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November 5, 2004
Volume 135, Number 219
Award-Winning
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Inside TODAY
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Local girl diagnosed
with rare ailment
7-year-old Amber
Hunter is battling aplas
tic anemia. It’s a rare dis
order that occurs when
the bone marrow pro
duces too few of all three
types of blood cells: red
cells, white cells, and
platelets.
Lifestyle, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Nov. 5
Polly Williamson
Nov. 6
Karen Fowler
Christine (Tina)
Haberkam
Tammy Leßarre
Bobby Strofmer
Marge Weber
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
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Nov. 5
Charles and Oveda
Gardner
Nov. 6
Doug and Gail Baase
(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
JoAnn Frances Diring
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ....4B
LIFESTYLE 6A
OBITUARY 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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GOP pushing for bigger margin
Governor, others plan how to fill top posts in legislature, including House speaker
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - A day after a surprise
electoral takeover of the state
House, Republican leaders were
working Wednesday to solidify their
power.
At a meeting at the mansion of
Funding sought
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Phoenix Center asks county to help
build 24,000'Square'foot facility
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
The Phoenix Center wants
help from the county for
construction of a new facil
ity to replace the one on
North Davis Drive.
“Times have gotten
harder,” said Executive
Director Don Blair.
“There’s less and less rev
enue, and rent is a huge
burden.”
The Phoenix Center
board pays $87,000 a year
to lease its 20,000-square
foot Davis Drive facility
from Happy Hour.
“We’re at tfie point
where we have to lay off
staff or not make the rent
payment,” said Dr. Ruth
Odell. “We’ve had to let 20
Georgia Dems
no longer a
powerhouse
By DICK PETTYS
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - Democrats
were the party of Jimmy
Carter, the only Georgian
ever elected president, and
of Sam Nunn, the bookish
moderate from Perry who
became chairman of the
Senate Armed Services
Comihittee. They were the
party of the Talmadges,
father and son, and of Sen.
Richard B. Russell, a
Washington wheeler-dealer
for 38 years.
They ran Georgia for 130
years as the state emerged
from the devastation of the
Civil War, shook off its
sleepy agricultural roots,
strengthened its public
school system and become
the sixth fastest-growing
state in the country.
But today, in the bitter
hours after suffering
another elective blow, their
power is largely gone and
Democrats aren’t sure why
or what to do about it.
They lost their last
foothold in the statehouse
election night when
Republicans gained a
majority of the House. The
GOP had gained the gover
norship, the state Senate,
and a U.S. Senate seat two
years earlier, and picked up
the other U.S. Senate seat
Tuesday night.
“The Democrats need to
rethink, regroup and
Gov. Sonny Perdue, the GOP’s top
lawmakers planned for who would
fill the House’s top posts.
They also discussed the possibility
of creating an even wider margin in
the House than the 95-85 edge they
appeared to have won in Tuesday’s
elections.
Rep. Glenn Richardson, R-Dallas,
staff go already.”
Odell noted that Peach
and Crawford counties,
which Phoenix Center also
serves, provide facilities
rent free, but 80 percent of
the clients are here in
Houston County.
“We need about 24,000
square feet,” Blair said, to
replace the revamped
World War II era military
barracks now used for the
adult mental health care
on Davis Drive.
The board is asking the
county to build a new
building on land already
owned by Phoenix Center,
to add that last building to
the Phoenix Center cam
pus on Ga. 96, by Houston
County High School.
See PHOENIX, page 3A
recruit,” former Gov. Roy
Barnes said as the magni
tude of the loss began to
sink in.
“With such an effort, the
Democrats can be real
players for the long term.
The state will, however,
always be close, and that
may not be such a bad
thing,” he added.
So how did they blow it?
“It’s pretty simple,” said
retiring Sen. Zell Miller, a
two-term governor and
lifelong Democrat who has
complained for years -
most recently in a best-sell
ing book - that his party
has moved too far to the
left.
Miller angered many
within his own party by
delivering a keynote
speech for President Bush
at the GOP convention.
“When you write off cen
trist and conservative poli
cies that reflect the will of
most of the people in your
state, you write off your
state. If Democrats want to
win a majority again in
Georgia, they cannot
remain silent on gay mar
riage. They cannot
embrace a liberal presiden
tial candidate. They cannot
let themselves be dragged
to the left by leaders who
are bent on tearing people
down rather than building
the party back up,” Miller
declared.
See DEMS, page 3A
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My Father’s Place owner Todd Sichelstiel can be found behind the counter making piz
zas for customers to eat in, carry out or bake at home.
Cold pizza to go!
Family-owned pizzeria offers ‘you bake’ alternative
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Do
you want that pizza you had
at the stadium last week
end?
And would you like it hot
from your oven?
My Father’s Place on
Moody Road now offers “we
make it, you bake it” pizzas.
“It gives people a chance
to make it more conven
ient,” said owner Todd
Sichelstiel.
“We have found a way to
make our pizza on a dispos
able pizza pan,” he
explained. “It’s a glorified
paper plate.”
Sichelstiel said customers
can come and get one on the
way home from work.
“Guys from the base pick
them up on the way home,”
he said. “We’ll even deliver
it if you want.”
With “we make, you
bake,” you can have My
Father’s Place pizza any
time you want, Sichelstiel
said. “It’s great for late
night parties, surprise
guests, watching the game
or even fund-raisers.”
Baking time averages
See PIZZA, page 3A
who appears in line to become
Georgia’s first Republican House
Speaker in at least 130 years, said
he’s open to talking with conserva
tive Democrats interested in switch
ing parties - but has contacted no
one and made no promises.
“If someone is similarly ideologi
cally situated, believes in our princi-
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Todd Sichelstiel owns My Father’s Place, a local pizzeria
which now offers “we make, you bake” pizzas.
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pies and goals and wants to come
join us, we would welcome that,”
said Richardson, currently House
minority leader and formerly
Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue’s
floor leader. “If they come to us,
we’ll talk to them.”
Several Democrats considered
See GOP, page 3A
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