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A golden opportunity for
Perryans now exists
South Houston County resident Archie Thompson recently announced he
would not seek re-election to the Houston County Commission.
We're sorry to hear since he surely identified with the concerns of
residents from our end of the county. Since all commission positions are
at-large seats, each commissioner has vowed to look after the best interests
of all Houston County residents, but Thompson was thought of as by
many in South Houston County as "our" commissioner.
Luckily, we have a chance to elect another commissioner who resides in
south of that imaginary line—Highway 96.
Better yet, we have a chance to elect a Perry resident to the Houston
County Commission.
Certainly a commissioner should be elected due to his ability to perform
the job, but to be able to elect "one of our own” is an opportunity that's
not always easy to come by since the majority of the county's population
lives in the north end of our county.
Proud Walker is WR mayor
Dear Editor:
I would like to congratulate Donald S. Walker on being elected Mayor.
Over the past two years, I was a member of his campaign staff. During
the '92 Mayors race, '93 City Council race, and the now completed '94
Mayors race, I found him to be a very dignified man with high integrity.
He is much like my own father, who is also a business man locally.
Mr. Walker made it clear from the start that he expected all persons on
his staff to run a clean campaign. That showed me the type of person
Donald Walker was raised to be. I was raised the same way.
1 hope over the next three-plus years that all citizens will use the door,
which will be open to them. They should attend the City Council
sessions to let Mayor Walker and Council hear what problems, they feel
need to be fixed.
Mayor Walker and the First Family are great people to be around.
I hope to work with Mayor Walker in the future to put the city back
together.
A proud citizen,
Tracy D. Mullis, Warner Robins
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Recalling the accomplishments of the Nixon years
It was almost 20 years ago when
Richard M. Nixon, the 37th
President of the United States,
resigned the highest post in the land
and gave his farewell to the nation.
He is the only President ever to
resign from office.
It was 34 years ago when
Richard Nixon first ran for
President His opponent as the late
John F. Kennedy, and that
Presidential race was the first I
remember that featured the "great
debates." Nixon lost the race by
113,000 votes, which is the closest
race in history for the Presidency.
After being defeated for the
Presidency, Mr. Nixon relumed to
his home state of California and ran
for Governor in 1962. He lost that
election. In 1968 he was successful
in his second bid for the nation's
highest office in a race against
Hubert Humphrey, and in 1972 he
was re-elected President by a
landslide victory over George
McGovern.
Nixon was always viewed as a
towering figure of the conservative
movement, which was making
much progress during the 1960's
after the Kennedy and Johnson years
in the White House. And I guess
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Perry Scrapbook
Among the guests attending this May 1969 tea in honor of Miss Martha Cooper at the home of Mrs.
A.C. Pritchett are, l-r, Mrs. Charlonte Trotter, Mrs. Barbara Cochran, Mrs. Pat Buice, Mrs. Anna
Pritchett, Mrs. Barbara Williams, Mrs. Mary Tolleson and Mrs. Doris Hulbert. Miss Cooper had
recently been installed as Georgia State Regent of the NSDAR.
STREET TALK:
Since Sunday is Mother’s Day, we thought it appropriate to ask six of our local
youngsters just what makes their mom so special to them. Here's what they had to
say:
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R. J. Hess
“She’s my mama and she
lets me have snacks after
school.”
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Taylor Burch
“She’s my mama and I like
her.”
Houston Times-Joumal
when his record compared alongside
the former President Johnson, most
definitely he was conservative. But
consider this: during the Nixon
years the Environmental Protection
Agency and the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration came
into being; racial quotas first
began; he proposed a guaranteed
annual income; and he instituted
wage and price controls.
Nixon was an avid warrior
against the spread of Communism
yet his administration was
responsible for the first Strategic
Arms Limitation Treaty with the
Soviet Union. He was able to
bring the Vietnam War to an end
during his first year as President,
and possibly one of his largest
achievements as President was his
rapproachment with Red China.
Along the way the former
President was able to assemble
some good men on his team such
as Henry Kissinger, Pat Moynihan,
George Shultz, James Schlesinger
and Arthur Burns. However there
were others such as James Dean,
Bob Haldeman, John Mitchell and
Maurice Stans who helped bring
about his downfall. Vice President
Spiro Agnew's forced resignation in
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Marquasa Scott
“She spoils me.”
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Lindsay Abercrombie
"She's a great mom.”
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1973 from a bribery scandal did
nothing to steady the ship on the
water either.
For the life of me, I could never
understand the reasoning behind the
"Watergate" break-ins in 1972.
Nixon had the election against
McGovern won hands down. There
was no need to break into the
Democratic National Committee
headquarters to take anything.
Nixon never admitted to taking
part in the Watergate break-in. But
it is very obvious he took part in
an attempted cover-up. He
attempted to block the
investigations, but the U.S.
Supreme Court pried open Nixon's
secrets for the nation to see. The
White House tapes for March 21,
1973 revealed the President
discussing how to ensure that the
Watergate burglars kept their
silence. What a mistake! All the
President had to do was come clean
with the American people, instead
of lying to them, and there is a
good chance impeachment
proceedings would have never
begun.
Nixon wrote in 1990 in his
ninth book, "while 1 was not
involved in the decision to conduct
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Mathew Abercrombie
"She’s special because I
love her.”
Alix Greer
"She buys me lots of
things."
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the break-in, I should have set a
higher standard for the conduct of
the people who participated in my
campaign and administration. I
should have established a moral
tone that would have made such
actions unthinkable. I did not."
Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon in
September of 1974 very well played
a large part in his losing the
election to Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Some say that Nixon's acceptance
of the pardon was an admission of
guilt for unspecified crimes. If so,
it was the only confession he ever
made.
Former President Richard M.
Nixon will be remembered wit.
mixed emotions by most
Americans. But, with everything
considered, 1 believe he left our
country in far better shape in 1974
than it was in 1968 when he first
moved into the White House.
jf; % Brigette
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W y Editor
Mother's Day
has a whole
new meaning
Mothers-what would we do with
out them?
For all the special women in this
world we set aside one day each year
to buy them a gift, treat them to
lunch or dinner, give them a card, a
thank you and a kiss on the cheek.
The significance of this holiday
has certainly changed in my mind
over the past year since I've become
a mother.
This time last year I was expect
ing to be a mother any day and was
not really thinking about Mother's
Day, but focusing my attention on
obtaining motherhood.
Not only do I now realize how it
feels to be a mother and how much
mothers cherish their children and
give them all their love and atten
tion, but all of these feelings have
made my mother and grandmother
that much more special to me.
I recently wrote a column in
which I discussed the economic
plight of my generation, and
although I do work hard, I realize
that my mother and grandmother
struggled battles of their own.
My grandmother is the oldest girl
in a family of nine children. Her
mother died young and she became
the maternal head of their home.
My great grandfather farmed land
and with the money he made
bought more land. Soon, he needed
those nine children to help him
grow timber, harvest cotton and
keep the family fed. He also owned
the general store in the small farm
ing community in which they
lived.
Still, even with all of her respon
sibilities, my grandmother was able
to attend college, graduated with an
education degree and became a
teacher.
My mother also received an educa
tion degree, and fell in love at col
lege. She married my father the day
she turned 21. They moved twice
before 1 was bom because my father
was in the U.S. Air Force. My
mother taught school one year, then
stayed out one year after I was bom.
We lived in a small apartment off
base and my dad came home on the
weekends. It had to be a lonely time
for my mother-no family, few
friends, no husband during the week
and the full-time job of being a new
mother.
When my dad got out of the ser
vice we moved to my mother's
hometown of Eastman (where my
grandmother also lives) and she has
taught school there 26 years, given
birth to my sister when I was 12
and then buried my father two years
later. She raised a teenager and a
toddler on her own, and, in my
opinion, has done quite well.
(I must add here a
Congratulations! ! to my mother and
and new father on their nuptials
held last month.)
I have learned a lot about life and
the importance of family from my
mother and grandmclher-some of
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