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Volume 127,
No. 42
2 Sections,
20 Pages
Wednesday,
Oct. 21, 1998
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
This Week
Bluebird rally coming
to Agricenter
The annual Blue Bird
Wanderlodgc Rally in the
Valley will he held Oct. 25-28
at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agriccnter.
Perry Housing
Authority to meet
Members ol the Perry
Housing Authority will have
their quarterly meeting Oct
22 at 4 p.in. in the Community
Room of the Houston
Authority Office at Perimeter
Road.
School lunch menu
features sandwiches
This week’s Houston
County public school elemen
tary school menus feature
sandwiches at lunch.
All meals are served with
milk Breakfast includes fresh
fruit or fruit juice each day.
Lunches include two hot veg
etables and four to six cold
fruit and vegetable choices
dailv. Schools under renova
tion may have different
menus.
Oct. 21 - Breakfast: Cheese
croissant or cereal and toast;
Lunch: corn dog or grilled
cheese sandwich with fruit
yogurt or PBJ sandwich or
baked potato with hot lop
pings. pineapple upside down
cake.
Oct. 22 - Breakfast:
Chicken biscuit or cereal and
toast; Lunch: nachos with
cheese and beef or pizza or
PBJ sandwich or sub sand
wich. gingerbread with lemon
sauce.
Oct. 23 - Breakfast:
Pancake with syrup or cereal
and toast; Lunch: steak
nuggets with roll or barbecue
on bun or PBJ sandwich or
manager's choice, banana
pudding.
Oct. 2b - Breakfast:
Manager's choice or cereal
and toast: Lunch: chicken
nuggets with roll or hot ham &
cheese sandwich or PBJ sand
wich or baked potato with hot
toppings, pudding with top
pings.
Oct. 27 - Breakfast: Steak
biscuit or cereal and toast;
Lunch: taco or fish nuggets or
sandwich or PBJ sandwich or
sub sandwich. Million Dollar
cookie.
Oct. 28 - Breakfast:
Breakfast pizza or cereal and
toast; Lunch: hot dog or slop
py joes or PBJ sandwich or
baked potato with hot top
pings. brownie.
Fair food concession
stands inspected
Representatives of the
Houston County Environmental
Health Department inspected
Georgia National Fairgrounds
concession stands during the
National Fair week.
Here are facilities inspected
other than fairgrounds loca
tions:
3 G’s Southern Fried Catfish,
P.O. Box 1812 Perry, 100.
Baldino’s Giant Jersey Subs,
912 Russell Parkway, Warner
Robins, 96.
China Cuisine, ' 7<S -D Sam
Nunn Blvd., Perry, 99.
Landings Golf Club, 309
Slatham’s Way, Warner Robins,
problems with temperature con
(See FOOD, Page SA)
Houston Times -Journal
Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
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FRIENDLY ENCOUNTER: County Commission
Chairman J. Sherrill Stafford shares a friendly
moment with Gloria Alday and Pam Bohannon,
Location of new courthouse
flares up during AAUW forum
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Times-Journal Staff
WARNER ROBINS The two contenders for
Houston County Commission Chairman squared off
briefly at a candidate’s forum Oct. 13 on an issue that
many Perryans may consider already closed the loca
tion of the new Houston County courthouse and jail
Ned Sanders, the Republican challenger for the
county’s top government post, said that he would like
to see the new facilities located “nearer to the center
of population” in the county.
He noted later In the forum that "the courthouse
decision has already been made,” but added. “I think
it should have been located more centrally. I would
revisit it."
Incumbent Commission Chairman J. Sherrill
Stafford, responding to Sanders’ statement, said that
the decision had already been made
“By law, the courthouse has to be in the county
seat,” Stafford said.
The County Commissioners announced their deci
sion to locate the courthouse and jail at a press con
ference on Sept. I. The site chosen is at the intersec
tion of Kings Chapel Road and Perry Parkway The
Perry City Council is in the process of annexing that
land so that it will be within the city limits.
Sanders also was critical of the plan to build a
Georgia Highway Patrol building in Houston County
at county cost
He said that he believes the state should build the
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both candidates for the House of Representatives,
and Fred Graham, candidate for State Court
Solicitor.
$68,000 building.
At the same forum, which was sponsored by the
American Association ol University Women at the
Flint EMC building, a numbei of other candidates
gave brief presentations and answered questions.
Gloria Alday, Republican ol Warner Robins who
is challenging long time Democratic incumbent
Larry Walker of Perry for the District 141 post in the
Georgia House of Representatives, presented her
business background and management experience as
evidence of her ability to serve in public office.
She said the Georgia budget “has grown from
$6.1 billion to $ 12.1 billion in 12 years, and we need
to start off with a good audit.”
Walker described Georgia as the fastest growing
state in the country, with the best road system in the
country, but said “we re still not doing the job in edu
cation.”
He urged discipline in the classroom, raises for
teachers and simplification of state school funding as
starting points for raising Georgia’s low educational
standing among other states
Others on the panel were Larry Thomson,
Republican, and George Williams. Democrat, candi
dates for County Commission Post 2; Fred Graham,
Democrat, and Robert Tawse .Republican, con
tenders for the office of State Court solicitor; Rep.
Pam Bohannon and former County Commissioner
Larry Snellgrove, also candidates for House of
Representatives.
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Weather, concerts help
Fair set new records
By ROB MEAD
Timb-Journal Start
Excellent weather and strong
attendance at concerts drew large
numbers of visitors to the ninth
annual Georgia National Fair Oct.
9-16.
Fairgrounds Executive
Director Michael Froehlich said
the clear, warm days and crisp
evenings contributed to the num
her of patrons ai the fair
All the numbers are not yet in.
though the early estimates sug
gest the overall attendance was
361,125 with nearly a three per
cent increase over last year
Froehlich said Oct 16 was the
biggest single day ever on a
weekday with 37,025 visitors,
and the second Saturday boasted
approximately 74,000 fair goers
The attendance has risen each
year at the fair, which, Froehlich
said, speaks for the quality of the
fair.
“We pul on a quality, first
class Fair and people from
throughout Georgia and the
Southeast responded to it as
reflected in the increased atten
dance. exhibits, and competitions
ai this year s Fair", said James E.
Sutherland chairman, Georgia
Agricultural Exposition
Authonty.
The Exposition Authority is
the operating board for the fair
grounds
Among the activities which
helped draw the large number of
visitors were traditional events
including livestock events, horse
shows and youth exhibits in
Heritage Hall (4-H. FFA.
Perryan Dan Bray
wins first state
Public Safety Award
Bv ROB MEAD
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The first annual Governor's
Public Safely Award honored
Perryan Daniel Clifton Bray
The award given for “out
standing performance" recog
nizes individuals who perform
their duties in a manner above
and beyond the standard or foi
acts of heroism, according to
John Trussell, head of the
Houston County Probation
Office
The award Bray received is in
response to the manner in which
he responded to a emergency sit
uation while on duty, a
spokesman for Miller’s office
reported
Bray, a probation officer with
the Houston County Probation
Office, was on routine check of a
Warner Robins probationer
When the probationer failed an
alcohol test, Bray handcuffed the
probationer.
The probationer, just one step
away from a closed glass window
on the top floor of Sandpiper
Apartments, leaped toward the
window, head first.
Bray and his partner Tim
Pippio, caught the man in mid
leap. Still, the man’s body had
enough momentum to put his
head and shoulders through the
glass, Trussell recalled
Continuing to resist the offi
cers, the probationer began
bouncing up and down, straining
to force his throat onto the broken
glass
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Home of the Georgia
National fair and
Agricenter
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Other growing traditions,
including the Midday at the Fail
for senior citizens, the Stories of
Agriculture exhibits and the
Geoigia National School House
helped draw large numbers of
seniors and school-aged visitors
Froehlich credited involve
merit by local organizations such
as the Rotary, Byron Exchange
Kiwanis Akikla Club and the
Houston Fire Department as
important to the fair
Following a theme of The
Tradition Continues the ninth
state supported fair included
record level entries in home and
fine arts competition
Concerts with good attendance
included Alan Jackson, who sold
out, and strong crowds for
Alabama and Brian McKmght
Among the popular new attrac
tions was the new gift shop ai the
Georgia Living Center which fea
tured items for sale by some of
the entrants in the home and arts
categories.
Other attractions which were
popular included a computerized
display by Middle Georgia Tech
a computerized agriculture dis
play from Fort Valley Stale
University, and a high tech exhib
it from Panasonic.
Froehlich complemented the
community and those who helped
make the Fair a safe and attractive
event for visitors.
Planning for the 10th fair has
begun Initial plans include a
sampling of items which have
made the first nine lairs popular
According lo Trussed the two
officers managed lo restrain ihe
probationer and maneuvered him
away from the window
The quick actions of Hi ay and
Ptppio resulted in only minor
injuries lo the probationer.
Trussed said
While Pippto held the proba
tioner away from Ihe glass Rray
called for backup and the
Emergency Medical Service
When EMS arrived, the man
refused treatment and was trans
ferred to the Houston County
Medical Center in Warner
Robins. From there, the proba
tioner was transferred to Central
State Hospital in Milledgeville.
Bray has spent all of his life
but one year as a resident of
Houston County He has lived in
the Perry area since 1978 Bray
brings an unusual heritage to his
job. His mother is Norwegian and
his father is I .ower Muskhogean
Creek.
Bray sard his father taught him
fishing, hunting, carving and
other Native American traditions.
Bray plays the Native
American flute and drums.
He holds a third degree black
belt in Tae Kwon Do with the
Haesan Assr>ciation and credits
his father wdh inspiring his eaily
interests in the martial arts.
Not satisfied with just flute
and drums, Bray recently became
an auxiliary member of the
Centerville Fire Department and
(See BRAY, Page SA)