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U. GA. MAIN LIBRARY
ATHENS, GA 30602
Volume 127,
No. 36
2 Sections,
16 Pages
Wednesday,
Sept 91998
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
This Week
Mississippi Mud Cake
on school menu
All Houston County public
school meals are served with
milk. Breakfast includes fresh
fruit or fruit juice each day.
Lunch includes two hot vegeta
bles and four to six cold fruit
and vegetable choices daily.
Menus may vary at elementary
schools where renovation is
under way.
Sept. 9: Breakfast: ham bis
cuit or cereal and toast; Lunch:
com dog or grilled cheese
w/fruit yogurt or PBJ sandwich
or baked potato w/hot toppings,
Mississippi Mud cake.
Sept. 10; Breakfast;
Manager's choice or cereal and
toast; Lunch, nachos w/beef and
cheese or pizza, or PBJ sand
wich or sub sandwich, chocolate
chip cookie.
Sept. 11: Breakfast: breakfast
pizza or cereal and toast; Lunch:
steak nuggets w/roil or barbecue
on bun or PBJ sandwich or man
ager’s choice, Jell-0 cookie.
Sept. 14: Breakfast: bacon,
egg & cheese biscuit or cereal
and toast; Lunch: chicken
nuggets w/roil or hot ham and
cheese sandwich or PBJ sand
wich or baked potato w/hot top
pings, Rice Krispy treats.
Sept. 15 Breakfast: waffles
with syrup or cereal and toast;
Lunch: taco or fish nuggets or
sandwich or PBJ sandwich or
sub sandwich, cinnamon rolls.
Sept. 16: Breakfast: sausage
biscuit or cereal and toast:
Lunch: hot dog or hamburger or
PBJ sandwich or baked potato
w/hot toppings, shortcake
w/fruit topping.
Restaurants inspected
Here is the report of Houston
County Environmental Health
Department visits to restaurants
Sept. 1-4. Where discrepancies
were found, repairs were
required immediately.
Discrepancies were found at
these locations:
Centerville Elementary
School, 450 Huusurn Lake
Road, Centerville, 93, problems
with temperature control of
foods
Feagin Mill Middle School,
1200 Feagin Mill Road, Warner
Robins, 93, problems with tem
perature control of foods
Lindsey Elementary School,
81 Tabor Drive, Warner Robins,
92, problems with temperature
control of foods
Northside Middle School,
500 Johnson Road, Warner
Robins, problems with tempera
ture control of foods
Oil Lamp, 626 Gen. C.
Hodges Blvd., Perry, 92, prob
lems with temperature control
of foods
Perdue Elementary School,
856 Ga. 96, Warner Robins, 93,
problems with temperature con
trol of foods
Quail Run Elementary
School, 250 Smithville Church
Road, Warner Robins, 93, prob
lems with temperature control
of foods
Rumble Middle School, 303
S. Davis Drive, Warner Robins,
92, problems with temperature
control of foods
Westfield School, 2005 U.S.
41 S., Perey, 91, problems with
storage of cleaning products
No discrepancies were
reported at these locations
Elberta OCHS, 400 Elberta
Road, Warner Robins, 98
i Houston County High
School, 920 Ga. 96, 100
Northside Elementary
School, 305 Sullivan Drive,
Warner Robins. 98
Westfield School Football
Concession, U.S. 41 S., Perry, 91
Huston Times -Journal
School Board sets strategy for future
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
XIMBfrJiMIiBMikSIAKE
Members of the Houston County
Board of Education have adopted an
ambitious set of goals and strategies for
the future. The goals, defined by board
members during a recent weekend
retreat, range from reducing class size to
hiring of a community relations coordi
nator.
Presented in draft form at the Sept. 8
meeting of the board the goals and
strategies are as follows:
\ Reading/Literacy: to develop poli
cies and support programs which will
ensure every child learns to read.
Strategies include employing a coordina
Tropical Storm Earl
leaves wet, wind-blown
path across midstate
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
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Perryans watched heavy
rains fall and trees twist and
turn in the wind Sept. 3 as the
remnants of Hurricane Earl trot
ted through Georgia.
The strongeSr"Wlni!s~ blew
through Perry about noontime
as trees began toppling, snap
ping power lines in some loca
tions.
However, there was no
severe damage reported in
Perry, although county crews
were kept busy with the
removal of about 50 trees,
according to Perry Fire Chief
Gary Hamlin.
Hamlin said he registered
about 3'/i inches of rainfall dur
Ruckus over birds
Labor Day dove shoot leads to conflict over hunting, quiet
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
AND Jj JOHNSON
Times-Jocrnal Staff
Following a early Labor Day morning episode
which had one Perry resident upset with nearby dove
hunting, Perry Mayor Jim Worrall said he will ask
council members to revise a current ordinance
regarding hunting within the city limits.
Billy Gray of 200 Meens Road, located off Valley
Drive, said he called authorities after he and his fam
ily were awakened to sounds of gunfire about 6 a.m.
Sept. 7.
Gray said that dove hunters 1n a nearby field
caused shot to fall on his property. He also charged
the bird shot struck his residence and put a hole in
the windshield of a parked van.
The field is located between Valley Drive and
Airport Road Extension, behind Holiday Inn, Jesup
Furniture and Bearings and Drives.
Gardner Watson, leader in county development,
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Jchjknal Epitok
A leader in the rapid develop
ment of business in Houston
County following World War II
died at the Church Home for the
Aged Sept. 4.
L. Gardner Watson, 89, was a
retired funeral director who was
instrumental in the development
of the funeral business in Houston
County during a period of rapid
growth.
Watson, who was bom May
19, 1909, completed his high
school education at Lanier High
School in Macon after surviving a
tragic Thanksgiving 1918 traffic
accident.
While attending Lanier High,
Watson worked at the Hart's
Mortuary. He obtained his funeral
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tor for the literacy program, requiring K
-3 teachers to spend 35 to 40 percent of
their instructional time on teaching read
ing/language arts; implementing the
Reading Recovery program systemwide;
providing a remedial summer school for
grades K-5; requiring students to earn a
grade equivalency score of 3.7 on the
third-grade lowa Test of Basic Skills for
promotion to fourth grad; lowering the
teacher-pupil ration to l:18 in K-3; pro
viding adult literacy cl*es and provid
ing transportation to enable children
whose parents move often to remain in
the same school throughout the academ
ic year.
V Technology: to allocate funds to
ing the period that day.
Emergency personnel began
advising area people to keep an
eye on the approaching weather
system Sept. 2.
Earlier, the hurricane was
expected to make landfall near
New Orleans, La. A change of
course brought' landfall along
the panhandle of Florida with
winds exceeding 100 mph.
Winds and rain diminished as
the system was downgraded to
tropical storm status not long
after it moved into Georgia, tak
ing a northeasterly course. Wind
speeds of near 50 mph were
recorded in the mid-state.
The center of the storm
passed about 50 miles east of
the Perry area.
According to Jimmy Greer, who hosted the dove
hunt, the field is about 43 acres. He said the location
the hunters were using was “from 100 to 200 yards
from any residences.” Greer said the field was
rimmed with woods between where hunters were
shooting and where Gray lives.
Greer said he determined the field would be a
good location for a dove hunt. He received permis
sion to host the hunt and then had Potter inspect the
field.
“He checked it out. It met all the rules for a hunt
and he gave us permission,” Greer said Sept. 8.
The ensuing confusion Labor Day morning
between authorities of what to do since the hunters
had received permission from the landowner and the
landowner received permission from Perry Police
Chief George Potter has caused Worrall to believe
(See BIRDS, Page SA)
director’s license during that
time.
For a while Watson worked in
casket sales in Virginia. During
his travels, he met his future wife,
Laura Mae Draper of Blackstone,
Va.
Soon, the late Wendell
Whipple of Perry invited Watson
to become a partner in the
Whipple Funeral Home and
Flower Shop, located where the
present Bank of Perry is today.
The Watsons married during
June 1942, and six months later,
Gardner Watson was drafted.
Upon his return from World
War K, Watson bought Whipple
out and soon moved the mortuary
and his family to the present loca
tion of Watson-Hunt Funeral
Home at 1208 Main St. in Perry.
develop a systemwide network to sup
port instructional and administrative
technology.
Strategies include employing a full- *
time technology specialist on each cam
pus. linking every classroom in the sys
tem to an area network; providing a min
imum of six student computers and one
multi-media teacher workstation in every
classroom systemwide; employing addi
tional network support personnel, pro
viding staff development to support
effective use of instructional technology;
implementing anew grade book/ atten
dance program countywidc after a one
(See SCH(X)LS, Page SA)
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eases past a fallen tree along Main Street. The tree,
which fell over during stormy weather generated
He also invested in property in
the rapidly developing Warner
Robins area. A native of Wellston,
Watson used family connections
to help purchase what was then
rural property at the intersection
of Watson Boulevard and
Pleasant Hill Road in Warner
Robins.
There, Watson built a funeral
home. Eventually, Jimniy
McCullough became a partner
with him and later he sold the
business to McCullough.
Watson developed perpetual
care cemeteries in both Warner
Robins and Perry.
He was also active in the
development of several residen
tial streets in Warner Robins and
at one point, operated a hot dog
stand with his wife during the
Pilot poet |^pH
Perryan Frances Whitten
reads her poem My Friend’ W*) V T
at international Pilot con- ■
vention.
See page 1B
times-journal Photo by Krit ZtiLin
by Tropical Storm Earl Sept. 3, caused an electrical
outage in most of eastern Perry.
Cornerstone Baptist gets new building,
becomes church, no longer mission
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Times-Journal Staff
Three years ago when die Cornerstone Baptist Church held its
first service, there, were 13 people present.
“And seven of those,” says Larry Thomson, “were the pastor
and his family!”
Thomson, who has been with Cornerstone since its earliest
days as a mission of the First Baptist Church of Perry, will be one
of a big crowd of worshippers Sept. 13, when the congregation
and a number of guests celebrate the opening of a brand new
10,000 square-foot facility, and the “graduation” of Cornerstone
from a mission to a full-fledged church.
That special event, to be followed in the evening by a joint ser
vice with First Baptist Church, will culminate a weekend
“marathon" of hard labor by the minister and the congregation as
they work together to put the final touches on their new building.
(See CHURCH, Page SA)
early boom years of Warner
Robins.
He founded a funeral home in
Montezuma, but eventually sold
his interest in Watson-Matthews.
During 1960. Watson brought
Riley Hunt in as a partner in the
Perry funeral home, and after his
son. Draper, completed embalm
ing school in 1971, brought him
in also. The business changed
names to Watson-Hunt Funeral
Home.
A charter member of the Perry
Kiwanis Club, Watson was named
the man of the year during 1950.
He was the first chairman of the
United Way of Houston County.
He was formerly an administra
tive board member at Perry
United Methodist Church.
A full obituary is on page 2A.
Are shorts headed out at
county high schools?
Ktjsm
The days of students' wearing shorts to
Houston County's four high schools may tie
coming to a close if the Board of Education
agrees with school principals that it's just too
time-consuming for school officials to have to
monitor shorts to make sure they come to the
required mid-thigh length.
Following a brief discussion at the Sept. 8
meeting of the Board of Education, it was
determined that a committee would study the
iswtmd make recommendations. Supt.
Charles Holloway said that the change would
not be likely to be in effect before the first pan
of 1999.
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