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FRIDAY
June 16, 2006
VOLUME 136 , NUMBER 118
OUR
FRONT
PORCH
COMING SATURDAY
Honoring by art
■ Stan Durrance honors sister by
using her sibling's artwork as logo
for the new company Bob White
Self-Storage.
- Lifestyle
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IN BRIEF
Free heaKh screenings
■ The Medical Center of
Central Georgia in Macon will
present free health screenings
and seminars at Cancer Info
Day on Wednesday at The
Wellness Center on Northside
Drive from 8 a.m.-noon.
The free screenings will
include blood pressure, blood
sugar, PSA screening, skin
exam, breast exam, and body
fat analysis.
The American Cancer Society
will present a free seminar
beginning at 9 a m.
Police camps
■ The Warner Robins Police
Department will be sponsoring
summer camps for the youth
in Houston County, with dates
and particulars as follows:
June 26-30 from 9 a.m.-4
p.m.: This day camp will be
held at the Elks lodge on Carl
Vinson Parkway and is for
students of Houston County in
the fourth, fifth and sixth grade.
The cost is S4O per person.
July 10-21 from 9 a.m.-4
p.m.: Activities include bowl
ing, skating, movies, swim
ming and much more.
This two-week day camp will
be held at Huntington Middle
School and is for students of
Houston County in the sixth,
seventh and eighth grade.
The cost is SSO per person.
Lunch will be provided.
For more information call
Warner Robins Police
Department at 929-7260.
BIRTHDAYS
■ Lavan Johnson
■ Wade Stewart
DEATHS
■ Grace N. Adkins
■ Emma Jean Custer
■ James Lott Gibbs
INDEX
LOCAL . 2 A
WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
HEALTH 5 A
LIFESTYLE 9 A
SPORTS 1 B
FAITH & FAMILY .. 3 B
COMICS 4 B
CLASSIFIEDS .... 5 B
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While BRAC is over the mission of
the 21st Century partnership is not.
The lobby group, which met
Thursday, is charged with garnering
community support for Robins Air
College welding
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Middle Georgia Techincai College welding class logged approximately 750 hours to restore the shell.
Shell of Cold War moved to museum
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A symbol of the Cold War found
a new home at the Museum of
Aviation at Robins Air Force Base on
Wednesday.
Since April 2005, welding students
from Middle Georgia Technical
College have worked day to day to
repair the damaged shell of a Mark 6
atomic bomb.
“It’s been an on-again, off-again
project for us,” said MGTC welding
instructor Mike McMahan.
According to McMahan, his stu
dents logged roughly 750 hours
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Force Base. It continues its efforts,
efforts which have been praised
as a model for the Air Force by
Gen. Moseby, commander of the Air
Force.
The organization is a lobbying
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repairing the bomb, with work on
the nose cone, tail fins and the body
of the bomb itself.
“Basically, as it was moved from
place to place, it probably was
dropped off a forklift a few times,”
he said. “We had some dents to deal
with.”
McMahan said that about 15 stu
dents worked on the project.
“There’s been a number of stu
dents involved,” he said.
Jason Everman, a 26-year-old
MGTC student from Warner Robins,
worked on the project from the
beginning. Everman, who said he
came to work through the military
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and is working towards a career as a
metal worker, said he spent roughly
150-200 hours on the project alone,
working a few hours every day.
“There was a lot of work that had
to be done,” he said. “It was a long
term project for us.”
The bomb itself was deeded to the
museum from the National Museum
of the United States Air Force at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Ohio. The bomb, at one point, was
stored at Fort Dix, the U.S. Army
installation in New Jersey.
After workers at the museum fin
ish a new paint job with period
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Refreshing
new
business
Young entrepeneurs
Jake and Jordan
Johnson along with
Cody Norton sold
grape juice and lemon
ade, along with stuffed
animals, this week on
Momingside Drive in
Perry.
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Fair
impact
keeps
growing
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Officials at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds &
Agricenter in Perry outlined
their plans Wednesday for
this year’s Georgia National
Fair in October.
A record 400,615 people
passed through the turn
styles last year, generating
more than $1.29 million in
paid gate admissions and a
total of more than $3.5 mil
lion in revenues.
Executive Director Michael
Froehlich told the Georgia
Agricultural Exposition
Authority on Wednesday
that the fairgrounds crossed
a historic milestone this
month, generating more
than $1 billion in economic
impact for the state through
its events, which began in
June 1990.
According to Froehlich,
the state has invested
roughly $39 million in oper
ating expenses since the
fairgrounds’ conception, and
another SSO million in capi
tal projects.
“You’re looking at a major
investment,” he said.
Despite rising gas prices,
the cancellation of Gretchen
Wilson’s much-anticipated
concert and the aftermath of
one of the most violent and
devastating hurricane sea
sons in the nation’s history,
Froehlich said last year’s
fair “overcame the odds”
and was still a success.
This year, Froehlich
said the fair is once again
expected to break atten
dance records. This year’s
fair will coincide with fall
break for young students
in Houston County schools.
The Reithoffer Midway is
expected to stay open later to
accomidate larger crowds.
This year’s concert lineup,
a major attraction at the fair,
will include country music
superstars Big & Rich, who
are scheduled to perform Oct.
14. Gretchen Wilson, who
agreed to return to the fair
this year, is slated to perform
Oct. 7. The Country Gold
Tour, featuring Leroy Van
Dyke and the Auctioneers,
is slated to return this year.
Fairgrounds officials said
Wednesday they have sched
uled the concert to begin
at 3 p.m. Oct. 15, appeal
ing to families between that
Sunday’s church services.
Early this month, fair
grounds officials revealed
that The Beach Boys with
Mike Love will perform Oct.
13, hoping to attract a var
ied crowd.
Last year, the Reithoffer
Midway set a new single
day record for the company
Oct. 15, generating more
than $383,000 on that single
Saturday alone. Total rev
enues for the midway topped
See FAIR, page 6A
21st
Century
Partnership
chairman
Eddie
Wiggins
(at lec
tum) talks
with the
member
ship about
the capital
campaign.