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WEEKEND
June 4, 2005
Volume 135, Number 366
Award-Winning
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2004
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Contest
Inside TODAY
Optimists host
youth tourney
Josh O’ Quinn holds
the flag for Wil Summers
as the latter putts on No.
18 at Waterford. The two
were taking part in the
Warner Robins Evening
Optimists Club
International Junior Golf
Club tournament held
this week at the course.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHQAYi
June 4
Jena Leigh Dees
Betty Goodroe
Judy Pruitt
Maj. Samuel Kerry Ochs
Michael Keith Ochs
Matthew Ray
Gracie Taylor
June 5
David Anderson
Emily Arbuckle
June 6
Alice Morris
Burton Stimus
Jimmy Townsend
Jerry Willis
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
June 4
Gary and Jan Dees
Area DEATHS
None were reported for
today’s edition.
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS 6B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
HOMETOWN 7B
INDICTMENTS 7A
LIFESTYLE 9A
OBITUARIES ..NONE
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . .2A,
3A, SA, 8A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Perry nabs smash-and-grabbers
Burglary suspects from Albany
lead authorities on chase
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
An early Friday smash
and-grab in Perry ended
with a chase up Interstate
75 and the three suspects
caught in Macon.
Perry Police Patrol Shift
Supervisor Lt. Willie
Johnson rode up on the bur
glary in progress at the
Circle 9 convenience store,
423 Gen. Courtney Hodges
Blvd., at 4:28 a.m., accord
ing to Police Chief George
Potter.
Johnson observed the
three suspects, with their
faces covered, exit the store
through the broken glass.
They fled in a 1994 Ford
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Bob Taylor, maintenance supervisor for the city of Perry adds the final touches to tables he built for the Perry
Farmers Market. The market, located at the corner of Commerce and Washington streets, opens today from 8 a.m.
to noon.
Market gets new look
Perry’s maintenance supervisor builds tables, saves city money
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
For three years, Perryans have
enjoyed the Farmers Market down
town at the corner of Commerce and
Washington streets.
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Terry McConnell, manager of the Perry-Houston County Airport, stands
in front of a field Thursday near the south comer of the airfield where
airport officials have been working to build two new 16,000-square-foot
hangars.
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pickup and Johnson gave
chase.
The chase went up 1-75
with two more Perry offi
cers, one of which was called
back. Potter said officers
from Houston, Peach and
Bibb counties sheriffs
offices and the Georgia
State Patrol joining in as it
went through their jurisdic
tions.
The chase ended about a
half hour later on 1-75 near
the Eisenhower Parkway
exit when the truck was
stopped with a box maneu
ver, Potter explained.
Officers from the Perry
Police Department, and
See CHASE, page 12A
This year, thanks to Bob Taylor,
maintenance supervisor for the city of
Perry, the summer tradition has a new
look.
Former state Rep. Larry Walker
donated funding for new tables Taylor
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Perry Police Lt. Calvin Proffitt shows the store surveillance tape from the Friday
smash-and-grab burglary at the Circle 9 convenience store in Perry.
built from surplus items at the city
barn.
Taylor built tables for the market,
and Perry businesses such as O’Neal
Insurance, The Houston Home
See MARKET, page 6A
Airport expansion on hold
Officials drop back and punt: Grant for
mudvneeded hangars won’t come through
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A project to build two new
hangars at the Perry-Houston
County Airport has suffered a set
back.
The Perry-Houston County
Airport Authority learned this week
it did not win a $225,000 grant from
the Georgia Department of
Transportation. The grant would
have paid for about 75 percent of the
cost of grading and paving a grassy
field where the two new hangars
will sit.
“We were optimistic that the
grant would come through,” said
Art MacDonald, chairman of the air
port authority board. “It sounds like
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Grants
could
aid air
quality
Funds would be
used to retrofit
equipment to
limit emissions
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
The Middle Georgia Clear
Air Coalition is applying for
two grants to assist local
governments.
“Ozone nonattainment is
still a concern,” said Ron
Carbon, director of the 21st
Century Partnership, in a
report to the Houston
County Development
Authority.
The federal
Environmental Protection
Agency designates areas of
the country as being in
ozone nonattainment if they
contain a concentration of
ozone that doesn’t comply
the National Ambient Air
Quality Standards.
Carbon said the Middle
Georgia Clean Air Coalition
has applied for two grants.
One would help area school
boards retrofit school buses
See RETROFIT, page 6A
we fell just below the cut.”
MacDonald said he has already
asked for help from the Georgia leg
islature in securing any financial
assistance the airport may be eligi
ble for. In the meantime, airport
officials say they don’t have the
space they need to grow.
“Almost every hangar out here is
full,” said Terry McConnell, the air
port’s manager. “I have one open
bay here, and it’s in an open hangar
outdoors.
“I even have five or six planes
here parked on the runway.”
MacDonald said the airport has
two 14-bay covered hangars, a cor
porate hanger, and an open-bay
See AIRPORT, page 6A
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