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' 9 - TT ? n T . , u Li orury Serials Dept. Box 370 Chanel Kf.ll tt rMw 1514 ji (D MM Y li li c c '7V Write Well U Better Than To Rule' Volume 74, Number 76 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1966 Founded February 23. 1893 Next Year! a t m i . i. Walt Disney Dies At 65 BURBANK, Oalif. (AP) Walt Disney, a Missouri farm boy who transformed dreams and fairy tales into entertain ment that enchanted the world, died yesterday. The 65-year-old moviemak er, who has been called Holly wood's only authentic genius, succumbed in St. Joseph Hos pital of what his studio call ed acute circulatory collapse. Disney had part of his left lung removed Nov. 7. An in- ft n Fait Disney formed source told the Asso ciated Press it was cancerous and the cancer spread. He was up and around for a while but re - entered the hospital Nov. 30, and observ ed his birthday there Dec. 5. Death came at 9:35 a.m. . His passing erased enter tainment's most versatile cre ator. From meager beginnings with an animated cartoon mouse named Mickey he built an entertainment empire and dominated it as one man rare ly dominates a large organi zation. His scope ranged from car toon fairy tale classics like "Snow White" to lavish mus icals such as "Mary Poppins." X 3 A KC I 'Yellow Garter Belt, Size 25, Please' By LAUREL SHACKELFORD Special to the DTH "I'd like a yellow lace gar ter belt, size 25, please." Now there's nothing unusu al about this request when it's softly spoken by a coed. But that hasn't been t h e trend recently in the Fireside shop on Franklin Street. In the last three weeks one young man has come into the store and bought three garter belts two yellow and one black, all size 25. He bought the first one for his girl, and it made such a sensation in the men's dorm, that other boys have commis sioned him (one dollar profit on each lacy garter belt) to go down and buy similiar items to give their girls. Mrs. Anna Darden, who works in the Fireside, said, "He's not the least bit em barrassed to do it. I think he gets a kick out of it. "But once a friend came with him, and I asked how he liked the garter belt. He was too embarrassed to answer. He just blushed." When boys Christmas shop in the Fireside they usually have some idea about how tall their girl is and how much she weighs, and almost al ways they know her measure ments. One customer was a partial exception recently, though: he didn't know how tall his girl was or how much she weighed but he did know she's 34-24-38. According to Mrs. Darden the boys usually come in look ing quite embarrased so the clerks say, "You look like you need some help." Am n d with that they look relieved. "A lot of boys," she con tinued, "will look over the stock, leave and think about what they've seen, and then come back and buy something." He produced adventure films, comedies, nature studies for the screen, had one of tele vision's most successful shows, and revolutionized the amusement park business with his fabled Disneyland. The Disney touch was al ways obvious: fantasy, color, laughs, thrills, deep drama but always with a happy ending and always fit for the whole family to see. His films were known in ev ery nation of the world, and his television series carried his own face and personality to scores of nations. During the past year a campaign originated in Latin America to nominate him for a Nobel Prize because of his contri butions to the literature of the screen. Those contributions were immense. They began with a mouse, Mickey Mouse, pat terned after a real one that had scampered around Dis ney's drawing board in Kan sas City. After Mickey came Donald Duck Goofy, Pluto, Three Little Pigs, and a host of other cartoon characters. . A restless genius, Disney wasn't content to grind out one-reel cartoons even though his little studio was prosper ing with them. He plunged in to the first feature - length cartoon, "Snow White," cre ating seven endearing dwarfs that insured the film's suc cess Later Disney made . filais that were part - animation, part-live-action, then moved into feature movies, culminat ing in "Mary Poppins," one of the most successful of all time." Ten years ago Disney cre ated a pleasure park near Anaheim, Calif., and made it one of the most popular tour ist attractions in the nation so popular that Nikita Khrush chev ranted when he wasn't allowed to go there for secur ity reasons during his Ameri can visit. Deposits on Christmas items come in handy for a lot of shoppers, but one boy lost his $5 deposit last year. "He came in and put $5 down on a $50 sweater, but never returned to pick up the gift. One day in January he stopped in to tell us that he had broken up with the girl and hadn't needed the swea ter." "He was probably happy the break - up came when it did before Christmas." Another line of strategy that some boys follow is to bring a friend of their girl along to help pick out the gift. "But this is usually not too helpful, because she tends to be jealous of what her friend is getting for Christmas." One boy recently came in and asked the clerk what she thought his girl's mother would say if he gave her a skirt and sweater he had picked out. Since the couple had not been dating for very long, Mrs. Darden suggested he give her the skirt for her birth day and the sweater for Christ mas. The boy was luckier than most shoppers, for he now has two gift occasions taken care of unless, of cuorse, he's razzed too much about having a skirt hang along side the trousers in his closet. It seems ironic, But Mrs. Darden claims that husbands are more uncertain about what size their wives are, than the single men are about their girl friends! Unlike the sin gle males, most of them tend to pick out bathrobes and lingerie. Even though the Fireside does a lot of business with boys who are buying for their girlfriends, Mrs. Darden thinks wearing apparel is too per sonal to give, unless a couple has been dating for a long time. r X : 'Nobody paid much attention to the teaming note Glasgow had? . . Brandon Calhoun explains in front of Hoax room -DTH Photo by Ernest H. Robl Professor Geer: Tree Public College Education ..Isj Essential' By DIANE ELLIS DTH Staff Writer "My dream is to live long enough to see my job abolish ed." That's what Bill Geer, Di rector of Student Aid here, said in an interview yester day. 'Today a free public colle giate education is essential for giate education is essential for qualified young people. Life in our society now is so complex that a free public high school education is no longer enough to prepar the youth or their role in lie." Geer, an honor graduate from The Citadel in South Car olina and a history teacher here for 19 years, takes his dream seriously. "If we in a democratic so ciety don't see to it that the financial means are provided so that students can develop their potential, then we've lost out on the opportunity to de velop our most valuable re source." He jabbed a forefinger into the air to emphasize his point. "This is the best investment of public money that can be made." Geer says it's "shocking" that more people "don't advo- 7 y 2mE cate the idea of free public collegiate education." 'There's no reason in the world why we should limit ed ucation to the amount of mo ney parents have," he said. His voice took on a decisive tone. "There are too many bright young people born too poor parents who have a dif ficult time getting an educa tion." Geer bespectacled, gray ing, and personable speaks from experience. He was a scholarship recipient himself (he was awarded a college scholarship in the tenth grade and chuckles, "I never did graduate from high school") and fully appreciates students' needs. 48 Orphans Given Party Forty - eight orphans were treated to a Christmas party yesterday afternoon by Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The 24 boys and 24 girls of Oxford Orphanage in Oxford, N. C, were served refresh ments and given gifts. Andy Galyon, Thorpe Mc Kensie and Jeff Beaver led the group in singing Christmas songs. Stewart Wil son was games chairman. The big event of the after noon was the presentation of a portable record player and and a complete variety of ath- letic equipment and games to "thSn.b0S.'S?Sge-.i The Phi Delts dates, from Pi Beta Phi sorority, accom- panied them to the party. 5 "Most members of the fa culty cannot be aware of the complex financial and person-: al responsibilities the students' here are struggling with," he. said. 'They just don't have time." He admits he himself often doesn't have the time he would like to spend with stu dents. "All my life I've been a tea cher, and I enjoy students. In this job my calendar's always full tut I enjoy being here m mm a. - - where I can deal with students in the broadest: sense of the term." ' He learned back slowly in his chair and spoke more qui etly. . ."My heart is fully com mitted to this Job." Geer, in discussing the stu dents he comes in contacts with, has nothing but praise for them. ; .r 'This is the most capable generation of. young people I have ever seen in my teaching experience," he asserted. "They're brighter, more cap able, and more serious than any group I've observed much more so than their pa rents." "As for these critics of you young people," he said firm ly, "I deny that the college generation of today is either Mwlnns nr irr ueer, appointed Student Aid Director in September of this 'Outers9 To Tackle Mexican Mountains Have you noticed guys clomping around campus lately in what appear to be L'il Abner Boots? It's probably just one of the members of the UNC Outing club which leaves this afternoon for the Christmas-day assault of the Western Hemisphere's third highest peak. UNC's seven-man team will tackle 18,600 foot Orizaba located southeast of Mexico City, Mexico, after extensive preparations that have been going on all Fall. Climbing leaders Hugh Owens and Robin Wright have outfitted a 1960 VW bus to carry the group and equipment. Driving time is estimated to be about 48 hours. The mountain itself is an ancient volcano cov ered by glaciers and packed snow. The dangers of climbing will be compounded by the possibilities of severe storms. , "We plan to get underway on Christmas morning about 2 a.m. from our base camp at 14,000 ft. That way we'll reach the summit by mid-day and be down and out of storm danger by 2 p.m. that afternoon," explained Expedition Leader Hugh Owens. Along with Owens and Wright, the team consists of Gordon Strickler, John Thome, and photographer Jock Lauterer. Also going on the climb will be Hugh Owens' younger brother, Barry Owens. Private donations have been helping to finance the trip. Just this week Mead-Johnston donated enough free Metrecal to feed the team during the climb. ttr. ,. . , . . . . , . . . . , Don laugh. tha stuff 1S great-lightweight and nu- tritious," noted one of the members. i t 1 ' '1 year, has an interesting story to tell about his own attempts to get financial aid. While still, in high school, he applied for a competitive scho larship, took .tests in every subject area he had studies, and waited nervously for the results. They were slow in co ming. "I couldn't stand it any long er," he remembers. "Finally my uncle took off to the state mm m m t J 1 J. capital, looked into the situa .a . 1 ' X - f AaVAM non, ana wirea me m I still remember what he said: 'You have won the scholarship. Make good." ; Just ask : any of bis stu dents they'll tell you he has. ; UNG Student Is Finalist A UNC senior will be in competition Saturday with 12 other seniors from six south eastern states for four Rhodes Scholarships to be awarded in the district. Dennis Theodore (Teddy). O'Toole, a double major in English and economics was selected Wednesday as a fin alist to represent North Caro lina. Also selected from North Carolina was Philip Ellis Ray of Raleigh. By B1LLAMLONG DTH News Editor RALEIGH An 18-year-old N. C. State student found bound and gag ged on the floor of his room Thursday morning told police 18 hours later that he did it himself to disprove a sui cide theory about another student's death. "I thought no man could tie himself up and kill himself," Kenneth W. Glas gow of Halifax, N. C, told detectives. "But I almost choked myself to death trying to prove the police wrong. I would have been dead if my room mate hadn't found me pretty quick." Glasgow told detective lieutenants Larry M. Smith and E. C. Duke that University Gifts Top $4 Mill ion Alumni, parents, and deve lopment foundations aiding the University have announced gifts of $4,285,993.81 for scho larly and other activities. Twenty development organi zations to benefit schools or assist special academic pro grams met and designed al location of the funds. Amounts of gifts run as fol lows: From alumni Bequests Corporations Foundations & Trusts Other $ 88,848.29 723,345.18 444,155.75 2,012,829.79 216,814.80 The foremost gift was from the William Rand Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust of New York of $1,000,000 as the first of five million dollar gifts for the support of new Kenan Pro fessorships at the University. Two other professorship have been established during the past year $234,000 was gi ven for the Willard Graham Professorship in the Business School, and for the Robert A. Ross Professorship in the Medical School. An anonymous donor gave $150,000 for scho larships to undergraduates. n THE UNC TEAM that will scale 18,600 ft. Orizaba on Christmas day is leaving this aft ernoon for the Mexican peak, which is the third highest mountain in the Western Hemis NCS Stranglings undent Admi The Alumni Annual Giving Program exceeded $200,000 for the year. The most significant gift in this program 'was $40, 000 from the Class of 1929, who came back to Chapel Hill last June for their 40th anniver sary. Charles M. Shaffer, Direc tor of Development in the donors. "The response to all programs was most gratify ing," he said, "It proved once again that alumni are happy to answer the call for worthy purposes at all times."' Over $1 million was collec ted by fund - raising organi zations conducting annual ap peals. New records were set by the Alumni Annual Giving, the Business Foundation, the Educational Foundation, Friends of the Library, and the Medical Foundations. Almost three quarters of a million was given by persons who left money to the Uni versity in wills, the bequest amounts ranging from $5,000 to $238,791.88 to these depart ments: Religion, Medical School, Library, Sociology and student aid in the form of scholarships and loans. a: 11 If H :- Saul. he thought their suicide theory concern ing 18-year-old Raymond McCauley's death was "a lie." McCauley was found dead in his eighth floor dormitory room about noon Thursday by his roommate. He was bound with shoelaces, gagged with a sock and napkin, and trussed with a slip-knotted extension cord connect ing his throat and ankles which po lice say strangled him. His door was locked from the inside and detectives began early operating on the theory that the 195 - pound youth, described as a "loner who often took walks alone at night," had committed an elaborate suicide. Glasgow's disbelief of this prompt ed him to begin his hoax about noon Wednesday, po lice said. "He came into the televi sion lounge and asked who the practical joker was who stuck a knife in his door with a note saying, 'Glasgow, you're next,' " said sopho- .i i 1 3 ) i Coed Mary Radcliffe . . 'Girls Scared9 more Brandon Calhoun, 20. "Nobody paid much attention to it." It was on this note that po lice lab technicians found eight of Glasgow's finger See HOAX On Page 6 1 J1 Vi- ' ' ' c:s ft Li t -:,.: i phere. The team here are, left to right, Gor don Strickler, Hugh Owens, Robin Wright, Jock Lanterer and John Thome. Photo by George De Wolfe. nr - -
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