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Volume 126, No. 25
2 Sections, 16 Pages
Wednesday
June 25,1997
50 Cents
1 At the
Crossroads
this week
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Four-H show
continues
The Georgia 4-H Club
Horse Show continues at the
Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter
through June 29. The
Southeastern Junior Polled
hereford Cattle Show will be
held June 26-28.
The Georgia State 4-H
Horse School will be held
June 30-July 4.
The Fourth annual Big
Bang Boom will be held
July 5, along with the
Firecracker Futurity Lamb
Show.
Health inspectors
report busy week
Houston County
Environmental Health
inspectors reported a busy
week for June 16-20 with
almost all facilities complet
ing all areas of the inspec
tion without a discrepancy.
Discrepancies reported
included:
Hardee’s, 801 N.
Houston Road, Warner
Robins, temperature control
of foods, 64.
Nu Way Weiners, 1040
Macon Road, Perry, temper
ature control of food, 93.
Second Gate Cafe, 314 S.
First St., Warner Robins,
temperature control of
foods, 91.
Snappers, 2515 Moody
Road, Warner Robins,
equipment problems, 90.
Tio Taco, 2922 Watson
Blvd., Centerville, food han
dling techniques, equipment
problems, 85.
Waffle House, 2816
Watson Blvd., Centerville,
equipment problems, 82.
No discrepancies were
reported at these locations:
Bubba’s, 266 Ga. 26 East,
Elko. 90.
Club 33, 532 N. Davis
Drive, Warner Robins, 95.
Gunny’s, 85 S. Ga. 247,
Warner Robins, 93,
Hong Kong Restaurant,
2197 #N Watson Blvd.,
Warner Robins, 94.
Judee’s Coffee Shop, 270
Ga. 26 East, Elko, 99.
King Gyro, 2922 Watson
Blvd., Centerville, 95.
Little Caesar’s Pizza,
1504 Russell Parkway,
Warner Robins, 95.
Max’s Bar-B-Cue, 102 S.
First St., Warner Robins, 99.
New Perry Hotel
Restaurant, 800 Main St.,
Perry, 93.
Pizza Hut Delivery, 115
Russell parkway, Warner
Robins, 93.
, Ramada Inn-The Hangar,
2725 Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, 100.
Rec Center, Tanner Snack
Bar, Carl Vinson Parkway,
Warner Robins, 92.
Rec Center, Ted Wright
Park, Moody Road, Warner
Robins, 95.
Rec Center, Memorial
park, 800 S. First St.,
Warner Robins, 96.
Rec Center, Peavy
Concession, 601 Johnson
Road, Warner Robins, 94.
Rec Center, Perkins Park,
105 Mulberry St., Warner
Robins, 92.
Rec Center, Recreation
Center Concession, Watson
Boulevard, Warner Robins,
96.
(See FOOD, Page SA)
Houston Times-Jouml
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
Workers abandon new Post Office construction site
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The sight of construction work
ers and heavy equipment working
at the new post office in the 1400
block of Macon Road in Perry had
become a familiar view in recent
weeks.
But, on June 23, the workers
and equipment were gone.
Work on the facility is just two
Farm panel
members tour
area farms
Chambliss, Smith
visit four-county area
By RICK JOHNSTONE
For the Times-Journal
Even as the state of Georgia
moves farther away from being
an agrarian state, agriculture is
still its biggest business.
In taking the chairman of a
House agriculture committee,
Bob Smith, R-Oregon, on a
whirlwind tour of middle
Georgia June 21, Eighth District
congressman Saxby Chambliss
noted that agriculture pumps
more than S4O billion annually
into the state’s economy.
“We are travelling around the
district looking at various crops,
showing him (Smith) how diver
sified we are,” Chambliss noted
at the initial stop on the tour, the
Pulaski County Community
Service Center.
That diversity included a look
at the cattle industry in Houston
County, with a visit to the farm
of Ted Perfect in Elko.
Perfect said he had about 400
head of beef cattle and 120 or so
dairy cows.
“I can rotate row crops and
cattle,” Perfect mentioned to
Smith, who is a cattle farmer in
Oregon.
Smith said he had never seen
a triple crop like Perfect dis
played on his 1,700-acre farm.
Smith said the potential for
exporting American agricultural
products is enormous, “if our
Marshallville Road residents
oppose zoning proposal
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The ball is back in the court of
Perry city council regarding the
rezoning request of two business
men and the opposition they face
from residents of the Marshallville
Road-Holly Hills subdivision
area.
The land in question is about 60
acres of land located in that area
that is presently zoned residential.
Property owners and business
men Tim McCord and Kirk Morris
would like to develop the land into
a recreational vehicle park; nearby
homeowners oppose.
Earlier in the year, the Perry
Planning Commission OK’d the
zoning change request.
On March 4, members of Perry
city council denied that request.
McCord and Morris would nor
mally have to wait six months
before being able to file another
request with P&Z. However, they
were granted permission to file an
earlier appeal.
So, on June 23, both sides
appeared once again before the
planning commission.
And, the planning commission
once again decided to send their
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percent complete, according to
Perry Building Official Steve
Howard.
Howard said during an inter
view on June 23 that he is not sure
why construction work has come
to a halt.
“They were issued their
building permit by the City,” he
said.
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TALKING ABOUT CROPS U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., (left) discusses the state of farming with
Houston County farmers led Perfect (center) and Stewart Bloodworth during a farm tour June 21.
products can be allowed into
foreign countries without
facing huge tariffs.”
Smith said that in seven
years all subsidies will be
gone for farmers so new mar
kets must be created for the
various crops.
“Beef is efficient and a
great product,” said Smith.
At present, 14 percent of beef
produced in the United States
is exported, he added.
Chambliss, a resident of
Moultrie who has connec
tions with agriculture, said
research is the answer to get
ting the country and its farm
ers to “where we’ve got to
be.”
Smith pointed out at the
stamp of approval to city council.
This was after an hour and a
half-long discussion of pros and
cons of the proposed park.
Charles Wolf, architect, told the
group gathered that new plans for
the park include a 250 ft. buffer
zone between campers and the
nearby residences.
That buffer zone would not be
changed to commercial zoning,
but would stay in a residential
zoning mode, he said.
“We have made a real conces
sion of leaving 250 feet of what I
consider to be almost unpenetra
ble oak trees and underbrush,”
said Wolf.
Some residents, however, did
not seem to be impressed.
Chiquita Jenkins said she
would still be concerned with
security of her residence.
“I have concerns with that
area,” she said, adding that she did
not think the buffer zone would
alleviate security problems.
And, resident Lowell Register
said he would not be happy with
the traffic noise and congestion
that could occur with the entering
(See CAMPERS, Page SA)
located in Siloam Springs, Ark.,
owns the land and has been
responsible for the construction
work, Howard said.
The permit gave the OK for the
company, which was contracted by
the federal government to con
struct the new post office, to pro
ceed with building the 14,000-
square-foot facility, added
Howard.
stop at Nobles Gin in Dooly
County that research had
already benefitted the cotton
crop with “controlling the
boll weevil population show
ing continued research is
important.”
No trip to middle Georgia
would be complete without a
look at fresh peach in sea
sons.
. The tour wrapped up its
half-day tour by visiting the
Lane Packing House in
Peach County.
Looking at how Houston
County fared in statewide
production of commodities in
1995, it ranked fourth in
peaches, fifth in wheat, and
ninth in soybeans.
A letter from Bosnian relief workers
Elko residents find life in
war-torn land a challenge
By NANCY HAWK
Special to The Times-Journal
ELKO Being dedicated, committed to any
thing seems to be a difficult task. Our lives are a myr
iad of intrusions, frustrations and disappointments.
The remedy seems only to be buried in more confu
sion. The struggle to make ends meet, die battle to
hold down a job, the precious moments we have with
our children, slip into ruin before we know it What
chaos we live in these days is not just limited to
America. The world we live in draws closer to the
fray, even as you read this.
This is a dismal beginning to a story. The fact is
we all have the skills to make a small part of the
world better, you just have to know where it is. The
port for my family and myself is a place called
Bosnia. Lying in the heart of the Balkan peninsula,
this is place where they are only now trying to
apply the type of democratic values and freedom
we have enjoyed for so long. Or maybe we have
just forgotten, simple things like saying no to offi
cials or going to the polls.
We are the family that everyone thought was
crazy. The folks who took the challenge of the mis
sion fields to make a difference. I want you to know
now we did not go to save Bosnia. We went to help
out. Only Bosnia's Croats and Serbs can save
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A sign erected on the property
lists the names of several compa
nies involved in the project,
including four located in Arkansas
and one in Norcross.
At press time, unconfirmed
reports indicate Bison
Development is no longer han
dling the construction.
That report also indicated work
on the project has been turned over
"We are travelling around
the district looking at various
crops, showing Bob Smith
how diversified we are."
Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.
Houston County ranked
fourth in peaches, fifth in
wheat, and ninth in soybeans
in 1995
"Beef is efficient and a great
product, At present, 14 percent
of beef produced in the United
States Is exported." Bob
Smith, R-Oregon
Home of the Georgia National
Fair and Agricenter
to another company, also located
in Arkansas.
Officials with the companies
could not be reached for com
ment.
Some earth work has been com
pleted and work has been done on
a retention pond to handle run-off
from the new parking lot. Little
work has been done to define and
construct the building.
Retired teacher
found dead
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The body of sixty-three year
old Samuel Roundtree was found
in a wooded
area off Arena
Road the
afternoon of
June 23,
according to
Houston
County
Sheriff’s
Investigator
Sgt. Alan
Everidge.
At press
time an autopsy was being con
ducted at the crime lab in Macon.
Everidge said foul play was not
(See FOUND, Page SA)
Four charged in
melee at Krystal
From Staff Reports
Asa result of what Perry
Police Chief George Potter called
a “melee” that occurred June 21,
four local people have been
charged with disorderly conduct.
According to Potter, authori
ties were called to the parking lot
of the Krystal restaurant at 1415
Sam Nunn Blvd., in Perry about
3 a.m. because of “a large crowd
fighting.”
Some members of that crowd
left when police officers asked
them to, he said.
However, Potter said a num
ber of subjects did not leave and
began yelling obscenities at the
police and each other.
When authorities attempted to
(See MELEE, Page SA)
Bosnia. We took with us though, the American spir
it of community, freedom, and hope. Gifts that were
given to the David Hawk family by a long history
of ancestors and folks willing to pay the price for
democracy and freedom. We took that and five chil
dren to Bosnia-
Life in Bosnia is far from the life we know here.
They struggle to get what they need from bread
lines, when their subsistence runs out. Those new
shoes aren’t necessary when die apartment can’t be
heated for more than three hours a day. Those few
moments of family time are missing when the living
quarters are filled with relatives and friends who no
longer have housing in Bosnia. Water rationing
makes every known but clean container a necessity.
Electricity is off from 9 pm. until 6 am. This Was
the beginning of life in Bosnia
We had peat accommodations, but we learned
to make do with what was there. To adapt to a sur
rounding that had no Kmart and only four working
eating establishments. Three of fiiose had a question
marie. This was the Bosnia we found, Red people
struggling at every level, many still dazed am! in
shock from the horrendous tragedies that I’m not
sure that I could survive.
(See BOSNIA ftue SA)
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