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" :22-(Sec. Ill) Statesman, Satan, Ore, Fii, Aug. 10, '58 Rock V Roll-A Menace or Teen-Aqers Harmless Fun: - FPC Hears Federal Dam Aid Too Short (Mltr Nf: TV l.Jn of I wrMt ef mrr.rt kjr Ui. widfly kaa rkMI f aa .ri.nliaU.a htf k. plMMM ta MH4 f kmim' Mi ult. ' W.trh for ua WaailMlUf trtkK .T.ry wMk.) By EtCENE GILBERT President of the Gilbert YMlh Research Ce. Teen-agers regard Rock 'a' Roll i revved up version of the Charleston or Lindy-hop: and the; see H most noted practitioner. LI Vis Presley, as a latter-day dis- riplt of Rudy Vallee or Frank Sina tra Harried parent, for the moat part, acorn this comparison with the music of their aalad daya and fo even further back in history to find counterpart of the fad. ' To tome of them rock 'n' roll. With iti unduluatinf two-beat rhythm, la lewd and dangerous; a throw back to Greek and Roman ergiet or tome primitive tribal rite. They cite rock V roll riots here and there acroaa the country, and occasionally bant on auch t lugs on. . Clerarymen. educators and oth ers ia related jelds are divided en the aubject. A large percent age deplore rock 'n' roll and ev erything connected with it. But growing and impressive number ef men and women in these same fields tend te agree with the teen agers. They point to the similari ties between rock V roll and oth- I - r i V'n OMAHA-Pollce fflcer teems atarfled at a Presley fan nets Into L. the meed at ene ef the singer's shews. , By JOHN IAMPS WASHINGTON - The Fed eral Power Commission was told that private utilities cannot rely on federal supplies to satisfy the Pacific Northwests growing de mand for electric energy. Officials of twe power firms so testified at an FPC hearing on an application by Pacific Northwest Power Co. for a license to con struct th Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams in the Snake River along the Idaho-Ore gon border. Marshall L. Balir of Spokane, vice president of the Washington Water Power Co. and Robert B Usbakken of Oswego, Ore., engi neer for, Pacific Power A Light Co.. said the utilities need a de pendable supply of (irm power to keep up with load growth. Crewlh May Dwuble Washington Water Power, Pa cific Power k Light and two oth ers comprise Pacific .Northwest Power Co. Blair predicted WWP's load growth would double and Lixhak ken anticipated aa even greater growth in PPL'i set. ice area in the next 10 years.. They said power loads of the two firms haave grown from 7.7 to li t per cent in recent years due to increased population, en ergy used per customer and in-1 dustrialization. ' Blair was asked if his company j would have to raise its rates in the event It ia unable to get pow-' from the federal Bonneville, system. I He said he did not believe so,, indicating that the production cost of Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley power would be only about one mill more than that for the federal energy. " Net e Lew "Th so-called Bonneville rates are not so low," Blair said. "There are so many things hook ed nn to them ... to many strings attached." Blair said Bonneville power li available to private utilities on an "if-when-and as available" basis under an agreement "which I al ways call firm contracts for dump power." Karlior, Charles C. Bonin, a consulting engineer who helped design the proposed Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams testified the dams would be able to withstand floods of even unus ual tite. He said the dams would be safe even If the Snake's flow approach ed 300.000 cubic feet per second far greater than the heaviest flow ever recorded for the river. TVBCHOOL DI E MEXICO CITY OP -Television skills will be taught to would-be Mexican producers and techni cians in a school to be opened here with U. S. aid next Fcbru-jin 1M5 and ruled until 1948 with Venezuela Says -Plot to Murder President Nipped CARACAS, Venexue i 10 The Venezuelan government reported Thursday night it had smashed a plot to assassinate Pres. Marcos Peres Jiminei. , It said ID persons were arrested including local businessmen. The government announcement charged the plot was hatched in Puerto Rico by former Pres. Ro mulo Betancourt, and had been given support by the Costa Rican government. Betancourt took over the presi dency and the interior ministry $100 Trade-in Your Old Set military coalition. ' ary. -a miinary roamiun. i S Salem Meat Co. 1325 So. 25th St. Phone 3-4858 J 5-Pc. Foam Rubber Set $ Davenport and ( hair . ' 199 3 Occasional Tables Sold Reg. 299.50 Plus' TrtHe Of those teen-agers who con sidered themselves rock 'n' roll ers. 71 per cent said the words of the tone are lest than umm porta nt. la fact, they told us that rar.lv da the listen at all 'to the er dance fadt that have swept the iyrics. It's the two-beat rhythm country in by-gone yean and coa- u,ai imdi them. tider the latest craxe a harmless way for youngsters to use up ex cess energy. , Centered now on Presley, whose totalled singing arouses violent hatreds at well as loyalties, the eountroverty rage en. and the rock 'n' rod phenomenon right along with it. Every day more and more leea-acers between the ages ef 13 and 19 become exponents of this new musical form. r Why? . Ilasy Interviewed ! Our erganitatiot) interviewed , aver !,t7S boys and girls and their parents in 41 cities across the na tion te find out what young people themselves think about rock '9' roll and its influence upon them. "I don't know exactly what the reason Is. but it Just sends me," . laid an Omaha enthusiast. ' "Th rhythm carries me away," agreed an Indianapolis miss. "When that crazy beat starts, I feel 1 could rock en forever." s ' Her answer touched en an In teresting facet ef this new dance , mania: the music and not the lyr kt Is the sending agency for those who are "sent" by H. And. they do not believe that either the music or the lyrics are dangerous or suggestive. It s Primitive ' "You're Just not with it. man." a Chicago devotee told us. "Why ia this se much different from the Charleston or the lindy-hop? We're only having tome fun before we eet toe old to enioy ourselves." , A maojrity of the parents inter viewed looked upoa rock 'a' roll with fear and trepidation. "It looks like a Roman orgy when those-kids get' together." a, horrified Cincinnati mother ex claimed. not her Midwest mother told our Interviewer: "I think this primitive kind ef music, if you can call it that, is downright lewd." The survey showed that U per, cent ef the parents would pre fer te see their children socially, occupied In some other direction, j bui only per cent feel to strong-, ly about It that they would like to sec rock 'a' roll banned from their communities. Their main concern: "Will rock 'n roll ruin my child?" The teen-agers laugh at such fears. Lightning Hits Lincoln lomb SPRINGFIELD, 111. (-Ught-nlng ttruck Lincoln'! tomb Wed nesday night, causing damage es timate) " bv State inspectors at $15,000 te $20,000. .. The bolt struck approximately, 20 feet from the top of the 117 foot pillar and ihowered granite fragments in a 100-yard area. Inspectors ordered the deck area outside the tomb roped off and closed but the inside of the tomb will remain open. Repair was Postmaster General; Howard iwork ' ,trted Immediately Ex-Truman Aides Join AdJai Cause ! CHICAGO ifuAdlal E. Steven inn Thursday listed tmong hit backers eight former Federal of ficials who held cabinet or sub-' Cabinet rank in the Truman ad ministration. Stevenson's convention head etiartert said these former offic ials have come out in support of Stevenson's bid for a second try for the White House: Jesse Monroe Donaldson, who McGrath, Attorney General; Os car Chapman, Secretary of the Interior: Sen. Clinton Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture; Dan Kimball. Secretary ef the Navy: Thomas K. Finletter. Secretary of the Air Force: Archibald Alexan der. Undersecretary of the Army; Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secre tary of Defense. The first four listed weit of cabinet rank it the time they held the offices. George Cssbmsn, tomb custodian. said the tomb was last struck by lightning on Sept. 1, 1951. 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