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SUNDAY
January 9, 2005
Volume 135, Number 261
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
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look like this?
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the assistance of a profes
sional organizer.
Lifestyle, page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jan 9
Heather Laidlaw
George A. Schulz
Martha Solomon
Drew Whitehead
Eugene E. Willis Jr.
Jan 10
Dudley Bluhm
Ken Bussell
Clayton Davis
Curtis N. (Pete) Greer
Jared Hardy
Charlotte Perkins
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Jan. 9
Eugene E. Willis Jr. and
Vicki L. Willis
(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
Bobby D. Brackett
Ricky Cox
Margo Syria
George Kenneth Voseipka
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 1C
CLUB NEWS 3A
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
LIFESTYLE 7A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .5B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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Second Baptist loses longtime pastor
Services for the Rev. Rastus Salter to be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in church sanctuary
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
WARNER ROBINS -
Houston County has lost
one of its most well-known
pastors, a man who first
came here a half century ago
as “a country preacher”
with a reputation for fiery
sermons, and was called to
serve a congregation that
has grown to nearly 3,500
members.
The Rev. Rastus Salter,
pastor of Second Baptist
Church, died early Friday
after a struggle with cancer.
He was 80, and despite his
illness had continued to
preach through November.
The Rev. Gary Morton,
Minister of Music and
Administration at Second
Baptist, spoke Friday morn
ing of Salter’s joy in being
able to preach in the
church’s new sanctuary,
which towers over Moody
Road.
“He loved to preach,”
Morton said. “He had a fire
in his bosom, and he
Shelter
sees
influx
ARK working to find
homes for animals
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Nineteen
puppies were delivered to the
Warner Robins Animal Shelter by
Houston County Animal Control
last weekend. Those 19 were accept
ed at the shelter, although it was
already at capacity.
Enter ARK, more commonly
known as Animal Rescue and
Kindness.
The organization found foster
homes for the animals, and hopes to
offer them for adoption at Petsmart
in Warner Robins from 11 a.m. until
4 p.m. Sunday, but because the ani
mals they rescue have to go through
Woman pleads guilty in murder-for-hire
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - A woman accused in
an alleged murder-for-hire
scheme has pleaded guilty.
Jessica Gladue pleaded guilty
at 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon to
criminal solicitation to commit
murder.
She was sentenced to five
New players move to center stage in GOP legislature
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Little by lit
tle Old South states once
solidly Democratic have
turned to Republicans to
lead them. Georgia’s time
comes Monday when a new
Legislature opens with both
chambers under GOP con
trol for the first time since
Reconstruction.
Republican Gov. Sonny
Perdue sees the dawn of
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preached from his heart and
soul, exposing God’s Word.”
Lynn Peacock, a member
of the church since its early
years on Sixth Street,
remembers the Rev. Salter
as a very young man invited
to preach a revival.
“We were told he was a
‘country preacher come to
town,”’ she said, “A preach
er boy.”
At that time, in
September 1954, the young
Mercer University graduate
from Thomaston had not
been long out of seminary,
but was already establishing
a reputation for Bible-based
preaching and evangelistic
zeal that would stay with
him for a lifetime.
He was called a year later
to serve as associate pastor
of Second Baptist, and
became the pastor in 1956.
According to church
sources, during his long
career he “preached in more
than 325 revivals with over
9,000 public decisions for
See SALTER, page 6A
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These are among the 19 puppies delivered last weekend to the Warner
Robins Animal Shelter.
a quarantine period, the rescued
puppies from this past weekend will
not be available until Jan. I*6. Cats
and kittens rescued from the shelter
will also be available..
ARK President Brenda
Cunningham said they usually see
an increase of animals over the hol
idays, but nothing to this extent.
“Our goal is to help homeless ani
mals and provide them foster homes
temporarily until they have become
years, to serve one in prison by
Judge Ed Lukemire for her part
in the conspiracy.
“The plea was very short
notice,” said Assistant District
Attorney Gerald Henderson,
adding that “both sides had
been negotiating a plea, sending
numbers back and forth.”
Gladue, 25, 205 Williams
Republican legislative power
as a “very liberating” era in
which bills are freely debat
ed and rise and fall on their
merits rather than being
bottled up in committee by a
powerful few, never to reach
a vote.
“That doesn’t mean that
we’re going to agree or the
Legislature will rubber
stamp everything I pro
pose,” he said. But it does
mean that political leaders
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healthy and vaccinated,”
Cunningham said.
George Butts, director of Warner
Robins Animal Control, said the
shelter has also seen many animals
dropped off at the shelter after the
Christmas holidays.
“Many people received pets as
gifts for Christmas, without givers
taken the time to ask whether they
wanted a pet or could even have one
See SHELTER, page 6A
Drive, Bonaire, was originally
charged with two counts of
murder (conspiracy) for alleged
ly conspiring with her husband,
Sgt. Matthew Wray Gladue, of
the 51st Combat
Communications Squadron at
Robins Air Force Base, to kill a
witness in his terroristic threats
case. In that case, he was
will come together “in a rea
sonable way, a nonadversar
ial way” to address the
issues of the day.
Democrats, who in the
space of two years have lost
the governorship and both
houses of the Legislature,
don’t view the coming
change through the same
lens.
“The first two years of
Republicans running things
in the executive branch and
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charged with threatening co
workers on base and bringing a
weapon on base.
Jessica Gladue was also
charged ydth criminal solicita
tion, for attempting to hire a hit
man to kill the witness and his
wife. She was arrested Oct. 13,
after a police sting operation
See GLADUE, page 6A
the Senate has not really
gone very well,” said Bobby
Kahn, chairman of the state
Democratic Party. “What
we’ve seen is larger class
sizes, cuts in health care and
cuts in education. That’s not
been very good.”
Perdue, a one-time
Democrat who switched par
ties in 1998, became
Georgia’s first Republican
governor in 130 years when
he ousted Democrat Roy
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Band
severs
ties with
C’ville
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
CENTERVILLE - And the
band plays on ...
The band is the Heart of
Georgia Pipes and Drums for
merly known as the Centerville
Fire Department Pipes and
Drums.
Pipe Major Shirley Blunk said
due to issues of liability in its
association with the city of
Centerville, the band has chosen
a new direction for 2005.
Blunk said the liability clause
in the leasing agreement given to
them held members of the band
liable if anything happened to the
band.
See BAND, page 6A
Barnes in 2002. Within days
of his victory, he won control
of the Senate for his party
by persuading four
Democrats to switch sides.
The House remained
under Democrat control for
the first two years of
Perdue’s term, but went
Republican in the recent
elections. The new
Republican House leaders
will begin running the show
See PLAYERS, page 6 A
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