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Evening star., 1960-04-01

Fashions that may be in
Princess Margaret's trouSsesu
and worn on her 63-day
honeymoon. will be seen at
the "Tweeds and Tiaras"
combined showing of II lead
ing British couturiers on
Friday. April %. at the Brit
ish Embassy.
The Washington Fashion
Groups Regional Director,
Jessica Grice and Lady Cac-
cia, wife of the British AM
bassador. have been busy
making plans for the benefit
tea which will show 10 cos
TUNES. created by the Incor-
porated Society of London
Designers.
These deigns formed the
nucleus of the show presented
recently for the Queen Mother
and Princess Margaret at Os-
terley Park, in Middlesex.
Princess Margaret's bridal
gown is being made by Nor
man Hartnell who is repre-
Evening star., 1960-06-05
Rockefeller Aids Davis,
Has Candidates Look

center of wide attention for his
own political activities.
Republican leaders such as
Gov. Davis, National Commit
teman Mark Andrews and
State Chairman Arley Bella
praised Gov. Rockefeller and
his campaign techniques but
said they nevertheless expected
the COP. national convention
would nominate Vice President
Nixon as generally anticipated.
Mr.. Nixon is the Republican
Party's only declared candi-
date. Gov. Rockefeller has said
he is open to a draft but will
not become a formal, active
candidate.
Milton Rue, the only one of
North Dakota's IA Republican
convention delegates support
ing Gov. Rockefeller, said any
successful draft Rockefeller
movement would have to orig
mate with a large, key delega-
ton.
While the Rockefeller visit
to North Dakota made no dis
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BISMARCK, N. D., June 4
(AP).-Gov. Rockefeller of New
York moved across this Mid
western farm State today in a
grass roots campaign tour that
left voters with strong re-
minder he was available for the
Republican nomination for
President.
The New York governor spoke
on farm policy in a wheat field,
on foreign affairs in a village
park, posed with children and
cows and shook thousands of
hands.
The governor did not receive
and he said he had not
expected-any encouragement
that North Dakota would
launch any move to draft him
for the Republican nomination
for President.
Gov. Rockefeller was cam
paigning officially for North
Dakota Gov. John E. Davis,
Republican candidate in a spe-
cial senatorial election. But the
New York governor was the
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cernable improvement in the
Governors chances of being
drafted, it gave Republicans a
flrst-hand demonstration of the
campaigning Gov. Rockefeller
could do if some political up
heaval eliminated Mr.. Nixon
from contention.
The New York governor ar
rived in Fargo at North Da-
kota's eastern border yester-
day and campaigned across the
State today to Bismarck. He will
return to New York City by
plane from here tonight.
While speculation on his own
political future swirled around
him, Gov. Rockefeller re-
peatedly asserted he was here
only to help Gov. Davis and
not on any personal scouting
mission"
But the Governor often ap-
peared to be the candidate
himself. He dropped frequent
reminders to the States large
Scandinavian-American popu-
lation that his family included
two Norwegian daughters-in-
law.
Gov. Rockefeller made many
references also to his own ex-
perience in government and
to the fact that his home State
had a sizeable farming industry.
Farm problems are key
political issues in the Midwest
and Gov. Davis election battle
with United States Repre-
sentative Quentin Burdick is
being fought largely over farm
policies.
Gov. Rockefeller proposed in
one speech that wheat and
other farm surpluSes be used
as emergency food reserves in
the event Of nuclear attack
that destroyed regular supplies.
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lead since May from five per-
centage points to four-tenths
of a point.
The poll undertook to mea-
sure Mr.. NiXon'S appeal against
that of Senator Kennedy since
the collapse of the summit con-
ference and Soviet Premier
KhruShchev's repeated attacks
on President Eisenhower.
The question was asked, "In
view of the current East-West
and world situation, which one
of these men do you think
would best represent the United
States sitting across the table
from KhruShchev?"
The results were Vice PreSi-
dent Nixon, 48.4 per cent; Sena-
tor Kennedy, 34.6 per cent, and
no opinion, II per cent.
Herbert G. Klein, the Vice
Presidents press assistant who
released the poll results, said
it indicated the peoples CON
fldence in the Vice Presidents
ability to represent this country
in the foreign policy field and
one who can deal effectively
with Khrushchev at the proper
time"
The poll was conducted by
Facts Consolidated Polls of Los
Angeles for the Los Angeles
Times. 1t consisted, Mr.. Klein
said of a Statewide sampling
of 3,028 voters.
In the general poll Senator
Kennedy drew Alb per cent
and Mr.. Nixon Ala per cent,
with 1853 per cent expressing
no opinion. Pointing out that
a similar poll by the same Or
ganization in May showed
Kennedy with a. per cent and
the Vice President with 80 per
cent and II per cent having no
opinion, Mr.. Klein said:
THE Vice President has con-
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tinued to rise in strength in
California and we believe this
is true elsewhere"
Asked to explain the differ
ence between Mr.. Nlxon'S show
ing on the question involving
only foreign policy and dealing
with Mr.. Khrushchev and the
overall poll, Mr.. Klein said the
Democratic Party, as of now,
has done a better job selling
itself on the domestic issues. "
He said the Vice President
and his advisers still feel that
Senator Kennedy is the most
likely Democratic nominee. He
said it was too early to tell if
there had been any shift of
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Laramie Star Weds
HOLLYWOOD Actress

HOLLYWOOD, June 4 (AP)
Film Actress Luana Patten
and TV actor John Smith were
married today in Cathedral
Chapel.
The couple then went to a
wedding reception attended by
more than 200 at the home Of
Mr.. Smiths television pro-
ducer. John Champion, in Bev-
erly Hills.
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voters to Senate Democratic
Leader Johnson since his West
ern trip last week.
Mr.. Klein declined to dis
cuss any reports he may have
received on spending by SEN
ator Kennedy and other Dem
ocrats in the West Virginia
primary. He said last week that
friends of the Vice President
in West Virginia were investi-
eating reports of heavy spend
ing.
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meeting voted for the Vice
President.
However, there was at least
one avowed supporter of Gov.
Rockefeller of New York among
the four missing delegates. He
is Kermit R. Mason, a Morgan
town attorney.
The delegation named Gov.
Cecil H. Underwood as its
chairman.
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West Vireinions
To Indorse Nixon

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June
4 (AP).-West Virginia'S dele
CATION to the National Repub-
lican Convention voted today
to indorse Vice President Nixon
as the party's presidential
nominee.
Eighteen of the States %
man delegation present at the
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Nixon Office Says Poll
Fovors Him as Diplomat
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star Staff Writer

Vice President Nixons office yesterday released new
California poll indicating voters prefer the Vice
Senator Kennedy when it to handling international
affairs
The poll taken last week. also indicated that in the Vice
Presidents home State he had cut the Massachusetts,
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Gone forever is the big, sprawl
ing convention stage, where all
the party's VIP's used to cluster
in the limelight. Both parties
have learned the Importance of
cutting down background distrac-
tions, so the viewer can concen-
trate on the main attraction.
Both parties made an effort to
reduce the clutter last time, by
construction of a small forward
stage, screened from the VIP area.
They succeeded only partially,
both admit. They will try again
this time. using more drastic
measures.
I'VE may have to laSso a few
people" to keep 'em out of camera
range" one planner said des-
perately.
Republicans are considering
some kind of background draping
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folk festivals folk singers have be-
come the darlings of the college
set. Professionals such as Seeger,
Gibson, White, Odetta, Sonny
Terry, Stan Wilson, Jean Ritchie,
Will Holt, Joan Baez and dozens
of others could live comfortably
on what they are paid on the COL
lege concert circuit alone each
year.
And with the college crowd it
isn't just spectator fad. More
than 200 courses in folk music,
folklore and folk singing were Of
fered last year at colleges rang
ing from Harvard on the East to
the University of California at
Los Angeles on the West. Indiana
University has a complete aca-
demic program in folklore, in
cludtng folk music, leading toward
masters and doctors degrees.
Another indication of the grow
ing interest in folk music can be
seen in the guitar sales in Amer
lea which were at an all-time
high of $24 million in 1859, up $3.5
million over 1858. and S6.5 million
over 1856, according to the Com
merce Department.
Naturally not all of the guitars
were bought by folk singers or po-
tential folk singers. But take a
look around a good many college
campuses today and you'll dis
cover that a guitar is status
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Revival Of Folk Singing Stirs Interest in Our Past

the young people into the waiting
arms of folk music.
Russell AmeS, in his book,
STORY of American FolkSong,"
said that we are all folk singers
even if we do no more than sing
scraps of songs we remember
from our childhood. American
history is in the folk song and
the folk song is an inseparable
part of us, he said.
Mrs. Rae Korson, who is in
charge of the folk music archives
at the Library of Congress, has
still another view. She feels this
rebirth of popularity began right
after World War II.
After the war hundreds of
young people came in or wrote
us asking if America had folk
songs" she said.
Almost all of them pointed out
that they have been in other coun-
tries and had heard folk songs
there and that they were eager
to find out if we had anything
comparable.
Mrs. KorSon is among those
purists who distinguishes between
authentic folk singers and the
singers of folk songs. The first,
to her, are those non professional
men and women who have been
singing the songs of their particu-
lar region of the country for years.
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The G. o. P. will know better
next time.
The present G. o. P. intention
is to make a virtue of necessity
and clean up all the dull stuff
such as approval of non-contro-
versial committee reports-during
that first session, which they hope
to end within an hour and a half.
The convention will reconvene
at 8 or $50 that evening, Wash
ington time. The Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday sessions
will start around 8 pm. (All
hours are Washington time)
The "Moin" Attractions
There will be main attrac-
ton" each day-President Eisen-
hover one day, the keynote
address another, nominations and
balloting a third, and then the
acceptance speeches to wind
things up. The events probably
will come in that order, although
this has not yet been announced.
Unless they run into unexpected
problems, Republicans expect
their convention to be in session
no more than II or 18 hours, all
told. This estimate is based on
1856. when the four-day San
Francisco convention lasted just
18 hours.
There we're, Of course, no con-
tests at the 1856 G.. o. P. love feast,
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which unanimously renominated
President Eisenhower and Vice
President Nixon. The problem of
the convention planners was Ito
make it look as if we were having
a convention at ALL" one ad-
mitted
There will at least be a contest
for the Vice Presidency this time,
G. o. P. strategists say. They
expect four or five men to be
nominated, with at least a few
ballots required to sort them
out.
Democrats are steering clear of
estimating how many hours their
show will run. Republicans, with
nothing to lose, guess that the
Democratic sessions will take be-
tween 40 and so hours.
The networks tend to agree
with this, and also with the
G. o. P.'s estimate of 18 hours for
its own deliberations. The net
works say they expect to present
the whole show, "gavel to gavel,"
although reserving the right to
skip sections if things should get
dull.
The Democratic schedule looks
like this, as of now:
Monday, open at pm. Pacific
Daylight Time g pm. here), for
the keynote address and routine
business.
Tuesday, probably the same
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sity auditorium spellbound with
her musical history lessons of
slave life along the levee.
At Chicagos Old Town School
of Folk Music. operated by folk
singers Win Stracke and Frank
Hamilton, at least 100 other Chi
cagoans were learning to play
guitars and to sing folk songs.
They ranged from elementary
school pupils to one of the city's
leading physicians.
Alone or teamed with two or
three other folk singers, Pete See
ger, Bob Gibson, Josh White,
the Weavers and a dozen others
repeatedly fill Chicago's Orches-
ira Hall and come close to pack
ing the cavern-like Chicago Civic
Opera House for folk music con-
certS.
Along the West Coast folk sing
erS repeatedly pack such spots as
the Hungry 81" and Purple Onion
in San Francisco and the Unicorn
and CoSrno Alley in Los Angeles.
Countrywide Appeal
Weekly community sings are
common in dozen cities from
Seattle to San Diego and a West
Coast coffee house would rather
be caught fresh out of coffee than
without a folk singer.
In addition to the dozens Of
Evening star., 1960-06-05
BY BERNIE MORRIS
Associated Press STAFF Writer


JUNEAU, Alaska.-AlaSka is on
the verge of its biggest internal
row since the statehood issue
finally was settled two years ago.
Involved is a proposed move of
the State capital - from this
once-bustling mining town in the
island-dotted southeastern pan
handle to a location in the bur-
geoning population heartland, 500
miles to the north and west.
The issue will be put to the
voters in a Statewide initiative
election tentatively planned along
with the regular August primary.
The conflict has caused some
hard feelings among the men
working hard to make the new
49th State a success. The propo-
sition also has revived arguments
that ragged in this great northern
territory 54 years ago when the
capital was switched from Sitka
to Juneau.
"Sltka felt 1t was a dying in
FAINT" says a chief spokesman of
the new effort to change the cap
ital. "The wake there was cele-
brated with champagne in Ju-
neau."
Now" adds State Representa-
tive Earl Hillstrand, "the sins of
the fathers are about to be visited
on the children"
But, continues Mr.. Hillstrand,
Sitka survived and grew. He says
if the capital is moved again, so
will Juneau.
History Repeats Itself
Mr.. Hillstrand's home town of
Anchorage, the heart of the So
called Cook Inlet railbelt area, is
in much the same position now as
Juneau was in 1906, when this
was Alaska's population center.
Now Alaska'S largest city, An
chorage is riding a boom set off
by military building and carried
on by recent major oil and gas
discoveries. Its metropolitan area
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time, or somewhat earlier, for
adoption of platform, credentials.
rules and other committee reports.
Of fight comes over seating of
delegates, this is when it will hit
the floor. The civil rights queS-
ton, always potentially explosive
at a Democratic convention, also
would flare here.)
Wednesday and Thursday, 3 pm.
(6 pm. here), with nominations
for President set for Wednesday.
Thursday would be for presiden-
tial balloting, plus nomination
and balloting for the Vice PreSi-
dent.
Friday evening the Democrats
plan to stage a mammoth rally
in Los Angeles Memorial Stadium,
which is adjacent to the new
Memorial Sports Arena where
their convention will be held. The
outdoor stadium will seat 100000
persons. Hard-pressed financially,
the Democratic plan to use the
rally to raise money. Tickets to
the rally will be $40 apiece.
Changes in TeIevision
Other changes which television
has brought to the American con-
vention process are:
o The Democrats credential COM
mittee now meets week ahead
of the convention, to have its re-
port ready by the time the con-
Vention opens.
Q Republicans now print their
platform and rules reports in ad-
vance, and distribute copies to
each delegate. The chairman then
reads only the highlights from
the platform. Democrats hope to
speed up committee reports by
having an unusually short plat
FORM
. Democrats have made it diff
fcult for a delegation to demand
a time consuming public poll of
the delegation, thus inhibiting
those delegates who request poll
merely so the homefolks can see
them on television. Republicans
say they haven't needed to resort
to this yet, but might if the prob
lem arises.
. Demonstrations will be limited.
This is a delicate area, both par
ties agree. There is little enough
about convention that is gen.
timely spontaneous" When
something is, everyone wants to
let it alone.
. Both parties have sharply cut
the number of speakers-a reform
long overdue in any case, they
admit. ("Now when somebody
pressureS us to schedule a two
hour speech from the president
of the raiSin manufacturers asso-
citation, we have an alibi-we
blame it on television," said one
official)
Ladies Day" is gone for good,
from both conventions. This was
the period, long observed by both
parties, where a lengthy and re-
gretably dreary parade of women
resolutely took turns on the plat
form, chiefly to assure the world
how good their party was to the
female sex. Some women will
speak, but only If they have
specific contribution to make on
a subject. And they won't be
punched together like members
of the Floradora sextette, both
parties promise.
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Fight Over Capital
Starts in Alaska

population is estimated at more
than $4,000.
A Capital Site Steering Com
mittee," of which Mr.. Hillstrand
is a co-chairman, prepared the
ballot proposition. 1t does not
name Anchorage as the new
capital. 1t says only that a five
man committee shall pick the site
somewhere within a 0-mile-long
Swath up the middle of the State,
where 80 per cent of Alaska'S
estimated 100000 people live.
However, many see Anchorage as
the only logical site if the capital
is shifted.
A key issue in the conflict is the
economic impact the proposed
change would have on Juneau.
This capital city with a popula-
ton of some 1000 persons residing
at the edge of a scenic mountain
coast line, depends almost entirely
on government for it's basic
industry.
Juneou's lsoIotion
1t also depends entirely on air.
planes and boats for normal
transportation service. There are
no highways connecting the city
with the remainder of the State.
This proved embarrassing early
this year when a fog blanket
spread over the capital and hung
on for most of a week. Airline
service was stopped dead and Gov.
William A. Egan had to ask the
Coast Guard to ferry in a group
of legislators who couldn't reach
the capital for the second half of
the States first legislative session
any other way.
Juneau'S defenders were un-
ruff1ed by the jibes of critics.
When the fog lifted they were
ready with statistics which they
said showed that less than 5 per
cent of the scheduled flights of
the four airlines serving Juneau
were Cancelled last year. They in
sisted this record was equal or
better than Anchorage's or other
major cities of the State.
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which will silhouette the chief
performer more clearly.
Democrats promise a podium
that is marvel of electronic
gadgetry. 1t will move up and
down so that the top of each
speakers head is exactly IL feet,
4 inches off the floor, in order
that cameras, microphones, and
lights need not be refocused.
The podium also boasts a sepa-
rate air conditioning unit (the
hall already is air conditionedD
and special lighting to eliminate
chin rings and shadows on the
speakers face. Through some
wizardry, when the speaker reads
from his manuscript he appears
to be gazing into the lens of a
camera.
Sessions Are Cut
Television also has given the
knockout count to the traditional
two-a-day convention sessions.
Both parties are scheduling a
single session daily timed to hit
prime viewing hours in the popu-
lous Eastern part of the country.
Republicans hold a pro formal
opening session in the morning
of the first day, because that's
what the official convention call
provides. Television-minded plan
ners weren't consulted when the
call went out many months ago.
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symbol just as the ukulele was a
generation or two ago.
Perhaps the outstanding ex-
ample of the popularity of COM
mercial folk singing is the Kings
ton Trio. These three young COL
lege lads Sprang up in the West,
quickly swept East, and left the
youth of the Nation cheering in
their wake.
One rain soaked night last sum-
mer they played to more than
5000 young people at Ravinia, an
open-air music park on Chicago's
far north side which the we'll
respected Chicago Symphony Or
cheStra rarely fills even on a balmy
night. Two nights later, with the
ground dry and the sky cloudleSs,
more than $4,000 jammed the
park to hear them.
Why the Greet Appeal?
Why the sudden popular in
tereSt in folk muSic-after all our
history is written in songs, songs
OF protest, songs of war, peace,
work, and love songs, of course.
There are almost as many an
SWers to that question as there
are folk singers these days.
In the present popularity of
folk music one has to take into
consideration the contribution of
Harry Belafonte. perhaps the
highest paid and most popular
folk singer of them all. There are
some who would argue that he
is singer of folk songs and not
a folk singer. Whatever the case.
it can't be ignored that he prob
ably has done more to popularize
folk music than any individual
in America.
Recently, Belafonte had this to
say about folk music and his role
as a singer:
81 think that much of the
truth and beauty of the folklore
and the ethnic music in the
world is being suppressed and re-
placed by mediocre, very mean
ingless music, because those who
write it and those who perpetrate
it on a popular basis do not seek
the truth in music but chiefly
the commercial benefits.
ut is my desire to give the
people in various countries an
understanding of the folk music
of people in other lands. believe
that genuine folk music permits
people to find a great human
identity with people of other
lands"
BIomes Rock n Roll
A lower-level explanation was
advanced by Bob Gibson, who
gave up a career in investment
banking to turn his folk music
hobby into a profitable full-time
profession.
He believes that singers such
as Burl Ives, Theodore Bikel.
.ToSh White and BelafOnte opened
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The latter are those men and
women who have sprung up re-
Gently in the entertainment world
and make their living singing in
night clubs and concerts.
With the exception of perhaps
Huddie Bedbetter and a handful
of the more colorful authentic
folk singers such as Pete Steele
of Hamilton, Ohio, most of those
on the $4,000 recordings in the
archives are relatively unknown
to the general public.
The archives are TO the singers
of folk songs what Tin Pan Alley
is to ballad singer. Only the
archives are nicer because the
songs there are public domain
and almost all singers of folk
songs today, including Belafonte,
Seeger, Gibson and others use
them extensively to prepare their
repertoires.
Collection in Librory
Alan Lomax, who with his late
father, John Lomax, is largely
responsible for the extensive COL
lection of authentic folk music in
the Library of Congress, is one of
the puristS who isn't overjoyed at
the sudden commercial popularity
of folk music.
He feels that the modern folk
song revival began in the mid -'30s
as a cultural movement with over
tones of social reform. But he
grumbleS that it has been taken
over by the amusement industry
and those talented, ambitious city
youngsters he calls folkniks and
city-billieS.
These Johnnys-come- lately in
the field lack understanding of
the emotion of the true folk mu-
sicians, he feels.
Whether they can understand
the emotion or not doesn't seem
to bother the millions who buy
their lohg-playing records and
flock to folk festivals, night clubs
and concerts TO see them.