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THURSDAY
March 3, 2005
Volume 135, Number 299
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Inside TODAY
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WR native wins
'America's Next
Rising Star'
Chadwick Loyd knew
early on that he was des
tined for stardom.
He was 3 years old
when he heard Whitney
Houston singing “The
Greatest Love of All” and
he told his mother he
wanted to be on the radio
too.
He began singing at age
9 and started songwriting
at age 12. While attending
Warner Robins High
School he participated in
several musical produc
tions.
After graduation in
1999 he moved to
Lakeland, Fla., and
enrolled in Southeastern
University as a vocal per
formance major.
ENTERTAINMENT, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Matthew Allen
Josiah Pratt
Charles Wainwright
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Ricky Connell
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Obits, page 2A
INDEX
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COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ...,4B
ENTERTAINMENT ,6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... ,5A
SCHOOL NEWS .. ,6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Walker turns over papers to UGA
Former state rep’s
documents to be
archived in Richard
Russell library
Article and photos by
Timothy Graham
PERRY - It was such an absolute
ly ordinary appearing occurrence
that nobody who witnessed it might
have given it a second glance.
No passerby would have imagined
they were seeing an important piece
of Georgia history.
If you had given it a second
glance, you would have seen people
moving boxes into a van. Happens
every day around here, you would
have thought. People move in and
people move out. No big deal.
But these were no ordinary peo
ple. This was no ordinary van. And
those were certainly no ordinary
boxes.
The boxes - over 100 of them -
contained the professional papers of
former state Rep. Larry Walker. The
van was from the Richard B. Russell
Library at the University of
Georgia, which was taking those
papers to be permanently archived
See PAPERS, page 3A
Perry adopts big-box retailer rule
Council members also discuss proposed antenna towers
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Towers and ordi
nances were the topics of
discussion at Tuesday
night’s Perry City Council
meeting.
The city unanimously
adopted an ordinance that
would establish design stan
dards for large retail estab
lishments.
In a prior meeting, Steve
Howard, director of commu
nity development, said the
ordinance was proposed
because of growing pains,
and the likelihood of new
Girl raises more than SI,OOO
Barbecue fund'
raiser benefits
injured cops
Article and photos
by Ray Lightner
CENTERVILLE - Rae
Evans raised more than
SI,OOO on Saturday.
“It’s been fun,” said one
of the 11-year-old’s friends,
Emily Tolliver. “I’m glad I
volunteered.”
The money will help two
Byron policemen, John
Chidester and Michael
Johnston, were injured in
an altercation with a sus
pect who tried to get one of
the officers’ guns.
The Perry Middle School
student came up with idea a
couple of weeks ago, after
reading her dad’s e-mail
about the officers, over his
shoulder. Rae began with
an e-mail campaign and
received donations of food
and raffle prizes.
The event was held at
Centerville City Hall,
“thanks to Mayor Ronnie
Brand,” Rae said. There
was also a moonwalk, a
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Former State Rep. Larry Walker does the heavy work as he hauls one of the boxes of his records to a waiting
van from the University of Georgia.
people coming in to the area.
“Big box” retailers such as
Lowe’s or Target would be
required to build more visu
ally pleasing buildings that
could be converted if the
business would move out of
Perry. For example, Lowe’s
would be required to build a
structure with a brick exte
rior instead of its classic
blue building.
The ordinance will only be
for new businesses coming
into Perry, not those cur
rently here.
The ordinance would also
set rules for signage of the
business, not allowing sever
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Volunteers were selling raffle tickets and plates of barbecue Saturday at Centerville
City Hall to benefit two injured Byron Police officers. The event was organized by 11-
year-old Rae Evans (center), daughter of Lee and Randy Evans.
giant slide from Spacewalk
of Middle Georgia and rock
climbing from Kathy’s
Rock.
In the five hours, volun
teers sold more than 200
al tall signs on a commercial
strip.
In other business, during
its work session, the council
agreed to allow a company
to come in and perform a
study to decide whether
place a wireless tower in the
city.
“There is an ever-increas
ing demand for these tow
ers, wireless companies are
finding they need additional
towers for data,” said City
Manager Lee Gilmour.
Gilmour said a consulting
firm for a wireless company
contacted the city and
expressed interest in locat
plates of barbecue at $5 a
piece. Peacock Meats of
Warner Robins donated the
meat.
With a permit for a raffle
from the sheriff, volunteers
ing a tower in Perry that
will be between 400 and 700
feet tall. The proposed site
would be near the city main
tenance facility where
Tucker Road runs into Ball
Street near Tolleson
Lumber.
Perry City Council only
agreed to allow the company
to do a study. Gilmour noted
that the company must obey
zoning rules if the site is
chosen, and said the consult
ing firm may change their
minds when they examine
the low topography.
Utility Services asked the
city of Perry to allow them
raffled off donated prizes
from Tools of the Trade and
others. The donors of the
prizes and the prizewinners
include:
See GIRL, page 3A
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to install a cellular tele
phone antenna to one of
their water towers for a
wireless company.
Dave Forester, vice presi
dent of construction services
for the communication
group of Utility Services,
said this is very common.
“There are corrals on the
tower that several cellular
companies can use depend
ing on the size of their tow
ers, which range from four
to eight feet tall,” Forester
said.
Mayor Jim Worrall said
there is at least $60,000 in
potential revenue if other
companies used the water
tower to place their
See PERRY, page 3A
Speaker:
No pork
barrel
in budget
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Budget writ
ers in the Georgia House
have begun putting the final
touches on the changes they
will make to a proposed
$17.4 billion spending plan
for next year, with an admo
nition from Speaker Glenn
Richardson to avoid the
pork-barrel politics of the
past.
Buying band uniforms for
local schools and lighting
community ballfields are
things the new Republican
majority should shun, he
said as he and a key group of
budget writers ended a long
day of poring over subcom
mittee recommendations.
Democrats, who con
trolled the House until this
See BUDGET, page 3A
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