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SUNDAY
April 10, 2005
Volume 135, Number 326
Award-Winning
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2004
Better Newspaper
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Panther stagger
a 'go-to' guy
Perry’s Mitchell Fowler
is batting .392 and has an
earned run average of
1.25 in four starts.
“He’s our go-to guy,”
said head coach Shawn
Masters.
He’s been a varsity
player since his sopho
more season and a reli
able hitter in that time,
but what nobody knew
was that he could pitch
too.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
April 10
Rex Jarriel
Michele Sutton
April 11
Pat Patterson
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Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Nell Simmons Giles
Lynette Eason Horne
Bernice Y. Knopf
David S. Yansom
Obits, page 9A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS 6A
COMICS 8A
CROSSWORD ... .8A
HOMETOWN 7B
LIFESTYLE 1C
OBITUARIES 9A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL MENUS . .7A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 8A
WEATHER 2A
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Greene hangs
his helmet
Veteran Perry
firefighter retires
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - In 35 years of
firefighting, Earl Greene
earned a reputation as a
practical joker, a man who
could always make his
friends laugh, even at their
own expense. But to the
men he worked with, he will
always be a mentor.
Capt. Greene, a fixture of
the Perry Fire Department
since 1970, retired earlier
this month. He was honored
Thursday evening at a ban
quet hosted by his fellow
firefighters.
“He’s just a great all
around guy,” said Perry Fire
Chief Freddy Howell. “He’s
always been dedicated to
helping people.”
Greene was hired by the
department in February
1970. He stayed there for
more than 30 years, retiring
as a shift commander April
1.
See GREENE, page 11A humor.
Native son protects the city of WR
City attorney Elliott looks hack on 20 years of service, looks forward to many more years
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - James
Elliott has served for the past 20
years as the city attorney for Warner
Robins, and he has seen a lot of
changes in the city during that time.
“The biggest thing I have seen is a
tremendous amount of growth in
Warner Robins over that time,” he
said. “I think you can attribute most
of that growth to expansion of the
utility system and that was due to
the farsightedness of the past three
administrations. Had the utilities
not been in place, the growth we
have seen would not have been pos
sible.”
Elliott is one of those rarities: a
native son of Warner Robins. His
mother was born here in Warner
Robins after her mother took a job
Chambliss
concerned
by lack
of spies
By JEFFREY McMURRAY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Sen.
Saxby Chambliss suggest
ed this week the United
States lacks spies in
North Korea and Iran,
but aides insisted he was
basing his comments on
media reports and wasn’t
divulging classified infor
mation.
During a speech to the
Center for Strategic and
International Studies, the
Georgia Republican - a
member of the Senate
Select Committee on
Intelligence - listed some
“familiar themes” that
have emerged since the
release last week of a
report on weapons of
See SPIES, page 3A
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Caps. Earl Greene spent more than 35 years with the
Perry Fire Department before retiring earlier this month.
He is known among fellow firefighters for his sense of
at Robins Air Force Base when it
was first established. His father
moved here and became a banker,
and the two met and married.
Elliott was born in Macon because
there was no hospital in Warner
Robins at the time. He is a graduate
of Georgia Tech and Mercer
University Law School. He and his
wife Michelle have two sons: Jay, 13;
and Mark, 7.
Elliott says he sees his job as one
of risk management.
“I practice preventive law instead
of the litigative kind,” said Elliott.
“My job is to stay out of court as
much as possible. I try to give the
city as good advice as possible on
any given situation in order to keep
the city out of court.”
Elliott said that a lot of his work
involves exciting stuff like tracking
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Support Systems Associates Inc. recently donated $2,500 to the 21st Century Partnership. Pictured are members of
the SSAI Warner Robins team at the presentation ceremony on Tuesday (front row, from left) Neil Suggs, co-chair
man, 21st Century Partnership Fund-raising Committee; Chet Lowe, vice president, Air Force Administration, SSAI;
Ron Carbon, director, 21st Century Partnership; Cliff Driver, vice president, Operations, SSAI; Winfield Greene, vice
president, Programs, SSAI; Ron Smith, executive director, 21st Century Partnership.
up
down people who are behind on
their utility bills.
“Most of the time you can get peo
ple to pay their past-due bills by
threatening to turn off the electrici
ty or water, but with the growth we
have experienced, the city has
moved into areas where, for
instance, we might provide sewer
service but the county provides
water.”
This creates a situation where if a
customer gets behind in their sewer
bill the city can’t threaten to turn
off the water.
“Then we have to track them
down and take them to court,”
Elliott said. “In the meantime the
husband will have the service cut off
and then restarted in the wife’s
name. Some people will go to a lot of
trouble to not pay their bills.”
See ELLIOTT, page 11A
HCDA to help
with spec bills
Authority to pay of
payments on Perry spec building
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
The Houston County
Development Authority
has decided to contribute
one-third on payments for
Perry spec building.
Authority Executive
Director Morgan Law said
the authority “will help
lighten the load” for Perry
and Houston County,
which had split the cost of
the building 50-50. The
authority will join in and
each party will pay one
third of the cost, Law said.
The site is the final avail
able property in the Perry
Industrial Park, Law said.
In its meeting this week,
the authority also author
ized the final disbursement
of SIOO,OOO to Parrish
Construction for the con
struction of the spec build
ing, Law said.
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part of “three items that
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The board also author
ized the chairman to pur
sue industrial land in
Houston County, Law said,
noting he could not disclose
the sites being considered,
and they “are still in nego
tiations.”
During the regular por
tion of the meeting, the
authority welcomed its
newest and youngest mem
ber, Mark Byrd, who was
appointed on Tuesday by
See HCDA, page 3A
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