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FRIDAY
April 29, 2005
Volume 135, Number 340
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Cherished Children
fund raiser planned
Youngsters at
Cherished Children, The
Education Station,
recently received play golf
sets in conjunction with
the seventh annual golf
tournament to raise
funds for their new build
ing.
Family&Faith, page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
April 29
Faye Barber
Charlie Barboe
Eric J. Beers
Mike Brashear
ZaKiya Dawson
Ashley Duhart
Bridget Rawls
April 30
Ray Garcia
Brady Gore
Bobbie Newton
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
April 29
Rodney and Lea Hamm
Area DEATHS
Frank E. Lancaster
James “Moody” Algie
Sherrer
Timothy Watson
Obits, page 2A
Correction
Harold Stirk’s name
was misspelled in the
April 27 article “Hospital
honors its volunteers.”
Stirk was honored for his
2,500 hours of service as a
volunteer. The Houston
Home Journal regrets the
error.
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 12A
COMICS 11A
CROSSWORD ...11A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .8A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... .5A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .7A
SPORTS 13A
TV LISTINGS ... .11A
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry , city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Ga. erases last vestiges of Jim Crow laws
Perdue calls segregation ‘a tragic era in our past’ as he signs new bills into law
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue
signed a set of bills Thursday that
erased the last vestiges of Georgia’s
segregation-era “Jim Crow” laws.
The move was largely symbolic,
Shipping
Local woman’s efforts catch on with
WR employer; now they’re sending
100 packages per quarter to troops
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Susan Weaver said she
wanted to do something
because she knew a lot of
people going overseas.
“Friends’ spouses, my lit
tle girl’s teacher were being
deployed,” she said. “I want
ed to do something for
them.”
Weaver started in
February on her own, send
ing care packages to sol
diers.
“I found this Web site -
anysoldier.com - and started
looking through it. It has a
lot of good things to put in
the boxes, simple little
things they ask for like
candy, chips, stuff to snack
on, DVDs, CDs.”
Most of them just want
letters, she said.
“If I’m going to send a let
ter, I’m going send a whole
box,” she said.
Weaver said, it didn’t take
much to put together a cou
ple of boxes. About three
weeks after her first pack
ages shipped out, she heard
back from some of the sol
diers - “They were so appre
ciative.”
She thought others might
be interested in doing the
same thing, and she took the
idea to work - Warner
Robins-based Star Software
Systems.
“It blew up from there,”
Weaver said. “Before I knew
it, it’s a big, huge thing, I’m
taking money, buying sup
plies.”
Star Software Systems
backed the project and is
now sending out 100 pack
ages a quarter, said Jim
U.S. attorney
going to Iraq
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
MACON - Max Wood,
United States attorney for
the Middle District of
Georgia, is going to Iraq to
help establish the country’s
court system.
Wood will serve as the
Department of Justice
attache to the American
Embassy in Baghdad, where
duties will include a leader
ship role in training Iraqi
judges, prosecutors, law
enforcement and court sys
tem personnel.
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since none of the language designed
to skirt racial integration has been
enforced for decades. But calling
segregation “a tragic era in our
past,” Perdue said it’s important to
show that the state rejects such
notions.
Jones, Weaver’s supervisor
at Star. Weaver has a bal
ance sheet set up on her
computer at work for dona
tions, and receipts for
postage and supplies.
Jones said the vice presi
dents at Star jumped on the
bandwagon and made per
sonal donations that the
company matched as does
one of their partners, Inuit
Services Inc. They’ve also
garnered donations from
Stroud Construction, their
contractor for the new facil
ity next to City Hall on
Watson Boulevard.
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Jim Jones (right) from Star Software presents gold stars to local leaders Perry Mayor Jim Worrall, County
Commission Chairman Ned Sanders and Ron Smith from the 21st Century Partnership as well as Star Soldiers proj
ect coordinator Susan Weaver.
“I feel fortunate to play a
significant role in the build
ing of a court system in
another country.
“I’ve been training on the
military side for the past 15
years for something like
this,” said Wood, who is also
a colonel in the Air National
Guard.
Wood announced
Thursday that he volun
teered for the assignment,
replacing fellow U.S.
Attorney Charles Larson
from the Northern District
See WOOD, page 3A
“Any time there’s a stain on the
state of Georgia that we can erase or
cleanse, we need to take the steps to
do that,” said Perdue, a Republican.
Most Georgia laws that enforced
racial segregation had already been
deleted. The remaining passages
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Star Software Systems employee Susan Weaver began sending care packages for the
troops on her own, and took the idea to work mwhere it has become the Star Soldiers
project with about 100 boxes going out to deployed service members in Iraq and
Afghanistan each quarter.
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United States Attorney,
Middle District of Georgia,
Max Wood announced
Thursday he is going on a
detail to Iraq for at least six
months to help set up the
court system there.
Hospital parking
to be expanded
Indigent care costs continue
to plague Houston Healthcare
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Local hospital
officials are moving for
ward with a plan to add a
new parking lot to the
Houston Medical Center on
Watson Boulevard in
Warner Robins.
The Hospital Authority
of Houston County voted
unanimously Wednesday to
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allowed the governor to close any
school or college if there is a threat
of violence - such as the mob scenes
that sometimes developed when
Southern institutions were integrat
ed.
See JIM CROW, page 3A
award a $139,985 paving
and building contract to
CSM Construction of
Warner Robins. The new
lot, which will be built on a
vacant piece of property
between Sunset Drive and
the medical center’s emer
gency room parking area, is
expected to add 149 new
spaces.
See AUTHORITY, page 3A