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TUESDAY August 2, 2005 Volume 135, Number 407 Award-Winning Newspaper 2005 Better Newspaper Contest In BRIEF Walker matriarch dies Sunday Marian Walker of Warner Robins passed away on Sunday. Walker was the widow of former Mayor Homer J. Walker and the mother of current Mayor Donald Walker, County Commissioner Jay Walker and their younger brother Tommy Walker. Walker, page 8A Inside TODAY An ounce of prevention Health officials recom mend we drink eight glasses of water a day. Warner Robins High School’s football coaches added onto that counsel and came up with this: Sports, page 12A Happy BIRTHDAY! Charline Arent Scott Davis Paula Dickinson Tommy Stimus Cary Stokes Area DEATHS Suzanne Michelle “Cissie” Eberhardt Margaret L. Hambrick Lucy Dee Hutchinson Stanford Swofford Clinton Aldine Tucker Sr. Rita Sue Tucker Obits, page 8A INDEX BUSINESS 5A CLASSIFIED 11A COMICS 10A CROSSWORD ...10A OBITUARIES 8A OPINION 4A SCHOOL NEWS .. .9A SPORTS 12A TV LISTINGS ... .10A WEATHER 2A PERIODICAL iiaflilliiailliilliiiM i.m...ii aaaliaaiaalallaaail 5 Georgs Newspaper Proved Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 (7sF( y { f JCrmstat irimtu' Chte JJmmtHl 9 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY , city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville DA takes on video poker case Perry police chief hopes case won’t be settled or thrown out By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer The Houston Circuit District Attorney’s Office has now refused to comment on the future of a case sur rounding five video poker machines seized in a June raid at a Perry convenience store. District Attorney Kelly Burke said in a Friday letter faxed to the Houston Home Crooner crowied. yYliss UJJ2 Bringslid named Miss WR Outstanding Teen By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer Huddled around a small 13-inch television screen in the darkness backstage, con testants in the Miss Warner Robins Pageant watched the show unfold in front of their eyes Saturday night, waiting for their chance to shine in the spotlight. Some contestants quietly waited, while others adjust ed spaghetti straps, bobbed their hair to perfection or practiced dance * routines meticulously. As they waited for their cues, the young women who competed in the 2005-2006 Miss Warner Robins Pageant experienced a swirling range of emo tions, anticipating the chance to win scholarships, gifts and a chance for See MISS WR, page 3A illUp ik i 1 TiiHi ,BB|t^B I 1/m *] SUSAN HAMBRICK i "" b wJSiiS I u ■ •v . f iLiiigwiii * > MB Hr- Jp H ip® MMB 1 HILJ Ray Lightner A/eiv Middle Georgia Technical College President Dr. Ivan Allen thanked his mother, wife and family. www.hhjnews.com Journal that his office specifically declines to com ment further on the state’s civil case against Greater Georgia Amusements LLC, a Warner Robins company that owns the five machines seized at the OM Food Mart on Sunset Avenue in Perry June 10. He also directed that the newspaper is to refer to James Balli as a “former *Wfi ’ \ . r BjgF IB;'-,;-;! ■ ? i tBPi /|Bp. ’ ?*'&**,. . v - W Mm flllt® * IJLj§ iiiV« . if JR^feaSßSsS'S WsW'- sv?:;' §|B&J H ' f §1 Si ■ i? * -fIP || B ■ SHHHHHbji ' ' i- B .■»<■'■ m^SSSm^S J• I 9 |pg|giß ; f f ■ v, jHHV IB® I ? i.. 1 I HHHHH HHJ/Mike George ABOVE:: Miss Warner Robins 2005-2006 Jenison Cooper is crowned at the Miss Warner Robins Pageant at the Homer J. Walker Civic Center Saturday. Cooper, a junior at the University of Georgia studying marketing education, will go on to compete at the Miss Georgia pageant for a chance to compete in the Miss America Pageant. Hambrick named Houston's Teacher of Year From staff reports Susan Hambrick, a first-grade teacher at Lake Joy Elementary School, was named Houston County’s 2005-06 Teacher of the Year at the school system’s opening session on Monday. Also honored were Teachers of the Year from each of the system’s school, and Employees of the Year from non teaching departments. Teachers of the Year included: Matt Arthur Elementary, Susan Potts; assistant district attorney.” The letter comes a week after Balli, the assistant dis trict attorney assigned to the video poker case, left the DA’s office to return to pri vate practice at the law firm of Sams, Larkin and Huff in Marietta. Balli refused to comment on the letter in a phone interview Friday, but Perry Police Chief George Potter Bonaire Elementary, Lee Ann Cladin; Bonaire Middle, Bill McCarthy; Centerville Elementary, Marcie Shaw; Eagle Springs Elementary, Susan Mazzarella; Feagin Mill Middle, Rose Powell; Houston County Career and Technology Center, Susie Jarrett; Houston County Crossroads Center, Kristen Honaker; Houston County High, Ronnie Thomas; Kings Chapel Elementary, Tammy Morrow; Lake Joy Elementary Susan Hambrick; Lindsey Elementary. Nadine Davis; Linwood said Monday that he hopes someone will prosecute the case now that Balli has departed. “I hope there is someone who is willing to go the extra mile to pick up the case,” Potter said. “We don’t make cases to be settled or thrown out.” Later Monday, Burke con firmed he would be handling See CASE, page 8A MGTC honors new president Ivan Allen By RAY LIGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer Middle Georgia Technical College officially welcomed its new president, Dr. Ivan Allen, Friday. “We had three good candi dates in Atlanta,” said state Department of Adult and Technical Education Commissioner Michael Vollmer. “We ended up with one great president here. “Ivan is the right man at the right place,” he added. Allen said he would “do what we’re called to do in Middle Georgia, change the lives of students day to day.” Allen succeeds interim President Randall Peters, who came over from Heart of Georgia Technical College an Evans Family Newspaper ONE SECTION *l4 PAGES w* * ™l ' 1 M KELLY BURKE Elementary, Catherine Bridges; Miller Elementary, MaDonna Birdsell; Morningside Elementary, Karen Turner; Northside Elementary, Janet Kirchoff; Northside High, Susan Murchison; Northside Middle, Shana Arline; Parkwood Elementary, Betty Barnes; David Perdue Elementary,Doris Peavy; David Perdue Primary, Denise Duke; Perry High, Deonna Pudder; Perry Middle, Tim Simmons; Perry Primary. Kayleen See TEACHER, page 3A in Dublin to serve following the retirement of longtime President Billy G. Edenfield in January. The reception in the Lobby of building A - adja cent to the library named for Edenfield - included MGTC staff, who met with the new president prior to the reception. Also in atten dance were many local lead ers and much of Allen’s fam ily- He thanked his mother for sticking by him. “After my father died,” Allen said, “She had to be both momma and dad. “She learned a skill, we call it cosmetology, now but she was a beautician. She See ALLEN, page 8A 50c liiliil 8 **ss loß*ooool**4