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VOL. 60, NO. 46 HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA - THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 2003 10 PAGES • 1 SECTION • 1 INSERT ,50¢
Planning
Underway
For Yule
Parade
Fugitive
Arrested
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
Hogansville's annual
Christmas Parade is sched-
uled for Saturday, Dec. 6
and people putting the
parade together need to
know who the participants
will include.
Sign-up for participating
in the parade is on-going and
there is no entry fee.
A parade application
form can be found on Page
5-A of today's Home News
and the forms can be picked
up at Community Bank and
Trust, Flag Bank, Just For
You Antiques, The Video
Place, Roger's "Pit-Cooked"
Barbecue or by contacting
Toni Striblin at 706-637-4959.
Faxes may be sent to
Striblin at 706-637-4100.
Parade organizers said
this week that "We need
parade participants. No
Entry Fee!. (We're) looking
for floats and vehicles,
marching groups and bands,
churches, civic groups, busi-
nesses, schools, industry
representatives, first-time
entries, people and animals,
drum lines, majorettes, flag
twirlers, singers and beau-
ty queens and kings."
This year's parade
theme is "A Holly Jolly
Christmas."
Line-up for the parade
on Dec. 6 will be at 4 p.m.
Judging will begin at 4:15
p.m. and the parade through
town will begin at 5 p.m.
"Every entry must be
decorated for Christmas,"
the organizers said.
There will be carolers all
along the route downtown as
well as free Christmas treats
for children.
Santa will be ready to see
the children at the pavilion
after the parade, the organ-
izers said.
• ' ..... By Clint Claybrook
SETTING THE MOOD - Jennifer Jones, right, and Trisha Bell are helping get
Hogansville ready for the fast-approaching Christmas season. They're shown deco-
rating a tree that shoppers will see at Just For You Antiques. The city's official
Christmas Parade will be Saturday, Dec. 6.
At House
'Troup's Most Wanted' Caught
At Residence in Hogansville
By JOHN KUYKENDALL
Troup County Sheriff's
deputies arrested one of
Troup's most wanted fugi-
tives and another man in
Hogansville on Thursday,
Nov. 6, according to Troup
County Sheriff Donny
]hrner.
"The man was one of our
top 10 most wanted fugi-
tives," Turner said after the
arrest. "We had outstanding
warrants on him for traffick-
ing cocaine and possession of
marijuana with the intent to
distribute."
tody at a residence on Brooks
Road in Hogansville. The
charges had been pending on
Cameron since May 1, 2003
when a search warrant was
executed at a North Boyd
Road address in Hogansville
by drug agents.
"While deputies were at
the Brooks Road address
arresting Cameron, they
made contact with another
man being sought in the May
1 incident as well," Turner
said.
Deputies found
Rodriques Deon Cameron at
the Brooks Road address,
who had previously been
charged in the same incident
as Santardura Cameron and
was currently out on bond on
charges of trafficking in
cocaine and possession of
marijuana with the intent to
distribute. However,
Rodriques Cameron will now
face additional charges.
According to Turner,
Rodriques Cameron sold
$150 worth of suspected
cocaine to an undercover
on Sept. 17 and $150
to
another agent on Sept. 24.
Rodriques Cameron was sub-
sequently charged with two
counts of sale of suspected
cocaine and two counts of
unlawful use of a communi-
cation facility during the
commission of a drug trans-
action (using a telephone to
sale drugs).
Both men are currently
being held in the Troup
County Jail without bond.
HOGANSVILLE DEATHS
• Services were held Wednesday for Jerry W. McWhorter,
59, who died Monday at West Georgia Medical Center. A
U.S. Navy veteranof the Vietnam conflict, he lived in
Hogansville most of his life,
• Details, Other Deaths, 6A
Cause Damage;
Get Cars Started
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
It must have been an
incompetent car thief or
bumbling thieves that tried
to make off with at least three
different vehicles from the
Parking lot at Industrial
Specialty Fabrics in
I-Iogansville recently.
On Nov. 5, while a police
fficer was working one case
involving illegally entering
an automobile at the parking
lot, '¢¢e noticed another vehi-
cle with the driver's side win-
dow broken out and they did
the same thing to this vehi-
cle," the officer reported.
"They took the steering
Wheel collar off and tried to
start (the car)."
The vehicle in that case
belonged to Rachard Norton,
Who said that her billfold was
taken from the vehicle. The
billfold contained two credit
Cards, her driver's license
nd Social Security Card,
Police were told.
THE OTHER CAR to
thieves had done the
Same thing was a 1996 Honda
ivic belonging to Florenthin
1. Martinez of 510 S. Lee St.,
according to that police
In a separate incident,
Pamela Gail Watson report-
ed that while she was at work
at the ISF Plant that day,
somebody attempted to
break into her 1992 Chevrolet
Lumina while it was in the
plant's parking lot.
That effort resulted in
"considerable damage to the
driver's side window,"
according to that police
report, which said that "at this
time several other cars were
damaged" in the parking lot
during that night.
ALSO, according to
police reports:
• Sabrina Zelaya told
police on Nov. 1 that some-
body had gone into her auto-
mobile and taken a bank card
belonging to her mother,
Martha Lindsey. Zelya told
police that she discovered the
card was missing while she
was cleaning out the vehicle.
• Also, according to anoth-
er report to police, Dennis
Michael ' H. White of 110
Brazell St. reported that on
Nov. 3, somebody went into
his 1988 Crown Victoria in
that parking lot and took a
number of CD's and a bottle
containing some 70 prescrip-
tion Xanax pills, It was
unclear where it was parked.
By Clint Claybrook
VETERANS' SCENE- Decorations were up early this week for the Veterans
Day Ceremony on Tuesday at Calvin Hipp Memorial Park near downtown
Hogansville. World War II veterans were saluted, along with others who
have served in the U.S. military.
Veterans Day
Crowd Small,
But Grateful
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
Only a few dozen people gathered
at Calvin Hipp Memorial Park in
Hogansville on Tuesday to pay tribute
to America's men and women in uni-
form.
There was particular emphasis on
Veterans Day on the veterans who in
many quarters are credited with "sav-
ing the world" during the titanic strug-
gles of World War II.
HogansviUe City Councilman Jack
Leidner, who served his time in the
U.S. Army, was the featured speaker:
He reminded the crowd of veterans'
sacrifices that "are the foundation of
American freedom."
Calling attention to the monument
in the park that pays tribute to
Hogansville's veterans, he noted that
"it helps to remind us that there are
faces and families behind each name"
of those who paid the ultimate price
for freedom and never returned from
America's wars.
"Today, Veterans Day, we say thank
you to all of those service personnel
we are so fortunate to have still among
us as friends, nghbors and family,"
he said.
See VETERANS, Page 2A
