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TUESDAY June 7, 2005 Volume 135, Number 367 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest Inside TODAY Rain hampers game Weather has played havoc with Houston County High School’s baseball tournament. Thursday’s games were rained out and moved to Monday. Several Friday and Saturday games were a washout also. Sports, page 11A Happy BIRTHDAY! Joe Hendrix Kaleb Kushinka Sharon Persons (Surprise your friends! Let us know when their birthday or anniversary is, and we’ll put their names in the paper that day. Just send the name and date at least a' week in advance, and we’ll do the rest. E-mail to hhj@evansnewspapers.com, or mail them to us at the address inside. No phone calls, please. Many happy returns!) Area DEATHS Carol Elizabeth Bethune Doyle Jim Eshleman Lettie A. Hildebrand Stacy Lynn Lower McKinney Tony McKinney Charles Worthey Obits, page 5A INDEX BUSINESS 6A CLASSIFIED 10A COMICS 9A CROSSWORD . ...9A OBITUARIES 5A OPINION 4A SPORTS 11A TV LISTINGS 9A WEATHER 2A PERIODICAL W„rll HiIImI llfllflllll iZ * 3ecrgja Newspaper Project Wan Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATMFWS GA 30602-0002 3-DfGiT 306 Serving Houston County Since 1870 \ ts H o its ton Mome \ CLLhe * LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY \ city of Perry ; city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Peppy moving ahead with fipewopks ban Fire chief: This is about protecting the public’; city to consider ordinance tonight By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer The Perry City Council is moving closer towards a citywide fireworks ban on everything from cherry bombs to the sparklers that are now legal under state law. ME* .■&M V-;. ji} J a ’ § ' |P Spill I’a* r*“ ; ‘S 4-fel^M b . 4.=• .»y 9 *wL-tUAt ~ f ts-JL. ~! ml ‘-dM .-k.. ■ I I j l |y TmWli i fl| I MMI I 3 , MKDggffr-l. / ' f§ ' f,! t jr .:'■' 7 iff ■ ' jj * / =-tt. Jig* I »£/ wife ■ y . -<« „ls J 4.. ||«! *** ’• If “ . flp ■?• $ #f§3 * * T '. g • fin \ v JH|. |Jr I Jpf jL. . . . HHJ/Mike George From left, Houston Circuit Assistant District James Balli, along with Perry Police Detectives Ken Ezell and Brian Emmons escort a store employee to a parked squad car during a Friday raid at the L&B Mini Food Mart on Sam Nunn Boulevard near 1-75 in Perry. Haynesville couple killed in wreck Trucker charged with vehicular homicide after allegedly failing to stop By RAY UGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer Milton Wayne Clark of Tennessee has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the death of a Haynesville husband and wife. The last Starlifter By TERESA D. SOUTHERN HHJ Staff Writer Paul Hibbitts, director of the Museum of Aviation, was on hand to receive the museum’s newest addition - an aircraft with special ties to Robins Air Force Base. The last C-141 aircraft - tail number 65-0248 - to have completed pro grammed depot mainte nance at Robins flew in Friday afternoon from a cross-country flight. The aircraft had been assigned to the 452nd Air Mobility Wing at March Air Reserve Base in California. The C-141 aircraft has a long history at Robins Air Force Base. It has been managed by the Warner Robins Air See C-141, page 5A www.hhjnews.com Perry City Attorney David Walker said he will have an ordinance draft ed for the city council to consider in its regular meeting tonight. If the ordinance is accepted, it will go through a second reading later this month before adoption. According to Houston County Sheriffs Cpl. Sean Alexander, Clark is sched uled to turn himself in to authorities in Tennessee on charges here in connection with the 6 p.m. fatal wreck Friday at Russell Parkway *• * 1 I, Suulhem Maj. Bill Gorczynski of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base signs the last C-141, which was delivered to Robins Air Force Base from March Air Reserve Base in California. Gorczynski was one of the crewmembers who delivered the plane, which will be dis played at the Museum of Aviation. The ordinance comes on the heels of a 60-day moratorium handed down by the council May 31. Perry Fire Chief Freddy Howell warned the council that Florence, Ala.-based TNT Fireworks planned to sell sparklers in the parking lot of the and U.S. 41. Clark was traveling north bound on U.S. 41, Alexander said, failed to stop for the red light, and T-boned a 1991 Chevy Camaro on the passenger side. The Camaro was traveling BUSTD! Perry PD cracks down on illegal video poker in convenience stores By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer The Perry Police Department seized four video poker machines and took a clerk into cus tody during a raid at a local convenience store Friday afternoon. Detective Ken Ezell said the department is investigating several local convenience stores suspected of handing out cash for video poker winnings - a violation of state law. Shortly after 2 p.m., squad cars blocked off two entrances to the L&B Mini Food Mart, known as the Perry Amoco, on Sam Nunn Boulevard near 1-75. Customers were asked to leave as detectives with the Perry PD, along with Houston Circuit Assistant District Attorney James Balli, moved into the store. Ezell said police recovered marked bills they used in an undercover operation earlier in the week, and quickly took the clerk into custody. Witnesses at a nearby vegetable and fruit stand watched as police escorted the suspect - who has not been charged and whose name has not been released - to a squad car. Ezell and Perry Detective Brian Emmons tried to console the woman, who was sobbing as police carried her towards the car. Ezell said the department’s investigation stemmed from complaints from area business es and tips from police informants. Casino gambling is illegal under Georgia law, but the state’s laws only ban cash payouts. Gas sta tions, grocery stores and other businesses that hand out vouchers for merchandise can escape See VIDEO, page 14A east on Russell Parkway. It was pushed through the intersection and struck a five-foot embankment on the northeast corner. The passenger, Tony McKinney, 38, was pro nounced dead on the scene, an Evans Family Newspaper 500 ilium s^ssioPooooi l^ ONE SECTION • 14 PAGES Perry Wal-Mart, in conjunction with a youth group from Faith Assembly of God in Warner Robins. Earlier this year, the Georgia leg islature loosened restrictions on the sale of sparklers, citing that the law See FIREWORKS, page 54 Alexander said. The driver, Stacy Lynn Lower McKinney, 35, died Saturday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia from her injuries. Funeral services for Tony See WRECK, page 14A Saying goodbye to BRMS By RAY LIGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer The halls are full of histo ry at Bert Rumble Middle School. The portraits of former principals, including name sake Bert Rumble - the principal of Warner Robins High from 1945-1955 - and the huge, full trophy case were joined by teachers and students Saturday to say goodbye. A shop teacher and his wife (also a teacher) visited the halls of the school they taught at in the ’sos. A for mer student from that time came down from Macon and See RUMBLE, page 14A