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Bryan Geter
Asks Help in Solving Monday Night Robbery
and Hammert Road. j
Turner said the suspect pulled
up behind the victim in an older
model dark in color full size pick-
up truck with a silver stripe or
moulding do the side and bumped
into the victim.
The victim exited the vehicle
and spoke with the subject, who
stated to the victim, "Give Me Your
Money."
The subject then struck the vic-
tim in the forehead with a flashlight.
The victim was stunned and fell
to the ground.
The subject then took the vic-
tim's wallet which contained $45, $4
of change in his pocket and a bottle
• roup County Sheriff Donny
asking for citizens to be
the lookout for two men involved
an armed robbed of a man on
around 10:30 p.m. at the
of Mobley Bridge Road
of "Oxycontin" and fled toward
Hogansville on the Mobley Bridge
Road.
Turner said the victim said it
was two black males.
One was described as medium
height, heavy in weight, mid to late
20's, medium complexion.
He was wearing a dark colored
jacket.
The other, he said, a passenger
in the truck was wearing a dark jack-
et with something white on under-
neath, possibly, a white T-shirt.
• Anyone with any information,
call the Troup County Sheriff's
Office or 911.
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Education,
Budget Get
Top Foc00as
Hogansville's Senator, Reps
Hard at Work Under Dome
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least $ OFRCIAL- City Attorney Dan Lee swears in the mayor and new council members of Hogansville during
Monday's council meeting. Pictured with Lee are (L-R) Mayor Wilson St. Clair, Councilmen Bobby Joe Frazier,
Charlie Frank Martin and Lee.
and Cow...
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WARM FUN, 00NS00DE - Desp00e the
winter weather,
something going on at the
Senior Center most of
time. Pictured above are (L-R)
Nell Gordy, Edith Wilkerson,
Lowe and Jean Ellington
Rummikub. Bottom Right:
86, of Hogansville
good book to read while
at the
. Hogansville Senior Center
on Monday.
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By Bryan Geter
Three legislators who
represent Hogansville were
under the Gold Dome at the
Georgia State Capitol in
Atlanta on Monday as the
General Assembly kicked off
the 2002 session.
Senator Dan Lee (D),
Representatives Carl Von
Epps (D) and Jeff Brown (R)
expressed their opinions and
desires with other legislators
on Monday.
Lee shared his opinion on
education - how much fund-
ing should go to the
University System.
"In Georgia, we have a
problem with the HOPE
(scholarships) in that money
pays for most of a child's
tuition, but the tuition does-
n't cover the budget for the
University System," he stat-
ed. "By the time it's over, each
parent puts in about $8,000 a
year for the child. If the child
goes to school for two years
and doesn't complete it,
someone is out $16,000."
LAST WEEK, Governor
Roy Barnes told members of
the House and Senate Budget
committee that the state rev-
enues were plummeting and
he plans to increase the state
bond indebtedness by $900
million.
"While the money would
be used for construction - to
build smaller classroom
sizes, this is also a plan for
teacher pay raises - a way to
bring more teachers to
Georgia," Lee said.
Lee said he was for
teacher raises but not for allo-
cating $300 million toward
the University System.
"I think the money could
be better spent in teclmicai
school promotions.
The senator will also
introduce other bills that will
help Troup County as well as
Hogansville and his entire
district.
Lee said he is for intro-
ducing legislation that will
use one-cent of the current
gasoline sales tax to go for
local assistance for road
resurfacing programs.
He said he wants inmates
to spend whatever money
that have in their prison
account before claiming indi-
gence in civil suits.
He said this was real prob-
lem statewide with people
who are arrested to claim
indigence when they are not.
"I believe equal repre-
sentation but a lot of people
have money, but are getting
lawyers from money of tax-
payers.
He said he is still "reel-
ing" about last years redis-
tricting plan.
"It has made seats more
secure for incumbents
Democrats," Lee said.
Epps said mental health
was his top priority Monday
as the 40-day session begun.
HE and House Speaker
Tom Murphy sponsored
House Bill 498, a bill which
would change regional men-
tal health, mental retardation
and substance abuse boards
into regional"planning tin_it s"
boards.
Epps said we have alayer
of bureaucracy that in his
opinion has not been totally
accountable.
"This bill will increase
accountability in the whole
delivery system," he stated.
Epps said the budget is
another issue he will take a
good look at since the state
has experienced its first
shortfall in about 50 years
after five consecutive
months of revenue reduc-
tions.
REP. BROWN, a
Republican, said he wants the
state government to re-
assess
plans for water, health-
care and community service
boards such as Pathways.
He said the governor's
transportation board is a fail-
ure and teachers and other
state workers deserve a pay
raise.
"The state budget is full
of unnecessary "pork,"
Brown
He said the state budget
is filled with wasteful spend-
ing.
Brown said he will intTO-
duce legislation that will give
community service boards
across the state a better
checks-and-balances system.
Arrest Woman Seen 'Running All Over the Road'
Hogansville Police
arrested a Fayette
woman last week and
charged her with DUI after sever-
al calls came into 911 stating a driv-
er on 1-85 was "running all over the
road."
Marti Lisa Supensky of
Fayetteville exited the interstate at
the Hogansville ramp and was fol-
lowed by several motorists who had
concerns about her driving in the
condition she was in, a HPD officer
stated.
Supensky entered the Days Inn
parking lot.
She got out of her 1988 Ford
van, the officer stated, and then
tried to get back in the vehicle.
That is when she was appre-
hended, according to the police
reports.
Supensky refuse the breatha-
lyr test, police said, but five liters
of cold wine was found in the van.
She was taken to the Troup
County jail.
