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Beauty lauds pt By Mark Mayer "I don't think that pageai strength to some girls, and it to Jan Murray, the 197(> Mi; "I entered for the schola possible career in modeling Murray was reluctant, at f rweeant "Mv mint son! in ;i I O ^ backed out of it." she said. Contest officials contacted said. She decided to enter tilt where she defeated 15 girls Miss South Carolina parti winner participates in the IV $500 scholarship and some j Life has remained the s;i friends treat me no different title go to my head." She was surprised when sh< runnerup when it got dow throughout tho competition. A nursing student at USC, member of the liSC singing Alive. She attended Clemson Unix Murray then transferred to ' where she became interested Murray is from Chester, i cheerleader and majorette beauty pageants. "I had been first runneruj; Clemson and the Chester Con r?llt nil hv llio rlrvmcnn vnor "To get into this Miss Soutl representative from your h said. The Chester Merchants She is in the contest for hi; most likely would go into moc of traveling which is somethi "If I win. it's great. If I do said she enjoyed being asso volved in a children's orgai "I don't have anv olans foi many things I want to do bef The Miss USA pageant will be nationally televised. pi I I m ^1 ' - winner "w tfV *r% *r>m nts are degrading (o women. Reality is can open lip may doors for her." according >s South Carolina. rship benefits as well as for pursuing a , sue sain. irst, to compote in the Miss South Carolina n application to the pageant in \\)7:\. Init I I her each vear since her refusal. Murrav 1 197<> competition Jan. 17 in North Augusta for the title. cipates in the Miss USA pageant, whose liss Universe contest. She also received a lewelry. iim." mi lviuriiiy since me pageant. "iviy ly since I won I lie contest. I didn't let the i1 won. "I thought I would probably get first 11 to the last live. 1 had been relaxed siu- sam. Murray will graduate in August. She is a groups Radiant Vibrations and Carolina ersity for one year, majoring in education. Pri-County Technical College in Pendleton in nursing before coming to USC. \ city of approximately 12.OIK). She was a KJrtW .,-.1 .1 i 1 ill Hip,ll MIIUUI Illiu |/<11 IIVI (Jell I'll III UJVtW > in both the homecoming queen contest at mty contest. I did win the Miss Taps contest book," she sajd. 1 Carolina pageant you don't have to be the ometown. Anyone can enter it." Murray i Association sponsored her in the pageant. isiness reasons as well as for pleasure. "I ieling if I win. It would enable me to do a lot ng I haven't done much of." she explained, n't win. I'll live with it." she said. Murray ciated with kids and would like to get inlization of some type. marriage in the near future. There are so ore settling down with someone." she said, be May 15 in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and will rcOWsru r~~~ 'The World of Carl Saml "Tho World of Carl Sandburg." a loader's Ihoalro production, will ho prosontori at H p in. Monday. April r>. in tho Kookor T. Washington auditorium at I ho oornor of Wheal and Marion stroots. i Thoshow is a production of I ho Spoooh Division of I lu% Dopaiimonl of Thoatro and S|hhvIi al I ho University of South Carolina. Writ ton and compiled Iby Norman Corwin. the show ran on Broadway in \nilh!i?Kiaa?WiimKB?BMWBiWaSW?WWnBWWW?W?WBB>MM???WM A f Igfir W * A * f , ':v; ' KT A ACADEM r" T^dTNT BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR ( InrL M ir* l~? ^ I o ^ \ y ??r vi v ax \l I V I IV I OU I I J (BEST ACTRESS (Louise Fletcher) BEST DIRECTOR (AAilos Foreman) sWvwER / iA*J| ENDS TODAY at Fox Theatre < starts FRIDAY ! at GAMECOCK 4? v I>urfr" scheduled April 5 J UMil in a limited cn^i^cmcnt in which llcllo I>;ivis starred The sn ipl contains selections from the works ol Ilu* lamed poet. biographer, novelist, Carl Sandburg. Also included arc old songs and jokes collected by Sandburg as "pieces worth mucin boring." The |>orformanco is free and open to lhe general public. ^ f%JF pRl RESTRICTED^*! 1 ^ShST UXDfA W RtOO"?l S ACCOMMA^tsNG [ I | wfiy PA?|NT 0? AOUl T GuARO'AN )