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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1994
Annual
meeting!
Chamber members
gather to review year,
honor two women
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Two distinguished Perry women
walked away with top awatds during
the Perry Area Chamber of Com
merce’s 38th Annual Meeting held
last night at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
With an audience of approxi
mately 300 people, Trudie Warren
and Jeanette Arrington were pre
sented the local chamber’s 1993
Seabie Hickson Community Ser
vice Award and the Volunteer of the
Year Award, respectively.
In presenting the prestigious
Seabie Hickson Award, annual
meeting chairwoman Pat Buice
cited Mrs. Warren’s many tireless
efforts aimed at making Perry a bet
ter place to live.
“The Seabie Hickson Commu
nity Service Award was created to
honor a person or organization
which has contributed selflessly to
the betterment of our community,”
Buice told those gathered.
“Tonight’s recipient-an active
member of various community and
civic organizations who has exhib
ited total involvement in our com
munity-is no doubt such a person.”
In addition to serving the Perry
Area Chamber of Commerce in
many capacities, including that of
president in 1992, Mrs. Warren is
also a former “Chamber Member of
the Year" and is the founder of the
organization’s now annual Teacher
County requests fee hike for traffic fines
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Emergency
Management Agency is one step
closer to anew source of funding
for communications equipment.
In their Jan. 4 meeting, the
Houston County Board of Com
missioners heard from Bob Turner
who told the commissioners about
a law in Florida that allowed the
state's emergency management
agencies to collect a fee from fines
and bonds to provide for communi
cation equipment. He asked the
commission at that meeting to ask
the Houston County legislative del
egation for legislation allowing
Georgia counties to impose the fees
Florida imposes.
The commission agreed that the
proposal was a good idea, sending
Turner back to prepare a letter to
the legislative delegation requesting
the change in Georgia law.
How much?
Local resident
receives S7BO
water bill from city
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
Everyond complains about
paying bills, but imagine opening
your monthly water bill and reading
that you owe S7BO to the City of
Perry.
Most would call it a nightmare,
but for Larry Hamby this experi
ence was real.
Hamby's residence on Tucker
Road used just under S7BO worth of
city water in January due to a
busted pipe in his yard irrigation
system.
Although Hamby won't be pay
ing his usual water rate (around $35
a month), the city has agreed to
reduce his bill by $260 and charge
him only $520.
Since Hamby lives outside the
city limits he pays one and a half
times the city water rate. City
Council agreed to drop that rate this
month and charge him regular city
rates.
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Front row, l-r, Award winners Jeanette Arrington arid Trudie Warren, outgoing chamber board
member Pat Buice, and outgoing chamber president Jimmy Falrcloth (back row, left) were among
those honored during the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting last night. Joining
them in the photo are: new president John Sundquist and executive director Peggie Williams.
Appreciation Reception.
Other organizations Mrs. Warren
has been involved with through the
years include the Perry Beautifica
tion Committee, the Houston
County Leadership Advisory
Committee, the Perry Chapter of
the Houston County Cancer Soci
ety, the Salvation Army Board and
the Perry Business Women’s Club,
a club for which she was selected
"Member of the Year” in 1975.
She is presently serving out a
two year term on the Perry Conven
tion and Visitor’s Bureau as an
appointee for the City of Perry and
was actually the first employee
In their regular meeting Monday,
Jan. 24, the commissioners ap
proved a letter to the legislative del
egation asking for the new law. The
proposed law would allow counties
to impose a surcharge of $12.50 on
traffic offenses. The money would
go to a fund to purchase, maintain
and staff communication equip
ment.
The commissioners also consid
ered abandoning Rocky Ford Road
in South Houston County.
Rocky Ford Road extends just
over a half-mile from Highway 26
to Henderson Spring Road. Rocky
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Sweatshirt boosters
Employees of the Houston County Board of Education came to work Friday, Jan. 21, in sweatshirts
bearing the mascot of ail four county high schools. Modeling the sweatshirts are board employees
(kneeling, l-r) Willie Mae Green, Nancy Talley, Charlene Rackley, Denice McClarnon, Loretta
Greene, Donna Allen (standing) Brenda Williams, Barbara Studstill, Renee Forbes, Madge Wirtes,
Shelly Faulk, Lowell Russell, Yvette Singletary, Amy Callahan, Shawn Wilson, Carmen Williams, Sh
eryl Greene and Mary Scott.
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The proposed law would allow counties to
impose a surcharge of $12.50 on traffic
offenses. The money would be used to
purchase , maintain E-911 equipment.
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hired when the Flint Electric
Membership Cooperative opened its
Perry office in May 1966. Having
risen up through the ranks, Mrs.
Warren was also Flint’s “Employee
of the Year” in 1981 and currently
holds the distinctive position of
section manager for the Perry area.
She and her husband, James, re
side in Perry and have two daugh
ters, Melanie Warren and Marilyn
Kennedy. They are also the proud
grandparents of a two year old
granddaughter, Lauren Kennedy.
They are members of Perry First
Baptist Church,
The sixteenth recipient of the
Ford Road is located to the east of
Interstate 75 and to the west of
Elko.
ABS Farms, which owns land
on both sides of the the road re
quested the county close the road so
that it could install a center pivot
irrigation center on the property.
"This road is not used by the school
bus, mail carrier and has very little
other traffic," wrote Lamar Bowen,
manager of ABS Farms, in request
ing the road be closed.
Mike Long, county attorney,
said the only obligation the county
had before closing the road was no-
Seabie Hickson Award having been
selected by the chamber’s annual
meeting committee from a list of
nominees, Mss. Warren’s name will
now be added to a very illustrious
list of former award recipients such
as Larry Walker, Wendell Whipple,
Barbara Calhoun, Tom Daniel,
Draper Watson, J.M. “Buddy”
Tolleson, Jr., Lewis Meeks, James
Pleydell-Bouverie, Kathy Caldwell,
Father Michael O’Keeffe and Bobby
Arcos.
As the recipient of the Volunteer
of the Year Award and selected by
last year’s chamber president
Please see CHAMBER, page 8A
tifying the property owners that
lived along the road. He added that
the only property owner off the road
was ABS Farms.
Several of the commissioners
had questions about whether the
county could be required to come
back in the future and re-acquire the
road in the future if houses are built
in the area. However, Long said the
county would have no responsibil
ity for the road once the road was
abandoned.
"As far as we are concerned,”
said Commissioner Larry Sneli
grove, "that road no longer exists
(if the county abandons the road)."
"I don’t have a problem with
closing the road," said Commis
sioner H. Jay Walker. He said that
people who used the road should be
given a say in whether or not the
road was closed, suggesting that the
county hold a public hearing on the
Please see COUNTY, page 8A
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Perry man has
been charged
in burglaries
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
Although only 14 percent of all
burglaries in the nation are solved,
Perry Police have "hopefully ended
the rash of recent burglaries" in this
area Chief Frank Simons said, due
to the Saturday arrest of Perry resi
dent Jim Kent Chambley.
Local residents who witnessed
Chambley, of 108 E Ashley Drive,
attempting to enter a home in their
neighborhood gave local police a
description which helped break the
case for local police.
Once identified, "we found he’d
pawned large amounts of jewelry at
different places," according to
Captain Steve Heaton. Detectives
Mike Pheil and Bill Phelps recov
ered some of the jewelry Chambley
pawned and those pieces were iden
Monday fire claims
newcomer's home
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
The residence of Cheryl Bickford
was partially burned due to a home
fire which occurred Monday, Jan.
24.
According to Perry Fire Chief
Gary Hamlin, local fire fighters ar
rived at Crossroads Trailer Park,
Lot 64, at approximately 4:25 p.m.
Monday afternoon and doused the
fire which originated in the living
room of Bickford's mobile home.
Hamlin said the department re
ceived the call from E—9ll at 4:22
p.m. and the local department "got
the fire out very soon, but we
stayed there with her until 7:30
p.m. or so helping her salvage
items from the bedrooms.
"Being new to the community,
Flu epidemic 'moderate' in
Perry according to officials
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The bite of winter's cold temper
atures has been compounded for
many area residents by the misery
of the cold and flu season.
For Perry, the winter onslaught
by virus has been "moderate," said
Linda Easterly, director of nursing
for Perry Hospital. "We haven't had
the bad outbreak other hospitals
have had," she said.
Easterly said the year opened
with a lot of flu cases. However,
she said the number of cases in re
cent weeks has decreased.
In addition to the flu, many peo
ple are also getting pneumonia.
"The flu weakens the body's resis
tance to fight off other illness," said
Easterly, who added that developing
pneumonia was rare, but that it
could happen, especially among the
elderly.
However, that illness that many
have felt might not be the flu, said
Bill Carter, director of physical
health at the Houston County
Health Department "It’s very diffi
cult to detect the difference bkween
the flu and severe winter illness
from all sources," he said.
Carter added that the primary dif
ference between the flu and other
winter viruses was severity. He said
that other winter viruses would
have someone thinking about stay
ing home or going to work.
"You wake up and say 'should,'"
said Carter. "There's no question
(with the flu) that you won't go.”
It's too late for flu shots at this
time of year, said Carter. "We don't
have the vaccine,” he said. "It prob
ably wouldn't be of any value.” He
notkl that it took the vaccine two
three weeks to take effect
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Currently Chambley has been
linked to nine residential burglaries.
Five of those were in Perry, two
were in the county and two were in
the Montezuma-Oglethorpe area.
Heaton said that before the investi
gation is completed, Chambley
may be charged with more burglar
ies.
Chambley is being charged with
criminal attempt to commit bur
glary, several counts of burglary,
theft by taking and theft by receiv
ing stolen property. He is being
held without bond.
"A conservative estimate (as to a
monetary amount on items stolen)
would be $20,000. That Figure does
not include the items stolen in the
county," Heaton said.
she didn't know many people. We
helped her and a dance group she's
joined came out and helped."
Bickford and her three-year-old
daughter, Breanne, were not home
when the fire occurred.
Hamlin said that although the
contents of Bickford's living room
and kitchen were destroyed that
most of the furniture and clothes in
the trailer's two bedrooms was
saved.
Hamlin added that the cause of the
fire is not yet known.
"We're still investigating the
cause of the fire. We don't know yet
because there is no heat source (in
the living room) where the fire
originated," he said.
Avoiding the flu at this time of
year is difficult. "There's not a
whole lot that you can do (to avoid
the flu)," said Carter. He said that
things that people needed to do to
avoid the flu were things people
were "prone to not doing."
Flu travels in crowds, said
Carter. "The more people gathered
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Good
morning, Perry
The community’s sympathy is ex
tended to the families of those who
recently died. They include: Ludie
Smith Grant, Rosweli: Van Buren
Shipes, Hawkinsville. For more in
formation please see Page 3A.
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