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WEEKEND
October 18-20, 2003
Volume 134, Number 192
Award-Winning
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2003
Better Newspaper
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Westfield wins
in a squeaker
A couple of big plays
made all the difference
for the Hornets in their
Region opener at home
against Southland.
Area prep football coverage,
page 1B
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Middle school
football finals
Rumble’s seventh
graders had a cake-walk.
Tabor and Northside’s
eighth-graders went to
the wire in the final
round of the middle
school playoffs held
Thursday at Bonaire
Middle School.
Sports, page 3B
Lewis biographer
speaks at PHS
A chance meeting led
Murray M. Silver Jr. to
pen “Great Balls of Fire,”
a biography of rock pio
neer Jerry Lee Lewis.
Silver shared his story
with Perry High juniors
Friday.
Local, page 5A
Wood Arnold Callaway
Harold Robert Griggers
Lawrence Rogers Jr.
Eldon Donald Wilson
Obits, page 6A
CLASSIFIED 6B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
LIFESTYLE 8A
OBITUARIES 6A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL MENUS . .5B
SHELTER PETS . . .5B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
100
killed
since
May 1
U.S. combat
deaths pass
century mark
in postwar Iraq
By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press Writer
KARBALA. Iraq - U.S.
combat deaths since the end
of major fighting passed the
100 mark Friday after a
joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol con
fronted gunmen outside the
headquarters of a Shiite
Muslim cleric, triggering
clashes in which three
Americans and 10 Iraqis
were killed, including two
Iraqi policemen.
Another American soldier
was killed and two were
w'ounded by a roadside
bomb near Baghdad, and
nine U.S. troops were
wounded in a roadside
bombing'in the northern
city of Mosul.
The four deaths made it
the deadliest day for
American soldiers in Iraq
since Sept. 18, when three
soldiers were killed in an
ambush. With the latest
deaths, the number of U.S.
soldiers who have died by
hostile fire since President
Bush declared an end to
major combat May 1 has
climbed to 101.
During a visit Friday to
U.S. troops in Tikrit, Lt.
Gen. Thomas F. Metz, com
mander of the Army’s 3rd
Corps, told reporters
American troops would be
in Iraq for another troop
rotation or even two. At cur
rent pace of a turnover of
troops every year, that could
mean U.S. forces would be
in Iraq until 2006.
The bloody battle in the
Shiite Muslim holy city of
Karbala, about 50 miles
southwest of Baghdad, took
place over a 12-hour period.
It underscores the dangers
of trying to disarm militias
maintained by Shiite clerics
who wield considerable
influence in Iraq’s largest
religious group. The U.S.-led
See IRAQ, page 7A
Lewis recognized for service to community
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Pauline Lewis chats with Houston Home Journal
Associate Editor Emily Johnstone, and Frances Worrall,
wife of Perry’s mayor, Jim Worrall.
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Isabelle Dollar, daughter of Jennifer and Billy Dollar of Warner Robins, poses among the pumpkins at the Perry
United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch. “Grandpumpkins” are Barth and Diane Cadenhead of Warner Robins, and
Gene and Leonora Dykes of Byron.
Last C-141 leaves Robins
Air Force to retire
venerable cargo
airplanes in 2006
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE - With a
sway to the left and right, the C-141
Starlifter Tail No. 65-0248 rocked its
wings signaling a final farewell
Thursday to Robins Air Force Base in a
special roll out ceremony.
The U.S. Air Force will retire the C
-141 fleet in 2006 after nearly 40 years
since its introduction in the Air Force
in 1964.
Since its inception at Robins in 1972,
C-141 System Program Office (SPO)
employees have performed pro
grammed depot maintenance on the
aircraft 1,800 times.
Known as the Starlifter to most and
the “workhorse” to the Air Mobility
Command, the aircraft is known for its
ability to fulfill a capacity of airlift
combat forces over long distances,
deliver those force and their equip
ment either by air, land or airdrop, and
transport sick and wounded from hos
tile areas to advance medical facilities.
“Everyone can take immense pride
in what has been accomplished with
the Starlifter,” said Col. Frank Bruno,
strategic airlift director.
All of the nearly 300 workers in
attendance were applauded for their
enhancements on the aircraft. Some
changes that have taken place on the
C-141 include: The fuselage was
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Business and Professional Women honor their entry
to statewide ‘Woman in History 2003’ competition
By Charlotte Perkins
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
PERRY - Katie Pauline
Lewis was honored on
Thursday night as the first
runner-up the Georgia
Business and Professional
Women’s “Woman in
History 2003” competition.
Lewis, who was the nomi
nee of the Warner Robins
BPW chapter, has lived in
Houston County since 1942,
when she moved here with
her family and took a posi
tion at Wellston Air Depot,
which was to become Robins
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C-141 Systems Program Office workers chalked their autographs on the side
of the last C-141 that underwent upgrade modifications at Robins Air Force
Base.
stretched more than 23 feet, in-flight
refueling was added to create “B”
model, weep hole modifications and
center wing box repairs are considered
the SPO’s finest hour, and a glass cock
pit.
The fleet along with No. 248 will be
placed at March Air Reserve Base,
Calif. There are currently 50 C-141 air
craft in the fleet, while in previous
years there was a high of 284 aircraft.
Robins’ workers have averaged a
For more on local churches offering pumpkins, see page 3A
Air Force Base. She has
served her country, her com
munity and her church in a
variety of leadership posi
tions during the last six
decades, and also became
well known as lifestyle edi
tor of The Perry Times and
The Houston Times-
Journal.
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall
proclaimed Oct. 16 “Katie
Pauline Lewis Day” at a din
ner held by the BPW at the
First Baptist Church of
Perry,
Worrall commended Lewis
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workload of 60-70 programmed depot
maintenance on an annual basis and
have taken 92 flow (work) days off of
their expected date of completion.
Commander of the Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center, Maj. Gen. Donald
Wetekam said 17 percent of aircraft
put out two years ago were on time
compared to this past year when 64
percent of aircraft put out were on
time and many before scheduled com
pletion date.
See C-141, page 7A
for her many contributions,
but focused particularly on
her role in arranging for
lighted candles to illuminate
the streets of downtown
Perry each year at the
Christmas at the Crossroads
service.
Also on the program were
television personality Jackie
Cooper, who served as mas
ter of ceremonies; the Rev.
Dan Ariail, pastor of
Maranatha Baptist Church
in Plains, and former pastor
of First Baptist Church of
See LEWIS, page 7A
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