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THURSDAY
April 8, 2004
Volume 135, Number 70
Award-Winning
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Inside TODAY
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M6TC honors its
own on Awards Day
So many great students
and educators at Middle
Georgia Technical College
were honored on the
recent Awards Day that
we had to run them on
two pages.
See pages SA, 7B
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Mossy Creek
Maijorie Schirack will
again weave Nantucket
baskets at the Mossy
Creek Barnyard Festival
next week.
Entertainment, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Ed Beckham
Thomas Bishop
Gail Brown
Elise Rogers
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send the name and date at least
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mail them to us at the address
inside No phone calls, please
Many happy returns')
Area DEATHS
Alexander Frank Estes
Theodore F. Fortier
Nicholas T. Price
Mary Roba Jackson Wynn
OBITS, page 9A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD .. . 4B
ENTERTAINMENT .6A
LEGALS . . , 1C
OBITUARIES 9A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS 5A,78
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
cm of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Flash Foods hit by fire, gunman
Armed robber strikes Perry C-store; accident sparks gasoline fire in WR location
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Lt. Jess Simpson (left) with County Fire Station 6 said firefighters were on scene three
minutes after being alerted. No injuries were reported.
Manhunt
ends in
apnest
By Emily Johnstone
HHJ Associate Editor
PERRY - Police have a
man in custody who fled
from a Houston County
deputy Tuesday morning.
According to Sgt. Dave
Carrick of the Houston
County Sheriffs
Department, 21-year-old
Victor Darrell Jackson was
captured Tuesday afternoon
after being on the lam since
he fled from Deputy Wayne
Mitchell about 7:20 a m
The incident occurred
when Mitchell stopped a
BMW SUV and Jackson ran
into a wooded area near the
Happy Store on the Perry
Parkway.
Back at the vehicle,
Mitchell apprehended
another man, 21-year-old
Christian Joel Horton, of
Duluth.
Law enforcement
searched the area with
tracking dogs and Georgia
State Patrol brought in a
helicopter to assist.
Later, deputies with the
Sheriffs Department
Interstate Criminal
Enforcement Unit, Chad
Payne and Eric Barnett,
spotted a man walking along
the interstate near Perry.
When they stopped to
check him out, “he just put
his hands above his head
and lay on the ground,”
Carrick said.
See MANHUNT, page 3A
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Northside High School's Ivan Ortiz, front, attempts to get a-head of Houston
County competitor Andrew Hardie during their teams’ key division soccer
matchup Tuesday at Tanner Field in Warner Robins. Despite their best efforts - in
fact, Hardie scored his team’s only goal - the two local squads finished in a 1-1
tie.
Sports, page IB
Beloved citizen Molony passes
Veteran WR newspaperman, longtime Lion remembered fondly
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Joe Molony
was remembered Wednesday as a man
who knew everything about sports and
as a man with enormous respect not
only for Warner Robins, the city, but
also Warner Robins, the community.
Molony, who was diagnosed with
inoperable lung cancer in February,
died Tuesday.
Former co-worker Skip Korson said
Ball in motion
Molony was one of the first people she
met when she moved to Houston
County in June 1973.
“He was one of my oldest and best
friends,” she said. "Many more could
say that about him, especially kids.”
Korson’s family found out about
Molony’s pussing through her grand
son.
“Joe knew a lot about sports and any
body who has had any connection with
sports would either know or love him,"
By Emily Johnstone
and Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Associate Editor
and Staff Writer
The first armed robbery of
a Perry business this year
has police tracking a man
who held up a convenience
store Tuesday evening.
Perry Police Capt. Heath
Dykes said about 2 a.m. a
man wearing a black hooded
sweatshirt entered the
Flash Foods at 1417 Sam
Nunn Blvd., pointed a gun
at the clerk and said “Give
me all your cash.”
The clerk took the cash
drawer out of the register
and placed it on the counter
where the robber took the
cash and fled from the store
on foot.
No one was injured during
the incident, Dykes said.
In an unrelated incident, a
fire broke out around 11
a.m. Wednesday at Flash
an Evans Family Newspaper
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Foods on the corner of
Watson Boulevard and Carl
Vinson Parkway in Warner
Robins.
According to fire officials,
a dump truck backed into a
gasoline pump.
The truck, reportedly
driven by Randall Fountin,
overturned the pump, and
the remaining gasoline still
in the pump caught fire.
Safety valves located inside
the pump automatically
shut off the gas and the
assistant store manager
shut off electricity to the
facility.
Back in Perry, police can
vassed the area around the
Flash Foods but have not
found any witnesses who
saw the robbery or the sus
pect, Dykes said.
A truck driver may have
been inside the store around
the time of the robbery,
See FLASH, page 3A
Peppy
sets up
gpease
trap plan
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - After mulling its
options for a few months,
the Perry City Council has
put into action a plan
designed to help cut down
on the greasy build-up that
has caused some problems
in its sewerage system.
To begin, the council
amended the city’s code to
include a section for the reg
ulation of non-domestic
kitchen facilities - a grease
trap ordinance.
The new rules require
commercial kitchens con
nected to the city’s sewerage
system to include a grease
trap to catch those nasty
solids that can clog the city’s
pipes like cholesterol in a
vein.
Most restaurants already
include such traps, but the
city is concerned some of
them aren’t being pumped
clean as often as they should
be.
The city has therefore
contracted with BOCA
Industries of Smyrna to
handle cleaning services.
BOCA president Don
Lend explained to the coun
cil in its work session how
the company will set up its
program.
See PERRY, page 3A
she said. “Kids in Warner Robins had
enormous respect for Joe. He was a
magnificent person.”
When he wasn’t working full-time
with Korson at Robins Air Force Base’s
Public Affairs office, he was a sports
writer and columnist for the former
newspuper The Daily Sun. Throughout
the 1960 s and early 1970 s he worked
both jobs. Sports was, many agree, his
passion.
See MOLONY. page 3A
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