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Volume 124 No. 40
2 Sections, 18 Pages
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Sports 7A
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Around town
briefly...
Chamber gearing up
for membership drive
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Members of the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce are getting
warmed up this week for their up
coming membership drive.
An annual event, the drive will
kick off Monday, May 23, and con
tinue through Thursday, May 26.
This year’s theme is “The
Olympics”.
According to Drive Chairman
Jim Sexton, there will be three
groups teaming up to recruit new
members for the local chamber.
Their overall goal is to add at least
SO new members to the chamber’s
1994 rosters and a victory dinner on
Thursday evening, May 26, is
already planned.
Teams participating in next
week’s membership drive are the
Red Team headed up by Wanda Sul
livan of W.D. Sullivan and Com
pany; the White Team captained by
Greg Griner of Bank South; and the
Blue Team led by Shiela Hartley of
the Bank of Perry.
New members who join the
chamber during the 1994 Member
ship Drive will be rewarded with a
special incentives package.
For more information, contact
the chamber office at 987-1234.
American Legion plans
Memorial Day services
By PAULINE LEWIS
Staff Writer
Don Norris, Post Commander of
American Legion Post 24, Perry,
announced this week that plans are
nearing completion for the
Memorial Services to be held at
Memorial Gardens, Hwy 41 N, at
11 a.m., on Monday, May 30. The
services are sponsored each year by
American Legion Post 24, Perry.
Commander Norris is especially
anxious that many people pause for
these services to pay tribute to
those who served their country to
help preserve freedom for all of us.
Make your plans to be a part of
Memorial Day services on May 30.
at 11 a.m. at Memorial Gardens.
Special night honors top Westfield students
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Editor
Westfield students were presented
community and academic awards
during the school's 24th Annual
Honors Night Thursday, May 12,
1994.
Held on campus at Westfield's
new gymnatorium, parents, fellow
students, teachers and friends were
on hand to congratulate the follow
ing students who received awards:
•Lon Talton was presented the
Kiwanis Club Scholarship Award
by Perry Kiwanis President Earl
Cheek.
•Kelli Howard was presented die
Perry Business Women's Club
Award by member Ruth Cross.
•Mary Margaret Brannen received
the D.A.R. American History
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Be ‘Radical’!
Teen’s death inspires touching seatbelt campaign
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
A tragedy that claimed the life of
a young Perry teen just six months
ago has inspired a hard-hitting local
campaign promoting the use of
seatbelts.
With the slogan “Be R.A.D.ical,
Buckle Up!”, the campaign is being
launched to coincide with the na
tion-wide “Buckle Up America
Week, May 23-30, and was
influenced by the November 1993
death of 14-year-old Ralph Anthony
“Rad” Dorsett of Perry.
Rad, a freshman at Perry High
School and the son of Ralph and
Joan Dorsett of Perry, died on Nov.
13 last year, just hours after he and
two other teens were involved in a
one-car accident on Highway 341
North in Perry.
The car’s driver and another pas
senger, both of whom were wearing
seatbelts, sustained only minor in
juries. Rad, however, wasn’t so
lucky . . .he hadn’t fastened his
seatbelt and was thrown from the
car.
As a part of the campaign,
which was dreamed up by several
local people including Sgt. Charles
Parker of the Georgia State Patrol
Office in Perry and David Hilder
brand, a friend of the Dorsetts,
bumper stickers sporting the
“R.A.D.ical” slogan are being
printed this week and a commercial,
which stars Rad’s parents and a
group of Perry High School stu
dents, was shot by Peachstate Cable
in Perry on Monday.
The commercial, a public service
offered by the local cable company,
will begin airing on Peachstate’s
Jim Carter making
bid for county post
Editor’s note: The following article on J.B. ‘Jim’ Carter Is the
third of a six part series Intended to Introduce Houston County
voters to the six candidates running for Houston County Commis
sion Post 2. The first two candidate's Ronald Wayne Ragln, a
democrat from Perry, and Nora Reese-Laughlln, a republican from
Warner Robins, were featured In our Wednesday, May 4, and Sat
urday, May 14, editions, respectively. As they consent, the re
mainder of the candidates will be profiled between now and the
July 19 General Primary Elections.
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Although a distinguished and
lengthy military career has taken he
and his family all over the world,
J.B. ‘Jim’ Carter says Perry and
Houston County is the place he
chose to hang his hat for good.
And, today, seven years after he
first hung that hat here, he is toss
ing it into the ring as a Republican
candidate for the Houston County
Commission’s Post 2 seat.
The Post 2 seat is currently held
by Archie Thompson of Perry, who
Award from Mrs. Jerry Langston.
•Schyler West received the D.A.R.
Good Citizenship Award from
Langston.
•Lon Talton received the D.A.R.
Good Citizen Award from
Langston.
•Mary Margaret Brannen was pre
sented the General Excellence
Award from Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall.
•Susanna Turner and Leslie Davis
were the recipients of the Flint
EMC award presented by Mrs. Jean
Floyd.
•The Rotary Club Hugh Hill
Scholarship was presented to Lee
Talton by Perry Rotary President
Skip Dawkins.
•Becky Bledsoe received the
Rotary Youth Leadership Award
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Bill Mitchell, the general manager at Peachstate Cable In Perry,
filmed a public service announcement for the area’s “Be
R.A.D.ical” seatbelt campaign at Perry High Monday. Starring
channels 18, 20, 21, and 33 in the
coming days. Additionally, extra
copies are being made and will be
announced recently that he would
not be seeking a second term. Six
candidates-Carter, two other Re
publicans and three Democrats
have entered the race with the
General Primary to be held July 19.
If necessary, a run-off election will
follow in August.
Others in the race are Republi
cans Nora Reese-Laughlin and John
F. Wylam, both of Warner Robins,
and Democrats Billy Hunter of
Bonaire, Ronald Wayne Ragin of
Perry and Randolph Wynn of
Warner Robins.
from Dawkins.
•American Legion Citizens
Awards were presented by Keiland
Harrington to Kelli Harold and
Travis Watson. Honorable men
tions were given to Mary Margaret
Brannen and Lon Talton.
•Harrington also presented Clay
Smith and Lance Watson American
Legion Boys State awards.
•Vespidae Co-editors Amy Nelson
and Kelly Coleman received the
Houston-Times Journal Award
from Editor Brigette Loudermilk.
•Laurie Thompson and Lon Talton
received National Scholar-Athlete
Awards from Capt. Donna Howard.
•Jim Massey presented the Eric P.
Staples Basketball Award to Lon
Talton and Laurie Thompson.
•Troy Nuss was the recipient of
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“I have never run for office and
am not a politician,” Carter said
during a recent interview with the
the RAFB Officers Wives Club
Scholarship presented by -Mrs.
Laura Peters.
•Lawton Pearson received the
Bausch and Lomb Science Award
from Mrs. Mary Kirksey. *
•Snyder Chapman presented the
first annual Westfield Alumni
Association Award to Jeff Dortch.
•Honor Graduate Awards were pre
sented to Schyler West and Kelli
Harold by Principal Marvin
Arrington.
•Arrington also presented the Star
Student-Teacher Awards to Rocky
Swift and William K. Gottwals. •
•Schyler West received a U.S.
Military Academy Appointment
from Col. James Potter.
•The Berry College Scholarship
was presented to Kelli Harold by
In the commercial were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dorsett and several
Perry High School students
Hilderbrand.
Later in the year, the entire
campaign may also be offered for
J.B. ‘Jim’ Carter
Houston Times-Journal. “But, I am
very interested in the operation and
Please see Carter, page 6A
Ms. Jan Pries ter.
•Travis Watson received the
AAU/MARS All-American Award
presented by Mr. William Rogers.
•Schyler West received the Shell
Century Three Award from Rogers.
•The Georgia College Award was
presented to Schyler West by
Rogers.
•Sean Christy and Lawton Pearson
received Certificates of Merit,
University of Georgia, from
Rogers.
•Recipients of the Presbyterian
College Junior Academic
Achievement Awards, presented by
Rogers, were Becky Bledsoe, Sean
Christy, Leslie Davis and Lawton
Pearson.
•NEDT Certificates were presented
Please see Honors, page 6A
Classified
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Perry, Georgia - 50 Cents
state-wide use through the Georgia
Legislature.
Please see Buckle up, page 6A
Hot rods to roar
into Perry for
weekend show
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Look out, Perry, they’re on their
way!
Mild and wild, chopped and
dropped, painted and plated, modi
fied and rodified
Street rods, hot rods, classics,
customs, muscle cars and tricked
out trucks of all types, sizes and
styles.
That's right! It’s time for the
Goodguys Dixie Rod and Custom'
Classic and hundreds of exciting
vintage vehicles, dated from 1902
to 1972, will be rolling into Perry
this weekend for what has been
dubbed the “state fair for
automotive enthusiasts”.
The third event of the Goodguys
Rod and Custom Association’s Na
tional Rod and Custom Summer
Series, the Perry show will be held
from 8 a.m. until S p.m. Saturday,
May 21, and from 8 a.m. until 3
p.m. Sunday, May 22, at the Geor
gia National Fairgrounds and Agri
center in Perry.
Admission is $6 for adults; and
$4 for seniors, ages 60 and over.
Kids under 12 will be admitted free.
Discount coupons are available at
most middle Georgia Arby’s
restaurants.
Featured at the weekend show
will be more than 1,000 “rad and
bad” street rods; cool, colorful and
classy customs and classics; and
hundreds of varieties of other
modified, rodified, customized and
restored vintage cars.
There will even be special ap
pearances by the "ZZilla Tours”--a
collection of rods and customs be
longing to the rock and roll band,
ZZ Top. Included in this special
attraction is a 1948 Cadillac custom
car coined “CadZZilla”, a 1934 Ford
coupe called “The Eliminator”, and
a number of custom Harley motor
cycles known as “The
Please see Hot rode, page 6A
