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Emus at the Center of a Nascent Industry.(Originated from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 1995 by Franklin, Harry
WHITESVILLE, Ga.--Dec. 16--Chuck and Barbara Powell have forsaken traditional jobs to raise birds -- the long-legged, giraffe-necked variety that runs fast, has a powerful kick and speak with an Australian accent.
The couple bought one pair of emus in 1990 for $1,500. In 1992, they both quit good jobs in Columbus to become full-time emu ranchers in western Harris County.
He worked as a Georgia Department of Corrections special intelligence officer at Jack T. Rutledge Correctional Institution. She was a nursing administrative secretary at St. Francis Hospital.
Their daughter, Julie Lopez, left the U.S. Air Force with husband, Blane, to go into the business full-time.
"We quit work, because...we were paying our whole salary to the IRS,"...
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