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Volume 125, No. 32
2 sections, 16 pages
Wednesday
Aug 2,1995
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
this week
Horseshoe
matches continue
The Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter
will host the World Horseshoe
Pitching Tournament through
Aug. 5. Matches begin each
day at 8 a.m. and continue
until about 10 p.m. Admission
is $ 1 per day.
The Georgia Cutting Horse
Show will be held at the
Fairgrounds Aug. 5-6.
The Georgia Agricultural
Exposition Authority will
meet at 1 p.m. Aug. 9. The
Authority is the governing
board for the Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
Blood drives set
Nine blood drives are
scheduled during August,
according to Dan Callahan,
chairman of the Blood
Procurement Committee of
the Houston-Middle Georgia
Chapter of the American Red
Cross.
Drives, dates and locations
include:
Aug. 2, Warner Robins
community, Senior Citizens
Center, 155 Maple St., 1-6
p.m.
Aug. 7, Christ United
Methodist Church, Russell
Parkway, Warner Robins, 3-7
p.m.
Aug. 12, Gold’s Gym,
Watson Boulevard, Warner
Robins, 9 a.m.-l p.m.
Aug. 16, Crossroads
United Methodist Church,
1600 Main St., Perry, 1:30-7
p.m.
Aug. 17, Kmart, Sam
Nunn Boulevard, Perry, 3-7
p.m.
Aug. 21, Knights of
Columbus, Commercial
Circle, Warner Robins, 2:30-
6:30 p.fn.
Aug. 22, Ladies Workout
Express, North Houston
Road, Warner Robins, 4-8
p.m.
Aug. 25, Robins Air Force
Base sth MOB, Smith
Recreation Center, 9 a.m.-l
p.m.
Aug. 30, Hawkinsville
community, First United
Methodist Church, Merritt
Street, Hawkinsville, 2-7 p.m.
Ga. 96 closed
Georgia 96 from 1-75 to
Fort Valley has been closed
for traffic. Work began
Tuesday on a new bridge at
Mossy Creek.
According to Kenneth
Robinson Jr., area engineer
for the Georgia Department of
Transportation, the bridge
replacement is to repair dam
age caused by the July 5,
1994 flood.
Traffic is being detoured
along 1-75 south to Thompson
Road (exit 43A) and then
along the west Perry Bypass
to U.S. 341 and northwest to
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Houston Times-Journal
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
Camp meeting brings 2,500 visitors to Perry
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
and Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Staff
It’s that time of year for the members of the
Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church who are plan
ning to attend their 57th camp meeting at the
campground located five miles north of Perry
on U.S. 41.
This year’s meeting will run from Aug. 5
through Aug. 13.
The Rev. Floyd Hagan of Raleigh, N.C.,
treasurer of the denomination said that almost
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WINNERS U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., (Center) congratulates Medusa Cement Co.
employees Tim Yawn and Rob Flournoy on receipt of the American Red Cross Certificate of Merit.
Two Medusa workers save a
life, earn top Red Cross awards
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
At 7:20 p.m., Aug. 14, 1994, Tim Yawn and his fel
low maintenance workers had been at their jobs at the
Medusa Cement Plant in Clinchfield less than 30 min
utes.
Yawn, along with Rob Flournoy, Johnny Brewer and
Tommy Hawkins were working on a large arm on a
clinker cooler.
It wasn’t the first time they had done this type of
repair, but for one, it would be the last.
“We were down working on this piece of large equip
ment. I was working on the other side when Rob started
yanking my light cord,” recalled Yawn.
“At first, I was kind of mad, but when I stepped
around to see what he wanted, he didn’t have to say any
thing,” Yawn continued.
The 350-pound metal arm had flown off, striking
Brewer in the face, crushing bone and tearing skin as it
went.
What Yawn saw was a lifetime friend lying in a pool
of blood with no heartbeat or respiration.
“I took off my shirt to wipe away the blood so I could
Collection time
Commission puts teeth in law to collect back taxes
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
Tax officials in Houston County
now have a new avenue in collect
ing delinquent property taxes.
During an Aug. 1 meeting in
Perry, the Houston County
Commission approved an ordinance
that provides procedures to be used
in addition to and as an alternative
to judicial tax foreclosure that has
been available to the tax
sioner.
The measure, adopted by the last
term of the Georgia General
Assembly, sets up guidelines to
foreclose on property and give clear
title to that property.
“This is a state law that requires
you to pass this ordinance,” said
assistant county attorney Tom Hall.
Also at the meeting, commis
sioner Jay Walker brought forward
Celebrating 125 years of service to the citizens of Houston County
2,500 people are expected to show up for the
get-together.
“We’re a lot like a large family or just one
big congregation,” said Hagan. “We know
each other pretty well and there’s lots of
catching up to do each summer when every
one gets there.”
Some will stay at the cottages and dormito
ry on the campground, while others will stay
in Perry motels.
“We have a cafeteria here on the camp
ground which serves three meals a day, but a
begin mouth to mouth,” he said. “Doug Holder, our
supervisor, came and started chest compressions.”
The pair had completed a Red Cross CPR course
given at the plant just a few months before.
“We kept working and working. About middle ways
through, I looked up and said, ‘Jesus help us,’ and I
think, deep down inside, that’s what did it. Finally, he
started breathing, his chest started moving up and
down,” said Yawn.
Emergency personnel arrived soon after to find their
patient breathing and with a pulse again.
For their heroic actions, Yawn and Holder received
the American Red Cross’s highest award, the Certificate
of Merit, at the Annual Red Cross Award Banquet July
29 held at Northrop Grumman.
U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., presented the
awards.
Having just returned home to Perry from a rehabili
tation facility in Texas, Brewer and his wife, Deborah,
were also in attendance.
“I don’t know how they did what they did,” com
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The measure, adopted
by the last term of the
Georgia General
Assembly, sets up guide
lines to foreclose on prop
erty and give clear title to
that property.
and later withdrew a motion that
would have begun the process of
selecting an architect to design a
new magistrate court building.
“We already have the land on Ga.
96,” he said.
Commissioner Larry Snellgrove
questioned the timing of that
motion, saying, “...we’re in the
midst of a tri-county jail study.
Haven’t we talked at one time about
putting the magistrate court in that
jail?”
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Walker responded by saying it
might be more economical to have
it in the jail but it would be more
convenient to people using it for the
court to be located on Ga. 96.
Snellgrove suggested “all parties
involved’’ should meet and discuss
the matter further in the near future.
The motion was withdrawn.
Also at the meeting, commis
sioners reaffirmed their earlier deci
sion to stay out of the recreatipn
business. *
A recent request from the City of
Warner Robins asking the county to
reconsider their stance on funding
was denied.
Commissioners did give the OK
to begin a search for a valuation
firm to conduct an inventory of
county assets, determine historical
costs, assign uselife and set depreci
ation methods.
lot of folks like to come to Perry to eat some
meals with people they know in town,” Hagan
said.
Hagan said that the 2,500 in attendance
represent most of the members of the denom
ination which has congregations in Maryland,
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Delaware and Maryland.
“Some people come from New York and
Alaska,” he added.
Hagan said work is going on at present to
Simons: Bright
moment is national
accreditation
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This story
is the result of an interview with
Perry Police Chief Frank Simons
conducted early this week.
Simons has resigned his post to
become police chief of Valdosta.
His last day in Perry will be Aug.
3.)
Q: What will you miss most
about Perry?
Simons: Mostly I miss the
friend’s we’ve made here. I’ll miss
the atmosphere that the city has
there’s a sophistication that Perry
seems to have that maybe you don’t
find in every other place. Hopefully,
Valdosta will have that as well, but
I’ll miss that here.
Q: What do you see as the
biggest needs of this department
in the years ahead?
Simons: I think the department
and the city are on the verge of a
growth spurt, the city is fixing to
boom. I think the department needs
to be prepared to deal with that.
We’re looking at new industry com
ing in, we’re looking at new events
at the Agricenter and the people
who come in there. I think we real
ly need to be ready for new growth.
Q: Has the city council been
supportive of area law enforce
ment?
Simons: I don’t think any police
chief could ask for any council to be
more supportive than the one that
we have here in Perry. We had a lot
of work to do, they supported it in
every move. They really stood
Five escape, hang around
From Staff Reports
Five escapees were captured the
morning of Aug. 1 on Tucker Road
in Perry.
The five were canines which had
been housed in the dog pound at the
city barn.
Someone apparently felt sorry
for the dogs and opened their cages
to set them free during the night.
Animal Control Officer Troy
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HONORED Houston County Clerk of Court Carolyn
Sullivan (left) receives a plaque from Houston County
Commission Chairman J. Sherrill Stafford. The plaque honors
Sulliyan for 30 years of service to the county. The award was
presented Aug. 1 during a commission meeting.
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Index
Classified 7B Obituaries A 2
Church 5B Potpourri B 1
Editorials A 4 Sports A 6
Legals 6B
Home of the Georgia National
Fair and Agricenter
pave a section where there are 40 new cabin
sites. “People are picking their lots now,
demand is strong.”
The denomination purchased the camp
ground in 1938.
Hagan remembers attending the first meet
ing in 1939.
“We stayed with some friends in Fort
Valley and traveled back and forth on Ga. 96.
It was still a dirt road back then,” he remi
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FRANK SIMONS
Headed to Valdosta
behind the police department.
Q: How do you feel about their
handling of your replacement?
Simons: That’s an area that I’m
not sure I need to offer an opinion
on. It’s not that unique, some other
places have tried it while they were
in the search for a new chief. I can
tell you that it may be difficult in
some ways but if there are two peo
ple who can handle that proposition,
it will be Capt. Bill Phelps and
Capt. Steve Heaton. They are both
quality folks.
Q: What do you think the new
chief will need to succeed in
Perry?
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Fluellen said, “I guess it was some
kids playing a practical joke. They
were out when I got there in the
morning. None had run off, they
were all there.
Fluellen recaptured the animals
and had them back in their cages in
time for breakfast.
“I’ll be putting a lock on those
cages after that,” he commented.
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