Thursday, September 17, 1964
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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New developments are expect
ed at the end of September in
the $110,000 libel suit initiated by
UNC fencing instructor Pebley
Barrow against Mrs. Sarah Wat
son Emery, author of the contro
versial "Blood on the Old Well."
Barrow's suit was filed in
Middle District Federal Court In
. G-eensboro early last month by
Chapel Hill attorneys Robert
Cooper and Barry Winston. "
"Blood on the Old Well," pub
lished in the summer of 1963,
purported to be a revelation of
the activities of communists and
communist sympathizers in Cha
pel Hill and on the University
campus during the late 1950's
and early li60's.
According to the complaint
alleging libel, Mrs. Emery c call
ed Barrow ca "far-out-on-the
Lefter," and also according to
the complaint implied that Bar
row is a coward.
Barrow told the summer Tar
Heel, "What she (Mrs. Emery)
says is just not true. Her facts
are erroneous and the conclu
sions she draws are also erron
eous." The complaint quotes Mrs.
Emery as writing:
"Or there may be a bigwig
Communist front meeting in
town, like the Southern Confer
ence Educational Fund (October
27, 1961) at the Presbyterian
Church ... If he (a hypotheti
cal new student) hangs around
this meeting, he may be on hand
when far-out-on-the-Lefters Char
lie Parrish, Pebley Barrow
(UNC fencing instructor) and
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Music Groups
Following is a directory of musical activities
and facilities in Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill Choral Club, Wayne Zarr, director;
participation invited by students and townspeo
ple; about 75 voices, rehearsals Mondays, 7:30
p.m. no auditions; apply to Mr. Zarr in Hill Hall.
Chapel. Hill Concert Series, Milton Heath Jr.,
chairman ; concerts and performances throughout
the year by nationally or internationally known
orchestras, Singers, and dance troupes; admis
sion by individual concerts or by season tickets.
University Band, John Yesulaitis, director;
open chiefly to students, but townspeople ac
cepted when particular instruments are needed;
operates as a marching band for sports events,
a" symphonic wind band in the fall and as a con
cert; band in the spring; auditions during Orien
tation Week and the first week of the semester;
apply to DiV Yesulaitis in Hill Hall.
University Chorus, Wayne Zarr, director; open
only to regular University students, by audi
tion; auditions held during fall semester regis
istration week, in 220 Hill Hall ; rehearsals Tues
days and Fridays at 4:30 p.m.
Gleemen, 75-100 members, many of them
freshmen; Dr. Joel Carter, director, Hill Hall.
Varsity Men's Glee Club, limited to 50 mem
bers, tours annually giving thirty or forty per
formances; Dr. Joel Carter, director.
" University Orchestra, I)r. Earl Slocum, direc
tor, Dr. Edgar Alden, assistant director; same
qualifications as the Band, same audition sched
ule; schedule" of concerts not yet arranged.
- University String Quartet, Dr. Edgar Alden,
director; performances of chamber music at vari
ous times throughout the year; the Quartet also
tours.
North i Carolina Symphony, Benjamin Swalin,
director; a professional, salaried orchestra which
tours the State from January to May giving about
125 concerts more than half of them specifically
for children ; auditions in the fall in Boston, New
York, and Chicago; local auditions encouraged,
but players must be free to travel; auditions of
soloists, singers and instrumentalists, ages 17-35,
Saturday afternoon, September 28, at Guilford
College; other information and players' require
ments0 available at Symphony headquarters in
Bingham X, UNC campus.
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Miss Mary Gilson insult anti
Communist Colonel Henry Royall
U. S. Army Retired) ... The
Colonel and cne of his friends in
vited the insolent men to step
outside with them, but Parrish
and Barrow, suddenly turned
cowards, remain glued to . their
seats."
The complaint alleges that
this passage implies Barrow is a
communist or a communist sym
pathizer, and that it implies he
is a coward.
Since Barrow, according to
t the complaint, has been injured
by these implications, or has
been held up to the "ridicule and
contumely" of his neignbors and
fellow physical education instruc
tors, the suit asks that he be
awarded damages equivalent to
the injury, and that punitive
damages be assessed against
Mrs. Emery and Prospect House,
the publisher of the book.
Tnis is the first suit known to
be filed in connection with the
allegations in the book. Bar
row told the summer Tar Heel
a man now living in New York
had considered entering a suit
against Mrs. Emery, but he
said he didn't know whether the
man had.
University officials have re
mained silent about the book,
and reportedly have' discouraged
any comment about 'it.
Barrow said, "The University
and others might try to ignore
it, but I don't feel inclined to
do that.
"We're filing partly to pre
serve our right to file within the
year," Barrow said. "Otherwise
the statute of limitations would
catch up with us."
North Carolina law imposes a
one-year statute of limitations in
libel suits. Theoretically, if
damage has not been suffered
within one year, the damage
must not have been sufficient to
cause injury. If the complaint
is not tiled within one year from
the offense, there is no cause of
action, according tp the law.
Mrs. Emery is the wife of
former UNC Professor of Phil- ,
osophy Stephen A. Emery. At
last report, the Emery's lived in
Dallas, Texas, where Dr. Emery
was on the faculty of Cook Coun
ty Junior College in nearby
Greenville, Texas.
Prospect House of Dallas, list
ed as the publisher of the book
on the title page, is also men
tioned as a defendent in the suit.
inquiries 'a year ago failed to
turn up a Prospect House in
Dallas.
The meeting referred to by
Mrs. Emery was a forum on
"Freedom and the First Amend
ment," sponsored by the South
ern Conference Educational
Fund, and held at the Presby
terian Church.
It was covered by The Daily
Tar Heel, The Chapel Hill Week
ly and The News of Orange Coun
ty. Roland Giduz, in a column
written for The News of Orange
County the week following the
(meeting, reported what he
thought had happened.
"Miss Mary Gilson," Giduz
wrote, "Chapel Hill's plain
spoken octogenarian liberal,
arose to call the group's atten
tion to Col. Royall's letter to the
local newspapers. (The letter
was published the day before the
meeting opened. It attacked the
Southern Conference Educational
Fund as a communist front or
ganization. Ed. note.) She
said . . . Col. Royall's charges
should be labeled as untrue . . .
"As Miss Gilson took her seat,
Col. Rbyair . . . spoke directly
to (her) charges, declaring that
what he had written was authen
ticated. " 'She has to hide behind the
'fact that she is a woman and
get by with it, said the Colonel.
Thereupon a man . . . called
Col. Royall a liar." Col Royall
invited him outside . . -"
CoL Royall, Miss - Gilson and
Barrow, in telephone conversa
tions with a reporter, for the sum
mer Tar Heel, took minor ex
ception with Gjduz's account of
the affair.
Col. Royall said that as he
spoke to the meeting Miss Gilson
rose and said, "Henry Royall is
a liar." The Colonel said he
told her if she were a man, he
would invite her outside.
According to Col. Royall, Bar
row then stood and called him
a liar, followed by Parrish. Col.
Royall said he then invited both
of them to step outside with him.
Miss Gilson admitted that she
called Col. Royall a liar, but
she said she did so only after
he made a statement to the ef
fect that he thought the audi
ence was "full of communists."
Barrow said he rose to ask the
chairwoman whether Miss Gil
son and .Col. Royall were not out
of ojder, aad to suggest the dis
cussion should return to the mat
ter at hand.
He said, "I understood no chal
lenge from the Colonel, and rose
to meet no challenge. I did not
stay there 'glued to my seat,' as
Mrs. Emery said."
Giduz added he thought the
whole controversy had arisen out
of the "heat of the moment," and
he didn't think any of the people
concerned really meant the
"rash" things they they had said.
.- Col. Royall is chairman of the
Americanism Committee of the
local American Legion Post.
Giduz worked on The Daily Tar
Heel during his student days
here, and is now editor of the
weekly News of Orange County.
Barrow is UNC fencing coach
and has been the faculty sponsor
cf the Flying Club. He is a
member of the Civil Air Patrol
and former night editor and
proofreader for The Daily Tar
Heel.
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