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Shortly after the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricentcr opened
almost 10 years ago, it became
apparent the facility would attract more
visitors if a suitable place for meetings and
small conventions existed.
Responding to a study of needs, the
members of tne Georgia Exposition
Authority, the state government appointed
board which directs the center, developed a
small meeting space.
With money from the Georgia General
Assembly, the Roauemore Center was
added. Suddenly the Fairgrounds could
host smaller meeting groups in comfort and
could attract more users to the facility.
Once the Roquemore Center was avail
able, larger groups began looking at the
Fairgrounds. They would come if there
happened to be a larger building with more
auditorium seating available.
Again members of the Exposition
Authority' huddled. Working with
Executive Director Michael Froehlich and
others, they developed a concept for a
multi-purpose building.
Perry representative Larry Walker
thought the project should go even farther,
and pressed for a true convention center.
His sales pitch was convincing, and sud
denly the state appropriated more than $8
million for a convention center at the
Fairgrounds.
Now the plans are on paper, and the
building will soon be going out to bid.
Within 18 months, a new convention facil
ity will face 1-75 from the west entrance.
The building appears to have not only a
functional plan, but an attractive exterior
which will draw more visitors to the
Fairgrounds.
Readers will remember it was the pres
ence of the Fairgrounds along 1-75 which
first attracted members of the Family
Motor Coach Association to Perry. The
appearance of the new convention center
certainly will make the Fairgrounds even
more impressive from the interstate.
Walker, working with the Exposition
Authority and Froehlich, has given
Perryans yet another chance to capitalize
on the booming tourism market.
Each person who worked for the con
vention center should take a bow and enjoy
the applause of Perryans for making the
facility move from dreams to concepts to
ready for construction. Many residents of
the community will benefit directly or indi
rectly from the tourism dollars spent here
because of the new facility.
Thanks, folk. We needed that.
Mayor makes challenge
Editor:
I appreciate the kind words you recently stated
concerning
my birthday.
It would not
have been
possible for
me to cele
brate that
occasion had
it not been for
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some skilled doctors and up-to-date research done
through the American Cancer Society.
As a cancer survivor, I want to encourage every
one in our community to get involved in the May
14 -15 Relay for Life event at Perry High School.
All of us are touched by cancer in some way or
other.
Through advanced medical research we will
find a cure for the disease. In the meantime, we
need the entire community to become aware of
what we can do to prevent cancer and a great place
to begin that learning process will be at the Perry
High School track on May 14. It will also be an
evening of fun and entertainment. Please come.
Jim Worrall
Mayor
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Nunn expresses concerns about Kosovo
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the
transcript of an interview between
former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn of Perry
and CNN television. The subject of
the interview is United States actions
in Kosovo.)
BRIAN NELSON: Now, for an
assessment of how things are going in
the strike against Yugoslavia, I’m
joined by Sam Nunn. He is a former
Democrat in the United States Senate
and was the influential chairman of
the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Mr. Nunn, thank you for being with
us.
SAM NUNN D, FORMER U.S.
SENATOR: Thank you.
NELSON: “The Yugoslav Army
weekly” has described NATO’s strate
gy in this war as a “fiasco.” I’m sure
that’s no surprise. But there are critics
abounding of the strategy.
So I’d like to ask you, first of all,
how would you rate NATO’s perfor
mance in this strike?
NUNN: Well, we had Plan A, and
Plan A hasn’t succeeded very rapidly, if
at all. We did not have Plan B, a fall
back plan. We did not have any kind of
plan for ground forces, or even the
perception that we were going to put
in ground forces, which means that it
was very hard to have the Yugoslavs or
the Serbs react with the kind of reac
tion we would have liked from the
air-power.
So, it weakens the air-power when
you do not plan for the ground forces.
Now, putting ground forces in
would be extremely difficult, but rul
ing them out from the beginning was a
real mistake.
Now, the result so far and we
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Wed., April 21,1999
Jj .
Johnson
Editor
answer to the puzzle. I’ll
share it in a future column .
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Subject: How smart are
you ?
Four men in a band have
a concert that starts in 17
minutes and they must all
cross a bridge to get there.
All four men begin on the
same side of the bridge. You
must help jhem across to
the other side.
It is night. There is one
Sam Nunn
Former U.S.
Senator from
Perry
don’t know how this is going to come
out in the long run, because a lot of it
depends on whether NATO can hold
together and continue the bombing
campaign until the Serbs decide they
have had enough and they want some
kind of settlement that gets their
forces out and allows the NATO
forces to come in to protect.
So the verdict is not in yet, but right
now, so far what wc’vc had is a tragedy
for the .Albanians, a rallying-around a
dictator, Milbsevic, by the Serbs, many
of whom opposed him a year ago, a
real destabilization of the whole area
and an alienation of the Russian peo
ple, if not the leadership.
So right now we have .paid a very
heavy price for this, but at this stage
and that’s what we have to deal with
now we are going to have to hold
the alliance together. That’s going to
be one of the big challenges for
President Clinton.
NELSON: Well, how do we get
ourselves out of this mess? Is it ground
troops?
NUNN: When you talk about
ground troops and I would not rule
that out but there are a lot of ques
tions here. It took us 90 days to get
ground troops into Saudi Arabia dur
ing the Persian Gulf War, and that was
before fighting started. We had no
hostilities. We had bases there that
were even more elaborate than the
ones we have here. We had warehous-
flashlight. A maximum of
two people can cross at one
time. Any party who crosses,
either 1 or 2 people, must
have the flashlight with
them. The flashlight must be
walked back and forth, it
cannot be thrown, etc.
Each band member
walks at a different speed.
A pair must walk together
at the rate of the slower
man’s pace:
Bono - 1 minute to cross
Edge - 2 minutes to
cross
Adam - 5 minutes to
cross *
Larry - 10 minutes to
cross
For example: if Bono and
Larry walk across first, 10
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minutes have elapsed when
they get to the other side of
the bridge. If Larry then
returns with the-flashlight, a
total of 20 minutes have
passed and you have failed
the mission.
Notes:
There is no trick behind
this. It is die simple move
ment of resources in the
appropriate order. There
are two known answers to
this problem.
Mike told me this prob
lem is based on a question
Microsoft gives to all
prospective employees.
Microsoft expects you to
answer this question in less
than 5 minutes!
Good Luck!
es. We had a country with a lot of
logistics. So all the conditions were
favorable there. It took 90 days.
Right now, we haven’t even started
thinking about deploying ground
troops. We’ve had no debate in
Congress. That would have to take
place. They’ve had no debate in the
alliance. I would think it would take at
least 90 days to get 100,000 to 200,000
ground troops into a country like
Albania or a country like Macedonia,
because there’s no infrastructure there.
We’d have to bring everything with us.
And in a modern kind of warfare,
with American technology a lot of
people don’t realize this we have a
very large logistics base. For every air
craft, you’ve got to have an electronic
warehouse. Many of the times, it’s got
to be air-conditioned with the preci
sion equipment. And the same thing is
true with the Army. The Army is very
high-tech. So, we’re not really
well-positioned to very rapidly intro
duce a large number of troops. So,
timing would be the big question. Will
the allies participate in a ground oper
ation? That’s another question.
But when we back off of all of this
and we see that we’re trying to limit
civilian casualties, which is under
standable in the circumstances, we’re
certainly trying to limit our own casu
alties, we’re not taking really risky mis
sions. And we’re not willing and
we’ve roped off ground troops.
So, when you get into that situa
tion, you’ve got to back off and say,
“Wait a minute. Should we have used
lethal force to begin with?” Because
we’ve turned this into sort of a human
itarian war, and Plan A has not worked
(See NUNN, Page SA)
Bob
Tribble
Times-
Journal President
Paper blunders
A certain church in the area had s
sign out front that read, "Come in anc
hear our choir." Underneath it said
“Do you know what hell really is?"
Good intent, but the wrong mes
sage conveyed. Over the years we ir
the newspaper business have ofter
done similar things with misprints ir
news stories or headlines.
One of the worst mistakes thai
comes to mind that we have made at
our local group of newspapers
occurre'd a few years ago in oui
Patriot-Citizen in Buena Vista. An
advertisement was sent in to the papei
that should have read, “on the job
training." When it cane out in print it
read,"on the john training.” Seemed
rather funny to me but not to the
company which placed the ad.
Maybe even better than that one
was a New Year’s ad we once ran for
Cox Funeral Home when James
Evans was the proprietor in
Manchester. The ad had a picture of a
man and woman dancing and under
neath were the words, “Swinging in
the New Year with our friends and
customers.” James wouldn’t speak to
me for a few weeks, but it was a sim
ple mistake of the wrong signature on
the wrong
Errors such as the ones mentioned
cannot be explained to our readers and
customers. We ourselves wonder how
such things could happen, but during
the rush of meeting deadlines and
putting out newspapers, sometimes
they do.
Austin Saxon, our retired editor at
the Wircgrass Farmer in Ashburn,
wrote a column recently about some
of his blunders over 45 years or so of
newspapering. Let me share a couple
with you in his words.
“I think one of the most embarrass
ing moments for me as a newspaper
editor came years ago when we print
ed an account of a young bride who
had been honored with a pantry
shower. You can guess what the error
was in the headlirie:There on the page
for all the world to sec was, ‘Bride
Honored in Ashburn at Panty
Shower’.”
Saxon continues, “Certainly, the
most embarrassing times of all were
those instances when we buried the
wrong person. There is no way you
can explain such a terrible mistake to
a bereaved family.”
Recently the following headlines
were assembled as the “Best
Newspaper Headlines of 1998." Hope
you enjoy them.
1. Include Your Children When
Baking Cookies.
2. Something Went Wrong in Jet
Crash, Experts Say.
3. Police Begin Campaign to Run
Down Jaywalkers.
4. Drunks Get Nine Months in
Violin Case.
5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms.
6. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope.
7. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian
Takes Over.
8. British Left Waffles on Falkland
Island.
9. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
10. Clinton Wins Budget; More
Lies Ahead.
11. Plane Too Close to Ground,
Crash Probe Told.
12. Miners Refuse to Work After
Death.
13. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting
Defendant.
14 Stolen Painting Found by Tree.
15. Two Sisters Reunited after 28
Years in Checkout Counter.
16. War Dims Hope for Peace.
17. If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly,
It May Last a While.
18. Couple Slain; Police Suspect
Homicide.
19. Man Struck by Lightening
Faces Battery Charge.
20. New Study of Obesity Looks
for Larger Test Group.
21. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas
in Space.
(See TRIBBLE, Page SA)
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