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WEEKEND
July 26-28, 2003
Volume 134, Number 132
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INSIDE TODAY
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Local teen to attend
NASCAR school
Allen E. Black of Warner
Robins is close to living out
the dream of many
Americans.
Black is uprooting himself
from his work on construc
tion and headed off to begin
coursework at the NASCAR
Technical Institute in
Mooresville, N.C., Oct. 13 -
the perfect marriage
between vocation and avoca
tion.
Story and photo, page 1B
Backyard Bible Clubs
around Houston
Youth from Perry
Presbyterian Church are
working with youth from
Sandhill Presbyterian
Church of Southern Pines,
N. C., doing six Backyard
Bible Clubs around Houston
County.
Story and photos, page 9A
Hazel Cantrell Ballew
Kenneth “Ken” Golden
Obits, page 2A
COMICS 4B
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS . . .3A,6A
CROSSWORD 4B
LIFESTYLE 9A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Green implicated in 6 more deaths
State Board of Medical Examiners suspends Perry physician’s license
By Emily Johnstone
HHJ Associate Editor
PERRY - A document
released Friday by the State
Board of Medical Examiners
indicates that a Perry physician
facing a murder charge pre
scribed medications that may
have led to the deaths of six
others as well.
Additionally, Dr. Spurgeon
Green Jr.’s state license was
suspended Friday following
charges he prescribed drugs
that caused the death of a
Wayne County man, according
to LaSharn Hughes, interim
executive director for the State
Board of Medical Examiners.
Green was served with the
order of summary suspension
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Story and photos
by Charlotte Perkins
HOUSTON LAKE - Except
for the time he went away to get
an education and the time he
served his country as a Marine
during World War 11, Jerry A.
Davis Jr. has lived his whole life
in one house - on land his
grandfather bought in 1841,
and near land that his Davis
and Bryan great-grandparents
and great-great-grandparents
cleared and settled.
He remembers when swim
ming, bowling and dancing
drew young people from across
Middle Georgia to his family’s
recreational area near the old
dam.
He knew the wooded lands
around Houston Lake long
before there was a golf course
there - and was, along with
Sam Nunn (before he was a sen
ator) and the late Buddy
Tolleson, responsible for getting
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Jerry Davis Jr. grew up
on the banks of a very
different Houston Lake
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Thursday.
The order
states that the
state board
has “received
reliable infor
mation” that
Green pre
scribed con
trolled sub
stances to six
other people
who died from
overdoses in recent years.
The six are identified as
“R.P,” “J.C.,” “8.M.,” “E.H.,”
“M.A.” and “T. 8.” All are said
to have died either by overdose
or “multiple drug intoxication.”
Currently, Green is being held
at the Wayne County Jail on
the golf course built - although
he never was a golfer.
His memories go back further
than that, though.
He remembers the days when
his family’s mail came to the
Houston Factory post office,
and the homes of mill workers
dotted the hills around Houston
Lake - when the family “com
missary” was the only store for
miles around and carried every
thing from bolts of cloth to slabs
of bacon.
And he remembers when his
father’s big icehouse stood near
the road that crossed the wood
en dam.
He laughs when he explains
how the ice plant came to be
there.
“My father was in Perry,” he
says, “and he went to get a
chunk of ice. In those days the
ice plant was downtown behind
the drug store. The man in the
See DAVIS, page 7A
LEGAL ORGAN FOR
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See our Web site, www.hlunews.com, for the full text of the order of suspension
charges relating to the death of
a patient, 41-year-old David
Barbari of Jesup.
Barbari reportedly died in
April of an overdose from med
ications Green prescribed.
The order of suspension also
states, in part:
• The Board “has received
reliable information that over
300 patients of Respondent
(Green) have been identified as
known drug users or persons
with drug-related criminal his
tories.”
• The Board “has received
reliable information that sever
GREEN
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Jerry A. Davis Jr. stands at the house his great-great-grandfa
ther built of wide planks of hand-hewn lumber. The house is
located on an old stagecoach trail that once ran from Buzzard’s
Roost to Perry.
al of (Green’s) patients have
been arrested for selling con
trolled substances which they
had obtained as a result of pre
scriptions written by (Green).”
• The Board “has received
reliable information that
(Green) has established a prac
tice of writing post-dated pre
scriptions for controlled sub
stances to be given to patients
when (Green) was out of the
office and out of town.”
• The Board “has received
reliable information” that
Green prescribed controlled
substances “for patient H.J., a
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known or suspected habitual
drug user or other substance
abuser in the absence of sub
stantial justification, which
resulted in patient H.J. being
hospitalized due to an over
dose.”
After being served with the
order of suspension, Green has
the right to file a response for a
hearing, according to docu
ments obtained from the Board
of Medical Examiners. He must
respond no later than 14 days
after receiving notice of suspen
sion of his license.
See GREEN, page 3A
Perry
inks new
garbage
contract
City, residents
expected to
see savings
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - In a called meeting
Thursday evening, the Perry
City Council chose a new ven
dor for residential garbage col
lection, leaving the current
company out on the curb.
With the city’s existing con
tract with Southland Waste
Systems set to expire at the end
of the month, the municipality
solicited bids from five compa
nies for a new deal. Three
responded: Southland Waste,
Advanced Disposal and
Trans Waste Services.
Each submitted bids lower
than the current contract,
based on estimates using this
year’s collection data. The true
value of the contracts is based
on actual collections.
In discussion, council mem
bers agreed they wanted a new
methodology for collection.
With some complaints arising
about the current side-loading
trucks used, the council made it
clear they wanted a new con
tract with rear-loading trucks.
This eliminated Trans Waste
right away, as the company had
only submitted a side-loading
proposal.
Although Southland Waste
currently makes use of the side
loading technology in Perry, the
company submitted two options
with its contract - one for the
continuation of its current
method, and another for the
rear-loading trucks.
Thus it came down to a deci
sion between Advanced
Disposal and Southland Waste.
Advanced Disposal currently
handles commercial garbage
collection for Perry, and this
played into the company’s pro
posal. Although the base cost
for residential collection (over
five years) was higher than
Southland’s ($1,419,120 to
$1,397,275), Advanced included
an offer to increase its fran
chise fee - a cost paid to the city
by the company - on the com
mercial contract.
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