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TUESDAY
May 2, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 85
FRONT
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INSIDE
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B The Perry High School Class of
1956 held its 50th reunion over the
weekend.
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Keeping track of track
W Warner Robins' track and field
team rallied on the second day of
competition to repeat as Region 3-
AAAA champions.
Things didn't go quite as well
for Westfield's track and field team
at the state competition. In other
sports, Northside fell to Westside in
a mini-game that determined playoft
seeding and the Bears rolled past
Colquitt County.
INBRIEF
National Day of Prayer Thursday
B First Baptist Church at 1135
Watson Blvd., will join the nation in
honoring the 55 Annual National
Day of Thursday beginning at 11:45
a.m. The public is invited to join the
congregation in the fellowship hall
and hear Dr. Kelly Pritchett, Jr., who
will bring the message. Lunch will
be served by the National Prayer
Warriors and the Joy Class. For
lunch reservations, call First Baptist
Church at 922-8152 by today.
Arts in the Village
The Houston Arts Alliance will
present the Sixth Annual Arts in the
Village from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.,
Sunday. The event is free and ven
dors will sell picnic fare or guests
are invited to have lunch at the
Langston House Restaurant. Music
will be provided from school bands.
Art supplies and instruction by artists
in visual art forms such as painting,
drawing, quilting, pottery, face paint
ing, porcelain doll making, Japanese
flower arranging and much more
provided at no cost. For more infor
mation call the Houston Arts Alliance
at (478) 218-5229.
BIRTHDAYS
B Livonia Howard
B Evora McGuire
M Bobbe Richardson
B Julia Wattts
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkins@evansnewspapers.com.
DEATHS
M Frank F. Casey
B Ruby Jean Palmer
B Floyd V. “Flip” Walker
INDEX
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By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Assistant Editor
At the close of primary
qualifying on Friday one
thing was clear. The race is
on, and even those incum
bents who win their parties’
nominations on July 18 with
ease will still face tough
challenges in November’s
election.
Houston County’s native
son Gov. Sonny Perdue has
only one opponent on the
Republican Primary bal
lot: a political newcomer,
28-year-old Ray Mcßerry of
Norcross.
On the Democratic ballot
for governor, voters will be
choosing between two politi
cal names to be reckoned
with, Secretary of State
Cathy Cox, and Lt. Governor
Mark Taylor. Also running
for the Democratic nomina
tion are Bill Bolton from
Marietta, and Mac McCarley
of Stockbridge McCarley,
78, lists himself as retired.
Bolton is a 58-year-old man
agement consultant.
The race for Lt. Governor
of Georgia promises to be
unpredictable until the end.
Republicans Casey Cagle of
Oakwood and Ralph Reed of
Duluth have both been cam
paigning for months already.
Democrats Greg K. Hecht of
Jonesboro and Jim Martin
of Atlanta also announced
early, and are now joined on
the ballot by Griffin Lotson
of Darien, Steen Miles of
Decatur, and Rufus O. Terrill
of Atlanta.
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, a
Macon Democrat who rep
resents Houston County as
part of the Bth District, has
no competition in the pri
mary. Former Congressman
Mac Collins is squaring
off against Deputy Sheriff
James Neal Harris of Gray
in the Republican Primary.
WR sex offender ordinance meeting on Thursday
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Warner Robins will host a town
hall meeting Thursday to explain its
proposed sex offender ordinance.
The meeting is set to begin at 5
p.m. at Warner Robins City Hall in
council chambers.
The city council will not take action
on the ordinance until after the pub
lic forum. City Councilman Dean
Cowart explained, “Sgt. Charlene
Giles with the Sheriff’s Office asked
that we hold off on taking any action
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dressed completely in traditional Civil War attire, assisted in the Confederate Memorial
Day ceremony.
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Man arrested for stabhing neighbors
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Charlie Lee West Jr., 56, of 125
Hodge Road, Elko, was arrested Friday
without incident on two counts each of
aggravated assault and possession of a
knife during commission of a felony.
West is accused of stabbing two
female neighbors on Friday evening.
Deputies and an ambulance were
called to 129 Hodge Road about 4:34
p.m. Friday, where the victim told 911
she had been stabbed.
The suspect, a black male wearing
overalls, later identified as West was
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Ronald Berry stops for a picture beside some of his hand-crafted whirligigs and windmills at the Mossy Creek
Bamnyard Festival Saturday. Berry, one of dozens of vendors at the weekend festival, traveled from Lancaster, S.C.
The semiannual event draws artisans from Florida to Maine.
until we have a public hearing to
explain the proposed changes.”
Giles, with the Investigations
Division, will not be able to the
Thursday meeting as she is in class
that day and was not consulted on a
meeting date. Cowart said he’s ask
the Sheriff for a representative at
meeting.
Cowart proposed the ordinance,
which would prohibit the residence
of a registered sex offender from
being within 1,500 feet from schools,
child, care facilities or any places
found at _his reside_nce, 125 Hodge
Road, and arrested
without incident.
According to
Houston County
Sheriff’s Office
Investigator Sgt. Joe
Sendek, the victims,
Irma Winslow, 62,
and her daughter,
Allida Wallace, 32,
were transported to
the Macon Medical
Center.
Sendek said Wallace was released
where minors congregate. State law
is 1,000 feet and Cowart had ini
tially proposed 2,500 feet.
The ordinance defines a childcare
facility as any public or private pre
kindergarten, day care center or
preschool facility. School is defined
as all public or private kindergarten,
elementary and secondary schools.
Areas where minors congregate
includes all public and private
parks and recreation facilities, play
grounds, skating rinks, neighbor
hood centers, ggymnasiums and simi-
WEST
Gonfederates rememhered
By KIMBERLY CASSEL
PRITCHETT
HHJ Contributing Writer
Gunshots could be heard
in a quiet area on Stevens
Street in Warner Robins
Friday evening, but it wasn’t
a current act of violence that
drew the shots. These shots
were fired as part of a memo
rial service honoring four
Confederate veterans of the
War Between The States.
A crowd of more than two
dozen gathered amid a tiny
cemetery on Stevens Street
for the Sons of Confederate
Veterans Lieutenant James
T. Woodward Camp 1399
Annual Memorial Service
honoring Sgt. James G.
Bason, Co. G 62nd Ga.
Cavalry; Pvt. John W. Bason,
Co. G 62nd Ga. Cavalry; 2nd
Lieutenant W.L. Burgay, Co.
K 11th Ga. Infantry; and
Pvt. Joseph S. Vinson, Co.
C 6th Ga. Infantry, the four
known Confederate soldiers
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3 p.m. Sunday and as of Monday,
Winslow remains in the intensive care
unit in stable condition.
Sendek said West has lived there
his entire life and knew the victims.
“Apparently,” Sendek said, “because
of his lack of education he didn’t
know how to read or write Allida did
his checking for him.”
Sendek is in charge of the investiga
tion. Sgt. Dave Carrick and Sgt. C.
White, also of the Houston County
Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations
Division, are analyzing the evidence
collected.
lar facilities providing programs or
serviced aimed at persons under
age 18.
The distance is measured from
the outer boundary of the property
of the residence to the outer bound
ary of the property of the school or
facility or area where minors con
gregate.
Gov. Sonny Perdue recently signed
legislation strengthening Georgia’s
laws protecting children from sex
ual predators (HB1059), which
See ORDINANCE, page 5A
buried there.
Re-enactors from the
10th Ga. Volunteer Infantry
and the 16th Ga. Volunteer
Infantry, dressed com
pletely in traditional Civil
War attire, assisted in the
ceremony. The color guard
raised and lowered the sec
ond. national Confederate
flag, also known as “The
Stainless Banner,” which
was used from May 1, 1863,
through March 4, 1865. In
addition, the re-enactors
also presented a three-volley
rifle salute, which drew sev
eral curious onlookers.
“We take justifiable pride
in our Confederate forebear
ers men and women who
sacrificed their lives and
all of their worldly posses
sions,” said Commander
Chris K. Pritchett of SCV
James T. Woodward Camp
1399. “They made these sac
rifices not for themselves but
See MEMORIAL, page 5A