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Volume 127,
No. 30
2 Sections,
16 Pages
Wednesday,
July 29, 1998
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
This Week
Several events at
Agricenter this week
Several activities will take
place at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter
this weekend.
The Southeast Alabama
Kennel Club show will be
held July 30.
The Gold Kist Triple
Crown Horse Show will take
place July 30-Aug. 2
The Columbus Kennel
Club will host a show July
31.
Members of the Perry
High School class of 1978
will have reunion events at
the Fairgrounds July 31 and
Aug. 1.
Members of the Macon
Kennel Club will have a
show Aug. 1-2.
Several kitchen
inspections take place
Members of the Houston
County Environmental Health
Department found discrepan
cies at every location visited
July 20-24.'
Arby’s, 103 Russell
Parkway. Warner Robins. 84.
problems with employee
hygiene matters
Fa/.oli’s, 750 Russell
Parkway, Warner Robins,
problems with temperature
control of foods
Northrop Cafeteria, 200
Thompson Road. Perry. 69,
problems with employee
hygiene matters, problems
with temperature control of
foods, problems with storage
of cleaning products/
Pi/.iCa Hut, 1010 Russell
Parkway, Warner Robins, 89,
problems with temperature
control of foods
Taco Bell. 1998 Watson
Blvd., Warner Robins, 67.
problems with temperature
control of foods, problems
with facility/cquipment prob
lems
Book examines
Houston cemeteries
BYRON An extensive
listing of Houston County
cemeteries has been pub
lished by Omni Press of
Macon.
The book, “Cemeteries
and Obituaries of Houston
County, Georgia,” is based
on newspaper accounts from
area newspapers published
from 1824-1912.
According to Addie P.
Howell of Centerville, the
author, there are more than
9,000 names included in the
406-page book which
includes information from
about 60 cemeteries.
Howell said each cemetery
listed and surveyed has a
brief description of its loca
tion. Many of these older
family cemeteries have
already been destroyed since
Howell surveyed them; there
fore, leaving this book with
the only written record of
such.
She said the book has
been distributed to public
libraries in Houston County
and to the Genealogy
Department of the
Washington Memorial
Library in Macon.
For information about the
book, contact Addie P.
Howell at 319 Houston Lake
Blvd.. Centerville, 31028.
Houston runes- Journal
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
City recommends two courthouse sites to county
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journai. Staff
Two sites along the Perry Parkway have
been chosen as number one choices by
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall and several city
council members as the possible site for the
new Houston County courthouse and jail
complex.
During a work session July 27. the group
pondered over maps of the area, looking for
parcels of land they could suggest as choice
spots This follows a recent request Irom
the county to the city of Perry for input of
site location.
One spot chosen is located near the
intersection of U.S. 41 and the Perry
Parkway. When traveling west toward the
interstate along the Parkway, this land is on
the left just past the intersection There is
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Marching to Zion
Faith Bible Fellowship members put ’94 flood behind them
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
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Flash back to July 6, 1994 The tele
phone at the King household began ringing.
With the sound of rain drumming on the roof
of the home, Elaine King picked up the
phone and heard words that sent her running
out into the downpour.
A neighbor had called to tell her that the
church her husband is pastor of, Faith Bible
Fellowship located along Martin Luther
King Jr. Drive, was being flooded. The
waters of Big Indian Creek had left its banks
after two days of heavy rains. The Flood of
1994 had found another victim.
Before she left, Elaine King took time to
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RICKY WHEELER, PAUL COVERDELL (RIGHT) VISIT
CoverdeH talked with area farmers during Monday visit
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Columnist Bob Tribble offers an edi
tor’s feelings from 1933.
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an approximately 5-acre pond on the site.
This would be a good location advised
city building official Steve Howard
because he believes U.S. 41 north of Perry
will eventually become a “commercial cor
ridor.”
It was also pointed out that this property,
which consists of about 40 acres, could
accommodate both the courthouse and jail,
with the jail being constructed behind the
courthouse and “out ot sight " The jail
facility would hack up to commercial prop
erty instead ot residential property, said
Howard.
Councilman Ralph Gentry said he
agreed this would he a good choice because
he can envision U.S 41 easily being
widened for heavier traffic flow in the
future.
call her husband, the Rev. Willie King, at his
place of work at Robins Air Force Base. He
soon left and began a long, circuitous route
around flooded bridges and roads to gel back
to Retry.
Meanwhile, Elaine King and a number of
persons in the community, who found them
selves isolated on the north side of town
because of flooding from the Creek, began
working to salvage what they could from the
small church.
As the murky water swirled around their
knees, they said they did not falter or
become afraid. After all. they were working
to tty to save a house of the 1-ord.
Advance four years to July 26, 1998
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Coverdell visits drought-stricken farms
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
TIMES-JomtNAL STAFF
U.S. Senator Paul CoverdeH
arrived at the Perry-Houston County
Airport on Monday morning to tour
middle Georgia’s drought-stricken
farmlands, coming to a part of the
country marked by parched corn
stalks and failing cotton crops.
A welcome rain followed late
that same day, but for many local
farmers the loss of crops and
income can’t be reversed, even on
irrigated fields.
Ricky Wheeler. Houston County
Extension Agent, said the losses
will be heaviest for cotton, com and
peanut farmers, and that “hay and
pastures are in rough shape."
“It’s a disaster year,” Grovania
farmer Stewart Blood worth said,
following the brief meeting at the
Also, the property around the Thompson
Road interchange would develop, said
Gentry.
Another spot council expressed interest
in is acreage near the intersection of
Houston Road and the Parkway.
This property, located on the east side of
the intersection, consists of about 30 acres,
said Howard.
Property that consists of some land
being donated to the county, located on the
west side of that intersection, would not be
a good choice, said Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall.
"Some residents along Sparrow Drive,
off Lake Joy Road do not want the region
al jail” near their property, said Worrall
The back of that proposed property is
near a residential area off Lake Joy Road.
Members of Faith Bible Fellowship Church
arc gathered at the site where they worked to
save their church. All that is left now is a
grassy lot where their beloved church stood
four years ago. The flood waters were not
merciful; the church no longer stands.
The hearts of these church members were
not heavy. Their voices Filled the air with
beautiful singing as they began walking
along the street to the new church building
just a few blocks away.
“We are marching up to Zion, that beauti
ful City of God,” they sang.
After a few blocks, they reached their
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airport with CoverdeH.
“It reminds me of ’77. We’ve
grown to expect a late summer
drought, but this is the first time in
my 30 years of farming that we’ve
had a prolonged drought and heat
from May through July.”
It’s not just the lack of rain, he
explained. It’s the fact that the high
temperatures are heating up the soil.
“Even under irrigation, the soil is
too hot for the peanuts to survive,"
Bloodworth said. “We need a gener
al rain to cool the earth.”
“Every farmer who’s farming
will stand a loss, whether he’s got
one acre of a million acres,” added
Daryl Culpepper.
Bloodworth praised CoverdeH for
his support of Georgia farmers, but
said that “throwing loans" at the prob
lem would come too late, and would
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GOR4G TO THE
new ■ memotn
of Faith Bibb
Fellowship Church
head up the hiS to
fhetr new church
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Luther Kina Jr.
Drive. The old
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other end of the
street, wes
destroyed by the
July 1994 flood.
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still under con
struction new
boSdmg July 26.
Worrali said he also would “hate to see a
jail and courthouse pul across from a day
care center and the new apartments.”
A proposed location on property the
county owns near Kings Chapel Road
would not be a good idea, said Howard,
because of a natural gas transmission line
that “cuts up that acreage "
County commissioners arc expected to
decide in the near future where the new
courthouse and jail will he located along
the Parkway
Some comments, mostly from persons
in the Warner Robins area, have been made
about Perry possibly annexing property
toward Ga 96 and locating the facilities
further north, the courthouse must be locat
ed within the city limits of the county seat.
“We've told them no." said Worrall
Christ’s Sanctified
camp meeting
opens Aug. 1
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
TIMBS-JCHJKNAL StAff
The end of summer means the
beginning of a week-long time
for fellowship and worship neat
Perry for members of The
Christ's Sanctified Holy Church
The 60th annual camp meet
ing for the church will start Aug
I and last through Aug. 9 of this
year, according to the Rev Floyd
Hagan, treasurer of the denomi
nation. The meeting is held at the
campground located about five
miles north of Perry along U S.
41.
About 2,500 members arc
expected to attend.
“We’re a lot like a large fami
ly or just one big congregation."
said Hagan, who resides in
Raleigh, N.C. “We have a lot of
catching up to do each summer
with learning names of new'
babies and such Of course, our
main focus is to grow in Christ
and walk in the light of the
Gospel.”
Hagan said the 2,500 in atten
dance represent most of the
members of the denomination
which has congregations in
Maryland, Alabama. Mississippi.
Florida. Georgia. South Carolina.
North Carolina. Tennessee.
Virginia and Delaware.
Attendees mainly stay in cot
tages and at residences located
on the campgrounds Some will
probably be slaying at hotels in
Perry, he said.
“About 15 or 20 houses have
been added to the campground
this year,” he added.
One new building members
will see is a $1.5 million dining
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just mean that
fanners would he
paying back what
they had lost.
“It’s the
American people
who will feel the
increased cost."
he said, adding
that American
farmers need a
support to pro-
lect them from the extremes
“I’m at these gathering to help
farmers through what I’ve already
been through,” he said. “Senator
CoverdeH is very aware of our prob
lems and has done an excellent job
trying to secure our way ol life and
protect the consumers’ interest.”
Coverdcll’s trip concentrated on
Dooly County
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