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THURSDAY
October 14, 2004
Volume 135, Number 203
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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The quiet side
of the fair
There are many ways to
enjoy the Georgia
National Fair, and for
some the best part is near
the west gate, where the
Miller-Murphy-Howard
Building now houses the
Georgia Living exhibits,
with displays of both fine
arts and domestic arts,
demonstrations and com
petitions of all kinds,
from rose-growing to
soap-carving.
Artists and crafters
demonstrate their work.
There’s a big exhibit of
photographs from begin
ners, talented amateurs
and professionals, and
the youth art show is a
treat for the eyes this
year.
Entertainment, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Emanuel Brooks
Richard Gambill
Barbara Shaheen
Kristina Simms
Melissa Spalding
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or
anniversary is, and we’ll put their
names in the paper that day. Just
send the name and date at least
a week in advance, and we'll do
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mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Lovette R. Brantley Jr.
Ivy C. Collins
J.W. Davis
Ruth Doss Evans
Col. Hillary Perdue
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
ENTERTAINMENT .6A
LEGALS 1C
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Fool the
posset!
(Or not,
more likely)
Story and. photos
by Jon Suggs
PERRY - You may not
know her name, but if
you’ve been down the mid
way at the Georgia National
Fair, chances are good
you’ve heard Michele
Powell’s voice.
“Walk up! Walk in! Fool
the guesser; that’s when you
win!”
Her pitches to’ fairgoers
join the air with smells of
fair food and the joyous
shouts of kids enjoying the
midway rides.
“Guess your age! Guess
your weight! Even your
birth date!”
Inevitably, a few stop to
check out the gaily decorat
ed booth, adorned with
prizes, before which the
guesser tempts them.
“If I can’t get it, that’s
how you win it!”
A young girl pauses, con
siders her options: The
guesser will pick her weight
within three pounds, her
age within two years, or her
birth month within two
months.
She decides on birth
month, pays her money and
waits. Powell looks her up
and down, writes her guess
in a notepad and asks the
girl her birth month.
“September,” she says.
“I got you,” Powell
responds, holding up the
notepad, upon which
“Sept.” is written.
The girl shakes her head
in disbelief but tries again
for weight.
This time the guesser is
off by a couple of pounds,
and the girl walks away with
a pair of fuzzy dice.
More kids walk up.
One asks what the best
odds are.
“Well, I can look at you
and guess your weight or
how old you are,” Powell
tells them. “What about you
can tell me what month you
were born?”
The first kid pays and
Powell guesses.
Correctly.
The second.
Ditto.
Third.
Uh-huh.
Frontrunners Isakson, Majette spar
Senatorial candidates debate at fairgrounds
By ED BANIA
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Even on a warm
October night in Georgia,
things heated inside the
Reaves Arena during the
Denise Majette and Johnny
Isakson debate Tuesday
night. Unfortunately, only a
couple hundred supporters
and interested voters
attended the event spon
sored by WMAZ Channel 13.
Both candidates for
Democrat Zell Miller’s U.S.
Senate seat attacked each
other’s voting record in the
U.S. House on issues such as
the war in Iraq, education,
health care and the federal
budget deficit. Majette (D-
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Not everybody working on the midway is from out of town. Michele Powell is from
Houston County.
Fourth.
Yep.
They’ve all lost, but the
kids walk away smiling,
wondering just how she did
that.
OK, Michele, answer the
question: What about them
can tell you what month
they were born?
She laughs at the ques
tion.
“People say things like,
‘You got me because I’m a
Leo and you could tell I act
like a Leo,”’ Powell said.
“Well, I’ve no idea what a
Leo acts like.”
Some people turn rings
around or hide other jewelry
that might show a birth
stone.
Powell laughs at that, too;
no stone student, she.
“I know mine, and I know
my kids’,” she said.
Right, so you’ve got a
knack for it; how’d you get
into this line of work?
See GUESSER, page 5A
Decatur) represents U.S.
District 4 and Isakson (R-
Atlanta) District 6.
Isakson said the war in
Iraq was the ultimate battle
“between good and evil and
we can’t lay down. We must
see to it that terrorism is
destroyed.”
He reminded the audience
that he voted for the SB7 bil
lion supplemental legisla
tion for the war.
Majette opposed the bill
because of the bidding sys
tem between contractors.
Even so, Majette said no one
cam question her integrity
about supporting the troops
in Iraq.
“I don’t believe that the
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Powell ponders a fairgoer’s age. She has worked sev
eral years with the “Fool the Guesser" game at the
Georgia National Fair.
vote would have come up if
we knew then what we
know now,” Majette said.
“We have to do everything
we can to support our troops
in Iraq.” That’s why,
Majette saiid, she voted for
the $1,500 pay bonus for
military personnel.
“My opponent did not,”
she said.
She claimed that Isaikson
voted against the tax breaiks
for the soldiers, such as
travel expenses amd the sale
of residences, requiring Iraq
to repay $lO billion in
nation-building money, and
the fair bidding in Iraq to
stop the sweetheart deads to
U.S. contractors such as
See DEBATE, page 54
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After the debate that included heated accusations about
each other’s voting record, Johnny Isakson and Denise
Majette shake hands.
an Evans Family Newspaper
THREE SECTIONS • 22 PAGES
C'ville
sets tax
hike
hearings
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
CENTERVILLE
Centerville has set the
meeting dates for its millage
rate increase of property
taxes by 4.76 percent to 10.7
mills. The city has to have
three public meetings before
setting the proposed millage
rate.
The three scheduled meet
ings will be at 10 a.m. Oct.
27, 4 p.m. Oct. 28 and 6 p.m.
Nov. 2. At the regular 7 p.m.
council meeting Nov. 2, the
millage rate will be set.
Also at Tuesday’s council
meeting:
• Mayor Ronnie Brand led
a discussion on the need for
additional police officers. He
asked council members to
consider this when voting
for the millage rate
increase.
See CENTERVILLE, page 5A
Schools
submit
plans
N orths ide, Perry
middle schools
to combat AYP
shortcomings
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Two Houston
County Schools that didn’t
meet federal Adequate
Yearly Progress (AYP)
guidelines - Perry and
Northside middle schools -
presented improvement
plans at the monthly
Houston County Board of
Education meeting.
Mike Mattingly, assistant
superintendent for teaching
and learning, submitted the
implementation plan to the
board.
See BOE, page SA
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