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One of these young ladies will be crowned the 1980 Basketball
Sweetheart at Saturday night’s final game of the season.
Saturday night is the annual Basketball Festival sponsored
by the Athletic Booster Club. Girls vying for the title (1-r)
are: seated-Freshman Page Cash, Sophomore Holly Starr,
Sophomore Lori Ledbetter and Freshman Susan Corry;
School System To Receive $28,000
From State Toward Construction
BY CATHY PUCKETT
Staff Writer
Forsyth County School System will
receive over $28,000, in windfall con
struction funds during the month of
February, from the Hazard Reserve
and Depreciation Funds, alloted by the
Georgia Education Authority.
According to School Superintendent
Robert Otwell, the funds are the final
dispersement from some $165,000, the
system has received in state funds for
construction and renovation projects.
Otwell said school officials haven’t
decided whether the funds will be used
toward construction projects underway
or new projects, but the money will be
used for renovation or building.
While Georgia schools will receive
‘Herbie’ Has Own Unique Personality
BY CATHY PUCKETT
Staff Writer
It all started about three years ago, when Marie Perrigo bought a slightly
used Volkswagen car from her father, who she says “likes to tinker with
cars.”
Mrs. Perrigo liked the little Volkswagen a lot and didn’t seem to mind that
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Ready to hop in “Herbie” and take a spin, Mrs. Marie Perrigo says seeing the
smiles people have on their faces when they see the little car, makes her day.
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Sweethearts
Standing-Junior Regina Westray, Senior Ginger Orr, Senior
Donna McWhorter and Junior Dana Echols. Prior to the var
sity games the parents of the varsity teams will pair off for
two big games beginning at 5 p.m. The new Basketball
Sweetheart will be crowned by last year’s winner, Deborah
Mills.
approximately $13.8 million in the wind
fall construction funds this month, For
syth County’s portion is to be $28,845.01.
State School Superintendent Charles
McDaniel said the funds will be
distributed to 172 of the state’s 187 school
districts, with entitlements ranging
from $777.43 to almost $2 million.
“The money can be used to renovate
and expand existing school buildings,”
McDaniel said, “but school districts
have previously been advised that they
cannot take the money and use it to
fund teacher salaries.”
McDaniel noted, however, that these
unanticipated construction funds might
allow school officials to shift local
monjes already earmarked for con
struction to more general school needs.
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He explained that money the state
borrowed to build new schools dating
back to 1961 were paid off early, and now
the last payments from the hazard and
reserve funds kept to cover those loans
are being returned to the school
districts.
“Earlier last year an initial distribu
tion of some $42.5 million in hazard and
reserve funds were made to 154
systems,” said McDaniel. “This final
payment depletes the funds which had
been invested in U.S. Government
securitites maturing in January.”
The early pay-out plan was worked
out last year when unanticipated
federal funds were received allowing
the state to set aside $lO5 million for in
vestment with the interest going to pay
it wasn’t in the best shape. She and her husband Terry discussed fbeing up
the little car, but Mrs. Perrigo says she didn’t want the sagging back bumper
fixed cause it added kind of a special touch to the little car.
A visit to the garage helped with some of the repair work needed on the
car, but the interior was still in bad shape.
It really tickled Mrs. Perrigo when her husband painted the name, “Her
bie,” on the back of the little car, and she decided further fixing up of the car
was in order. She bought a dollar’s worth of red vinyl and got some red
velour material and got busy. Her husband cut one-fourth inch plywood
panels for the door panels and she sewed the fabrics in the little car and
made side pockets for the doors.
“Herbie was definitely beginning to have a personality,” Mrs. Perrigo
said. She then decided to go further in fixing up the little car. When a
talented girlfriend of hers visited they decided to give the little car a face to
match its personality. Using spray can lids, peanut can lids, a platter, and
other household items they began drawing circles that would become a
facial expression to be painted on the front of “Herbie.”
When it came to fixing the eyes on the car, Mrs. Perrigo said she had seen
several cars with painted faces but they all had the headlights as the eyes of
the face. Not feeling completely satisfied with the headlights for Herbie’s
eyes, she patterned the lazy-looking eyes on the car after a plastic kangaroo
bubble bath bottle. Soon, “Herbie” had a face to match his already nice per
sonality, Mrs. Perrigo said.
But the little car’s painted on face and new interior isn’t all that’s unique
about it - Herbie has a strange way of running when least expected. “The
road was washed out on Bald Ridge Road. I went around a curve and a big
truck ran me off the road. I cut the engine off, and when I got out of Herbie
there was water coming up to the windows. I went to a house nearby and call
ed my husband to come rescue me. When the car was pulled out of the water,
he got in and it cranked right up. When we got home it had water in the oil,
water here and water everywhere, but it cranked and got us home. It just
didn’t know it wasn’t suppose to run after that,” Mrs. Perrigo said.
The nicest part about “Herbie” is the smiles and waves it brings to Mrs.
Illegal Drug Lab
Uncovered Here
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Depart
ment and the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation conducted a raid last week
that resulted in the largest drug
manufacturing lab confiscation in the
history of the county, according to
Sheriff Wesley Walraven.
The raid was made on a mobile home
just off James Burgess Road in the
Sharon Community in south Forsyth
County.
Walraven said his department along
with GBI officials conducted the raid
late last Wednesday. Found inside the
mobile home and arrested was Charles
Verrill, 29, of an Atlanta address.
Inside the mobile home was
discovered a suspected metham
phe amine laboratory with contents
valued in excess of $90,000 street value.
All the equipment was seized, including
large tanks and other items suspected
in the manufacturing of illegal drugs.
Verrill was charged with violation of
the Georgia Controlled Substance Act
and is being held in Forsyth County Jail
under $50,000 bond.
Also seized at the time of the raid
were three vehicles, several guns and
other items.
Since that time a warrant has been
issued for Susan Horvieth, age
unknown, who rented the mobile home
about a month ago. Officials have as yet
been enable to find the woman.
LasvThursday, the day after the raid,
officials were inside the mobile home
cleaning it up when a car drove up and
evidently the driver suspected
something had taken place and he
jumped out of his oar and fled through
the woods.
Upon inspection of the vehicle, of
ficers found 80 pounds of suspected
marijuana with an estimated street
value of $35,000. The unidentified white
male who fled the scene was not ap
off school bonds. The investment now
replaces reserve funds set aside when
the school bonds were originally sold.
All districts were not included in the
windfall because not all participated in
building programs which required the
bonds.
In addition to the 172 entitlements to
local school systems, the State Board of
Education will receive two grants total
ing approximately $105,000, for the
state-operated education television sta
tions in Warm Springs (WJSP-TV,
Channel 28) and Pembroke (WVAN-TV,
Channel 9).
McDaniel urged school systems to
consider using at least a portion of the
funds to make school buildings more
energy efficient.
prehended.
This was one of the largest marijuana
seizures ever in the county, according
Icy Coat
Ice covered trees gave a winter-wonderland effect to the hillsides of Forsyth Coun
ty last week as icy cold temperatures dipped to the teens and low 20’s.
Burglary Ring
Is Broken Up
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Depart
ment last week cleared up a north
Georgia burglary ring, solving what of
ficers feel will mean a reduction of
burglaries in the area.
Arrested were two couples with
Buford addresses, Butch and Linda
Johnson and Willis and Donna
Metheny. Johnson is 26 and his wife is
31 and Metheny is 25 and his wife is 21.
They were arrested by Forsyth Coun
ty Investigative Unit officers and
charged with burglary. According to In
vestigator J.C. Adams, “These arrests
have enabled us to clear three cases in
Forsyth County, three in Gwinnett
County, four in Hall County and three in
Barrow County.”
Adams said the burglaries were all
house burglaries whereby small ap
pliances, jewelry, money and other
items were taken. Reports show that
some $5,000 worth of merchandise has
already been recovered.
Adams said that further investigation
should result in solving numerous other
burglaries and possibly other felony
crimes.
The Johnson couple is being held
Perrigo. “The kids just have a fit over Herbie. A lot of times I’ll see a car
with kids in it and they’ll get their mom or dad to speed up so they can et
close to Herbie and see him. They smile and wave, and that makes me happy
so I smile and wave. It’s a good feeling when I ride in Herbie, smiles are con
tagious, you know,” she said.
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Mrs. Marie Perrigo points to Herbie’s name on the back of the car.
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to reports.
The investigation is continuing by the
Sheriff’s Department and the GBI.
under $30,000 bond each and bond is
pending on the Metheny couple.
Reports show that the Johnson couple
are already on probation in Gwinnett
County and Metheny has previously
served time in the penel system.
Gwinnett, Hall and Barrow Counties,
all, have a hold on both couples as soon
as bond in made in Forsyth.
Sgt. Adams added, “We feel confi
dent that we will now see a reduction in
home burglaries in our area with the ar
rests of these four people.”
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Cumming City Police reports show
that last Saturday around 6:20 p.m. a
car driven by Dannie Virginia Bailey,
31, Rt. 5, Cumming, was stopped on
Hwy. 19 to turn left onto Pilgrim Road
when a vehicle driven by James L.
Padgett, 24, Ball Ground, failed to stop
and struck the Bailey vehicle in the
rear.
Padgett and his younger brother,
Wayne, 14, were taken to the Forsyth
County Hospital and treated for in
juries, along with Mrs. Bailey.
Padgett was charged with DUI and
following too closely.