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Library to be closed for
one week, help needed
Perry Kiwanis Club
members heard from one of
their own, Perry Library
Director Judy Golden,
when she reported on the
state of the Perry Library at
the Sept. 14 meeting.
Perry Library is one of
the pilot projects for the
statewide circulation sys
tem which is the reason
that the library will be
closed the last week in Sep
tember for bar coding
everything. However, the
library will be open Sept.
28, 3 to 9 p.m.
Perry Library is one of 26
library systems in the first
group to be bar coded after
which a Perry Library card
will allow checkout at any
of those systems.
Volunteers are needed
and welcomed for this bar
coding project.
County Library Director
Ji'idy Golden reported an
extremely successful sum
mer with children reading
more than 46,000 books in
reading clubs county wide.
Same 70,000 people came
into the Perry building last
year. More than 130,000
items were circulated in
Perry. With federal money,
Perry Library is getting two
new Internet machines. It
is also one of four pilots for
new accounting systems in
the state.
Donations for new books
are always welcome.
• ••
Happy Birthday to Aure
lia Evans who will turn 97,
Sept. 25. She is Perry First
Baptist Church's oldest
church member. She also
has the longest church
membership of 87 years,
having joined in June of
1912.
• ••
Joe Gayle has just
returned from a reunion
with veterans and histori
cal researchers of the land
ing of the first Marines on
the island of Peleliu in the
Pacific near Guadalcanal
almost 55 years from the
day Sept. 15, 1944.
lie was accompanied by
his three sons, Joe Jr. of
Atlanta, Currey of Marietta
and Dr. Dick Gayle of
Augusta, on the Continen
tal Airlines flights to Hous
ton, Honolulu, Guam and
Koror and by speedboat to
Peleliu.
The 79-year-old former
Marine and his boys had
planned the trip back in
time for a year and stayed
in cabins on the beach of a
Polynesian native's Story
board with painted histori
cal scenes where there’s no
written history til the late
1700’s. Over time the jun
gles have come back from
being denuded during
WWII, and wartime arti
facts were everywhere as
no effort has been made to
preserve them.
It was here where ‘'ATI
Gave Some, Some Gave
All." Joe Gayle was shot
through the neck and com-
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Joan
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pletely paralyzed but was
determined he would sur
vive and conquer his dis
abilities. He received the
Purple Heart and Silver
Star for his action.
Meanw'hile. Connette
Gayle and her girls Sylvia.
Pat and Melissa Gayle and
Debbie Davis and some of
her grands enjoyed a lovely
visit at
They went antiquing in
Charleston and dined fab
ulously.
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The family of Velma
Head invites you to cele
brate her 90th birthday
from 2 to 4 p.m., Sept. 25,
in the Fellowship Hall of
Perry First Baptist Church.
No gifts, please.
• ••
Congratulations to Perry
Players and Kopie O'Neal
on the success of their fifth
annual dinner theatre held
Sept. 16 prior to opening
night of “1940's Radio
Hour.” The "variety caval
cade of Dec. 21, 1942"
runs through Oct. 2 at 8
p.m. There will be a mati
nee Sept. 26, 2:30 p.m. For
reservations call 987-5354.
Piano music by Lu
Mellin accompanied a feast
of eye of round roast with
tomato garlic gravy and all
the trimmings of Caterings
by Kelly.
It was a "perfect five" for
the several devotees of fine
food and entertainment
who have attended all five
dinner productions. It was
the fifth year that Rental
Concepts of Macon has
generously donated tables,
linens, china and cutlery.
This was a bittersweet
occasion for our tablemate
Diana Wilson who last year
accompanied us with her
late husband Jimmy.
If you think you might
like to be a part of the pre
play scene and attend this
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RIDING IN STYLE Little Autumn Lee Meads, gets a
ride down Carroll Street, with help from her parents.
CLOWNING FOR DOL
LARS Coco the Clown
stayed busy brightening
up an already sun
shiney day just before
the Walkathon began,
and then took an active
role in "directing traffic ”
and encouraging walk
ers to pick up their feet.
The Annual Walk Ameri
ca March of Dimes
Walkathon was held in
Perry on Sept. 12, with
volunteer fund-raisers
walking from the Court
house square to the
Perry Hospital. Accord
ing to Rhonda McLeod,
March of Dimes Com
munity Director. Perry
was already over the
goal of $13,000 when
the walk began. Teams
from Riverwood,
Northrop Grumman,
Security Bank. the
Church of Christ, Perry
Hospital and the Inside
Scoop took part in the
big event. Home Journal
Photos by Charlotte
Perkins.
Perry Players take audience back to World War II
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this musical is tun from beginning to
end, with delightful song and dance
routines, old familiar hits, humor,
romance, and just a trace of sadness
and uncertainty about the future.
(Will "the boys" be home from the
war when another Christmas rolls
around? The audience knows the war
is far from over, but the cast of this
play is still hoping.)
“1940's Radio Hour” is directed by
Carol Strandburg. with Lu Jellin as
Musical Director and produced by
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Tony and Barbara Meads, who were participants in
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The play re creates a radio show
broadcast from New York City just
before Christmas 1942. but there's
more to it than that.
It begins with the disorganized
arrival of the cast and the band in
the run-down radio station, giving
the audience a chance to learn a lit
tie bit about each character before
tlie- performance begins.
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