOTICES SA EDITORIALS 4A BRIGETTE HAMILTON _4A LEGAL NOTICES 3B GUEST COLUMN 4A POLICE REPORT 2A REMEMBER WHEN 4A SPORTS 7A BRIAN LAWSON 7A DAR luncheon will be held Feb. 13 American History will be high lighted when General Daniel Stewart chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, hosts a lun cheon at noon Saturday, Feb. 13, at the New Perry Hotel. According to Mrs. Dale Money, chapter regent, guest speaker will be Mrs. Jerido Ward, Georgia state regent. DAR members joining in the observance will be from chap ters in Cordele, Rochelle, Fort Valley, Hawkins ville, Jeffersonville, Macon and Warner Robins. Reservations should be sent by Monday, Feb. 8, to Mrs. Barbara Langston, 1800 Ross Street in Perry, 31069, telephone 987-1054. Luncheon is $8.75. Hostesses for the luncheon will be Mrs. Langston and Mrs. Mabel Collins. ■ The Houston Homefl m B B JUf fIU% 306 12/01/99 B B B ■ JH B B B B B B B M B B ATH£NS Ingram said, “If in 20 years you don’t see a street in Perry named in honor of Dr. King, it won’t be be cause of the council but because of the people’s unwillingness to work with us.” Ingram asked the council to table the issue “indefinitely.” Robbin Jackson, a Perry resident who wants the North Perry Bypass MLK street re-naming turns into a hot topic of interest By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Five Perry residents implored Perry Public Works Committee to recommend to Perry City Council the North Perry Bypass be named in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. in stead of the committee’s two origi nal recommendations of Houston Lake Drive and Elko Road. “We don’t want Elko Road. We don’t want Houston Lake Drive. We want the North Perry Bypass, and if we can’t have that, we want Sam Nunn Boulevard or Courtney Hodges Boulevard,” Clarence Dixon said at Monday afternoon’s meet ing. Councilman Ralph Gentry said, “Truthfully 1 have some reserva tions about it. I have had input from many others.” Councilman Charles Lewis said he has received more calls about this issue than he’s received about |Hr i jam? JHat-jm Jr- JP w §f ® *■ • |@|& 'Mi \ Hi •** I ">•S 'm' f || w£ >&.-• llßfe - \li Beltista show begins today Kitty Barfield of Elegant Designs is helping the Beltista Club decorate the entrance to the National Guard Armory for the club's annual Antiques at the Crossroads Show and Sale today and tomorrow, Feb. 3-4, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Admission is $4 and all proceeds will be donated by the. club to local charities. PERRY, GEORGIA’S HQMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE I£7o--FQR COVERAGE OF YOUR EVENTS, CALL 987-1823 2 SECTIONS—IB PAGES, PLUS SALES CIRCULARS named in honor of King, said, “I feel like I’ve walked into an expen sive restaurant and ordered a steak dinner and got a chicken dinner in stead.” Ingram explained to the standing room-only crowd Elko Road will soon be a “major thoroughfare” be cause it will connect to the Golden Please see CITY, page 12A all other issues combined during the last year. Lewis explained to the men many landowners donated the land to be used for the North Perry Bypass, and they should have a voice in its naming. City Manager Marion Hay re minded the committee and the men Perry City Council doesn’t have the authority to name the North Perry Bypass in honor of King because it is a state road. He told the men they were welcome to consult with the state on the matter. The men asked for the committee’s support in their efforts to get the suite to name the road in honor of King, and they refused. Lewis asked the men how they felt about naming Crcckwood Drive and Creekwood Park after King, and they said they don’t like the idea. Larry Holmes threatened Gentry Please see TOPIC, page 12A Beauty queen! Miss Sr. WR, Ga. will head to Tenn. for national title By ANISSA CLEMONS Staff Writer Abandoned at a railroad station in Indianapolis, Ind. at the age of one, | Mary Jane Sanders has come a long I way en route to become Ms. Senior I Georgia. Asa foster child all her life, I Sanders said she never had the op portunity to enter pageants during her childhood, but she’s compensat ing for it now in her 60s. Her quest for Ms. Senior Georgia began last year when her husband George saw an ad in a newspaper soliciting entrants to the Ms. Se nior Warner Robins pageant. “My husband thought I was | attractive, and 1 talked it over with my family and friends. They thought it was a good idea,” Sanders said. After winning Ms. Senior Warner Robins, Sanders competed in Ms. Senior Georgia Jan. 17 in Atlanta and won. “I was surprised when I won Ms. Senior Warner Robins, and I was on cloud nine. Then when I won Ms. Senior Georgia I felt like I had died and gone to heaven," she said. Sanders will compete for the title of Ms. Senior America on May 18 at Opryland in Tennessee. As her talent in the contest, Sanders will perform a Tahitian and Hawaiian dance as she has in the other two pageants. Another aspect of the competition includes a five-minute, private interview with the judges who rate contestants on their philosophy of life Sanders said. “My philosophy is pretty is as pretty docs, and beauty is only skin deep,” she said. The platform on which Sanders Please see QUEEN, page 12A Walker reveals plans for exit By ROBIN BOOKER Staff Writer If all goes according to plan, there will be a direct-access exit to the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agriccnter in about two years. State Rep. Larry Walker said the plan to construct an lntcrstate -75/Hay Road Interchange is already included in the suite’s program of work and the interchange will hope fully be a reality by 1995. “I am very optimistic about this County discusses jail problem By ROBIN BOOKER Staff Writer The Houston County Board of Commissioners held a special dis cussion session Tuesday morning to explore possible solutions to the problem with the current jail facili ties in the county. The commissioners have been discussing the deficiencies in the system since August without com ing to any definite conclusions as to how to solve the problem. AgCenter is generating revenue By ROBIN BOOKER Staff Writer While the Georgia stale budget has not allocated as many actual dollars this year for the Georgia Na tional Fairgounds and Agricenter, the state is not actually decreasing its funding for the center. The bud getary figures reflect that the state allotted $3.3 million in funds for the center last year, while only $2.28 million will be targeted for the center this year. State Rep. Larry Walker said the reduction is hot a decrease in state " Newspaper—©l993l JJECT PPiM| m % xlf ■ WBm ' W m Hr gggM fir _ * JjA? bytric Zellars) Mary Jane Sanders will be competing in the Ms. Sr. America this May. project,” Walker said. “This inter change will go a long way toward completing a bypass around Perry, which has been needed for quite a while.” Walker commented that the addi tion of the exit would be beneficial to Perryans as well as the Fair grounds and Agriccnter. The addi tion of the interchange would help alleviate traffic problems through the city and would provide much Tuesday’s session was designed to allow the commissioners to hear from members of the law enforce ment community concerning the is sue. All law departments of the county were represented, with each person asked to share his/her view of how the problem can be solved. Houston County has been man dated by the state to work toward correcting safety and fire code viola tions in both Houston County support for the Agricenter but is in stead a sign that the Agricenter is generating more of its own revenue. “The figures do show that the state budget is not directing as much money to the Agricenter, but that is because the center is more able to be supported with self-gen erated funds,” Walker explained. “That’s state money out there that runs the Ajriccnter and the more the center can do on its own, the less we have to do on a state level.” Michael Frochlich, executive di- 123RD YEAR—VOLUME 10 easier access to the Agriccnter from the interstate. “The people of Perry have been very receptive to this project from the beginning. In fact, I would es timate that we have about 99 per cent support to go ahead with the project,” Walker said. Fay Tripp, executive director of the Perry Welcome Center, is en thusiastic about the addition of the Please see REVEALS, page 12A holding centers. While physical re pairs could be made to the facilities, the main problem comes with over crowding of county facilities. Ac cording to all who spoke at the ses sion, the bottom line is that the county needs anew jail. “The.system is maxed out at this point, and everyone is doing every thing they can to alleviate the over crowding problems,” said District Please see PROBLEM, page 12A rector of the Agriccntcr, said he looks at the state figures as a healthy sign that the center is on its way toward becoming more self sufficient and vital to the commu nity. With the success of the center comes economic growth and tourism dollars for Perry and Hous ton County, and the figures in those areas continue to grow each year. “I like to think of the center as an economic generator. The csli- Please see REVENUE, page 12A