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TUESDAY
November 9, 2004
Volume 135, Number 221
Award-Winning
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Inside TODAY
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Optimist Bowl
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department
held its 47th Annual
Optimist Bowl Saturday
in McConnell-Talbert
Stadium.
Sports, page 3B
Neely to chair
Hint board
In their recent monthly
board
meeting,
members of
the Flint
Energies
board of
directors
selected
new offi
cers.
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John J. Neely of Butler
was elected chairman.
Business, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Betty Seago
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Mack and Louise Peyton
Area DEATHS
Marguerite A. Patrick
Lynn Whittington
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . . .2A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Robber of Perry store prison-bound
U.S. attorney: Young to serve ‘hard time for gun crime’ after Dollar General robbery spree
From staff, wire reports
MACON - A man who pleaded
guilty to the armed robberies of
the Perry Dollar General,
among other stores in Georgia,
Mississippi and Alabama, has
been sentenced to more than 44
years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Wilber D.
Owens Jr. sentenced 45-year-old
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Joel Ward poses with Zeus, winner of the biggest pet contest at ARK in the Park
Sunday at Fountain Park in Warner Robins. The great Dane is 11 months old, Ward
said, and may get bigger still.
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Several pets compete in the smallest dog con
test at ARK in the Park.
Edward Wayne Young, of West
Point, to 535 months in prison
without the possibility of parole
on Thursday, after he pleaded
guilty to two counts each of rob
bery and using a firearm during
a robbery.
In Perry, Young robbed the
Main Street Dollar General
twice in 2003, on Jan. 31 and
ARK in the Park
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Plenty
of pets
weather
draws barking crowd
Story and photos
by Jon Suggs
WARNER ROBINS - You might
expect to encounter an animal or two
in Fountain Park, but if you were
there Sunday, you saw a whole lot
more.
Animal Rescue and Kindness
(ARK) held its annual ARK in the
Park fund-raiser Sunday afternoon,
and dozens of dogs and cats brought
their owners out for a frolic to sup
port the organization.
A food booth, a “flea” market, raf
fles and a picture-taking setup were
See ARK, page 8A
April 1. Perry Police initially
identified Young as the suspect
and determined he was engaged
in a robbery spree across the
Southeast that also hit stores in
LaGrange, Griffin, and Canton;
Valley, Ala.; and Mississippi
stores in Long Beach, Gulfport,
Bay St. Louis and Gautier.
Perry Police Capt. Health
Dykes said it was “an outstand
ing job” on the part of Detective
Calvin Proffitt.
“He was the one who put the
pieces together,” Dykes said. “It
was his drive to get this case
solved.”
Proffitt put out a request on
the Regional Fugitive Task
See YOUNG, page 3A
Richardson
to be speaker
Dallas Republican to be the first
House speaker since Reconstruction
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Georgia
Republicans laid the
groundwork Monday for
wielding a history-making
majority in the Georgia
House next year, choosing
Rep. Glenn Richardson of
Dallas to serve as the state’s
first GOP House Speaker
since Reconstruction.
Hours later, a party switch
by Rep. Chuck Sims of
Douglas allowed the
Republicans to claim their
97th seat in the 180-mem
ber chamber next year, six
votes more than a majority.
On what Rep. Len Walker,
R-Loganville, an ordained
minister, described in an
opening prayer as “a great
day of celebration and joy
for us,” there were nonethe
less mixed messages.
Republican Gov. Sonny
Perdue, an architect of the
Three dead after
weekend wrecks
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Two fatal single
car wrecks over the week
end resulted in the deaths of
three people.
Michelle Gehagan, 32, 102
Rose Hill, Warner Robins,
was killed Friday night,
about 10:25, according to
Houston County Sheriffs
Col. Billy Rape, after she
failed to stop at the stop sign
at Lakeview and Lake Joy
roads and her 2002 Honda
Accord struck an embank
ment.
“We received the call at
11:05 p.m.,” Rape said.
Early Saturday, an under
age driver, Colby Payne, 15,
apparently fell asleep at the
CDC: Flu season
off to slow start
By DIEDTRA HENDERSON
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - Sales of
over-the-counter drugs
taken to treat the flu may
help the government learn
more quickly about local
outbreaks.
The government now
receives figures represent
ing 80 percent of the sales of
remedies for cold symptoms
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GOP Senate takeover two
years ago and more recently
of its House success, urged
Republicans to extend a gra
cious hand to the Democrats
they have booted from
power.
“I hope you’ll keep in
mind as you come back in
January that this General
Assembly will be made up of
180 representatives, each
having been duly elected
from a district to govern
Georgia,” he said.
No longer in the minority,
Republicans “don’t have to
scream anymore,” he said.
“We can simply lead in a
way that represents
Georgia.”
But Richardson, Perdue’s
former floor leader, sounded
a more partisan note in
accepting the nomination.
“It has been a long and
difficult course as we have
See SPEAKER, page 3A
wheel, according to the
Georgia State Patrol, while
traveling northbound on
Interstate 75. Senior
Trooper Elbert Slappy said
the teen never applied the
brakes, “which is consistent
with falling asleep or DUI
and we have no reason to
believe it was DUI.
“I believe (he was) a
young inexperienced driver,
he only had a learner’s per
mit,” Slappy said, “and
based on the time, 2:30 a.m.,
fell asleep.”
Slappy said the 2001 GMC
Yukon Payne was driving
traveled 400 feet in a ditch
before overturning and
striking a column on the
Todd Road overpass. He said
See WRECKS, page 3A
and diarrhea, for example,
in an effort to spot disease
trends.
A sudden spike in sales of
those products “might be a
hint that flu is emerging,”
the director of the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention told reporters
Sunday.
“It’s a clue. And we don’t
See FLU, page 3A
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