U.M.C. Library
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Box 870
Atomic Contest
A delayed showing of the
Notre Dame vs. Michigan
State football game will be on
North Carolina television late
Saturday afternoon.
SP Advisors Meet
The SP Advisory Board will
meet this afternoon at 4 in
Roland Parker I. Topics for
discussion include a Yack cou
pon resolution, finances and
party elections.
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To fFrife Well Is Better Than To Rule'
Volume 74, Number 57
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1966
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Very Few See
HHPs Big Fire
By JOCK LAUTERER
DTH Staff Writer
Anita Ekberg and the good life never had a
chance.
"La Dolce Vita," noted as a torrid film, went up
in smoke as the Varsity theatre fumed and choked
with ugly red smoke, and belched flames and fumes
in the chilly hours of early Wednesday morning.
"Fire is a horrible thing," scowled Mrs. Paul
Sparrow of Andrews-Henniger's Department Store as
she viewed the holocast that spewed from the inferno
of the Varsity theatre.
The fire that engulfed the mid-town theatre and
ruined the City Optical Co. and Jeff's Campus Con
fectionary early Wednesday morning was as dramatic
as some of the films that were shown in Andy Gutier
rez's establishment.
From a higher roof to the east of the roaring the
atre, firemen leaned out over a hot brick wall and
sent round after round of water into the caved-in
theatre.
For several hours, it was touch and go. Firemen
raced up and down the alleys surrounding the build
ing negotiating new routes for their bulging hoses.
Franklin Street ran fluid with a red river lighted
by the regular blipping of sourrounding police and
fire truck lights.
"Hey, got any cigarettes?" inquired a sooty-faced
fireman as he strong-armed a canvas hose with one
hand.
"Ernest, move that ladder over here," yelled an
other fireman.
Reddish smoke billowed about the fire-fighters as rez's movie house and ruined Jim Mous
if they were having a pillow fight and red down feath- m0uIes "Jeff's Campus Confectionary" and
ers were spilling out the Citv Optical Co. Here owner Gutierrez
Cries of directing firemen, sifted through the mum-, !merges wet anlshivcri"g frm the hulk of
bling of the sullen flames that often licked over the
ridge of the beige-fronted Sorrell building.
Owner of the ill-fated Varsity Theatre, Andy
Gutierrez stumbled soaking wet and shivering through
the clattering falling glass and rubble.
Water gurgled furiously along the slick black side
walk and bubbled out of the three ruined businesses
as if there was an artesian
'There goes tomorrow's
Win Donet, a UNC student and WCHL announcer.
By 4 p.m. the fire was obviously under control.
Surrounding businessmen sighed in relief as the red
5ky faded from its angry color.
"Thank goodness it didn't get us," breathed Kar
en Kemp, of Kemp's Jewelry Store, As she stood with
her family on the crosswalk in front of the theatre.
Wally Kuralt of the Intimate Book Store, looked
worried under his expanse of mustache until the fire
Was definitely under control.
This was a quiet fire. There was no crowd of stu-
de?lS' afdu"0fh00tingaery as Mere usually is for
a Chapel Hill fire. In fact very few people even knew
the fire engines were out.
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6 read the sign that more than 200 boys carried Tuesday
night as they passed on the west side of Granville Towers
for a late evening pep rally to their sister dorm.
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that raged through the Sorrell building early
Wednesday morning? obliterated Andv Gntier.
Torch People
Unite Tonight
Torch-bearing students will
gather tonight at 7:30 p.m. at
Ehringhaus to hear the team
captains explain how the dook
Blue Devils wil be "served"
on Saturday.
The "Beat Dook" parade
will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday,
followed by a downtown pep
rally.
Dorms, sororities and fra
ternities will have floats in
MTn& ifftto
the parade in preparation for
ai Asparagus Week.
UNC students are purchas-
"S post cards from the soph-
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them of their impending doom
Saturday.
Serenade
By CHARLENE HAYKEL
Special to the DTH
Two hundred Granville West
residents launched Duke
Weekend "hell-raising" Tues
day by staging a midnight
serenade for their sister resi
dents in Granville East.
Led by an unidentified un
dergraduate, the 15 - minute
performance forced windows
open on the west side of the
girls dormitory with a chorus
of "Dixie" and the "Call of
the Hogs," the Arkansas Raz
orbacks' fight cheer.
"Don't Think Twice, It's
All Right" and "I Can't Get
No Satisfaction" were also
billed on the program which
concluded with" traditional
Carolina cheers.
"Everybody was having fun.
Nobody worried about the
lyrics," said one observer.
Another described it as "a
howl, not a serenade."
The singing and cheering
was punctuated by chorus
line choreography," a boy cir
cling on a monocycle, and
hooting from fraternity court.
A hige sign carried by some
of the students read "Valhalla
ially Floor 6." Valhalla (Vik-
salutes G.rai"ille East EsPec-
,ing neaven) refers to
Lerl
"house" within Granville Res-
idence College.
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Sec. Wirtz
'Lottery Draft Systen
WASHINGTON (AP) Sec-
retary of Labor W. Willard
Wirtz, calling the military
draft unfair, proposed last
night a national "opportunity
board" to register youths for
community service, education
and job training as well as
military service.
He said it could be tried on
a voluntary basis first, pos-
sibly make it compulsory lat-
er if necessary.
Wirtz told Catholic Univer-
sity students they were bene
fiting from "a selective ser
vice system more haphazard
and inequitable than any
method yet tried or suggest
ed for selection for military
service."
In his prepared speech he
said the present draft sys
tem "almost compels, as I
see it, some kind of lottery
system for selection for mili
tary service."
Wirtz was the second maj
or Johnson administration of
ficial to suggest a draft lot
tery, which is opposed by the
selective service.
Secretary of Defense Rob
ert S. McNamara said in a
Harvard University interview
earlier this month that a na
tional lottery would help in
"eliminating the deficiencies"
of the present draft system.
Both Wirtz and McNamara
said specific action should
await the report of the Nation
al Commission on Selective
Service appointed by Pres
ident Johnson. The report is
due in January.
The commission is also con
sidering "a broad - scale na
tional service program."
Wirtz suggested his nation
al "opportunity board" pro
posal be tried first on an en
tirely voluntary basis,' and lat
er perhaps on "a firmer tough
er" basis if necessary.
He proposed that every boy
and girl register with the
community at age 18, that the
community have the obliga
tion of providing every youth
two years of further educa
tion, job training or a job, or
a community service program,
and "that it be recognized as
the youth's obligation in re-,
turn, to use this opportunity."
On the possibility ' of mak
ing such registration compul
sory, Wirtz said:
his theatre about 4 a.m. while the fire was
still being brought under control. The fire,
which is though to have started about 2 a.m.,
was the worst fire in Chapel Hill since the
1946 Utilities building fire.
r DTH Photo by Jock Lauterer
Proposes
"It would be precisely those
who present the most seri-
ous problems, both' for them-
selves and for the commun-
ity, who would fail to take
advantage of any or all of
the options which were offer-
ed them; and their continu-
ing misdemeanors would make
a new system seem not to be
working even if it were in fact
improving the general situa-
tion materially."
Wirtz called the unfairness
of the present military draft
system only part of an infi
nitely larger problem of pro
viding opportunity for all
American youths.
"There is as much reason,
and more, to require every
American youth to 'register'
for living as for fighting,"
he said.
He told the college students:
"You complain, properly in
my judgment, of the unfair
ness of the method by which
one boy out of every two is
selected for some kind of mili
tary service. But is it worse
than the unfairness of the way
one boy or girl out of every
two gets to college and the
other one doesn't?"
He said under the present
circumstances, "no other kind
of service or education or em
ployment warrants, in my
judgment, exemption from mil
itary service."
He said this is partly be
cause the present system of
draft deferments "adds the
burden of military service on
top of the disadvantage of the
often inequitable denial of ed
ucational and other opportun
ity." Wirtz said if some kind of
national opportunity program
such as he suggested were
adopted, there might later be
a better answer than a lot
tery to fill military draft quo
tas. Lacrosse
Meeting
There will be a meeting for
all varsity and freshman la
crosse candidates in Woollen
Gym's room 304 at 7 p.m.
Monday. Attendance is .required.
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Flames Also Destroy
Jeff's, City Optical Co.
By ERNEST ROBL
DTH Staff Writer
Police are investigating the
pre-dawn fire which destroy
ed the Varsity Theater on
Franklin Street early Wednes
day. No cause has been determ
ined for the fire believed to
have started in the rear of the
W. B. Sorrell Building about
2 a.m. which also heavily
damaged two neighboring bus
inesses. Students living in apart
ments over the theater escap
ed injury.
Jeff's Confectionary, a pop
ular magazine stand, and City
Optical Co. suffered heavy
water and smoke damage.
Indications were the build
ing would have to be razed.
Some 50 firemen and volun
teers battled the blaze for
about an hour before bringing
it under control, but smoke
from minor flare-ups contin
ued to pour from the building
as late as 8 a.m.
"I knew the building was
gone when we arrived. I just
wanted to save the other
buildings," Fire Chief G. S.
Baldwin said yesterday.
Policeman Ross Penny spot
ted smoke pouring from the
entrance of the building while
making his rounds and turned
in a radio alarm. .
Dime-A-Pak Now
)Has Over $400
Operation Dime A -Pak
has now collected $400
of its goal of $2,000 to send
cigarettes to Viet Nam for
Christmas.
Leading the contributors
yesterday afternoon was
Craige where Houses A,
B, C and have each given
$30.
The Panhellic cCouncil
has given $30, and the
booths at Lenoir, Chase and
Y Court have collected
over $150.
Petitions sending Christ
mas greetings are also cir
culating on campus.
New Computer
On Exhibition
At Morehead
How do you make a one
sided piece of paper? What
does a can of baking powder
have to do with calculus?
Which branch of mathematics
sees similarities in a coffee
cup and a doughnut?
Anew IBM mathematics
and computer exhibition at
Morehead Planetarium can
tell you.
The exhibit, said by Plane
tarium Director Anthony Jen
zano to be "one of the most
fascinating and thought-provoking
complexes ever pre
sented on campus," was de
signed by Gordon Ashby of
California to "enable visitors
to look at mathematics and
computer concepts as they ap
ply to the everyday world."
Small displays housed in an
18 - foot showcase illustrate
such subjects as calculus, top
ology, projective geometry,
and memory and processing
capabilities of computers.
Boxes, mirrors, puzzles, and
models are included.
The mathematics section of
the exhibit presents questions
and suggestions for simple ex
periments a teacher can re
produce in the classroom. A
graphic wall shows people and
computers at the UNC, Duke,
NC Stat-, and the Triangle
Universities Computation Cen
ter.
The exhibit is open to the
public daily from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. and 7:30 to 10 p.m., on
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10
p.m., and on Sundays from 1
p.m. to 10 p.m.
He kicked in the glass doors
of the theater but was unable
to enter the building because
of intense heat and thick
smoke.
Penny then ran up steps in
an alleyway on the west side
of the building to rouse stu
dents living in apartments
over the theater.
The students were already
awake but some escaped with
only their pajamas. One man
aged to rescue his graduate
dissertation.
Baldwin said that the con
struction of the theater had
hampered fire-fighting efforts.
"The ceiling of the theater
is built in layers first tar,
then insulation, wooden sup
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It Was Billed As A 'Big Gripe-In'
. . . But Only A Few Showed Up
'Rut-Learn ing
School9: Gripers
"This school is a rat-learning
school you run down
the maze, you take a right or
a left and get rewarded."
A psychology major's gripe.
It was one of several ex
pressed yesterday afternoon in
Gerrard Hall at the "Big
Gripe-In."
The Gripe-In got off to a
slow start, then gradually fiz
zled out.
The biggest crowd about
-15 students were there
about 4 o'clock.
A tape - recorder was set
up in toe front of the room to
record the general gripes, an
other was set up in a side
closet for private gripes.
"The Carolina curriculum
reeks," one griper griped,
"Nothing but three hours a
week of lecture classes.
"Modern Civ won't be worth
a damn to me when I get out
of school.'
Another complainer com
plained about the problems of
meeting people here on cam
pus: "We ought to have mixers ,
here on Friday nights for stags
only," he explained. That way,
he said, you could go without
a date, and leave with one.
A coed commented on this
problem of meeting the oppo
site sex: "If you start talking
to a boy in class, he thinks
you're a monster!"
The faculty was the subject
of the most gripes.
"Sixty per cent of the facul
ty here are grad students."
one griper complained to the
group.
There were many state
ments that grad students are
"hard-headed they ask your
opinion about something, then
refute it."
"And most of" the faculty
members don't want to both
er with undergraduate stu
dents," another student offer
ports, more insulation, and
ceiling tiles.
"The fire ate through the
wooden supports and we could
not reach it with our hoses
because of the other layers,"
he said.
Curious crowds gathered
around the scorched building
Wednesday and gazed at the
marquis which proclaimed
"La Dolce Vita" the good
life.
The 500-seat Varsity Thea
ter, which remodeled its in
terior less than a year ago,
was operated by the E. A.
Meiselman chain of Charlotte.
The building is owned by
Mrs. Cecil Robbins of Louis-burg.
n
p
ed.
Then science instructors
came under attack.
"It is obvious," one person
observed, "that high school
science courses in this state
don't amount to much.
"Then when you come here,
the instructors think you
should know all the basic con
cepts of the Darticular science
you're studying."
And the labs "Everything
about the labs here is bad,"
one student declared.
Orientation? "Orientation
was a flop this year."
How about thf draft?, an
other asked. Is it a problem
here?
"The draft is definitely a
problem here," someone an
swered. "As long as you have
the draft grading is all that
counts. It lust re-enforces the
system of deoending on crades
in school and nothing else.
"The grading system is A,
B, C, D and Viet Nam. The
instructor decides whether
your life expectancy will be
shortened or not.'
Throughout the session, the
griDes were gradually reduced
to bull sessions long discus
sions on what haDDens at oth
er schools in relation to the
situration at Carolina.
Doug McKeown. organizer,
of the Gripe-In, admitted that
the session was less than suc
cessful. "People who really have
griDes aren't here.' he said,
"they're back in their rooms
griping about something."
One griper never made it to
the front of the hall, he just
came in the back door, wrote
his gripe on a piece of paper
and left.
Scrawled on the paper In
bold print was his gripe: "Ov
erly timid administrators bow
ing to the whims of radio commentators."
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