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Buy bricks
Two women with a strong sense of history
and place are continuing their efforts to raise
funds to support a historical room in the new
Houston County School System office.
This building, opened 70 years ago as the
Perry Consolidated School, has served
Houston County as a classroom building for
most of those years.
To pay for the museum room, Janice Walker
and Bobbe Nelson are selling commemorative
brick. These bricks will form a sidewalk in
front of the restored building along Main
Street in Perry.
Funds left from buying the brick and
building the sidewalk will go to the historical
collection.
The room will open with a 1925 era school
display. To be included are photographs of
many of the small, one-room schools the
building replaced..
The women need help in their effort to
retain a sense of place and time in this rapidly
growing community. They need memorabilia
from schools throughout the county and they
need funds to equip the room properly.
This is a Houston County project, one
which will benefit residents of the entire
community, not just those in Perry or those
who attended school at the building.
We encourage participation in this project.
The donations are tax deductible, and the
bricks will leave a lasting legacy to persons
living during 1995.
The deadline for gifts is Sept. 10. We hope
to see many of our readers’ names included
when the sidewalk is ready later this year.
A good idea
When Ga. Rep. Larry Walker contacted
members of the Perry-Houston County
Airport Authority last week with a suggestion,
they listened.
After all, Walker had helped secure a
SIOO,OOO grant for the Airport Authority
during the 1995 session of the Georgia
General Assembly.
And, his suggestion did have to do with the
use of that SIOO,OOO grant to build a new
terminal building at the Perry-Houston
County Airport.
Walker suggested the building be named
for long-time Authority member John Houser.
Houser has served for as long as memory
holds as the treasurer of the organization and
has given countless hours to ensure the
survival of the airport.
Houser is now serving as the airport
manager while the Authority continues to
search for a Fixed Base Operator to handle
the day-to-day operations at the facility.
We think Rep. Walker made an excellent
suggestion We think the Airport Authority
did well to listen to his suggestion. And we
know that John Houser is worthy of the honor
which has been bestowed upon him.
Chance to get right
During the next few weeks, Ga. Rep. Larry
Walker, D-Perry, will join with other
members of the Houston County Legislative
Delegation to change House district lines in
this county.
The special session of the legislature,
which opens Aug. 14, gives Walker, Rep. Roy
H. “Sonny” Watson Jr., Rep. Robert Ray, Rep.
Johnny Floyd and Sen. Sonny Perdue
opportunity to argue for united precincts in
Houston County, something which does not
now exist.
We hope the delegation is successful.
Houston County was cut, sliced and diced
during the last reapportionment session in an
effort to obtain certain racial or ethnic
characteristics.
These districts have proved to be less than
desirable. The courts have agreed. Let’s retain
fair representation for all, but enjoy district
lines which make some sense. We hope their
fellow legislators listen, we need their help.
Houston Times-Journal
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Response helps set newspaper policy
Last week, I asked our readers if they
had any problem with the way we print
birth announcements.
For some years, we have printed the
names of both parents when supplied to
us if both parents sign the form. We
do not print the names of parents who do
not sign our form, or names not included
on the form.
At times, this means we print the
names of children bom out of wedlock.
One reader had questioned this policy
and wondered if we should eliminate the
names of children bom out of wedlock
as a way to discourage or at least not
endorse such events.
I had one phone call, that from a
fellow newspaper editor who wondered
how we would be able to eliminate the
names of children born to unmarried
fathers and mothers.
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City employees face drug testing
5 Years Ago (Aug. 6,1990)
City employees were to undergo
testing for drug usage, according to a
police adopted by the Perry City
Council.
The U.S. Justice Department
questioned the reorganization method of
the county commissioners which
occurred 20 years earlier regarding the
1970 act which established all five seats
on the county commission as at-large
districts.
Sonny Perdue won the Democratic
nomination for the 18th district Georgia
Senate seat.
10 Years Ago (Aug. 8,1985)
Dr. Benjamin Baldwin Smith, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Felix Smith Sr., joined his
father and brother, Felix Smith, Jr. in
practice at the Smith Animal Hospital.
The old railroad depot located along
the tracks on Jemigan Street in Perry,
has been saved from destruction and was
to be restored by Wilbur and Janette
King of Hayneville. They planned to
move it to the comer of Northside Drive
and Washington Street and convert it to
some type of business.
City Council viewed plans for a
second parking lot at the comer of Ball
and Main streets, across from the
courthouse. W. G. Mullins and Don
Parkinson from the Perry Downtown
Development Authority, presented the
design for the proposed parking lot. The
Authority had an option to buy the land
until Jan. 15.
25 Years Ago (Aug. 6,1970)
Perry Council voted to get an Urban
Renewal Plan upon the request of
representatives from the Middle Georgia
Area Planning Commission to make
application for the plan.
School would remain the same,
County School Superintendent Seabie
Hickson, said.
50 Years Ago (Aug. 2,1945)
Some 25,000 adult visitors and
hordes of children saw exhibits at
Robins Field Open House on the 25th
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■ Wednesday, Aug. 9,1995
Jj
Johnson
Editor
It would seem this is not a major
issue for our readers, and the policy will
stand. Persons submitting birth
announcements should expect to have
signatures on the form for the name of
each parent to be published. We will
print those names (when they are signed)
whether the couple is married or not.
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Shortly after lunch Tuesday, I agreed
to purchase holiday decorations for the
Times-Journal building which will be i;.
league with the decorations now being
Remember
When
Edited by
Pauline Lewis
anniversary celebration of the Army Air
Force, on Aug. 1.
Houston County was planning a unit
of Macon Red Cross with a full-time
paid worker. It was also voted to make
this worker the coordinator of all Red
Cross service in the county, maintaining
Hutto: Thanks for support
Editor:
My staff, parents and students would
like to thank your organization for
publicizing, through your newspaper, the
instructional events of our 1994-95
school year. It means so much to all of
us to see the pictures, captions, and
articles that help validate our slogan,
“Our Pride Is Showing.” It truly does
take a whole community to raise and
educate a child.
We are so lucky that the Perry
community actively supports the
educational institutions and activities.
Many parents and community
personnel joined together to support our
school and children with our mentoring
program, parent volunteer program, and
our Parent Teacher Committees. Nine
local businesses have also supported our
programs and helped us realize goals that
alone we couldn’t have reached.
A special thanks to W. D. Sullivan’s,
McDonald’s, Dominos, Cracker Barrell,
Patterson Chiropractic, Northrop, Bank
South, Kroger, and Citizens Bank in
Unadilla, Ga. for their participation.
Our community has also helped our
parents and staff during the 1994-95
school year as we sought to improve our
planned for the downtown area by local
merchants.
I feel the paper must support fully this
plan and show every ounce of support for
an idea which seems to be bringing the
businesses of this community closer
together than ever before.
There was a wide variety of business
types represented at a meeting at the
Perry Welcome Center last week. The
cross-section was good, and the
enthusiasm for the project was strong.
I hope merchants and other
businesses remain together and that we
get continued cooperation from the
Georgia National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter in promoting visits to Perry
by those coming to the Wonderland in
Lights which will be on display at the
Fairgrounds from Nov. 20-Dec. 31.
It is this company’s hope to produce a
\ I Ipy
an office open every day with volunteer
assistants from the county.
Mrs W. B. Evans of Perry had been
appointed as the parent representative on
the committee to study out-of-school
activities of children and youth for the
state of Georgia.
Servicemen and Women
Pvt. Hugh Lawson was stationed at
Camp Livingston, La.
Marine Ist Lt. Jerry A. Davis Jr., 30-
year-old engineering officer from Perry,
Ga., had returned to the Marine Air
Depot at Miramar, California after
seeing action in the Philippines.
playground areas. Their generosity is
greatly appreciated. I’d like to thank the
following people and businesses:
William Jackson, Ace Hardware,
LaVelle Yansom, Piggly Wiggly; Ross
Tolleson, Tolleson Supply; Marty
Myers, Myers Farm Supply Rental; l orn
Whitten, Northrop Grumman; Vasi Patel,
Subway Sandwich; and Carl Hammock,
Hammock-Machine Welding Co.
Our parents and staff have, in turn,
sought to help our children understand
the importance of supporting their
community and nation by giving back to
the community, state, and nation through
P.A.L.’s canned food drives, Muscular
Dystrophy “Read-A-Thon”, The
American Heart Association’s, “Jump
Rope For Heart”, WMAZ’s, “Dress
Down for Leukemia”, donations to the
Rozar Park facility and participation in
the Farm City Parade.
Our mbst sincere thanks for all who
have joined hands with us, as together
we create the future leaders and
contributing members of our society.
You are always welcome at Perry
Elementary.
Patsy Hutto
Principal
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printed product which will go to every
driver entering the fairgrounds for the
light show. This free newspaper would
include advertisements and stories about
not just the light show but about Perry
attractions and businesses.
This printed product could become an
important vehicle for linking the hoped
for 45,000 cars (with their passengers)
with the businesses in Perry. Merchants
are discussing staying open late during
this special season to reach more
potential shoppers.
It is my intention to serve this
community with the products needed to
bring customers into stores and keep
visitors in the community. With
cooperation from all, the Times-Journal
staff produce a successful product which
will benefit the community and the
Agricenter.
From
Where I Sit
Bob Tribble
President
The United
States is best
n a recent column I stated that we
hved in, by far the best country in this
world, even with all its faults. That faith
in the good old United States was
reaffirmed over the past two weeks
while r was on a trip to Europe.
While on the trip we visited six
countries, which included England,
Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and France. All these countries are
beautiful and they have many good
things going for them, but overall they
don’t stack up tc the many things we
have in the United States.
Those of you who have taken a tour
of a foreign country know you have to
stay on the move in order to see things.
Our tour was no exception with butts out
at 6 a.m. and baggage by seven on most
days. In fact, we traveled at least 2,000
miles by bus and boat from the
beginning point in England to the point
of departure back home from France.
One form of transportation many
folks in Europe use that we do not is
bicycles. Most of the young people and
many older folks zip around the big
cities and across the countryside on 10-
speed bikes. Most countries have roads
for the vehicles, paths for the bikes and
sidewalks for those who walk. The use
of bicycles makes sense to me from the
standpoint of exercise, to pollution arid
to the economy, since gas is about $4 per
gallon in American dollars. Can you
imagine the response from our young
folks if they were given a bicycle for
their birthday instead of a car? Also,
many use trains and buses for travel.
Another outstanding difference that
stands out is the way most European
farmers utilize their land. Almost every
inch is used to its fullest and the crops
are well tended. In Holland canals divide
the pastures and no fences are used.
Small strips along the roadways are
mowed for hay and the cattle graze
within a few feet of tne houses in the
country with no large lawns.
We visited a windmill in Holland that
was grinding up peanuts for oil, with the
leftovers being used for animal feed.
There is a good chance those peanuts
came from Georgia.
In Germany the cows graze on
mountain slopes up to 40 degrees and
5,000 feet high. Farmers herd the cows
to the “high pastures” during the summer
months and bring them down from the
mountains for the winter months.
Pastures are fenced in small tracts of
probably 8 to 10 acres each and most
cows are carried to large bams at night.
We were told that the cows have bells on
them because their horns don’t work.
In Austria 44 percent of the land is in
timber and 25 percent of the people
work in timber-related businesses.
Again, the timber crops are well tended
and it appears that timber acreage is well
utilized.
Homes, automobiles, farm equipment
are all kept in good repair and the cattle
look to be in top shape. Overall, it is
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