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Church News Page 3A Houston Times-Journal Volume 124 No. 49 1 Section,B Pages Inside Today Calendar 5A Classifieds 7 A Dea th Notices 2A Editorials 4A Sports 7A Rack Rates Will Be $52/yr Buy a Subscription For $25 + tax & Save $25.75 Around town briefly... Time management, stress, focus of seminar Stressed out because you don’t have enough time to get your job done? Well, help is on the way! A seminar entitled Time Management and Stress Management in the Small Business will be held Thursday, June 30 in the Community Room at CB&T Bank from 7-9 p.m. The seminar is being co-sponsored by the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce and The Vniversity of Georgia mall Business Development Center. Instructor will be Bob Beeland with the UGA SBDC Continuing Education and some of the topics to be covered include setting priorities, eliminating unnecessary duplicating steps, understanding the causes of stress and learning relaxation tech niques. Cost of the course is S2O for chamber members and $25 for non members. Register by mailing payments to the local chamber at P.O. Box 592, 1105 Washington St, Perry, GA 31069. In order to reserve space, please register no later than Monday, June 27. Payment will be accepted the night of the program. For further information, contact the chamber at 987-1234. Red Cross blood drive will be held June 20 A community-wide blood drive will be held at Perry Hospital on Monday, June 20 from noon until 5:30 p.m. With blood shortages across the country, every available person is encouraged to "roll up their sleeves" and give blood. Remember-the life you save may be your own!! Agency needs funds to keep home BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer The Houston-Middle Georgia Red Cross Chapter has a new home. Problem is, unless the non profit group can raise about $90,000 during a special fundraising campaign which kicked off Wednesday during the facilities’ first open house, it may not be a permanent one. Located in Corder Centre on Corder Road in Warner Robins, the chapter began leasing their new of fices back in April after their lease agreement at their former home in the Kroger Plaza on Russell Parkway ended after three years. Since that time, they have been given the opportunity by property owner, Judge L.A. McConnell, to purchaise the Corder Road offices at a price which Chapter Director Sam Register describes as “excellent”. “Actually, Judge McConnell, who is also a former Red Cross chapter chairman Himself, has of fered to donate about one fourth of the value of the property to us,” BOE sets '95 budget at $79.6 million By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer The Houston County Board of Education set their fiscal year 1995 budget at $79.6 million during their regular meeting Tuesday, June 14. Board chairman Zell Blackmon said that he did not expect the new budget to result in an increase in the millage rate. The millage rate will be set in September when the board receives the tax digest from T-shirt campaign inspired by death of local teenager BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer Although the official Buckle Up America Week ended more than two weeks ago, its message continues to make a strong impact on local residents. Red and black bumper stickers urging all motorists to. “Be R.A.D.ical and Buckle Up” grace the back bumpers of hundreds of local automobiles and a 30-second public service announcement featuring the parents and fellow classmates of a local youngster who was killed in an accident just six months ago continues to touch the hearts of millions of viewers in the Middle Georgia area. Now, with the help of seven local sponsors, Sgt. Charles Parker of the Georgia State Patrol and concerned citizen and local business owner David Hilderbrand have come up with yet another catchy promotional tool—a T shirt. Like the commercial and bumper sticker, this latest creation is inspired by the 1993 death of 14-year-old Ralph Anthony “Rad” Do'rsett of Perry. Rad, the son of Ralph and Joan Dorsett and a freshman at Perry High School, died on November 13 last year, just hours after he and two other teens were involved in a one-car accident on Highway 341 North in Perry. The car’s driver and another passenger, both of who were wearing seatbelts, sustained only minor injuries. Rad, however, wasn’t so lucky-he hadn’t fastened his seatbelt and was thrown from the car. Register said this week. “In addition to that, our Board of Directors have pledged another $16,000, leaving us only about $90,000 to raise to complete the purchase.” According to Register, who notes that the local chapter has been chartered since 1975 and currently has nearly 5,000 members, the new facility has approximately 2,700 square feet of space and is considerably larger than the the group’s former offices. Because the facility was not completed when they moved in, chapter members also had the chance to design and finish the interior to their own specifications and now have room and facilities not only for a training center in which to conduct CPR and first aid courses, but also ample administrative space for day to day operations and, for the first time ever, a diasaster control room for managing emergency responses by volunteers. To introduce the public to the new facility, Register added that Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia tne county. Local funding makes up $26.3 million of the budget, up $1.4 mil lion from fiscal year 1994. Georgia will provide $52.1 million to Houston County schools in 1995, up $2.4 million from 1995. Federal sources will provide $1.22 million, down $250,000 from 1994’s $1.47 million. The board projects total revenue of $79.6 million in fiscal year In Memory of R.A.D.... ' ij f 4 -Mm? • JUST CjLKK lx * JUST CATCH IT. S .. ‘•J-.ivi X || mplr 'f 'MluTWt fTT awpftgfc ur> m • ww" '* ■ iust jjg JUST WEAR IT. Nancy Hilderbrand displays one of the new "Buckle Up" T-shirts which are being marketed locally in memory of the late Rad Dorsett of Perry. “If Rad’s death brings about any good in any way; if just one kid can profit from what happened to him; if just one life can be saved, then this tragedy will finally seem to have a reason, “ Joan Dorsett said recently in their Wednesday open house also featured an official ribbon cutting ceremony and special tours. The day also signified the kick off of the fundraising campaign which will help pay for the building. All dona tions are tax deductible and the names of all contributors will be permanently displayed in the of fices. “Donations in any amount will be greatly appreciated and will help make this dream become a reality,” Rev. Bill Martin, vice-chairman of the chapter’s board of directors said, adding that it would require an in vestment of only SSO to sponsor a square foot and only $450 to pur chase a square yard of the new building. The Houston Middle Georgia Chapter of the Red Cross provides disaster services, service to military families, blood procurement ser vices, and health and safety services to the people in a four county ser vice area, from Houston and Dooly to Macon and Pulaski counties. Please see HOME, page 3A For News And Subscriptions Call 912-987-1823 Sports Page 6A Saturday, June I‘i, 1994 _ 1995, up $3.5 million from fiscal year 1994. Expenditures in 1995 are pro jected up $4.8 million to $79.1 million. In fiscal year 1994, which is to end June 30, 1994, the board will spend $74.3 million. Almost two-thirds of the money spent by the board in 1995 will be in classroom instruction, with classroom costs making up $51.3 million of the budget. The board commenting on the local Buckle Up campaign. “Rad would be thrilled at the thought of helping others. If it will help someone else in any way, it will be wonderful.” The new T-shirts, which are : §^jfc^^tfc- I-J - Mg. ' H HB PSlpi Kg Jp The new home of the Houston-Middle Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross Is located In Corder Center, Corder Road, Warner Robins. The agency may lose their new residence If they cannot raise the funds needed to purchase the facility. Classified Page 7A will spend $7.2 million in mainte nance and operations, and $3.7 mil lion in teacher improvement. Pupil support services will cost the board $3.1 million in fiscal year 1995. Costs for transportation will be up slightly in fiscal year 1995, from $2.27 million to $2.36 mil lion. The board will spend $2.2 million on media services (libraries). The key cut in the 1995 budget available only at Hilderbrand’s Office Supply store, have been on the market for a couple of weeks. The first printing, which was sponsored by Trust Company Bank, the Perry Rotarv Club, Please see T-SHIRTS, page 3A Perry, Georgia -50C«n« 8 is in the amount of reserves for the fiscal year. In 1994, the board bud geted $l.B million in reserve, or contingency, funds. That amount was slashed by three-fourths in the 1995 budget to $507,000. Board member Shirley Lowery told the board that she was con cerned about the lack of money in the reserve fund, saying the school might have problems if a crisis oc curred. School board OKs plan to allow early school dismissals By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer Perry High School and Perry Middle School will open at 8 a.m., with local elementary schools open ing at 8:30 under a new transporta tion plan approved by the Houston County Board of Education during its regular meeting Tuesday, June 14. The new plan is designed to get students home earlier in the day. Under the old plan, students were leaving Perry High School as late as 4 p.m. Under the new plan, Perry High School and Perry Middle School will end their school days at 2:45 p.m., with the elementary schools closing at 3:15 p.m. Houston Porter, director of transportation for Houston County, said that schools should be cleared within 25 minutes of the school’s closing. In the morning, buses will drop off students at Perry High School first, then Perry Middle School and then the elementary schools. In the afternoon, buses will be waiting at Perry High School and Perry Middle School at 2:30 p.m. to pick up students. Those buses will then flip-flop before picking up students at the elementary schools. Students in all grade levels will continue to ride the buses together. Porter said the length of some Perry routes into South Houston County made it impractical to separate stu dents by grade level. "Perry's demographics force it to remain the least impacted by both proposals," wrote Porter in a report to the board. "In fact, the way that we are offering to do business (transportation wise) in Perry is not much different than what we are do ing now." Porter said that the changes were not perfect, but should make get ting to school and away from school easier. "It's a change," he said, "and everybody doesn’t like change."