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Volume 126, No. 24
2 Sections, 16 Pages
Wednesday
June 18, 1997
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Sound challenge
booms into Perry
The Southeastern Sound
Challenge will be held June
20-22 at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds apd
Agricenter.
Also scheduled for this
week is the Georgia
Cattlemen’s Association
! Seminary which began June
-ttaodends June 18.
This weekend the
Horsemen’s Quarter Horse
Association Show will be
held June 20-22.
June 24-29, the
. : Fairgrounds will be the loca
tion fro the Georgia State 4-
H Show.
The fourth annual Big
Bang Boom family festivity
which concludes with fire
works, will be July 5.
Two discrepancies
found in county
Houston County
Environmental Health
Department officials report
ed only two discrepancies
among the public kttchens
inspected during the week of
June 9-13.
At Steak & Shake, 2996
Watson Blvd.j Warner
Robins, inspectors found a
discrepancy relating to prop
erty control of food temper
! atures. The score was 86.
At Texas Cattle Cos., 2067
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, there were discrep
ancies relating to employee
hygiene matters and temper
ature control of foods. The
score was 69.
Other scores included:
Burger King, 2010
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, 95.
Kim’s Kitchen, 1754
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, 95.
Oil Lamp, 626 Gen. C.
Hodges Blvd., perry, 94.
Perry Recreation
Srtment, Rozar Park,
Keith Drive, Perry, 84.
oeaix Behavioral
it, 940-A Ga. 96,
Warner Robins, 100.
Pomo’s House of
Barbecue, 2766 Watson
Blvd., Centerville, 94.
Red Lobster, 1359 Sam
Nunn Blvd., Perry, 92. >
Sno Biz, 1001 Russell
Parkway, Warner Robins,
100.
Chamber meeting
moves to June 26
Members of the Perry
Area Chamber of
Commerce Board of
Directors will not meet until
June 26 at 3 p ro. because of
availability of a quorum.
The organization will host a
Business After Hours activi
ty June 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the
Perry Chiropractic Center.
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Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
Top entertainers headed to Perry
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
Grab the plastic and get ready to get in
line. Some top name entertainment is head
ed to Perry for the eighth annual Georgia
National Fair this fall.
Mike Froehlich, executive director of the
Fairgrounds, told members of the Georgia
Agricultural Exposition Authority June 11
that the Legends of Motown and two top
notch country entertainment acts would
headline entertainment for the fair Oct. 3-
12.
Appearing at Reaves Arena Oct. 3 will be
the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the
Search continues
for man missing
since Sunday
Samuel Roundtree last
seen in Arena Road-
Houston Lake Dam area
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
A 62-year-old south Houston
County man last seen June 15 has
been reported by his family as
missing.
Sgt. Alan Everidge, investiga
tor with the Houston County
Sheriff’s Department, said an
extensive search for Samuel
Roundtree, includitMH-use of
tracking dogs and helicopters, has
been under way the past couple of
days in the Arena Road-Houston
Lake Road area.
Roundtree was last seen about
6 p.m. June 15 leaving his resi
dence, said Everidge.
Roundtree’s car was found a
short time later parked at New
Hope Church located at the inter
section of Houston Lake Road
and Arena Road, he added.
“We have unconfirmed reports
he was seen after 6 p.m. that day
walking along Arena Road,’’ said
the sergeant.
Everidge said Roundtree suf
fers from some medical ailments.
Foul play is not suspected at
this time, he said.
Anyone with information
about Roundtree’s whereabouts is
asked to contact Everidge at the
Houston County Sheriff’s
Department at 987-2800.
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Partnership offering Robins future forum June 19
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
Accurate information about the
Department of Defense quadrennial study
of military needs and how it affects Robins
Air Force Base is available this week.
Members of the 21st Century Partnership
will host an information forum June 19 at 7
p.m. at the Wellston Center, 155 Maple St.,
in Warner Robins.
According to Jack Steed, the coordinator
for the Partnership, the presentation, in a
forum setting, should last about 90 minutes.
See page4A
Vandellas and the Marvelettes. The
Temptations sang for about 5,000 fair visi
tors during the first Georgia National Fair.
Tickets for that event, including fair
admission, will be $21.50 per seat.
The next night, hot country music star
John Michael Montgomery will perform in
Reaves Arena. Tickets for that concert will
be $24.50, including fair admission.
The final show, featuring Alabama, will
be Oct. 11 at Reaves Arena. Tickets for that
show will be $21.50.
Tickets for all three concerts will go on
sale Aug. 16 at the Fairgrounds and at
selected ticket distributors in Georgia.
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AT THE RODEO Fishing was the order of the day June 14 at the takes at J. Frank Rozar Park in Perry.
The Perrv Recreation Department hosted a free fishing event for youngsters. Cody Peterson shows off his
catch to nis father, Kenny Peterson of Perry. Peterson also plays baseball in the rec department leagues.
Several Partnership volunteers, along with a
professional group which represents the
Partnership in Washington, will be on hand
to explain the quadrennial report and its
potential effects.
Steed said the forum is being provided to
give midstate residents the most accurate
and complete information available con
cerning utilization of Air Force depots such
as Robins.
The 21st Century Partnership was
formed during May 1993 when Robins was
placed on the Base Realignment and
Froehlich said
Froehlich also distributed premium
books to Authority members outlining rules
and entry dates for a variety of fair activities
including livestock, antiques and arts and
crafts for the Georgia Living Center
exhibits. These booklets will be available to
the public shortly, he said.
In other matters, Froehlich reported con
struction of the sheep and swine exhibit
addition is almost complete and should be
occupied by the end of June.
The Georgia Cotton Commodity
Commission will occupy offices near
Reaves Arena later this, month, also,
Closure Commission study list for the first
time.
Since then, the Partnership, a loose coali
tion of civic and government leaders in a
half-dozen midstate counties, has continued
to represent the base relating to BRAC stud
ies and privatization issues.
Steed said he is encouraged that during
recent days, resolutions have been approved
in Congressional committees which would
force the 1995 BRAC recommendations to
be followed, and which would prevent pri
vatization of workloads at the depots rec
Bible School time
One area church has some very experi
enced workers for annual event
See page 1B
Froehlich said
The Authority voted to grant the Georgia
Department of Transportation almost 37
acres of land at the southwest comer of the
property. The land will be used for con
struction of anew 1-75 interchange later this
year. Froehlich said he thinks the DOT will
put the project out for bids during the fall.
The Authority also did the final autho
rization for the purchase of about 16.5 acres
of land at the southwest comer of the inter
section of Larry Walker Parkway with
Courtney Hodges Boulevard from W.E. and
Ed Beckham for slightly more than $1 mil
lion.
ommended closed two years ago
McClellan at Sacramento, Calif., and Kelly
at San Antonio, Texas.
The quadrennial study indicated that the
three remaining depots, Robins, Hill at
Ogden, Utah, and Tinker at Oklahoma City.
Okla., are working at about half of capacity,
according to an Associated Press story
Steed quoted.
He and other Partnership members
believe the two bases named to be closed
(See ROBINS, Page SA)
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Home of the Georgia National
Fair and Agricenter
School Board
budget to
break SIOO
million barrier
By RICK JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
The Houston County Board of
Education will be going into the
fiscal year that starts July 1 with a
record budget of $100,988,168.
That figure is about $8.9 million
above the previous budget.
At a called meeting June 16 at
the board office in Perry, the
members approved the budget
after making a few reductions in
what had been proposed.
System financial officer
Annette White told the group they
needed to OK the budget so she
could start advertising it in the
paper and then adoption could
come at the July meeting.
“There is never enough money
to do all we want,’’said vice chair
man Shirley Lowery. “We asked
each department to make some
cuts this year and then we put
some of them back in.”
Board member Skip Dawkins,
who represents south Houston
County, said Perry schools “did
well” in the budget.
“Perry High had asked for a
librarian, counselor help, and
lights for the baseball field and
they got them,” said Dawkins.
Left intact was $38,400 for the
librarian position, $16,000 for a
half-day counselor, which now
brings that to a full day job, and
$70,000 for the lighting project.
White said the millage rate
will not be determined until later
in the year, probably August or
September, after the tax apprais
ers gives the board the final fig
ures on taxes.
“We know there will be at least
a one mill drop in the mainte
nance and operation rate as the
result of the (special local option)
sales tax approval,” she said.
Voters approved the one-cent
sales tax increase, which will be
used to pay off bonds approved
for school renovation and con
struction in an earlier election.
Collection of the tax begins July
1.
The largest revenue increase is
in the area of salaries, where the
governor recommended a 6 per
(See SCHOOL, Page SA)