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Houston Lake Road is
now State Route 993
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
iLMg-jounNAjL .
The long-awaited widening of
Houston Lake Road came one
step closer on Feb. 9 when
Houston County Commissioners
voted to enter a contract with the
Georgia
Department of
Transportation
which will make
Houston Lake
Road a temporary
part of the state
highway system for
the sum of SI.
Under the terms of the con
tract, Houston Lake Road ,now
Houston County Road 535,wi1l
become “Temporary State Route
993,” in accordance with a deci
sion made late in 1998 between
county and state officials.
The change of ownership
makes it possible for the D.O.T.
to acquire the rights-of-way
needed for the widening of the
highway with state funds. The
Eric Zellars leaving newspaper staff
From Staff Reports
Eric Zellars, an employee of
the Houston Home Joumal/Times-
Jouma! for longer than any other
current
worker,
announced
his resigna
tion Feb. 8,
effective Feb.
12.
He will
leave the
newspaper to
become a
circulation
manager
with The
tel
Daily Sun in Warner Robins.
Cellars, who attended Fort
Valley State University, has been
employed in various jobs at the
newspaper for 20 years. Most
recently, he has been the photog-
Clothes
ventional hair coloring will be permit
ted.
* Well groomed mustaches are per
mitted; goatees and beards are prohib
ited.
* No clothing or other article such
as bandannas may be worn or displayed
which may indicate membership in a
gang.
Male students may not wear ear
rings; females students may wear ear
rings. Neither male nor female students
may wear ornaments (jewelry) which
pierce the skin such as the nose, lips,
eye lid, etc.
Truck damages Alltel telephone lines
From Staff Reports
~K dump truck tore down the tele
phone line along Gen. Courtney
Hodges Boulevard next to the
Welcome Center in Perry Feb. 8
according to Toih Thompson,
Supervisor of Outside Plant for Alltel
Georgia Inc .
The driver of a dump truck unload
ing dirt near the new overpass off of
Hodges Boulevard failed to put the bed
of the truck down, entered and contin
ued down Hodges Boulevard with the
bed of the truck still up and tore out
about 700 feet of telephone line said
Thompson.
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Photography: Eric Zellars; Bookkeeping: Paula Zimmerman
savings to the county have been
estimated at SlO million.
The agreement was hammered
out at a meeting on Houston
County’s transportation needs
held in Atlanta the day before
Thanksgiving, 1998.
The savings to
the county have
been estimated at
$lO million.
also attended by State Senator
Sonny Peraue, County
Commission Chairman J. Sherrill
Stafford, Warner Robins Mayor
Donald Walker, Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall and County Public
Works Director Tommy
Stalnaker.
Under the terms of the con
tract just signed, the county will
continue to provide maintenance
services along the road.
rapher and in charge of circula
tion distribution.
He is also responsible for com
pletion of the Houston Times-
Jouma! Advertiser each week. He
has helped make several advertis
ing specials successful with his
sales.
Times-Joumal general manager
Jj Johnson said he was very sorry
to see Zellars leave the newspa
per, but said he wished Zellars
well.
“Eric is like family to me. It
will be hard to see him leave. I’ve
always supported employees
when they leave to better them
selves. I wish Eric the best,”
Johnson said.
Zellars joined the HHJ staff
when Jim Kerce was editor and
remained with the paper through
the transition of sale and reorga
nization in 1994.
ZELLARS
* Fads and styles in dress which dif
fer extremely from conventionally
accepted standards are prohibited.
* Any clothing that is viewed as dis
tracted because of extremes in style,
color, pattern, fabric, etc., shall not be
permitted.
* Principal discretion applies to all
of the above.
The dress code will be published in
the 1999-2000 handbooks for middle
and high school students.
The code will also be displayed on
the education TV channel for Warner
Robins and Perry.
truck took out about 600 pairs of lines
and interrupted telephone service from
about the intersection of Hodges
Boulevard and Larry Walker Parkway
to almost all the way to Henderson
including the Alltel office along U.S 41
according to Thompson.
“1 guess he probably did about
130,000 worth of damage when he tore
the line out” said Thompson.
“It will probably be daylight before
we get everything repaired" said
Thompson.
"We will be working right on
through the night and will be lucky to
have the repairs complete by 3or 4
a.m.” said Thompson.
The meeting, held
with State
Department of
Transportation
Commissioner
Wayne
Shackelford, was
arranged by Rep.
Larry Walker, and
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Committee.
The 10-member Exposition Authority reviews and evaluates
operations at the Georgia National Fairground and Agricenter.
The Code Revision Commission oversees Georgias legal code.
Its members include the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
four appointees from the House, the Lieutenant Governor and four
Senate appointees, as well as five appointees selected by the State
Bar president.
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“Jeremiah People” coming to Perry
From Staff Reports
Jeremiah People, with a
cast of eight actors and
singers, will present a concert
at First Baptist Perry at 7
p.m., Feb. 20.
According to a spokesman
for the group,” Jeremiah
People has inspired the
church, encouraged the fami
ly and challenged the believer
Roads
and be scared, as our kids are, slipping
and sliding on the road, not knowing
if you will end up in the ditch again, or
not.”
At the request of County
Commission Chairman J. Sherrill
Stafford, County Engineer Tommy
Stalnaker gave the assembled citizens
an overview of the process required for
a county road to be paved.
Stalnaker said the first require
ment was that all property owners
along the road be willing to give the
county the required right of way “free
and simple.”
He said that if all owners agreed to
give up the land required for the right
of way on either side of the road, the
next step would be a survey for align
ment of the road.
Stalnaker pointed out that at least
two of the curves in Davis Road
would have to be straightened out. He
also noted that with the state-required
80-foot fight of way, a number of
property owners would lose a substan
tial amount of land.
Miss PHS
stage to answer on stage questions.
Akridge had to answer the question, “If
you could change one thing about your
self what would it be and why?”
Akridge came back with the very spirit
ed answer, “That’s easy. I would change
how much I eat, because I think I eat
way too much.”
After on stage questions were
answered Mary Ann Millender and
Judson Davis provided entertainment
while the judges tallied the scores.
Summer Saunders was nominated
as Miss Congeniality, and Heather
Whiddon received the award for
Interview and was aUn named ternnrl
runner up. Dana Collier was named
first runner up.
As Akridge was named the new
Miss PHS all she could think was
“Wow!" Akridge has had some past
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The right of way question was also
brought up by one of the property
owners, Alfred White Jr., who said
that he had 1,000 feet of water lines
and new fencing along the road, and
he wanted to know who would stand
the cost of moving the pipes and fenc
ing if the right of way was needed for
road paving.
Pointing out that he had lived on
the road for many years, White said
that he was not in support of paving
the road, but he conceded that it was
hard to travel on during periods of
excessive rain.
Stalnaker agreed with citizens who
argued that it would cost less in the
long run to pave the road than to
maintain it with regular scraping.
“We’d like to see it paved,” he said,
“It’s very expensive to maintain.”
Stafford asked that representatives
of the families who live on the road
meet within 30 days with
Commissioners Tom McMichael and
Larry Thomson to begin working
toward a solution to their problems.
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experience in the pageant mainstream,
but this is her first Miss PHS pageant.
She has served terms as Pre-Teen Miss
Dogwood, and Teen Miss Dogwood
and has participated in numerous other
pageants.
Akridge has been cheerleading since
she was in the 7th grade and said that
she would like to attend Middle
Georgia College for the first year of her
education and then transfer to another
bigger school, but she is not sure which
school yet. She does know that where
ever her travels take her she wants to
become a cheerleader.
She is currently awaiting an answer
from University Cnecrleading
Association. This job would involve her
attending to summer camps and teach
ing children to cheer.
occupied by the error.
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