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FRIDAY
September 26,2003
Volume 134, Number 176
Award-Winning
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INSIDE
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Hard competition
Over easy or hard
boiled, that’s the competi
tion range the county’s
teams face this weekend
on the football gridiron.
Only Houston County
and Northside enjoy
home games - the latter
on Saturday - the rest,
are on the road.
SPORTS, page 1B
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Hard work
Heather DeMasi works
on her pot which she is
building a “coil” at a
time.
POTTERY, page 8B
AREA DEATHS
Olin Edward Anderson
Nora Brown
Mary K. Ellis
Margaret Hobby
SMSgt. J.W. Martin,
USAF (Ret.)
OBITS, page SA
INDEX
CELEBRATIONS . .9A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 5B
CROSSWORD 5B
LIFESTYLE 7A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .5A
TV LISTINGS 5B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
H.C. juniors best their peers
Students score
well in GHSGT
By Luci Joullian
HHJ Staff Writer
HOUSTON COUNTY -
High school juniors in
Houston County scored bet
ter than juniors from
around the state on the
Georgia High School
Graduation Test (GHSGT)
this year, according to
results released by the State
Board of Education.
The test, which high
schoolers take in the spring
of their junior years and
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Robins Air Force Base Honor Guard presents the flag during Wednesday’s C-5 “Galaxy" Commemoration Ceremony
as the official party stands at attention. (Back row, left to right) Maj. Gen. Donald Wetekam, commander of the
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center; James Culpepper, Maintenance Director for the Warner Robins Air Logistics
Center and Col. Ed Connolly, C-5 Maintenance Director for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center.
C-5 team meets goals
set for production
Over 700
RAFB workers
recognized for
achievement
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - World events pushed
the C-5 production goal at
the Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center to 17 air
craft in fiscal year 2001 and
2002, according to officials.
After being challenged by
an enormous global trans
port demands of war the
center devised a plan to
complete depot maintenance
on 23 aircraft in fiscal 2003.
Wednesday marked the C
-5 Team’s accomplishments
as they recognized over 700
maintenance workers and
individuals throughout the
base who have become
essential in meeting the C-5
production goal that was
doubted by many Air Force
officials.
“I made the commitment
and brought it home for you
all to carry out because we
had the right leadership in
place,” said Meg. Gen.
Donald Wetekam, com
mander of the Warner
Robins Air Logistics Center.
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which must be passed in
order to graduate, tests the
content areas of
English/language arts,
math, social studies and sci
ence. Students must also
pass a writing portion of the
GHSGT, which is given in
the fail of each year.
Of regular program stu
dents taking the test for the
first time, 98 percent passed
the English/language arts
section, 97 percent passed
the math, 89 percent passed
the social studies and 81
percent passed the science
section in Houston County.
And although the Houston
See GHSGT, page 6A
Wetekam said the upcoming
goal for the C-5 Team is to
reduce their flow days by 10
percent of the current 240.
Flow days are the total days
allotted to complete mainte
nance on the aircraft.
Before implementing
Lean concepts, a strategy
defined to eliminate excess
waste (time) and revitalize
working criteria and strate
gies, the depot worked on a
340 flow day operation.
Wetekam told the crowd a
long-term goal for the C-5
production team is to be
down to 180 flow days by fis
cal year 2005.
Robins first became
involved in the C-5 pro
grammed depot mainte
nance in early 1998 and has
since completed mainte
nance on 101 C-ss.
“It instills pride in me and
everyone else as we see it
take off,” said C-5 aircraft
mechanic Kenneth Deem.
Deem said he also had
doubts about the C-5 Team
being able to put out “23 in
’03.”
“It feels good to be part of
the record, but I really feel
patriotic,” said Deem, who
has worked in the aircraft
production field for 29
years. “I know I have to do
anything and everything I
can to help the warfighter.”
GHSGT scons
LA = English/language arts; MA = mathematics; SS = social studies; and SC = science.
2003 2002
LA/MA/SS/SC !I '. I LA/MA/SS/SC
% Pass % Pass
System 98 / 97 / 89 / 81 98 / 96/89 / 83
Middle Georgia 97/96/87/77 97/91/82/71
State 97 / 94 / 84 / 72 97 / 93 / 85 / 75
Houston Co. High 99 / 98 / 93 / 84 99 / 98 / 93 / 88
Northside High 98 / 97 / 87 / 76 98 / 93/84 / 76
Perry High 98 / 96 / 86 / 78 99 / 96 / 88 / 83
Warner Robins High 99 /98/89 /83 97 /98/92 /85
Source: Houston County Board of Education
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Members of the C-5 Team wore shirts celebrating their
efforts of completing depot maintenance on 23 aircraft in
fiscal year 2003.
The past 11 out of 12 air
craft have been delivered on
time or early, according to
Col. Ed Connolly, C-5
Maintenance Director for
the Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center.
“This is not a flash in the
pan success,” he said. “This
is a team-assembled work
force.”
Connolly said future goals
will be met by cutting costs
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TWO SECTIONS • 18 PAGES
V 2020
looks
at joint
grant
Legislative
cooperative
also considers
its priorities
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
At the latest meeting of
the Vision 2020 Council
of Governments, the
assembled representa
tives of Houston County’s
various municipalities
approved the notion of
working together to keep
cops in local schools.
Representatives from
the Houston County
Board of Education pre
sented a county-wide
issue for the group to con
sider - jointly applying
for grant funds to contin
ue paying for the law
enforcement officers cur
rently at work in most
schools in the system.
These include DARE
(Define, Assess, Respond
and Evaluate) and
GREAT (Gang Resistance
Education And Training)
officers in elementary
and middle schools,
respectively, and school
resource officers in high
schools.
Thomas Moore, princi
pal of Perry Middle
School, expressed his
strong support of these
programs, describing
some of the changes he
perceived in the learning
environment before and
after the officers were
added to his school.
He says having a uni
formed police officer
around makes kids com
fortable around law
enforcement officers,
builds bridges within the
community and acts as a
deterrent against “mis
chief.”
The most important
result, he said, is the kids
feel safer, and that makes
it easier for them to focus
on learning.
Yet, much as Moore and
others like these pro
grams, there is a threat to
their continued existence.
James Kinchen, assis
tant superintendent of
instruction, explained the
current fiscal situation.
See V 2020, page 6A