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Public schools will be
re-inspected for asbestos
Dear Editor:
The Houston County School System is pleased to announce its
compliance with the federal regulations concerning the Asbestos Hazard
Response Act (A.H.E.R.A.).
To comply with these regulations, all public and private elementary,
middle, and secondary schools must be re-inspected for all friable and non
friable asbestos-containing materials by an accredited inspector. In
addition, an Asbestos Management Plan must be updated by an accredited
planner and submitted to the Georgia State Department of Education by
July 9, 1993.
A copy of this Asbestos Management Plan is located in each school
office and is available to the public. Anyone desiring a copy of the Plan
may obtain a copy by paying a reasonable copying fee.
As always, the Houston County School System is pleased to comply
with all aspects of State and Federal Government to assure a safe, healthy,
and effectively environment for our children and our employees.
Tony Hinnant,
Superintendent
Program could not have
worked without businesses
Dear Editor:
The moderately and severely intellectually disabled classes at Houston
County High School have been involved in a unique job training program
this year. This project entitled "Supported Employment Transition
Services" was provided through a federal grant from Georgia State
University.
Several businesses have been very cooperative and willing to have our
students come and learn different job skills and social skills in a natural
work environment. The students eagerly went to their jobs every day and
were willing to do their best! They also made many new friends and
cherished memories to last a lifetime.
The students and their instructors really appreciate the following
businesses and their employees for the opportunity to enhance the lives of
these students: Elizabeth Wood, Kroger/Perry; Rev. Tom Mason,
FUMC/Centerville; Irvin Mull, Social Security Administration; Cathie
Little, Holiday Inn; Carolyn Kudart, Gail Stinson, Cidny Renno, Danny
Thomas and Donny Fletcher, all of the Houston Medical Center; David
Clark, Chick-Fil-A/Perry and Vicki Ball of Po Folks.
Sincerely,
Judy Youmans
Job Developer
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Violence, health care, English and T-shirts
Someone handed me a slip of
paper the other day that listed the
seven root causes of violence
according to Mohandas Gandhi. Let
me pass them on to you. (1)
Wealth without work; (2) Pleasure
without conscience; (3) Knowledge
without character; (4) Commerce
without morality; (5) Science
without humanity; (6) Worship
without sacrifice; (7) Politics
without principles.
Most of the above are on target,
but allow me to add my list of
seven other root causes of violence.
(1) Children without discipline; (2)
Welfare without understanding; (3)
Drugs without prescriptions; (4)
Education without willing learners;
(5) Bodies without jobs; (6) People
without love; (7) Families without
God.
Think about it. You can
probably come up with seven more
causes of violence.
Since the Bill Clinton health
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Perry Scrapbook
As part of her duties when she was the reigning Miss Georgia, Kelly Jerles of Perry visited
the Rattlesnake Roundup In Claxton, Ga. and (ugh!) became well acquainted with the
snakes featured. Pictured with Miss Jerles Is Ken Darnell and his snake. This photo was
taken by Jonas N. Jordan of Visual Concepts Photography In Claxton.
STREET TALK:
As the Georgia Lottery readies to celebrate its first anniversary, we asked six local
residents how they feel about the way proceeds have been appropriated thus far.
We also asked if they play and how they rate their win-loss ratio to date.
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Magnolia Worthy
“Myself, I’ve tried it two or
three times, but really
haven’t won anything. Re
gardless, I feel it is helping
education just like they
said it would.”
Mitch Tribble
Secretary
Robbin Jackson
“Thus far, I haven’t seen
that many results from the
proceeds, but if they do
what they intended, it will
be great for the school
system. Personally, I don’t
waste my money on
gambling.”
Houston Times-Journal
care debate began, Americans
without medical insurance has risen
from around 34 million as first
estimated, to 58 million as our
President alleged in his State of the
Union address earlier this year.
Overnight the President's speech
writers have given us a 45 percent
increase. That's not hard to
understand though, since Clinton is
bent on stampeding us into
supporting his plan.
Edwin Fueler, President of The
Heritage Foundation says 38.5
million uninsured Americans is all
his research institute can find.
"There are lies, !#?!/ lies, and
statistics," he says.
Would you believe that our
nation's government has never
adopted English as their official
language? Over the years nearly
150 members of Congress have co
sponsored legislation that would
make English the official language
of the U.S. government, only to
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Jimmy Kovac
"I think they’re spending it
right. I play every week
and I’d say I’m about
even.”
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Hazel Kersey
"If it is being spent appro
priately, I don’t understand
why the school’s millage
rate is going up. I play
once and a while and so
far I’ve won zilch.”
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see the majority of lawmakers
seared off by false accusations of
racism.
Pardon me, but I don't
understand! Isn't this the United
States of America where the vast,
vast majority of our citizens speak
only one language, and that is
English?
Listen to this. An Independence
Day swearing in ceremony last year
for a U.S. citizenship held in
Tuscon, Arizona was held primarily
in Spanish. Nearly 15,000
Floridians each month take driver's
license exams in Spanish. One
question, how do they read or
understand the road signs, or
communicate with any native
American? Maybe they shouldn't
be here unless they learn our
language.
And, finally, we understand that
Greenville High School Principal
Charlie Glanton ordered several
white guys to remove the T-shirts
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Steve Dozier
"I think the proceeds are
being spent fairly. I play
now and then, and so far
I’m about even.”
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Terry Felder
"I don’t really know and I
don’t play.”
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they were wearing recently with
emblems of the Georgia State Flag
on them (Rebel flag to some). And
yet we also understand that the
same Mr. Glanton has allowed
black guys to wear T-shirts to
school with Malcolm X emblems
on them. A double standard I
would say.
Actually, it seems to me the
best policy would be for our Board
of Education to ban T-shirts on
either side of an issue that could
cause any additional tension
between our races. Lord knows
that's the last thing we need.
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Perry’s own
Senator Nunn
graces ‘GQ’
When a co-worker came into the
the office this week wielding the
latest issue of GQ, I must admit I
was quite surprised to find our own
United States Sen. Sam Nunn a
lead story.
Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s
not that I don’t think of GQ as a re
spectable magazine with respectable
articles. What little I’ve seen of it,
it is.
And, it’s not that I don’t think
of Sen. Nunn has a worthy topic. I
definitely do.
It’s just I never really pictured
our stately Senator as GQ material.
Even though he is always
dressed to perfection; always look
ing spit-shined, polished and most
dignified-a very appropriate look
for a man in his position-like most
people, I still sometimes fall prey
to stereotypes and have always as
sumed GQ' s subjects would be
more of the Calvin Klein billboard
types.
An assumption that the more I
think about it, really isn’t fair,
especially considering that GQ
stands for Gentleman’s Quarterly
and Sam Nunn certainly fits the def
inition of a gentleman.
Well, anyway, once I got over
the initial shock of seeing Sen.
Nunn somewhere besides in a news
oriented magazine like Newsweek, I
settled into my chair and poured
over the article. To my surprise, it
was really very interesting and of
fered an enlightening inside look
into our senator from Perry and his
career as “the second-most-powerful
man in Washington”.
Like some many writers before
him, author John B. Judis described
Sen. Nunn as one without a hidden
agenda; a man whose quest for
power is based on what he believes
to be morally right and in the na
tional interest; a man who, even
after so many years in the nation’s
capitol, displays little—if any-of
the venality and cynicism that have
corrupted and transformed so many
fellow politicians from fledgling
idealists into hypocrites and
poseurs.
He said Sen. Nunn was an un
meditated product of the southern
smali-town environment in which
he grew up-Perry-and he talked
about a visit here in which he vis
ited a number of the senator’s
family and friends in an attempt to
get a true feel for his subject. What
he found, of course, was good solid
roots.
But, I already knew all that; I’ve
grown up hearing about Sam Nunn
and learned first-hand when, as news
editor of the then Houston Home
Journal, I got the chance to tag
along after him for a couple of days
in Washington in the late 1980’s.
What I didn’t know (perhaps, be
cause I haven’t been paying enough
attention to national politics of
late) is that, according to Judis,
Sen. Nunn appears to be getting
quite restless these days with his
role in Washington.
I knew that the senator has
given some pretty vague answers in
the past months when asked if he
would run for the Senate again in
Please see THOMPSON, page 5A