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Welcome, bikers
As many as 2,500 Georgians par
ticipating in the Bicycle Ride Across
Georgia will visit Perry June 22.
For the first time since the initial
year of BRAG, the group is return
ing to Perry as part of their trip.
The group will arrive in Perry soon
after lunch. Many riders will spend
the night at Perry High School while
others will opt for motel accommo
dations.
During the evening, the Perry
Area Convention and Visitors
Bureau will host activities at Perry
High. These events are open to the
public.
As we welcome the bicycle riders,
we remind ourselves to be careful
and watchful during their visit. We
also thank local bicycle enthusiasts
for making this visit possible and
bringing such a large delegation to
Perry.
This community continues to ben
efit from location along 1-75 and at
the crossroads of Georgia. Tourists
pay salaries for many workers in
this community. They also make
many of the tourism-related busi
nesses possible.
Some 2,500 bicycles and Perry
what a wonderful combination. We
can’t wait to see this event roll
through town. Join us and welcome
our friends from across Georgia to
the crossroads of the state.
Family support
important to stability
My family Journeyed to the Georgia
High School Rodeo Association Finals at
the Georgia National Fairgrounds an'd
Sunday afternoon. What an
afternoon!
Kathleen
O’Neal made
the trip pos
sible and
brought our
family an
afternoon of
wonderful
entertain
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things, but rodeos well, I really like
rodeos. I took my family, yes, my hus
band, my daughter, my son, and my
grandson (and he now wants to be a cow
boy).
Though the Reaves Arena was not
packed to the ceiling on Sunday, there
were many people present. There were
mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and
friends who came to cheer on their
favorite. I recognized them all.
Now I know you are thinking there is no
way I could known eveiyone there. Well,
maybe not personally, but 1 do know
them. I, too, have been to sporting events
for my children. I know the thrill and the
heartbreak these kids and their families
go through. I applaud the support these
people give their children.
It is not just the time or money spent on
the children. It is the love, the support in
victoiy and defeat, the laughter, the tears,
the everything.
In a time when school shootings and
other crimes are glaring at us from every
angle, in a time when we question how
these things could have happened, it is
important to applaud the families who
stick together and are involved with each
other’s lives.
Too often we hear horror stories. Yet,
there are thousands of stories of wonder
ful people doing wonderful stuff. I’ve
always heard that the squeaky wheel gets
the grease. Maybe that is true. But I
Appreciate the one that goes on and on
without trouble.
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Dads, sons create precious memories for future
From the vantage point of
more than 50 years of life, I can
see there are at least three dis
tinct characteristics of the
Johnson men.
One of those is that we
always take demanding Jobs
whicn keep us from enjoying
family life to the fullest. Anoth
er is that we often don’t get
along well with our sons. The
third is that we got bum hearts.
My father, a Southern Bap
tist minister of rural churches
during my formative years,
often had to change plans con
cerning family time. Just as we
would be set to leave on a pic
nic, someone would call a
church member was in need of
the pastor’s services, and the
picnic got squelched.
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Memories of past bring big questions
Reading through the 1959
bound volume of the Home
Journal. I ran across a little
advertisement from D.N.
Whiddon, who was offering
“hens for your freezer.”
You could have these hens
dressed and delivered for 50
cents each if you bought at
least 10 of them, or you
could save some money by
buying them live at 75 cents
each.
How many folks are still
around who would be willing
to kill and dress a hen to
save a quarter?
Well, for that matter, how
many folks are still around
who would know how to kill
and dress a hen?
If you think about all the
work all that neck wring
ing and scalding and feather
plucking and cleaning and
flouring and frying which
used to go into just getting a
platter of chicken on the
table back then, it’s a won
der that we had it at all.
Here’s to the old time cooks!
They really went through a
lot Just to make Sunday din
ner memorable.
Now, here’s more from the
old days.
40 Tears Ago
Farmer Whiddon as
noted above was offering
hens, and Lurton Massee of
Marshallville had 100
bushels of iron peas for sale.
Mrs. S.S. Beckham was sell
ing cakes and tight rolls,
“baked to order.” Don’t you
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Two days stand out in my
mind as very successful adven
tures. One came the day I fin
ished the second grade. At the
time, we lived about 15 miles
north of Greenville. S.C.
Dad met me at school to take
me home for the summer. That
in itself wasn't unusual as
there wasn’t a bus connection
Charlotte I
Perkins
know those were some good
cakes and rolls!
Marilyn Nelson Holland
married Robert Clark Harris
and Claire Bradshaw mar
ried William Eugene Beck
ham Jr... Both brides were
shown in the paper in beau
tiful wedding gowns.
Tommie N. Hunt and
Floyd E. Hardy, both of
Perry, graduated from Geor
gia Tech.
The Henderson 4-H club
had a wiener roast, hosted
by Mrs. Hugh Ragan, Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Ragan. Mrs.
Alma Beckham and George
Allmond.
Mrs. Cohen Walker led the
program for the Methodist
W.S.C.S. “Day Apart”, held
at Beckham's Lodge. (This
was a newsy week for people
named Beckham.)
Eleanor Aultman made
the Dean’s List at Mercer.
The classifieds included
an ad for a 1951 Studebaker
Champion with automatic
transmission s2so.
25 Tears ago
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to the school I attended. What
was unusual was the direction
he pointed car.
Instead of driving home, dad
headed for the mountains. He
and I spent a special day togeth
er journeying to Mount Mitchell,
the highest peak in the eastern
half of the United States.
We had a good time together
that day, quality time in the
current language. We enjoyed
walking the last 300 .or so yards
to the peak, and having anoth
er visitor take our picture.
Many years later, I repeated
the same scene with my son
William. He was a year older by
the time we got to make the
trip. We had a ball. Our trip was
distinguished by being complet
ed on a motorcycle.
The Perry police ticketed
two city garbage trucks for
having expired inspection
stickers.
A 1 Cook was named Father
of the Year in a contest spon
sored by radio station
WPGA. His daughter Shirley
won the honor for him with
an essay. In the photo with
the Cook family is WPGA
station manager Jim Worrall
in a white sports coat, plaid
slacks and Barry Goldwater
style glasses. (Those were
the days!)
All the ads for men’s cloth
ing feature plaid slacks,
some with bell bottoms.
A “summit” meeting of
elected officials and busi
ness leaders from Perry and
Warner Robins met at the
New Perry Hotel, apparently
to discuss ways that the two
cities could cooperate for
mutual benefit.
The City of Perry’s 1974
budget was published. The
total? $1,983,648. The
school system budget was
$13,004,657. This year the
budget is sll3 million.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Vance
visited their daughter. Mrs.
Willie M. Cochran, and theft
son Luther Vance Jr., in
Ocala, and took a trip to Dis
ney World.
Among those attending
Georgia Southwestern Col
lege for the summer semes
ter were Billie Mosteller,
Bertie Riner, Joye Click,
Hilda Gillis and Kathy
Fryer.
The other special time I
remember with my dad came in
the spring of 1957. The New
York Yankees and the Philadel
phia Phillies played a spring
exhibition game in Greenville.
We go to watch Mickey Man
tle and Yogi Berra hit home
runs. We saw Whitey Ford pitch
beautiful baseball for eight
innings before giving way to
reliever Rhine Duren.
Wow, what a day. The Yan
kees won the World Series the
year before. They won that day.
20-1. I collected many of their
autographs. How I wish I could
find that book now.
Dad’ heart gave out 18 year s
ago. Happy father’s day, Dad. I
miss you. Let’s take another
trip some day.
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Seat belts and
public buses
The federal government has
required auto makers to put
seat belts in passenger cars for
more than 30 years. During the
past several years, most states
have passed laws which
require use of those seat belts.
During, the past few months
a run of deadly accidents has
occurred involving buses on
Qur nation’s highways. Last
June a Greyhound bus
slammed into a parked tractor
trailer on the Pennsylvania
Turnpike killing seven people.
On Sept. 26, 1998 a tour bus
crashed in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains killing two and
injuring 31. On Dec. 24, 1998
a bus skidded off the Gooden
Parkway killing eight and
injuring 16. A bus loaded with
fifth graders returning from a
trip to Sea World collided with
a truck on March 30 injuring
40 people.
On April 3 a bus carrying
high school students from a
tour of Canada went off the
interstate injuring 34. On April
30 a bus carrying deaf children
to a spelling bee flipped over
killing one. Then Just recently,
in the worst bus wreck yet, a
bus swerved off a highway in
New Orleans, killing 22.
Even though seat belts have
been mandated in cars since
1968, there have never been
any laws requiring their use in
buses, whether school buses,
transit buses or motor coach
es. Thinking has long been that
with their size, height, padded
and high back seats, buses
offer passengers good protec
tion in the event of an accident.
Even though statistics show
that buses are a safe way to
travel on the nation’s high
ways, the National Transporta
tion Safety Board in becoming
more concerned about the
safety of buses.
They have just completed a
study which shows the most
dangerous aspect of a bus
wreck is passenger ejection.
This may prompt the board
to regulate the size of bus win
dows and to look at the seat
belt issue again. The bus
industry thus far has cited the
lack of research showing the
benefit of seat belts, and are
concerned that belts might
force the use of stronger and
more expensive seats and
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