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Viewpoints □ur Views 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 ment. I love going to all sorts of i a Home Eg* w I flHp p 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. Houston Mm Journal P.O. Drawer M • 807 Carroll St. • Perry, Ga. 31069 email homeJmOhom.net (912) 987-1823 (voice) • (912) 988-1181 (fax) Bob Tribble President Jj Johnson Editor and General Manager Ellen T. Green Advertising Director Phil Clark Sports Joan Dorsctt Lifestyles Torey Jolley News and Classified Alllne Kent Sports Pauline Lewis Lifestyles Hob Mead.„ News and Circulation Charlotte Perkins News and Composition Paula Zimmerman Bookkeeping ■ T I ii, 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. IS *3 S .£?u LIKELY To huA Or TIMES FAMILY AEABER or TO BE THE CULPRIT ™ AW ** lif AN INTRUD£R Aim-GUM LOBBY Jj|| NRA A raytoonflohom.net 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 Our Policies Unsigned editorials appearing in larger type on this page under the label Our Views reflect the posi tion of the Houston Home Journal. Signed columns and letters on this page (and elsewhere in this news paper) reflect the opinions of the writers and not nec essarily those of this newspaper. Signed letters to the editor are welcomed. Please limit letters to 300 words and include addresses and a telephone number for verification purposes. Letters are not published without verification. Letters should be sent to P.O. Drawer M. Perry, Ga., 31069 or brought to the newspaper office at 807 Carroll St., Perry. Our liability for an error will not exceed the cost WML, June 16 1900 Page 4A Johnson r mmmm 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 of space occupied by the error. \Ve cannot be responsible for the return of pictures or submitted materials unless a stamped, return address envelope is included. Our Goal The Houston Home Journal is published proudly for the citizens of Houston and adjoining counties by Houston Publications Inc., Perry, Ga. Our goal is to produce quality, profitable, community-oriented newspapers that you. our readers, are proud of. We will reach this goal through hard work, teamwork, loyalty and a strong dedication toward printing the truth. Member of Georgia Press Association and Nation al Newspaper Association. memmmmpm 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. Tribble WplH ■HER:,,. s- 'ff^EEß v'' President Bk gj| i 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 See TRIBBLE, Page BA "Congress shall make no law respecting an estab lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Your right to read this news paper is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Houston Home Journal (DSPS 000471) Is published weekly for $21.40 per year (tnrtndtwg sales tax) by Houston Publications Inc.. 007 Car roll Bt., Perry, Ga.. 31000. Periodicals Class Portage paid at Perry. On. POSTMASTER j Hand sddnps changes to the Houston Home Journal. P.O. Drawer H. Perry. Oa. 31060. ISSN: 1073-1674.