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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
Commission backs city;
urges return of Annex
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
Upon recommendation of
County Commissioner Archie
Thompson, the Houston County
Board of Commissioners agreed
Tuesday to send a letter to the
Houston County Board of
Education requesting that the BOE
return the Perry Annex to the City
of Perry.
The city donated the annex and
its properly to the school system
some years ago when the county
school system was established.
While the board no longer has use
for the facility, there has been some
controversy concerning the fate of
the building and property. The city
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Summer fun
Six-year-old Anna Harrell, a
2nd grader at Westfield next
year signs up at the Perry Li
brary for the summer program
"Feast on Books." Youngsters
are urged to sign up for the
reading program which offers
prizes for books read, please
see page 1B
Salute to seniors
Friday night over 150 Perry
High School seniors will take a
final walk which will mean an
endtotheiryears as high school
students. Graduation will be
held at 8 p.m., Friday, June 4,
at the Agricenter. In a special
section in today's paper, The
Houston Home Journal is pub
lishing a pictorial salute to se
niors, please see page 1C
'Partnership' payoff comes
in form of $2,000 donation
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
Frito Lay and Kings Chapel
have long enjoyed a partnership in
education that has culminated this
year in a $2,000 donation to the
school for playground equipment.
Frito Lay became a partner of
Kings Chapel a little less than two
years ago. Since that time, the
company has provided volunteers to
help at' the school, volunteers to tu
tor students, funds to finance spe
cial events at the school and funds
to buy playground equipment last
year.
"The company just adopted us in
a way and has always done whatever
they could to help the school and
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wants the board to return the prop
erly, and the board wants to sell the
property back or tear the building
down and use the property to add on
to Perry Elementary.
In voting to send the letter of re
quest to the board, Commissioner
Jay Walker said he was on a com
mission last year to examine the is
sue.
"Last year when the committee
met with the board and then
Superintendent Harold Chapman,
the posture of the board at that time
was to return the facility to the
city," Walker said. "Of course, that
was a different board and things
have evidently changed since that
time."
Deaths
Pearl Lee Plant Rogers; Charlie
Luther Terry; Virginia Elizabeth
Thompson; Christopher Sokol
Ayer, please see details on
page 3A
Winding up
Anyone that travels I-75 near
Perry is probably wondering
when the road work in the area
will be completed. For an up
date and details on the project,
please see page 5A
Cooking judge
Probate Court Judge Francis
Annis may rule in the court
room from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., but
she enjoys ruling in the kitchen
after work. To enjoy some of
the judge's favorite recipes,
please see page 2B
You can help base
Every one in Perry and South
Houston County is dependent
on Robins Air Force Base to
some degree. With the threat
of the base being closed, you
can do you r part to fight to keep
this important facility in Hous
ton County by contributing to a
fund to fight the closing. For a
clip out coupon to be used to
help, please see page 3B
INDEX
ROBIN BOOKER 4A
JOYCE COMPTON 4A
CLASSIFIED 10A
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 3A
JANICE KERCE 2B^
DEATH NOTICES _ 3A
EDITORIALS 4A
the Children," said Principal Kim
Schoening. "Last year we entered
into an agreement with Frito Lay to
use any funds they gave us to pur
chase new playground equipment.
They gave us $2,000 then and have
given us $2,000 again this year."
Schoening said that while the
Frito Lay workers do a great deal
for the school, the children also try
to do things for the volunteers.
"Our children are very apprecia
tive of what the volunteers do for
them, so they make them birthday
cards, invite them to lunch, and
show them special considerations
whenever they get the opportunity,
so it’s a perfect working relation
ship."
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City will stick to its guns
Council says $900,000 top offer for board building
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
After much discussion and indi
cations of mixed emotions regard
ing the ongoing Perry Annex issue,
Perry City Council agreed Tuesday
evening to stick to their original of
fer of $900,000 in regards to the
purchase of the Houston County
Board of Education’s present admin
istrative offices on Washington
Street.
In addition, they agreed that the
offer would be made contingent
upon the local school board
entering a legally binding
agreement to use the $900,000 to
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Alicia Adkins, daughter of Ken and Connie Adkins, enjoys the summer weather by cathcing the rays.
County throws support to base
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Commissioners agreed as a full
board and voted unanimously
Tuesday to donate the county's
$8,719 share to the Robins Air
Force Base 21st Century
Commission.
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Tine Mciver of Frito Lay presented a $2,000 check to Kings
Chapel Principal Kim Schoening for new playground equipment.
restore and occupy the Perry Annex
and that any concerned citizens be
allowed to deal directly with the ed
ucation board for the purpose of
preserving the building.
“We really just don’t have the
money right now to agree to the
deal which the Board of Education
has offered us,” said Council Buddy
Roper, echoing the consensus of
opinion of his fellow councilmen.
“We do not have the $1.2 million
which they arc asking, but stand by
our original offer of $900,000.”
If the council docs purchase the
current board of education facilities,
it will be converted into a much
Commission broke each city and
county entity's shard down accord
ing to each group’s population.
Following the breakdown of each
group's share, the commission re
quested that each entity send their
donation to the local commission
to be used to fund the presentation
on June 9 to help protect the fate of
the base.
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needed new city hall with the exist
ing city hall becoming a public
safety building.
The council’s decision to stick
to their guns followed an hour and a
half of continuous toiling over the
issue during a special work session
preceding their regular scheduled bi
monthly council meeting Tuesday
evening at city hall. It also came on
the heels of a 30-day postponement
of any final decisions as to the
future of the former Perry High
School building and historic Perry
landmark which was granted by the
school board earlier in the day.
“On behalf of the citizens
"I feel it is important that we
agree fully on this issue and present
a united front," said Commissioner
Larry Sncllgrove.
Commission Chairman Sherrill
Stafford reported that the RAFB
commission met over this past
weekend to determine the best way
to handle the use of funds coming
in to the local effort. According to
County Attorney Mike Long, the
group wanted to determine the most
efficient way to proceed with the ef
fort and agreed to set up a non
profit organization to disperse the
funds in the most appropriate ways.
"There will be a non-profit orga
nization formed with a board of
nine directors to deal with determin
ing how the money should be
sfient," said Long. "There will be a
consulting firm hired to advise the
board in this area, and an agreement
will be prepared for each city and
county government to sign concern
ing the use of their donated funds."
In other commission business,
the board agreed to proceed with
plans to install anew water well in
Henderson.
The board also instructed Long
to proceed with investigating the
possibility of putting a communi
cations tower on Highway 96.
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attending the public meeting on
Monday evening. May 24, we have
asked for and been granted a 30-day
extension for the Perry Annex, “
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall informed
council members. “Come July 1,
the board indicated, however, that
they would go ahead with their
plans-be it renovating the building
or whatever other option they agree
upon.”
Mayor Worrall added that an
unofficial source for the school
board has indicated that the board
may be willing to consider
preserving the auditorium for
community use if they decide to
Please see City, page 8A
Robins
support
revs up
By ROBIN BOOKER
Staff Writer
The Perry Military Affairs
Committee is doing well in its ef
forts to collect donations for the
preservation of Robins Air Force
Base, but area residents and busi
ness owners are being asked to keep
those dollars and cents coming.
According to Chamber of
Commerce President Jimmy
Faircloth, letters have been sent to
the chamber membership which
Want to contribute?
See coupon on P-3B
should have been received Tuesday,
June 1. Members of the Military
Affairs Committee will begin mak
ing phone calls to those members
Wednesday, June 2, to solicit dona
tions.
"The response has been good so
far, and we arc pleased with the ef
fort Perry is making, but we want
that response to- continue,"
Faircloth said.
No donation is considered 100
small, and area residents are being
asked to consider making some sort
of contribution to the fund, even if
it's as small as $5 or $lO.
"It's been estimated that around
54 percent of the money raised so
far has come in the form of dona
tions of SIOO or less," Faircloth
said. "That speaks well for the con
tributions being made by local resi
dents, and we arc proud of that ef
fort."
The monies raised are being used
to fund the presentation the Robins
Air Force Base 21st Ccnlufy
Commission will make to the Base
Realignment and Closure
Commission on June 9. The
chairman of the BRAC commission
will be at RAFB on June 8 to lour
the facility prior to the June 9 pre
sentation in Atlanta.
Cheering squad
sets fund drive
The Perry High School Varsity
and Junior Varsity Cheerleaders for
the School Year 1993-1994 will be
hosting a Gigantic Garage Sale to
raise funds for their uniforms on
Saturday, June 5 from 8 until noon
(maybe later) and will take place at
the Perry High School Gym
parking lot on Parkway.
The girls and their families will
be parting with some rare and
valuable stuff for sale that day.
You'll sec a lot of everything;
household goods, clothing,
furniture, toys, books. There will
be something for everybody.
The girls will be working hard to
set this up for you, so tell your
friends and family to break out the
piggy banks and come support
them!