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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Letter From Scotland
BaltimOreans Join Up

AS you can see, I am writ
ing to you from practically
the other side of the world
in the hope that you can
help me find an American
pen pal.
You see, sometime in the
near future / hope to travel
around your vast country,
and one way to prepare for
my adventure would be to
correspond with an Ameri-
can boy or girl In order for
me to understand more Of
your people and the coun-
try, as well as to tell them
something about my wonder
full country of Scotland.
I will be Is on LIST october,
1868, and my interests are
travel, cycling. swimming,
tennis, dancing, hot records,
ELVIS, Bobby DARN, Brenda
Lee and Bobby Wee.
I would really like to have
more than one A m cries n
pen pal-actually, one from
O different State would be
very helpful indeed.
ELIZABETH URQUHART
81 Fairfield road. Inverness,
Scotland.
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compass of two or three oc-
taveS."
When the boys learned
that the instrument was
played with two light ham
mers held in the hands of
early folk singers, they OBJ
tanned a dulcimer for their
restaurant. ~.
The Dulcimer Clsomers
are mostly high school and
college teen-agers. 3
The restaurant serves sew
eral kinds of coffee, cider,
soft drinks and simple sand
witches. Prices are moderate,
with a 50-cent cover charge
providing most Of Sthe in-
come.
The young customers are
encouraged to Sing along"
with the Understanding
entertainers. The teen ayers
have become so attached. to
the Dulcimer - which some
call "our place"-that they
voluntarily spy on other, es-
adjustments with folk sing
ers to provide new ideas for
the Dulcimer management.
The Dulcimer seats 40 but
If you're not there by $3.50
on q weekend night, chances
are you'll have to stand In
line. And you won't be alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
HENRY JACKSON
Flying Objects

Regarding the so called
problem" of UFOs: Bless
the Air Forcel II must re-
member the panic that oc-
Cured one day In 1888 when
people tuned their radios In
on a Marian invasion story
told In the form Of a news
cast. Newspapers carrying
facts about UFOs could bring
the same today. Though
there are many intelligent
people who would read news
OF UFos with scientific In
terest, there are many more
who would associate flying
saucers with green-bellied,
polyeyed platymonsters-and
you think anti-segregation
mobs are bad2
AS for Congress, what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
About Profanity

Thank you, James Con-
stantine (TEEN. July l2),
for your comment concern
ing the profane and foul
language in the growing pop
ularity Of recorded albums.
I, too, have noticed that so
many of the popular albums,
and especially the party al
buns, are loaded with foul
language and filthy Jokes. /
have found that party al
buns are often embarrassing
when played at social gath
erings where there are diff
ferent types Of people. II
seems TO be a point among
the adults to criticize the
teens about the jibber- jab-
bering rock-and-roll music.
I'll settle for those knock
down drag-out lyrics in the
rock-and-roll music rather
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UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
Teen-Agers Run This Cave

added. Our big problem was
getting organized" I
From Easter to the second
week in June, the quartet
worked every week end In the
basement.
If we got half of what we
scheduled done, it was a sue
ceSsful week end" Bill said.
Search for a Name
AS opening day approached.
the teen-agers realized they
had not formally nam e d
their new venture.
I'VE shot names around
for q mon th," Bill said.
Then, during one of our
weekend trips to Ocean City,
I mentioned that I read in a
70
magazine about a musical in
strument called a dulcimer.
"At first, the name didn't
get much reaction from the
others but eventually 1t stuck
and we all accepted it." Bill
said. - .e
According to Webster's, the
dulcimer is the forerunner of
today's piano. The dictionary
says a dulcimer is "an In
strument having metallic
wires stretched over a trape-
zoidal soundboard. with a
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ration. Then, the weekend be-
fore Easter, all four boys
came to Ocean City for an
"on-site inspection"
The quartet brought along
a Baltimore entertainer,
"Biff" Rose, who provided
suggestions for design that
led to the inclusion of folk
singing in the coffee house.
Most of the actual con-
Struction and cleanup work
was done solely by the boys
during their Easter vacation.
I'VE put in full days, too"
Bill said.
THE first thing we did was
take out the bar" Pete said.
I'VE were glad that we were
too young to serve alcoholic
beverages. That would dis
tract our customers attention
from the entertainment"
There was a lot of work In
the basement that required
good old fashioned elbow
grease. ar
"The big labor project was
removing splattered green
paint from the walls and
floor" Bill said.
Then, there was general
cleaning, fixing UP, rebuild
ing and wiring to do" Pete
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
By WALTER GOLD
Star Staff Writer

Take a dingy basement,
add two Bethesda teen-agers,
mix well with hard work and
you have one of the most
popular night spots in Ocean
City, Md.
It's known as the Dulcimer
Coffee House. This modified
restaurant features folk mu-
sic by the sea and an I'M
paralleled atmosphere that
matches its unusual name.
Businessmen along the East
Coast already are taking no.
tice of this swinging coffee
house. It's the only know
establishment operated ex-
clusively for teen-agers by
teen-agers.
The two teen-agers who
are proving every night that
such an operation can be
successful are Pete Gutter
man, II, and Bill Butler, is.
They win be seniors this fall
at Walter johnson High
School.
Along with two Baltimore
boys, Harvey Bernstein, 10,
and John Baseman, II, the
WI teen-agers opened the
Dulcimer at Fourth street
and the Boardwalk on June
IS. The word spread and In
one month the Dulcimer has
become the number-one spot
for teens in Ocean City, but
not by accident. .
1T was q lot of hard work
starting something new from
nothing" Bill said.
Idea Dates From January
The idea for q coffee house
In Ocean City was first dis
cussed last January with
Bills uncle, Russell Cullen.
owner of the resort towns
Shoreham Hotel.
MY uncle was visiting our
house when Pete Gutterman
and I told him Of our desire
to open a true coffee house"
Bill recalled. lone thing led
to another and we suddenly
found ourselves talking about
a vacant room in the base
ment of my uncle's hotel"
When their parents real
lied the boys were serious
about accepting Mr.. Cullen's
offer to rent the basement
room, the adults formed a
corporation for legal protec-
ton, with Bills father later
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nomena. cat one time. ! ney-
er believed in flying saucers
or the like, and like many,
scoffed at people who did be-
heve in them. l was so
wrong. .. ti
One day I happened to
come upon a book on the
subject and after thumbing
through several pages Of filed
evidence, I took several days
to read the book. At the con-
clusion, I believed and felt
pretty embarrassed for hav-
ing laughed at others who
were much more knowledged
on the matter than myself.
The book, for those inter-
ested, was Flying Saucers-
Top Secret" by Mai. Donald
E. Keyhoe. Mai. Keyhoe,
USING, retired, Is at present
head Of the NICAP.
/ want to make one cor
rection on Mr.. Edgington's
letter. He said one good ex-
ample Of AT secrecy occurred
In 1858 when q glowing UFO
landed and took off again at
high speed at q NIKE mis-
sile sight In Derwood, Md
This sighting was carried
by the press. but the stories
didn't match. From the UFO
investigator, I quote: %. :. An
Air Force public .informa-
ton officer =. issued a press
statement that power COM
pany workers had been re-
pairing a transmission line
and the NIKE men had seen
their welding torches reflect
ing eerily from the orange
colored tops Of the work
mems trucks. When the pow
er company denied any work
men were In the area, the
AF said that the glow
came from q 2O0-watt bulb
on a farmers barn. NICAP
investigators checked with
the NIKE witnesses and pho
tographed the area. The only
structure in sight was q de-
serted shed not even wired
for electricity. II UFos do
not exist, then what does7
ROBERT PLUMB
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Correction

The TEEN record box had
a mistake. I think. In last
weeks top ten list. Wipe
out" was listed In ninth po-
sition and yet 1t was listed
by only one disc jockey and
then 1t was In 9th place. III.
MIKE TOTEM
"Wipeout" by the SurfariS
should not have been In the
top 10 list last week. It didn't
have enough points to be
No. 9.
HENRY JACKSON.
Editors Note: Both you
teen-aOers are eTactly right.
Thank you for catching our
error. my Whole World Is
Falling DotDn," By Brenda
Lee, should haze been listed
as ninth.
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would 1t do about Martians,
call out the Army or arrange
q press conference?
Personally, ! think that If
beings from other planets
want to snoop-why not?
They have as much right to
explore us as we have when
we send a rocket to Venus.
Let's leave well enough
alone-and flying saucers to
booksl
MARILYN
I have read many books by
different authors on the sub
ject Of unidentified flying
objects and talked TO many
people who have sighte d
UFOs. I must say / disagree
with Dennis E dgington
TEEN, July l2). He writes
that the Air Force should tell
the public "the truth about
UFOs."
I figure II the Air Force
said anything, some people
would Jump to some mighty
funny conclusions; like the
Martians are invading at
dawn. Kidding, of course, but
some people would do that.
Those people could cause q
lot Of trouble and that's my
reason for the Air Force 10
stay quiet.
However, I would like TO
know Just what all the Air
Force has seen. I know many
people would. too. but as I
said before, 1t Is better that
the Air Force remain silent.
CLINT MCAULIFFE
I would like TO say that
UFOs Unidentified FLYNN g
objects) are serious and not
TO be taken otherwise. Like
Dennis Edgington CTEEN,
July 12), I am a member Of
the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phe-
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PLAY BACK
From TEEN Readers

Play Back the column where teen-Ggers sound of
and let the orId kno their opinions Just about anything
Letters to Play Back must ritrS correct names
telephone numbers Pen Oi be used
requested All letters subject to condensation Address
letters to TEEN The EueHing Star, Washington g. D. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

than the cussing out In the
popular albums.
HAROLD (CAKES) KYLES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

being elected president of the
group. ~.
One week end before Easter
vacation, the boys saw the
selected site for the first
time.
What a mess!" Pete said.
THE place had been used
for a crab house and bar"
Bill said. I'VE realized there
was a lot of work to be done,
so we took notes and went
back home slightly appre-
henSive."
Then near tragedy struck.
BY coincidence, two Baltimore
boys who were about to grad
uate from Milford Mill High
School got the same idea for
the same location.
BaltimOreans Join Up
When the Baltimore pair
approached Bills uncle to
lease the basement room, Mr..
Cullen automatically sug-
gested that both sets Of teen
ayers merge their ideas into
a single business.
The suggestion was quickly
accepted through q series of
telephone calls. The parents
Of the Baltimore boys Joined
the as-yet UNNAMED corpo-
Evening star., 1963-02-03

Additionally have contributed substantially growth development
of our home ythe Washington COMMUNICATED through
investment of funds.
Today of life insurance force Peoples ranks among
legal life the United States Peoples
founded years
apoton of leadership the ed of
five agents N w
personnel number than 1900 The Company only the District
Columbia but great States stretching from the Atlantic seaboard the
Mississippi Pocyhode than of Peoples
Our 6O Anniversary Year is indeed reaug and appropriate
for thanksgiving.
Evening star., 1963-02-03

Naturally proud celebrate years successful people We
do with feeling of thanksgiving
We thankful that through the efforts of representatives there thou
sands of children who will not only receive the necessities life through
aned income but will get college education regardless whether their fathers
i've die become disabled
We thankful that through the combined efforts mortgage
will be paid off the the untme death the family beadwnner
We thankful that we have helped make possible for thousands policy
holders enjoy their retirement comfort and security that
organization have paid than $122OOOO pocho their
families and benefciares.
Evening star., 1963-02-03

BOARD OF DIRECTORS q:
Edward C. BaItz "a.
President, Perpetual Building So
Association
Daniel W. Bell sdAy
Chairman of the Board, Retired
American Security G. Trust Company
William R. Biggs I.
Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Brookings Institution o
Ida l. ChisweII
Housewife, Member Of the founding o
family Of Peoples Life Insurance
Company
Samuel W. Hauser
Chairman of the Board -
Peoples Life Insurance Company IV
:. :: : :: :: :. r.:
v. Manning Hoffman -
President FiTemdn,s Insurance
Company Of Washington
0na r. Hoover
Vice President, Agency and Personnel q -
Peoples Life Insurance Company -.
William 7. Leith .E--.-ssgs-.---
President and General Counsel
Peoples Life Insurance Company
Robert E. McCord
staff Assistant, Committee Of
Education and Labor, US. House.
ofRepresentatives
Robert N. Taylor
Vice President, Mortgage Loan
Peoples Life Insurance Company
Arthur P. Thompson
Vice President and Treasurer
Peoples Life Insurance Company
Washington W. White
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Peoples Life Insurance Company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08

1947, the G. o. P. looked with
new-found favor upon the Tru-
man succession plan. Would it not
place one Of their own-House
Speaker Martin-next in line to
the White House2
A new bill was offered by Sem
ate Majority Whip Kenneth s.
Wherry, Republican Of Nebraska,
to carry out Mr.. Humans recon-
mendations.
Hearings held before the Senate
Committee on Rules and Admins
tration drew Senator'S who offered
alternative methods Of dealing
with the succession question.
Senator Theodore Francis
Green Of Rhode Island spoke In
behalf Of a Joint Congressional
study of the succession question.
Senator Brien Mcmahon Of
Connecticut had another idea.
Should more than four months in
tervene between the time q Secre-
tary Of State assumed the presi-
dency and the next election day,
the last preceding electoral college
would reconvene to name a new
President and Vice President.
A bill offered by Senator Full
bright of Arkansas, provided for
a special Nationwide election
should the offices Of President
and Vice President become vacant.
He thought the Secretary of
State, or other cabinet officers
according to their rank, could
serve as a "caretaker" President
until the voters made a new
choice Of their own.
Senator Wherry was the last to
be heard from by the committee.
but 1t was his bill that eventually
passed.
He said the House Speaker
belonged in the presidential line
of succession because he is a
person elected every two years,
and in turn elected by the House
Of Representatives as Speaker.
BY a vote Of so to IS, his bill
won Senate approval and went to
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He noted the succession Of cabi-
net officers provided in the 1885
law:
I'm effect. therefore, by reason
Of the tragic death Of the late
President, it now hes within my
power to nominate the person
who would be my immediate sue
ceSSor IN the event Of my own
death or inability to act. I do not
believe that in q democracy this
power should rest with the Chief
Executive.
Insofar as possible. the office
Of the President should be filled
by an elective officer. There Is no
officer in our system Of Govern
ment, besides the President and
Vice President, who has been
elected by all the voters Of the
country.
The Speaker OF the House OF
Representatives, who Is elected in
his own district, Is also elected to
be the presiding officer Of the
House by q vote Of all the rep
reSentatives Of the people Of the
country. AS a result, I believe that
the Speaker Is the official in the
Federal Government whose selec-
ton, next to that of the President
and Vice President, can be most
accurately said to stem from the
people themselves -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
By MARY LOU WERNER
star staff Writer

Partly because Alexander Ham
ilton and Thomas Jefferson were
such bitter enemies, House Speak
er Mccormack today stands next
3 IN line to the presidency.
Congress has changed its mind
twice about who should succeed to
the office when q President and
Vice President die.
But it was Hamilton's Jealous
determination to keep Jefferson
as far as possible from the Ma
tons highest office that initially
turned the line of succession away
from the cabinet to congressional
ranks.
In spite Of Hamilton, Jefferson
went on to win q presidential
election. Yet for "a years the sue
cession laws shaped by their his
toric feud endured. And in 1947,
when Congress again chose to
make one Of its own heir apparent
to the White House, the precedent
Of that initial decision weighed
heavily in favor Of the change
which has brought Speaker Nc
Cormack 50 close to the executive
mansions doorstep.
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The Garfield Crisis

The assassination Of President
Garfield In 1881 brought the ques-
ton to mind again. For five years,
Congress debated the matter, COW
ering much of the same ground as
their predecessors in 1892.
Those who favored q change
called the original succession ar
rangement awkward and incon-
venient."
Senator Hoar Of Massachusetts,
who offered a bill to make the
Secretary Of State next in line,
again recalled the jefferson Ham
ilton animoSity:
But for the apprehension Of
the growing. public influence of
Thomas jefferson and Of the polit-
ical opinions of which he was the
representative, the provision
would have been made-that the
Secretary Of State should succeed
to the executive function in case
Of vacancy"
The 1892 law, he added, result
ed from a continuation "of the old
controversy in the convention
which framed the Constitution of
the United States. Of the struggle
for the equality Of the small
States in the Government as
against the claim that the powers
Of the Government should be
welded by the people Of the diff
ferent States In proportion to
their population"
He saw in his succession pro-
poSal an added measure of safety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
Agents in Front Seat

@. Are there any other questions
that come to your mind? Did you
say something about the agents
in the front seat of the Presidents
car?
A. I don't know who was in
the front seat. I understand
[Gerald Al Behn is the agent in
charge (of the White House de-
taiD and he was not in Dallas. I
can't understand that. And why
that agent in the front seat didn't
sort of cover him 1.-THE President
the way Rufus Youngblood did
the Vice President.
@. AS much as anything. peo-
pie want to know whether this
kind Of thing could happen again.
Do you think it could?
A. Yes. You can't do the I'M
possible. 1t depends on the man
in office. If he is going to be very
cooperative and listen to our
Suggestions-but not like, say,
[Richard Nj Nixon down in South
America. He insisted on going
through there and they were told
beforehand there was going to be
a demonstration or a mob.
q @. But in this case, Mr.. Ken
nedy was following suggestions,
wasn't he, at the time he was
shot?
A. Yes. I can't disagree on that.
@. Has there ever been a Prest-
dent who really followed the sug-
gestions of the Secret Service
when It meant isolating himself
from the public?
A. think President Truman
followed it after they shot at him
in Blair House. President EiSen-
hover, the first time I ever met
him, said, II know your job, your
responsibilities. I will do every
thing to cooperate" Regardless Of
all these stories you hear, those
men are cooperative. But when it
comes to an election campaign,
you can't control them. -.
copyright 1868, The wash,nzton
Star, the Detroit News. the Newark
News, the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
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But there is nothing to prevent an
aSSaSSin-SuppoSe he rented a
room six months in advance, or
he lived in a hotel. Hotels can't
stop that.
@. When the President is going
to another city, does the Secret
Service round up known psyche
paths?
A. We have a list. Everyone is
on the list. And If we don't have
the manpower, police or someone
will cover them and check them
that they don't get near the
parade.
@. Sometimes are they actually
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A. No.
@. How about the windshield?
A. No, nothing. We did that for
the speed in getting away If some
thing like this happened.
@. You say that bulletproof
car would be too heavy for fast
getaway in an emergency
A. That is right. These cars we
had when Franklin Roosevelt was
in office were heavy. cumbersome
and didn't have the speed. The
point is this: At the first shot you
speed away and you need the full
power. Unfortunately, these bullets
hit,
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On the Records Some Questions for the Secret Service

you are hoping will be answered
by the investigation. Can you tell
us what some of those are?
A. I think I answered that by
asking: Is there one or more in
volved? And why wasn't that
fellow [Oswaldl stopped from
getting out of the building? I
wouldn't have let anyone out.
Now this is Second-guessing.
We are all smart when we do
that. But according to reports,
someone saw gun sticking out
this window. Who saw the gun?
I would like to pin that down.
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Question of Monpower

@. And you haven't got the
manpower?
A. No. we don't. When I left
the service. we had only 300
agents to staff SO field offices as
well as protect the President and
his immediate family around the
clock.
@. Were you ever concerned
about the pickets that always
seem to be in front Of the White
House? Is that q real problem or
more Of a nuiSance2
A. I recommended that there
be no picketS in front Of the
White House or any place around
the White House. You can't have
pickets at the Supreme Court or
the House or the Senate. They
don't allow them down there.
Why have them at the White
House? They are just out for pub
licity. I would get rid of them all.
@. Are they a danger?
A. No. they are just nuts.
The thing is, you don't want nuts
next to the President.
@. I know you don't want to
make a Judgment on what hap
pened in Dallas, but there must be
some questions in your mind that
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Trumon Recommendation

After the speaker, Mr.. Truman
recommended the Senate presi-
dent pro TEN as next in line. And
if neither could qualify. he
thought the order then could de-
scend to the cabinet. He suggested
that Congress also might want to
provide for a special election to
elect a new President and Vice
President.
The House swiftly passed bill
embracing MIR. Humans recon-
mendationS. but the Senate took
no action.
When Republicans elected a
majority to the 80th Congress in