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Wednesday, March 2,1994 Houston Times -Journal-
Calendar
of Events
The Masons of Houston
Lodge No. 35 F&AM, Perry
(Thomas Fast, secretary, 987-2376)
meets every second and fourth
Monday night of each month at the
Masonic Building, Jemigan Street
Meals are served at a nominal
charge beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Regular meetings begin at 7:30
p.m. All member Master Masons
and visiting brethren are welcomed.
Perry High Booster Club:
Meets every 2nd Monday of each
month at Perry High School at
7:30 pjn.
Houston Drug Action
Council (HODAC): A free
rape support group is now being
formed. The group will begin
meeting on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at
Houston Drug Action Council,
2762 Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins. (Next to Warner Robins
Supply) Those interested in attend
ing please call 953-5675.
American Legion, Robert D.
Collins Post 24 meets the first
Monday night of each month at the
County Ag Building at 733 Carroll
Street. Meals are served beginning
at 7 p.m. All American Legion
members are urged to attend and
visiting Legionaries are welcome.
Houston County Retired
Teachers: Every 2nd Wednesday
of the month at 11:30 a.m. at the
Holiday Inn in Warner Robins.
Perry Rotary Club meets
each Monday at noon at the New
Perry Hotel.
The Perry Evening
Optimist Club meets the first
and third Thursday of each month at
Denny's.
Perry Exchange Club meets
each Thursday at Quincy's at noon.
Ochlahatchee Park will be
holding registration for girls
and boys baseball and softball every
Saturday in February from 9 a.m.
until 2 p.m. at the clubhouse.
Meetings for parents, coaches and
volunteers are held every Monday
night at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse.
For more information, contact
David Knowles (987-2820).
The Perry Wilderness
Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the
first Thursday of each month at the
Perry United Methodist Church lo
cated at 1001 Carroll Street in
Perry. Newcomers are welcome.
Tuesdays & Thursdays:
Step Aerobics from 6:30-8 p.m.
Sponsored by the Perry Recreation
Department. Saturdays from 9 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m. at the Perry High
School Cafeteria. Deborah Hamlin,
ACE Certified Instructor. 10 weeks
is S3O. This is an on-going
program.
Children's Grief Support
Groups will begin the first week
in March for Children who have
lost a loved one to death. Groups
will meet according to ages from
Kindergarten and first grade through
teen years. These free groups will
meet for 6 weeks. Registration is
being accepted now. Call Emily
Dennis Hospice Bereavement
Services Coordinator for
information/registration at 922-
1777.
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31:
AARP Counselors will be
available at the Houston County
Public Library from 12:30 to 4:30
p.m. to provide free tax assistance
to low or moderate income
taxpayers. Appointments are not
required.
March 4 & 5: Georgia
Baptist Mission Fest free,
404-936-5210.
March 5, 12, 19, 26:
AARP Counselors will be
available at the Houston County
Public Library from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. to provide free tax assistance
to low or moderate income
taxpayers. Appointments are not
required.
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Bobby Pennington, left, end Matthew Arthur gave testimony to the Marie Burroughs during a
special retirement service held In her honor at Houston County High last week.
Burroughs Honored During Special Service
BY PAUUNE LEWIS
Staff Writer
Approximately 70 peers, teachers
and other dignitaries from the field
of education, gathered in the
Houston County High School
Cafeteria at 4:15 p.m. Thursday,
February 24, to honor Marie
Burroughs, Food Services
Supervisor, who was retiring after
eight and one-half years in her pre
sent position, and with a total of 27
years of service.
About a dozen of those present
gave testimonials as to Burrough’s
PHS Freshmen Hear The
Testimonial Of Gallaspie
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
"You will become what you hang
around," Richard Gallaspie, a speaker
for Arrive Alive, told ninth graders
at Perry High School Tuesday.
As a senior in high school in
Ohio, Gallaspie was captain of his
high school's football, baseball and
wrestling team.
One year after graduation, Gal
laspie was paralyzed from the neck
down after being injured in a wreck
after a prom party.
"I had been drinking and driving
for four years," Gallaspie told the
Panther freshmen. "I knew that when
I was drunk, I drove better. I drove
25 miles—l only had two miles to
go. I could almost see my porch
lights."
Traveling at over 100 miles per
hour, Gallaspie left the road, hitting
a telephone pole. The force ejected
him backwards out of his vehicle's
passenger side windshield. He landed
in a field on his head, breaking his
neck, and rolled 70 feet
"I realized that I couldn't move
and couldn't feel anything," said Gal
laspie. "I laid in a field for the next
four hours watching my high school
buddies drive by."
Gallaspie told the students that he
spent eight-and-a-half months in the
hospital recovering from his in
juries.
"It's so easy to do something
wrong and think that you are right,"
Gallaspie told the students. "You
will become what you hang around."
Gallaspie told the students that
his father was an alcoholic who beat
his mother. He said he told his
mother, "Mom, 111 never drink. I'll
never do drugs. You don’t have to
worry about me.
"I loved sports because I had at
tention," said Gallaspie. "I was the
guy who they wanted on the team, I
was always the captain.
"My dream was to go to college
and play football. The coaches en
couraged me saying, 'lf anyone can
do it, you can. You have the ability
and the drive. We think you can do
it.'"
Gallaspie said he took his first
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helpfulness to her co-workers, the
school staffs and all associated with
the staff, including "standing up
for all of us" when pay was in
volved, one said.
Teresa Livingston, Lunchroom
Manager at Houston County High
School, emceed the program.
Bobby Pennington, Principal of
Perry Middle School, and Matthew
Arthur, former Houston County
Superintendent of Schools and for
mer Principal of Northside High
School in Warner Robins, spoke,
drink in the ninth grade. "My best
friend gave me my first drink," he
said.
At the end of his senior year, Gal
laspie walked away from several of
fers to play college football, telling
the students that he was tired of
other people, coaches, parents and
teachers, telling him what they
wanted him to do. "It's my life and I
can do what I want to do," was his
thinking at the time, he said.
"You see what alcohol did for
me?" Gallaspie asked the students.
"From the very first drink I took, al
cohol took from me. Before I was
bom, alcohol took from me. It took
my dreams, it took my father, twice,
it took my health and it took my
virginity."
Gallaspie told the students that
his best friend who gave him his
first drink was still drinking despite
three serious accidents, including one
accident where his friend was riding a
motorcycle which ran off the road
and into a barb wire fence. "That’s
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followed by Livingston, food ser
vice workers, teachers and other
staff members.
All spoke of her service, willing
ness to help one and all, and wished
her well upon her retirement.
Burroughs indicated that she had
enjoyed all phases of her employ
ment.
Delicious refreshments were
served during the reception honor
ing Burroughs.
stupid,” said Gallaspie.
"We are trying to make it (the
law) stricter," said Gallaspie, who
said Arrive Alive was working on a
bill that would result in drivers 21-
and-younger losing their licenses if
caught with a blood alcohol content
of .02.
Gallaspie said the level should be
zero, since it was illegal for 21-year
olds to drink. He added that .02 level
was chosen because "the machine
might make a mistake and because
someone might be on medication."
Gallaspie told the freshmen that if
the "cops had come down on me"
than he might not be in a
wheelchair.
Six months before the accident
that crippled him, the chief of police
pulled him over because of a broken
taillight. Gallaspie said that he had
an eight pack of beer in the car, with
an open can of beer between his
legs. He added that the police chief
ignored the beer, instructing him to
Please see GALLASPIE, page 10A
Activated Charcoal Has
Several Curative Powers
Sounds crazy to swallow
charcoal tablets, but maybe it's not
so crazy. It's more precisely known
as "activated charcoal", and
knowledge of its curative powers is
not new. Ancient Egyptian healers
used charcoal to treat poisoning and
dizziness. Today, the substance is
being used by scientists to combat
skin infections, diarrhea, flatulence,
hiccups and hangovers.
How does it work? It is the
most powerful ABSORBENT
known to us. It is a substance that
attaches things to its surface rather
than absorbing them into itself.
Charcoal has the ability to absorb
nearly anything it contacts. It was
tested at the Loma Linda University
School of Medicine in California
for intestinal gas. "Activated
charcoal reduces the amount of gas
either by absorbing the gas itself or
absorbing intestinal bacteria that
cause the gas," explains Dr.
Raymond Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall
suggests taking activated charcoal
shortly after a meal.
Doctors in England have also
used charcoal to treat infections.
They apply charcoal-saturated cloth
to wounds and unhealed surgical
incisions and get good results.
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The cable TV industry posted a
revenue of $25 billion for 1992, a
10 percent gain (unadjusted for
inflation) over 1991, according to
results from the 1992 Annual
Survey of Communication Services
(BC/92) released today by the
Commerce Department's Census
Bureau.
Cable system operators reported
basic service revenue of more than
sl2 billion in 1992, up 13 percent
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It's also been used for hangovers.
Hangovers are caused by substances
called congeners, and activated
charcoal absorbs them. An
experiment was conducted at
Columbia University College of
Pharmaceutical Sciences that
showed a group of people had fewer
hangover symptoms when they had
two ounces of charcoal-filtered
vodka, than the group who drank
two ounces of whiskey. Cool.
More importantly though, it's
great to have a bottle of activated
charcoal around because it can
absorb food poisoning. It can
prevent quite a bit of discomfort
when used for that purpose. Also,
have you heard of its use in drug
overdose patients in hospitals? It's
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from the previous year and nearly
one-half of all revenue.
Pay-per-view and other premium
service revenue showed a 5 percent
increase from 1991. Cable
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programming services of $4 billion
in 1992, an increase of nearly 8
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