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Volume 6 — No. 4
ALBEMARLE SENIOR HIGH NEWSPAPER
311 Palestine Road Albemarle, N.C. 28001 982-3711
December 18, 1981
It Rained On Our Parade
By FREDIA BLACKMON
On Monday, November 30 the
annual Albemarle Christmas
Parade got underway despite in
clement weather conditions.
Many students from Albemarle
High participated in this rainy
event.
Our homecoming queens, Re
gina Blackmon and Laura
Mauldin, started out our “Bull
dog Stampede” in the car of
David Harwood. Then later came
the varsity cheerleaders and our
notorious marching band, play
ing an assortment of Christmas
music, followed by our junior
varsity cheerleaders.
There were various young
ladies and gentlemen represent
ing our school organizations in
the parade: Mike Butler and
Tracy Morgan, Mr. and Mrs.
FBLA; Lane Griffin and Cindy
Lingerfelti, Mr. and Mrs. VICAr
and David Burris and Amy Lam
bert, Mr. and Mrs. DECA. The
FHA members participated in
the festive affair also, carrying a
red and white banner. Several
members featured some home
economic topics such as food,
housing, and clothing.
Although the parade was cold,
rainy, and about 40 degrees,
there were still numerous spec
tators, and hopefully that will be
the worst weather for the parade
ever.
THE AMERICAN HUNTER
By BOBBY GASKIN
The 1981-82 hunting season for
the American hunter has begun
and is already about half over.
This year’s season began with
dove hunting, a season for people
who like to sit in a corn field on a
hot summer day and shoot up a
box of shells at quick moving tar
gets (like a battleship fires at
enemy planes, rarely bringing
one down.)
After dove season comes deer
season, for the bow hunter, that
is. He likes to pretend that he is
an Indian. He camouflages his
face with greasy paint that he
eventually rubs off while swat
ting mosquitoes buzzing around
his face. He sneaks up a tree and
stands on an old rotten board that
may give away at any time and
waits for the arrival of his beauti
ful whitetail buck, which prob
ably never arrives. The buck,
however, does come into view
sometimes, but the hunter’s ar
row usually pegs a tree or some
other obstacle before it reaches
the deer’s soft fur coat. Mr. Ed
wards is very knowledgeable of
this hazard.
Black powder season rolls in
for a week after bow season and
then rolls back out. This season is
for the hunter that thinks that he
is Daniel Boone or Davy
Crockett. This hunter puts on his
leather clothes and loads his rifle
for that one possible shot. After
hunting that day, the hunter must
unload his rifle. The only way to
unload a percussion rifle is by fir
ing it and that is what he does. To
his surprise he possibly scares up
a buck standing ten yards in front
of himself. Some hunters, like
Mr. Shaw, carry rifles that do not
fire, but that is what they get for
trying to be Daniel Boone.
After the primitive weapon sea
sons leave, the regular gun sea
son arrives. This season is for
your average hunter who hunts
on opening day and then on holi
days. The gun hunter uses expen
sive rifles and wears five or more
layers of warm clothes to keep
from freezing. He also wears a
bright orange vest on top of
everything else to keep from be
ing mistaken for a whitetail deer.
This hunter usually hunts with a
lot of friends. He does not walk
stealthily into the cold, thick
forest like the bow hunter, but
stomps through the leaves like a
big, fat bear. He crawls into his
stand like a pig might and usually
drops one or two things on the
way up. After a few minutes, he
gets comfortable and goes to
sleep.
This is the story of the Ameri
can hunter, striving for that limit
of doves, that bag of squirrels, or
that twelve point buck which he
may never see. He persists from
youth to old age, no matter what
the cost.
Christmas Wishes
What do you want from Santa Claus? This question has been going
around a lot lately. As Christmas draws near, many people have been
making out their lists for old Saint Nick. These were the humble re
quests we heard from students at Albemarle High:
Mack Morgan and Doug Winecoff: “A trash bag full!”
Mr. Blalock: “A new sponge.”
David Smith: “A brand new ankle and a big kisslrom TAD to go
with it.”
Bobby Gaskin: “A trip to the Yukon to kill a polar bear.”
Margaret Hudson: “A trip to Colorado.”
Reggie Pratt: “I want to be a lover like my brother.”
Gerard Richardson: “Carol Harbers on a silver platter. ’ ’
Lawrence Frick: “Mad Dog (MDA). Awhooooooo! ’ ’
Mrs. Hampton: “I want for all my students to speak French as
well as Cliff Mainor.”
David Harwood: “I want a jam box like Wesley’s, red hair like
Steve’s, the ability to put it away like Smith, and clothes like Brent
‘GQ’ Williams.”
Crystal Vincent: “A date with the man of my dreams.”
Kip Cook: “What have you got?”
Brent Williams: “A subscription renewal to GQ magazine.”
Anthony Reese: “I want to be all-conference and to be a super jock
like Jimmy‘Lou’Wentz.”
Bob Andrew: “A pair of tweezers to pull splinters out after
games.”
Tony Underwood: “A new pair of roller skates for next year’s foot
ball season.”
'Jonathan Hinson: “An ‘A’ in Mr. Johnston’s class.”
David Livingston: “I want to have a front row seat at the wres
tling match on Christmas day with Gary Hughes right beside me
Freebird!”
Mary Moose: “A trip to Michigan, a suntan, and a coat like
Fredia’s.”
Tracy Asbury: “I don’t want the plane to crash on the way to
California.”
Fredia Blackmon: “I want to have a dance in the cafeteria when
the chairs aren’t in conflict.”
Patricia Little: “Doug in my Christmas stocking with a ring.”
Carol Harbers: “A Mercedes Sport to park beside the Safari
Wagon. (Love them wood panels!)”
Beth Efird: “I want Carol to get her Mercedes so she can drive me
around!”
Kelley Herrin: “An ‘A’ in Mrs. Morgan’s class, a chance to drive
Carol’s Mercedes, and a bag full of mistletoe! ”
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Christmas Fun For Teenagers
By BRENT WILLIAMS
Many teenagers who don’t
work will find that over the
Christmas holidays they are go
ing to have an awful lot of free
time on their hands.
Now for those who do work,
well your schedule is pretty weli
budgeted, so you can go ahead to
the sports section.
Back to the main point of in
terest, teenagers who don’t work.
Now since everybody knows that
midterms are coming up, we can
all just get together and do some
massive studying or we could do
like Jimmy Wentz and find that
one Atari game that you can play
for hours, or like Camille Plyler
and go out and find a new boy
friend. (So she can play with him
for hours.)
Another solution to this
glorious time span syndrome is
all that Christmas shopping. But
since everybody who is reading
this article doesn’t work and
probably can’t afford Christmas
shopping; we will eliminate this
idea.
I’m sure a lot of you unem
ployed teenagers will be taking
that milk money up to Silver
Odyssey to buy tokens, but those
games get old.
A lot of deer hunters will be
pretty busy over the holidays.
But what about all those llama
and kangaroo hunters? Their sea
son doesn’t begin until October;
they’ll be bored stiff.
So far we have come to the solu
tion, that the teenage unem
ployed llama hunter will prob
ably be seeing a lot of the sand
man, and maybe a movie or two.
Listen, kids, this break in the
81-82 academic school year is
mainly meant to spend time with
your loved ones. Spend time with
your grandparents, your little
brother, or sister. Do nice things
for your parents.
MOVIES TO SEE
STARTING DECEMBER 18th
Cinema 1
“Neighbors”
Starring: John Belushi and Dan
Aykroyd
And not so great, SWISS FAMI
LY ROBINSON. So go to a movie,
hey you may get a laugh. Mainly,
get rested up for that NEW
YEAR’S EVE PARTY!!!