European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Spike or. Made his debut at 15. A by Bob Thomas a staff writer Ryphe name is the same but the music j. Has changed to a rocking beat. The musical madness of the late Spike Jones has been passed on to his name Sake son a self assured 19-year-old who Hopes to Cater to today s diverse musical tastes. Naturally 1 get compared to my dad says Spike jr., but i m obviously riot like him. 1 expect to play about two thirds in his comedy style and one third of my own. It s not a hard Rock. No that i Don t like hard Rock it s groovy but it s just not my bag to Coin Young Spike is Hunting for his own bag and May Well be the Only bandleader who does his schoolwork on the m going nights to Santa Monica City he explained and i work tout with the teachers when i have to go out of town. They give me the Advance assignments and i keep up with the course while i m elder Spike made a Good thing of his school of musical depreciation for20 years. He gave differing versions of How he got the idea for his slam ban style. One Story was that he hit the wrong note on the Chimes while playing Drums on the Bing Crosby show the clinker caused guffaws. I Pike gave me another our last interview he saw the comic possibilities with music when Igor Stravinsky walked across a con Cert Stag with squeaky shoes. What Ever the inspiration he went on to earn a Fortune with musics punctuated by pistol shots and irreverent versions of cocktails for two Chloe Holiday for strings and others. Spike did t raise his boy to be musician. V Pak was set against my following his footsteps said Young Spike he wanted me Tobe a lawyer but once when he was ill at Harrah s Lake Tahoe in 1965, i went up to take Over the knew All the routines by1 heart so that was no problem. Later dad do a couple of engagements arid he was pleased and Happy with How handled myself.1 his father died in May 1965, and Spike jr., fulfilled a couple of the band s engagements. Then he returned to Grad uate from Beverly Hills High school. He has been organizing a new band and he explained his reasoning if i tried to Lead my dad s old band i would look strange. I look even younger than 19. So i be put together a group of musicians whose Ages Range from 19 to 23. There Are seven of them i found out it was too expensive to travel with 12. I won t use Rany brass unless we play where they have a House Spike has made one attempt at the recording Field but it was abortive i did a number for a record fir about the so called fad of scraping banana peels baking the stuff in an oven and smoking the result to get High. It was a lot of nonsense of course and the song was aimed at putting it Down. But the radio stations thought we were serious and they banned the record. It s not easy to be funny now Adays. But i m still going to by 1 noted a somewhat cryptic message in your column today which 1 suspect was intended for someone who had inquired about computer Type mate Matching. May 1 offer a Tew words of advice to those who might be considering such a thing either for a Lark or in serious vein. I fell for the idea in a weak and foolish moment and 1 have been kicking myself Ever the computer Matcher did forme was take my Money no Small fee and every month after that for one year i received a card from a com Puter saying sorry nothing yet maybe next month we will find the one we Are unfortunately there Are great Many lonely people in the world who Are willing to try anything on the slim Chance that they will find someone who will release them from their prison of machine mate finding gimmick is a con game and nope it will soon be stopped by Law. Once a sucked dear sucker Barnum was right. There s one Bora every minute and i d like to add Page h two to take him. Thanks for . I know you believe in Psychia try and i believe in it too. But it is not the answer to everything. On occasion you have been big enough to admit when you have been wrong. 1 Hope for the Sake of your Mil Lions of readers you will not hesitate to do so again. Recently you published a Fet Ter from a teen Ager whose Mother imagined she smelled Odd doors. At first she thought the odor was coming from the plastic including the Telephone. A week later she decided Theodor was coming from the Walls so they moved. Within week she insisted the same odor had followed her to the new Home. You suggested that the woman get psychiatric help. If you had checked out that letter with some of your Harvard medical school consultants they would have told you imaginary doors can be symptom of brain tumor. You should Nave advised the woman to see a physician for a medical examination. Please Tell her Todo so now. Ottawa Reader dear Reader you Are Correct and 1 thank you for calling this to my attention. Many physicians have written to Tell me As you did that i was wrong. My apologies for the Cropper Andy thanks to All who wrote. I am a 14-year-old girl witha Mother who is driving me buggy. I Wake up in the morn ing hearing her voice. She yells from morning till night. Today it went us this you Are going to give me nervous breakdown yet clean up you room or i m going to throw All the junk into the garbage up straight your postures terrible. Pull Down your dress. Get off the phone was your neck. Hang up your coat. Turn Down the music Cut you hair Bla Bla Bla what advice do you have for me Ann think i m the one who is going to have the nervous on teen dear teen my advice to Louis pick up your junk stand up straight pull Down your dress get off the phone Wash your neck hang up your coat turndown the music and Cut your hair copyright 1968, pull there Hall Syndicate the stars and stripes on return of dependents you might be interested in one Way. A recent headline i paper is being reflected to our senators. " following is the contents of a letter honorable Hugh Scott Senate office 20002.my dear senator Scott 4this letter is prompted by the headlines of the Mav 10 iof the stars and stripes wherein Secretary of Dei Ssue reported to have stated that the return of military a Here in Europe where attention has been so forcefully focused Many hundreds of nationals Are employed in jobs which could Well and often better be filled by our dependents. The re3 Hubbell report has already indicated the Low income of Manv military families in fact in some stateside assignments they Are eligible for welfare Aid according to local standards. Why then should our military dependents be doubly penalized by not being hired for relatively unskilled jobs and then being blamed for the deficits while the indigenous work Force earns american Dollar so to speak most of us try to buy american. Why then can t some realistic efforts be made for our Exchange system to try american i realize the real need for managerial continuity but certainly family continuity is of Paramount importance As i urge you. To do All a your Power to see that the answer military family. Sir i even suspect that if Only the military Mem Ber himself is allowed to remain the resulting stress loneliness and desire to fill the non duty hours will mean More Dollar spent on the local Economy i respectfully yours Chanute u. Cd Thomas j. Mclies warred Pennsylvania Kir Choem Germany this letter is in reply to recent article on a proposal to return dependents to a plus to Stem the balance-of-payinents1 deficit. With All due respect to the problem and defense Secretary Clark Clifford x personally feel that in the interest of support and morale it would not be a sound idea. Definite alternatives should be sought to see that military de Pendents remain with their husbands during a desirable tour since the frequency of Short Tours maintain unavoidable much More should be done for military dependents accompanying their sponsors to ease the burdens and expenses involved and to maintain the spirit and morale of the servicemen concerned. Much Money time and equipment is being wasted As it is audit seems that the service folks suffer the drawback in cuts curtailments and so called Economy moves. So it s High time to defend the dependents the Backbone and support of the Man on the Job. I m sure the military sponsors and their dependents wow. Agree to alternate moves and some self sacrifice and rather than face undue separations. Withdrawal of dependents is not the answer at least Notton immediate one. / Sec. Ventura ,. He. Corps did Bobby baby-out1?. Thank you thank you thank you for that delightful respite for withe Kennedy May 8 edition. Twenty four Lovely pages without is one thing however that i would like to know Yoou Bobby. I notice he has derided College students for evading me draft even medical students Vou please give us a rundown on his own military history. Aug Ever hear of Are the records of his two late it be that our presidential hopeful babied out was i not deferred during his years at Harvard and jaw Soi header editor 3-note thanks for your kind comments on the May Bobby did t and he was not deterred his years at Harvard Anat Law school following is an from a published Kennedy profile by Robert i Clark 01 Washington Star Ima a Hon his Robert was a Sophomore at Harvard in 1944 when oldest brother Joseph jr., a Navy Oltof was killed � y0war ii Mission. When the Navy named r new destroyer air Robert went to Washington and obtained Navy heciotai1 Orestal s personal permission to Transfer from Navy duty As a Seaman aboard the Joseph i Kennedy later stood radar watches but remained a Seaman postwar discharge from the Navy a reminder to Corrati Pendents a letters to the editor must contain full name and lie writer and must be signed. All correspondence is the writer s name will be deleted upon request Reserve the right to edit and condense letters. Thursday May 30,
