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I Eastern Daylight Time returns Sunday at 2 a.m. Remember to set clocks for ward Saturday night before going to bed. Volume 125, No. 13 Wednesday March 29,1995 50 Cents At the Crossroads this week March of Dimes walk is Saturday The Middle Georgia March of Dimes Walk America Walk for Healthier Babies will be held Saturday at Tucker Elementary School. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. The walk starts at 9 a.m. Money raised will go to support the March of Dimes efforts to prevent birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality. For more information on becoming a walker or a spon sor, call Linda Thompson at 988-6280. Three of four pass health test Three of the four restau rants inspected by Houston County environmentalists passed the inspection this week. The fourth restaurant, Siam House Thai Restaurant of 1325 Green St. Warner Robins, scored a 79 but failed because of temperature con trol of foods. The matter was resolved before the inspector left the premises. Other scores included: Between the Bread Cafe, 207 D Russell Parkway, Warner Robins, 94. Checkers Drive-In, 120 N. Houston Road, Warner Robins, 97. Publix Super Market Deli, 207 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins, 95. Lones has hip surgery Persons in the area will be interested to know Kim Andrews Lones was sched uled for surgery for a total hip replacement on Tuesday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. She hopes to be home and recuperating within a week. Hunt judgeship is confirmed Perryan Willis Hunt Jr. took another step in his legal career Tuesday when the U.S. Senate confirmed him for a federal judgeship in the north ern district of Georgia. Hunt, who began his legal career in Perry, was the first judge in the Houston Superior Court Circuit. He was, in 1986, appointed by then Gov. Joe Frank Harris to the Georgia Supreme Court. He became chief justice of the court last year following the retirement of Harold G. Clark. Gov. Zell Miller will appoint Hunt’s successor on the Supreme Court. Justice Robert Benham may be the next state chief justice. Tell Us The Houston Times- Joumal wants to hear from you. Call (912)987-1823 dur ing business hours, 8:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Fax us anytime at (912) 988-1181. Visit our office at 807 Carroll Street in historic downtown Perry. Special 16-page section inside this paper Houston Times-Journal Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia State probation detention center coming to county By LARRY HITCHCOCK News Editor Fifty-to-60 new jobs for Perry area resi dents will be created thanks to a $1.2 million appropriation in the Fiscal Year 1996 budget approved by the Georgia General Assembly. House Majority Leader Larry Walker, D- Perry, and state Sen. Sonny Perdue, D- Bonaire, actively worked for including funds for a 196-bed probation detention center to be Official Dogwood Festival doll goes on local display By Jj JOHNSON Times-Journal Editor The official 1995 Dogwood Festival doll was unveiled March 27 during brief cere monies at the Card Carousel. Doll maker Muriel Meadows displayed the 20-inch tall porce lain doll for Nannette Greene and a small collection of friends on hand for the event. The doll is named for Mrs. Greene, and is modeled after the way Meadows envisioned Mrs. Greene as a young girl. Meadows said the face, hands and feet of the doll are made of fine porcelain and hand cast. The breastplate of the doll carries an engraving of a dog wood bloom and the maker’s signature. The doll is dressed in a hand made yellow and white dress of Meadows’ design, and the doll features two silk bows of multi colored ribbon. Meadows designed a special armature which allows for a moveable head, arms wjiich move and rotate, and moveable feet. The doll on display, named for Mrs. Greene, is one of a lim ited edition series. She envisions no more than 100 dolls in the series. Each will be hand made and carry an authentic number and signature, Meadows said. The doll was commissioned by members of the Perry Downtown Merchants Association in conjunction with the Dogwood Festival which begins Saturday. The doll was named for Mrs. Greene in honor of her and her I | |g| MB _jg& «.L * Wmmst: * Times-Journal Photo by Jj Johnson DISCUSSION GROUPS Perry Middle School eighth graders (from left) Brent Owens, Mary Askew and Rene Reeves discuss language arts with first year teacher Sonja Peterman. Peterman has recently been named the Sallie Mae award winner for Houston County Schools, the desig nation given to the best first-year teacher in the system. Peterman is the third PMS teacher to win the award during the past five years. A graduate of Northside High School and Georgia College, she did her practice teaching at Perry Middle School last spring. The three students said Peterman has encouraged them to learn this year and helped prepare them for high school. The three agree they enjoy reading and writing, the two main skills-which Peterman teaches. Peterman said middle school students are constantly changing and that her methods involve responding to those changes by giving encouragement to students. She said students respond to a variety of items which she brings to the classroom to encourage them to ask questions and learn more. built near the Houston Correctional Facility off Kings Chapel Road east of Perry. Probation detention centers provide a sen tencing alternative for courts which empha sizes a structured, short-term period of con finement in a minimum security facility. “This is for mainly short-term inmates,” Walker said. “A great percentage of those admitted will be offenders who have commit ted a technical violation of an existing proba M sjt * H HHHL W ¥ JKp «•*» * m - I•- vA *tß W' HkWa iIW .. . mm ... Times-Journal Photo by Jj Johnson UNVEILING Nannette Greene (left), for whom the official 1995 Dogwood Doll (on display, center) is named, visits with doll creator Muriel Meadows during a March 27 unveiling cer emony at Card Carousel. late husband, Yates Greene, who for more than 50 years have oper ated the New Perry Hotel. The doll will be on display at Card Carousel during the Dogwood Festival, along with the Cherry Blossom doll, which Meadows also designed. tion sentence. The program emphasizes daily work details in the community, a military structure and programming during the evening hours. Substance abuse programming is emphasized.” Walker said inmates in the new center would perform work at the Agricenter and in the community. “The detention center will be one of three in the state,” Walker said. Area fares well during 1995 General Assembly By LARRY HITCHCOCK News Editor Perry and southern Houston County fared well in the 1995 ses sion of the Legislature. House Majority Leader Larry Walker, D-Perry, was responsible for obtaining $5,075,000 for pro jects that will directly benefit the Perry area of Houston County. An additional $5,160,000 were ear marked for two projects in the Warner Robins area that Perryans will find beneficial. “Some in the Legislature criticize the local spending appropriations,” Walker said, “but we ended up spending about $6 out of every SIO,OOO in the budget to improve the quality of life for the state’s citi zens. Tm piuud of iCfßie local assis tance projects bill) and as long as I’m up there, I’ll continue to push for it,” Walker said. Walker said the Perry area pro jects included in the bill were: • $3,650,000 for a multi-purpose livestock building at the Agricenter. • $85,000 for planning and designing a multi-purpose sheep and swine building at the Agricenter. Parking plan gets first hearing Restrictions are on Carroll Street By LARRY HITCHCOCK News Editor The downtown parking contro versy is a step closer to a solution. At its meeting March 21, the Perry City Council heard the first reading of a change in the parking ordinance that would include the block of Carroll Street along side the courthouse in the two-hour limit. An agreement is to be worked out with the county that would allow persons having business in the courthouse to be exempt from the limit, if special signs or cards are placed in the vehicle. Mayor Jim Worrall pointed out that the solution to the parking problem was already in the ordi nance. • “The ordinance says the hour parking limit shall be enforced when the area in question has signs posted,” the mayor said. “All we have to do is take down the signs in the downtown area except where there is a parking problem.” Carter questions HCCI future By Jj JOHNSON Times-Journal Editor WARNER ROBINS New Houston County Commissioner Jim Carter questioned the future of the Houston County Correctional Institute during comments made to the Warner Robins Area Chamber of Commerce here March 23. Carter’s concern for the cost to taxpayers of the correctional insti tute came during a chamber eggs and issues breakfast featuring coun ty government. Carter, who "became the newest member of the panel Jan. 1, said he believes the county should consider the future of the institute which houses slightly more than 100 pris Index Classified 7B Church 8B Editorials A 4 Legals 4B Home of the Georgia National Fair and Agricenter The Houston County center is a prototype facility, similar to the one under construction in Haralson County and will be built with inmate labor. “Facilities like the one to be built in Houston County bring with them a $l.B mil lion annual budget for payroll and benefits and a $2.6 million operating budget,” Walker said. • SIOO,OOO for improvements to the terminal at the Perry-Houston County Airport. • $40,000 for an internet commu nications system to connect Perry High School, Perry Middle School and Perry Elementary School. • $1,200,000 for a probation detention center. While not in the southern part of the county, Walker also mentioned $5 million for extending Russell Parkway to 1-75 and $160,000 for the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base as projects that will indi rectly benefit residents in this area. “I don’t think it was a great leg islative session, but it was a good one,” Walker said. “I am real pleased with the bill on school discipline. I am proud of the bill. I thought it up and dratted it,” Walker said. “It gives me more pride in the law.” Walker said he was glad to be back in Peny, even though he would be returning to Atlanta on legislative business regularly. “I enjoy serving and I look for ward to returning,” Walker said. “I appreciate the people of my district letting me serve them.” Worrall suggested taking down the two-hour parking signs every where in the downtown area except on Carroll Street on the courthouse side and in the 900 block (between Ball and Washington streets). That would allow parking on Ball, Jernigan, Main and Washington streets. The council also approved the compromise agreement on funding the Houston County library system. In other business, the council: • Heard the first reading of an ordinance banning transient mer chants. • Passed on second reading an ordinance prohibiting fortune telling and similar practices in Perry. • Agreed to purchase a riding lawn mower for the Wastewater Department from Tru-Value Hardware for $1,892. • Recognized the Grassroots Volunteers who worked on a nature trail and horseshoe pits at Rozar Park. oners. Almost all of those prisoners are state prisoners, housed at the rate of $lO per day. That fee was just increased to $12.50 per day by the General Assembly. Carter said it costs the county about $23.20 per day to house pris oners, and that the savings received by using prisoner labor in the coun ty did not add up to the difference. Last year, about $950,000 was budgeted for HCCI with revenues from the state amounting to just over $400,000, Carter said. He said he did not think the county could continue to face the liability of that many prisoners in (See HCCI, page SA) Obituaries A 2 Potpourri B 1 Sports A 6 Woods and Water... A 7 JL