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Pulaski County quits jail authority
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
TIMP-JouaNAL Staff
First there were three counties,
then there were two. Now there's
just one and the Jail Authority is
no more.
County Commission Chairman
J. Sherrill Stafford announced at
the June 2 Commission Meeting
that Pulaski County has dropped
out of the Jail Authority.
He added that the decision was
an amicable one resulting from
discussions with Pulaski
Commission Chairman John
Henry Anderson.
The Authority, which original
ly included Dooly County also, is
now disbanded, which leaves
Houston County with a jail to
build on its own.
State grant to help Airport
Authority pay bills
Staff Rgoars
Members of the Perry-
Houston County Airport
Authority have decided to pay
bills with a portion of a $75,000
state grant the facility was award
ed.
During the June 1 meeting of
the Authority, Finance
Committee Chairman Tony
Sellier recommended the pay
ment of all outstanding debt of
the facility.
Any monies left over would go
toward payment of a 10-bay
hangar.
Sellier said he also recom
mends the Authority look toward
development of a Mission
Statement that would include the
goal for the facility becoming
financially self-sufficient.
Grads
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter, more than 200 seniors
of Perry High School will be a
part of graduation exercises.
Speakers will be valedictorian
Stephany Meyer and salutatorian
April Fendley.
Perry High School Principal
Phil Smith said “this has been a
good year. It has been very inter
esting.”
Smith said overall, the school
has had more students enrolled
this year than ever before during
his 13 years as principal at Perry
High Schodl.
“Next year is going to be even
larger,” he commented.
“Every year is a little different.
There are different challenges and
opportunities," said Smith.
Seniors of The Westfield
Schools will be holding their
graduation ceremonies June 6 at
the gymnatorium on the school
campus. The service will begin at
7 p.m.
Tribble
around the state to allow the top vote
gatherer to go into office without a
runoff
We all have seen so many races
with numbers of candidates where the
top gatherer might not get over 35
percent of the votes cast, while 65
percent voted for others. If I were a
candidate I would not want to go into
Memory
In this day of remembering, let us
not just visualize vague, faceless mul
titudes who died in service, but as best
we can, let us remember the individu
als who made up those multitudes.
Perhaps many of our own friends
and relatives are among that great
throng. I know that's true in my case.
Remember them as the real persons
they were, and be thankful for them.
It may be difficult to see clearly in
our memories those who have passed
from this life, but there arc thousands
still alive whom we can see and who
deserve to be remembered.
They reside in Veterans Homes
and hospitals across this nation, or on
beds of affliction elsewhere, endur
ing still the pains of sacrifices they
made.
Sadly, so many of these veterans
have been put away and forgotten, as
if they were no longer alive.
Remember them, write them, pray for
them, visit them.
There is yet another vast throng
we should not forget, the mothers and
fathers and families whose sons -and
daughters died in service of their
country. They made greater sacrifices
than most of us can imagine.
Remember them.
Memorial Day, a day of remem
bering, and of honoring.
We can remember, but how may
However, this turn of events
also clears the way for the
Commissioners to consider com
bining the courthouse and jail
facilities in one complex.
Stafford said this idea was
under discussion with the archi
tectural team.
HDR, the Texas-based archi
tectural firm which is working
with two local firms on the court
house project, has had experience
with combining criminal justice
facilities under one roof.
That option was discussed at
earlier meetings between the
architects and the commissioners.
However, one obstacle to that
route was that the Jail Authority
had already hired an architect for
the jail.
Currently, the facility is fund
ed through funds provided by the
City of Perry and Houston
County, along with fees collected
for renting hangar space and
other services.
The Authority meets every
first Monday of the month at the
Airport terminal located along
Myrtle Field Drive.
Soccer camp set
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26.
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Forty-one students will be
graduating.
Those in attendance will hear
comments from .valedictorian
Amy Harold and salutatorian
Claire Hart.
“We have had an excellent
year,” said Michael Drake, head
master of the facility.
“This is a very good senior
class and I am looking forward to
having a nice graduation ceremo
ny Saturday night,” he said.
“Also, I expect to hear some
great things from these students
in the future,” added Drake.
By the beginning of the next
school year, several portions of an
expansion project now going on at
Westfield will either be completed
or in the beginning stages, he said.
Larger buildings mean an
after-school program that can be
implemented next fall, said the
headmaster.
The school is located along
U.S. 41 south.
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office with just one of every three
votes cast.
I certainly do not know what was
in the minds of the legislators 34
years ago when they passed the
majority vote law, but From Where I
Sit it was a good law and has served
our democracy well.
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we best honor all these to whom
remembrance and honor is due?
Not in the awarding of more
medals and decorations; not in the
adopting of more legal holidays; not
in the erection of great monuments;
nor in concerts, or great sporting
events, or merchandise sales.
We can best honor them by pre
serving and practicing the values they
held so dear. We honor them by being
a grateful people, a people holding
fast to the faith of our Fathers, and to
the grace of God who has so abun
dantly blessed us.
A nation which forgets those who
gave it birth, and those who gave
their lives to preserve it, a nation
which forgets the life values that
made it great, that nation is like a
great tree that has lost its roots.
It cannot long endure, and shall
surely pass away. God help us, that
we be not that nation.
Remember, and truly honor, those
to whom we owe so much.
Let this nation do so, and God
willing, we shall continue to see for
generations to come, our beloved
flag, the Star Spangled Banner, yet
waving over the land of the free and
the home of the brave.
Let it be so. Lord God.
Horace Woodruff
Perry
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