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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-01-16
A Talk With Pete Iyey-
Continued from Page u

OF the Buccaneer.II liked being
editor of the Buccaneer. We
thought it was funny then. but
now that | look back on it. it
wasn't really funny. Some of it
came close to being obscene.
I've always thought collegianS
are 900 young to write humor-
maybe not too young. but it takes
a maturity that-well, maybe
not maturity, but-well, | mean,
they always seem to take the
easy way out and try to be shock
ing. 1t takes an experienced
hand.
Well, anyway, | never did
graduate, | don't have a degree
from the University. 1t was the
Depression, and | wanted to quit
college and go to work for a
newspaper, was Just about about to
do that when Spike Saunders
over here at the Alumni Office
had an opening, so i went to
work for him as editor Of the
Alumni Review. The same JOB
ice Jones has now. | worked
there for a year, and then they
had an opening for director of
Graham Memorial, the student
union. 1t was a two-year job
then, running the entertainment
and extracurricular activities,
student recreation, that kind of
thing. | had great time doing
that. lived there, in a little
room on the second floor at the.
north end on the left. That was
a fine time. was there from
1886 to 1888. -
Then | went to work for the
WlnSton-Salem papers. They had
just been bought by Gordon Gray,
and | went over there in 1884
with Stuart Rabb. We had room-f
ed together. They didn't have a
reportorial JOB open. so went
into promotion and circulation. |
ran circulation drives. We'd go
up to these little towns in the
northwest part Of the State and
put on entertainment - minstrel
shows, you know, the kind of
thing we had at Graham Me-
mortal And then we'd take the
little features in the little week
ly papers in those towns and
blow them up into full features.
For instance, John Jones at the
Courthouse, maybe he announc-
ed today that twenty-five chick
ems ran across the road but the
twenty-sixth didn't. Why didn't
that last chicken run across the
road? We'd do a full feature on
John Jones - how long he'd
been there. how many deeds he'd
registered that year, every
thing, just blow it all up. 1t
worked. 1t built up the circula-
ton. Then they had a job come
open on the report0rial staff, so
| became a reporter. Then in
Decenlher- Of 1920 Stuart -Rahh
and l started writing column.
We asked permission to write
this column. and they said, okay,
go ahead. Suits them. 1t was call
ed Pass the Peanuts, and Stuart
wrote one day and | wrote the
next. kind of like Addison and
Steele We'd write hum0r, and
little things we saw going on
around town. and short inter-
views with people, vignettes, that
kind Of thing. Then Stuart left
and went to be editorial page ed
itor of the Charlotte News and
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-01-16

down there. was executive edi-
tor. 1t was a small paper, and
| liked it. 1t gave me a salts
faction l hadn't had before, be-
cause all my experience was in
columns or editorials ] had very
little experience with layout, fGr
instance. | had no experience
handling other peoples material
It's a good newspaper town.
Everybody wrote editorials. eve
rybOdy writes editorials on a
small paper, and after the paper
was out Id bat out a few edi-
torials for the next day, and as
sign some to other people TO fill
it up. 1t was fine, a good setup.
The fall of that year Bob
Maddfy died tip here. He had
been running the News Bureau,
and they were looking around
for a newSpaperman TO take his
place. | knew the opportunity
wouldn't come up again for a
leegg lleeHg time tine applied feef. the the
job, even though | had only been
at Shelby a short time. So | got
it, and came up here. The pull
of Chapel Hill, you know.
Il regret leaving newspapers,
but | like it here. regret leav-
ing because | like to be around
newSpapermen, | like their att-
tude, + like the way they think,
the way they're always getting
at the truth of the matter. | like
the way they work. We nave
lot of fine professors here, but
they always seem TO explain
things in specialized language.
My job is to be a newspaper
man and explain them to the
public III simple language. l
agree with Jacques BarzttIK
when he said newspapermen
were our hope for salvation -
no, it was something like a bull
wark between - wait a minute,
I've got it here"
He Scurried away and return
ed with a small pamphlet.
Here. iBelleS-lettreS and Schol-
arship multiply pseudo-jargon as
if to run away from responsible
assertion Perhaps our last
bulwark against barbariSm is
the press, including broadcast
Journalism and advertising
In Journalism alone is some per-
ception left of common audi
ence, of a public that must be
pleased. > \That's what l
mean. NewSpapermen say it in
plain, simple language. | remem-
Der James ReSton talking here
to students few years ago, he
said, always have the CUTS to
admit your ignorance. Go over
it line by line and be sure yOuv
got it right before you write
it down. Do you know who in
fluenceS the neWSpaperman
most? Is it the subject he's writ
ing about? Is it the public? Do
you know? It's his fellow news
papermen in the newSroOm. It's
his editor, yes, and it's the other
ne v q eerE4aea tee because his
editor came up trying to please
his colleagues. That's what it
is.
Il remember the head of the
Harvard News Bureau described
news bureau work once, he said,
we're the outsiders to the nlSid-
ers and the insiders to the out
siders. In other words, we're
in between. AS far as the Uni
versity goes, we're the press,
we're newspapermen, not facul-
ty, and that's the way it should
be. As far as newspapermen go,
we're part of the University, and
that's the way it should be. We
translate one to the other. It's
a good situation to be in.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-01-16

secretary, No calls for. an hour,
unless it's President Friday or
Chancellor Aycock. He turned
away, closing the door, then
stopped. "Or John F. Kennedy
OF William Buckley" he added,
and shut the door.
4 was born in Rocky Mount
in 1913" he said. leaning back
in his red leather swivel chair
until hardly more than his head
was visible above the intricately
cluttered desk top. III be fifty
years old this Saturday. January
Nineteenth, Robert f. E Lee 5
birthday. That That some dfstfnc-'
ton, | guess. / came here to the
University as student, | was
on the boxing team. | was editor
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-01-16
James Baldwin Is
Speaker In Durham

James Baldwin. author of the
best seller, Another Country"
will speak at N. c. College, Duke
Auditorium, on Thursday. Jan. II.
at 8 pm. The topic will be THE
South'S Demand for New Leader
ship
The program is sponsored by
Durham CORE and NAACP. Tic
kets are on sale at the offices
of the YMCA and the Community
Church. Adults. S1O0. students
Soc.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-01-16

is that the editorials were con-
structive. One editorial was ON
sSlum clearance in Winston
Salem, and another was on
twenty-year plan for Negroes in
North Carolina - this was be-
fore the Supreme Court decision
and / was moderate in my
advocacy, but | said at least we
should do something, not just
sit there. Anether was on educa-
tion - faculty salaries at Chapel
Hill, as matter of fact. And
another was on the movement OF
New England textiles to the
South. We had the conference
technique. We all had a special
ty, and mine was city affairs.
We'd all sit around and discuss
things, and then we'd write.
In 1854 put in for a Nieman
Fellowship. and got it, and went
to Harvard for year. That was
a wonderful year. The Nieman
Fellowship was set up when
Lucius Nieman. who was the
editor Of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, he died, and his widow
left over a million dollars and
more income from the paper it.
self to Harvard to further the
development of journalism. At
first they didn know how to
90 about it at Harvard, and
President PuSey told US a while
ago that the way they decided
was one night President C0nant
and some Boston newspapermen
were sitting around at Presl-
dent Conant's home, and PreSl~
dent Conant said, now how
should we go about this, and one
man said, What I'd really like
to do is take off for a year,
study anything / want, fill up
the gaps in my education SO
they said that sounds like a
pretty good idea. let's try it on
that basis for a while. They on
iy choose twelve every year, at
least it was then, | guess it's the
same now. You have to have
had three years experience on
newspaper, consecutively, and
they interview you, if they want
to. | went up to Washington, and
they interviewed me. 1t was just
kind of get-acquamted meeting.
They asked me questions. Why
didn't you graduate from the
University?' | told them it was
the Depression, | was poor, |
needed to get out and make
some money, and | had younger
brothers and sisters who were
just about ready to start col
lege. They asked me about race
relations in North Carolina, and
they asked me. about Frank
Graham, who had just gotten
beaten for the Senate - just to
find out how you were thinking,
We'll, you know, they give
you the equivalent OF your sal
ary while you're up there. so |
could take my wife and two
daughters along. 1t was a lot of
flM. You could 60 TO CLASSES II
you wanted to, and if
you didn't like the class, you
dropped out. 1t isn't a degree
course. They won't let you go
for degree. My wife took cours-
es too, in art. / studied econom-
les, and race relations, and
poetry writing under John Ciardi,
and | took a lot of history under
Arthur SchleSinger Junior, and
Senior.
When we came back ]. P.
WeatherS down at the Shelby
Star was looking for man to
run his paper. He was in poor
health, and he asked me if l
wanted to do it. i went down to
Shelby to see him, and he came
I'D to Winston-Salem - | was
writing editorials for both pap
ers by this time = and so l went
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Mississippi Progress Report

ployees. About 100 engineers
at the installations are gradu-
ates of Mississippi schools
Total payroll for the tiscal
year 1863 totaled $6,246,UUO.
LII 1862, a total of 1900 visit
ors registered at the install
Iations. Of this number, ap-
prOXimately one-fOurtn came
10 Vicksburg for the express
purpose of study and consult
tation regarding IVES testing.
Others were tourists. Vicks-
burg claims more foreign
visitors than any other city
II Mississippi because OF the
nunrper rrom foreign cOun-
lrieS who annually visit the
YVES tor observation and for
training. Originally planned
as d laboratory for studying
lIoou control problems on the
Mississippi hhver, activities
Vi tie installation cover ap-
lproXimately every type OF
engineering problem OF inter-
est to the government today.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

participating in the 1868 feed
grain program. The total pri-
&c support for 1863 will include
not only loans and purchase
lgreements but also the spe-
|cial price support payments.
While the loans will vary ac-
cording to the individual
crops grade and moisty,re
content, the price support pay
ment will be a uniform Is
cents per bushel on the nor
NAL production of the indivi-
dual farms 1863 planted corn
acreage.
The schedule of premiums
ard discounts for 1963-cron
,crn is unchanged from thai
II the 1862 corn crop.
Jordan also pointed out thai
This years program q lere
from las. years in that all
the 1862 production Of corn
from participating farms car
De put under the price support
loan. In 1862. price support
was limited to not more thar
he normal production of the
| planted acreage.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Contracts let On new
plant at Louisville

Contracts have been let for
the construction OF the Spar.
tus Corporation manufactur.
ing plant at Louisville. The
company hopes to occupy the
plant either later this year
or early in 1864 and will EN-.
ploy 400. The company began
its manufacturing and train
ing program in June In tenn
porary quarters in order to be
ready to start full-Scale Op.
erations when the new plant
is completed and tn ecomp'
any's operations are transfer
red from Chicago to Louis
vile. Spartus manufactures
clocks, timers, inexpensive
cameras, electric shavers,
and other small electrical ap'
pliances.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
1863 corn
price support
announced

the price support loan rate
for the 1868 corn crop produc-
ed in Mississippi is S1.18 per
bushel, Lynn Jordan, Chair
man of the Holmes Agricul-
tural Sterilization and Con-
servation County Committee,
has announced. This loan rate,
plus an Is. cents-per-bushel
special price support pay
ment, gives a total price SUP
port rate of $1.36 per bushel
for 1963-crop corn in the coun-
'ty. This compares with a 1862
support Of $1.28 per bushel.
The chairman reminded
growers that price support
on the 1868 crop of corn will
be available only to farmers
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
PUBLIC NOTICE

TO THE PUBLIC AND TO
THE TAXPAYERS OF THE
ICITY OF MIS-.
|SISSIPPI:
You are hereby notified
that the personal property as
sessment roll of the above
named City of Lexington for
the year 1868 and the real
property assessment roll of
the above named City for
the year 1868 have been
equalized according to law
and that said rolls are ready
flor inspection and examina-
ltlon, and that any objections
Ito said rolls, or any assess.
ment therein contained, shall
Ibe made in writing and filed
with the Clerk of the City of
Lexington, Mississippi, on or
before 7:30 r. M. on Tues
Iday the Oath day of Septem-
Der, 1868, at the office of
Isaid Clerk in the City Hall
in the City of Lexington, Mis-
lsissippi, and that all assess
ments to which no objection is
then and there made will be
FINALLY approved by said Board
Iof Mayor and Aldermen and
that all assessments tc which.
lobjection is made and which
may be corrected and pro-
perly determined by said
Board will be made final by
said Board of Mayor and AL
and that said rolls
and the assessments therein
contained will be approved
by said Mayor and Aldermen,
and that:
/. At 7.30 O'Clock, p. NJ. on
Tuesday, the oath day of
September, 1853, this Board
will be in session for the
purpose Of hearing objections
to the said assessments which
may be filed at the Clerks
loffice in the City Hall in the
City of Lexington, Mississip-
pi; and
z. This Board of Mayor and
Aldermen will remain in SEES
sion from day to day until
all objections lawfully made
have been disposed of and all
proper corrections made In
said rolls.
Witness the signature of
the Board of Mayor and Al
dermen of the City of Lexing.
ton, Mississippi, the seal Of
said City hereto affixed, this
the 3rd day of Septe mber,
1883.
BOARD OF MAYOR AND
ALDERMEN OF THE CITY
OF LEXINGTON MISSIS'
SIPPI
By: w. B.. Kenna, Mayor
By: Alton B. Parker, Clerk
9-12-2tc
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Waterways EXperim ent
stations economic
contributions cited

Cc4ltrat Mississippi's econ
omy is stimulated by the en-
..)loA menr, purchases and &C.
tivfties of the U. S. Corps OF
Engineers Waterways Expert
ment Stations located al
vicksburg and in the Gin
ton-JackSon area. The staff
of the stations numbers more
than 1000 persons, and 13t
ne wemployees were added
during the past year. Many
of these are professional en-
gineers and scientists of in
ternational reputation. Al
the VickSburg installation
there are 842 civilians and "a
military personnel. At the
Jackson installation, where g
model of the Mississippi Riv
er is located and where stud
les are carried on at the con
crete division, there are liz
civilian and five military EN-
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

fou. hundred JayGees anu
their wives will be in attenu-
lice.
Ihe r,eeting is held an
nually when STATE officers and
state chailmon give Jaycees
ideas, suggestions, and help
full hints about how to better
conduct their local projects
and programs during the year.
Forums or various programs
will be held all day Saturday.
When announcing Headlee's
visit, State Jaycee president
+. G.. Mcdonald of Kosciusko,
also announced the Missis.
slppi's assigned national vice
president, Dean Gordon of
Decatur, Illinois, would also
be present at the meeting.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
County AGENT Notes

apply at least 60 units OF
phosphate and 60 to 70 units
nitrogen per acre when pre-
pairing seed bed. In the Del.
ia area possibly nitrogen is
all that is necessary to apply
prior to planting.
With the cost of wheat for
winter grazing, it appears
this would be your best buy
for winter grazing as oat
seed are high and scarce
Oats or wheat with mixtura
of rye grass should give a
good, long lasting grazing
period unless winter is toe
severe.
Where planting oats and
rye grass in combination use
3D. bushels oats per acre and
20-25 pounds rye grass per
acre. Where using wheat and
rye grass use 120 pounds OF
wheat and 20 to rs pounds
rye grass per acre. After
planting be sure and cult.
pack in order to get a stand
of oats or wheat quicker than
you would otherwise.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Second Section
Soybean Insect Problems

Soybean Insect Problems =. &.
Late planting, young succul-
entbeans are attracting the
heaviest infestation of insects
at this time. Older beans are
infested but gennereliy not
as heavy as young beans. the
The insects found in most soy
beans are: corn earWorms,
bollworms, velvet bean cater
pillars, fall army worms, yell,
ow striped army worms ana
cabbage loopers.
The corn earworm ano
possibly a few bollworms and
stink bugs are the only ones
attacking the young pods OF
the beans. Most of the other
insects are feeding on the
foliage of the plants.
When to poison for the poe
feeders - When one or more
corn earworms are founo
per three feet of row, Their
they should be poisoned tc
control damage to young
bean pods.
Poison for stink bugs wher
one or more are found pei
foot of row.
The worms that are dam.
aging the leaves regard
less what insects are feeding
on the foliage, apply contro
measures when 35 to 40 pei
cent leaf surface has beer
consumed.
If old beans have full pods
and nearing stage of maturity
it is not advisable to poison
unless pods are being attack
ed by insects.
Insecticides to use = Dbl
one pound technical pei
acre.
Toxaphene and DOT mix.
lures - Use two pounds Oh
toxaphene and one pound Oh
DOT per acre.
SEWN = Use II pounds OF
technical material. Where
using dust this would be Il
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
National Jayeee President
to visit Mississippi

DioA llcaulee, Of Boun.lfui,
l'tdi., PRESIDENT Oi Tic UIilteu
skates junior G~.ld1iJOef' vi
commerce, wiz - Y.~-SA..
II lac allS SiSS4pYA --J~--
1uIllliler All Slate MIS....o -
DC heiu III PascaBouia ocr.ea.-
Oci lu-lL, lsoo. iac.~Ar-
sISlt ll4rkS lilr fllsl vAeA.
.nioSiSSipIi W u .ia.lo44AI -.
Gee president III over wv
ytdrS.
~ { t from mississippi )
~o.ycllLy seven JaJGec GOIA
inunitles viii be Lravcllits u
PaSCagOula 10 near the pre-
siuent Of the 25o,OUU national
yUuis mems orgaillzal loIi
"llei4 ne speaks to them al
heir banquet held Oh odtur-
lay, September II. 1t is ex.
)ected that between three and
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Mississippi is a leader
in personal income gain

Mississippi's personal in
come during the first half of
1868 was 81, 466, 500 900 = a
7.2 per cent increase over the
total OF 81 1867, 900, 900 record
ed for the first half of 1862,
according to the August 81
issue of Business Week
magazine. Only seven states
showed a better gain than
this. Personal income in Mis-.
,issippi in June was S247,-
500, OUO = a ga per cent jump
Jver June of 1862 $685.
~, 1000 and we'll above the
1878 average of $751;
300, 900, according to the mag
azine'S statistics.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
STANDARD Oh refinery
SOcS inUO operation


Inc "Cruue uliit al PdSCa.
Standard Oii iSil4lciy
Went into Iuu opel a.4o.. Ia,
first OF lniS lIiOlilll, ACCORDING
" reIliiery IndiiaSer "A. ..
Guerard. The unit mas d capa-
city OF lU,UU Darrels vi
crude Oil a day anu Dy dis
tiliatiOn process separates the
crude into light gasoline, nap
tina, kerosene, diesel ami fuel
Oil. This first refinery process
ing unit to go ION stream
produces FEED stock tor oLllei
processing plants which are
Nearing completion at the
Bayou Casotte site OF the ST.;
million refinery built toI
Standard Oil OF Kentucky. The
PaScdgOula refinery repre-
SentS the latest development
OF scientists and engineers
and will produce a wide
range OF high quality motor
ana aviation gasOlines, je,
fuels, diesel, kerosene, ano
fuel oils.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Meridian firm
to expand

Al. expansion in production
capacity OF the W. S. Dickey
Clay Manufacturing Company
at Meridian has been an
nounced by Paul B. Fryley,
president. The Meridian
plants circul artunnel kiln
will be enlarged to handle
five-foot lengths of pipe. This
will result in a 20 per cent in.
crease in capacity. The ex'
pansion is part of a $1.5 mil
lion enlargement of the comp
any's properties in Meridian
and other locations. Dickey
Clay came to Meridian in
1853 and employs It's.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Harvesting Corn

Harvesting Corn
Harvest corn as soon as
moisture is dry enough for
sufficient storage. Where
storing in ear in crib the
moisture should be as low
as 16 per cent. Clean out al
old corn in the crib and spray
YOUR crib with inSecticide
such as malathiOn or meth.
|oxychlor. If using malathion,
use one pine of 81 per cent
malathion emulsion in three
gallons of water or use one
pound of so per cent wettable
powder methoxychlor to two
gallons of water. Spray one
of these mixtures to each
/ 900 square feet Of surface
area in order to kill out and
destroy old weevils.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
Krueger bond issue
approved at TupelO

Voters Of the third and four.
tn districts of Lee County
nave approved a $780, wv
BAW1 bond issue to help fin.
alice construction OF d $oo,UVO
square loot plant tor Kruger
Metal Products Company.
Inc plant will manufacture
metal folding chairs and will
mutually employ about 50 per.
sons, with future expansions
70 zuO anticipated.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

Planting Winter Grazing -.
If you are planning on
planting any winter grazing,
particularly early winter
grazing, now is the time IT
should be planted. In the hill
area of the county you should
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19
NOTICE TO

No. 1881 Letters IeStamen-
tary having been granted on
the % day of August, 1868,
nv the Chancery Court of Hol-
mes County, Miss, to the un-
dersiPned upon the estate of
O. p. Newsom. Deceased, not
ite is hereby given TO all
persons having CLAIMS against
aid estate to present the
ame to the Clerk of said
Court for probate and regist-
ration according to law with
n six months from the date
Of this rotice, or they will be
forever barred.
This the % day of August.
1868.
Billy d. NeWsom
Administrator
8-29-4tI
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

Farm and Warehouse-stor-
ed loans and purchase agree
'nents for 1963-crop corn will
be available from harvest
time through February %,
1864. Loans will mature O.
I111y n 1914
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

Cotton Insects -.
There is still lots of cotton
in the Delta area of Holmes
County that you should con-
|tinue to poison several more
times in order to get the most
out of your cotton crop.
BollwormS are continuing
TO be a hazard to most of our
green cotton and boil weevils
are also increasing dolly and
moving from field to field.
SO an insecticide, to control
both boil weevils and boil
worms, should be applied at
regular intervals.
Most of the cotton IN the
hill area has cut out and
there would b every little
benefit from poisoning much
of the cotton in the hill area
of the county.
If your cotton has not been
poisoned within the last two
weeks | believe it would De
to your advantage to defollate
such fields and pick as soon
as enough cotton is open tc
do so, either by hand or by
mechanical pickers.
Holmes County herald., 1963-09-19

DACMAR, star Of stage, screen and television, voiun-
teers frontIine assistance to the Kick Out Polio
campaign, headquartered for the Mississippi coast
counties at the Buena Vista Hotel in Biloxi. Adjust
ing helmet is Dr.. B. B. O'Mara, general chairman for
the coast counties, in which the first dose Of Sabin
oral polio vaccine will be given September p.