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WEEKEND
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1993
Costume
design
Hard work and
effort go into
making costumes
for Perry Players
By ANISSA CIEMONS
Staff Writer
Four more weeks and the curtain
will rise as the Perry Players take
the stage to perform the musical
"Fiorello!"
The cast spends most of their
nights rehearsing their lines, sing
ing their songs or tapping their
dances. Though the parts range
from women working in a dress fac
tory to men playing poker, every
cast member has to be dressed for
their part, and that's Pat McCoy's
job.
McCoy received a degree in
home economics, textiles and cloth
ing during college. She sees her
participation in "Fiorello!" as "a
creative outlet."
The musical is about the 12th
production for which McCoy has
prepared the costumes.
McCoy's tedious task began after
Director Carol Strandburg chose the
cast and shared her vision of how
the cast should look on stage. "I
personally feel the costumes are
very important, and I do a lot of re
search. I think theater is very vi
sual," Strandburg said.
McCoy said after she and
Strandburg get their ideas together
they go through their clothing
closet to see if there's anything they
can use. "After that we hit the res
cue missions and Salvation Army.”
McCoy said-she has to measure
all 38 of the cast members before
she starts piecing together different
garments to formulate the final cos-
Miss PHS pageant to be held Feb. 13
It's never quiet for long in the
Perry High School Theatre. Right
now things are being geared up for
the 1993 Miss Perry High Pageant
which will be held Saturday, Feb.
13 at 7 p.m.
This is the first year the pageant
is being hosted by Chris Gillespie
and the school's Thespian Troup.
"We're very excited, to be in
charge of things this year,"
Gillespie said. "We want our audi
ence to really be entertained, so
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INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 3A
ROBIN BOOKER 4A
CALENDAR 3A
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 IB
WOODS 'N WATER 2B
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Three members of the Perry Players, Diane Scruggs, Grace Nottingham and Sally
Stanley, model a small sample of the eloquent designs the cast will be wearing for
their upcoming presentation "Fiorello!" Pat McCoy is designing around 100
costumes for this one play.
tume. "We cannibalize clothes to a 1914 and* 1933, according to time span, "There are two sets of
degree.” McCoy. clothing for almost everybody."
The time period in which Strandburg said since there were In order to keep the complica-
Fiorello takes place is between several fashion changes during that Please see COSTUME, page 6A
we've tried to plan the pageant just
like a high energy show."
This year’s theme is "Vogue" and
it promises to be a fast-paced night
of glitter and glamour. Macon area
performer Ms. Paulette Winters and
movie critic Jackie Cooper will
emcee an evening featuring 23 of
Perry High's best.
Each contestant has a sponsor, so
almost every organization on the
PHS campus, from sports to ser
vice clubs to academic organiza
Perry students injured
during school field trip
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
Three Perry Middle School stu
dents suffered minor injuries
Wednesday as they returned from a
field trip in Atlanta. Two students
received stitches from their injuries,
while one suffered from a bump on
the head.
The injuries occurred to the stu
dents when three young males
threw beer bottles at the school
buses the students were in as they
left Atlanta Wednesday afternoon.
P&Z discusses re-zoning
near Perry Country Club
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Perry Planning and Zoning
Commission held a special meeting
Monday night to get feedback from
local developers and realtors on
their proposed cluster development
which was put together in response
to a re-zoning request for land bor
dering Perry Country Club.
Realtor Donnie Free told
Commission members the cluster
proposal is part of a solution but
not a total solution. He said it's not
possible to build a $60,000 to
SBO,OOO house in Perry because the
zoning laws don't permit smaller
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tions, will be well represented. This
in turn has seemed to insure a
greater variety in the talent compe
tition which will include singing,
dancing, piano, guitar, poetry and
original monologues.
Interviews will be hosted earlier
in the day at the Perry Welcome
Center where six judges from
around Middle Georgia will have a
chance to talk with each contestant.
Throughout this pageant, more im
portance is being placed on things
The bottles broke two windows in
the rear of the bus, and the shattered
glass cut one boy on the arm and
another on the lip.
“This was a very unfortunate
thing that happened to our stu
dents,” Principal Bobby Pennington
said. “You never can tell when you
send these kids out what may hap
pen, but you certainly don’t expect
anything like this.”
Pennington said the incident was
Please see INJURED, page 5A
lot sizes.
"We're sitting here with only
21.4 houses built last year," Free
said.
Perry Building Inspector Bill
Chambless said, "We're not going
to open the gates and let just any
thing be built. We’re being progres
sive, but we're being careful."
Commission Chairman Martin
Beeland told the developers to give
their suggestions to the commis
sion before Monday night.
The commission will meet
Monday night at 6 p.m. to further
discuss the re-zoning.
like interviews, application and in
volvement in school and commu
nity.
The pageant itself will be held at
the Perry High Theater Saturday,
Feb. 13, starting at 7 p.m. All
seats are $5.
Contestants this year along with
their sponsors are:
Yteshia Scott-Varsity
Cheerleaders
Amy Mullin-Business Education
Please see PHS, page 5A
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Pageant winners
Pictured above are winners of the 1993 Perry Mr. and Miss Valentine Pageant
held at Perry High Thursday night, sponsored by the high school's Junior
Varsity Cheerleaders. Pictured are Krystle Kennedy, third runner-up, front left;
Heather McWhorter, fourth runner-up; Heather Kathcock, second runner-up,
back left; Erica Wright, photogenic winner; Travis Moss, Little Mr. Valentine;
Alya Wilson, Little Miss Valentine; and Lacey Cawthon, first runner-up.
PERRY, GA.
Kell wood Cos.
forced to make
some cutbacks
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
The recession is no respecter of
persons or businesses, and Kell
wood is one local business feeling
the effects of a bad economy. The
Perry company was forced to make
cutbacks last week affecting at least
30 employees, with unconfirmed
reports indicating more layoffs were
made Friday.
A reduction in orders and the
shut-down of the Sears Catalogue
Alltel will take over
Perry phone service
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
In what is being called a prop
erty swap by both parlies, Alltel
Corporation and GTE signed a letter
of intent Wednesday to trade tele
phone service areas in Georgia. In
cluded in the agreement are the
9,200 customers in Houston
County who are currently served by
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The exchange allows Alltel to
exchange its 95,000 access lines in
Indianna, Illinois and Michigan and
"$440 million in cash for all of
GTE’s Georgia operations. GTE
serves approximately 285,000 tele
phone lines in Georgia at this time.
Nunn is featured speaker
at COG annual meeting
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
The upcoming annual meeting
of the Perry Area Chamber of Com
merce is the talk of the town as
Perryans anticipate hearing and see
ing U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn Tuesday
night, Feb. 9. Nunn, a native of
Perry, is scheduled to be the
keynote speaker for the meeting at
the Georgia Living Center at the
Agricenter at 7 p.m.
“We anticipate one of the largest
annual meetings in our history,”
said Executive Director Peggie
Williams. “We expect around 500
people to attend, and we are ex
tremely proud and pleased to have
Sen. Nunn on the program.”
Please see NUNN, page 6A
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division are primarily responsible
for the cutbacks. While many of the
employees were layed off, several
others were given job openings on
the first shift. Because so many
workers were let go, the second
shift at the company has been shut
down.
Kellwood hopes to recall some
of the layed off workers at a future
date.
Local Kellwood officials refused
to comment on the situtation.
No definite decisions have been
made at this time regarding em
ployees of either company, but a
statement by Alltel President Joe
Ford said, “We will, wherever pos
sible, pursue opportunities else
where in the growth areas of the
company for the employees affected
by the consolidations. However,
even with some attrition, it is ex
pected that force reductions will be
necessary.”
A formal statement from GTE’s
offices in Texas indicated the 975
persons currently employed by GTE
in Georgia will become Alltel em-
Please see SERVICE, page 5A
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Sen. Sam Nunn