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TUESDAY
July 19, 2005
Volume 135, Number 397
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Perry crowns its
summer champs
Friday night was the
Night of Champions for
Perry’s football players.
All summer they’ve
been giving up their time
to work and prepare for
the upcoming football
season.
Sports, page 9A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Judy Golden
Dr. Craig Patterson
Lane Garrett Smith
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know when their birthday or
anniversary is, and we'll put their
names in the paper that day. Just
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a week in advance, and we'll do
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mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Dorothy T. Connell
Charles David Harrison
Patricia Kennedy Litowitz
Henry Claybon Taylor
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 10A
CLUB NEWS 5A
COMICS 9A
CROSSWORD ... .9A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... .5A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8A
TV LISTINGS 9A
WEATHER 2A
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Wilson, Bocephus to play at fair
Country Gold Tour 2005 also to appear; fourth concert to be announced
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
Each year the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter hosts
the Georgia National Fair, and
entertains the local area with mid
Attorney:
Video poker
scheme not
client's fault
WR firm that leased
machines defends
itself against
DA’s civil lawsuit
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
An Atlanta attorney who repre
sents a Warner Robins company
embroiled in a civil lawsuit with the
state over video poker said Monday
that his client is not responsible for
how the company’s machines were
used at a Perry convenience store.
The Perry Police Department
seized five gaming machines in an
afternoon raid at the OM Food Mart
on Sunset Avenue June 10. Attorney
Mark Spix, who represents Greater
Georgia Amusements LLC, wants
the Houston Circuit District
Attorney’s Office to return the five
machines, saying that the company
did not encourage the store’s owner,
Prakash Patel, to use the machines
to run an illegal gambling establish
ment.
By state law, video poker is illegal,
but store owners and companies like
Greater Georgia Amusements can
avoid prosecution if they offer pay
outs in merchandise or prize tickets,
instead of cash.
Police found SBO in two cash regis
ters at the store, but found the
majority of the money seized in the
store in the machines and rolled in
cash bags rolled under the counter.
Houston Circuit Assistant District
Attorney James Balli said detectives
found SBOO hidden under the count
er and the remainder of the money
in the machines. The police also
found five S2O Wal-Mart gift cards
See POKER, page 5A
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At Monday’s announcement of the new Chinook contract at Boeing Macon were, from
left, Chair of the Bibb County Board of Commissioners Charles Bishop, Executive
Director of the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority Kathy Bowden, Macon
Economic Development Commission Senior Vice President Pat Topping, IWA Program
Management Director Reed Morren, and Georgia Department of Economic
Development Senior Project Manager Deborah Lohnes.
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way rides and everything else a fall
fair brings.
The annual fair also brings con
certs to Reaves Arena, which this
year will include Gretchen Wilson at
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.
Best of Show seats for the rising
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Scottie Neal smiles about the winning bid she made for a two-piece Brighton luggage set donated by
Barbara Shaheen.
Museum raises over SI6OK
1,200 attend 20th annual
auction, raffle to support
museum foundation
Article and photos
by Teresa D. Southern
Over $160,000 was raised Saturday night at
the 20th annual Museum of Aviation Foundation
Auction and Raffle, according to Bob Dubiel, vice
president of communications and annual giving
at the museum.
This also included $30,000 in in-kind dona
tions.
Pat Bartness, president of the Museum of
Aviation Foundation, said the annual event has
grown in its two decades. What began as a small
event at the Officers Club at Robins Air Force
Base now attracts over 1,200 people each year, he
said.
‘lt’s amazing,” Bartness said Saturday, looking
at the crowd.
June Lowe, executive vice president of the
See MUSEUM, page 14A
country star will be SSO, and blue
ribbon seats will cost $35.
On Thursday, Oct. 13, The
Country Gold Tour 2005 will make a
stop in Perry.
The event is headlined by Leroy
Van Dyke and the Auctioneers. Also
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Elida Trawick models a white fox fur coat donated by
Barnes House of Macon.
Boeing secures
Chinook contract
Middle Georgia plant to build
component for military helicopters
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Boeing Macon has
received a contract to build
the aft fuselage assembly for
the Army’s workhorse heli
copter, the Chinook CH-47.
The new deal means that
Boeing will be investing $2.6
million in the Macon plant.
The project will lead to the
retention of 11 jobs at the
South Macon facility along
with the creation of 20 new
ones.
Part of the deal involved a
SIOO,OOO grant from the
Georgia Department of
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appearing will be Jim Ed Brown,
Helen Cornelius, Bobby Bare, David
Frizzell and Rex Allen Jr.
Concerts for Friday, Oct. 14 and
Saturday, Oct. 15 are listed as “to be
announced.”
See CONCERTS, page SA
Economic Development
(GDEcD) to the plant. The
money will be used to pur
chase equipment needed to
manufacture the parts for
the helicopter.
The Macon site currently
provides sub-assemblies for
the C-17 Globemaster air
plane and the Apache AH-64
helicopter, including flight
control surfaces, doors,
large and small skin panels
and avionic surfaces.
Reed Morren, director of
IWA Program Management,
said that work on the project
See BOEING, page 5A
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