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Your view
BOE candidate draws support
Editor:
Like most parents there is nothing more important to me than
my children. I am deeply concerned and attentive to anything
that has a significant impact on their future, especially their
education. Further, I have been disappointed with the lack of
attention given to the Houston County Board of Education, Post
6 race by most of the local news media. I can not think of a
more important responsibility than safeguarding our system of
public education.
To that end I am urging the voters of Houston County to
seriously consider Mr. Thomas E. Whitten for the Post 6, at
large seat on our Board of Education. I have known Mr.
Whitten for a number of years and there are many reasons why
he is the right person for this important job.
First, he has a demonstrated commitment to the youth of
Houston County. He has been very active in the local youth
recreational sports program and is a third year Certified Youth
Sports Coach (NYSCA). He has also been active in the
Industry in the Classroom and Business Partners Programs,
served as a Mentor and was a PTC Co-President with his wife
of 20 years. He has invested many long hours in building a
sense of pride, and self-confidence within a number of young
people in the country.
He is qualified. Mr. Whitten graduated with honors with a
Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Finance and Economics plus
earned a Masters of Business Administration from a major
university. As a member of the senior management staff of a
local manufacturing facility, he has made a significant
contribution to the development of an effective Total Quality
Philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement, achieving
excellence, integrity and customer satisfaction. He can bring
this same focus to our board of education.
Thirdly, he is committed to open, accountable government,
fiscal responsibility and a sole focus on the best interests of our
children. These are issues that should be of concern to every
citizen of Houston County. Mr. Whitten clearly has the county
wide vision required to be effective in this at-large post.
Finally, like myself, Mr. Whitten is a devoted, concerned
parent. His children attend Houston County Public Schools and
he, therefore, has a vested interest in the quality and
effectiveness of our school system. He can bring a much
needed parent's perspective to our Board of Education.
We have a very good public school system, something that
we can all be proud of. However I believe that Mr. Whitten has
the right qualifications, the right commitment and the proper
perspective to meet today's challenges. He can make a
significant contribution to raising our public schools to the next
level of excellence and deserves an opportunity to serve Houston
County on the Board of Education, Post 6.
Sincerely,
Vanessa Gates,
Warner Robins
Fair volunteers derserve praise
Fair Food Booth: Ten days of
selling barbecue sandwiches and
cokes netted the chamber $2,900.
Thanks and kudos to over 100
chamber volunteers that staffed the
booth during the fair. Steering
committee comprised of Skip
Dawkins, Paul Hicks, Jim Sexton
and Elizabeth Flowers did an
outstanding job.
Last call for Leadership Perry
nominations To learn more about
the leadership classes call the
chamber at 987-1234.
Christmas at the Crossroads
parade will be held on Saturday,
Dec. 3rd at 2 p in. We welcome
anyone that would like to
participate in the parade. Entry
forms available at the chamber
office.
Tourism committee: Chaired by
Connette Gayle has been
responsible for distributing posters
on Agricenter events and laminated
city maps to local businesses. New
printing of walking/driving tour
brochure of Perry will soon be
available.
Welcome new members: Bill’s
10-71 restaurant, owned by John
Stinson and Advanced Auto store
manager, Larry Bennett. Stop by
and welcome them on behalf of the
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chamber to our business
community.
Joint business after hours: Over
two hundred members from the
Perry and Warner Robins chiunbers
attended this event held at Houston
Lake Country Club. Macon
College, Trust Company Bank and
Houston Lake Country Club
sponsored the Business After
Hours. Thanks for hosting this
outstanding event.
Workplace Literacy Conference:
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 9:30 a.m. to 3
p in. at the Georgia Agricenter in
the Roquemore Conference Center.
This conference is designed to
provide area business leaders with
up-to-date information about
workplace literacy prognuns-what
works and will work most
effectively in your business setting.
Workshop conducted by Middle
Georgia Tech with Perry Chamber
as one of the co-sponsors.
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Why don't candidates throw some serious mud?
It's the silly season in American
life. It's election time.
Right now, across the nation,
candidates are hard at work trying to
convince you that they are the best
choice for the seat that they are
running for. Yes, this is the season
where candidates tell you exactly
where they stand on an issue so that
you can make the best choice of
which candidate will you represent
you in whatever local, state or fed
eral race that's open.
And before you think I was bom
in the morning, let me assure you
that I was—at 7 a.m. precisely. It
just wasn't yesterday morning.
No, what is going on now is a
deliberate distortion of the facts,
bending the numbers and the details
to suit one side or the other, lying
and a thousand other tilings. In fact,
many politicians are not trying so
much to get you to believe that
they are the best choice as Uiey are
trying to get you to believe that
their opposition is the absolutely
worst choice.
And, predictably, we are hearing
candidates across the nation crying
foul. I love it when a candidate to
day cries for a return to the old days
of politics, when the game was
conducted between gentlemen who
Remember when: A view of the past in Houston
5 Years Ago
Nov. 1, 1989
Hayneville firefighters raised
awareness and money for needed
equipment at their haunted Fire sta
tion and carnival...
A third fake S2O bill surfaced at
Bank of Perry. Other bills were
found at Dixie's restaurant on
Carroll St. and at Bank South.. .
Perry Hospital Administrator
Steve Johnson reported that Georgia
hospitals were preparing to lobby
the Georgia General Assembly for
more help in caring for Medicaid,
Medicare and indigent patients.
More than $1 million in services
has gone unpaid at the hospital this
year. That's about 25% of the
gross income, he said...
The Houston County Board of
Tax Assessors told the county
commissioners that more personnel
were needed to cope with new
changes in the laws governing the
preparation of the tax digest.
10 Years Ago
Oct. 25, 1984
Oct., 1984 was one of the driest
Octobers in history. The drought
took its toll in crops, lawns, gar
dens.
A two-county water area was
planned, with the designer propos
ing a system that would provide
Houston County water to Peach
County residents in Pecan Haven
and Sherwood Subdivision near
Perry.
I he Houston County Board of
Commissioners agreed to ask the
firm of Tribble and Richardson, Inc.
of Macon to work on designing the
new water district off U. S. Hwy.
41. . .
Crest view Baptist Church burned
its mortgage during Homecoming,
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weighed the issues clearly and
never, ever, attacked their opponent.
I love it because, knowing the
timid nature of political campaigns
today—yes, I said timid—l wonder
if tliey could survive the vicious
campaigns of just a few decades and
centuries ago.
How many of you know how
newspapers, the guardians of truth,
liberty and the American way, got
their start in America?
You see, printing has never been
an easy way to make a dollar or
two. And, since advertising and the
"modem" newspaper is a relatively
new idea, early publishers had to
find a way to meet some of their
obligations: paper, ink, printing
presses, labor, the tab at the local
bar, etc.
Remember, also, this is in the
days before radio and television.
Newspapers really were die mass
Remember
When
Oct. 28-31, rendering the church
debt free. ..
The cane grinding ai t was being
kept alive by Frank Wilson on a
winding road near Perry...
Dr. A. G. Hendrick turned over
his practice on Nov. 1 to Dr. Phil
Mathias, whose wife was a native
of Perry.
25 Years Ago
Oct. 23, 1969
Malcolm Reese will seek the
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views on
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good. $500.00 obo.
media, since the printed page was
the only sure way to reach a large
number of people. 'Most large
towns had several papers, making
the competition for readers intense.
In order to make a profit, the edi
tors and publishers had to find
sponsors. Because political parties
were looking for readers, they were
the most likely source of those
funds. And, nearly every newspaper
in the nation was sponsored by a
political party. The Houston Home
Journal, for instance, was founded
as a Democratic newspaper.
Newspapers today are supposed
to be objective, reporting the facts
of everyday life. But, newspapers in
the 1800 s slanted their coverage to
the party paying the bills.
A Republican president would
never get a fair shake in a
Democratic newspaper, and vice
versa. In Democratic newspapers,
Republicans were the Party of
Satan, with all kinds of evil
ascribed to the party. Not that
Republicans could argue, since the
Grand Old Party accused the
Democrats of the same thing.
Presidential campaigns, espe
cially, were horrible. The candidate
might as well as robbed the treasury
at his last post since the opposition
mayor's job and Richard Goodroe
resigns council post to run against
him. . . ~
George C. Nunn Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Nunn, passed the
Georgia bar examination. Nunn was
a graduate of Emory University's
Law School, where he was an out
standing student. . .
Col. Andrew Chaffin, newly
hired administrative assistant for the
County, was welcomed by the
Commissioners. . .
Houston County citizens, in a
public meeting voted to recommend
the elimination of the Mossy Creek
dividing line for election of county
officials...
Houston County was threatened
by the First National Bank of
Vidalia, holder of water revenue cer
tificates, to recover SIO,OOO in in
terest which was due Oct. 1, 1969.
If the case went to court, the
Houston County Water System
would have been thrown into re
ceivership because of its financial
condition. . .
Drug abuse is becoming a seri
ous problem here, Houston County
Juvenile Officer Sandy Harris told
Rotarians. . .
Jim Worrall, Principal of Perry
Grammar School, spoke to
Women's Club on the dangers of
Communism. He noted the meth
ods used by communists to bring
about the downfall of U.S.A. by
1972, by their own predictions.
It is their intention to break
down the family way of life in
America, said Worrall, as the
Russia state breaks up Russia's
families and sends their young
adults, in particular, to jobs picked
by the state. . .
Macon's 15-year-old Lynn Accy
won the Houston Lake Ladies
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press was going to state that he did.
You could, for example, say that
the partisan press caused the Civil
War with its verbal attacks on Abe
Lincoln, whose ancestry was ques
tioned in Democratic columns, with
some even giving him Satanic
parentage. And he was not the first
candidate to be so libeled, nor was
he the last.
Andrew Jackson and Aaron Burr,
among others, fought duels because
of the lies that were told by oppo
nents campaigning against them.
In fact my favorite campaign
took place in Florida in the early
19505. It was a Congressional race,
and I can not find the names of the
parties involved. But, if my mem
ory is correct, the Democratic nom
inee could not find anything bad to
say about his Republican opponent
so he called him a practicing homo
sapien, a believing monodieist, a
practicer of monogamy and many
oilier horrible crimes.
My advice to those running to
day is to stop and smell the roses.
There is a reason that many did not
run again in the past after being de
feated. Either you won, or your
reputation was shot. We ain't seen
any real mud in a long, long time.
Championship Flight. . .
A Perry-Andersonville-Cordele
"Tourist Loop" was considered,
leaving 1-75 at Perry and rejoining
it at Cordele. Perry would be the
starting point of the " Andersonville
"Trail." . . .
The Perry High School Key
Club was recognized during
National Key Club Week. "We
Build" was their theme, and the
club was sponsored by the Perry
Kiwanis Club. . .
King's Chapel received an Award
of Merit.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 26, 1944.
The Sixth War Loan Drive be
gan in November. ..
Houston County Tax Books
were open for payment of 1944
taxes. Residents could pay on or
before Dec. 20, 1944, and avoid a
penalty, said M. E. Akin, Tax
Collector, Houston County, Ga. ..
Moore Dry Goods Company,
had Ladies Georgiana rayon crepe
dresses on sale for $8.95...
Walgreen pure aspirin tablets,
bottle 100, were on sale, two for
51 cents. . .
The Houston Drug Co, a
Walgreen Agency Drug Store, had a
one-cent sale Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 26-28. ..
Sugar stamps numbered 30, 31,
32 and 33 in Book 4 were good for
five pounds each indefinitely.
Shoe stamps 1 and 2 on the
“airplane” sheet in Book 3 were
valid for one pair of footwear each
indefinitely. "Airplane" stamp
Number 3 became good Nov. 1...
Farm cash income gained in
Georgia during first six months of
1944. The gain in 1944 was more
than same period in previous year.