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Ed Ivey, West Georgia locksmith, duplicates one el many keys
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Editor:
Pat deSercey, assistant
professor of psychology, will, as
it now stands, no longer teach at
West Georgia College after
summer quarter. In plain
terms, Mr. deSercey's contract
is not being renewed.
Mr. deSercey is, I for one feel,
needed at West Georgia, and as
I suggested in a letter last
quarter, very much wanted. I
think this has been demon
strated in times past by the
tremendous support he has
received when it seemed, like it
does now, that his contract
would not be renewed.
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Ideally, Mr. deSercey would
be given a permanent position
on the faculty of the psychology
department. Once again, I think
his popularity, as well as his
ability to teach, does warrant
such a thing.
With the hope that we can
convince President Townsend
to help us keep Pat deSercey
here at West Georgia, let me
ask each and all of you to just
send him a short note ex
pressing your wish to keep Mr.
deSercey with us. If not that,
merely clip this article out,
drop it in an envelope, and semi
Ed Ivev
One Man Holds All Keys
West Georgia’s campus holds
almost 6,000 locks. One man has
a key to open each of these
doors.
Maintaining key control is
only one of the duties Ed Ivey
carries out as campus
locksmith.
In his shop which is equipped
with grinders, files, and key
pressing devices, he is able to
duplicate keys and perform an
intricate process called
“mastering keys.”
“Ail locks are keyed dif
ferent,” he explains. In order
for one key to fit several locks,
such as all the rooms in a
particular wing of a dormitory,
the key must be altered, adding
different grooves to its struc
ture. This is done by
it to the President’s office. You
don’t even need postage if
mailed on campus. Simply
address your letter to
“President Townsend, Sanford
Hall, WGC, 30118.”
Thank you for your support.
Henry H. Smith
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manipulating various types of
minute steel spheres into the
key grooves, until the desired
shape is achieved.
Repeated layers of
“mastering” are added to
create keys which fit not only
one wing of a building, known as
sub-masters, but keys which fit
all locks in a particular build
ing, called grand masters.
The common dilemma of
locking oneself out of his car or
room or losing his keys
altogether is frustrating, but
not hopeless at West Georgia.
Ivey is able to open a car,
without entering the vehicle,
and in the past, he says, “I have
had to pick locks.”
Jesse James and other
desperadoes of the Wild West
had to resort to dynamite and
filing their fingertips in their
attempts to crack safes. Ivey,
however, addresses the task of
opening campus safes whose
combinations have been lost, in
a different manner.
He attaches an electronic
listening device, usually used
for radio, to the safe. As he
experiments with various
possible combinations, this
apparatus allows him to hear
the lock. The click of grooves
falling into place indicates that
the correct combination lies
within that range.
Ivey became the campus
locksmith nine years ago, but
he has been perfecting this skill
Symbols of Incompetence
Continued from page 4
Besides being a friend to
Carter, Young helped him win
83 percent of the black vote in
the 1976 election. If Carter is
really concerned about 1680, he
ought to think of the groups that
really put him over the top last
time. It was not blacks. In every
presidential contest since 1960,
they have voted at least 78
percent Democratic. It was
George Wallace, George
Meany, and Dick Daley that
swung it for Carter. The people
they speak for deserted
McGovern four years earlier,
and most of these non-liberal
voters returned to the fold,
caking a chance on Carter.
The blacks have nowhere to
go. Carter could drop Young
tomorrow and he’d be way
ahead politically. He had better
court the Wallace people. They
are not impressed by Bella
Abzug as coordinator of the
National Advisory Committee
for Women, pardons for draft
evaders, and certainly not by
Andrew Young.
I am not trying to help Carter
get re-elected, or say he should
do things chiefly to raise
himself in the polls. I am saying
that there are no good reasons
to keep Andrew Young, political
or otherwise.
Remember Gen. John
Singlaub? He said Carter’s
removal of troops from South
Korea would “lead to war.” He
thought it was “off-the-record”
and apologized for it. Carter
removed him from his Korean
command. A year later, he
criticized (this time in a public
forum) Carter’s cancellation of
the B-l bomber. Soon after he
“resigned” from the Army.
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for 20 years. He is a member of
the Associated Locksmiths of
America and the Dixie Lock
smith Association.
He first became interested in
this field while working in
watchmaking. Later, while
employed with a security
agency, he often had to pick up
stolen cars.
“A locksmith would usually
have to come out to unlock the
cars,” he relates, “and wat
ching them, I got interested.
Many were helpful by showing
me different things and ex
plaining them to me.”
He finds this skill required
patience and mechanical
dexterity, as well as attention to
detail.
Although most locksmiths
have two man shops, most of
the work is an individual
proposition, Ivey said.
“It’s the kind of thing that
needs to be started and finished
without interruptions,” he
notes.
He also enjoys a similar
hobby in repairing old radio
sets.
Does Ivey, the key expert,
ever misplace his? Not often, he
says, “but, I have a habit of
locking myself out of my car.”
Singlaub had no visible
political base and was not a pal
to Carter. Take another look at
Mr. Young. His comments
reach a vastly wider audience,
are more controversial, and
have more impact than
anything Singlaub ever said.
They are even starting to get
under the skin of our mild
mannered Secretary of State,
Cyrus Vance.
Where is Young and where is
Singlaub? The latter is back in
Georgia with Bert Lance,
another Carter pal who hung on
longer than he deserved to. Mr.
Young should join them.
President Carter is right in
viewing his U.N. Ambassador
as a symbol. He is a symbol of
the naive, bungling,
schizophrenic nature of our
foreign policy, a symbol of the
incompetence candidate Carter
used to slam President Ford
for.
A foreign policy that seeks to
overthrow moderate govern
ments such as Rhodesia’s while
appeasing dictators like Castro
and Brezhnev may not lose the
1960 election for Carter, but an
annual inflation rate that has
jumped from five percent to 11
percent since Carter was
elected should send him into a
panic.
Andrew Young bears little
responsibility for the latter, but
plenty for the formulation and
conduct of his President’s
foreign policy. He already has
been where he is, doing what he
has been doing, for too long.
In 1975, Carter wrote a book
entitled “Why Not The Best?”
It’s our turn to ask him now,
“Mr. President, why the
worst?”
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