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City and county planning
needed for land use
Editor:
The people of Perry and Houston
County won their battle to keep a con
crete mixing, block and septic tank man
ufacturing plant out of a residential,
school and clean commercial area. It will
be in the industrial park. Fine! Thanks to
the Perry City Council for working out
another arrangement.
However, many feel that something is
wrong with the zoning process. It should
not have cost such a price in money,
time, anguish and concern to citizens
who look to their elected officials to pro
vide for the general welfare.
Members of the Planning and Zoning
Board have stated that no one raised any
objections when the zoning change appli
cation was made. There is no provision
for anyone to know what is to be consid
ered. Thus, P&Z made a decision by ask
ing the petitioners a few questions and
hearing several promises to have buffer
areas increased. They did not have any
input from anyone who may have perti
nent information as a basis for opposi
tion.
There should be substantial consider
ation both in time and study for any
change in zoning that skips so many lev
els and would be so radically different
from present zoning.
Further, there needs to be a compre
hensive land use plan involving both city
and county, because the actions of each
affect the other. I know that many of us
believed this was already in place.
The P&Z board is only advisory in
nature. City Council makes the final
decision. The people should have
received prior warning, and this matter
should have been resolved in P&Z.
Many of us would like these issues to
be addressed bv our city and county gov
ernment.
Donna Tabor
Perry
Help complete WWII memorial
Editor:
Attention fellow Americans: World War
II ended Sept. 2, 1945, with a formal sur
render of Japan aboard Ihe U.S. Missouri
battleship in Tokyo Bay. American forces
along with the “Allies" of World War II
fought and won freedom from a tyranni
cal force.
WWII Veterans are responsible for
pushing the 20th centuiy into the future
of world freedom as we know it today.
They honored us with the duties abroad
and upon returning home their lifetime
works within our communities.
The National WWII Memorial Fund is
in need of everyone’s help. It is designat
ed to be fulfilled by individual and private
organization's contributions. More con
tributions are needed to achieve the goal
before the May 2000, deadline. The site
on the National Mall, east of the Reflect
ing Pool in Washington, D.C., was dedi
cated on Veteran’s Day, 1995.
The National W.W.11 Memorial will fea
ture a 500-foot-wide plaza separating two
curving colonnades, each with 25 40-inot
columns. The memorial will not be a
museum or collect artifacts. However,
there will be a “Hall of Remembrance"
which will contain stories from the era.
The remembrance registry is open to
veterans as well as civilians who actively
helped with the war effort. Anyone wish
ing to recognize a relative or themselves
need only to submit the names and/or
write an essay about the acts of patrio
tism. These remembrances and contribu
tions should be sent to World War II
Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 97766. Wash
ington. D.C. 20090 6766.
VFW posts all across the nation are
leading the drive to secure the funds and
names for the National WWII Memorial,
as well as matching contributions, sent
through their network: VFW WWII Memo
rial Fund, 406 West 34th St., Suite 219,
Kansas City, Mo., 64111.
If you know anyone who deserves this
recognition, please, submit their names
or their contributions will be forever for
gotten.
Thank you,
Kim Nelson
Ideal, Ga.
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Hospital errors kill thousands each year
Norman Carter told a story
about an operation he once had
at Emoiy University. He said
his doctor came to see him
every morning, and one morn
ing he stayed an unusually long
time. When he left he said, "I
sure did enjoy talking to you
this morning. All my other
patients are in a coma."
Don’t know if that is a true
story or not but it kinda sets
the stage for what I want to
relay to you this week. I have
never liked hospitals and thus
far in my life have never had to
spend the night in one as a
patient. And after reading the
following headline in a daily
paper not long ago, I even dis
like them more. “Study: Hospi
tal errors kill one of every 200
patients."
~Tue Peanut GauerV
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Boyd’s latest a treat for local readers
Bill Boyd's new book, “Fat,
Dumb and Happy Down in
Georgia", is out and it’s good
reading my favorite of his
books so far because of the
many personalities he writes
about.
Bill must have hit every
small town (incorporated and
unincorporated) in in this area
during his many years as a
columnist and feature writer for
The Macon Telegraph. He writes
wonderfully well about both
ordinary and extraordinary
people, and has a gift for seek
ing out unsung heroes.
It will be a rare middle Geor
gian who reads this book all the
way through without running
into some familiar names.
Naturally. Bill’s old sidekick
“Muley”, pops up here and
there, along with Marvalene,
Joe and Wonderful Wanda, but
you’ll also be re-reading some
of Bill's most popular human
interest stories about people in
this region, including - just for
example - Jane Perry, a dedi
cated Houston County music
teacher, who is deaf.
Among my own favorites
were his reverie on the old Flint
ltiver Ferry near Marshallville
and his story about taking tak
ing Chess McCartney, the “Goat
Man," back home one last time.
We've already got a genera
tion who never crossed the
Flint River by ferry, and two
generations who never heard
Pauline Lewis Lifestyles
Rnb Mead ...News and Circulation
Charlotte Perkins.. News and Composition
Paula Zimmerman Bookkeeping
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- Wed., Oct. 13, 1999
Bob
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President: few .
Now does that bother you or
not! Read on. Dr. David Nash,
associate dean and director of
the Office of Health Policy and
Clinical Outcome at Thomas
Jefferson University said, “The
facts are, we commit thousands
of errors every week nationally.”
Betrand Bell, a professor at
Albert Einstein College of Medi
cine in New York adds, “People
Charlotte afT"
Perkins
Journal
anyone call out, “The Goat
Man’s coming!", and saw that
astonishing clattering, junk
filled wagon pulled by goats. I’m
always glad to know that some
body’s writing these things
down.
This is a collection of short
pieces a book you can open
almost anywhere for a few min
utes entertainment or inspira
tion.
You can get “Fat, Dumb and
Happy” at the Perry Bookstore
now, and you can also meet Bill
Boyd at the Perry Bookstore on
Oct. 23 - time of day still to be
announced.
Oh Deer!
Now, while I’m writing about
books I have another at hand
that will appeal to all those
wives whose husbands are
about to pick up their guns and
head for the woods. It’s called
“Oh Deer! A Venison Cookbook
for Beginners” and it came to
me from its author Cheri
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get killed every day in hospitals.
This goes on in every hospital in
the United States. The public
doesn’t see it at all." Bother
some words, uh?
One death by error out of
every 200 hospital patients
equates to one half of one per
cent, which is a small percent
age. Yet the seemingly small
percentage adds up to one mil
lion people being injured by
errors in hospital treatment
every year and 120,000 people
dying as a result of those
injuries.
My aunt, the late Maggie
Hull, was in a Columbus hospi
tal a number of years ago
receiving treatment for a back
problem. One morning bright
and early nurses came to her
room, put her on a stretcher
Heiregel of Oakwood, 111.
This is a nifty little paper
back written to and for wives of
hunters. It includes some basic
methods for tenderizing the
meat as well as recipes for
everything from barbecued
meatballs to venison
stroganoff.
The author teaches a venison
cooking class every year, but
more to the point, she’s a young
wife and mother who is married
to a hunter, and has to turn out
dishes her family will enjoy.
You can order this one by
calling Krause Publications at
1-888-457-2873.
Happy Birthday
Best wishes to two October
babies - My sister, Kristina
Simms, whose birthday is on
Oct. 14, and Millie Cotton of My
Sisters’ Cafe, who will be cele
brating hers on Oct. 16. (Both
are, well, let’s say, maybe 29?)
October Lilies
I mentioned October lilies a
couple of weeks ago, and some
body asked what they were.
OK, I grew up calling them
“Spider Lilies" and only got
fancy later on. I’m talking about
those delicate red flowers (just
about the color of watermelon)
that grow on long straight
stems, and pop up like weeds in
the strangest places.
They're in full bloom every
where just now.
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and wheeled her out the door
toward the operating room.
Ms. Maggie tried to tell the
nurses that her doctor had not
told her anything about an
operation. At first they would
not listen to the mid-seventy
year old lady. Finally, after
much bickering from Ms. Mag
gie, the nurses reviewed their
charts and discovered that they
had the wrong patient. The cor
rect patient to be operated on
that morning was Ms. Maggie’s
roommate.
According to the report, 48
percent of the errors resulted
from surgical treatment. Had
Ms. Maggie not strongly
protested the operation that
morning she could have been
among the above percentile.
See TRIBBLE, Page 5A
| Your Views
Evergreen a
historic treasure
Editor:
A tip of the “McKinley Hat" to
Hugh Sharp and his employees
for the good job that they did
recently in cleaning Evergreen
Cemeteiy.
I’ve always heard that a city is
judged by the way it cares for its
dead. If that is true, and I know
that it is, then judges would give
our city a good grade should
they visit Evergreen now. If the
large pile of dirt on the south
east corner were removed and a
“No Dumping - No Littering" sign
were placed there, it would bet
ter.
I visit Evergreen often to pay
my respect to lost loved ones
and friends alike. It is an old and
historical cemetery. It was creat
ed in the early 1800’s by the
Perry United Methodist Church,
and their sanctuary was located
ther?., people as well
as paupers are buried in ever
green.
For example, U.S. Congress
man Dudley Hughes is buried
there. He was the co-author of
legislation creating High School
Vocational Education. FFA, and
the school lunch program. On
the other hand, an old friend
Hiram Flagler is buried in the
pauper section. As a child I once
found a package of Bugler smok
ing tobacco, (Hiram’s brand) and
sold it to him for the going price
of a nickel.
When I grew up I realized that
it was probably Hiram's tobacco
even though he didn’t say any
thing. He most likely brought
the same package twice. Hiram
had passed away before I came
to that conclusion or I would
have given him his nickel back,
even though it would have been
difficult to part with it during
the Great Depression.
1 have recently had the sundi
al repaired and wish that some
one would have that small area
landscaped.
Many people visit Evergreen
because of its historical signifi
cance. I would like to make sev
eral suggestions to our city
fathers. Woodlawn, another city
cemetery has paved driveways
as well as the cemeteries in the
small towns of Centerville,
Roberta and Unadilla. I believe
that state funds could be
obtained to pave Evergreen’s dri
veways.
We should also place a mark
er there starting the year it was
created and recognizing the fact
that it was originally the site of
Perry United Methodist Church.
Another suggestion is to pres
sure-wash all slabs and head
stones that can take it without
breaking. All of this will take a
little effort and some money, but
it will be time and money well
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