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Parry, GA 31069
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STATE AND REGION BRIEFS
Chinese company investing in Atlanta area with plant
NEWNAN (AP> A
planned soy sauce plant
will represent the first sig
nificant investment in the
Atlanta area by a Chinese
company.
Lehui Enterprises,
China’s largest producer
of food packaging equip
ment, will partner with
an American firm to open
a condiment manufactur
ing plant that could cre
ate more than 200 jobs in
Coweta County over the
next two years.
But local economic
recruiters are also hope
ful the deal will open a
lucrative window between
Georgia and China, one of
the world’s fastest-growing
economies.
“This is a big deal,”
said Hans Gant, senior
vice president of the
Metro Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce. “This is prob
ably the first of many to
come.”
Lehui’s American part
nership, to be called
Kingwasong, will make,
process and package soy
sauce, vinegars, cooking
sherry and other condi
ments at an existing facil
ity in Newnan. The plant
should be operating by the
end of the year, Gant said.
Many Chinese companies
are looking to invest around
the world. And state and
city officials have started
a push to bring them to
Georgia, Gant said.
As part of that effort,
the Georgia Department
of Economic Development
announced Monday it
will open its first office
in China. The office, the
state’s 11th overseas trade
office, is scheduled to open
in Beijing in 2007.
Craig Lesser, commission
er of the state Department
of Economic Development,
will visit China in August
to meet with business and
government leaders and
find a location for the office.
YOUR WEATHER TEAM!
TODAY’S
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Today's Weathe
Local 5-Day Forecast
Thu
6/22
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95/73
Times of sun and
clouds Highs in the
mid 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:28 AM 8:45 PM
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Purchase: Duke’s Tails, Duke Finds a Borne
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Georgia At A Glance
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Area Cities
Albany 95 72 pt sunny
Athens 95 71 pt sunny
Atlanta 93 71 pt sunny
Augusta 94 73 t-storm
Bainbridge 96 74 pt sunny
Brunswick 89 76 pt sunny
Cartersville 95 71 pt sunny
Chattanooga,TN 88 71 pt sunny
Columbus 94 75 pt sunny
Cordele 95 73 pt sunny
National Cities
Atlanta 93 71 pt sunny
Boston 81 70 rain
Chicago 85 62 t-storm
Dallas 93 75 pt sunny
Denver 81 58 t-storm
©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service .
At the same time, offi
cials are working to get
a Chinese consulate in
Atlanta, while Delta Air
Lines is lobbying the '
Chinese and U.S. govern
ments to establish a direct
flight from Atlanta to
Beijing.
Georgia and China are
not strangers when it
comes to trade. Sixty-five
percent of the containers
coming through the Port of
Savannah are from China,
Gant said. In 2004, about
$lO billion in Chinese goods
came through Savannah.
And Georgia exports going
to China totaled $979 mil
lion last year, up 482 per
cent since 1998.
Georgia native who
romanced stars,
passes away
LOS ANGELES (AP)
Vincent Sherman, a Georgia
native who directed and
romanced Bette Davis,
Rita Hayworth and Joan
Crawford during his hey
day as a leading Hollywood
filmmaker in the 1940 s and
‘sos, has died. He would
have been 100 on July 16.
His death Sunday
night of natural causes at
the Motion Picture and
Television Hospital was
announced Monday by his
son, Eric Sherman.
“Vince was in good condi
tion until two months ago,”
said actress Francine York,
his companion for the last
nine years. “In January he
had appeared on a docu
mentary about Humphrey
Bogart, and he told a lot
of good stories. He was the
last of the gentlemen, a real
Southern gentleman.”
Sherman, who was born
in Vienna, had his film
career seriously damaged
by Hollywood’s commu
nist “red scare” and later
became a successful direc
tor of such television series
Meteorologists
Derek Kinkade
and
Jerry Mathewson
Tunis for Ntwi*
Sat
6/24
94/70
Times of sun and
clouds. Highs in the
mid 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:29 AM 8:46 PM
Fri
6/23
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94/71
Mostly sunny. Highs
in the mid 90s and 1
lows in the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:29 AM 8:46 PM
Dalton 95 72 pt sunny
Dillard 88 64 pt sunny
Dublin 97 71 pt sunny
Duluth 93 70 pt sunny
Gainesville 93 72 pt sunny
Helen 91 67 pt sunny
Lagrange 92 70 pt sunny
Macon 95 73 pt sunny
Marietta 93 73 pt sunny
Milledgeville 101 77 pt sunny
Houston 85 72 t-storm
Los Angeles 79 65 cloudy
Miami 86 78 t-storm
Minneapolis 84 63 pt sunny
New York 87 74 t-storm
as “The Waltons,” “Doctors
Hospital,” “Baretta,”
“Trapper John, M.D.” and
“77 Sunset Strip.”
He had begun as an actor,
appearing on Broadway
and in a handful of mov
ies, among them 1933’s
“Counselor at Law,” in
which he had a small but
memorable role as a young
anarchist opposite John
Barrymore. He also wrote
several screenplays, includ
ing “Crime School,” which
starred Bogart and the
Dead End Kids.
Biscayne National
Park fights to
protect resources
BISCAYNE NATIONAL
PARK, Fla. (AP) Stand
Piscover F *Srr Valley
ilain
Outlet
101 E. Main Street • 825-3955
Camellia & Main carries a wide
variety of wall decor, furniture, rugs,
lamps, and other decorative items.
The style is Southern Attitude - a
little whimsy, a lot of elegance. The
Outlet Store is downtown and is open
Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 - 6 and
Saturday 9:30 - 2.
The second Saturday of every month,
8 - noon, there is a warehouse sale at
85 Industrial Blvd. There are great
buys on our overstocks. Come dis
cover great things for your home in
Fort Valley.
STATE AND REGION
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Sun
6/25
4^--
87/68
Isolated thunder
storms. Highs in the
upper 80s and lows
in the upper 60s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:29 AM 8:46 PM
Moon Phases
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Last
Jun 18
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First
Jul 3
liV Index
Thu 6/22 to Very High
Fri 6/23 ft Extreme
Sat 6/24 it Extreme
Sun 6/25 10 Very High
Mon 6/26 9 Very High
The UV Index is measured on a 0-11
number scale, with a higher UV Index
showing the need for greater skin pro
tection. 0 11
Perry 95 73 pt sunny
Rome 101 73 pt sunny
Savannah 92 71 pt sunny
St. Simons Islandß9 76 pt sunny
Statesboro 98 74 t-storm
Thomasville 94 73 pt sunny
Valdosta 93 71 pt sunny
Warner Robins 95 71 pt sunny
Waycross 94 70 pt sunny
San Francisco 79 57 sunny
Seattle 69 52 pt sunny
St. Louis 93 74 pt sunny
Washington, DC 93 74 t-storm
on a walkway looking out
toward the calm, crystal
line waters of Biscayne Bay,
ajid you can see many of
the threats to this unique
national park on Florida’s
southeastern tip.
Miami’s downtown
skyline reflects the devel
opment of roads, homes ■
and businesses rapidly
encroaching on Biscayne
National Park, which is 95
percent water. A large yacht
cruises past, a symbol of the
threat boat groundings pose
to fragile coral reefs and sea
grasses.
Combine these with a
nearly stagnant budget,
and one can add Biscayne
to the list of national parks
that currently face unprece
dented pressures inside and
outside their borders.
Mon
6/26
89/68
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storms possible.
Sunrise Sunset
6:29 AM 8:46 PM
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OBITUARIES
LUTHER A. REEVES SR.
WARNER ROBINS - Luther A. Reeves Sr., 60, passed
away on June 17 in his home. Services will be held at
2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of McCullough Funeral
Home with interment following in Magnolia Park
Cemetery. Visitation will be today from 7 until 9 p.m. at
McCullough Funeral Home. Reeves was born on August
7, 1945, in Monticello. His wife, Brenda E. Reeves, and
his parents, Asa and Addie Reeves preceded him in death.
Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law Karen and
Dr. John Henke, Kathleen; his son, Luther Allen Reeves,
Jr. (David), Warner Robins and grandchildren.
State asks judge to
turn down Williams'
latest challenge
By HARRY R. WEBER
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA The state
asked a federal judge Monday
to reject Wayne Williams’
latest effort to challenge his
incarceration because law
yers for the convicted killer
have failed to show any rele
vance between the case and
an unnamed child molester
on whom they have cast sus
picion.
Williams’ lawyers have
had months to subpoena
records from the DeKalb
County Police Department
regarding the purported sus
pect and have failed to do so,
Assistant Attorney General
Mary Beth Westmoreland
said.
“There is no basis for doing
so now, ” Westmoreland wrote
in an objection to Williams’
request for a judge to recon
sider her dismissal of his
habeas corpus petition.
Earlier this month, law
yers for Williams, blamed
for the murders of two
dozen boys and young men
in the Atlanta area during
the 1970 s and ‘Bos, wrote
in court papers that a child
molester lived or worked
near where many of the bod
ies were found.
The defense asked a feder
al judge for access to police
files on the molester.
The defense did not iden
tify the man by name but
said he is a multiple child
molester serving time in a
Georgia prison. They also
alleged that investigators
knew the man was a viable
suspect in the child mur
ders but never told defense
attorneys.
Most of the victims died
from asphyxiation without
ligature marks and this sus
pect has described to police
his knowledge and skill as to
how to accomplish that act,
the defense motion said.
The lawyers did not elabo
rate on the man or his meth
ods, but said evidence about
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the man resurfaced within
the last year after a police
chief in DeKalb County,
near Atlanta, reopened the
investigation into five kill
ings.
Westmoreland said in her
objection the defense has
not provided any reason to
suggest that the unnamed
molester had anything to
do with the Atlanta child
murders.
“In this claim, petition
er seeks to have this court
reopen the case to allow him
to do what he failed to do
when given the opportuni
ty,” Westmoreland wrote.
She added, “Petitioner
does not state what the evi
dence is, how he became
aware of it ... or even sug
gest that there is a legiti
mate suspect with relation
to the crimes actually used
at trial.”
Between 1979 and 1981,
29 black boys and young
men were killed in the
Atlanta area, spreading fear
throughout the region.
Williams was convicted
in 1982 of murdering two
young men and sentenced to
two consecutive life terms.
Evidence of a pattern of
conduct in 12 of the mur
ders was used in his trial.
Afterward, officials declared
Williams responsible for
22 other deaths, and those
cases were closed.
Williams, who is black,
has contended that he was
framed. He has maintained
that Atlanta officials cov
ered up evidence of Ku Klux
Klan involvement in the
killings to avoid a race war
in the city a claim inves
tigators have denied.
In an April telephone inter
view from prison with The
Associated Press, Williams
said he is confident about
his prospects after more
than 20 years in prison. “I’ll
say this 100 times. It should
be obvious right now of my
innocence,” he said.
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