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TUESDAY
November 23, 2004
Volume 135, Number 230
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Inside TODAY
The county's best
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Houston Home Journal’s
All-Houston fast-pitch
softball team was no easy
task.
Sports, page 1B
In BRIEF
Man sought top
Wendy's robbery
WARNER ROBINS -
Police are searching for
the lone suspect in the
armed robbery of the
Moody Road Wendy’s
early Monday morning.
According to Warner
Robins police, a black
man, 5 feet 10 inches to 6
feet tall with a dark com
plexion entered the busi
ness and robbed the
employees at gunpoint.
An undisclosed amount of
cash was taken from the
restaurant.
The suspect stole an
employee’s vehicle and
fled the scene. Police
responded at about 1 a.m.
and located the vehicle
and the suspect, who then
fled from officers on foot.
There were no injuries
during the incidents.
Anyone with informa
tion is asked to call Det.
Scott McSwain with the
Warner Robins Police
Department Criminal
Investigation Division at
929-6908.
- Ray Lightner
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Judy Flournoy
Edna Ridgell
Sarah Yingling
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Rena and Mac Derrick
Area DEATHS
Betty Dixon Cook
Kelly A. Hammock Sr.
Eileen Helen Little
Lula Mae Thompson
Walker
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Museum to get $250,000 fop education
Federal grant will help cover costs of providing various youth programs
From staff, wire reports
ATLANTA - Congress has con
cluded work on a 2005 spending bill,
and the news is good for Georgia,
which is poised to receive more than
$250 million for local projects.
Among the allocations is $250,000
for the Museum of Aviation, which
is earmarked for the museum’s edu
cation programs.
The grant is funded through the
Institute of Museum and Library
Services, a federal agency, according
to Pat Bartness, president of the
Museum of Aviation.
Bartness said the $250,000 will
“pretty much get us through a year”
Student
named
Rhodes
Scholar
Farris among
32 American
students to ■
study at Oxford
By JUSTIN POPE
AP Education Writer
Thirty-two American col
lege students, including one
from Georgia Tech, have
been selected as Rhodes
Scholars for 2005, the schol
arship trust announced
Sunday.
Jeremy D. Farris of
Bonaire, was among the
recipients of the prized
scholarship. He’s a graduate
of Houston County High
School and discovered a new
way to kill pesky kudzu
plants.
Farris, who will receive an
international affairs degree
from Tech in December,
hopes to study philosophy
and economics at Oxford
University in England, said
Georgia Tech spokesman
Bob Harty. Farris studied
abroad several times, taking
courses in Singapore,
Argentina, Cuba and Great
Britain, Harty said. He also
helped found the Georgia
Tech Philosophical Society.
Georgia Tech last pro
duced a Rhodes Scholar two
years ago.
“It’s a real coup,” Harty
said. “Historically Rhodes
Scholars have gone to
schools more humanities
oriented. You don’t think of
them going to technology
centered schools.”
The scholars, chosen from
904 applicants who were
See FARRIS, page 5A
Rednecks donate to Hawk, Rainbow House
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - “It gives us a reason to
have fun,” Rooster said.
The Rednecks on Tour, a motorcy
cle club, rode out to Rozar Park
Saturday to give away money. They
had a poker run, barbecue and
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of education pro
grams at the muse
um. He said
although such
grants are not
renewable, the
museum can apply
again for the fund
ing.
The funding is
much appreciated,
Bartness said, because it will allow
Melissa Spalding, the museum’s
director of education, to concentrate
on the programs rather than fund
raising.
The Museum of Aviation offers
Riding for a good cause
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Bikers from the U.S. Military Veterans Motorcycle Club and other participants rode out Saturday from the American
Legion Post 172 for a poker run to raise money and collect toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots
campaign.
Poker run collects
toys, raises cash
American Legion Post 172 also hosts
breakfast buffet for Toys for Tots
Story and photos
by Ray Lightner
WARNER ROBINS -
The U.S. Military Veterans
Motorcycle Club raised
over $2,000 “and brought
in a lot of toys,” said
“Bones” at the annual
Toys for Tots poker run
Saturday.
The day began with
breakfast at American
Legion Post 172. The stag
ing point for the ride was
the post’s parking lot.
The bikes left the post at
11:30 a.m., with riders
from the club leading the
way out Radio Loop.
Participants included the
Riding for the Son
Motorcyclist Association,
and others on bikes of all
makes and models, from
Harleys to Hondas, V-Rods
to three-wheelers.
motorcycle rodeo fund-raiser in
September and presented two
checks Saturday, for $1,450 each to
Rainbow House and Aiden Hawk.
Hawk is 2 years old and had a
liver transplant when he was 8
months old. Hawk’s grandfather,
Joe Hawk, accepted the check on
behalf of the family.
educational programs for children of
all ages, including the newest pro
gram, “Wonder Wings,” which is
aimed at preschoolers. That pro
gram has also just received a
SIO,OOO grant from Boeing
Company, Bartness said.
He expressed appreciation to U.S.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, as well as
U.S. Reps. Jack Kingston and Jim
Marshall, for their work in securing
the funding for the museum.
The largest chunk of the spending
bill, though, is going to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta, which will get $250 mil
lion for building improvements in
BARTNESS
Related photos,
pageSA
The 100-mile run took
riders to Do-Dah’s where
most of the toys were col
lected. After the lunch stop
there, the ride wound up
back at the U.S. Military
Veterans clubhouse.
Events included 50/50 raf
fle and a drawing for s
Schwinn Stingray bicycle.
The goal of the ride was
to collect toys for the U.S.
Marine Corps Reserve
Toys for Tots. Club
President “Studley” said
about $l,lOO was raised
last year and they filled
two pickup trucks with
toys.
The club also has runs to
benefit POW/MIAs from
the Andersonville museum
twice a year.
He said Aiden was doing well, and
that the boy “has developed some
strange allergies, but he’s gaining
weight. He’s a little bit behind, but
is above average mentally.”
Dihl Smith said the money raised
will go to the family.
“They’ll turn around and give it to
the Liver Foundation, which helped
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breakfast at American Legion Post 172. Both rode in the
U.S. Military Veterans Motorcycle Club’s poker run later
in the day.
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Atlanta, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-
Ga., announced Sunday.
Middle Georgia is getting more
than $7.5 million for local projects,
including $1 million for a new head
quarters for the Macon-Bibb County
Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Congress approved the spending
bill Saturday night. Republicans
whisked the S3BB billion spending
bill through in a single day, a mam
moth measure that underscores the
dominance of deficit politics by
curbing dollars for everything from
education to environmental
cleanups.
See SPENDING BILL, page 3A
pay for the operation,” Smith said.
“Little brother” was one of the
beneficiaries. The other check was
presented to Carol Hanna from
Rainbow House, which works with
children who have been abused, and
to prevent child abuse in Houston
County.
See REDNECKS, page 3A