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Perry, Ga.
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Volume 125—N0. 73—16 Pages
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1994
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Don't forget!
Church offers flu shots
The annual flu shot cam
paign sponsored by Andrew
UMC and the Houston County
Health Department has a new
twist this year—a chicken din
ner with your shot.
Members of the church are
inviting everyone to come out
to the church for a free chicken
dinner tonight, Wed., Oct. 19,
and get your annual flu shot.
Supper will be served begin
ning at 6:30 p.m.
After supper those attending
are urged to get their flu shot
for a fee of $5.
The church is located on
Georgia Highway 127 between
Houston Lake and Moody
Road in Kathleen. Everyone is
urged to attend and get a shot.
News
Elko Festival
The town of Elko will hold its
second annual rail festival
Nov. 5. Page 2A.
Veterans Column
A Veterans information column
is not new, says Nancy Hawk.
But, it appears for the first time
in the Times-Journal. Page 3A.
Gospel Meeting
The Perry Church of Christ will
have a gospel meeting around
the theme of the Bible has the
answer starting Oct. 23 and
lasting to Oct. 27 Page SA.
Championship Form
Terry Hatfield took three
showhorses to a national horse
show and came back with
seven ribbons and one national
title. Page 18.
Long Employment
In a time where employees
change jobs like changing
clothes, Columbus Green is
different. He is retiring from
Davis Oil Company after 48
years. Page 28.
Sports
Friday Night's Action
Westfield lost a heartbreaker
to Stratford, 17-14, in a
rematich of the 1993 G.I.S.A.
AAA state championship
game. Perry's homecoming
was disrupted by Dodge
County 20-17. Page 6A.
Youth Basketball
The Perry Parks and Recre
ation Department is taking ap
plications for youth basketball
starting Oct. 31. Page 6A
Panthers In Playoffs?
Despite losses to Dodge
County and West Laurens, the
Panthers are still very much in
the Region 3AA playoff pic
ture. Page 7A
In Sympathy
The community’s sympathy
is extended to the families of
those who recently died. They
include: Alma Parker Gray,
Erlene Williamson Bowen, Vir
ginia Scott Hathaway, Eunice
Stubbs Lee, Myrtle Louise
Rowe Rawlins nd Issac Leroy
Reynolds. See details page
2A.
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Houston Times- Joupuol
Day to honor
industries in
the Perry area
The Perry Chamber of
Commerce, Warner Robins
Chamber of Commerce and the
Houston County Development
Authority are sponsoring a Industry
Appreciation Day Oct. 25 at the
Houston Lake Country Club.
The day will start at 1 p.m. with
a shotgun scramble. At 6 p.m.
there will be a pig picking for area
businesses. The golfers participat
ing in the scramble will be fed at
noon.
Peggie Williams, president of
the Perry Chamber of Commerce,
said that there was no formal pro
gram for the day. "It is a fun day,”
she said.
Williams said that companies
that had not responded to the invita
tions mailed to them needed to con
tact the Development Authority
ASAP if they planned to take part
in the day. The number at the
Development Authority is 953-
5407.
Williams said the day was to ap
preciate existing industries, which
she said created 80 percent of new
jobs in a community.
The Perry area has some major
employers, said Williams, includ
ing Northrop, PPG, Tolleson
Lumber and Kellwood. "We've got
some very strong industries here,"
she said.
Henderson well
Residents of Henderson should
be noticing better water with the
completion of a new well for the
community.
Henderson residents have long
complained about iron in their wa
ter, saying it made washing
clothes difficult and keeping
things clean impossible. Houston
County Commission Chairman
Sherrill Stafford said that the new
well should help alleviate the iron
problem in Henderson's water
supply.
Stafford added that the new well
will give the county a back up
system in the Southwest part of
the county, since the old well will
still be in use.
In the photo, Commissioner
Larry Snellgrove takes a drink
from the well, while Stafford
waits for his turn.
Over 15,000
visit festival
The* organizers of Mossy Creek
Barnyard Festival saw something
unusual Saturday and Sunday—sun
shine.
It wasn't so much that the previ
ous five days had featured rain and
cloudy skies that led the organizers
to fear rain; but, that Mossy Creek
had seen a lot of rain in the past
few years.
"We know that we are certainly
pleased with the sunshine," said
Carolyn Carter, who said that over
15,000 people from 26 states at
tended the festival. She noted that
last year the festival went on under
a "flood" of rain.
Carter would not say if the at
tendance was a record breaking
crowd, adding that most of the fes
tivals had to fight with rain. "But,
it was better than it is when it was
raining," she said.
"Everything went smoothly,"
said Carter.
Mossy Creek is a semi-annual
event, with profits going back into
the festival. The festival is a non
profit event.
The next festival will be in the
Spring, April 22-23. Carter said the
festival was moved from the third
Saturday in April because of las ter.
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halftime at the Perry—Dodge County homecoming
game. A photo of the complete homecoming court is
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Over 15,000 came to Mossy Creek Saturday and
Sunday to learn how things were done a century or
so ago. Here a craftsman demonstrates a blacksmith's
forge.
Funding cuts could
hurt library system
By VETO F. ROLEY
News Editor
When the Warner Robins City
Council voted to get out of the
county library business, they
threatened the entire library system,
said Judy Golden, head librarian for
the Houston County libraries.
Warner Robins recently an
nounced their intention to cut back
on funding for the library 20 per
cent a year until they were no
longer supporting the system.
However, state rule 160-6-2-.01 (2)
f requires that local funding for the
library be equal to the previous
year's funding, or state and federal
funding to a library will be cut off.
What this means in practical
terms is that the Houston County
Library System not only stands to
lose $172,000 in funding from
Warner Robins, but over $300,000
in federal and state funds, making a
potential shortfall of nearly
$500,000.
"The system will dissolve," said
Golden if the library loses that
much money, which is about Uiree
quarters of the library's budget.
Golden said that the system had
no idea where it would make up the
money being cut by Warner
Robins, adding that "one of the
other funding agencies" would have
to make up the difference. There are
Fair sets new record
By VETO F. ROLEY
News Editor
Bad weather could not keep the
Georgia National Fair from having
a record-breaking week, said
Michael Froehlich, executive direc
tor of the fair.
Despite low attendance Monday
through Friday because of overcast
and rainy skies, the crowds came
back the last weekend, Saturday and
Sunday, when the clouds broke,
said Froehlich. "The last Saturday
made up for four days of rain," he
said.
Froehlich said that over 314,000
people attended the fair, and increase
of one-and-a-half percent over last
year's attendance. He added that the
number of entries and exhibitors
also broke records. He added that
people from all 159 Georgia coun
ties and 30 states came to Perry to
attend the Fair.
"It tells us that word is spreading
about us," said Froehlich.
Valley Drive will be re-paved
By VETO F. ROLEY
News Editor
Valley Road will be getting a
new surface, according to Mayor
Jim Worrall.
Tommy Stalnaker, superinten
dent of public works for Houston
County, which will be the agency
in charge of the project, said the
road would be resurfaced from the
Houston County line to Highway
-341.
A date for the start of construc
tion has not been set, since the
work can not begin until the state
issues a work order. Stalnaker said
Chase ends in wreck, arrest
A high speed chase that started
in Dooly County nearly ended in
tragedy for a Mississippi man
Sunday afternoon about 5 p.m. at
the Thompson Road exit in Perry.
Dooly County Sheriff Van
Peavy said that two of his officers
were on Interstate 75 Sunday look
ing for a drunk driver when a BMW
driven by Derrick Frezzell drove
past their position at over "20
miles over the speed limit."
Peavy said his officers gave pul
suit, with the chase reaching speeds
of 110 miles per hour. The chase
ended when Frezzell crashed his ve
hicle into a light pole and pine tree
at the end of the Thompson Road
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Letters 4A
Pauline Lewis 1B
four funding agencies for the library
system: Perry, Centerville, Warner
Robins and Houston County.
Perry currently gives around
$41,000 to the system, Houston
County, $129,000, and Centerville,
just under $13,000.
"Houston County is not able to
make up the difference," said
Houston County Commission
Chairman Sherrill Stafford Monday.
"We do not have the financial abil
ity."
One of the reasons that Houston
County is limited to what they can
do is the tax cap, which limits the
amount of revenue the county can
raise in taxes.
"The tax cap restricts what you
have to spend," said Stafford. "You
have to budget expenditures in the
most efficient manner possible, and
we are doing that now.”
Stafford added that die county's
limited budget was being taxed by
housing excess prisoners outside
the county. Already the county has
used up the money budgeted for
those expenses, and is dipping into
the contingency to make up the ex
tra expenditures.
"There are no funds out there
that we can shift to die library pro
gram," said Stafford.
Froehlich said it was still too
early to gauge the total economic
impact of the fair to Perry, saying
the Final numbers were not in from
the vendors, ticket sellers and such
like. However, he said the impact
was "tremendous," adding that the
ride company alone purchased over
$25,000 in fuel to keep their elec
tric generators powered.
The 8.8. C., which was in town
to Film the fair, decided to stay a lit
tle longer, said Froehlich. Also,
over 80 Ohio fair managers took in
the fair on Sunday, he said.
While the fair is gone from the
Fairways, that does not mean the
Agricenter is quiet, said Froehlich.
The Agricenter has three major
events lined up for the next few
weeks including the Wonder Lodge
Rally in the Valley, which will
bring several hundred R.V.s into
town. The next major event at the
Agricenter will be the rodeo in
February.
he expected such an order to come
in the next two-to-three weeks,
with construction starting one week
after the order.
Valley Road runs parallel to
Highway 341, and has been used as
a detour by traffic while the bridge
between Perry and Fort Valley on
Highway 341 is being repaired.
Worrall said Valley Road was not
intended to handle the U.S.
Highway traffic, and was being de
stroyed by the traffic.
Valley Road is a simple gravel
and tar road, said Worrall.
exit.
Frezzell was thrown from the
car, which caught fire, and was
taken to Perry Hospital where he
was treated for minor injuries and
released.
Although Frezzell was not the
drunk driver Dooly County officials
were looking for, he was running
from the law. Peavy said that his
deputies ran Frezzell's license plates
during the chase and found that he
was wanted on a felony embezzle
ment warrant in Mississippi.
Frezzell is currently in jail, wait
ing for Mississippi officials to file
extradition papers.
Deaths 2A
Peggy Williams 4A
Veto Roley 4A
Sports 6A
Editorials 4A