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WEDNESDAY
November 3, 2004
Volume 135, Number 217
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“Living high on the
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meant eating the best
cuts of pig, and there’s a
lot to be said for pork,
whether it’s a company
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Hearth&Home, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jimmy Autry
Mildred Chapman
Terry Morgan Hilton
Martha Lockhart
(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
the rest. E-mail to
hhj@evansnewspapers.com, or
mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Dorothy Faye Bedsole
Marjorie Hawver
Esther Mary Peterson
Charles “Chuck” V
Sprayberry, U.S. Navy
(Ret.)
Joseph T. Sumrall Sr.
Jonathan Thomas
Stewart
John W. Wright
Obits, page 5A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
HEARTH&HOME . .6A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
DAVID VOLTZ 8A
WEATHER 2A
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Meson, Burke, Marshall re-elected
Incumbents reign in Election Day balloting; Isakson defeats Majette
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District Attorney Kelly Burke watches results come in
with his daughter Alden at Beef O'Brady’s Tuesday night.
The parking lot was full of cars and Burke campaign
signs.
Party
faithful
react to
returns
By ED BANIA
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Republican candidates Carol
Bird and Cecil Staton
weren’t surprised in the
least about Johnny
Isakson’s landslide win over
U.S. Rep. Denise Majette (D-
Decatur) for U.S. Senate
seat. Isakson is giving up his
District 6 U.S. House seat.
Fox News declared
Isakson the winner at 7:45
p.m. with a 66 to 32 percent
lead over Majette.
Also at the Houston
County GOP Victory Party
Tuesday night, retired U.S.
Air Force Gen. Rick
Goddard said the Sen. John
Kerry presidential campaign
has been “a bloody, godawful
campaign full of nastiness
and untruths.”
Goddard said he was upset
at The Macon Telegraph for
not printing a letter he sent
to the paper. The letter was
WR councilmen unhappy with sign variance
By ED BANIA
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Three
Warner Robins city councilmen
aren’t happy that the sign at the old
Wal-Mart Center on Watson
Boulevard will be increased to 43
feet high.
Mayor Donald Walker and coun
cilmen Terry Horton, Grady
Clemonts and Tom Simms voted
Monday to give the new owner of
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Jennifer and Bill Merryman brought their GOP baby ele
phant, 7-month-old Audrey, to the victory party.
Goddard’s rebuttal to a let
ter the Telegraph printed
from a retired Air Force
Reserve general that con
gratulated the Telegraph for
endorsing Kerry.
“He gave all the reasons
why Kerry should win,”
Goddard said.
In his own letter, Goddard
said he respected the other
retired general’s right to
the center, Bill Livingston, a sign
variance to install a new sign 20 feet
by 43 feet on existing poles.
Councilmen Steve Smith, Matt
Stone and Dean Cowart voted
against the variance.
“I want to be supportive of local
developers,” Smith said. “But I also
believe we can’t have a double stan
dard.”
The double standard refers to sign
regulations on Watson Boulevard
From staff reports
PERRY - Incumbents
cruised back to office
Tuesday in a number of
political races that impact
Houston County.
With 23 of 30 precincts
reporting at press time
Tuesday night, it was clear
how some of the races would
shape up across Houston
County after election day.
In the race for Houston
Circuit District Attorney,
Republican incumbent Kelly
Burke was winning over
Democratic challenger
Michael Moore, with 16,114
votes or 57 percent of the
vote to Moore’s 12,291 votes
or 43 percent of the vote.
Incumbent Houston
County Coroner Danny
Galpin handily defeated
write-in challenger Carol
Griffin, with 23,420 votes. A
number of write-in ballots
were cast, but not enough to
make a dent in Galpin’s vic
tory.
Georgia Senate
With 89 percent of
precincts reporting for state
Senate District 20, incum
bent Ross Tolleson (R-
Perry) was beating chal
lenger Dan King (D-Dublin)
with 25,154 votes or 54
See ROUNDUP, page 3A
dissent.
“But he did not speak for
the military,” Goddard said.
“As a matter of fact, 75 per
cent of the military support
the president.”
Goddard attributed the
percentage to a recent poll.
Another former military
man, U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall
(D-Macon), was leading
See GOP, page 3A
and a new multi-use zoning overlay
that the city will draft for new devel
opment along the Russell Parkway
extension. The overlay will have
regulations for the design and con
struction of buildings, parking lots,
easements, signs and landscaping.
Smith said the residents in new
developments along the parkway
will “get to have the type of envi
ronment that they want. But we’re
telling people on the north side of
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State Sen. Ross Tolleson (R-Perry) gets a call from state
Rep. Larry O’Neal (R-Wamer Robins) to see how things
are going during election returns Tuesday night. The
incumbent senator declared victory about 11 p.m., lead
ing his opponent by 3,790 votes with 77 of 85 precincts
reporting.
Commission
OK's 382-acre
development
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - A 382-acre
development got the go
ahead from the Houston
County Board of
Commissioners Tuesday.
The commission unani
mously approved the
request from the Boss King
Group and MJS
Development Services Inc.
to rezone 382.91 acres at
the southeast corner of
Moody Road and Ga. 96
from residential agricultur
al (R-Ag) and single-family
residential (R-l) to planned
use development (PUD).
The PUD includes 22.4
acres already purchased by
the Houston County Board
of Education for an ele
mentary school that will be
accessed by extending
Willingham Drive across
Moody. A parkway with 80
feet of right-of-way is to
proceed through the devel
opment that would take
Willingham through to Ga.
96. A second access road is
proposed off Moody into
the development.
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The PUD would consist
of three areas of R-l single
family residential to the
south and east of the school
and the parkway with 307
lots on about 159 acres; 65
lots on 28.9 acres to the
west of the school and
25,000 square feet of C-l
neighborhood service com
mercial in five buildings
with 312 parking spaces on
nine acres along Moody
Road west of the homes
and the school.
Planning and Zoning
Director Tim Andrews
noted “the design brings
back an era of the neigh
borhood school.”
The northern part of the
tract includes two retail
center sites along Ga. 96 on
43.76 and 17.96 acres
zoned C-2 general commer
cial, and a daycare center
on 2.11 acres also zoned C
-2 which will be near the
See COMMISSION, page 3A
town and downtown that they are
stuck with what they have got.”
Jeff Kiefer, the city’s code enforce
ment officer, said the city’s sign
ordinance calls for maximums of 30
feet and 300 square feet.
Livingston said the current sign at
the center is over 30 feet tall and
asked Kiefer to approve the new 43-
foot sign that is 740 square feet in
size. Keifer denied the request.
See WR COUNCIL, page 3A