Seattle teens take a stand in radio battle

…DECEMBER 1965
Letters to the Youth News & Views column in the Seattle P-I were all pretty much like these. This was 35 years before social media…

THE DEEJAYS! If you compare R h e t t Hamilton Walker I or the Buzz Barr- to that awful Pat O’Day or Larry Lujack or that rotten Jim Sims, well, you j u s t can’t compare them. I have never heard a KOL deejay rank the Beatles, or I a n Whitcomb, or anybody. A n o t h e r thing, if you write a KOL deejay, t h e y write back. If you want to write a KJR deejay, forget it. Out of all the letters (m o s t l y hate letters for snide remarks about t h e Beatles, Whitcomb, e t c.) I’ve written them, only one has answered back. KOL deejays care about t h e i r listeners. HOWEVER, KJR d o e s have a few good points. Lan Roberts, Dick Curtis, Jerry Kay, and the shows. But I can hardly wait till summer at the Canal, and KOL again.
Wendy Hagen

IS KJR REALLY better than KOL? Why not ask J. J. Valley? A f t e r all, he used to be with KJR!
Us KOL listeners would rather fight than switch (to KJR) ! ! !
Sincerely,
Lilli Butterfield, 19. Aberdeen.’

Stop Fighting’
Dear Editor,
I think that KJR and KOL are great stations, but I wish that everyone would stop fighting over w h i c h station is best.
I at one time enjoyed the Youth Page. The kids that wrote in had some good, adult views on different issues; but now it’s only KJR fans versus KOL fans, and I think it is a shame to waste a good column on this. AS FOR Wendy Hagen, I think her remarks a b o u t Pat O’Day, Larry Lujack and Jim Sims were malicious. If all of her letters to KJR were like the one she wrote, I can see why the DJs have not replied to her letters.
Davene Medved
Roslyn, Wash.

AUGUST 1966 … KJR’s Larry Lujack discussing the Watusi Frug, etc. the other day: “There’s a lotta parents who just don’t dig this kind of premarital dancing.”