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June 17, 2005
Volume 135, Number 375
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Perry Panthers'
Dynamic Duo
Back in the early 19605,
Lee Martin, a senior, and
Dwayne Powell, a junior,
became the most feared
guard-forward combina
tion in Georgia high
school basketball history,
leading the Perry
Panthers to an undefeat
ed 35-0 record and Coach
Eric Staples’ sixth state
championship. The
dynamic duo of Martin
and Powell was virtually
unstoppable. HHJ colum
nist Billy Powell tells
their story inside.
Family&Faith, page 7A
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Happy BIRTHDAY!
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Ella Ann Beckham
Cohen Carpenter
Jeff Hendrix
Paul Hibbitts
Happy ANNIVERSARY?
Tom and Marsha Hall
Paul William Crenshaw
Dorothy M. (Dottie)
Fisher
Gladys Smith
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
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CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 6A
CROSSWORD ... .6A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .7A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 6A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
More hearings set for double murder case
Robins airman Witt to appear Tuesday in Macon for pretrial motions
From staff reports
A second pretrial motions
hearing for a Robins Air Force
Base airman on trial for his life
will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in
Courtroom E of the Bibb
County Courthouse in Macon.
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ABOVE: Warner Robins
Animal Control Officers
George Butts and Craig
Langston work to
remove a snake from
the engine compart
ment of a car parked at
Wal-Mart on Wednesday
afternoon. Butts said
that snakes will fre
quently seek the heat of
a car’s engine compart
ment when it gets cold
at night.
RIGHT: Langston and
Butts show off their
prey - a rat snake.
HHJ/Timothy Graham
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officials
speak at
breakfast
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The spirit of cooperation,
which has overwhelmed
local officials like the after
effects of a tent revival, was
again in evidence on
Thursday as the Warner
Robins Area Chamber of
Commerce hosted its regu
lar Eggs and Issues meeting
at the Museum of Aviation.
This time out, city offi
cials from Centerville and
Warner Robins toasted the
See BREAKFAST, page 3A
Senior Airman Andrew Paul
Witt is charged with two specifi
cations of premeditated murder,
covered under Article 118 of the
Uniform Code of Military
Justice, for the stabbing deaths
of Senior Airman Andrew
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An empty dump truck traveling west on Ga. 96 Thursday morning spun and overturned after braking too hard to
avoid a driver turning left onto Royal Oak Lane, according to a Houston County sheriff’s deputy. The truck ended
up in a ditch facing east. No other vehicles were involved in the accident and the driver, Edward Lewis, 37, was
taken to Houston Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.
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Dump truck overturns on Ga. 96
Schliepsiek and his wife, Jamie,
at their on-base residence in the
early morning hours of July 5,
2004.
Witt is also charged with one
specification of attempted mur
der, under Article 80 of the
TWO SECTIONS • 14 PAGES
UCMJ, for a knife attack on
Senior Airman Jason King the
same morning.
According to King’s testimony
at the initial Section 32 hearing,
shortly before 4 a.m., the three
See WITT, page 3A
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Perdue
to add
cooking
plant
Expansion to
create hundreds
more local jobs
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A spokesman with Perdue
Farms, one of Houston
County’s largest employers,
said Thursday that the com
pany plans to expand its
chicken processing plant in
Perry by converting an
existing building into a
cooking plant, a completely
separate operation from
what’s being done at the
plant right now.
Perdue Farms spokesman
Joe Forsthoffer said the
project is still in the early
stages of development, but
could bring hundreds more
new jobs to the area.
“It will be a new operation
with a significant increase
in employment,”
Forsthoffer said. The
Maryland-based company
bought the 500,000-square
foot plant from Atlanta
based Cagle’s Inc. in late
January for $45 million.
The company has already
brought more than 700 new
jobs to the area, according to
Morgan Law, executive
director of the Houston
See PERDUE, page 3A
Related article, 3A