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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 JJ 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 PERIODICAL Award- Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest 1..11.11....11..11 1.111...11...11 1.11...11 COOI 0 GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Man Library UN IV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30(102-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 Sb’K\ i.\g IlnrsTos Gn xn Si\ci£ IS7O (7TT X i irimtsttm jMtnnr if (Ehe Sanxtml LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, cm 7 of Warner Robins and cm 7 of Centerville 21 CP a model for air base support ByRAYUGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer 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 project was the m Wm&KBBk m I v. M ra 'Hk W I m M m&gg' MB Li, * r - JiRKL §9 .iA--" - K A im&j -v - ViiiMlßiii ENI Gary Harmon Students load the shell of a Mark 6 atomic bomb for transport to the Museum of Aviation on Wednesday. The 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 > Hr 7 |§ ‘ .MSB • JMfIUfR ggps JfKjgjgl BS: 3 ■■ • www. hhjnews. com 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 See CP, page 6A 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 |gg^| HHJ Hay Li| BOMB 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 See BOMB, page 6A 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. ENlyGary Harmon iv Eva v.v F\ u//.v \/:\\sr\ri;R 50^ pupil 8 *5 5108*0 0 0 04 TWO SECTIONS • 12 PAGES 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.