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The Pamlico News
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by Leslie Eudy, Kathy Gilgo and
Richard King with the assistance
of Richard Krawlec
(Editor’s Note: The following is
an excerpt from the one-act, three
scene play being written by three
Pamlico County High School
students under the direction of
Visiting Artist Richard Krawiec.
The play centers around Mary and
her friend, Charity. Mary is poor
but has always celebrated a tradi
tional, family-oriented Christmas.
For Charity, Christmas has alway
s been a time to receive, not give
and she and her family have lost,
through the years, the true mean
ing of the holiday.
In this scene, Mary is spending
Christmas Eve with Charity and
her parents. Mary’s mother has
just recently died and she is now
living with a foster family. As the
scene opens, the family is ex
changing gifts.)
CHARACTERS
Mary - Poor 16 year old girl,
whose mother has just died.
Charity - Mary’s friend; child of
Jonathon and Courtney.
Jon and Courtney - Rich couple.
SETTING/TIME
At the home of Jonathon and
Courtney on Christmas Eve...in
the living room with a high tech
“computer tree.”
ACT 1, SCENE 2
Scene opens with Jonathon and
Courtney at the bar, Courtney
closest to th6 door. Drinks, maybe
a cigar for Jonathon.
Courtney - By the way, Jonathon, I
meant to ask you, do you think the
fruitcake was too dry this year?
Jonathon - Yes, I suppose it was
too dry. Maybe we should use a
better brandy in it.
Courtney - Yes, I suppose a better
brandy would help. But the ques
tion is, can we trust that cook with
an expensive bottle?
Jonathon - All he probably knows
how to do is drink it. Can’t get
good, trustworthy help these days.
Courtney - Oh, what do you know?
You hardly even taste the cake. I
don’t even know why 1 asked you.
The Triangle Volunteer Fire
Department received a check
for $31,800 Monday, December
10, from the Farmers Home
Administration. The money, a
loan to be repaid over 15 years
at 8*5/8 percent, will be used to
construct a new fire house.
Pictured are (seated, left to
right) Cassius Williams, assis
tant district director for
FmHa; Kenny Smith,
Triangle VFD chief; (stan
ding, left to right) Henry
Cara wan, Triangle VFD; Mar
tin Morgan, FmHa county
supervisor for Pamlico and
Craven Counties; Robbie
Sadler, Triangle VFD; and
Carl Mills, representing Wim
co, the contractors.
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Jonathon - But I do Know what a
good fruitcake should taste like.
Seems like I would know
something, since I am the presi
dent of one of the leading com
panies in America.
Courtney - Well, you don’t have to
act so obnoxious about it. I just
asked you a simple question.
Jonathon - Well, I stated a simple
answer - buy a better brandy.
Courtney All right. I’ll buy a bet
ter brandy next year, and hopeful
ly that cook won’t drink it. He’s so
much lower than us. I suppose he
really doesn’t know any better.
Jonathon - (tiring of the conversa
tion) Let’s just solve all of this and
get another cook. And to satisfy
you, get one who specializes in
fruitcakes.
Courtney - Maybe we should get
another cook, but you wouldn’t
allow me to get one unless you
could make some profit from it.
Jonathon - If a new cook can make
you stop screaming about fruit
cakes, then that will be a profit in
itself.
Courtney - Jonathon, I
don ’t...< stops when she sees
Charity enter. Mary lingers at the
door).
Charity - Mother, Father, do you
remember my telling you about
Mary?
Courtney - Yes, of course, dear.
Aren't you the girl whose mother
died? We’re so sorry to hear that.
Jonathon - Yes, we are sorry, but
we have a present for you that’ll
liven things up. We spent 32 per
cent more on it when we heard
about your unfortunate situation.
Charity - Let me get it for you,
Mary (Gets present from under
the tree. Motions to her with it to
bring her into the room) Here,
Mary, you can open it while I get
everyone else’s present.
(Charity throws Mary’s coat on
the couch and hands her a present
and some to her parents who rip
theirs open and toss them onto the
bar. Charity takes a present for
herself and sits oA the couch.
Mary opens her present slowly
and with care.)
Charity Mary, how do you like
your gift?
Mary - Well, it’s nice...a subscrip
tion to cable TV...but I don’t have
a TV.
Charity - (Turning to her father)
Father, I thought I told you Mary
doesn't have a TV
Jonathon - (Moving to sit in the
chair and lift open a newspaper)
Oh, she doesn’t? (Looking at
Mary). Mary, you don’t have a
TV? (Mary shakes her head).
Well, it is a nice gift and I'm sure
you can find some use for it
somewhere.
Charity - < Her present now un
wrapped). Mother, this is not the
album I wanted. I wanted the new
one, not this stone age one.
Courtney - (Moving over behind
the couch and putting a hand to
Charity’s shoulder) I’m sorry,
dear, I didn’t know I’d purchased
the old one. (Charity stands up
and moves away.) How about if
we go exchange it?
Charity - But then everyone will
already have theirs except me.
Courtney - Charity, calm down.
We’ll go to the stores Monday and
buy you five new ones to make up
for this, okay, dear?
(Mary looks over her left
shoulder at Charity and clears her
throat. Looks are exchanged)
Charity - Okay, but I don’t want
this one.
Jonathon - (Lowers the
newspaper) Then give it to Mary.
I’m sure she doesn’t have it.
Charity - (goes to Mary) Mary,
you can have this. I don’t want it.
Mary - Thanks but I don’t know if
they have a record player at the
foster home.
Charity - Well, take it anyway. I’m
sure you can get some use out of it.
Jonathon - (Looking at paper)
What time is it, Courtney?
Courtney - (Still standing begind
the couch) It’s 8, Jonathon, why
don’t you look at your watch?
Jonathon - (Gets up ana moves 10
the TV) It’s time for the Wall
Street Christmas Special to come
on. We should watch this, even
Charity and her friend. This show
is about emerging growth stocks.
(Looks at his watch) Ah...what
time are you leaving, Mary? (He
stands by the TV, watching the
screen).
Mary - I’m sorry I have to leave so
soon, but my foster mother should
be here soon. She said around 8.
Jonathon - Good. (He swoops to
the couch and picks up Mary’s
coat) I’ll just get your coat and put
it by the door so when she comes
you can run along and not keep
her waiting. (He drops the coat on
the coat rack. Meanwhile, Court
ney sits in the chair. Jonathon
returns to the couch). Now let’s all
gather around and learn how to
beat the Dow Jones Industrial
Average next year...I love
Christmas.
Mary - (Looking at Charity over
her left shoulder) Don’t...don’t
you sing Christmas carols, or tell
the Christmas story on Christmas
Eve?
Charity - Oh no, nothing can inter
rupt Father’s show. I guess it’s
sort of boring, but it’s pretty in
teresting finding out that it all has
to do with money.
Jon - SSSHHH! (Looks at watch)
What time did Mary say she was
leaving?
Charity - Any time now, father.
Jonathon - At 8?
Courtney - Yes, dear, around 8.
Jonathon - Around 8, or 8:30? (car
horn honks) Thank God. That
must be your foster mother. (He
goes to the door, all the time wat
ching the TV, picks up Mary’s
coat, and, as she walks over to get
it, he releases it before she can
grab it and it falls to the floor.
He’s oblivious and just goes back
to the couch.)
Mary - Thank you all for letting
me come over and for the gifts.
Charity - Bye, Mary, see you at
school.
Courtney - I’m glad we could have
her over. I’m glad we had a
chance to help the less fortunate
at Christmastime.
Jonathon - That’s what the more
fortunate are for.
Commissioners Discuss Water, Boats
Water was a main topic of
discussion, direptly and indirect
ly, at Monday night's meeting of
the Pamlico County Board of
Commissioners. One resident of
Goose Creek Island was present to
to air complaints about inade
quate water pressure; the coun
ty’s engineers appeared to present
plans for getting more water to
the Island; and a representative
of a group that appeared at a
previous meeting asked again
about the tax valuations placed on
boatsforim. '
Reg Caroon of Lowland told the
board that the water pressure in
Lowland needs to be increased.
With the closest tower in
Vandemere, he explained, by the
time the water reaches his com
mercial operation in Lowland, he
has to provide booster pumps in
order to get an adequate amount
of pressure. If a hydrant is open
ed, he said, there Is no water. “1
think we’re entitled to water,'’
Caroon commented, adding
“...Lowland has had the short end
of the stick for thirty years.”
typ. The ditches along the road from
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Hobucken to Lowland also need to
be cleaned and the shoulders to
the road maintained, he said. At
the present time, a car cannot pull
off the road, onto the shoulder
without getting stuck, creating a
dangerous situation when it has to
park partly in the road, he said.
Caroon also had some com
merits to make about tbe location
of Pamlico Technical College,
citing its distance from Goose
Creek Island. He told the board
that it is almost as convenient for
jnost Lowland residents to go to
New Bern. “We’re paying our
(See BOAT, Page 14)
Principal Suing Teacher
for $100,000
The Chocowinlty High School
saga continues. Last week, the
prinicpal of that school filed a
counter-suit against a former
Chocowinlty High teacher main
taining that he has been slandered
and libeled.
On December 10, in Federal
District Court in New Bern, an
amended answer and counter
claim against Otis Cox, now a
teacher at Aurora High School,
was filed on behalf of James
Henderson, principal of
Chocowinity. The suit claims that
during the 1983-84 school year, as
well as at times after that, Cox
made false statements about
Henderson,' specifically that he
was a liar and that he had been
fired from a position with the
Chesapeake, Virginia, school
system. Henderson denied these
allegations at a meeting of the
board of education, presenting let
ters to that effect from ad
(See PRINCIPAL, Page 14)
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Two Pamlico County Men Killed
In Maine Truck Accident
The search resumed Monday in
Maine for the body of one of two
Pamlico County men who lost
their lives last week after the
tractor-trailer rig they were driv
ing crashed through the guardrail
of a bridge and into the icy river
beneath.
Herbert Lupton, 72, of Lowland
and Manley Price, 45, of Stonewall
left Mars Hill, Maine, about 4:30
pm Tuesday, December 11, ac
cording to reports, heading for
Hastings, Florida, to deliver a
load of seed potatoes.
Price, who leased the truck
from B.F. Potter Trucking,
Bayboro, and Lupton, a retired
truck driver, were traveling in the
southbound lane of Interstate 95 ip
Howland, Maine, when the truck
ran into the closed and barricaded
right hand lane and through the
guardrail. The interstate had been
under construction since tne sum
mer. The entire rig plunged into
the Piscataquis River. There is
still some confusion as to the
cause of the accident and the ex
act sequence of events.
Lupton’s body was recovered
Wednesday, pinned behind the
steering wheel. The load of
potatoes was removed from the
river Monday and divers found
Price’s body around noon.
Potter Pleads No Contest; Gets 60 Days
Although the decision was
reversed by the state court of ap
peals and the state Supreme Court
refused to hear the case when re
quested by the state, a Lowland
man pled no contest to two counts
of assault on a law enforcement
officer last week..
District attorney David McFa
dyen said Monday that Orien Pot
ter, found guilty of assualt on two
Wildlife law enforcement officers,
received a sentence of 60 days ac
tive and a $2,000 fine after
pleading no contest to the charges.
Potter had appealed the earlier
conviction and it was reversed by
the Court of Appeals on technical
grounds-specifically a line of
questioning regarding a prior
assault conviction and statements
made to the Jury, explained
McFadyen--and sent back for
another trial. McFadyen said his
office then requested that the
state Supreme Court review the
cas6 but they refused. Potter then
came in and pledi no contest, he
said.
McFadyen said Potter is
scheduled to begin his sentence,
which will be served in the
Pamlico County Jail, in January.