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WEDNESDAY
January 26, 2005
Volume 135, Number 273
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Have you been to
the Bistro?
After hearing wonder
ful things about a small
lunch spot that recently
opened in Perry, I decided
to check it out.
The Village Bistro was
everything that it had
been built up to be.
On entering this cozy
establishment I felt as if I
had walked into a Tuscan
farm kitchen. The walls
are a warm aged yellow
with just a touch of brick
showing through.
Grapevine twists hang
down over the eaves,
while red colander lamp
shades provide the per
fect amount of light.
See HEARTH&HOME,
page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Randy Rape
Jessica Ray
Alice Rich
(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 Qt AIM*.
Sylvia Ann Parker
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
HEARTH&HOME . .8A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Investigators with the Warner Robins Fire Department determined the fire started in the kitchen of the Curtis Street
home. There was fire damage throughout the house, but the most damage was in the kitchen area.
Planning commission grants exception
From staff reports
PERRY - At its Monday
meeting, the Planning
Commission approved a
developer’s plan to finish
out a subdivision using sep
tic tanks.
Since January 2004, the
Lawmakers target unsolicited cell phone calls
From wire, staff reports
ATLANTA - He’s already on the
warpath against Internet spam
mers. Now Gov. Sonny Perdue is
taking aim at another annoying
aspect of life in the technology age -
unsolicited calls to private cell
phones.
A growing number of people are
“going completely wireless, enjoying
the freedom and flexibility with
accessibility that provides to them,”
he said at a news conference to
announce his latest initiative.
“But what they don’t enjoy is get
ting unwanted calls from telemar
keters and others that invade their
privacy and consume their calling
card minutes. It just adds insult to
injury when you have to pay for a
junk call,” he said.
Of immediate concern, Perdue
said, is a plan announced by six
major wireless carriers to publish a
national directory of mobile phone
numbers.
“That directory would put our pri
vate cell numbers out there for all
the world to see, including telemar
keters, text message spammers,
stalkers and other unwanted
callers,” he said.
He said he will have legislation
introduced in the Senate to require
www.hhjnews.com
Talton: It's not about race
Freshman legislator says he’s representing everyone in his district
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Don’t get him
wrong. Willie Talton is proud to be
Georgia’s first African-American
Republican state legislator since
Reconstruction. It’s just that he would
rather just be known as a state legisla
tor who just happens to be an African-
American.
“I am a state representative, not a
city has required lots with
septic tanks to be at least
32,670 square feet.
Previously, the minimum
size was 15,000 square feet,
which is the size of the pro
posed lots throughout the
Highlands Ranch subdivi
a wireless service provider to obtain
the written consent of a consumer
before publishing their name and
number in any directory of data
base.
The legislation, known as the
Georgia Wireless Privacy Act, is
authored by state Sens. Cecil Staton
(R-Macon) and David Shafer (R-
Duluth) and will force any wireless
service provider to obtain, the
express consent of a consumer
before their name and cellular
phone number can be included in
any directory or directory database.
The law would allow consumers to
sue carriers for civil damages if
their names and numbers were pub
lished without their consent.
“Most Georgians do not want
their cell phone numbers put into
any kind of directory,” Staton said.
“Private citizens who pay for their
personal cell phone should not be
forced to put their numbers out
there for the world to access. They
are paying for a certain amount of
minutes on their cellular plans and
they don’t want their minutes used
up by companies soliciting business
or text-messaging spam. We have
got to protect our consumers and
right now this is the best way to do
it.”
black state representative,” said
Talton in a recent interview. “The
issues facing the voters are the same
whether they are black or white.
“I went to Atlanta with the attitude
that people of all walks of life sent me
there,” Talton said. “I represent all of
the people, not just one particular
group. I want to work for the good of
all of the people of the district and the
state.”
sion, located north of Todd
Road.
The developer, Charlie
McGlamry, said he wants to
complete the subdivision as
originally planned. Nearby
manufactured homes are on
similar lots sizes with septic
submitted
Sen. Cecil Staton (right) listens as Gov. Sonny Perdue describes an ini
tiative to halt unsolicited cell phone calls.
tanks.
McGlamry said he prefers
to tie on to sewage lines
where possible, but in this
case the distance to the
city’s lines and intervening
geography would require
installing a lift station, the
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Talton said his first week in Atlanta
has been an eye-opener.
“It has been interesting,” he said.
“Being a freshman legislator is a great
experience. It is another world. There
are a lot of things to learn. I hope to
enjoy it.”
Talton said that he has not grown
tired of being asked the inevitable
question about being a Black
See TALTON, page 3A
Man
dies in
WR fire
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS
Neighbors pulled a wheel
chair-bound man from the
Tuesday morning fire at
Curtis and Martin streets in
Warner Robins, but they
were unable to rescue the
other man living in the resi
dence.
Capt. James Franklin and
Investigator Danny
Williams, both of the
Warner Robins Fire
Department, said neighbors
went into the burning build
ing and rescued Joe Stoner,
73.
Franklin said the neigh
bors tried to get the second
man out, but could not
because of the heat of the
fire. Firefighters pulled the
second man, identified by
See FIRE, page 3A
cost of which would be “pro
hibitive.”
He requested the variance
so the development can be
completed by July 1, when a
new state law goes into
effect, making the 32,670-
See COMMISSION, page 3A
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