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TUESDAY
January 18, 2005
Volume 135, Number 267
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
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Tired HoCo Bears
beat Valdosta
Despite the players’
lack of urgency, Houston
County defeated Valdosta
55-49.
The Bears didn’t return
from their overtime 68-67
loss to Coffee County in
Douglas until 1:30 a.m.
Saturday.
Houston County boys
head basketball coach
Greg Nix said: “We’re
home and we haven’t
(played) at home since
Dec. 23. We were tired.”
Sports, 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Geraldine Graham
EO. Harris
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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
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mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
John K. Benson
Richard W. Dupree
Dollie Kate Pool Newberry
Lois V Newberry
Patricia Smith O’Neal
Aaron Michael Owens
Mary Pienta
John Ishmael “Pete” Tyson
Dolores Goretzka Weigle
Marge Brooks White
Obits, page SA
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
C'ville sees rise in white-collar crime
Overall, crime statistics were down last year in Houston’s smallest municipality
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
CENTERVILLE - White-col
lar crime is on the rise in
Centerville.
“The increase comes from
slim-slam schemes, forgery and
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Runners line up behind the banner for the ninth annual Museum of Aviation Foundation Marathon/Half Marathon and 5K Run/Walk. The event ben
efited the Museum of Aviation Foundation.
Hundreds run in Museum races
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE -
Runners and walkers braved cold
and wind in Saturday’s ninth annu
al Museum of Aviation Foundation
Marathon/Half Marathon and 5K
Church
hosts
MLK
event
Georgia Supreme
Court justice
speaks; military
members honored
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
First Baptist Church of
Warner Robins on Garmon
Street hosted the Eighth
Annual Martin Luther King
Jr. Unity Breakfast Monday
morning.
Featured speaker for the
event was Georgia Supreme
Court Justice Robert
Benham. Benham was the
first African-American to
serve as the chief justice of
the Georgia Supreme
Court.
“It is a rare pleasure and
a real privilege to share in
this occasion,” Benham told
bad checks - checks printed on a
computer and passed here at
Galleria Mall,” Police Chief
Ernie Pardo said.
He attributes the crime not
the people of Centerville but “to
people coming through off the
Run like the wind
Run/Walk.
“Y’all are an inspiration for our
base,” said Race Director John
Hunter. “Gen. (Mike) Collings has
been pushing for us to get in better
shape.”
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The First Baptist Church of Garmon Street Devil Stompers perform Monday for the
crowd at the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast.
the overflow crowd in the
church’s New Beginning
Center.
Benham recognized the
members of Boy Scout
Troop 482, who presented
the colors prior to the event
and took turns reading por
tions from Dr. King’s
famous “I Have A Dream”
speech presented in
Washington, D.C., in 1963.
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“I take a great amount of
pride in what the Boy
Scouts do,” said Benham,
who was bom and raised in
Cartersville. “My older
brother was the first
African-American Eagle
Scout in North Georgia.
“I was told to keep my
remarks down to 10 min
utes,” Benham told the
laughing crowd. “They just
interstate and riff-raff coming
down from Macon.”
Total serious crimes in
Centerville are down in 2004 to
290 incidents from the 370 in
2003, 474 in 2002 and 523 in
2001, according to police statis-
commander, Jan Collings, fired the
starting gun for both the
marathon/half-marathon and the
5K races. Prior to the race the
202nd Air National Guard Color
Guard presented the colors and the
barbershop quartet Four AM sang
tics.
“I’m very happy with the
decrease,” Pardo said, noting
there is about a 50 percent
clearance rate “thanks to two
great investigators.”
See CRIME, page 3A
do not realize that I am an
attorney as well as a
Baptist.
“Now is the time to remi
nisce and celebrate,”
Benham said. “We should
reminisce on the bridge we
have passed over and cele
brate because we are all
brothers and sisters on the
journey.
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the national anthem.
Paul Hibbitts, director of the
Museum of Aviation, thanked the
participants in the annual fund-rais
er for the Museum of Aviation
Foundation.
See RACES, page 7A
Perdue
targets
meth
Governor gets 25
recommendations
from Meth Summit
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny
Perdue met Friday with
national and state crime and
drug abuse officials to
review the top recommenda
tions from the
Methamphetamine and
Georgia: Seeking Solutions
summit.
“Last August, we brought
together men and women
from all over Georgia to dis
cuss the rising problem of
methamphetamine abuse in
Georgia,” Perdue said,
including prosecution, nar
cotics unit, fire, school and
treatment officials from
Houston County.
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