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ATTN: 808 HENNEBERGER I —ATHENS, GA 30602 1 kc9<>ia I Page 2B I Houston Times-Journal Volume 124 No. 38 2Sections, 18 Pages! Inside I Today | Calendar 5A Classifieds 6B Editorials 4A Legal Ads 2B Lifestyles IB Sports 6 A Rack Rates Will Be $52/yr Buy a Subscription For $25 -i- tax & Save $25.75 Around town briefly... Hospice invites public to special presentation Hospice of Houston County would like to invite all interested individuals to attend a special presentation entitled "Walking Between Worlds" Spiritual Perceptions of the Dying," which will be held on Monday night, May 16 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Church of Christ on Corder Road. Executive Director, Jackie Connors, plans to share her research and reflections of events, communications, and insights surrounding the dying process. Please register by calling 922- 1777 by May 13. Perry dub to raise funds at annual road block The Exchange Club of Perry will have their annual Road Block this Saturday, May 14th from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. They will be in two locations collecting donations for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The club will be at the intersection of Marshallville Road and Courtney Hodges Blvd. and also at the intersection of Swift Street and Macon Road in front of Stanley Furniture. Agency to distribute surplus commodities Jim Brophy, Executive Director of the Middle Georgia Community Action Agency, Inc. announces that USDA surplus commodities will be given away Wednesday, May 11, 1994 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the National Guard Armory in Perry. If someone is picking up your commodities for you they must bring a signed statement from you authorizing them to pick it up for you unless they were authorized on the application. The agency is an equal opportunity employer and serves persons regardless of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. For more information call 987-03503. Please bring your own bag. Support group to meet at hospital May 26 The Support Group in the Perry area to caregivers of persons with Alzheimers disease or related disorders such as Parkersons, Picks disease, depression and others met Thursday, May 5 in the dining room of Perry Hospital. The guest speaker for the event was Attorney Robot T. Tuggle 111 who presented detailed advice and information on legal and financial aspects in dealing with those illnesses. The next meeting of the group will be Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. in the Perry Hospital dining room at no cost Dr. Susan Rayboume will be the guest lecturer. She has done extensive research on Alzheimers disease and the drug Please see GROUP, page 9A Shackleford gives update on Isles Pkwy. ah sections ot the Golden Isles Parkway are either completed, under construction, or in some phase of preconstruction, Golden Isles Parkway Association members and guests heard last Friday night. Georgia Department of Transportation officials warned, though, that environmental hurdles are delaying or will delay the preconstruction process at numerous points. That message was delivered by DOT Commissioner Wayne Shacklpford and state preconstruction engineer John Lively at an informal barbecue dinner at Little Ocmulgee State Park at Mcßae last Friday. The event, which attracted roughly 200 people, was planned by the Golden Isles Parkway Association and former DOT Board member Downing Musgrove to give state legislators, local officials, and private citizens a chance to tell DOT officials about the importance of the Parkway. One of the 14 roads in the Georgia Developmental Highway System, the Golden Isles Parkway will be a four-lane corridor running along U.S. Hwy. 341 from 1-75 in Perry to the port at Brunswick. "I just want to tell you how glad I am that you have organized yourselves into an association," Shackelford told his listeners at the dinner. U.S. Hwy. 341 is now only one of four roads in the Developmental Highway System to have an association to promote it, he noted. Although he spoke proudly of the overall quality of the state highway system and its bridges, Shackelford said that the Developmental Highway System had been approved 30 years too late. He added, however, that ever since the system was approved, the state has been consistent in providing funding for work on widening the proposed developmental corridors to four lanes. The DOT is also using increasing numbers of consultants to speed up the work on these roads, Shackelford said. He explained, though, that "a number of very tough issues involved in building a road" have been slowing progress on the developmental highways. Please see ISLES PKWY, page 9A Mayor encourages citizens to donate junk cars to KFG BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer Got an old clunker trashing up your yard and neighborhood? Don’t know what to do with it and can’t afford to get it towed to the junkyard? Well, here’s a suggestion from Perry Mayor Jim Worrall that won’t cost you a dime and will al low you to support a good cause at the same time. According to Worrall, the Na tional Kidney Foundation of Geor gia has a special program through which they pick up people’s old junk cars, free of charge, and then sell them at both auctions and salvage companies. All proceeds are utilized in the Foundation’s funding of medical re search, educational seminars, medic alert jewelry, rehabilitation pro grams and financial assistance to patients across the state'. Over a quarter of a million Georgians : suffer: from kidney and urological disease. To donate a car to the Kidney Foundation, simply call toll-free, 1- 800-633-2339, extension 25. Callers will be sent a packet of Please see FOUNDATION, page 9A Sports | Page 7 A 1 Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia Bg&gMß y bbL ' IPJK £ JMBmlv---. r yH. - HHPI ft .4. mr maiii Wm x S'* Play ball! Little Leaguers Detrel McCarter (batting) and Jeremy Barr prepare for the Perry Rec Department’s opening day games Monday. Their team, the Perry A’s, defeated the Rangers In a close 15-14 Mighty Mite division game. Bank South announces two new board members Rusty Wood is elected bank board chairman Bank South, Houston County has announced the election of WJ. "Rusty" Wood as Chairman of the Board of Directors, replacing James B. Stubbs who continues on the Board as Director Emeritus. A graduate of Western Carolina University, Wood is President of Tolleson Lumber Company in Perry and serves in a number of civic and business professional organizations including Chairman elect, Perry Area Chamber of Commerce; Director and Chairman, Governmental Affairs Committee, Southeastern Lumber if if" s j:* j .. JMb Perryans support local library The Perry Friends of the Library Book Sale held last week was a huge success reports PFOL members. Marti Bloodworth, Billie Sue Thompson and Mary Ferguson spearheaded the sale which raised over $2,100 to be used at the local library located on Washington Street. For News And Subscriptions Wednesday, May 11, 1994 W. J. "Rusty” Wood Manufacturers Association; Vice Chairman, Westfield School Board of Trustees; and serves as an ordained deacon, Perry Presbyterian Church. Wood is married to the former Terry Tolleson and they have one daughter, Whitney, age eleven. cTassrfiecf L Page 6B j| BOE continues to defend two site selections By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer The Concerned Citizens of Houston County were on the agenda for the Houston County Board of Education regular meeting Tuesday afternoon, May 10; how ever, none of the members of the Perry group made the meeting. Even though the citizens group was absent from the meeting, board chairman Zell Blackmon continued to state the board's policy over the location of two proposed middle schools in Houston County. Both middle schools are scheduled to be built north of Highway 96, with Concerned Citizens of Houston County calling for one of the schools to be built in the Perry area. Blackmon said that the schools were being built in accordance to a Plans for Station 58 on track By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer WPGA-TV should go on the air in late July or August, said Lowell Register. Register, who earlier said he hoped to have the station on the air in April, said the reason for the de lay was getting Federal approval on the station's tower and late equip ment arrivals. "We are going as fast as we can go," he said. The tower fa- WPGA, channel 58, will be located in an antenna farm east of Macon. Register said the antenna farm was the only loca tion he could put his tower, which will stand 900 feet tall. Register added that the tower will send back a "city grade” signal Stafford named vice chairman of bank board J. Sherrill Stafford has been elected Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Bank South Houston County. Stafford is the full-time Chairman, Houston County Board of Commissioners and serves in numerous community/civic organization positions including Vice President, Houston County Board of Health; chairman. State Environmental Council Board of Directors; Air Force Association and Board of Managers, Association of County Commissioners of Georgia. He also teaches an adult Perry, Georgia - 50 Cents five year plan that called for new schools and new school wing. He repeated the board's assertion that Perry Middle School would receive a new wing for the 1995-96 school year. "We've worked extremely hard to have a good communication policy relative to the issue," said Black mon, who added that he had spoken to four different groups in Perry about the middle schools. He re peated his offer to speak to any group about the board's decision. Before going into executive ses sion on student matters, legal is sues and land, Blackmon said the board was not discussing the pro posed offer of land from the citi zen's group, saying the offer was not "firm" enough for the board to consider it. over Perry. The tower will send produce a 1.3 million watt signal, allowing WPGA to cover the Ma con Area of Dominate Influence, the 121st largest market in the United States. He said WPGA would be one of the strongest sta tions in the Macon area. "We are waiting on some gov ernment agencies to clear the hoops," said Register. "It always seems that you have to something (more) before you can move on." Register said WPGA would not initially have a news program. "Initially we want to get on the air with Fox programming," he said, adding that he hoped to on the air at least by the first NFL pre-season game in the latter part of August 'jay* li. ; v J.Shenm Stafford Sunday class with over 100 members at the First Baptist Church in Centerville. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia. Stafford is married to the former Ann Hallman and they have two daughters, Laura and Dorothy. Children's groups will be able to fish at Agricenter lakes Organized groups of children will be able to fish once again at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter during National Fishing month in June. One of the Agricenter's lakes, which has been stocked with catfish, will be available at no charge on a reservation basis. Organized groups include boy and girl scouts, churches, schools, civic clubs, etc. Fishing is open to children only up to 16 years of age. Each child is permitted to keep up to 10 fish. "This is the fourth year the Agricenter has provided the free use Please see FISHING, page 9A