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Mrs. J. Frank Rozar
Mrs. J.F. Rozar
to be honored
on 90th birthday
On Sunday, June 19, 1994, there
will be a reception held at the Perry
First Baptist Church Fellowship
Hall from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
honoring Mrs. J. Frank Rozar. The
reception is to honor Mrs. Rozar’s
90th year and is being given by her
daughter and son-in-law, Frances
and Clint Strouse.
Mrs. Rozar resided in the Perry
area for around 50 years. She
moved to Illinois several years ago
to be near her daughter and her
family.
Family and friends arc invited to
the reception. No invitiations will
be sent. No gifts please.
Burglary at WPGA
results in $25,000 loss
Perry police are investigating a
burglary that occurred at WPGA ra
dio station this week that resulted
in the theft of $25,000 in computer
equipment owned by Lowell
Register.
According to Captain Steve
Heaton one or more persons entered
the back of the radio station, which
is being used as a computer busi
ness, sometime between 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 7 and 7 a.m.
Thursday, June 8.
Although someone was at the ra
dio station working at the time of
the burglary, the employee told
Perry detectives he did not hear or
see anything.
Billy Ray Cyrus, others
to perform at AgCenter
Agricenter officials announced this
week that country music per
forming artists Billy Ray Cyrus,
Lorrie Morgan and Collin Raye
will be in concert at the sth annual
Georgia National Fair this fall.
Lorrie Morgan and Collin Raye
will perform on October 8 and Billy
Ray Cyrus will perform on October
15.
Tickets go on sale June 30 are
$19.50 each. This price includes
gate admission to the fair.
For Reaves Arena ticket informa
tion, please call (912) 987-3247 or
1 -800/YUR-FAIR (toll free in
Georgia only).
City proposes $11.2 million budget
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Perry city government will cost
city residents $11.2 million in fis
cal year 1995. The fiscal year will
start July 1, 1994, and end on June
30, 1995.
The first reading of the city's
budget ordinance was given by
Councilman James Moore at the
council's regular meeting Tuesday,
June 7. The budget can not be
adopted until after the second read
ing, which will take place at the
regular council meeting on June 21.
The total budget breaks down to
$5.6 million for the general fund,
$2 million for the water fund and
$3.6 million for the gas fund.
The general fund budget is 25
In celebration of
‘Old Glory’!
Tuesday, June 14, is Flag
Day-the day Americans set
aside to pay special tribute
to the great American Flag
and all it symbolizes . . .the
glories and greatness of the
historic past. . .the duties of
the present. . .and the
hopes of the future.
What would ‘Old Glory' say
to us if it could talk?
Franklin Lane, Secretary of
Interior on the first Flag Day
in 1916, shared his Idea with
more than a thousand
employees. It went like this:
“ . . .1 am all that you hope
to be, and have the courage
to try for . . .1 am song and
fear, struggle and panic . . .1
am the day’s work of the
weakest man and the largest
dream of the most daring . .
.1 am the Constitution and
the courts . . .1 am the battle
of yesterday and the mis
take of tomorrow ...lam the
mystery of the men who do
with knowing why . . .1 am
the clutch of an idea and the
reasoned purpose of resolu
tion. I swing before your
eyes as a bright gleam of
color, a symbol of yourself,
the pictured suggestion of
that big thing which makes
this nation."
Nothing has changed In the
78 years since that first Flag
Day. Our flag remains
something special, the living
symbol of our great land. Fly
It proudly!
Dogwood Queen
wins Peach pageant
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Perry’s own Miss Dogwood
Queen 1994, Heather Wilder, is
sporting yet another crown these
days-this one being from the Third
Annual State Miss Georgia Peach
Pageant held last Saturday in By
ron.
The 18-ycar-old daughter of
Joyce Wilder of Perry and Bill
Wilder of Cornelia and a sophomore
at the University of Georgia,
Heather not only won the overall ti
tle of Miss Georgia Peach but also
won the pageant’s award for
“Prettiest Smile”, “Prettiest Dress”,
“Prettiest Face” and “Best
Sportswear”.
Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia
percent, or $1.9 million, lower than
the general fund budget for fiscal
year 1994.
Moore noted that the decrease in
the budget was due primarily to
four projects budgeted in fiscal year
1994. The last budget provided
funds to purchase the Houston
County Board of Education build
ing, build a community center at
Rozar Park, the Sandhill Phase 111
CDBG project and the James Street
project.
"These projects alone account for
$2.2 million, or 30 percent of this
year’s budget," said Moore.
"Without these major capital outlay
projects being taken into considera
tion, our overall general fund bud
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Additionally, the Westfield High
graduate tied with another contes
tant for the honor of “Miss Conge
nially”.
In other weekend pageant news,
Westfield student Jennifer Lane of
Fort Valley was named second run
ner up for the title of Junior State
Miss Georgia Peach Queen. The
junior pageant was held along with
the competition won by Wilder on
Saturday, June 4.
The 14-year-old daughter of Ann
and Terry Davis and Bobby Lane,
all of Fort Valley, Jennifer also
won the pageant’s award for
“Prettiest Smile” and “Prettiest
Dress”.
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Saturday, June 11, 1994
get would increase by approxi
mately seven percent."
Moore said that city expected to
receive $2.3 million in real estate,
or ad valorem, property tax rev
enues to meet the 1995 budget. He
said the city was expecting only
$12,570 more in property taxes this
year than it received last year.
"However," cautioned Moore,
"we will not know exactly what our
revenue will be until the middle of
September, after we receive our tax
digest from the county.
"Hopefully, our tax digest will
come up to our expectations so that
we will not have to raise our mil
lage rate or defer any particular bud
geted items," said Moore. "Our fis-
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Jennifer Lane, left, a Fort
Valley resident and a
student at Westfield
Schools, poses with Heather
Wilder of Perry following last
week's Third Annual State
Miss Georgia Peach Pageant
In ■: Byron. Wilder was
crowned queen and Lane was
second runner up In the
pageant's corresponding
junior competition.
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cal year 1994 budget millagc rate
was set at 14.52 mills."
While the city is not expecting
an increase in the property tax rate,
other fees will be going up.
Residential rates for garbage pickup
will go up $2 a month, while
commercial rates for garbage pickup
will go up $lO a month. The city
will also increase gas prices by 5.5
percent.
"To supplement the tax revenues
and other type revenues," said
Moore, "we will be drawing down
on our reserves by $120,884."
The city will put SIOO,OOO of
the reserve money into a contin
gency fund. The other $20,800 will
be used to fund the W.A.V.E. pro-
Budget calls
for garbage,
gas rate hike
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Perry residents will sec garbage
and gas rates go up after July 1
when the 1995 fiscal year budget
takes effect, the Perry City Council
decided during their regular meeting
Tuesday, June 7.
Residential garbage rates will go
up 17 percent, or $2 a month to
sl4 per month. Businesses that use
mobile-toters and containerized
trash will also see their rates go up
by $2, from sl7 to sl9.
Businesses that use dumpsters
will also see their rates go up $lO.
Dumpsters two cubic yards in size
will cost businesses $69 a month,
up from $59 per month. A four cu
bic yard dumpster will cost a busi
ness $123 a month after July 1,
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Randy Wynn
Democrat Randy Wynn
running for county post
Editor’s note: The following article on Randy Wynn Is the fifth
of a six part series Intended to Introduce Houston County voters
to the six candidates running for Houston County Commission
Post Two. Four candldates-Democrat Ronald Wayne Ragln of
Perry, Republican Nora Reese-Laughlln of Warner Robins, Re
publican J.B. ‘Jim’ Carter of Kathleen and Democrat Billy
Hunter of Bonaire were featured In our May 4, May 14, May 18
and June 4 editions, respectively. The final candidate,
Republican John F. Wylam, will appear sometime between now and
the July 19 General Primary Elections.
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
His campaign slogan is “win
with Wynn”.
His hope is to become the next
Houston County Commissioner.
“I moved my family here in
1969. Average working folks, I
worked at night and went to law
school during the day, all the while
Perry, Georgia -50 Cents
gram, a D.A.R.E.-type program m
local schools to combat violence.
Perry will undertake two major
projects in fiscal year 1995.
The Perry Water Department
will rehabilitate the sewer line lo
cated in the Tucker Road area. This
project, which will be covered with
funds in the water budget, will cost
the city $325,000.
"Hopefully, when this project is
complete, the magnitude of storm
water infiltrating this sewer line
will be reduced to a minimum,"
said Moore.
The Gas Department will spend
just under $300,000 to extend the
six-inch high pressure gas line from
Please see BUDGET, page 3A
compared to sll3 a month cur
rently.
Six cubic yard dumpsters will
cost businesses $176 a month, up
$lO. The largest dumpsters, eight
cubic yards, will cost businesses
$2lB a month, also up $lO.
The council also approved a 5.5
percent increase for natural gas. The
increase means that gas bills will
rise 55 cents for every $lO pur
chased in natural gas. A Perry resi
dent with a normal gas bill of S2O,
for instance, will see his gas bill
increase to $21.10.
Councilman Bobby Glover said
the rate hike was the result of gov
ernment regulations changing the
way gas flow is measured. He
added that the rate increase was the
first for the city since July 1, 1991.
supporting a family of seven,”
Randy Wynn, a Democrat, said
recently in introducing himself to a
group of voters gathered at a
political forum in Henderson. “I
have worked hard all my life, and, if
elected for this commission scat, I
will work just as hard for you-the
residents of Houston County.”
Please see WYNN, page 3A