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City Council backs away from parking ordinance
Some questioned if the law was enforceable and legal, mayor promises another law later
By LARRY HITCHCOCK
Times-Journal News Editor
Problems with enforcement and “too
many loopholes” brought an abrupt end to
Perry’s first attempt to curtail on-street park
ing by downtown business owners and
employees at the Jan. 17 city council meet
ing.
The council had proposed forbidding on
street parking by employers and employees
of downtown businesses in an effort to keep
the relatively few available spaces open for
the shopping public.
Perry Chamber celebrates 40th birthday
From Staff Reports
• Perry Area Chamber of Commerce banquet
committee chairwoman Pat Buice brought
some familiar names to mind Jan. 19 when she
helped members of the chamber celebrate the
organization’s 40th birthday.
Relying on minutes from the first meeting of
the organization, July 11, 1955, Buice told the
crowd of about 250 persons on hand for the cel
ebration that Stanley E. Smith chaired that first
Pat Buice named
Hickson award winner
By Jj Johnson
Times-Journal Editor
Pat Buice received the top
honor the Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce presents and new
chairman Rusty Wood outlined
1995 goals for the organization
during the 39th annual meeting of
the Chamber Jan. 19.
Buice. who has been chair of
the annual meeting committee for
the past six years, was presented
the award by Chamber President
Peggie Williams.
Buice said the Seabie Hickson
Community Service Award was
presented annually to persons who
demonstrated outstanding leader
ship in the community.
Hunt finds good in justice system, helps roast Nunn
From Staff Reports
The almost 250 persons who attended the
39th annual Perry Area Chamber of Commerce
had a chance to participate in an unannounced
"Roast George Nunn" event
They also heard the speaker of the evening,
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Willis
Hunt, say that there is much good about the
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ill start next week at the
tent of Labor Perry office for
ileman brewery,
dant manager will take over
;cording to brewery officials,
y will reopen April 1 making
rink iced tea under a contract
lito, Vultaggio & Sons, mak
triZona brand iced tea and
tsed beverages,
deberman. plant manager at
rewery when it closed in
', was called back on a tem
lervise the renovation of the
ant from a beer brewery to a
lant which produces iced
tea.
The company asked me to
is. The new plant manager is
Robins by Anchor a good friend of mine and he’ll be here next
Glass Corp. week," Lieberman said Friday.
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Young farmers
Meeting at Agricenter A 8
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Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
The final reading of the ordinance was on
the agenda for last week’s council meeting,
but after hearing from seven representatives
of the down town business community, the
proposed ordinance was defeated unani
mously.
But the reprieve for those who favor
parking on the street is only temporary.
Mayor Jim Worrall and several councilmen
said there would be another ordinance pre
pared which would seek to address the
enforcement problems and loopholes in the
original ordinance.
meeting. Serving as secretary for the meeting
was Cooper Etheridge.
"Some 80 businessmen signed up that night
at S3O per year membership in the Perry
Chamber,” Buice reported. By the end of the
year, the chamber had 97 members. Smith was
named the president of the organization.
Of the original businesses in the chamber, 19
are still in operation in Perry today, Buice
reported.
Buice, a graduate of Richmond
Academy in Augusta,
Mercer University before moving
to PerTy with her husband, Avon
Buice, in 1959.
A Baptist and a former presi
dent of the Beltista Club, Buice
was manager of Maffett’s in
downtown Perry for many years
before the store closed last year.
She remains active in business
w>li her own bridal consulting
business.
Buice has been active with the
Perry Downtown Council and rep
resents the area on the Georgia
Arts Alliance.
(See BUICE, page A 5)
judicial system in the country.
After joining in on the "roasting” of Nunn,
Hunt turned to the court system. He told mem
bers of the local business community that the
system still needs honest, contributing members
of society to help attorneys make the system
work.
Hunt said Americans must show persistence
Tea Time in Perry!
Workers preparing former Heileman Brewery to make Arizona Iced Tea
Celebrating i2p years of service 10 me citizens ot Houston uouniy
Snyder Chapman, whose accounting firm
is at 901 Carroll St., told the council the pro
posed ordinance brought to mind two ques
tions enforcement and, was the law con
stitutional?
“The police would have to know every
vehicle everyone who works downtown dri
ves,” Chapman said. “I don’t see how it can
be enforced. There are four vehicles in my
family that I drive interchangeably.
“The other question I have is if the ordi
nance is constitutional, “ Chapman said.
“I wonder how you can have one law and
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TIME OF CELEBRATION Pat Buice (left) receives con
gratulations from Chamber President Peggie Williams after
Buice was named winner of the Seabie Hickson Community
Service Award at the Perry Chamber banquet.
Lieberman said the company’s contract
with the union called for former employees to
have first crack at any jobs available if, and
when, the brewery reopened. There were
approximately 270 union members when the
brewery closed. The new operation is expect
ed to have about 100 employees.
“The interviews will start at the Georgia
Department of Labor office the week of Jan.
30,” Lieberman said. “Training those hired
will begin in February and the plant is due to
officially open April 1,” he said.
AriZona Iced Tea is a major player in one
of the most competitive and toughest con
sumer categories of all, the beverage industry.
In the three years since it first entered the fray,
AriZona has jumped to the number three posi
tion, close behind iced tea brands owned by
Pepsi and Quaker Oats.
AriZona packaging is adorned with ancient
native American symbols and colors. The
appeal of Arizona’s product packaging is so
strong many customers even collect the cans.
Part of the company’s marketing strategy is its
tie to the American West, offering
“Southwest-style sun brewed tea” products
and fruit drink “Cowboy Cocktails.”
AriZona will soon take another step when
it unveils AriZona Iced Tea with Ginseng.
Vandals at work in county
Mailboxes hit
Several are destroyed A 3
Among those are Akin Drug Co., Dairy
Queen, Davis Oil Co., Edwards-Harper,
Georgia Power Co., Gilbert Electric Co., Gray-
Walker Supply, now known as Walker-
Thompson Supply, and Gray-Walker Tractor
Co., now known as Walker-Rhodes Tractor Co.
Other founding members still in business
include Gulf Oil Co., The Houston Home
(See BIRTHDAY, Page A 5)
in making the legal system work. He said some
of America’s brightest young men and women
were entering the field of law, which encour
aged him about the future of the court system.
Hunt predicted the number of minority
judges would continue to climb. About half of
(See HUNT, page A 5)
one fine (the two-hour time limit and $6 fine
for overtime parking) for one group of peo
ple who park downtown and another, law
and fine (no parking for business owners
and employees and SSO fine for violators)
for another group,” Chapman said.
“I see this thing becoming a nightmare
for our enforcement people. I see several
major problems with this ordinance as it is
written,” he said.
Nancy Jackson, owner of Sugarplum
Tree children’s clothing store at 917 Carroll
St., told the council the future of the down
Commission to
study tri-county jail
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
WARNER ROBINS
Members of the Houston County
Commission took the first steps
toward a possible tri-county prison
Jan. 17.
They unanimpusly agreed to
apply through the Middle Georgia
Regional Development Commission
for a $25,(©0 state grant to deter
mine the jail space needs of
Houston, Dooly and Pulaski coun
ties.
Commission Chairman J. Sherrill
Stafford said the other two counties
were willing to help fund the study,
which will cost about $2,500 in
local funds, to determine the possi
bilities of a regional jail.
County Hospital Authority
eyes *95 budget process
From Staff Reports
The Hospital Authority of
Houston County will begin working
on its 1995-96 budget Feb. 1.
Authority Chairman Hal Cotton
told the Authority board last week
that the budget would be discussed
“in an executive session” on Feb. 1
at 5:30 p.m. at the Houston Medical
Center in Warner Robins.
He said Authority members
should receive copies of the pro
posed budget “about tw'o weeks
before the meeting.”
Cotton’s term as chairman ends
Feb. 28. He also announced the
Authority’s annual meeting will be
held Feb. 22.
He named a three-member nomi
nating committee to select a new
chairman. He selected Carol Russell
as chairman, of that committee, with
members Dr. Carl Beard and Pete
The new tea will be marketed in
20-ounce cobalt blue bottles with
expensive gold-highlighted neck
and body labels. The label art
depicts a native American medicine
man riding a buffalo. Most Indian
tribes were familiar with ginseng
and valued the plant highly.
Mike Schott, AriZona chief operating offi
cer, said the combination of ginseng with tea
originated in ancient China. The Chinese
believe ginseng is a tonic to increase
strength, increase blood volume, promote life
and appetite, quiet the spirit and give wis
dom.
The new tea will be marketed in 20-ounce
cobalt blue bottles with expensive gold
highlighted neck and body labels. The label
art depicts a native American medicine man
riding a buffalo. Most Indian tribes were
familiar with ginseng and valued the plant
highly.
The new bottles are being manufactured at
the Anchor Glass plant at Warner Robins.
The bottles will be used at the Perry bottling
operation and two other G. Heileman brew
Index
Classified B 6
Church B 3
Editorials A 4
L. Hitchcock A 4
Wed., January 25,1995
town business district depends on on-street
parking for customers.
“I think a lot of businesses allow their
employees to park on the street all day,”
Jackson said. “I know a finance company
and the cable company do. The cable com
pany even parks its trucks there and they
stay all day.
“If the downtown is to survive, we have
to have some kind of ordnance which keeps
the on-street parking spaces for the public,”
(See COUNCIL, page A 5)
The action comes in wake of the
almost $400,000 the county has
spent since July 1, 1994 to house
prisoners in other jails because there
isn’t sufficient space in Houston
County to keep them.
Stafford admitted the county was
spending more than SI,OOO per day
to house prisoners out of county ear
lier this month, but said that amount
had come down because some pris
oners had been transferred to the
Houston County Correctional
Institute.
He said officials were working
with the state to remove a backlog
of state prisoners from the local sys
tem.
(See JAIL, page AS)
Rucker.
Dr. Greg Harold, chief of staff at
Perry hospital, was sworn in as a
member of the Authority. He
replaced Dr. Larry Stewart.
The Authority also approved
spending $2,500 for T-shirts for the
1995 Teen Health Forum.
Marketing Director Mary Jane
Kinnas said approximately 2,200
eighth grade students, teachers and
parents are expected at the event to
be held at the Georgia Agricenter. It
is sponsored by the Peach Belt
Medical Society Auxiliary.
“I’ve had many positive com
ments about the program,” Kinnas
told the Authority.
The Authority also approved a
new employee retirement plan
which does not require any employ
ee contribution.
eries which are being converted to iced tea
plants.
“We selected a blue bottle for two reasons,”
Schott said. “First, it makes an unmistakable
statement of difference. Second, for centuries,
the color blue has been associated with mys
tery and healing.”
The ginseng tea is just one of six flavored
teas in the AriZona line. The others are lemon,
raspberry, peach, tropical and diet lemon.
The company also makes the Cowboy
Cocktails line of juice-based beverages,
including lemonade and pink lemonade fla
vors. Other flavors are Mucho Mango,
Strawberry, Kiwi Strawberry and Grape Kiwi.
There is also a Cowboy-style Chocolate fla
vored no-fat drink for the diet-conscious.
John Ferolito and John Vultaggio started
their business 22 years ago in Brooklyn. Using
a S2OO Volkswagen van with the seats ripped
out, they bought beer by the case from a
wholesaler and resold it to grocery stores.
The same basic marketing strategy has
made AriZona Iced Tea a success. Almost 80
percent of its sales are in smaller retail out
lets.
The Georgia Department of Labor is locat
ed at 741 A Main St. in Perry. The telephone
number is 987-5051.
Legals B 3
Obituaries A 2
Potpourri B 1
Sports A 6