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Good job, team
Members of the Perry Middle
School eighth grade baseball
team have gained some fame
for themselves and a place in the record
books with their 10-2 season record.
The Panthers won the Houston
County Eighth Grade title and recorded
for the middle school the second eighth
grade baseball title in four years.
Good athletes are important to a pro
gram. So is the support of the parents
and families of the players.
Another key ingredient to a good pro
gram is the coach. John Warlick, who
has completed 29 years as a coach at
Perry Middle School, has captured 31
countywide titles during those years. His
wins have come in football, baseball and
basketball.
Some of those years, Warlick has been
very well blessed and won more than
one countywide title in the same year.
Three times he's managed to record a
sweep of all three titles in one year.
We offer our congratulations to the
Eighth Grade Panthers for their county
wide title and wish them well as the
move to Perry High next year.
We also thank Warlick for his efforts
on behalf of the youths of southern
Houston County and for setting stan
dards which bring out the winner in
these youths.
Community makes
1999 Relay a success
Dear Perry Community:
Our Perry Relay for Life theme this year
was “It's About A Community That Takes
Up the Fight!" and we truly did that. I am
so proud to be a member of this commu
nity and to see what can haplpen when
we all come together.
The 1999 American Cancer Relay for
Life had raised more than $44,000 as of
Saturday morning.a nd we are still
counting. 1
For Those who could,
see why we do thijTevfty ytaf.* When The'
survivors took the track, we celebrated
their lives as our family members and
dear friends. We also remember those
who were lost to cancer, and know that
the money raised will go for research and
curst so
Saying
Thanks
With Carol
M. Hayes
others may
live.
I thank
our corpo
rate spon
sor s :
Kroger,
Perry High
School
Student
County,
Perry
Hospital, and our newest corporate spon
sor, Northrop Grumman.
I also thank the" people who came to
entertain us while we walked and
camped. We appreciate the items donated
by Red Lobster, Angelina’s, Lynco Video,
Samantha's, Cracker Barrel, Applebee’s,
Impressions, B.C. Moore’s, Domino’s
Pizza, Inside Scoop Ice Cream Shop and
the Magnolia House in Fort Valley. They
all contributed gifts to be given to walkers
during the night.
I especially want to thank Jj Johnson
and his Houston Home Journal staff,
including Joan Dorsett, for all their won
derful publicity. Your contribution defi
nitely got the word out.
We also say thanks and a job well done
to the team captains and their teams. The
money we raised will make a difference
I thank Mayor Jim Worrall for all his
hard work. He recruited teams, wrote let
ters and was a wonderful support for the
1999 Relay for Life.
We are already planning for next year,
and have already had a real sound sys
tem promised and several volunteers
have already come forward.
I cannot thank you all enough for rais
ing money for this worthy cause.
(Carol M. Hayes was the co-chair for
the 1999 Perry Relay for Life campaign.)
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Special sister will be missed by adopted family
Some 21 years ago, the
Johnson family moved from
Hawkinsville to Bainbridge
where I became part of the
Bainbridge Post-Searchlight
staff.
Because the move came at
mid-year for Judy’s teaching
job, she remained in
Hawkinsville while 1 moved on
to Bainbridge. We found a
duplex in a group of duplexes
just outside the city, and moved
most of our worldly posses
sions.
Soon after 1 moved in, some
new neighbors moved in across
the street. I could tell that the
group would have a busy home
as the mother had three sons.
My meeting with Myra Lynn
Bramblett was not planned.
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Seniors step out of giant television set at 59 prom
I’m enjoying my rambles
through Perry’s past, particu
larly just going from week to
week, because there’s a definite
pattern to the events, just as
there is to today’s newspaper
coverage. By next week, the
1959 high school seniors will
be graduating, so if you gradu
ated that year, be sure to read
again next week.
•••
40 years ago this week, it
was almost graduation time. At
Belle’s, summer blouses were
being advertised as graduation
gifts. The cost? $1.98 to $3.98.
The Perry High school
Junior-Senior Dance had Just
been held, and the theme was
“The Fabulous Fifties."
According to the Home Journal
“The Senior leadout was per
formed with the girls stepping
out of a giant television set.”
The Delphian Club had Just
elected Mrs. Floyd Tabor presi
dent and announced at their
meeting that during the year
before they had paid 110 visits
to newcomers to Perry.
The Kiwanis Club was plan
ning its annual “Festival of
Fun.”
At the Colonial store, you
could buy five pounds of mullet
for 99 cents and a pound of
Silver Label coffee for 39 cents.
The Junior Department of
the First Baptist Church had a
“breakfast hike" at Malatchie
Farms, with the 46 members
starting out at 7:30 a.m. on a
Saturday morning and hiking
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Wad.. May 19. 1999
JJ
Johnson
Home
Journal
Editor
One afternoon, on my way
home from work, I noticed a
heavy plume of smoke rising
from about where our duplex
was located. 1 accelerated the
car and drove toward the
smoke.
The closer I got to the row of
duplexes, the more it appeared
the smoke was rising from our
Charlotte
Perkins
Home
Journal Staff
to the fish pond where they
were served a breakfast of
bacon and eggs, grits, toast and
donuts.
Miss Barbara Jones of
Atlanta spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.J.
Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Houser and sons, Johnnie and
Matt, spent Sunday at Ida
Cason Gardens. (Now Calloway
Gardens).
The Perry High, School Glee
Club sang at the Methodist
Church and the trio Patsy
Todd, Pat Adams and Beverly
Jacobs concluded the program
by singing “Now the Day is
Over”
As a highlight of the Home
Demonstration Club's fashion
show, Lonice Barrett played an
accordion solo.
On the sad side, two women,
Daisy Kendricks and Willie
Wimberly, died in a house fire
on the farm of Morris Thames
between Perry and Henderson.
•••
25 years ago this week, there
was another fire. The dental
office of Dr. DeLoach was
of space occupied by the error.
We cannot be responsible for the return of pictures or
submitted materials unless a stamped, return address
envelope is included.
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destroyed by fire. The Home
Journal had some dramatic
photos of the blaze.
Joe Hiett, in his column, “On
the Slanted Side” , claimed that
the recent enforcement of a dog
leash law had led to an increase
in stray cats.
Westfield students Bill Rigdon
and Grier Hicks were recognized
for academic achievement by
Presbyterian College.
Remember Lonice Barrett
from 40 years ago? 25 years
ago, his name was in the Home
Journal again, as he was
named to head the Georgia
Parks Division. (Today he is the
Commissioner of the Georgia
Department of Natural
Resources . Wonder if he still
plays the accordion?)
The Lawn of the Month
award went to Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Woods on Hillcrest
Avenue.
The Sorosis Club had their
May picnic at Davis Cottage,
and the Tsungani Club
installed Mrs. Robert Fudge 111
as president. Mrs. N.B. Goss
Sr., was named County Line
Mother of the Year.
Ruby Tharpe reported that
Herman Kaigler Jr. , a student
at Morehouse College, had been
initiated into Pi Sigma Alpha, a
national political science frater
nity.
Bobby Tuggle gave the pro
gram - a slide show of his trav
els - at the May meeting of the
Perry Business Women’s Club
at Ochlahatchee club house.
Houston Home Journal
new home. I admit I panicked.
Turning into the short street,
I noticed the fire was coming
from right bejhind the duplex
across the street. I braked to a
halt and ran from the car to the
back yard of my new neighbor
to find her sitting in a lounge
chair with a garden hose at her
feet.
Myra had decided the large
back yard needed burning off
so her sons could have a better
playground.
That was the beginning of a
relationship which provided
both Judy and I with a living,
breathing sister. We became
family instantly. The three boys,
Malloy, David and Michael, took
turns accompanying me on
camping trips and riding on the
back of my motorcycle. Holidays
were frequently spent at the
nearby home of Myra’s parents.
Granddaddy and Mama Lynn.
Michael, Malloy and I share the
same birthday week, which
always meant a party.
Now the party is over. Myra
went to her maker Monday
night. She hadn’t been feeling
well recently, and apparently
Just came to an unexpected
end.
She’s gone, but the memories
of my “adopted” sister remain.
She was one of the most won
derful Christian women I’ve
known. She raised three won
derful boys and kept her entire
family going in times of crisis.
Good-bye, Myra. Thanks for
being my sister.
Bob
Tribble
Home Journal
President
Do what is right
The Rev. Dr. Jim Griffith was
a recent after-dinner speaker
at a Trib Publications General
Managers’ Retreat held in
Peachtree City. He is a retired
Executive Director of the
Georgia Baptist Convention
and presently serves as interim
pastor of First Baptist Church
in Manchester.
Jim was a newspaper man
before entering the ministry
several years ago. He began his
career in Macon writing sports
while in high school, and at age
18 was the youngest sports
editor of a daily newspaper in
the United States. He wound
up his newspaper career as a
managing editor in North
Caroling. j
Havfng a newspaper back
ground and record of excel
lence as an after-dinner speak
er, Jim was a natural choice to
speak at our GM Retreat. And
he came through with flying
colors, often driving home good
points that our people needed
to hear, while keeping them
“rolling in the aisles" with his
humor.
I hope our general managers
will remember one particular
thing he said, if they remember
nothing else. He told us that
while he served with the
Baptist Convention he had a
sign on the wall behind his
desk that simply read, “Do
What Is Right." That should be
the motto of all newspaper
managers and editors, Do what
is right.
That should also be the
motto of • the leaders of our
great nation. Do what is right.
Frankly, I must tell you that
has not been the case over the
past years. Many of our leaders
have not done what is right,
they have allowed our courts to
take prayer and the Bible our
of our public schools, some
have led private lives that Eire
anything but a good example to
our youth, attempts are being
made across this country to
have us accept lifestyles that
are clearly biblically wrong as
simply an alternative lifestyle:
and I could go on.
Daywind, Inc. released a
recording a couple of years ago
titled, “We Want America
Back." It is a great song and
the recitation portion puts the
present situation in our nation
in much better perspective
than 1 ever could.
See TRIBBLE, Page 8A
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