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♦ SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2005
17 to vie for Miss WRHS
Special to the HHJ
The Miss Warner Robins
High School Scholarship
Pageant 2005 has chosen
“She’s Gone Country” as its
theme and will pay tribute
to country music of the late
19905.
With an emphasis on tal
ent, intelligence and poise,
the pageant will be held at 7
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in
the Warner Robins Civic
Center. This year’s mistress
of ceremonies will be the
reigning Miss Warner
Robins and former Miss
Warner Robins High School
- Amanda Kozak.
The pageant’s opening
number will feature this
year’s 17 contestants
dressed in country/western
attire performing to a med
ley of music by Alan
Jackson, Brooks and Dunn,
Travis Tritt and John
Michael Montgomery. The
contestants will then intro
duce themselves and their
sponsors. The reigning Miss
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chase that ended with the
crash of a stolen 1988 Honda
Prelude at the embankment
of U.S. 41 and Houston Lake
Road, and Nico running off
into the woods.
According to the incident
report, a deputy observed the
vehicle eastbound on Dunbar
Road. Nico reportedly turned
in front of a truck onto
Houston Lake Road south
bound and the deputy initiat
ed a traffic stop.
Nico’s vehicle failed to
stop, according to reports and
a chase ensued, reaching
speeds of 110 mph near
Antebellum Circle on
Houston Lake Road. The
vehicle reported passed a
vehicle on the curve and
attempted to turn back to the
left when it wrecked.
Nico exited the car and ran
on foot with two deputies
chasing him through the field
and into the woods.
His charges for the chase
include failure to yield right
of way, fleeing or attempting
to elude, speeding (110 mph
in a 40 mph zone), passing in
a no-passing zone, driving on
the wrong side of the road,
leaving the scene of an acci
dent and no seat belt. A
propane tank, believed to be
used in the manufacture of
methamphetamine, was
found in the trunk of the car.
Anyone with information
on Nico or his whereabouts is
asked to contact local law
enforcement.
CORRECTION
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article named “What a swell
party that was was inadver
tently omitted. We apologize
for any inconvenience.
The band started off with
"Unforgettable," which
seemed a very good way to
sum up the evening.
WRHS 2004, Jessica Allen,
will return to be introduced
with the contestants.
The contestants are
scored in three categories:
interview, talent and
poise/speaking ability.
Contestants compete in the
Interview portion of the pag
eant during a morning ses
sion. The Talent
Competition and the
Speech/Evening Gown
Competition will follow the
opening number. During the
Speech/Evening Gown
Competition, the contest
ants will be judged, not on
their appearance, but on
their poise and speaking
ability, as they state their
ideas and future goals and
their plans to attain them.
Scholarships and awards
in excess of SI,OOO will be
presented to the new Miss
WRHS, the runners-up and
the individual category win
ners. Scholarship money is
not definite, but could go
higher based on ticket sales
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Staton sworn in
as state senator
Special to the HHJ
ATLANTA - State Sen.
Cecil Staton (R-Macon) was
officially sworn into office
Monday by Forsyth County
Superior Court Chief
Justice Jeffrey S. Bagley.
Monday was the first day
of the 2005 session of the
Georgia General Assembly.
Following the swearing-in
ceremony, Staton was
appointed to several com
mittees by the Senate
Committee on
Assignments, which is com
posed of President Pro
Tempore Eric Johnson (R-
Savannah), Senate Majority
Leader Bill Stephens (R-
Canton) and Lt. Gov. Mark
Taylor (D). Sen. Staton will
serve as secretary of both
Judge delays trial in murder-lor-hire case
Special to the HHJ
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - The military judge
in the court martial of a
Robins sergeant accused in
an alleged murder-for-hire
scheme has granted an
indefinite delay in the trial.
The trial for Staff Sgt.
Matthew W. Gladue, 51st
Combat Communications
Squadron, was set for
Tuesday. Lt. Col. Donald
Plude, U.S. Air Force
Eastern Judicial Circuit,
Bolling Air Force Base,
Washington D.C., granted
the delay to consider and
and signature page sales.
Last year’s pageant was able
to award over $2,100 in
awards and scholarships.
There is a ’vide variety of
talents this year, including
vocal performance, ballet en
pointe, clogging, baton
twirling, comedy and dra
matic monologue, martial
arts and instrumental per
formance. WRHS student
EZ Cleghorn, Miss Teen
Georgia Mandy Best, and
Miss Catheryn Shaw will
provide additional enter
tainment.
Tickets are on sale now
and may be purchased in the
WRHS office (in advance) or
at the door the night of the
pageant. Doors will be
opened at 6:30. The reserved
seating cost of tickets is $8
in advance and $9 at the
door. General admission is
$7 in advance and $8 at the
door. Pageant coordinators
are Tonya Hawthorne and
Libbet Turner. Dance chore
ographer is Elaine Moore.
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the Senate Veterans and
Military Affairs Committee
and the Senate Higher
Education Committee. He
also will sit on the Senate
Science and Technology and
the Transportation commit
tees.
Staton said he has set his
own set of legislative priori
ties, which include passing
“meaningful” health insur
ance reform for small busi
nesses and establishing
non-partisan sheriff and
school board elections.
“It is important that we
listen to the people of
Georgia,” he said. “They
send us to the State Capitol
to address their issues, and
I am here to do just that.
“One of my priorities is to
rule upon defense pretrial
motions.
Gladue is charged with
criminal conspiracy to com
mit murder, solicitation to
commit murder and
obstruction of justice.
Gladue and his wife,
Jessica, were arrested Oct.
13, 2004, by the Houston
County Sheriffs
Department for criminal
conspiracy to commit mur
der and criminal solicita
tion to commit murder.
They are accused with
attempting to hire a hit
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protect the welfare of our
military families housed at
Robins Air Force Base,”
said Sen. Staton, who repre
sents Houston County, the
home of Robins Air Force
Base. “I stressed to the
Senate leadership that I
needed to be appointed to
the Senate Veterans and
Military Affairs Committee,
and I am grateful they hon
ored my request.”
Staton also plans to work
to regulate and establish
strenuous penalties for the
spam and spyware indus
tries, and wants Georgia cit
izens to be required to show
photo identification before
they enter the voting booth.
Sen. Cecil Staton of the
18th Senate district may be
man to kill
a witness
who indi
cated Sgt.
Gladue
threat
ened the
lives of
two
squadron
co-work
ers.
Aioqg with the conspiracy
and solicitation charges, the
Air Force is charging Sgt.
Gladue with wrongfully
transporting and possessing
a firearm on base in his
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He represents portions of Jones and Monroe counties.
vehicle and attempting to
hire someone to plant ille
gal drugs in the automobile
of the witness.
The Air Force charges
against Gladue carry a max
imum penalty of life impris
onment.
Gladue allegedly told a co
worker on several occasions
between October 2003 and
July 2004 of his intent to
kill two squadron supervi
sors, according to the
charges preferred by
Gladuc’s squadron com
mander.
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The firearm charge
alleges Gladue violated a
lawful order by the base
commander by bringing a 9
mm semi-automatic pistol
onto the base in his vehicle
between April and July of
this year.
Jessica Gladue pleaded
guilty in December in
Houston County Superior
Court to criminal solicita
tion of murder. She was sen
tenced to one year in jail
and four years on proba
tion.