More Mental Patients at Kaneohe than Patients in All Oahu General Hospitals
Mentally sick patients at the Territorial Hospital far outnumber the total number of patients in the 11 general hospitals on Oahu Mental patients probably occupy every other general hospital bed in the Territory, just as they do on the Mainland. This startling percentage of mental sickness is even more shocking when the Territorial Hospital with a normal capacity of 791 patients is overcrowded with 1.200 patients.
This overcrowdedness exists in old buildings too. During the 1956 calendar year the hospital's occupancy rate was 141 percent. cont'd.
'King of Fleecers' Was Freed by Governor King; Pat Yim Out 3 Months Now; Did He 'Cooperate'?
Leaving three accomplices in Oahu Prison, Patrick Yim, one of Honolulu's most notorious fleecers, had his sentence commuted in May of this year by then Governor Samuel Wilder King, and came out of prison May 8. Shortly thereafter, he left for the Mainland, his release and departure unreported in the local press.
But here in Hawaii behind him, Yim left a trail clouded by mystery as thick as any of his swindling operations down through the years.
While in prison on another offense, Yim was indicted Sept. 18, 1952 along with three other men for the fleecing of Mrs. Gregoria Omboy, a Gold Star Mother, of $13,000. The other three were Mike Legaspi, Antonio Pascua and Emiliano Bale. All four pled not guilty to the charge of gross cheat. On March 4, 1953, Yim withdrew his plea of not guilty and substituted a plea of guilty before Circuit Judge Carrick Buck. The other three stood trial and were convicted. All four, however, received the same sentences, 10-year maximum sentences and, eventually, seven year minimums.cont'd.
"Aloha-Quiz," New Game In Town, Getting Thoughtful Eye from Police
By Edward Rohrbough
The Honolulu police vice squad and the C-C Prosecutor's office are studying the latest local effort to make a buck in the entertainment world via a game of skill and may. be chance. What the law enforcement bodies are interested in, of course, is whether or not there's enough chance about the game to make it a lottery. Police officers have visited the place, at 1067 Alakea St., the former location of "Calypso Joe's," to study the game during the 10 days it's been running, but they apparently haven't made up their minds yet.
The name of the game is "Aloha-Quiz," and it's operated by a friendly young couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Pierce, in a large room equipped with benches and tables, a balcony and a microphone. At first glance, you might think it's merely "Bingo" under another name, and certainly there is a similarity. Each contestant is given a card with numbers and a
handful of checkers. cont'd.
Internal Revenue Nails Matson Hotel Staff for Income Tax on Old Tips
Do tips to bellhops, waiters and waitresses constitute taxable income?
The local office of the Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue has decided that they do, especially when the waiters and waitresses concerned have managed to buy fine homes and drive expensive cars. In recent weeks, the internal revenue office has let a number of waiters and waitresses in the Matson hotels, especially the Royal Hawaiian, know they are considered in arrears on income tax down through the years and they will have to pay up what the government thinks they owe, plus whatever penalty the government thinks they should pay.
One big headache for the waiters and waitresses is that many of them haven't kept enough track of the tips to know accurately how much they've received over long periods. In part, this can be calculated through the Royal's custom of adding 10 percent to the customer's bill to be considered a tip and passed on to the waiters. But it doesn't cover the exceptionally generous tippers who add something to the 10 percent. Then, the bellhops are not covered by any such 10 percent honorarium, and unless they've kept records of what they got for hustling the guests' baggage and doing various odd errands, they have no way of knowing accurately what they got. cont'd.
Oahu More Densely Populated than Puerto Rico by Latest Figures
The island Of Oahu has more people per square mile than densely populated Puerto Rico, according to Willie Crozier who has observed the island cornmonwealtih closely.
Based on population figures just released by the Board of Health, Oahu has 688.9 people per square mile.
Puerto Rico has 674 people per square mile. cont'd.
Airport Cop Aided Brother Officer From Kauai in "Sales Tax" Beef
You think cops don't stick together? Well, listen to this one.
One day last week, Officer Albert Henriques of Kauai was visiting in Honolulu and, stopping at the island airport, he stepped into the coffee shop to have a meal. He enjoyed the meal and he enjoyed kidding with one of the waitresses, a friend he had known before.
But Officer Henriques didn't enjoy it when he got a check for $1.04, especially when it was explained to him that the four cents was the "roll-back, pass-on" tax. Henriques complained that the "fax," after all, was only 3 1/2 percent and if he was going to be "taxed," he wanted his half-cent change. The management explained it had no half-cents lying around and couldn't make the change, so it was collecting the full four cents. cont'd.
Sam King failed in Last Minute Effort To Set GOP Writing to Ike
In Hawaii as elsewhere, the full story of an important event is seldom in the headlines of the first 'newspaper that announces it, and sometimes not in the second or the third. The true story must be pieced together, bit by bit, until the whole picture is complete.
Thus bits are still being added to the story of how Sam King left the post of Governor of Hawaii. For instance, now it Is generally known among Republicans that shortly after King got the telephone call from Washington asking him to resign, and after he had submitted his resignation, he called a meeting of party leaders. cont'd.
Passed Over By Dailies
Congressman Holifield on Radioactive Hazard
"The world has witnessed almost 120 bomb tests so far," which is one for almost every month since World War II, Rep. Holifield declared on the floor of the House.
"And a single bomb test today can be the equal of a thousand Hiroshima-class bombs," he explained.
Radio-strontium—strontium 90— in fallout "has become a great and crucial problem of our times."
He sharply criticized government officials who publicly assure the people that nuclear tests are safe, when they themselves ate confused and ignorant about the -ill effects of nuclear explosion. cont'd.
Travel and TB
Travel is broadening, they say, but it may also broaden the tuberculosis problem for Hawaii. Experts predict that globe-trotting may increase our chances of getting TB, unless world-wide control of the disease is affected.
Great progress has been made against TB in America. The death rate has declined sharply and should continue to be low if TB control programs are continued at the present rate. In the past, it is believed; most Americans became infected with TB germs when they were young, even though those who broke down with the disease did not do so until later in life. Infection rates in children have been declining in recent years as efforts have increased to find and hospitalize adults with "open" TB. cont'd.
Univ. Women Vote Atom for Peace
The American Assn. of University Women at its Diamond Jubilee convention in Boston, early last month, voted that atomic energy should "be progressively removed from military stockpiles and placed in the service of' industry" under an international atomic energy agency. cont'd.
Distaste for Math Cuts Number of Engineers
U.S. teachers must share the responsibility of disinterest among youngsters in science and engineering. The Educational Testing Service reported a study disclosed a serious shortcoming in the teaching of mathematics. ETS says many teachers do not like math. Furthermore, they are not well trained for it and therefore they communicate their distaste for math to their students, who in order to pursue science and engineering training need a solid background in math.
New Way Sought To Make High School Physics Fascinating
The nation's top physicists and high school teachers are working together to make high school physics fascinating and clear. Scientists and teachers whose work are subsidized by the National Science Foundation, are agreed that to make the teaching and learning of physics interesting, these things are needed.
A new textbook, 70 films showing from the eclipse of the sun to atomic action for use during a school year, a teacher's manual and a set of instructions for making many new kinds of classroom demonstrations with materials that cost no more than a dollar, and kits full of how-to-do-it experiments for students to play with at home.
Progress has been made in revamping the teaching of physics and some hundred physicists, high school teachers, students, college students, writers and expert film-makers are at work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This fall a few schools will try out the new method of teaching. Next summer at least four summer institutes will be held to train teachers to use the materials for teaching physics.
Five major manufacturers have raised cigarette prices Reader's Digest which conducted laboratory tests of U.S cigarettes reports that tobacco companies, are increasingly using scrap waste, and inferior tobacco while if cutting down, on the use of premium tobacco.
In Our Dailies
J. Edgar Hoover is a favorite of many newspaper and magazine publishers because he likes publicity and he provides plenty of copy material. Hoover has been able to dramatize the G-men so that youngsters think his agency can perform miracles. Thus, when the FBI cracks a crime and is ready to break the news, the dailies run big headlines that say, "FBI Nabs . ." "FBI Breaks . . ." or "FBI Cracks . . ." cont'd.
"Playhouse 90" TV Commercial on KGMB Said Not Irregular
Commercial advertising which plugs products that are not of the sponsors of "Playhouse 90" during station breaks is not irregular, according to a spokesman of KGMB-TV.
The RECORD checked with the station because of complaints among some in local TV audience who say that on the Mainland, "Playhouse 90," which runs 90 minutes, is not loaded with commercials. At the beginning of the show, and during the 30-minute breaks, the sponsor's products are advertised.cont'd.
Rock Crusher Parts Constitute One of T.H. "Biggest Steals"
When Kaisaku Igarashi spotted the large gears from his stone crusher being sold to another party, he must have thought he'd solved the "big steal," then and there. The gears and parts of the stone crusher, which Igarashi had been using in a Waianae quarry, weighed 33,380 lbs. and may constitute one of the heaviest, if not most valuable thefts in the Territory's history.
Igarashi is reported to have become highly incensed when he spotted two strangers selling his equipment for a price in the neighborhood of $1,100, some $3,000 less than the value, and considered taking the law into his hands. cont'd.
Safety Inspector Checks Terr. Hospital
The safety division of the T.H. Labor Department has checked into working conditions at the Territorial Hospital where it was reported that painters from Oahu Prison were working on scaffolding without safety helmets.
A spokesman of the safety division told the RECORD that upon checking it was found the painters were all working on one level and there was no danger of any object falling on them. cont'd.
On Right to Vote l print
Between September 1957 and May 1958 any South Carolinian who wants to vote in the primaries next June will have to obtain a new voting registration certificate.
Representative James P. Harrelson of Colleton County has charged that the measure is "designed to disfranchise masses of working people." He maintained that "laboring people won't have the opportunity to fill out new application blanks and stand in long lines, waiting to be registered.
We say that any South Carolinian who hasn't the patience to stand in line to obtain a registration certificate, isn't fit to vote . . . Let's not imagine that registration of all South Carolinians is desirable . . . Every effort should be made from September to May to urge all able, intelligent, responsible, property-owning South Carolinians to register. Those who have only limited education or who might be herded to the polls should. not be encouraged.
—Charleston (S.C.) News-and-Courier, June 24,1957 (our emphasis).
Trask Refuses Lie Detector for Client; Points to Cop Case l print
The recent failure of the Honolulu police's lie-detector to produce 'conclusive results in the case of three vice squadsmen accused of beating up a sailor may have more' repercussions than appeared likely at first.
This week an attorney representing a client accused of an offense used that instance as an argument for refusing to allow his client to; submit to such a test. The attorney, Bernard Trask argued, "If you can't find any conclusive results when you test your own officers, why should I have my client be tested?" Officials of the Navy said their lie detector showed the sailor might not be sure when he lost the $120 he claimed the police officers took from him, but it showed he was telling the truth when he said they beat him up.
16 Airlines Charged With Betraying Pledge l print
Sixteen airlines operating in the New York area have been charged by, the Urban League of Greater New York with betraying a nine-month-old pledge to discontinue their industry-wide ban on the employent of Negroes in flight service capacities."
These airlines do not hire qualified Negro pilots, stewardesses and hostesses.
During the past three years the Urban League has referred or assisted in referring at least 48 Negro applicants to the airlines. In violation of New York's Fair Employment Practices Act, not one has been hired.
1,800 Texas Lawyers Face Disbarment Under "Closed Shop"
One thousand eight hundred Texas attorneys who have failed to pay their Texas State Bar Assn. dues will be prohibited from practicing their profession, they were notified recently by the courts.
The Lone Star State which has outlawed, the closed or union shop for workers is operating under a tight closed shop system for its lawyers who have been largely instrumental in outlawing the closed shop. cont'd.
Explaining That Kaspar Jury
The conviction is understandable. First, the trial took place in Knoxville, which happens to be a hotbed of Republicans and always has been, even back in the days of the war Between the States. Second, Tennessee happens to be the State that elected Estes Kefauver, traitor to the South, to a seat in the U.S. Senate. Third, Tennessee sentiment is not Southern sentiment and we can thank God for that.
—Jackson, Miss. News, editorial reprinted in Congressional Record Aug. 1.
British Partnership
The British Central African Federation of the two Rhodesias and Nyasaland has just worked out a bill for a federal Assembly that will give Europeans and Africans "partnership" in running the country. The 210,000 Europeans get 47 seats in the Assembly and the 6,500,000 Africans get 12 seats. But even this much "partnership" is too much for some Europeans, who have organized a Dominion Party that demands 100 percent white rule on the South African model.
"Fists Across Sea" Brings Fans In Droves; Formosa, Japan Teams Score
By Staff Writer
Not only does it seem to generate all manner of international good will for the nationals of various countries travelling to and fro to bust one another in the snoot. It also pays profits because the boxing fans turn out in droves to see the genial bloodshed and the good will and everything.
The "Fists Across the Sea" match Monday night was the biggest kind of success.
Nobody had seen, anything like it since Frankie Fernandez was in his prime. The boxing fans flooded into the Civic Auditorium, 4,134 of them, and paid $6,179.50 into the tills of that establishment to see the boxing teams of China, Japan and Okinawa compete against the local boys. cont'd.
Santiago In "South Pacific"; May Give Up Fighting for Acting
Dan Santiago may give the prizefighting business the back of his hand in favor of acting. This time the acting is in the moving picture, "South Pacific," and Santiago figures to get paid for it.
Besides he's not very happy about the way professional boxing is paying him. Out of a total purse of $240 he received for the main event he fought as a last-minute substitute, he actually had less than $130 take-home pay after his manager, Dr. Richard You, had taken his one-third cut and the purse had been garnisheed for an old doctor bill dating from back when Santiago fought in the amateurs. cont'd.
Congressional Debate At Its Brightest
"Mr. Brooks of La. There is no restriction in the bill.
"Mr. Boyle. I think there is.
"Mr. Brooks. I could not find it. I would be glad if the gentleman would point it out to me.
"Mr. Boyle. I think there is.
"Mr. Brooks. Will the gentleman point it out? cont'd.
Sports Shorts
Some Answers on the Global Series
A number of points need to be made clear, and questions answered about the representation Hawaii will send to the Global World Series in Detroit in September. Perhaps enough information hasn't been given the fans. Perhaps something got twisted.
In any event, the contingent from Hawaii will be exactly what the authorities who run the series ordered, we are assured by Earl K. Vida, the man who directs Hawaii's efforts in this direction.
Invitations are issued for 16 players, a coach, a manager, and a representative of
"the government of the state or principality receiving the invitation. cont'd.
Gadabout
One Prominent Tourist
Who has been visiting in the islands in recent weeks, yet whose presence went unreported in local society pages was Jason Lee, the Chicago gambler. Lee, you'll remember, was the man who made news round the world a couple of years ago when he tried to clip the Casino at Monte Carlo by shoving his own "educated" dice into the game. Regular readers of the RECORD will recall Lee stopped through Honolulu some months ago and got "taken" again. Then he embarked for Japan playing cards with what he had heard was a wealthy "sucker," but who was in reality a local man-about-town with a highly sensitive set of fingers. cont'd.
Through A Woman's Eyes: Thoughts While Ironing
By Amy Clarke
One of the penalties we pay for individual freedom is the ugly hodgepodge of unplanned cities.
Honolulu, having "grown up" so fast, is a perfect example.
No other city I have seen is such a blending of yesterday and today, neglect and comeliness, the worst kind of neighborhoods and the best, often side by side. cont'd.
Sen. Douglas Gives Figures on Negro Votes Down South
By John E. Reinecke
To what extent are Negroes kept from voting in the Southern States?
How badly is a civil rights act with real teeth in it needed to enforce the right to vote given the Negro 87 years ago by the 15th Amendment?
Sen. Paul Douglas (D., Ill.), one of the chief advocates of a strong civil rights act, being a professor of economics is not a mail to -be caught with his statistics down. On June 10 he gave the Senate the figures on Negro registration, state by state, county by county, for the entire South except Tennessee. cont'd.
Death Doubled On Oahu Roads Thus Far in 1957
As the year went into its 33rd week, Oahu auto accidents showed more deaths and injuries than in the years proceeding for the first 32 weeks, though in every other respect, the accident statistics were lower.
There was no change in the death rate last week, since no one was killed either last week or the 32nd week of 1956. But 18 more persons have lost their lives on the highways than last year at this time.cont'd.
Rep. Burdick says: Congressmen Afraid to Curb Use of Poisonous Substance in Foods
"Many Congressmen are afraid" to support legislation which. would control the addition of poisonous substances to food, Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R., N.D.) charged in Congress recently.
Rep. Burdick said he did not know what forces were at, work to block such legislation but "whatever it is, it is a strong force." cont'd.
Message from a Mother
This island community was extremely fortunate during the past five years for having had the services of Mrs. Cornelius Mulder as executive secretary of the Mental Health Assn. of Hawaii.
A former psychiatric social worker, Mrs. Mulder was instrumental in spreading wider the awareness of mental health in this island community.
During her tenure the local agency was affiliated with the National Assn. of Mental Health, and furthermore some 30 local agencies in the mental health and allied fields were organized into the Oahu Health Council's Community Planning Committee for Mental Health. cont'd.
Move by Sen. Racket Comm. Favors AFL-ClO Sec.-Treas. Schnitzler
Washington—Beneficiaries of testimonials for union leaders who received homes, Cadillacs, silver, cash, jewelry for their wives, included AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. William F. Schnitzler, the Senate Rackets Committee was told by witnesses.
According to Vice Pres. Max Kralstein of the AFL-CIO Bakery and Confectionary Workers Union, Schnitzler had a dinner thrown for him at the Essex Hotel in Newark. N.J. in 1950 and another in Brooklyn in 1951. cont'd.
Dirty-Dirtier Dirtiest
"Mr. Speaker, those of us who are concerned about the-effects of radioactive fallout on this and future generations are equally concerned with attempts by those in high administrative posts to brain-wash the minds of the American people with pat and misleading phrases.
"One such phrase is the word 'clean' as applied to A-bombs and H-bombs.
"Many scientists have testified that in reality there is no such thing as a 'clean' bomb. Those who have slipped that word into the lexicon of daily usage are doing a disservice to the American people. There is only a dirty bomb, a dirtier bomb, and dirtiest bomb." Rep. Edith Green (D., Ore.)
Apathy Can Kill Unions, Under Sec. of Labor Says
Apathy, not crooks, can kill unionism, Under-Secretary of Labor James T. O'Connel told the Saint Joseph Labor Guild in Buffalo recently.
He also pointed his finger at employers, declaring:
"The employer who sees a momentary advantage in dishonesty, who pays bribes and makes secret bargains with the labor-racketeer, also is culpable." cont'd.
The Advertiser Paradox
It is a paradox that the Advertiser, which now cries editorially that the people of Hawaii are not only "second-class citizens" but "first-class suckers," has contributed to perpetuating this status.
The daily punch-lined its editorial, "First Class Suckers," this week with these words:
"Residence in Hawaii may rate us in Uncle Sam's book as second class citizens; as taxpayers we are first class suckers." cont'd.
Ike's Great Failing
By Koji Ariyoshi
One evening for three hours, two top generals of World War II parried with words. In one corner, defending capitalistic democracy, stood Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Defending communism fr6m the other corner was Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
At a recent White House press conference President Eisenhower, in recounting this World War II experience in Germany explained:
"We tried each to explain to the other just what our two systems meant, to the individual, and I was very hard put to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic, and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position." cont'd.
Let's Look at the Record, Captain
Comes now Captain John Owen, 14th Naval District legal officer, with an interview in last Friday's Star-Bulletin saying he thinks penalties given servicemen for crimes by the military are tougher than those they would get if they were tried in civilian courts.
In the same interview, Captain Owen said, "The jurisdictional agreement here between local law enforcement agencies and the military is, I think, peculiar to Oahu."
Captain Owen is not fully informed on this point, for recently the County of Hawaii's legal department has entered into a similar agreement with the military after holding out for a long time. There are those in the legal profession who say the military used tactics of obstruction to get Hawaii to accept such an agreement as exists here—that the county attorney had trouble finding military culprits for trial until he finally decided to let the military try its own cases. Since that time, according to unofficial report, everything has been peaches and cream. cont'd.