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THURSDAY July 7, 2005 Volume 135, Number 389 Award-Winning Newspaper 2005 Better Newspaper Contest inside TODAY fl| WBr Jgu ’TH inm Game ball Pitcher Bryce Traughber holds the game ball awarded to him by his coach Chris Pierce. He allowed four hits and two unearned runs while striking out 11. Sports, page 1B wit ri* it if* A '■ V * agSfe , -w y • Back to 'Back to the Future' This pas t J weekend jj marked the 20th anniver sary of “Back To The Future.” Read Mike George’s column inside. Entertainment, page 7A Happy BIRTHDAY! Beth Broxton Greene Gail Hammock Mazie K. Starley (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 Larry W. Cantrell Albert “Al” Hlavaty Sr. Obits, page 2A INDEX CLASSIFIED 9A CLUB NEWS 6A COMICS 4B CROSSWORD ... 4B ENTERTAINMENT .7A LEGALS 5B OBITUARIES 2A OPINION 4A TV LISTINGS 4B WEATHER 2A PERIODICAL litlliKliiiilliilliiittlillliiclliulliivtßliliiifll 6* Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-OiG(T 306 July 7 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 CEft Y iriimstort phmtef (Lite djmmtai * LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry ; city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Perry denies couple's refund request Council stands by legal position that city only liable for four years’ overpayment By TIM HOSKINS HHJ Student Writer The Perry City Council decided at its regular meeting Tuesday night not to grant a full refund to Dell and Police report on near-riot Several arrested, cited in incident that left Perry teen, officer injured By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer The Perry Police Department has released details in its investigation of a street party that got out of control Saturday, leaving a Perry teenager and a Perry Police officer in the hospital. Periy Police Chief George Potter told the City Council Tuesday night that he esti mated at least 1,500 revelers were crowded along Old Field Lane in east Perry when police responded to reports of shots fired shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Capt. William Phelps said that police found 18-year old Nicholas Middlebrooks on the scene, who was suf fering from a gunshot Man on terrorist watch list let go County traffic stop on Interstate 75 turns up oddly-dressed driver, passengers By RAY UGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer During a traffic stop Friday, Houston County Sheriffs deputies came across a man on the terror ist watch list, but were told to release him. Council condemns high court decision WR denounces Supreme Court’s ruling on private property rights By TIMOTHY GRAHAM HHJ Staff Writer The Warner Robins City Council added some spice to a short agenda by firing a broadside across the bow of the United States Supreme Court. The council unanimously approved a resolution con demning the Supreme Court’s decision in the Kelo v. City of New London case, which allowed public con demnation of private prop erty for the use of private developers. The council’s resolution stated that they “denounce the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Kelo case as an See WR, page 3A www.hhjnews.com Joyce Emerson of Cedar Ridge Drive in the matter of their sewer pay ments. The couple paid city sewer bills for 17 years believing that they were on wound that left the Perry teenager with a collapsed lung. Police arrested three men who had fled the scene and were hiding in a home on Lake Joy Road, Phelps said. James Stokes, 17, of 248 Lake Joy Road, Perry, was charged with carrying a deadly weapon at a public gathering, carrying a pistol without a license, and dis charging a gun near a high way. Quennton C. Thomas, 18, of 2939 D. U.S. 341 South in Hawkinsville was also charged with carrying a deadly weapon at a public gathering and discharging a gun near a highway, but was also charged with reckless See POLICE, page 10A The man, along with a passenger in the car, were reportedly found with papers on them and two oth ers for a pending federal court case for a 1993 suicide bombing in the Gaza Strip. According to incident 5 * t , ( , ,; k 111 WTJ J'Lj r ll - \ 1 ’fas' '■ . 6:18 . \ IvLr*' jr Jr Jr ’ HP* jts. i . ilk i \ u ■ mil . mHWMfefe m w/ WBfefe-lit® I I m I HHJ Teresa D. Southern Ruth Faircloth and Hal Clay inventory books at the library at Middle Georgia Technical College. The library, dedicated to retired MGTC presi dent Billy Edenfield, opened in January. the city’s sewer system. Last fall, the Emersons discovered that their residence is actually on a septic tank. The couple sent a letter to the city requesting that their payments J J| g| . jlMßkw Hi ■«S 5 m*S .JSS* *■* ***** Li. V ■'SSiw*-* / lllMlim lluskin- Peggy Davis, who lives in the Old Field Lane area, talks at the Perry City Council meet ing Tuesday night as Capt. William Phelps of the Perry Police Department listens in the background. Police says at least 1,500 people crowded the Old Field Lane area in Perry Saturday in an unauthorized block party that landed a Perry Police officer and a Perry teenager in the hospital, but Davis sai<Tfl9r fSlWly reunion was not to blame. reports, deputies stopped a minivan on Interstate 75 northbound with three Arabic men, after it report edly crossed the divided line on the right and the left as the patrol car approached at about 12:45 a.m. The driver of the van stepped got out when asked and the deputy noted the driver was wearing a black T-shirt with the word “SHERIFF” written and the front and back and BDU (battle dress uniform) black an Evans Family Newspaper TWO SECTIONS • 20 PAGES be refunded, and were told that the city is only liable for four years of erroneous payments - a difference of over $2,000. See DENIED, page 3A pants and boots. He report ed explained he was not a law officer, but a friend who is in law enforcement gave him the shirt. When told he was weav ing, the driver reportedly See STOP, page 34 MGTC's new library well received College has room to grow in library named for former president By TERESA D. SOUTHERN HHJ Staff Writer Books by Thoreau, Eliot, Shakespeare line the shelves. Titles such as “Don Quixote” catch the eye, and there’s a certain quietness that’s only heard in a place of learning. Dumont Bunn oversees it all as direc tor of library services at Middle Georgia Technical College. The college’s library opened in January, and has been well received by students and faculty. “A lot of hard work went into this,” Bunn said. “It felt good to get into a larger space. Before, students and facul ty were limited, because we were limit ed in the number of books and technol ogy w.e could house.” Bunn said throughout renovations, they were in a modular building, and even had library materials stored in classrooms. Now the library boasts over 2,700 vol umes, with 2,000 more waiting to be catalogued, and an additional 35,000 books available through the net Library program. The library also has a See LIBRARY, page 34 50c miini.