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FRIDA Y June 17, 2005 Volume 135, Number 375 Award-Winning Better Newspaper Contest Inside TODAY Bl dp 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 A Happy BIRTHDAY! .. . , _- SifL: '•■•--■- 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 - CLASSIFIED 5B COMICS 6A CROSSWORD ... .6A FAMILY&FAITH .. .7A OBITUARIES 2A OPINION 4A SCHOOL NEWS .. .6B SPORTS 1B TV LISTINGS 6A WEATHER 2A PERIODICAL 6* Georgia Newspaper Project Mart Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 June 17, 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 (LUte JJmtrmtl * LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, 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. - f— T|— Rraj»&%ig -i mum ' #j r !; _jpF» - * I I mots '"liw 1, ” -M j/t/r MK’ *k. “i__ All in a day’s work 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 C'viHe, WR 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 | — a | i j '» J T : A I RlSlftw r Wmi <•♦ ' \m a V- ? Mil VjMr *.f u~~«~x— — - --. mm Wj&f 5 f- \w Jt| / ~ j V AL J *T * _ ’ ■^^afcr^lt.dgSf' !gb ■- n '' \ PF " AlLfiHk » a *■ j ; ‘ - - FM» JiWBrJl > msm'-'-M "' "~~«r HHyar’T. ' . •*■• - •* - «•■*' 1IVH«& JP| j.|.," *_• §> ■■>'■ m - * ; r r’ it i <.■ j : ,*, Sf'r** . HHJTim Hoskins 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. www.hhjnews.com 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 an Evans Family Newspaper 50c mm 8 1i, 5 5108*0 0001"" 4 WITT 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