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WEEKEND June 4, 2005 Volume 135, Number 366 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper 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 PERIODICAL 6 * Geoxaa Newspaper Project Math übrarv UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3G6G2-GGG2 '.-DIGIT 306 Serving Houston County Since 1870 vjjjte ? ij mxnml * LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY \ city of Perry ; city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville 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 Perry Farmers Market opens today , \ Kkk • j t. M ... . x **Kr • 1*... g^%. wirv '■p’ ~ Jmmr *w. V 4 VJPf HBII « . - ’ 4 ik ' ' ' J *>- / •• ■■■ V ‘ fr ? ■/•* y % i - Jgßa& t ■'\ t &~s?3K& r 4a jjsHWMTjr* -a\ df V--••■ Pt-r ,] : m Jr •-■ -m-v V '^<*A V Jr s *r- j §p jM ,i- \ 'MKk ■■‘fkM & " HIM Ter... IX Southern 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. } Jy ! I : .v ij \ \ I j HHJ/Mike George 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. www.hhjnews.com 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 HHJ,Hay Lightner 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 TWO SECTIONS • 20 PAGES 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 an Evans Family Newspaper 500 111 Hi! 8 "®5 510 B*o 0001®" 4