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April 22, 2005
Volume 135, Number 335
Award-Winning
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2004
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Inside TODAY
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Lady Bears'Clark
excels In three sports
Peach County’s loss
was Houston County’s
gain when Candice Clark
moved to Warner Robins
and transferred schools.
Clark has lettered in
softball, basketball and
soccer this year. She
started on all three varsi
ty teams.
Sports, page 13A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
April 22
Stewart Bloodworth
Roy Cowart
Ronald Davis
Amber Harris
Louise Heaberlin
Lee Seymore
Ed Stokes
April 23
George Decent
Candi James
Area DEATHS
Kennard C. Ballengee
Edward Bryant
Kenneth G. Koonce
John Lee Owens
Mona Satterfield
Leslie Robert “Redbone”
Schulz Sr.
Eloise Marie Register
Willis
Obits, page 9A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 10A
CLUB NEWS 2A
COMICS 11A
CROSSWORD ...11A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .6A
OBITUARIES 9A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . .12A
SPORTS 13A
TV LISTINGS ... .11A
WEATHER 2A
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MGTC gets the bomb
Students to restore old nuclear bomb for Museum of Aviation
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Middle Georgia Technical
College and the Museum of
Aviation are working
together for the good of the
Middle Georgia area and
students involved in the
program at MGTC.
The Museum of Aviation
Restoration Department
delivered an Mk-6 3,000-
pound nuclear bomb to
Middle Georgia Technical
College for students in the
Welding and Joining
Technology program to per
form restoration work.
The collaboration began
when MGTC students
worked on the pavilion at
the Museum of Aviation.
Since 1984, the partnership
has grown to include stu
dents performing cosmetic
work and restoring aircraft
that come to the museum
for display.
MGTC welding instrcutor
Mike McMahon said stu
dents will do cosmetic work
on the bomb, which will
take about 40 man-hours.
“This takes it a step fur
ther, and we will use this
experience as practice,” he
See BOMB, page 5A
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The late Lt. Col. Edward Mitchell’s mother Mary and sister
Carolyn Woods unveil the plaque inside the XP conference
room.
Perry PD loses
Wyatt couple
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - A husband-and
wife team who met and
found love at the Perry
Police Department is leav
ing.
Neal Wyatt, the depart
ment’s field training officer,
has accepted a job with the
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Office in Atlanta.
His wife, Happy Wyatt,
the department’s animal
control officer, resigned her
position on April 8 to spend
more time with the couple’s
newborn son, William
Stephen, who was born
around Christmas.
“It’s a big plus for us
when one of our officers is
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Mike McMahon, Jason Everman and Terry Smith look at the 3,000-pound nuclear
bomb that their class in the Welding and Joining Technology program will restore for
the Museum of Aviation.
selected by the U.S. govern
ment - that says a lot about
our officers,” said Perry
Police Chief George Potter.
“But at the same time, we’re
losing an officer.
“When we lose someone,
it’s like losing family. In this
case, we’re losing two.”
Potter said that Neal
Wyatt is the third officer
from the department who
has been hired by the U.S.
Customs Service, now
known as U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, a divi
sion of the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security. Neal
Wyatt said he expects to
work as a customs agent out
of Hartsfield-Jackson
See WYATTS, page 5A
AFRC honors late lieutenant
colonel with dedication
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE - A conference room
is an appropriate honor for the late Lt. Col. Edward
S. Mitchell 111, his wife Jane said at a dedication
ceremony Thursday.
“When Stephanie was 8, we were discussing what
to get him for Father’s Day and she said ‘get a
microphone and podium to go with it,”’ Jane
Mitchell said.
Air Force Reserve Command Director of Plans
and Programs Maj. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr.
said, the conference room is best dedicated to
Mitchell.
“It is a multipurpose room used for planning and
parties,” Stenner said. “It will be full of life. It epit
omizes his life.”
Stenner officiated at the dedication of the
Mitchell Conference Room and presented the late
colonel’s family with a plaque, a duplicate of the
one on the wall in the XP (Plans and Programs)
conference room at the Air Force Reserve
Command Headquarters Building 210.
Mitchell served as the chief of the AFRC man
agement engineering branch from 1998 to 2003. He
was the chief of the Air Logistics Center’s
See MITCHELL, page 8A
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Happy and Neal Wyatt, who met and fell in love at the Perry Police Department, stand
in front of the Perry Public Safety Building in Perry recently. Neal, a training officer for
the department, has accepted a job with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in
Atlanta. Happy, Perry’s animal control officer since 2001, left the department earlier
this month to care for the couple’s newborn son.
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Former
mayor
Bryant
dies
From staff reports
WARNER ROBINS -
Funeral services for James
Edward “Ed” Bryant, for
mer Warner Robins mayor
and Houston County com
missioner, will be held at 2
p.m. today at Heritage
Memorial Funeral Home.
Bryant served as a
Houston County commis
sioner from 1968 to 1972,
and was chairman of the
commission during the last
year of his four-year term.
He ran for mayor of Warner
Robins in 1972, on a pledge
to run the city more like a
business. He served one
term, from 1972 to 1976.
A real estate developer
who was also in the appli
ance sales business, he was
a native of Peach County.
For a number of years
after serving as mayor, he
lived in Texas, where he
owned an oil recycling busi
ness.
He returned to Warner
Robins - where he has a
large extended family - sev
eral years ago, and has
reportedly been in failing
health due to lung cancer,
and was in hospice care.
He died Tuesday at the
age of 68.
County Commissioner Jay
Walker, who has known
Bryant for many years,
called him “a great civic and
community leader,” and “a
man of vision.”
Walker credited Bryant
with “laying the ground
work for the future develop
ment of Houston County, for
today’s road programs, the
water system and the
Houston County annex and
state court construction in
Warner Robins.”
Walker pointed out that
during his term as mayor,
Bryant extended city water
service to the Robins West
area, and built an “out
standing relationship with
Robins Air Force Base.”
Walker also called Bryant
a “dedicated family man
See BRYANT, page 5A
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