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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1964
United Press International Service
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Jaycee Decision
Upsets Nye, Coeds
The Chapel Hill Jaycees have
barred University coeds from
competing in the Miss Orange
County Beauty Pageant, spark
ing controversy among those
who feel coeds should be allowed
to enter.
Word of the ruling came Sun
day from the Jaycees, sponsors
of the pageant.
Although the ruling was more
or less in effect last year, it
was not enforced because no
coeds entered the contest. This
year, however, several coeds
have shown an interest in the
pageant, but were later told
they were ineligible.
Jaycee President Jim Gardner
issued a . statement clarifying
the matter:
"Up until last year, we had
coeds entered in the contest,
and in the past, many of them
had been winners," Gardner
said.
"However, last year the rul
ing was altered to permit entry
only by those girls who lived in
Orange County."
Gardner said when coeds en
tered the contest, it sometimes
stifled the competitive spirit of
many Orange County high school
Drum, Drum,
We Found
The Drum?
Up until Yesterday afternoon,
the bass drum at the Nortli Caro
lina Symphony Crchestra could
n't be beat.
Nobody knew where it was.
It seems that while returning
home from a recent concert in
Wilson, the drum, its mallet, and
its stand all disappeared from
the open-truck in which it was
riding.
The Symphony thought of run
ning an ad in the lost and found
columns: "Lost One large,
round, black case, containing a
three-foot bass drum along a 15
mile stretch of U.S. 70 beginning
three miles west of Clayton."
Officials wearily reported that
extensive searches in the area
had not uncovered the missing
drum.
Yesterday, when hope was
nearly lost, Hiram Black, field
representative for the Symphony
received a call from Mr. Karl
W. Pittman of Raleigh saying the
prodigal drum had found its way
home.
Mr. Pittman had found the
drum lying in the middle of U.S.
42. In the black of night he had
mistaken it for a big black bear.
. And' so, the $215 tom-tom is
safe at home with those who
love it.
Drums are like that. They go
out and get tight in the head
and then wander off someplace.
If it belonged to us, we'd take
it out behind the wood section
and beat it good!
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girls. "Since the high school
girls didn't want to face the
stiffer competition from coeds
and some Jaycees thought we
should bring the contest closer
to home, we decided to limit
entries to residents of Orange
County.
"The winners must be able to
participate in local and out-of-county
appearances, and some
times a coed just isn't able to
meet these obligations, said
Gardner.
Miss Sandi Pickett, a Univer
sity coed, had planned to enter
the pageant, but was notified
Thursday of her apparent dis
qualification. Miss Pickett, ob
viously upset by the ruling, cited
a lack of communication be
tween members of the Jaycees
and pageant officials as the
main reason of the embarras
sing incident.
"No one seems to know what's
going on," Miss Pickett said. "I
told Mrs. Watkins (chairman of
the pageant) that I wanted to
enter, and she said there might
be a question of my eligibility.
But she said she would let me
know.
"Well, she didn't contact me,
and I figured everything was
all right, so I began to practice
earnestly on the talent I was
going to use. When I finally
talked with Mrs. Watkins again,
she told me I had been disquali
fied. "Why lidn't they tell us at
the beginning?" she queried.
"After planning on entering the
ntestr "and ' after telling my "
friends about it, they tell me I
can't enter. There seems to be
a lack of organization and com
munication, and I hope no other
coed will be affected by it in
the future," added Miss Pickett.
The last coed to win the title
(then known as the Miss Chapel
Hill contest) was Miss Dorcas
Henley, who reached the finals
of the Miss North Carolina
Pageant. She was sponsored by
local merchant Kemp Battle
Nye, who still believes coeds
should be allowed to enter the
contest.
"I've had at least six coeds
ask me what they to do to enter
the contest. The girls are a real
part of the community. Many
of them spend most of their
time here in Chapel Hill and
should be able to enjoy the
benefits that the community of
fers them," Nye said.
"After all," he added, "what
would Chapel Hill do without
these students, especially the
2,000 coeds."
Tivo Charged
With Crime
hah Theft
The Crime Laboratory of the
UNC Institute of Government
found itself knee-deep in crime
this weekend.
Reported missing from the
lab over the weekend were eight
pistols, two shotguns and a rifle,
apparently stolen by burglers
who broke a back window to
gain entrance to the building.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Wil
liam Blake reported yesterday
that two men had been arrested
and charged with the theft.
The men, Ralph Sherman
Rivers, 18, of Durham and Le
roy Farrington, 27, of Chapel
Hill were apprehended in Fred
ericksburg, Va. when the car
they were driving was recogniz
ed by Fredericksburg police as
one stolen from a UNC student
Saturday night.
"When we learned the car was
stolen," said Blake, "we sent
it out over the police teletype
to Virginia. They picked up the
stolen car and the guns were
foend inside."
Blake said Farrington had
been arrested before by Chapel
Hill Police under the name of
Leroy "Watson.
He had just recently been re
leased on $1000 bond awaiting
trial for another larceny charge.
Blake indicated the bond would
be forfeited.
Police said they would recover
the car and weapons and re
turn the suspects here today.
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Senior Class Festivities
Free class cuts, free beer, parting shots, barefoot day,
combo party, permanent class officers. These are just
a few highlights of the Senior Class festivities which
will be held today and Wednesday.
Festivities begin this afternoon with an all-important
meeting at Gerrard Hall in which permanent class of
ficers and a Mr. Alumnus and Miss Alumna will be elect
ed. Even more important, free beer passes will be given
out to exchange for the real thing at a picnic to be held
at Hogan's Lake Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Also at to
Pete I vey Traded Gloves For Typewriter
By DENNIS SANDERS
In 1935, A. G. "Pete" Ivey
traded his boxing gloves and stat
us in the UNC bantam-weight
class for a typewriter.
That was 29 years ago, and
the . personable director of the
UNC News Bureau hasn't regret
ted it since.
"I was just mediocre as a
boxer," Pete said. "I like to
brag about it, but I didn't box
much after my first two years
at Carolina."
For the past nine years, since"
1955, Pete has directed the news
of UNC as head of the Carolina
News Bureau, and during that
period he's called the Bynum
"halls of ivey" his second home.
To the left of the main office,
Pete sat behind a cluttered but
'All News Good And Bad'
. By DENNIS SANDERS
The slow hum of a copying
machine and the methodical
"cjick-click-click" .of a type
witer filled the air as Pete Ivey
enumerated his responsibilities
as head of the UNC News Bu
reau. "Our objective," said the
short round-faced man, "is to
present UNC, its accomplish
ments and achievements, both
good and bad. to the public.
. -'Through the years, we've
built a philosophy here - to put
out all the . news and never hold
any back. When papers see a
UNC press release, they know
Orange County
Morgan
reasonably well-organized desk,
reliving the old days.
"I came out of Rocky Mount
High School and, believe it or
not, I wrote a column in the .
high school paper on 'advice to
the lovelorn,' " Pete said. "I was
Dr. Pi.'."
Then came four years at UNC,
where Pete boxed , a little and
wrote a lot.
"One of my biggest aspirations
was to come to Carolina as a
boxer and to edit the humor
magazine," Pete said.
Majoring in liberal arts -and
journalism, Pete was elected
editor of the "Buccaneer," stu
dent humor magazine, during his
sophomore, year. "Those were
the depression years," he recall
ed, "and I was also editor of the
Alumni Review and later was
it's accurate and full," he
added.
Pete writes a column in the
Chapel Hill Weekly on Carolina
and does a radio roundup every
Saturday evening over WUNC
FM. , "There are 47 daily papers
and 127 weekly papers that we
cater to, and we see that they
get the. news."
"How do we do it? Well, we
have a staff of around eight
people myself, four writers, a
secretary and usually a few
journalism students. We , estab
lish a' liaison with every depart
ment who sends us information
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Today And
day's meeting, free movie passes, and reduced-rate tic
kets to play golf will be issued.
Tonight at 8 in Gerrard, eight graduating seniors,
Larry McDevitt, Gerry Good, Gary Blanchard, Stewart
Saunders, Dave Ethridge,- Carolyn Pinyoun, Judy Fried
er and Junior Edge will deliver a "Parting Shots,'" ses
sion. Little David and the Wanderers will perform at a
Woollen Gym dance Wednesday night from 8 to mid
night. Senior girls have late permission.
And besides all this, you can go barefoot and cut class.
GM director for two years."
On leaving Carolina, Pete real
ized his desire to become a news
paperman by catching on with
the Winston-Salem Twin City
Sentinel, where he was a report
er and columnist for four years.
"I was drafted in 1942 and one
of my stops was at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Maryland.
I was put in charge of service
clubs, the library, theatres and
then I went to Officer Candidate
School," Pete said.
"Somehow," he continued, "my
name came up in the IBM files
as a journalist, and I was sent
to Washington with Headquarters
Co. Then came the Pacific, the
Philippine Islands, Tokyo and
Korea." Pete recalled. "I estab
lished recreational-morale build
ing type programs."
and we just seem to know by
experience where the news is,"
Pete added.
"I guess our most difficult
task is to interpret scientiic
news so the average reader can
understand it." With that, Pete
pointed with pride to a plaque
given the bureau by a scientific
conference in Florida: "for out
standing effort to further public
understanding of university re
search." "We're proud of that . . . it's
hard to make a complex scien
tific paper 'simple.
"But the first thing," he con
cluded, "is to do the job."
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Photo by Jin Wallace
Tomorrow
Although he Was' ari active ser
viceman, Pete didn't forget the
wounded veterans: "I establish
ed about 125 papers in veterans
hospitals. These were edited by
the patients themselves."
After the war, it was back to
Winston-Salem for Pete, who was
named editor of the editorial
page.
"I wrote editorials and won a
first-place prize in that field, and
I organized the North Carolina
Conference of Editorial Writers,"
he remembered. "
In 1951, Pete was awarded a
journalism fellowship to Harvard
University, where he spent a
' year studying. ' ' '
"That was one of the greatest
years. I took my family and
studied race relations, southern
economics, history, poetry and
novel and short story writing,"
he said.
The family Pete referred to
consists of his wife, Helene, and
two daughters.
"My wife was a student here
in the 1930s," Pete said, "and
Sally, our oldest daughter, is a
freshman this year. Helens, our
youngest, is a ninth-grader."
Some of Pete's fondness for the
varies in life must have rubbed
off on his wife, for she "is a
social worker, teacher, former
reporter, and deals in real estate
with the Ivey Realty Co." -
In September of 1955, Pete
("the nickname just stuck with
me; in a large family like the
one I came from, we. all had
one") was offered his position
at the News Bureau. And he's
enjoyed every rninute of it.
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Coming This Week
This week's issues of the DTII will be overflowing with
all sorts of action-packed stories. Like, well, like Pete
Gammons' account of this afternoon's UNC-Wake Forest
baseball game on tomorrow's sports page. Then on Thurs
day, that deuce of a reporter Kerry Sipe will deliver the
third installment of his series on UNC personalities this
time an expose of that demon of Saunders Hall, Billy Geer.
All this and Peanuts too! The whole Tar Heel staff is
flunking out of school in order to bring you these stories.
So, please read them closely, and laugh loudly.
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Aycock Calls
Beaker
'Injurious9
Chancellor Calls The Law An Act
Of An Over-Protective Legislature
Chancellor William B. Ay
cock labeled North Carolina's
anti - communist Speaker Ban
Law, "unwise, unnecessary and
injurious," in a speech during
the annual Parents' Day cere
monies here Sunday.
Price Named
New Writer
In Residence
Prize-winning author Reynolds
Price will serve as UNC's sec
ond writer-in-residence beginning
next spring. Price will replace
novelist John Knowles, who pion
eered the residence program this
year.
"1 am honored by the invita
tion and pleased at the prospect
of a semester in Chapel Hill,"
Price said at a reception in his
honor last week. "My great hope
is to meet and talk with as many
as possible of those students who
are interested in writing and
reading..
"My great fear is that such
people will remain as usual in
visible. I invite their acquaint
ance," he said.
Price, who achieved rapid
fame with the publication of his
first novel, "A Long and Happy
Life," has served this past year
with the Duke University Depart
ment of English.
A North Carolina native, Price
won the William Faulkner Foun
dation Award in 1962, given for
the most notable first novel pub
lished by an American during the
year. One of his short stories
was included in the 1961 collec
tion of O. Henry Award short
story winners.
His latest publication is "The
Names and Faces of Heroes," a
collection of short stories publish
ed in 1963.
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NORMENT QUAKLES (LEFT) AND PETE IVEY
. . Two Old Boxers Get Together
He said the law, which was
passed in the waning moments
of the 1963 Legislature and
which bans Communists, Filth
Amendment Pleaders and advo
cates of the overthrow of the
government from speaking at
state - supported college cam
puses, was the act of an "over
protective" Legislature.
"It was passed," he said, "by
our friends, not by our ene
mies, and was done out of love,
although a misplaced love, that
does injury to the normal ma
turing of students.
"It is like the misplaced love,
the overprotective love of a
mother who smothers her child,"
he said.
Aycock said the University and
other tax-supported colleges and
universities "are singled out for
penalties and punishments" that
were not applied to other citi
zens o North Carolina, "nor
anywhere else in the -nation."
Speaking, not as Chancellor,
but as the father of a Univer
sity student, Aycock said, "I do
not ask for any special protec
tion that does not exist for other
citizens outside the university,
but I also ask that the Univer
sity community not be tied
down with restrictions that are
not applicable to others who are
not students and faculty.
"It is a pity," he added, "that
precisely at the time we are so
fortunate in material resources
for support of the University we
suffer a dilution of freedom that
has served the University of
North Carolina, in particular,
and the State of North Carolina,
in general, during so many dec
ades of widespread poverty.
"In the 169 years of Univer
sity history," he continued, "a
laboratory for living has been
provided here. Those who would,
out of love, undermine its spirit
and fetter its practice of free
dom, do it as great harm as
those who deliberately under
take to destroy it."
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