Water Bill Jumps from $1 to $17 at Waipahu
Hike Results from Sugar Co/s Sale Of Water to Capital Investment Co.
Water bills of 39 plantation families in Waipahu jumped from $1 and $1.50 per family unit a month to upwards of $17 dollars a month per family unit since April this year.
The $17 represents for many plantation workers in medium grades nearly 10 per cent of their take-home pay, and many say the boast of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assn. that island sugar workers are the most highly paid sugar workers is a misrepresentation and distortion. cont'd.
Stock Salesman Agitates Boulevard Bowl Owners
Boulevard Bowl, Ltd., has sent letters to stock and debenture note holders "regarding a serious and urgent matter" relating to alleged statements made by a former salesman who sold Boulevard Bowl securities.
The attorney for the bowling corporation and for Potter and Co., the firm which sells the securities and formerly employed the salesman, wrote an urgent, special-delivery letter mailed Sunday night, Sept. 1, to the salesman. Attorney Robert G. Dodge wrote: cont'd.
Go-Getter Filipina Socialite Leaves Bum Check Trail Here
An attractive Filipina who travels in the highest social and political circles in the Philippines recently came here reportedly to collect $25,006 from a local syndicate for a down payment on a real estate tract 6n Mindoro Island and departed with two bogus checks bouncing around Honolulu.
Mrs. Elicio Quirino, wife of the former governor of Ilocos Sur and sister-in-law of the late president of the Philippines, checked in at the Alexander Young Hotel June 22 and left July 14. She stayed at Waikiki prior to that. cont'd.
RECORD to Get Maytor McKinley Cemetery Facts
Maytor Hoppenyan McKinley, West Coast speculator who is behind the pending plan to construct a $50 million cemetery on Windward Oahu, is a man of action.
On August 29 the RECORD reported in full how and why the plan has aroused "the suspicion of important segments of the business world here."
On September 6, by radiogram to the RECORD Mr. McKinley said:
"Am writing letter relating to actual facts and records. Appreciate your courtesy of my efforts." cont'd.
Bridges-Wallace Broadcast Brought Here; Newspapers Left Plenty Out
You read accounts in local newspapers about what Harry Bridges said on TV Reporter Mike Wallace's program ''Interview," a couple of weeks ago, but there's a lot you didn't read that was said over the air. If present plans materialize, you'll have a chance shortly to hear and see the program over a local station because the ILWU has brought the tape from the Mainland and is now dickering for a spot to show it.
But don't expect to get quite the same picture you did from the news stories. cont'd.
Dog Owners Criticized for Making Kapiolani Park Canine "Outhouse"
Some Honolulans who use Kapiolani Park for recreation and picnics are complaining that residents in the surrounding areas walk their dogs every morning and evening in the park so that the animals would relieve themselves.
"It's not like a stray dog doing his business once in a while. Which they walk their dogs every morning and evening in the same places, you begin to have outhouses, not a park for families to spread their mats, picnic, let their babies crawl on the grass and have a swell time," a Kapiolani park user said. cont'd.
Fighter Donnell Starts Dock Work; Sees More Pork Chops, Security
Boxing may be booming, but at least one local top-flight fighter figures he has a better way of making a living.
Abel Donnell, the slashing lightweight who has come to be recognized as king ot the professional fighters at his weight in the Territory, voluntarily went into semi-retirement at a meeting of the Territorial Boxing Commission, and gave a very good reason for doing it. Donnell is still young and still probably not at his peak, but he makes more money working as a longshoreman for Castle & Cooke than he thinks he would fighting. cont'd.
New Sunset Mortuary First To Be Built Outside City Limits
The first mortuary outside the city of Honolulu on Oahu was dedicated last Saturday at the Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery in Pearl City.
It will serve rural Oahu, as well as the city area.
Its services include an insurance program which is planned to help take care of funeral and burial needs. The insurance plan underwritten by Grand Pacific. Insurance Co. can be converted into cash. Because rural Oahu is populated mainly by workers' families, the management of Sunset says the insurance program will be of assistance to the residents.
Sunset Memorial Park with its new building, which combines chapel and mortuary, represents an investment of more than $150.000. Pour years of planning and organizing resulted in the present expansion. cont'd.
"Local Boy" Heads DEW, A Maginot Line
There's a "local boy"—a director of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin— who is now astride a front line of America's defense against air attack from Russia.
He's Major General Edmond H. Leavey, US. Army Engineers, retired, who wed Ruth, a sister of the late Joe Farrington, sparkplug of the Star-Bulletin and statehood for Hawaii.
Leavey (as the Star-Bull refers to him) first served in Hawaii in 1819, then from 1929 to 1932, and finally on Admiral Nimitz's wartime staff. cont'd.
Burns to Speak At Young Demos Banquet Saturday
Delegate John A. Burns will be the keynote speaker at the installation banquet of the Young Democrats of Oahu Saturday night at Princess Kaiulani Hotel.
The delegate is expected to arrive in Honolulu a few hours before the dinner where new officers of the Young Democrats will be installed. This will be his first trip homo since taking office.
The address by the delegate at the banquet will be broadcast direct from the banquet hall over station KGMB-KHBC at 8:30 p.m. He will be introduced by Rep. Patsy Mink. cont'd.
Oahu Smallest County Dominates all with People, Income, Industries, Jobs, Defense, Taxes
The City and County of Honolulu (Oahu) has the smallest land area of the four counties in this Territory, but people, business, industries and finances are highly concentrated on this OEP island.
With a land area of 590 square miles or 9 per cent of the total area of the Territory, Oahu is daily attracting more people from the outside islands. Already three fourths of the civilian population in the Territory lives on Oahu. In addition, 55,000 in military personnel are concentrated on Oahu. cont'd.
Plain Facts About Asiatic Influenza-Don't Get Excited
A plain fact about the Asiatic influenza which threatens to sweep the United States and other northern hemisphere countries, including Hawaii, in epidemic form this fall and winter is:
Don't get excited.
If you develop chills or a chilly sensation, followed by high fever and associated with marked prostration, cough, or bloody sputum, go to bed and" call a doctor. cont'd.
Alonzo Kayos Santiago in Thriller At Civic; Battad, Suzuki are Winners
By Staff Writer
Knocked out at the end of the second round, Danny Santiago came back in a hectic third round at the Civic Auditorium Monday night to slug toe-to-toe with the world's ninth ranking lightweight for a glorious half-minute.
Then Alonzo parked another triphammer right on Danny's long jaw and action for the evening was over. cont'd.
90 Play in ILWU T.H. Annual Golf Toomey: Shimabuku Wins
Wailuku, Maui—Alfred Shimabuku, a Wahiawa pineapple worker, won overall low net honors in the Fourth Annual ILWU Territorial Tournament played at the Waiehu Municipal course on Sunday, September 8.
Close to 90 participants, took part in the 18-hole medal affair The tourney was played in four flights, including a special guest flight for the press, radio, businessmen and others who supported the tournament. cont'd.
Gadabout
The way in which Waikiki hotel interests are beefing about the noise created by HRT's lumbering new diesel buses should make the Board of Supervisors think twice before they permit the transport monopoly from ignoring what HRT wants instead of what is best in the public interest.
King and Hotel business interests are sore about the new noisy buses, too. At every stop they belch smoke and fumes and really rock the surroundings, with the Waste of their noise. cont'd.
Through A Woman's Eyes: Thoughts While Ironing
Should Girls Go to College?
By Amy Clarke
You may not have noticed that whenever a male columnist runs out of ideas, he turns to that ever-good subject, the so-called inferiority of women.
Scientific findings proving he's wrong don't bother him a bit. Like the bore who insists on relating dirty jokes, this type of columnist is determined to sneer at women, and sneer he does.
The latest to go in for this irresponsible scribbling is the Advertiser's Henry Aurand, who last week devoted his column to a letter reportedly received from a college professor on the Mainland. cont'd.
TV & Radio
The Honolulu Advertiser, instead of allowing Bob Krauss to write two columns weekly on the low state of TV programs in Hawaii, would be smarter if the same space was given over to ex-tracts from letters by long-suffering viewers.
The Advertiser owns KONA-TV and therefore must, kowtow to the sponsors of its programs who also take display ads in the Advertiser. These sponsors undoubtedly would toe more interested in the opinions of genuine viewers (potential customers) than in those of Krauss. cont'd.
Down Movie Lane
"The Warrior" Makes "Teahouse" Seem Amateurish
The new Japanese movie. "The Warrior Takes a Bride" (Onion-jo no Hanayome), is sheer delight. The first wide-scope film from Japan in Eastman color, it "is technically perfect, the acting is excitingly natural, and the color is exquisite.
Added up, the complete production makes "Teahouse of the August Moon" appear like a self-conscious amateur show.
The story of "The Warrior' 'is a tongue-in-cheek debunking of Middle Age customs which surrounded the family dynasties of Japanese shoguns. The script and the direction are handled with the verve and dash of a French farce. cont'd.
Mexican Little Leaguer Pitches Perfect Game at World Series
Don Larsen, the New York Yankees' perfect-game pitcher in last year's World Series, has nothing over ambidextrous Angel Macias of the Monterey, Mex., little leaguers.
In the Little League World Series played at Williamsport, Pa., late last month, Angel played flawlessly at shortstop in the elimination games. In the final championship contest he took over the mound assignment and pitched a perfect game—allowed no hits, walked no batter and struck out 11.
Before pitching the perfect game, the 12-year-old, 88 pounder was faced with a decision Major Leaguer Don Larsen never had to weigh in the 1956 Major League World Series. cont'd.
Love in the Afternoon
Mrs. Walter Dillingham Takes In "Samurai," Academy Winner Sweltering heat. Remember?
The time: 4:30 p.m.
The day: Saturday, Sept. 7.
The place: the entrance lobby of the Palace Theater at Beretania and Keeaumoku Sts. We'd taken in the second session of SAMURAI, the Japanese movie in Eastman Color which has won so many awards.
She Looked Chic
"We were leaving the theater when we spotted "Walter F. Dillingham, local tycoon, eyeing the displays of coming attractions and the elite usherettes in their form-fitting white suits. He took in everything. cont'd.
TV Viewers Complain "Playhouse 90" Cut Into by Commercials
TV viewers are asking when is KGMB-TV going to stop ruining the, continuity of "Playhouse 90" by hacking into it with locally sponsored commercials? The station's dollar consciousness, was particularly noticeable the night Helen Hayes, first lady of the American , theater, appeared in Playhouse's "Pour Women in Black."
Sir Cedric Hardwicke was the commentator who introduced the drama and was supposed to appear again twice between the acts, but he was hacked out to make way for beer, super saving stamps, etc. plugs. cont'd.
Ike Should Do What Christ Did
BY Koji Ariyoshi
I would like to see nothing better right now than for President Eisenhower to fly down to Little Bock Ark., and take the hands of the courageous Negro students and walk to school with them, through the cordon of National Guard troops which, in effect, is preventing the school from integrating, and through the anti-racial-mobs howling their hatred and bigotry.
This would not only electrify the whole South and the nation, but if the President does it and heartily, this magnificent act will help move forward the civil rights struggle as nothing else could at this moment, for this act will encourage, mobilize and help enlighten millions, and set the course of freedom struggle along democratic traditions. It will help make the Constitution a living document and bring high regard and conformance to the decisions of the Supreme Court. cont'd.
Poison of Poverty
When the American ambassador to Italy contracted lead poisoning, it was front page news. The beautiful Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce suffered from a strange poisoning, finally discovered to be caused by flaking plaster from the ceiling of her bedroom in the ancient Italian palace which is the Ambassadorial residence.
Lead poisoning in a palace may be news, but it's not news when it happens in the slums of our cities. Our poorest citizens often live in inferior houses and little effort is made to keep them in repair. The paint used on old houses was usually lead paint, and the old plaster is likely to be thoroughly impregnated with lead after having been painted over many times. It's not at all uncommon to find plaster falling from ceilings and walls and paint flaking from the woodwork. And small children may play with the crumbly stuff and even try out the flavor. cont'd.
Vital Job for Gov. Quinn
Judge Corbett of the Juvenile Court, by admitting the press to report on his court in action last week, gave readers of newspapers a slight look at another aspect of our widespread juvenile delinquency problem.
It was noteworthy that the judge, in analysing the cases before him, was influenced by the opinions of psychiatrists.
Psychiatry is the science of mind, and psychiatrists know that all crime—juvenile and adult—has emotional origins. It is a sickness of the mind. cont'd.
Loan to Japan
The U.S. Export Import Bank has granted a loan of $10,300,000 to the Fuji Iron; & Steel Co, of Japan to finance the purchase of heavy rolling machines. It is the first) credit by the bank to a steel mill in the Far East. The loan will be applied to the expansion of the company's Hirohata works.