Atlanta Daily World

Disc Jockey Hits Foes Of Rock 'N Roll

PHILADELPHIA (ANP)-- "The educators, ministers, politicians and other civic leaders who are blaming rock'n roll music for every conceivable problem in the U. S. A. today--from sex crimes and syphilis to fires, alcoholism and drug addiction -- are making a gravely dangerous mistake," declared Philadelphia's popular George Wood, the disk jockey who first introduced rock 'n roll music in Pennsylvania.

Chief target of Woods' blast was the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, which created quite a stir among rock 'n roll exponents when they issued a report stating that the music and its fans were a widespread incentive to teenage unrest and delinquency.

In a report prepared for the 32nd annual convention of the Chiefs of Police Association, the Chiefs of Police group reported that "many juveniles do not have the facilities to listen to the music at home so they congregate in juke shops, lunchrooms, cigar stores and other jukebox places in order to hear this off-key music with its repetitious words.

"A few hours of this entertainment seems to fill them with a vague, restless spirit, and they start to roll and rock anybody or anything that comes in their way. The words of many of the songs are more suggestive than those sung in burlesque houses, and the rhythm seems to have a special hypnotic effect which has created a series of ridiculous male hoochie-coochie dancers."