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WEDNESDAY
February 23, 2005
Volume 135, Number 293
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Celebrate 100 years
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Inside today!
Houston Home Journal
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Back to the basics:
Banana Pudding
Ask most people about
the best banana pudding
they ever had, and they’ll
start talking about child
hood Sunday dinners or
the banana pudding that
Grandma made.
HFARTH&HOME, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Gwen Moore
Brooke Rhodes
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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
the rest. E-mail to
hhj@evanshewspapers.com, or
mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Mary Elizabeth Weaver
Irish
Robert C. Taylor
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
HEARTH&HOME . .6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8A
6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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21 CP unveils Web site
Base booster organization planning for best and worst
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Again this year, the specter
of base realignment and clo
sure will visit Robins Air
Force Base, and every other
U.S. military installation in
the world.
One Houston County
organization is not only
making the case for Robins
in the BRAG process, but
also taking steps to keep us
all informed.
The 21st Century
Partnership has established
a new Web site, www.brac
news.org to help with the
questions many may have
about the BRAC process.
One item the Web site has is
a timeline. The time line
shows the plan the
Department of Defense
must follow in the BRAC
process, including the choos
ing of a committee for choos
ing bases to be closed or mis
sions realigned, and dead
lines for submitting a list of
bases to closed.
As the deadline of May 16
comes for bases to be
announced, those chosen
will also be posted on the
website. The Web site also
plans to include a frequently
asked questions list, as
questions are submitted by
visitors at the Web site.
The 21st Century
Partnership is a non-profit
organization whose purpose
is to support Robins Air
Force* Base. The organiza
tion is committed to the con
tinued viability of Robins
Air Force Base and the
nation’s strong national
defense posture.
Ron Carbon, director of
Honor Guard bus receives facelift
Blue Bird refurbishes bus for group
that conducts military ceremonies
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
FORT VALLEY - The
Middle Georgia Honor
Guard recently made a
request of Blue Bird Body
Company of Fort Valley.
Member Dennis Solari
suggested the organization,
composed of members of the
American Legion Post 172
and VFW Post 6605 of
Warner Robins, approached
Blue Bird “to do a little bit
of something” to their aging
bus.
Blue Bird responded and
did a whole lot of something
providing extensive cosmet
ic work to the decade-old
bus, which has nearly
200,000 miles on it.
They only asked for a
facelift, because the engine,
brakes and seating had been
replaced recently. The honor
Vandiver, former Georgia governor, dies Monday
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Former Gov.
S. Ernest Vandiver, who won
office vowing that “no, not
one” black child would sit in
a Georgia classroom with
whites yet went on to pre
side over the peaceful deseg
regation of public schools,
has died at age 86.
Death came Monday
evening and followed a long
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MIDDLE GEORGIA
PARTNERSHIP
Name
Ron Carbon
Lou Crouch
Bracnews.org, created by the 21st Century Partnership, can be used to access infor
mation pertaining to the upcoming BRAC, which may involve Robins Air Force Base.
the 21st Century
Partnership, said the 21CP
will establish a phone bank
for Middle Georgians to call
in and ask questions about
guard’s only funding from
donations from veteran
organizations, occasional
donations from funeral
directors, and out-of-pocket
money from members.
Troy Thompson, director
of school bus assembly at
Blue Bird Body Company,
said the company did about
$5,000-$6,000 of work on
the bus free of charge. The
bus was placed ahead of
other projects on the assem
bly line, sanded down and
painted, and its windows
replaced.
Thompson said it’s one of
the things Blue Bird does
quietly to support the com
munity.
The Middle Georgia
Honor Guard provides a
variety of community servic
es and military honors at
See BLUE BIRD, page 3A
illness, the family said
through Gov. Sonny
Perdue’s office.
Governor from 1959 to
1963, Vandiver had been
elected on an anti-integra
tion platform but at a criti
cal moment persuaded law
makers to desegregate the
state’s schools rather than
close them.
His stand was credited
with sparing the state the
BRACNEWS.ORG
This web site will be used to post
current news and information
concerning the Base Realignment
and Closure (BRAC) Commission
and its impact on Robins AFB.
Contact Information
Telephone
Position
Volunteer
478-322-3367
478 322-3366
the outcome of BRAC.
Carbon also expects calls
will also be from workers at
other installations who may
be transferred to Robins and
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submitted
The finished product was presented to the Middle Georgia Honor Guard on Friday,
which uses the bus to travel to funerals they perform at across the state, and as trans
portation for veterans to hospital facilities.
turbulence that swept much
of the rest of the South in
that period, but cost him
political support.
After leaving office in
1963 when his four-year
term expired, his career was
Finished. Keeping the
schools open was “my politi
cal suicide,” he said years
after leaving office.
Vandiver will lay in state
at the Georgia Capitol but
21st Century
Partnership
804 Park Drive
Warner Robins, GA 31088
Community Partner to
Robins Air Force Base
Fax
478-328-1 1 14
478-328 3 114
want to know about the
community.
Carbon said either way
BRAC goes, the partnership
See BRAC, page 3A
details of that and other
funeral arrangements still
were being made.
Survivors include his
widow, Betty; a son, Samuel
Ernest “Chip” Vandiver III;
two daughters, state Rep.
Jane Vandiver Kidd and
Vanna Elizabeth Vandiver,
and four grandchildren.
A mild-mannered, courtly
man with a distinctive drawl
and wavy hair, Vandiver was
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Housing
permits
down
again
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Permits for new single
family homes have
dropped again countywide
from the previous month.
For Warner Robins,
Centerville, Perry and
unincorporated Houston
County combined, there
were 111 single-family
dwelling permits issued in
January, compared to 116
in December and
November’s 124. It is also
down from the 122 in
January 2004.
While down overall, the
numbers were up in the
unincorporated areas of
the county from 31 in
December to 37 in
January. That’s up slight
ly from the 35 issued in
January 2004.
Single-family dwelling
permits in Warner Robins
stayed the same for
December and January,
with 59 single family resi
dential permits. But that’s
down from the 78 issued
in January 2004.
Perry and Centerville’s
single-family housing per
mits dropped from
December, with Perry only
having half of the 16 it
had in December for the
month of January.
Centerville was down
from the 10 in December
See ZONING, page 3A
a politically well connected
man when he won his first
statewide elected office -
lieutenant governor - in
1954.
A Democrat at a time the
state was run entirely by
that party, Vandiver was a
close ally of then-Gov.
Herman Talmadge, who had
appointed him as the state’s
adjutant general.
See VANDIVER, page 3A