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THURSDAY
May 19, 2005
Volume 135, Number 354
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Power of the Prequels
When George Lucas
released “Star Wars:
Episode I - The Phantom
Menace” in the summer
of 1999, critics and fans
alike were expecting
something akin to a
Beatles reunion.
But what Lucas deliv
ered wasn’t. See what
worked with the prequel
trilogy, and what didn’t,
inside.
Entertainment, page 9A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Chris Chaloult
Evan D. Norton
Zachary H. Norton
CLARIFICATION
Carol Archer, men
tioned in our coverage of
the United Houston
County Relay For Life,
called to make sure read
ers know she is an 11-
year survivor of non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
She was diagnosed with
lung cancer in 2002 dur
ing a recurrence of non-
Hodgkin’s. Archer wishes
everyone to know that
she is living proof that
“Non-Hodgkin’s lym
phoma is not a death sen
tence.”
Area DEATHS
Ethel Chastain
Shantilal Chunilal Desai
Eugene Edgar Willis Sr.
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 8A
COMICS 7 A
CROSSWORD 8A
ENTERTAINMENT ,9A
LEGALS 4B
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 7A
WEATHER 2A
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County to widen major intersection
Airport authority asks for matching funds for capital improvements
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -The Houston
County Board of Commissioners
voted on Tuesday to appropriate
$76,067.85 to reconstruct Carl
Vinson Parkway at its intersection
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Board of Education member Jim Boswell after receiving
a plaque for years of service in education at the Houston
County Board of Education retirement banquet.
WRFD
plans
softball
tourney
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - For
the 15th year, the Warner
Robins Fire Department
will be playing softball for
Jerry’s Kids.
The annual Warner
Robins Fire Department
Muscular Dystrophy
Softball Tournament is
Saturday at Peavy Park,
beginning at 8 a.m. Tony
Theus of the fire depart
ment said the entry fee is
S2OO per team for the dou
ble elimination tournament
with a one up homerun rule.
The tournament usually
averages about $3,000,
Theus said, with all pro
ceeds going to The Muscular
Dystrophy Association.
“The Warner Robins Fire
Department is the number
one nonunion fund-raiser
for MDA,” Theus said. To
date the department has
raised over $1 million for
MDA.
“We went over $1 million
last year,” Theus said.
The department holds a
variety of fund-raisers
include boot drives, a golf
tournament, barbecues and
gospel sings. The softball
tournament usually has 12
to 15 teams and can last as
late as 8-10 p.m., Theus
See TOURNEY, page 6A
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with Russell Parkway.
The original design for the inter
section had Carl Vinson being three
lanes wide where it intersects with
Russell, but the county determined
that it would be better if Carl
Vinson were five lanes wide at the
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Houston County firefighters work to douse a car fire after a two-car wreck on Ga.
247 at the Russell Parkway interchange. This white Honday burst into flames after
an accident with a white Mercury Grand Marquis. Engines 11 and 6 responded to
the midmorning blaze Tuesday. One of the drivers was transported to Houston
Medical Center, according to Houston County Fire Chief Jimmy Williams.
Perry tables rezoning
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The Perry City Council tabled
a controversial plan to rezone a piece of
residential property along the Perry
Parkway Tuesday night, and denied Qne
local developer’s plans to build affordable
housing along Gurr Road.
The council will have until June 7 to
decide what to do about local developer
Doyle Dominy’s request to rezone a 3.5-
acre plot near the entrance of the
Yorktown subdivision from residential to
commercial property. Dominy’s plan met
stiff resistance from local homeowners
when it went before the Perry Planning
Commission April 11, and before the
intersection.
This is just the first part of the
rebuilding of Carl Vinson Parkway,
said Commission Chair Ned
Sanders.
“We hope to advertise for bids in
spring of 2006 for the first phase of
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Some Houston
County Board of Education
employees were treated to a
steak dinner, a night of con
gratulations and presenta
tions, words of thanks and
jazz music.
Why, you ask? Just for 11
to 38 years of dedicated
service to the Houston
County School System.
A retirement banquet was
held to honor those who
have given years of service
as principals, teachers,
maintenance workers, para
professionals, bookkeepers,
counselors, and many other
duties.
Dr. Kim Halstead, princi
pal of Tucker Elementary
School, sang “Wind Beneath
My Wings,” as teachers’ pic
tures flashed on a
Power Point presentation
and they received plaques
for their accomplishments.
Audience members cheered
for them with the excite
ment of high school seniors.
“These people have sacri
ficed for years for the chil
dren,” said Superintendent
council for a first reading May 3.
During the April planning commission
meeting, Kathy Shaw, who lives in
Yorktown, told the commission that she
felt that the city was changing the rules
in the middle of the game by trying to
rezone the property. Shaw has told both
commissioners and council members that
she bought her home because she felt safe
that the surrounding property would
remain residential.
Joe Meadows and Scott Free, real estate
agents with Coldwell Banker Robbins &
Free Realty in Warner Robins, represent
ed Dominy at Tuesday’s meeting. Free
said Wednesday that Dominy is in the
See PERRY, page 6A
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Nolan Bruce Rodgers shakes the hand of Houston
County Board of Education member Dr. Toby Hill after
receiving a plaque for 30 years of service to the system
at Northside High School.
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treated in a special way.
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can’t honor them enough.
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rebuilding the parkway,” he said.
That phase will turn Carl Vinson
into a four-lane divided highway
from Russell Parkway to Elberta
Road. Phase Two will take the park
way on to Dunbar Road.
See COUNTY, page 6A
on the back.
“We care about our
employees and provide them
a safe work environment
and treat them as profes
sionals,” Carpenter said.
“We do this every year
See RETIREES, page 5A
Miller
to visit
Perry
Former governor
to sign latest book
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Former U.S.
Sen. and Georgia Gov. Zell
Miller will make a stop in
Perry Friday to sign copies
of his new book, which takes
a critical look at changing
American values.
Miller is scheduled to sign
at the Macon Barnes
&Noble book store on Tom
Hill Senior Boulevard from
12-2 p.m.; then at Jeff
Smith Nissan, located near
exit 135 off 1-75 from 3-5
p.m. Miller is scheduled to
end his visit with a book
signing at the Macon
Christian Bookstore on
Bethlea Avenue from 6-7:30
p.m.
In his new book, “A Deficit
of Decency,” Miller takes a
hard look at the impact the
media, judges and others are
having on the decline of tra
ditional values in the
American family.
“There have been ten gen
erations of Americans since
this nation was founded,”
Miller writes, “...Each left
this nation in a little better
condition that they had
inherited it from their par
ents.
“This is the first genera
tion at risk of doing the
opposite.”