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Volume 126, No. 9
3 Sections, 28 Pages
Wednesday
March 5,1997
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At the
Crossroads
this week
Horse Show at
Agricenter
Members of the Georgia
Milk Producers wrap up
their 3-day convention today
at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
Later this week, members
of the Gulf Paso Fino orga
nization will be hosting a
horse show at the
Agricenter.
Also planned for this
weekend is the Foster
Children of Georgia
Association field day,
March 8.
A limousin cattle sale is
also on the schedule for
March 8, and a Barrel
Racing Clinic is set for
March 8-9.
Jell-0 on the menu
These are the menus for
Houston County public
schools this week:
March 5 Com dog or
fish sticks with roll, maca
roni and cheese, one veg
etable, two fruits, Jell-0
with whipped topping.
March 6 Nachos with
cheese and beef or barbecue
with Texas toast or bun, two
vegetables, one fruit, fruit
cobbler.
March 7 Steak
nuggets with roll or grilled
cheese sandwich with soup
or chili, two vegetables, two
fruits, manager’s choice
dessert.
March 10 Chicken
nuggets with roll or hot
hame and cheese sandwich,
two vegetables, two fruits.
March 11 Hot dog or
hamburger steak with gravy
and roll, french fries, two
vegetables, two fruits.
March 12 Taco or
southern chicken with roll,
buttered rice, one vegetable,
two fruits, Jell-O with
whipped topping.
Inspectors visit public
kitchens
Representatives of the
Houston County
Environmental Health
Department visited nine area
public kitchens during the
past week.
In the case of three facili
ties, discrepancies were
found to one of the four
major areas which must be
repaired immediately.
At Burger King, 2010
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, there was a problem
with temperature control of
foods, the score 2was 86.
At the Perry Senior
Center, 1060 Keith Drive,
Perry, there was a problem
with employee hygiene. The
score was 86.
At the Texas Cattle Cos.,
2067 Watson Blvd., Warner
(See FOOD, Page SA)
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12 pages of healthy living Information inside this Issue
Houston Times-Journal
Man charged with father’s murder
From Staff Reports
A weekend incident has left one Peny
man dead and his 22-year-old son
charged with his death.
According to Perry Police Chief
George Potter, authorities were called to
the residence of 52-year-old Benjamin
Goodin at 800 Perimeter Road around 7
a.m. March 1.
Police were told Goodin committed
suicide.
He had received two gunshot wounds
to the face, said Potter.
Coast Guard
Cadets offer
free concert
By PAULINE LEWIS
Lifestyle Editor
Local residents will have an
opportunity to hear a free live
concert March 8, when the U. S.
Coast Guard Bands perform at
7:30 p.m. in the McGill Building
at the Georgia Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
A director who has been with
the Grand 01’ Opry, has accompa
nied Frank Sinatra, Henry
Mancini, Mel Torme and other
noted entertainers, will conduct
the jazz and concert bands.
This is the second appearance
of the U. S. Coast Guard Band in
Perry. They have scheduled this
concert while to
Orlando to perform.
Paul Kemp, son of Emily and
Wainright Kemp of Perry, is
pianist for the band and also plays
other instruments.
Friends in Perry will keep
band members in their homes
overnight and will provide a cov
ered dish supper for them in the
Perry High School cafeteria prior
to the concert.
Emily Kemp has been respon
sible for making arrangements for
the concert, lodging and meals for
the cadets and their director, and
publicity for the concert.
She has appeared before the
Mayor of Perry, on Del Ward’s
Show on WMAZ-TV Channel 13
and Cox Cable TV, and has
placed articles and pictures in the
(See CONCERT, Page SA)
Convention, Visitors Bureau begins lighting efforts
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The Perry Area Convention and Visitors
Bureau is looking to shed some light along
the Interstate 75 area between the three
Perry exits.
Bureau member Davis Cosey said during
a CVB meeting Feb. 27 that one proposal
outlines 100-foot tall poles with clusters of
Here we grow again
Board of Elections proposes seven new precincts in north middle Houston County
From Staff Reports
Yet another example of the rapidly growing
population of north middle Houston County
came this week. This time the notice came from
the Houston County Board of Elections office.
Members of the Houston County Board of
Elections have issued a notice which will affect
voting in Houston County later this year.
According to the announcement, some 12
precincts in the county will be altered to add
seven new voting locations including precincts
centered at Galleria Mall, Houston Mall, Story
Road Fire Station, Feagin Mill Middle School,
Ferguson Memorial Park, Bonaire Middle
School and Ted Wright Park.
Members of the Board will meet March 18
at 6:30 p.m. to adopt these changes. That meet
ing will be at 1005 Jemigan St. in Perry. Their
actions will not affect precincts for voting on
the Houston County School Board one percent
special local option sales tax which will take
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
Within a short time period, Nicholas J.
Goodin was charged with his father’s
murder.
Goodin, a construction worker, and
another son, age 14, had lived in Perry for
about a year, said the chief. The elder son
came to stay with the pair in recent
weeks.
Benjamin Goodin’s 14-year-old son
was staying overnight with a friend dur
ing die time of the incident, Potter added.
Nicholas Goodin is being held in the
county jail.
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THE END OF THE LINE Basketball for all four prep teams
included a brief visit to their respective high school state tournaments
last week. Daniel Harvey of the Perry Panthers towers over some of
the Green-Taliaferro Tigers while looking for two points in the
Panthers' loss to the Tigers, 79-72. Details of the state tournament
can be found on page 6A.
400-watt bulbs being placed some 550 feet
apart, alternating from side to side between
Exits 42 and 43A.
This would provide lighting similar to
that already in place in Forsyth, said Cosey.
That lighting gives a tunnel effect, he said.
Monthly maintenance costs are estimated
at SSOO per month, with total cost for the
project coming in at about $500,000, he
place that same day.
This is the text of the notice:
The Board of Elections of Houston County,
Georgia, for the purpose of making it more
convenient for the citizens of Houston County
to cast their vote in local, state and national
elections, plan to divide, alter or change the
following existing precincts:
CENT Centerville Elementary
NSSH Northside High
ELBC Elberta Center
PKWD Parkwood Elementary
RECR Warner Robins Recreation
Department
ANNX Houston County Annex Building
QRUN Quail Run Elementary
HCHS Houston County High
BON Bonaire Elementary
TUCK TUcker Elementary
MORN Momingside Elementary
UFS Lake Joy Fire Station
City may annex Country Club
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
Perry city council members were dis
cussing the annexation of three ‘islands’ of
property into the city limits at press time
during their regular meeting March 4.
These parcels of property are surrounded
by properties already inside the city limits.
They include a property owned by E.H.
Cheek, located at the intersection of
Houston Lake Road and Gray Road, 3.01
acres and 0.50 acres owned by Walter W.
Gray Jr. and 32.347 acres belonging to the
County: Close
HCCI by June
By RICK JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
Calling it strictly a business
decision, Houston County
Commissioners voted unanimous
ly at the March 4 meeting in Perry
to get the ball rolling to close the
Houston County Correctional
Institution.
Commissioner Jim Carter, who
made the motion to have staff,
municipalities, the state
Department of Corrections and
others spend the next 120 days
working on closing the 50-year
old facility, said the decision in no
way is a reflection on the staff at
the HCCI.
He said, “It was built as a mini
mum security facility, but most of
the inmates are medium security.”
Carter said current regulations
for space per inmate are not being
met, causing potential safety and
legal problems.
There are about 20 persons
employed at HCCI, according to
county personnel director Steve
Engle. The facility is located along
Kings Chapel Road at the Perry
City Limits, and is adjacent to the
Houston County Jail.
“I am very concerned about
those employees,” said commis
sioner Jay Walker. “I am sure all of
them will be given other job
opportunities in the county.”
Carter said the facility has a
capacity of 122 inmates, with
many of the occupants coming
from outside of Houston County.
said. The City of Perry would be expected to
provide about $220,000 of the total cost and
the remainder would come from state grant
money, Cos" y added.
Also during the meeting, chairman
Walter Lewis told the group the personnel
committee is now in a search mode for a
new director for the tourism entity.
That position came into open status when
The aforesaid proposed changes will create
the following new precincts:
GALA Galleria Mall
MALL Houston Mall
SRFS Story Road Fire Station
FMMS Feagin Mill Middle School
FERG Ferguson Memorial Park
BMS Bonaire Middle School
TWPK Ted Wright Park
The Houston County Board of Elections
will meet Tuesday, march 19, 1997, at 6:30
p.m. at the Board of Elections located at 1005
Jemigan Street in Perry, for the purpose of
adopting these changes.
Anyone having an objection to the changes
must file their objection with the Board of
Elections on or before the date of this meeting.
A map of these proposed changes can be
seen at the Board of Elections office, 1005
Jemigan St., Perry.
For additional information, call 987-1973.
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Fair and Agricenter
Perry Country Club.
A law passed by the General Assembly a
few years ago allows municipalities to
annex unincorporated islands of property
into the city limits
“This adds uniformity to service deliv
ery,” commented city manager Skip Nalley.
“Most of these folks are already are on city
services anyway.”
“These three island are like doughnut
hole pieces of property,” said city building
(See CITY, Page SA)
Perry mayor Jim Worrall called
the decision a “smart move.” He
said his only concern is over pos
sible loss of the free inmate labor
that has been utilized to clean
roads and other public service
jobs.
Carter placed a June 30 date on
his motion for closing the HCCI.
He said the formal closure-action
could come at the next commis
sion session.
“We wanted to give all effected
parties as much time as possible to
make plans for the move,” he said.
“I looked at it from strictly a busi
ness perspective. There are only
25 counties (out of 159) that oper
ate such facilities,’’added Carter.
He said this issue is separate
from the court order the county is
under from Houston Superior
Court Judge L.A. “Buster”
McConnell Jr. to get more space at
the county jail.
The facilities, while adjacent to
each other, are different in pur
pose. The jail, operated by staff of
the Houston County Sheriff’s
Department, is a holding facility
for those arrested and waiting on
trial or a bed in the state correc
tional system. Prisoners generally
do not stay at that facility more
than about 60 days.
HCCI, operated by contract
with the Department of
Corrections, houses state prisoners
who have already been found
(See HCCI, page SA)
former director Bill Westbrook resigned
Jan. 14.
Lewis said several applications for the
position have been received.
Jimmy Faircloth, head of finance for the
CVB, said a study being conducted in
regards to adding extra parking space at the
(See LIGHTS, Page SA)
Search for new
Miss Dogwood
begins March 21
From Staff Reports
Plans are in full bloom for
the 1997 Dogwood Pageant
sponsored by the Perry High
School cheerleaders, accord
ing to organizer Nancy
Whiddon.
This year’s pageant will be
on March 21 and 22 at the
Perry High School auditori
um. Both nights are sched
uled to start at 7:30 p.m.
All contestants must live,
attend school, or work in
Houston County. Entry fee is
S4O and sls for the second
child in the family. Rehearsal
(See DOGWOOD, Page SA)