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Company obtains new contract for making Boeing aircraft doors
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
Wheeeewwwww!!!!
That was the sound heard collectively
from the employees of the Georgia
Production Center, a part of the Northrop
Grumman Corp. company about 12:15
p.m. Feb. 3
That’s when the 450 workers of the
plant learned their jobs were safe from the
grim reaper by anew contract which
Northrop announced earlier that day.
The new contract, with the Boeing Cos.,
covers several years and will include mak
ing doors and door frames for several air
craft. Besides the 747 doors, employees
will make doors for the 737, 757 and 767
commercial aircraft, Northrop Grumman
Volume 127, No. 5
2 Sections, 18 Pages
Wednesday
Feb. 5, 1997
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
this week
Tickets all gone
According to information
received late Feb. 4, all tick
ets for the sixth annual Wild
Game dinner at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds Feb. 6
have been sold.
The dinner, hosted by the
Rehoboth Baptist
Association, will feature a
menu of wild game. Atlanta
Braves pitcher Steve Smoltz
will be the keynote speaker.
The Turkeyrama and
Fisharama will be held at the
Agricenter Feb. 7-9.
Want a corn dog?
Students at Houston
County schools will have
these menus this week:
Feb. 5 Com dog or
fish sticks or nuggets with
roll, macaroni and cheese,
one vegetable, two fruits,
Jell-o with whipped topping.
Feb. 6 Nachos with
cheese and beef or barbecue
with Texas toast or bun, two
vegetables, one fruit, fruit
cobbler.
Feb. 7 Steak nuggets
with roll or grilled cheese
sandwich with soup or chili,
two vegetables, two fruits,
manager’s choice desseit.
Feb. 10 Hamburger
with tomato soup, fresh
pear, raisins.
Feb. 11 Fish sticks,
macaroni and cheese, green
beans, chilled peaches, soft
pretzel.
Feb. 12 Chicken salad
on whole wheat with oven
baked fries, lettuce and
tomato, chilled peaches.
Only two problems
found by inspectors
Inspectors with the
Houston County
Environmental Health
agency found only two
kitchens not in compliance
with four major discrepancy
areas during recent inspec
tions.
At Arby’s, 101 Slezak
Drive, Perry, there was a
problem with storage of
cleaning products. The score
was 87.
At McDonald’s, 1814
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, there was a problem
with temperature control of
foods. The score was 76.
No discrepancies were
reported at these locations:
Arby’s, 2001 Watson
Blvd., Warner Robins, 89.
J’s Home Style
Restaurant, SOI 1/2 Booker
St., Warner Robins, 100.
Chen’s Wok, 2933
Watson Blvd., Centerville,
87.
Comfort Inn Lounge,
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Vice President Ralph D. Crosby Jr.
announced in a news release.
Northrop Grumman now produces 11
passenger and cargo doors for the 747 in
Perry and at a plant at Hawthorne, Calif.
Houston Times-Journal
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
Perdue: Strong but compassionate leader
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
“In the next 20 years school systems must
resist the urge to get on the bandwagon of
reform, the fad and frills ride, the open class
room. Certainly the New Math taught us the
folly of such procedure. It is a fact that the
most popular optional schools in this country
are those which espouse the theory of old fash
ioned discipline and back-to-the-basics; par
ents will line up overnight to enroll their chil
dren in these schools. There is no substitute for
a good phonics background and memorization
of multiplication tables.”
Those words were written by David A.
Perdue during the month of his retirement as
superintendent of the Houston County school
system, December 1980 and published in a
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Times-Journal Photo by Jj Johnson
PLAQUE AND A PICTURE Perry Mayor Jim Worrall (right) receives a plaque and a
framed print of Perry landmarks from Pat Buice during tne annual Chamber meeting
Jan. 28. Buice serves as chairman for the annual meeting and heads the committee
which selects the winner of the Seabie Hickson Award as tne community citizen of the
year.
Jim Worrall named Seabie
Hickson award winner for 1997
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall was named the winner of
the Seabie Hickson Community Service Award dur
ing the 41st annual Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce meeting Jan. 28.
Worrall was introduced by Pat Buice, long-time
chair of the annual meeting committee which selects
the Hickson award winner.
Buice cited Worrall for his efforts in the preserva
tion and restoration of the Perry Consolidated School
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Serving Houston County since Pec. 17, 1870
Crosby said the new work will involve
production of 28 additional doors for
Boeing airplanes, All door work will
move to an undisclosed location in middle
Georgia.
The company announced three weeks
ago that the 710,000 square-foot plant in
Perry would close, and be sold.
Corporate spokesman Jim Taft, who
hosted a news conference at the plant Feb.
3, said the company needs to produce the
doors in a more economical environment.
“This plant was designed for missile
construction. It is a very large, secure
plant, far more space than we need," he
said.
Because of the very competitive aero
space market, Northrop needs to reduce
newsletter for parents of students in the sys
tem.
Perdue spent 20 of his 38 years in the edu
cational field as Houston County School
Superintendent, serving in that capacity from
1969 until 1980. Many who knew him remem
ber this man as a strong but compassionate
leader, an educator, even a top-notch rose gar
dener.
David A. Perdue, 80, passed away Jan. 31.
Glenn Hitchcock, who worked with Perdue
in the system for many years, said, “I never
worked for anybody like him. He was the type
of person that was the boss but let his employ
ees do their job.”
“He was the epitome of what an employer
ought to be and he knew what he wanted for
the school system,” added Hitchcock. “He did
offices. The project, which took several years, was
completed about 15 months ago, and a major dedica
tion was held during September, 1996.
Buice also cited Worrall for his leadership in the
community. He is in his eighth year as mayor of the
city. Early in his career, he was a teacher, and later
principal of Perry High School, then located in the
building which he fought so hard to preserve.
At one time, the Board of Education was consid
er '‘-molishing the building and starting from
(See AWARD, Page SA)
production costs to remain competitive for
contracts, Taft said.
Jim Hoover, vice president of the
Commercial Aircraft Division for
Northrop Grumman, said the company
needs about 230,000 square feet for pro
duction in the midstate area.
The firm already has an option on one
similar facility in eastern Bibb County off
1-16. Houston County officials are scram
bling to find a suitable location to entice
Northrop to remain in the county.
After the news conference, Perry
Mayor Jim Worrall said he remains confi
dent that something will work out for
Northrop to stay in Houston County.
County Commission Chairman J.
Sherrill Stafford joined Worrall in being
not jump on every bandwagon (hal came
along.”
Hitchcock remembers how much the
employees enjoyed roses that Perdue would
bring from his garden at home.
“He did have a beautiful rose garden. He
would bring roses to the office. He gave the
impression of being very hard-nosed, but he
was also very compassionate,” said Hitchcock.
Hubert Hutcherson, former assistant super
intendent and school board member, remem
bers Perdue’s strength and wisdom in helping
the system through difficult times.
“He led us through a number of crises with
his leadership,” said Hutcherson.
Perdue was instrumental in helping the
(See PERDUE, Page SA)
Frito Lay making
major donation for
county fire equipment
By RICK JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
At present the Houston County
fire department does not have all
the necessary equipment to pro
vide rescue operations in confined
areas.
That will, be changing soon,
however, as frito-Lay has decided
to provide $34,105 to the county
for the purchase of such equip
rrtnt.
I At the Fqfc. 4 meeting in Perry,
Hluston County commissioners
ajlroved an agreement with the
snack food Manufacturer that will
equip the fire department with the
toolslo go to such emergencies at
Frito-Lay, or elsewhere in the
unincorporated areas.
“Once we complete this train
ing, we will be the only one south
of Atlanta that can do this,” said
commissioner Larry Snellgrove.
On the subject of the fire
department, Snellgrove commend
ed the Explorer program for youth
who are interested in firefighting.
He said 16 members attended a
recent competition in Gatlinburg,
Tenn,, finishing in fourth place in
one competition and 10th in
another. That is out of 37 compet
ing teams.
In another action involving
young people, commissioners
Cranshaw home, doing better
From Staff Reports
David Cranshaw, publisher of
The Herald, is home learning a
new lifestyle after a quadruple
heart bypass last week.
“I went to the doctor for my
first follow-up visit this morning,”
he said during a Feb. 4 telephone
interview. “He said that for some
body who has just gone through
quadruple surgery I am doing
quite well.”
Cranshaw said he has been
learning the “do’s and don’ts” of
eating and smoking habits, but
changing those habits has not been
a hard decision to make.
As far as The Herald is con
cerned, Cranshaw said he is not
pleased the jobs were safe, but expressed
concerns for meeting the Northrop sched
ule.
Hoover said the company hopes to
make an announcement “within days”
concerning the location of the door con
struction facility.
Taft said construction on the new doors
would begin almost immediately. Local
plant spokesman Wayne Ragin said the
first doors for the new contract should
ship within about eight weeks.
Workmen will use existing tooling for
the first new doors produced. Later,
changes to tooling will take place, Taft
said.
(See JOBS, Page SA)
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DAVID A. PERDUE SR.
Former Superintendent
authorized the Houston Druj
Action Council to apply for funds
from the Governor’s Children and
Youth Council to be used in a pre
vention program aimed at youth
and drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and
gang related activity.
HOOPS is a collaborative com
munity-based program that is
geared toward 6th and 7th graders.
It is scheduled to begin in
September.
Commissioners approved
rezoning requests for three tracts
of land in the northwest comer of
Houston Lake Road and Ga. 96.
Two of those requests are to
allow commercial development on
vacant land that had been desig
nated residential-agricultural. The
third request is for single family
residential use.
The group gave the go ahead to
a request from the Sheriff’s
department to ask the Department
of Transportation to install yellow
caution lights at both Bonaire
Middle School and in the area of
Perdue Elementary and Houston
County High.
Bahama Bob’s Out and About
Lounge in Bonaire had approved
its request for a beer and wine
license, with a first reading held
(See LIQUOR, Page SA)
doing anything right now and it is
“premature to try to make a deci
sion right now.”
The newspaper, which is pub
lished two times each week, has
been missing from area news
stands since Cranshaw suffered a
heart attack Jan. 28.
“For people who know me they
will know it (The Herald) is a big
part of me,” said the veteran;
newspaperman. ;
“There are a lot of things to be;
considered right now,” he added.;
“I’m full of the want to but not the!
withal.” 1
Cranshaw was employed at the.
old Houston Home Journal fori
several years.