WHY DIDN'T THE DAILIES PRINT IT? Vannatta's ‘Grease' And City Hall By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH sions, and Gill refused to sign the Chung and Gill do agree, how­ lightened by comparing the con­ report when he discovered the ever, that they are confused by clusions with some statements in “O wiat a tangled web we weave, Star-Bulletin, got the first “break” the policy, or lack of it, by which the transcript. When first we practice to deceive.” on the release. the city supplies water to and re­ One conclusion, for instance, is The web that was first lifted Minor as this objection might quires facilities of, subdividers in' that “While Mr. Vannatta had a from unusual doings at City Hall seem, this reporter has encounter­ Rural Oahu. It is an important conflict of interests, there is no by the RECORD, Sept. 1, 1955, re­ ed a number of City Hall! observ­ point, because the report has Ar­ evidence that he in any way used ceived detailed treatment in a ers who agree with Gill that the thur Tyler, suburban water head, his position as Chief Engineer to massive report and transcript re­ report on Vannatta was released testifying that he was “overruled” promote his private interests or leased this week through \Mayor at the moment to draw attention by Vannatta so that builders on the interests of his friends, rela­ Blaisdell’s office, and in some ways away from the snowballing pile of a' Piikoiloa plot being develop­ tives, or business associates.” the result made the web appear complaints against the Blaisdell ed by his own company were not Company vannatta’s Idea more tangled than ev,er. administration — and possibly to requir^i to provide a reservoir- Yet questioned by the investi­ Not even the two members of soften the Star-Bulletin’s report­ estimated at a cost of about $100,- gators, Vannatta admits (far more the investigative committee, C-C age of the doings of Engineer Ku­ 000. freely than to RECORD Editor Attorney Norman Chiing and Tom nimoto, his assistant Miss Irene The reader of both report and Koji Ariyoshi in the summer of Gill, Honolulu Democratic Party Wong, and the firing of Mrs. Nesta transcript of the 13-month in­ chairman, agreed on all conclu­ Gallas. MR. VANNATTA vestigation may feel less than en­ § more on page 7 §

READ: HONClUluaOKBORD JACK BURNS The Newspaper Hawaii Needs NEW BUSINESS PAGE 6 Volume X, No. 25 PRICE 10 CENTS Thursday, Jan. 16, 1958 Norman Chung Hands Out Fat Fees To His Cronies Yee, Chee, Are "Most Competent" II SPA IS MUM ABOUT THIS Jack Hall Blasts Sugar Bosses Get $$$ Gravy; Reuther's Profit- Appraisers, City Attorney Claims Sharing Sell-Out By KOJI ARIYOSHI Workers Sweat for Pennies City Attorney Norman K. Chung whose office has been, Ed. Note: When Walter P. Reu­ giving out the cream of appraisal contracts to William Chee, Alexander Budge, president of Frank Arakawa (an assumed ther, president of the United-Auto his business associate, and Y. T; Lum, from whom Chung and Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and head name) earned $3,700 in 1948 when Workers, came out for a profit- of the sugar plantations C&C his hourly pay was $1.34. In 1957, sharing plan tied in with no de­ Chee are now concluding a lease of a few undeveloped- par­ milks as their agent, gets about he earned $3,540 while his, hourly mand, for a shorter workweek, the cels of land, says his outside relationship does not represent $60,000 from the parent firm rate was $1.67%. local dailies played the UAW an­ a conflict of interest. ■ , alone, plus expense funds. His gross take was $160 less al­ nouncement on their front pages. though his hourly pay had gone up Recently, when Chung told the board of supervisors Last year while president of the What’s in Reuther’s proposal 33% cent an hour through ILWU for the working people? The REC- that the $33,120 appraisal bill from Lum for the Queen’s Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assn., contract negotiations and pro­ Surf, Cleghorn and Steiner properties in Waikiki was not he declared that sugar workers de­ serve ^Wage adjustments because motion in grade. excessive and the work put in was well worth the amount of the rise in cost of living. Soon Frank says the reason for the asked, the matter of the pending lease between Chung and after, the sugar industry declared reduction in earning is fewer Chee and the Lum Yip Kee estate burst out in the open. Y. that 25 , cents across-the-board work opportunities. It 1958, count­ increase demanded by the ILWU ing overtime, he was paid for more T. Lum manages the estate and now holds major interest. was "fantastic.” than 365 eight-hour days. He had .Supervisor Eugene Kennedy who claims the amount plenty of overtime. Budge, who obviously doesn’t While a shorter work-week gives asked is three times the normal fee Said he mentioned to need all his more than $60,000 for him leisure and rest, the reduc­ Chung his private real estate relationship with Y. T. Lum. living, apparently hasn’t sat down tion in hours has not meant equal Kennedy says Chung did not deny it. .. in a sugar worker’s home to dis­ take-home pay which ‘ he and his cuss the problems of subsistence wife and three children • need for Kennedy’s comments might have caused Chung to sur­ living. subsistence living. , prise Mayor Neal Blaisdell and the board'd! supervisors with Th? RECORD has done this Work opportunities are getting an unexpected letter. Chung asked them' to determine if and here reports on two families fewer by the year. Last year he on an Oahu plantation for which more on page 3 Budge’s Castle & Cooke is agent. § more on page 3 § BIG RETAILERS SWEAT . DOWNTOWN BUILDING AT STAKE Local Hais in Mizukoshi Clash; GEM’s Discount Forces City Ired Claimant Wants Court Action MR. HALL Stores Into Price Cutting ORD asked Jack W. Hall, ILWU Eizo Okada, former president of ternational -Enterprises, sold the • wilh Sears Roebuck lower its and special-specials at Liberty regional director, who has been in prices to its Mainland scale, or House, Von Hamm-Young and International Enterprises, Ltd., property "too cheap" to National the labor movement’from the mili­ which sold the "House of Mltsu- Mortgage and Finance Co., Ltd. prices comparable to its mail­ other stores can’t equal GEM’s tant grotlndswell period of trade order charges? everyday bargain prices. koshi” building and property in Okada claims the property, unionism of the 1930’S. midtown Honolulu, declared he worth more than a million dol­ • When will ‘the wraps be A price war against GEM, led will go to court to nullify the lars, was sold for half that amount »»»•» taken off the current price war by'one of the Big Five firms, is agreement of sale. —“net $550,000.” ’ Here are Hall’S comments: and become an open fight? ■ underway, according to business “I will do that,” he told the Meantime, National Mortgage Walter Reuther’s announcement GEM (Government Employees circle reports. One tactic of fight­ RECORD this week, in explaining haS instructed the escrow agent, that the UAW will drop the strug- Mutual) discount house has down­ ing GEM is this a store will that a group led by Kazuaki Ta­ town merchandising houses in a be picked to cut prices lower than naka, incumbent president of In­ § more on page 7 § § mote on page 6 § fighting mood because the specials (from page 8) PAGES HONOLULU RECORD JAN. 16, 1958 Drjnk/# DriVCf STATE INDUSTRY SHOWS THE WAY niaiiiiHiiiiiniiiBiiiiiH To Pay; Demoted, Government-Owned Renault Car Co. In Our Dailies Suspended 30Days Pays Profits to Workers; Ups Pay The booming Mainland sales of Of Renault’s $14 million plus Charles S. Takafuji, C-C as­ Renault Dauphine (Crown Prin­ profit In 1956, the state got $8,- sistant road superintendent will cess) autos made in France totaled 700,000 in taxes and $2,100,000 was be demoted, suspended fcr 30 days, 24,000 in 1957 versus only 500 in carved up among the 60,580 work­ WHAT ARE the dailies, who troyers, etc., to homeless victims and required, to pay 31,780 for 1956. Renaults outsold the Ger­ ers in profit sharing. This profit profit greatly (in cash) from the of a typhoon in Ceylon. wrecking a C-C automobile follow­ man Volkswagen in 11 States, in­ sharing differs from that of pri­ display ads they run for it, going This commendable action was ing an accident. cluding Texas. This year’s goal is vate industry where a few big to do about the Sunday shopping ordered by President Eisenhower 60,000. stockholders milk the bulk of the situation? in response to an appeal from the Takafuji was reported by police Ceylon government and was not The Renault Co. became gov­ profits and employes get the Last month Father Charles Ke- as having been enough under the crumbs. kumano, chancellor-secretary of originated at CINCPAC headquar­ influence of liquor that his driv­ ernment-owned after World War ters here, as the editorial implied. ing efficiency was “impaired,” and II. During the war, Louis Renault, President-director general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of the owner, was ah anti-labor auto­ Honolulu, protested Sunday shop­ It happened that the U.S. war­ he was charged with careless driv­ Renault is Pierre Dreyfus, lifelong ships were visiting nearby Singa­ crat who produced willingly for civil servant, who gets only about ping for Christmas. The latest ing. the Nazi occupation forces. Work- . fuel-on-the-fire was put by the pore so off they dashed to Ceylon $20,000 in salary. Said, he, looking with supplies. He told his superiors he had ers who protested working condi­ to the future: new Hawaiian Supermarket Assn, tions were shot on the spot. which is closing its markets on “one drink.” “We must be regarded as some­ The president, apart from the Allied bombers wiped out the thing of a pilot plant that sets Wednesday to cater, in particular, humanitarian reasons, probably The RECORD exclusively re­ for Sunday shoppers. plant and at war’s end the French the pace for the rest of the na­ saw the aid as an opportunity to ported last week that he had spent government confiscated the com­ tion’s economy. For the past three D. Arthur Haycock, president of undo some of the damage which some time prior to the accident pany and on the factory’s rubble years we have been able to raise the Hawaiian Mission of the was done when the ambassador he drinking in the Seaview Inn. erected highly automated produc­ wages by more than 12 per cent, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter assigned to Ceylon told a Senate C-C Engineer Yoshio Kunimoto, tion lines. while holding, the price of our Day Saints (Mormons), has asked committee (which had to confirm Under government ownership, finished' product stable. the association to reconsider its his appointment) that he could announcing the punishment, said the Renault plant became a man­ "By improving our productivity “ill conceived” decision which not spell the name of - Ceylon’s evidence was found that Takafuji agement model. It- put in a pro­ violates the Ten Commandments. prime minister Bandaranaike. - was “intoxicated.” fit-sharing plan, was the first and our workers’ living standards, The Honolulu Council of Takafuji, whose unusual promo­ we are helping France on her tvay French company to give all work­ to modernization.” Churches has entered the con­ Besides, the president knows tion to assistant road superintend­ ers a paid three-week vacation, troversy, too. Executive Secretary that Ceylon is receiving something ent caused a minor City Hall sen­ and contracted with the union Demand for Renault autos on Rev. Kenneth O. Rewick, for the the U.S. did not give—extensive sation, will now revert to his for­ workers for a 4 per cent wage the Mainland is so brisk that council, 'has issued a statement to economic help from Russia and mer position of construction in­ boost every year. Renault and the famed French offending .retailers that “it is in­ China for Ceylon’s program of na­ spector for the suburban water Line have formed a special ship­ tionalizing industries and standing Output and sales mounted. In conceivable that, at a time when system. 1957, sales exceeded $500 million ping company with six freighters the spiritual fibre of American life on its own feet after centuries of Kunimoto also said he thought with $130 million in exports which that ferry up, to 1,060 Renaults needs strengthening as never be­ peonage under British imperial­ Takafuji should be required to pay each trip across the Atlantic for ism. made Renault the biggest French fore, businesses of any sort would damage to the other car involved exporter. the U.S. market. place monetary advantage above Incidentally, Japan, India and in the accident — an episode that the rightful observance of Sun­ Britain rushed aid to Ceylon, too. occurred when the C-C car he was day . . .” driving crossed a safety strip and Frogmen Thieves Hit Will the dailies forget their pro­ ☆ ☆ smashed into a car in the other Ike's Brother Sued fits and' keep in mind the fact lane. Hong Kong Sampans that the majority of religious peo­ CONGRATULATIONS TO the Takafuji was reported as tak­ For Alimony Debts ple on Oahu belong to Christian dailies for reporting that Mrs. Ann ing the punishment “philosophical­ Whitman, personal secretary to Underwater thieves, using frog­ churches and go to bat, with the ly.” Mrs. Alida B. Eisenhower is churches, against the Sunday President Eisenhower, had been men outfits as a new crime ap­ caught driving her auto ' at 80 suing her ex-husband ■ Arthur, proach, are busy on the Hong traffic? It is going to be a test elder brother of President Eisen­ Kong waterfront. of their self-styled community miles an hour. leadership. But they didn’t report, in these hower, for back alimony. These water rats climb out of days when taxpayers are squeezed Charter to Get Mrs. Eisenhower wants $3,000, the harbor by night and then slip the balance .remaining on a $20,- back silently into the water-’with ☆ ☆ for mounting administration ex­ penses, that recently when a White 000 settlement agreed to in 1953 their loot. Blast From UPW when the court also increased They prey on. the floating town­ WAIKIKI RESIDENTS, many of ’ House motorcade sped from ships of junks and sampans an­ them, think that the Star-Bull’s Washington'to Ike’s farm at Get­ Testimony highly critical of the her monthly alimony payments to recent front-page attempt to find tysburg, a limousine was used to new City Charter will be given by $350. chored in bays and creeks around carry one of the president’s pet United Public Workers "at tire Elsenhower, 69, wants the pay­ Hong' Kong. About 100,000 Chinese crime through the eyes of a sob live in the boats which are moored sister at midnight down tire .sub­ dogs as its lone passenger. proper time," it was decided last ments reduced or terminated. A weekend by the union’s executive retired Kansas City banker, he side by side in solid "streets.". urb’s sidestreets wap yellow jour­ This incident recalled the time, Is married again and his income, The superstitious boat dwellers nalism at its worst. during the Second World War, board at its first 1958 meeting here. he said, is only $500 a month from say the snorkel masks of the Away from the Kalakaua main when a Roosevelt pet was given an thieves give them terrifying ap­ stem, Waikiki Is an enjoyable airplane ride—and the Republican Reporting an increased mem­ retirement annuities. bership, something in excess .of The dailies, which gave wide pearances. residential area and much of its press treated it as a national The frogmen thieves usually charm stems from the subdued scandal. 1,000 new members in the past two publicity to divorce and alimony lighting along its quiet streets. years, Director Henry Epstein said stories of . the Roosevelt family, strike between midnight and dawn played down the Elsenhower story. while the boat dwellers sleep. There is crime everywhere on ☆ ☆ the "real” organizing drive is now Oahu. Instead of brighter lights, beginning. why not more, foot patrolmen? IN COMMENTING on “Amer­ “So far what we have had is Lights don’t stop crime. Both the ica’s Most 'Complex Job,” that of only a warmup,” Epstein said. last rape and big robbery at- Wai­ the new Civil Rights Commission The board also moved to. urge AMERICAN TRAGEDY kiki were done right Inside light­ in Washington, the Star-Bull.said a speedup on repricing on the Big ed hotels. that "Hawaii does not profess to Island' and to express itself on In a Broadway theater the audience, is watching an Mayor Blaisdell is said to have have solved all of the problems the the firing of Mrs. Nesta Gallas by ordered more lighting at Waikiki commission will study. But Hawaii opposing the . firing of any gov­ American tragedy by the man who was one of our greatest as a result of the Star-Bull's story. has made gratifying progress to­ ernment employe without a re­ dramatists, the late Eugene O’Neill. The action takes place Waikiki residents wonder that if ward the ideal of good human re­ primand or without giving the em­ in one crucial day in the life of a family. The tragedy- the Mayor is influenced by press lations ...” ploye a chance to be heard. tuberculosis. ’ - stories, why doesn’t he turn more The Star-Bull, along with its The board moved further to be­ light on what’s going on right Advertiser Square rival, can erase gin new courses offering instruc­ Fear hangs over the morning. The youngest son-has an Under jiis nose at City Hall. some outstanding local grievances tion in civil service procedure and by .(for example) giving equal government practices. appointment with the doctor to find out whether dr not he ☆ ☆ treatment to all the people here, “We have many new members has TB. There is virtual certainty that the decision will go regardless of their racial origins who have not had the advantage against the boy, yet such a possibility can’t be faced. The THE TREATMENT of loeal news and social (money) positions. of the kind of help we can give depends, as most readers know, on They could make a good start by them with these classes,’’ Epstein family has been hiding from truth too long. the political aspirations of the erasing the racial snobbery in said. dailies handling it. When Mrs. A. their social columns. When the decision comes, it is a hard fact which can D. (Barbara) Waterhouse of Maui no longer be hidden. The false facade crumbles. The hidden was elected Republican National ☆ ☆ tensions, love, hate, greed, and despair come to the surface^ Committeewoman for Hawaii, the Big Biz Budget Bias With the collapse of his family ties, the boy—‘who was Advertiser reported how "in 1956 THEY SAY that Advertiser dis­ she served as Maui .campaign play ad salesmen were chagrined “The U.S. Chamber of Com­ O’Neill himself—faces his uncertain future) alone. manager in former Delegate Eliza­ Jan. 8 when the Star-Bull ran an merce isn’t waiting for , the Pres­ beth Farrington’s unsuccessful bid exclusive series of eight half-page ident to' send his budget to Con­ Of course; this -was more than 30 years so. Yet in 1957, for re-election to Congress.” display ads in connection with the gress before looking for ways to close to 600 families here in Hawaii came face to face with ■ When the Star-Bull came to grand opening of Gray’s Appli­ cut it,” reports Newsweek maga­ the facts of tuberculosis. The- terrible fear, the hopeless­ handle the report, it gave Barbara ances at 400 So. Beretania St. with zine. ' . an eight-column headline and branches at Wahiawa and Kailua. “The chamber already has invit­ ness that once was attached to TB has gone. TB can be. photo showing Bab's swept-back That was a nice windfall of $2,688 ed 500 businesmen from all over cured. hair, but in the story below It for the Star-Bull. the nation to come to Washing­ didn't mention a word about her ton on Jan. 29 and 30 to make In spite of TB, the genius of Eugene O’Neill gave us one association with Betty’s record ☆ ☆ recommendations to Congress on floperoo at the polls. Where to slash.” great play after another. Yet he struggled against poor IT WAS A BIG letdown, for the health throughout his life. It’s sad to think how much more ☆ ☆ sensation-mongering press when he might have given if all the recent developments in the the three American mothers, now RILEY ALLEN let his hair down visiting their, sons imprisoned in to read what one mother said fight against TB had been available to him. But they are in an 'editorial Jan. 9 about "Win­ Chinq, reported that the boys were about her son: . * available to us. There is no excuse for us to live with fear, ning Friends in Southeast Asia” well, happy and needed nothing, “I- was surprised to find him so no excuse to put off finding out the truth. The quicker which, so he said, was done by etc. Because the press.always des­ well. He looks in very good condi­ modern medicine can get to work on a case of TB, the the U.S. Navy’s action in rush­ cribes the Chinese as merciless, tion. Very good care has been ing aid via aircraft carrier, des­ sadistic villains, it was refreshing taken of him since his capture.” better the chanet for complete success. ILWU Bd. Blasts JAN. 16, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 SUGAR BOSSES, $$$ GRAVY "Or Else" Manner NORMAN CHUNG Hall il® is iTaliral’fnTinr.lnr '.ni'JiiilaiiiiaTiilnliilsliiISli ilali ilBliilBliilaliilBlnlnliilaliiliiliilBKiiaiiilali g from page 1'g Chee in 1956 for $2,000. § from page 1 § sible and earns extra money. His Of Sugar Bosses —Kalakaua Realignment (Ha- friends help him. His plight is the there is a conflict of interest on lekai Property) by Lum in 1956 worked one Saturday. The year plight of numerous others. The international executive his part as a public official. for $3,450. before he worked three Saturdays. His plantation is a money­ board of the ILWU this week ex­ The letter has been filed by the —Kahala Playground by Lum in Last year he lost four days when maker for Castle & Cooke which pressed amazement at the un­ finance committee. Chung dis­ 1956-57 for $3,675. the plantation blew two whistles pays Alexander Budge more than compromising attitude of Hawaii claims conflict of interest. Herman —Kamooloa Rd. by Chee in in the morning to notify work­ $60,000 a year. sugar employers, calling it “one Lemke, chairman of the commit-: 1956 for $800. ers to stay home because of rainy which all other employers ■ with tee, said the members of the com­ —Pearl City school by Chee in weather. whom the ILWU bargains aban-t mittee felt they “should not go 1956 for $800. Frank’s experience shows that doned voluntarily or otherwise ahead at the present time” to —Queen’s Surf, Cleghorn and workers are not getting the bene­ City Charter Hides decades ago.” delve into Chung’s relationship. Steiner properties, by Lum. Fee fits of mechanization which should A statement released by the ' asked is $33,120. reduce workload, while stepping Water, Police Behind board after meeting two days here, “Threatened He’d Quit” —Municipal auditorium, Chee in up their take-home pay through reviewed this attitude by com­ 1956. He made an informal report, v higher productivity. , menting on the reaction of em­ “In a way Norman threatened not comprehensive. He hasn’t filed Big Five "Curtain" ployers to" the union’s demand for The cost of living is going up The proposed city charter^which he’d quit,” Lemke said, and ex­ for fee and Chung says it should constantly and this cuts buying! a 25 cent across-the-board wage plained that creating an issue at not exceed the $2,500 paid Adolph would make' the department of increase. That reaction, says the Mendonca who did a thorough job power. water semi-independent and pro­ that time was not to the interest statement, has ranged from calling of the city. He indicated the Gal­ and whose appraisal figures were Here is his yearly income and vides that the governor appoint the demand “impossible,” “fantas­ hourly pay scale: the police commission has aroused las case and the publicity given used by\the city. tic,” and a “two-Mt-nik,” to an­ Chief Engineer Yoshio Kunimoto During' the RECORD interview, —1954 income $3,800 at $1.61% strong skepticism in some quar­ nouncing that/their only alterna­ Chung raised the question as to ters. and Irene Wong, Kunimoto’s, as? per hour. tive to the demand is to prepare sistant. Lemke was not certain how far one must go in disclos­ —1955 income $3,550 at $1.61% to fight the union in a strike. The question being asked is, why whether further action will be ing his business interests outside. per hour. The union statement says, “As taken on the letter. In his case there are these factors: —1956 income $3,400 at $1.61% aren’t these treated like other city a union we have never proposed departments so that the taxpayers Lemke also said, as did Chung • In his letter to the "mayor per hour. impossible or unrealistic demands; during the RECORD’S interview, and board, he says that the prop­ —1957 income $3,540 at $1.67% will have a stronger say on their nor have we on this occasion. To operations? that the Vannatta case influenced erty whose lease is now pending per hour. take strike action around a set Chung to make his disclosures will be developed. He says, “ap­ This does not take into account of impossible demands is com­ Here are points the skeptics say about his real estate interests. proval by the Department of Pub­ shrinkage in buying power of the pletely foreign to this union and (See Vannatta story elsewhere in lic Works, of construction plans, dollar, 1948-57. should be considered by taxpay­ its practices. ers: this issue). . • and construction of the roads and ■ Frank is a grade 9 skilled work­ “This is true — as the employers The RECORD asked Chung, other improvements on the land, er. His is the next to the high­ themselves well know —< for no Why are' Chee and Lum getting is necessary and foreseeable.’? est classification in the bargain­ • The water department is a other reason than our sense of key agency in the city. The sup­ the high-fee appraisal jobs? Some sources say. that the Ma­ ing unit. Only a very few hold responsibility to our own) members He replied that they are the noa parcel of about 14 acres re­ grade 10 classification. ply of water largely determines and their families and to the com­ the direction and extent of land “most competent.” quires a sewer line and there most Frank’s children are 14, 13 and munity at large.” likely will be pressure to speed development. Large estates can The board further pledged full This explanation will displease 11 years old. His wife does not forestall development of an area, other oldtime appraisers who have up its construction. While the work. - ? support toward a successful out­ Lum Yip Kee leases have hot thus prevent higher tax assess­ come of the contract demands. been critical of Chung’s assign­ Grosses $295 ments in an area, while on the ment of appraisal work. But Chung been turned over to Chung and declared that in Lum’s case his Chee, the two have made arrange­ He grossed about $295 a month other hand they bring water into an undeveloped area for subdivision. record speaks for itself. Lum’s ap­ ments to lease a parcel on Ka- last year. This is more than what Such controls have been exercised All Soaps Smell praisal work has stood up in piolani Blvd, opposite the grave­ a grade 9 worker generally makes. in the past and the setup of the court, Chung said; yard, near Kaimuki High School. Frank works on swing and night­ water department under the pro­ Chung mentioned the first Another parcel is adjacent to Am­ shifts two thirds of the time and posed charter makes it easy for Good; Customers Steiner estate appraisal which the erican Chipese club property. earns more for night work. big interests to control the develop­ jury upheld by awarding $22.50 There are two parcels in Manoa. Here are his major expendi­ ment and use of water. Charged for Scent per square foot. Lum had ap­ Chung’s relationship, and in­ tures : fluence is wide. He is partner in a Did you know that toilet soap praised the land for $22 ’a square His taxes, pension payment, The police department has al­ foot. Bishop Trust had asked $29 building -on Bethel St. with Leigh­ Uhlon' dues come to about $325 a ways been important to big in­ prices — -for brands that differ to $30 per square foot. Other ton Louis, engineer of'the plan­ year. Rent is $31 a month. Elec­ terests and used by them during very little if at all In the amount ning commission. The Bethel Co., of dirt and odors they will take school site appraisals which were tricity is $14; medical insurance, labor-management ’ disputes to settled in court were upheld, Chung Ltd,, is composed of dhung, Chee $5.80; insurance, $27; school break strikes and generally off your skin — range from 29 and Louis. ' • lunches, $20; payment to credit against workers. It has been used cents a pound to $7.62 a pound? said. Consumer Reports for Septem­ William Chee’s appraisal result­ union for appliance bought, $25; in other days by big interests. ed in a court test and the city dental expense fqr daughter, $20; After the Kahahawal murder ber, surveying the toilet soap field, won this case, Chung said. Other telephone, $6.10; newspaper, $1.75; and the Massie case, a Dillingham found "an almost bewlldefing appraisals made by Chee were, automobile, $20-$25. Total $202.65. employe, Charles F. Weeber, was number of brands” — over 400 Diesel Outboard available In stores in 12 large concluded' by out of court settle­ The family food bill runs be­ made chief of police. Earlier, dur­ ments. The first diesel outboard inL the tween $95-$110. No allowance is ing the Fukunaga case the elect­ cities. Out of these its publisher. U S. is being marketed by Amer­ made in the above figure for ed sheriff was given less responsi­ Consumers Union of UH., Inc., Lum Scored Hi^h ican MARC, Inc., of Inglewood, movies, clothes and many other ble duties and Governor Lawrence tested 72 \ brands, including four Cal. The company says- it has necessities. Judd and Bank of Hawaii Presi­ deodorant soaps and three “syn- The RECORD checked back on licked the weight problem — the Frank has worked about 22 years dent Clarence Cooke took over the dets,” or synthetic detergents. major barrier to the use of diesels for his company. He is about 40 police station. The use of police in “All soaps,” the article makes city appraisal contracts to 1955 and there is none with fees that as outboards — by using two op­ years' old. If he were working for Hilo’s “Bloody Monday’’ shooting clear, “adequately fill the pedes­ posed-firing pistons in a single contractor in his trade, he would is history. The Chamber of Com­ trian role of keeping you clean,” come close to $15,000 asked by Lum receive about $1 more per hour in merce and big industry, were be­ whether they sell for Ti or $L50 for the work he did on the Stein­ cylinder. er property. The 70-pound, 7%-horsepower gross pay. Since he gets perqui­ hind the violence. There are other per 3.2-ounce bar. engine costs $325, about 25 per sites in the form of cheaper medi­ examples. The article said, ". . j particular­ Furthermore, the big fee ap­ praisal jobs were done largely by cent more than comparable gaso­ cal treatment, rental, etc., the real ly in the luxury brands, it is the line engines. Because it uses in­ differential is not $1. Plantations scent that counts — the odor that Lum and Chee. Here are some of them: .: expensive diesel _oil,;,}It will be clainr the- differential is about 43 emanates when you open the cheaper to run. - ...... cents. Workers say it is much less. wrapper, the fragrance that sur­ —Alianaio stream drainage by rounds you In the bath. You can. Plight of Ramirez If you wish, be wreathed, -in a Frank is a top paid man in the floral fragrance (such flowers as bargaining unit. ■ rose or lilac}. or a bouquet of them, Now let’s take Pedro Ramirez, or in a spicy - odor (like clove or grade 3, hourly pay $1.24. He is cinnamon), dr lavender, or citrus a knapsack sprayer, age 34. scent (lemon, orange, bergamot). Gland Opening He says, "Sure we need 25 cents. Or, by paying the tariff, you can I don't mind more an hour. We scorn such odors in favor of the •need it.” expensive .scents of the luxury He has eight children. Oldest is soaps, some of which are reason­ 12 years and youngest, a little able facsimiles of the perfumes Matt's Shell ServiceStation over one. bearing the same names . . .” 1091 DILLINGHAM BLVD. His gross monthly earnings *fWS IS SlMPLE-YoU Should! These are the soaps that sell come to .$196.40. for $2.50 and yp per pound. But, Here are his estimated expen­ SBC WAT I IVO TO Do 0*1 - reported the .testers, most of the January 17-18, Thursday & Friday ditures: , soaps smell good, no matter what MediCal insurance, pension con­ Ite ASSWtY LINE M TUE. • they cost. tribution, union dues, taxes,' $25; All soaps are deodorant' in; that Free Balloons, Cake, Soda Pop rent for a 3-bedroom house, $46; they wash off»odor-causing bac­ life' Insurance, $20; payment on WHALING SHIPS which made teria. The "deodorant” soaps, con­ Double the Value of Your. appliance, $13; electricity, $15; car Honolulu harbor a busy terminal taining certain mild antiseptics, expense, $15; payment to credit in the old days are again sailing it is true do retard bacterial Savings Stamps With Us union for furniture and ap- from San Pablo, Calif., with whal­ growth on the skin, and probably pliarices bought, $25; school lunch, ers seeking the huge 100,000- "diminish , body odor somewhat Under the United Savings Stamp Plan $20. pound mammals. The. blubber, as more than the comparable use of The total for the above, which in the old days, is boiled down to ordinary soaps.” . make no allowance for clothes oil but today it is sold to soap, MATT LEE LOY, Proprietor and other necessities, comes to paint and lipstick manufacturers. RICHARD KONG, General Manager $179. * It is good cattle feed and some His gross take is $196.40. The ranchers are using it. The meat Tagalog was spoken by 3,730,000 balance of $17.40 goes toward pay­ and whatever is left over ' is persons in the Philippines as their . PHONE 89992 ing for food for eight children ground and sold to mink farmers, mother tongue in 1948, and by and two adults. poultry raisers and pet food,pro­ 3,397,000 others as a second lang­ Pedro moonlights whenever pos­ ducers. uage. AAAA/WVWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW' PAGE 4 - HONOLULU RECORD JAN. 16, 1958 GOOD DEALS FOR WORKERS Down Movie Booming Mainland Discount Houses Lone Force Dept Stores to Cut Prices TV & Radio Shoppers are the winners in the she can get an item that they are lll■lllllllllllllal■llllllllllllll■llln great expansion on the Mainland selling for a few dollars less in “PEYTON PLACE,” the new of the low-overhead, low-price re­ a discount house in the area. The tailing of discount houses. department store on the spot movie soon to be seen here, isn’t meets the discounter’s price for “WHERE WE STAND,” the spe­ ber, William R. Norwood, public the best-selling novel of “Peyton E. J. Korvette, Inc., the coun­ that particular customer, but the cial 90-minute U.S. assessment of relations head of Castle and Cooke, Place” — the ’ eye-opener on so­ try’s largest discount chain, re­ next person walking in who wants the “balance sheet” between the the Big Five company which is cial (mostly sexual) ills in New ports that when the chain opened the item apd doesn’t know the dis­ U.S. and Russia which was aired majority stockholder of Hapco. England. It couldn’t be and still 10 years ago its sales came to only count price will pay the higher over KGMB-TV Sunday night, be shown publicly. $300,000. Last year they exceeded original price.” featured a huge globe of the world ☆ ☆ Mainland critics are agreed that $125 million. that the commentator used to em­ the movie “skillfully humanizes Hardly more than a year ago, How can department stores with phasize the global sweeps of up­ IN THE LATEST edition of ra­ the sensational” although it con­ department stores officially ignor­ their much higher overhead meet coming missile and satellite stra­ dio’s “Meet the Press” program tains most of the bookis roster of ed the* presence of the discount the competition of the discount tegies. (KGU Sunday night), Washing­ sordid crimes (murder, rape, stores. Today the story is differ­ houses? The answer, according to Significantly, Hawaii which has ton correspondents interviewed abortion) and erotic experiments. ent. For example, large New York a department .store spokesman, is featured importantly in military - Sen. William F. Knowland of Cali­ Newsweek ‘ magazine says the stores are competing openly. that discount houses carry a frac­ strategy up to now was not shown fornia who’s Republican leader in movie “has no trace of bad taste” Gimbel’s of -N.Y. is taking full­ tion of the 109,000 items often on the globe—a fact which prob­ the Senate. and the New York Times says it page newspaper advertisements stocked by department stores. which stress that the store offers Even if the department stores cut ably disturbed the Visitors Bu­ They asked him about today’s has “pummeled (the novel’s) mass reau’s professional rooters, but to of coarse material into quite ac­ full delivery, manufacturers’ war­ prices on competitive items, they the viewer the neglect of Hawaii mounting recession in business, ceptable and absorbing dramatic ranties and credit arrangements, can make theix profit from the the decline in auto production, the and add: I sale of other items. indicated that in inter-continental increasing unemployment, the shape . . . jt comes out a pretty missile sluggings, the islands may good rendition of a sort of ‘Amer­ "When you buy anything at farm mess, etc. Knowland bounc­ Gimbel’s and if you see the identi­ be out of the picture — as it was ed back and tried to brush off ican Tragedy.’ ” in Sunday night’s summary. The movie’s rewrite of the story cal item selling elsewhere at the these.stark facts by declaring, with same time and at a lower price, call Afro-Asian Confab With that strategic fact settled eagerness, that new “defense focuses on the youthful romances by the CBS assessors, perhaps the and makes the youngsters wistful­ our service department and if your spending” would stimulate the ly appealing in their various ways claim is-found correct, we’ll cheer­ Visitors Bureau should boom Ha­ economy. Plans for Freedom waii as the isles of escapism and of coping with the rigors of im­ fully refund the difference.” Stephen Masters, president of safety from ICBM’s. Evidently the nation’s business pending adulthood. (The book From West's Control “Where We Stand” was over­ made them out-and-out rural ju­ Masters, Inc., discount chain, says: leaders don’t agree with Knowland. venile delinquents). “I have noted a disturbing trend whelming and frightening in its During 1957 the stock market, for More than 400 delegates from '42 presentation of weapons that can Newsweek says the youngster on the part of several leading de­ example, dropped almost $56 bil­ roles “are played by a group of partment stores. They'claim that African-Asian nations, meeting . in wipe out any nation overnight to­ lion. Cairo during Christmas week, call­ day and of satellite weapons to relatively new performers” who, at they are meeting discount house times, equal “the professional deft­ competition with their prices, but ed for political independence and come in the race for the moon. In other words, says the New the development of a common That is the big race, an expert ness of Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan they are following a flexible pric­ York Times, the combined losses and Arthur Kennedy” in the adult ing policy. market that would bind Africa said, because who controls the of General Motors and Jersey and Asia. moon’s surface will control the parts. "A customer walks in and says Standard Oil would have bought Today these countries, with a fate of all men on man’s mere “all the steels or all the rails and All the critics rave over the world. movie’s notable pictorial paean to total population of 1,800,000,000, all the aircrafts, or all the alumi­ are the source of about 70 per Significantly, God was mention­ nums, coppers, farm equipments the visual glories of the New Eng­ ed only once in the entire 90- land countryside. Filmed in Cine­ Aussie Unions Nix cent of the raw materials vital to and airlines on the N.Y. Stock Western Europe. minute show. The principal of a Exchange.” mascope in Camden, Maine, “the science school in the Bronx, New local antiquity of the shady oak Sunday Movie Shows The "People’s Conference” de­ York, was saying what he thinks- And every day since President and maple-lined roads, red barns, cided that the chambers of com­ about education and eggheads. He Eisenhower’s state of the union white clapboard houses, high- While more- and more Oahu merce of all the African and Asian said, inter alia, that he thinks message, the stock exchange has steepled churches, covered bridges, stores are opening for Sunday nations should meet this year to education should 'be used to de­ dropped $2 • billion daily. post-and-rail fences, and snow- shoppers, attempts by Sydney, devise trade, transport and tariff velop the "God-given abilities” of covered fields makes an enchant­ Australia, movie theaters to open agreements based on nationalized ing kind of Grandma Mosaic,” for Sunday shows are being op­ youth. ☆ ☆ industries and international co­ The same man, too, was the only Newsweek says. ‘ posed by unionized theater man­ operatives for the common good. one who used the word democracy. DON CARTER is doing fine with agers, projectionists, ushers, etc. Japan was represented by 40 It was warming to see and hear his "People Speak” half-hour pro­ ☆ ☆ The theaters say they’re losing delegates, the largest group.-Led him use It as the prime motive for gram on KGU weekdays at 11:45 money while commercialized sports by Kaoru Yasui, law dean at education. a.m. He sets up a question each SPEAKING OF best-selling are Increasing. All stores, markets, Hosei university, they demanded Spokesmen for peace and how day and Invites listeners to phone novels into movies, Hollywood will saloons, etc., are shut Sundays. the elimination of U.S. bases in peace may , be attained were not in their opinions which are aired throw a record literary Sunday This weekly day of rest for all Japan. heard from. "Where We Stand” immediately by pickup. punch in the first six months of has strong church backing. The 27-man Russian delegation was a grisly panorama of missile this year. At least 44 novels are The moVie moguls don’t blame promised that “we can build you mass murder. The people don’t have to iden­ poised for filmization.by the major TV for 'their business decline. hospitals, schools and rdads. We There should be another “Where tify themselves which encourages studios. There are only 130,009 sets in Syd­ can send out professors or you can We Stand’’ to deal with the them to let down their hair on Amofag the reasons for this liter­ ney. The legitimate theater and send your students to us. We do world’s people — the hundreds of various topics. One day last week ary upsurge: Hollywood wants to vaudeville are booming—but not on not seek any advantages and we millions of them—who want peace. the subject was statehood for Ha­ woo bookworms back into the Sundays. want no profits, privileges, con­ It could start with Mahatma waii. Some listeners made blis­ movie theaters and to woo away trolling interests or concessions.” Gandhi and show what just one from TV sets those adults ’who In commenting on the confer­ tering comments about the Star- published by Viking Press in the man’s mind did for peace and how Bulletin’s negative attitude toward aren’t afraid to face the, facts of ence, Newsweek magazine said.: his example set in motion the rise life with which most best-seller spring) to Columbia Pictures. One “The West’s alternatives were statehood and one listener in par­ books deal. of the conditions of 'the deal is of the new African and Asian na­ ticular emphasized the damage he clear: Either it could brush off thy “Let children’s minds (westerns, that the FBI must confirm his tions — the vast cradle of the new thought the Star-Bull must- have account. mee.ting as Communist propagan­ mankind to come. caused by its recent front-page horroramas, etc.) rule TV, so bur- . da, pooh-pooh Russian aid offers treatment of crime at Waikiki. ray for the screen!” Is the new as insignificant, and wait for new ☆ ☆ movie business cry. ☆ ☆ defections — or it c.ould set out Why doesn’t Carter air his show One producer put it: “Best-sell­ to block the Soviet drive and make MORE PROOF that the public at nights, too, when more people ing’ novels seem to specialize in “RICE,” the Japanese movie which won accolades and top its own voice heard." relations of the Pineapple Com­ are at home? It’s a smart and socially shocking subjects. And Newsweek concluded that if panies of Hawaii is more on its timely public interest idea that they aren’t merely sensational. honorable mention at the Cannes Film Festival, has been given its Western Europe’s sources of raw toes than that of the HSPA was some alert company might well Strong- subject matter makes for materials were cut off by the Afri­ shown Jan. 9 and 10 when the sponsor. strong story lines. The reading world premiere in Los Angeles. Photographed in Eastman Color, can-Asian developments, “Amer­ pineapple program on KGMB air­ public must be ready to absorb ica’s European allies would col­ ed tape recordings of the public ☆ ☆ them at the local theater. it stars Shinjiro Ebara, Masako Nakamura, Isao Kimura and Yuko lapse and the United States would hearing on the Nesta Gallas fir­ Another producer said: “Adults be forced into untenable isolation." ing. HONOLULU RADIO stations are served a diet of pablum on TV Mochizuki. It tells the delicate love Usually the pineapple show runs that are doing. so-so business today because' sponsors worry story of a young fisherman ana a just 15 minutes daily on weekdays, should consider what’s -happened about whether" the kiddies can peasant girl of the rice fields. It but to cater to the public interest in Warren, Va., where WKTF is digest anything more chewy. Their is not recommended for children. China-) Strikes Oil in the Gallas affair, the time was something different. Tt is owned mothers and fathers know that extended to 30 minutes each on and officered by women. life isn't a bed of roses. They President of the ' new station don’t mind seeing movies which Great quantities Boxing Commis­ the consumers of the nation ’ in sion, are not always caused by the gle for a shorter workweek in order to guarantee ever-increasing boxer, himself.' Questions on Sport favor of a profit sharing plan profits to the automobile industry That was what Promoter Sad when coupled with his joining in and a few extra dollars for auto Sam Ichinose told the commis­ With a new year starting, let’s swipe a gimmick from New York's urging Congress to vote three bil­ workers at the expense of the Am­ sion yesterday after the body had Dan Parker and ask a few questions, pertinent and impertinent,'about lion dollars additional for military erican people. taken action to reinstate - Pea- affairs in sport last year and some that might be answered in the new spending demonstrates the utter There couldn’t be a cruder ex­ pealalo on a probationary basis. year. bankruptcy and deterioration of ample of a union and an employer the American labor movement and ganging up to blackjack the con­ “They match him at weights Since “Sports Illustrated” tn its roundup of important sports events its leadership today. sumer. they know .he can’t make,” ex­ and personalities of the year saw fit to include the Russian dog in the But at least some of Reuther’s plained Ichinose, a promoter who Sputnik, Laika, and ignore Tommy Kono, the only American to outlift With union membership and has, himself, experienced uncer­ treasuries at an alltime high, the - locals, particularly Ford, aren’t the Russians in Iran, does it mean the editors think more of dogs than taken in by the attempt to bribe tainty b’ver whether the Samoan they do of people? role of the AFL-CIO and its would be able to fight or not. leadership in deserting the funda­ them. As to three billion dollars more Peapealalo told the commission Now that Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant has left Texas A&M to go back mental principles of unionism has to his alma mater, Alabama, breaking his 10-year contract with only brought the prestige of the trade for guns when 3.3 million Amer­ yesterday he is not represented by ican workers and their families a manager at present, and prom­ three years expired, and now that the Texas' school is busy trying to get union movement to an all-time other top-flight coaches to break their own' contracts to come there—■ low. (many of them UAW members) ised he would abide by all rules are unemployed and need butter, of the TBC to the best of his who can remember the days, when everything was supposed to be set What has happened to the mili­ that is the worst kind of a sell­ ability if reinstated following a against the poor football coaches? More important, now.that college tant traditions of the old CIO out of the American people. two-month suspension for failing coaches have made the long term contract a pretty general situation, and unions that fought for short­ The major nations of the world to make weight. how can colleges protect themselves against the contract-jumping that er workweeks, for their members already have enough Sputnik-age Bill (The Knee) Pacheco in­ has developed almost as generally? and the little people, against un­ weapons to successfully obliterate dicated that he intends using the employment, for civil rights and each other. Whether one nation or colorful clouter in some of his What kind of baseball are they going to play in the major leagues for peace? another has the ICBM that will shows, the second of which he will —three years after TV has put the minor leagues out of business? The Reuthers who were mili­ shoot the farthest and kill the stage at Schofield Barracks Sat­ Who can think of a more willing gambler than Halimi, the French- tant leaders of the thirties are as mostest doesn’t make a damn bit urday night, Timmie Jefferson of Algerian who won the world’s bantamweight championship from Baton much businessmen today as the of difference. The people of the California and Pay Alburo of the Macias by a split decision—and is now going to fight Macias a return employers. They have become, in world can only be so dead. Being Philippines meeting in the main match in Mexico City, the "Little Mouse’s” home town? Who remembers fact; junior partners of Big Busi­ “make, die, dead” won’t make us event. what happened to Battling Siki when he put his light-heavyweight ness. all deader! Won’t Sue Brooks title on the line against Mike McTigue in Dublin on a St. Patrick’s Day? Reuther’s profit-sharing scheme Thank God we have men like Ichinose, besides doing a favor After having blindfold boxing rejected by the Territorial Boxing is a device that will increase un­ Bridges and Goldblatt leading the for Peapealalo and his rival pro­ Commission, will enterprizing Promoter Bill (The Knee) Pacheco next employment, promote speedup and ILWU and not a Walter Reuther. moter, Pacheco, otherwise indicat­ propose to import a boxing kangaroo from Australia? And who will ed his benevolent mood by telling fight him—Harrington, Joe Rose, or Bob Krauss? the commission he would not press Will Floyd Patterson be a victim of the IBC, even though he’s heavy­ any. suit or charge against Natie weight champion, and wind up without very much dough because Gus Burns' Request Brings Report on How Brooks, once nationally ranked D’Amato, his manager, dosn’t want to fight any challenger controlled by bantamweight and featherweight that outfit? fighter serving in the 25th Divi­ And will Pete Rademacher turn pro with a vegeance and make a To Bring New Industry to Islands sion, who caused the cancellation few bucks knocking over British heavyweights? Or will he get licked What the Neighbor Islands need procurement items couldi be pro­ of a show last year when he show­ the next time he gets into a ring? to initiate and develop new indus­ duced or manufactured econo­ ed up some 14. lbs. overweight. Will the Eisenhower Administration get blamed in the next political tries and improve their economy mically on the! Neighbor Islands Though the case of Brooks did campaign around New York for the Giants and the Dodgers moving to is. a source of risk-capital and particularly in the light of the not come formally before the com­ California? And in California, will the GOP take the credit for bring­ more knowledge. potential market of the Pacific mission, Secretary Bobby Lee in­ ing major league baseball to the West Coast? Those are the main points made theater as a whole,” Roterus writes. formed. that Brooks is now train­ Will Hawaii ever get any major league training camp business out ing under a new manager and of that move? And will the Dodgers, of course, ever iind a place to by .Victor Roterus, director of the Risk Capital Needed Office of Area Development, UJS. desirous of trying to get rein­ play around Los Angeles that suits their owners? But above all, • new industries stated. He is at present under in­ Does Hawaii have any other sports attraction ajs generally applauded Department of Commerce, who de­ need risk capital, the economist definite suspension in the Terri­ and as free from dissatisfied customers as the Hula Bowl? . tails his suggestions In a memo says, and if no such source exists Did the' C-O parks board make, a mistake by not swapping Kihei addressed to the Economic Plan­ tory because of his faux pas of here, "the privately-financed, lost year. Lagoon land for the land on Salt Lake now being developed by private ning and Coordination Authority statc-wldo credit corporation re­ subdividers? And when will the Fifth District get a good park and beach? ' of Hawaii," following a study re­ TBC Chairman Adrian DcMello cently set up in a number of sold the commission’s door is al­ Why is it the sportswriters are now trying to make the Ohio State cently completed. Mainland states (all New England ways open to any sincere appeal look like' a bunch of overrated bums, since their narrow squeak past Roterus’ study' follows the re- ■ states, New York, North Carolina, and he appeared somewhat im­ Oregon in the Rose Bowl? Wasn’t it the sportswriters who overrated quest of Hawaii’s Delegate Jack Kansas, Wisconsin) might be pressed by Ichinose’s volunteered Ohio State in the first place? So who are the bums? Burns, who-has interested him­ adapted to the Territory.” statement that Boxing Enter­ Will the coming year see island track and field athletes closer to self deeply in the economic prob­ Although such a credit corpora­ prises Inc. will take no action an all-Islands Olympics in 1958? ' x lems of the Neighbor Islands. tion has been authorized by the against the boxer for losses. caused Will Stan Harrington run up enough successes to justify the im­ Those problems hre succinctly Legislature, Roterus notes, no real in last year’s fiasco. portation of Charles (Tombstone) Smith to Honolulu to fight 1dm — stated by Roterus in the begin­ steps toward forming it have been Licenses were issued at the same thus filling the promise of a match that was frowned on by the TBC ning of his memo, which states taken.. meeting to: Timmie Jefferson, a year or so back? ' that, though the economy of Oahu “Here is a matter which the in­ Pacheco’s importation; Pat Lee, is expanding rapidly,'“the. Neigh­ ter-island council could resolve one who has won only one fight in bor Islands are generally charac­ way or another,” Roterus writes, his pro career stretching .over two terized by an inability to provide pointing, out ■ that the Neighbor years; Aladino Gusman, Big Is­ jobs and , economic opportunity. Island Economic Development land former flash who will be fea­ Consequently,"‘these islands are be-" Council could, also investigate idea^ tured in Augustine. Dias’ first pro­ VIRUS JAPAN 507 ing ^drained of their young and such as those brought out by the motional event at Hilo shortly; aggressive elements who, 'after Stanford Research Institute, and Frank Niihau, Harold Mara, Dan they have been schooled, seek op­ help promote an improved busi­ Melendez, Jack Watts and Ray portunities elsewhere. Besides ness climate in many ways. Carvalho. ■j.'nat’s the official name for the bug that is causing leading‘to the loss of potential fu­ As for the EPCA, Roterus such a lot of trouble now on the Mainland with influenza ture leaders of an area, the lack thinks it should apt as a two-way of economic growth tends to have information center on economic season here. Cases of this new import from Asia were rela­ a deteriorating effect' on the matters in the islands, both main­ Chinese Girl Leaps tively few in the summer months, but we can expect them volume and quality of businesses taining a library that may be of to increase in the current season. and services which serve local help to Neighbor Island people, To World Jump Fame The disease itself can be expected to be rather mild markets and to breed pessimism and "aggressively promote specific . among many in the population islands potentials” on- the Main­ With one mighty leap at a Pei­ here in Hawaii — so there’s no occasion for hysteria. How­ 'who remain.” land through the media of pub­ ping sports meet, a 20-year-old ever, the effect on any community, ifNarge numbers are, Roterus proposes an inter-island lished articles, and personal let­ Chinese girl has shown the world sick at one time even for a few days, dan be serious. For­ organization and shows how it ters, to various industries. that 600 million Chinese won’t al­ could approach some of the con­ Still another project for the ways be also-rans. tunately; vaccine- is available at least for those in essential' spicuous problems, and how the EPCA is to get prospective in­ The girl is Cheng Feng Yung occupations ,.such as medical, fire and police, dheck with' EPCA can facilitate self-help pro­ who recently bettered the world vestors and industrialists to visit women’s high' jump record with a your doctor about this. - grams in the Islands. Roterus says the islands and see the potentials If you do catch Asian flu, it will hit suddenly. after a his opinions are based on a tour for themselves — a project, he leap of 5 ft. 9% inches. The listed of the islands with EPCA repre­ says, which has been carried out world mark of 5 ft. 9% inches one or two day incubation period. At first it. may seem just' sentatives, and a study of a file successfully in northern Michigan was set by America’s Mildred Mc­ like a common cold with a runny nose and sore throat. But of material from the islands. Daniel at the 1956 Olympic and elsewhere. Since Hawaii en­ Games. there will also be fever, headache, aching muscles and In his first point, Roterus seems tertains hundreds of businessmen China has not taken part in joints, and that feeling of being “tifed all over.” to be tipping Island people*off that as tourists every year, Roterus Olympic competition. Its athletes There’s no specific, treatnient, but aspirin and rest will the military installations in the writes, this project should entail have started concentrating on Territory will be spread more no great difficulty. ■ track and field events. For several help you get through the three to five day course of the thoroughly among the neighbor is­ The^ EPCA needs more man- years they have been competing disease with the least possible suffering. Rest, too, is im­ lands than in the past, and he powerito do the job that needs do­ at meets held in Russia and East­ indicates that businessmen from ing, especially if an inten-lsiand portant to prevent “hitch hikers” — more serious second­ ern Europe. ary infections—by taking yourself out of circulation as soon the Neighbor Islands should en-- council is formed; the economist With a population of 600 mil­ courage such a move every way concludes, listing a number of re­ lion to draw on, the Chinese con­ as you notice any symptoms;. they can. Such “dispersal" of mili­ ference works on area develop­ sider they have a. vast potential Watch for advice "and instructions for public health tary targets would certainly offer ment and credit corporations he and they remember that ' Rus­ the neighbor islands new opportu­ feels should be known to the sia quickly rose to leadership in officials in your community. If an' epidemic should strike, nities and "Perhaps some of the EPCA. many Olympic fields. they’ll tell you what to do. iuu»Iiii«iiii«ii hbiiiib)i iibii ii»n iibii iibuhbii iiwi ■liilHliilaliilaliilnliilnliilBiiilBliilnliilnlitlBliilBli JAN. 16, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 7

VANNATTA ON "GREASE" Bratsk — 3,600,000 kilowatts MITSUKQSHI Soviet Power Plant Kfansnoyarsk — 4,000,000 kilo­ § from page 1 § taxes on that—corporation taxes watts on that—” iTnrBTiiliwiiriTiilsriilsliiiB'iiluuiiBliilBlW Yenesei — 6,000,000 kilowatts. 1955) that it was his idea to form A little earlier, Vannatta had Tops Grand Coulee the Hawaii Land Development told Gill ana Chung his relatives § from page 1 § Company and that he negotiated would realize about $1,500 profit As World's Biggest a deal by which that company each on their “investment,” Bishop Trust Co., to undertake Korean Olympic Plan was allowed to develop two Piikoi- though they hadn’t invested any­ the transaction of exchanging Na­ The Grand Coulee power sta­ North Korea has proposed to loa tracts. And he freely admits thing other than to sign their tional Mortgage preferred stocks tion moved to - second place re­ South Korea that they form a that he organized the company of names to the company’s organi­ and debenture bonds with Inter­ cently when the Kuibyshev hydro­ common team for the 1960 Olym­ his relatives and those of then zation document, Chung had the national Enterprises stocks. electric station switched in its pics. Supervisor Mitsuyuki Kido. Of ne­ following to ask: The transaction as explained by 20th turbine, making it the world’s The proposal was made in a let­ gotiations between that company “Well, now Bill, your relatives Masayuki Tokioka, head of Na­ most powerful station. ter from the North Korean Olym­ and H. W. B. White, agent for say they don’t know anything tional Mortgage, was reported by pic Committee chairman, Hong Kaneohe Ranch and the Trousdale about this company. They just this weekly Jan. 2, thus:' Grand Coulee's capacity is 1,- Kyung Hi, to his South Korean interests, Vannatta told the in­ signed a bunch of papers — We National Mortgage offers 25 per 074,000 kilowatts, as compared to counterpart, Li Ki Boong. He vestigators as follows: have signed statements showing cent of the exchange value in pre­ Kuibyshev’s 2,100,000. suggested the two Olympic com­ to that effect. They said they just ferred stock and 75 per cent in mittees meet this year to discuss “I talked to Hod White on it. I signed them because you asked debenture bonds, which will yield The Kuibyshev station’s target date was the November celebration the question, the New York Times mean I negotiated with Hod them to. They said they never 6 per cent interest. After 10 years, reports. White. I thought it looked like a put anything into the company.” 50 per cent of the present value of of the 40th anniversary of the Russian revolution, but it was The International Olympics good deal for my relatives. Two of Vannatta ■ answered to that, the debenture bond will be paid Committee suggested that the the relatives actually are widows. “But they still get it. My state­ in-cash and the other half in com­ finished a month before sched­ Koreans adopt a similar solution One is my wife’s aunt . . I thought ment still. holds.” mon stock of National Mortgage. ule. it was a good proposition'and then to the one found by East and West National Mortgage assumes the Its completion came 25 years Germany which formed a common we had to get somebody else in But None for Bill $200,000 obligation of International team for the 1956 Olympics. there to head it, so we got this after the Dnieper Dam power sta­ He had no arrangements to get Enterprises, which is due in 10 tion first gave current to Soviet fellow, Scott, who was the other years. aunt’s—you know there are three any of the money, himself, Van­ Under this arrangement, Na­ industry In 1932. At home I have a parrakeet— aunts . . . From a money stand­ natta had said earlier. a very wise Uird, he. tional Mortgage need not pay out Kuibyshev will hold the lead­ point they don’t — I mean the Putting pieces of the transcript cash for many years. He turns his back upon the room Scotts don’t need any money.” together, the reader finds the Tokioka told the RECORD that ing position until 1960, when the when I switch on TV. Vannatta admitted freely that original RECORD story, published his firm did not make the offer Stalingrad station (2,300,000 kilo­ Soapbox. John none of the officers of the in­ a year and a half before the Star- to guy. The offer to sell came from watts, also on the Volga) is due to corporated Hawaii Land Develop­ Bulletin made political capital of International Enterprises. be completed. In the Spanish era there were ment Company were developers, or it against Vannatta’s candidacy A group led by Tanaka has The Stalingrad station will be approximately 100 uprisings in the interested in developing, and Gill for mayor, substantiated in many canvassed International Enter­ followed by the: Philippines.. asked if it didn’t seem strange respects. There . is evidence that prises stockholders to get then- that Trousdale and the Kaneohe Q. C. Lum, after developing two commitments to turn over their Ranch would enter into an agree­ Piikoiloa tracts, was eased out to shares for exchange with National SSKISB ment with such a company. make room for William Blackfield, Mortgage stocks and debenture operating in a firm named bonds. Hoped for “Grease” CALPAC, which got its jot from Okada says his objections in­ the Hawaii Land Development Co. Predilection of Tom Gill Vannatta answered: “I don’t (Vannatta’s and Kido’s rela­ clude the following: b The property was offered only The impressions and predilec­ ■ lieves the foregoing shows a defi­ think so, Tom. Actually you know tives). But Lum was back later to National Mortgage. tions Tom Gill has . concerning nite plan to conceal his interest there is this possibility; that may­ into a third Piikoiloa tract, and • It was sold “too cheap . . . newspapers other than the Hono­ in the corporation.” be, since I was in there, Trousdale while Hod White cited that to for $550,000 net.” Okada claims lulu Advertiser, and especially the and the outfit thought that may­ Detective Gonsalves as evidence the property strategically located RECORD, appear to have prevent­ Another bit that made Chung be. they could grease the way. I’m that Lum was happy, there has al­ on the mauka-ewa corner of Bethel ed the Democratic officer from think like that was that Charles not saying that’s so, now. That’s ways been talk Lum was put back and King Sts. is worth more admitting situations that seemed Scott, president of the company only a supposition on my part, in to shut him up. than a million dollars. as plain through the evidence as and Vannatta’s relative, stated to you know. That might have been Vannatta, explaining his own Another source said there is a the nose of his former mayoralty Detective Gonsalves, according to one of the—why they gave it' to situation and that.of the company, third objection. According to him, candidate’s face—or his own. for the report “that he was approach­ the Hawaii Land Company. I don’t told Chung some of the facts of a when the proposal of the exchange that matter. . . ed by Mr. William C. Vannatta to' know. Of course, I was consultant,' subdivider’s, life ' he apparently was reported to International En­ form a company which he (Van­ . you know, with Hod White and thought the C-C attorney knew terprises stockholders, the plan It is stated in the report that natta) wanted to but., couldn't put the proposition io.them . . ." already. Explaining that one who was to get second mortgage bonds Gill “believes there was apparently because of ’his position with 'the And what of "this fellow, Scott," controls the land can get half the from National Mortgage as col­ no plan or attempt to conceal Citv government as Chief En­ who didn’t need money, but who profits bf subdividing, Vannatta lateral and not debenture bonds, the basic facts in the Hawaii Land gineer.” ■ ( became president of the Hawaii spoke as follows: which International Enterprises Development Co., Ltd. The names Land Development Company, “I said you should know that. stockholders are to get under the of the parties are, of course, a Why wasn’t Gill convinced by though ho wasn’t' Interested In If you’re able to, what you call, If present agreement. matter of public record in the th's and what .Editor Koji Ari­ subdivisions? Detective George you’ro able to get land, any hind, Treasurer’s office. If a real at­ yoshi wrote? This writer found in Gonsalves, who did much of the a sizable area of land, you can— tempt at concealment had been . his contact with Gill a number of leg work arid questioning, had a you can ask for one-half. In fact, made, it Would have been easy for years ago that he does not rendilv stenographic transcript taken of Norman, if you can get a good of interest and all that, why good Mr. Vannatta to promote a cor­ "take an idea and at least look at his interrogation of Scott, part of ' piece of property I’ll give you God! I maintain this — that if a poration under the name of persons, it,” at least not when the REC­ which reads as follows: one half. (laughter). I—I—by man holds office and he uses his who had no known connection ORD has anything to do .with it. Q.—How did you become pres­ golly, anyone of the others would office, that is his power in office, with him rather than under the That leaves Tom out in the cold. . ident? Were you elected or ap­ do the same thing. You don’t have to favor any one of his Interests quite often, as with; the investiga­ pointed or designated? to do a thing.” - names of his close relatives. Fur­ then that’s wrong absolutely ther, the only direct implication tion of Ham Rodrigues’ - use of A.—Designated. The reader-must remember that wrong, absolutely wrong. But, C-C property and men on his boat Q—By whom? at the time of that conversation, of concealment is contained in the Jesus, you are not going to get Honolulu Record article of Sept­ and for other non-city. activities. A.—By Mr. Vannatta, I guess. Vannatta was already in private men,, good men in government, to The story, stood up under 10 Q.—How were the other mem­ business and had a perfect right ember 1, 1955 (D-72) which is come in government service, if necessarily an incomplete account months’ investigation. bers of the organization? to offer half the profits to any­ they cannot participate in some of A.—The same way. thing he felt like. In an earlier of the interview, and very likely Even in the Vannatta case1, un- . these things on the outside, be­ indicates either the impressions til ’Vannatta went on a the TV Q-—They were designated by session, he gave- something of his cause- you can’t survive in gov­ Mr. Vannatta as far as. you know? thinking on the outside interests or predilections of the reporter, and radio to. reply to m^ny stories ernment. Most of the guys 'that by the Star-Bulletin, the Farring­ A.—Yes, as far as I know. “ y of government officials. After of­ work around here — I woul& say rather than a completely accu­ fering the opinion that the pig­ rate statement of fact." ton daily still didn’t Have the Q.—>Did you invest any money a Ipt of these fellows are foolish to names of the former (3-0 engin­ In this company, you being the geries should be moved • to Mo­ stay around here in City Hall just president? lokai, and that developing of farm C-C Attorney Norman Chung eer’s relatives involved in the for the love it. I will admit that Hawaii Land Development Co,— A.—No. lands at Waimanalo by the Ter­ some — that some of theih, of ‘did not concur with that con­ Q-—Did anyone else Invest any ritory is "absolutely silly," Van­ course,' couldn’t earn anything out­ clusion and cited the RECORD until someone pointed them out in money in this company that you natta went on into, further philo­ story, which stated as follows: a back page of the RECORD. side of civil service, I agree.- But This writer knows Gill’s, anti - know of? ’ sophy as follows: they're absolutely foolish—I mean “Did • he (Vannatta) have any A.—I think Mr. Vannatta put up "What this town needs, by God, RECORD predilection well, from there’s just^a lot of them—just Interest in CalPac or Hawaii Land a time when he called that young the money for both Mrs. Town­ is another paper, a progressive pa-' like a lot of these school teach­ send and Mrs. Silva and myself. per. They’re getting into the Development Company, either di­ man concerning a' client he had. ers. I have told a school teacher, rectly or indirectly? represented as an attorney for a. damned things, every little damn toy God Almighty, that they are .“He said, no. Did he know that Vannatta Paid for Shares thing, you- know, just- for pub­ union, a 'Client convicted of a ignorant, and that if they had any lids relatives had stocks and were criminal offe rise and who was a licity’s sake. They’re getting as brains, why they ■ wouldn’t be leading figures in the Hawaii Land When Detective Gonsalves show­ bad as some of these tabloids' that Negro. ' 'ri ed the corporation affidavit show­ teaching school. That’s a fact. I Development Cpmpany, which got As soon as the name was ’men­ you see in Chicago.” mean they go out there -— they go an okay from Kaneohe Ranch to ing Scott as having paid in $350 out and get this education and all tioned, Gill cracked with spme- - of a $1,000 capitalization, the lat­ Gill Statement for ’Tiser build 104 houses? He said, no. thing like, “Ha, ha, I know how ter reiterated that he hadn’t paid of, this thing, that they’ve got to "What about Mrs. Marie Thomp­ you’ gUys are going to, use him.” anything and repeated, “No. It Gill put in, “Well, the Adver­ go get summer - school, and all of son, Mrs. Luluhia Silva and Char­ The writer, asked', how Gill must have been paid for me,” add­ tiser seems to be able to take an that,,and continue with education les E. Scott, all directors of the thought we would “use” tire man. ing again that he believed it was idea without being shocked toy the and what do they get for it? "A development firm? He said Scott Gill wouldn’t answer further paid by Vannatta. thing, and at least look at it.” laborer working on a truck gets is related through his wife. He than to ladgh. . How profitable has the Hawaii Vannatta replied, “Well, it is more pay.” is his wife’s uncle. The two women He was then Gnformecj. by the Land development Company been? going to take a long time. I think At that, Detective George Gon­ are his wife’s aunts. writer that the man had come Interviewing Vannatta with Tom that they will get around because, salves couldn't help putting In, "He said there is no business into the RECORD office to try to Gill, C-C Attorney Norman Chung Tom, the governments that I, the “Well, they’re civic-minded. That’s connection there . . . " get sorhe publicity that he thought hazarded the following: municipal governments that I went the difference.” Vannatta since then had told might help him more than his “I’ll bet you made $26,000 —. through on _the Mainland; not be­ Gill and Chung that he, not only lawyer had. Attorney Gill had no Hawaii Land Company. I have cause I was part of this one do I The .Little Roc.k -integration was interested, but the whole idea more cracks and replied with the another figure which is from a say this. But, by God, of all the crisis has dominated Mexican of the company ;.was his and that necessary information to ques­ confidential source which denies municipal governments that’ I’ve news columns since it began. Mex­ he had got his relatives to sign tions asked. that 'very same figure, and says been through and talked -to, by icans, themselves discriminated the necessary papers. But his predilections were show­ you’re getting only $20,000. God Almighty, this is the cleanest against in the United States, are Chung, says the report,. “be-— ing plainly, as they do today.—E.R. Vannatta answered, "Well, sup­ I’ve seen. Absolutely, absolutely the highly concerned over facial ques­ pose you take it as twenty. Your cleanest. This idea of this conflict' tions across the border. Honest Public Servant GEM PRICE CUTS Missiles and Tourism “Probity,” according to Webster, is “tried virtue or integrity; uprightness?’ § from page 1 § 20 per cent markup for profit By KOJI ARIYOSHI The late mayor of Honolulu, John H. and taxes.’ GEM says the 6 per that of GEM for an item or two. cent -is already included in the 20 A Washington report saying that Diamond Head, Wilson, lived it and exemplified it to the Another store will be picked to per cent. The 3% per cent, gross next to Waikiki—Hawaii’s, tourist mecca—, might fullest. His virtues are rare indeed among cut prices on a few other items. income tax is also included. become a missile launching site rated a big head­ public officials. While this will mean a shop­ Furthermore, items are rarely line on the front page of a local daily. per must tramp from one end of marked up 20 per cent. After He died a poor man. The taxpayers of town to another to pick -up • bar­ talking to GEM, the RECORD Many on Oahu reacted happily to the report. Honolulu cannot thank him enough for gains on a specific day at prices surveyed downtown stores. Their They thought it was a good thing—more jobs, but­ the services he rendered, admirably, equivalent to - GEM’s usual prices, markups are from 14 to 20 per cent tressing of the territorial economy which depends largely on military spending — especially in a capably and honestly. After years in high the downtown stores are hard- ■ higher than ,GEM. Even Sears, ac­ pressed for better ideas. Consoli­ cording to estimates, marks up to period when many established military weapons public office, he died a poor man, leaving dated buying is another step pos­ about 42 per cent.) and bases are becoming obsolete with the develop­ a widow, whose teamwork and sacrifices sible, but obviously big stores like ment of missiles and other new weapons. Liberty House would be put in a made Johnny a star in public service. Some businessmen in mechandis- weak competitive position against ONLY THE SHORTSIGHTED The fact that Johnny did not die a man smaller stores downtown. ing who are watching the price of wealth reflected highest credit to him, GEM has brought a new day to war say that it was almost un­ The report from Washington drives home- the and those who elected and re-elected him. merchandising in Honolulu, so precedented, if not; unprecedent­ message which all those who want to survive must even Sears Roebuck shows its con­ ed, for Sears and Liberty House ponder deeply and continuously. About 40 years ago, when he and Jennie cern by its stepped- up selling to hold a mid-December special lived in a shack built on a pier, and over compaign. GEM prices which sale. They say that GEM had a In the current mad race for intercontinental the water at Ala Moana, two Mainland were bargain offers some months lot to do in bringing it about. ballistic missiles, and missiles fired from sub­ marines, Hawaii is potentially a target area. Its contractors went to the Wilson home tb ago in Honolulu are being match­ ed by downtown stores on many Apparently GEM cut into their priority as a target area rises if it becomes a offer Johnny about §15,000 in gold as a items. business and took a big chunk. missile base. If missiles can be launched from a “bribe” to keep him from bidding on a A survey by the Record shows For example, it is’ reported that site, that area could be hit, too. It can be hit Pensick and Gordon, one of two first, and quick. contract. Aunt Jennie remembers how that: largest toy distributors in the Only those who are shortsighted clamor for a Johnny turned the offer down and later • Liberty House, owned by Am­ world and located at Los Angeles, disclosed that the order from the missile base, here or any place on the face of the explained to her that if he had accepted erican Faqtors, Ltd., broke the earth. the bribe, the taxpayers would have been price 10 days before Christmas on local GEM was the largest order Sunbeam steam iron to GEM price it had ever received from any the losers. If he had dropped out as the store. The toys were bought up VISITORS BUREAU SILENT only other bidder, and left the field clear level. rapidly by local shoppers and by ■ Customers who -called Liberty Christmas, GEM’s supply was Let’s look at this problem from a local stand­ for the Mainlanders to hike their bid, the House early in _the morning in down. point. I am surprised at the Hawaii Visitors Bu­ taxpayers would have paid many times response to an ad for a specially reau’s silence. The Chamber- of Commerce, also more than the §15,000. priced toaster were told that they silent, took a -public position favoring the city’s had been sold out. This raised buying the Steiner property at Waikiki beach, There are other stories of bribes offered the question as to whether only and it and other business groups are for 'the Johnny including an attractive deal offer­ a few items were available. Kalakaua Ave. realignment for the further de­ velopment. of tourist facilities. ed not long ago when he was having finan­ • Von Hamm-Young’s bargain LETTER cial difficulties with his brick business. house advertised 35 per cent off But a missile base located only a few hundred These stories would embarrass those -liv­ on electrical and other products assess yards from Waikiki beach and tourist hotels can ing and now very active in business. during the Christmas sale. A seven easily kill Waikiki as a tourist attraction. Why transister pocket radio sold for Editor, Honolulu Record: should tourists come to' vacation at a spot that Johnny had his loyalties, and that to his $69.95. GEM’s price for the radio can be blasted off the face of the earth? constituents came first. For example, he On behalf of the Oahu Tuber­ was $57.52. culosis and Health Association, was close to the Dillinghams. He received A missile base on an outer island threatens (Note: For all prices listed, add may I express thanks to your that area. help from them in building the Pali Road. 3 % TH tax for merchandise sold newspaper and to the residents of This kind of apprehension has gripped Eu­ On the other hand he helped the Dilling­ downtown. Add 5 per cent on Oahu who have contributed so ropeans who are demanding peaceful negotia­ generously to the annual .Christ­ tions between the Big Two. They are afraid of hams in .building the Oahu Railway line GEM products, which is its.agency mas Seal Sale? Although the Sale around Kaena Point and beyond. fee.) U.S. bases which, to them, are decoys. Survival Von Hamm sold Zenith Trans- is not yet over, some 58,000 local means everything to them. They have lived through This relationship did not influence John­ Oceanic, with a trade-in allowance persons have already given money two devastating wars. ny when Hawaii’s No. 1 builder, Walter F. of $30, for $139.95. GEM sold It to fight tuberculosis during the for $101.69. coming year, and returns give The thought passing through many minds is. Dillingham, wanted to sell the old Pearl every indication that the Associa­ “But we must be prepared because the other side City waterline in recent years for about • Ramsey, GE agency, adver­ tion will be able to continue its is arming at full speed, and ’is ahead of us. in §75.000. Johnny told Walter that the line tised a GE vacuum cleaner for extensive program during 1958. the missile race.” was worthless, that the city had plans of $49.95, a special price for an Item The question of why the Seal A missile war means total destruction. Tt must sold regularly for $59.95. GEM’s Sale is not .part of any of the be stopped by all people voicing their desire for putting in a new and bigger line and that price was $44.20. combined fund drives arises each peace and survival—by people in the U.S. and it would be expensive to dig .out the old year. In essence, our Association Soviet blocs. line. He told Dillingham to turn it over to • A Russell Wright plastic believes that individuals are en­ the city for §1. Dillingham; a capable busi­ serving set sold house,-to-.house in titled to a free choice of when, PIDDLING AMOUNT Honolulu for $100 is $30 at GEM. where and how much they wish to nessman, who evidently thought his line contribute to any fund, and con­ Encouragingly, McCarthyism, a cutting edge of was worth §75,000, asked Johnny to give • Some small retail stores have sequently. the sale of Christmas cold war politics, has been blunted. The peace him about two weeks to make a survey. approached GEM,_ asking if they Seals is conducted independently, sentiment has grown tremendously in the past few could buy from GEM at its usual and only by direct mail. Our years and is flowering. Bandung, Geneva and the After his survey, it is reported that he told price and retail in town. method reminds the public to rise recent Cairo conferences poured their energies Johnny that the latter was right, that and FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS! to move the sluggish river of peace, so that the the new proposed line was what the city • A Whirlpool washer, sold, by This is the basis of the voluntary stagnant, polluted Water of mankind would clear* needed. downtown- dealers for $349.95 re­ Tuberculosis Association’s move­ become pure, give health and development, hope gular and $279.95 special with ment, and’ means that Seal Sale and vision to people,. Men like Johnny are rare, especially in trade-in, sells at $254.72. at GEM. contributions come chiefly from Today, in this rich country, there is a loud cry public service. On appliances, GEM says it gives families in lower income brackets. that we are lagging .in education. The President For this reason this weekly feels that free delivery and one year un­ It is primarily to these persons is asking for an additional billion dollars for limited service. that we say "mahalo.” And to The education to. be spread out over four years—■ the Code of Ethics in the proposed City •*»»» Honolulu Record, for your excel­ to catch up with Soviet education. This is a pid­ lent help -in bringing the problem dling amount when $40 billion goes for the war Charter is weak. There should' be a Law of (Note: Last week we reported Probity that would require city employes, of tuberculosis to the attention of program. that GEM markup ranges up .to the public during the entire year, The most disturbing part of it ail is that every especially elected officials, to report all 31 per cent. Robert Evans, GEM our sincere gratitude. major project the U.S. now undertakes is being manager, says the RECORD, was done in the name qf anti-Communism. And the their assets, where they are, etc., when off by 6 per cent. The RECORD taking office, and yearly thereafter until Ronald A. Henderson, Pres. U.S. is taking a beating in too many areas from reported that GEM markup in­ Sincerely, a country which was economically backward in their separation from public service. There cludes 6 per cent for rental, 5 per Oahu Tuberculosis and' 1917 and was devastated in the last war. should be a provision that falsification cent-to GEM for agency fee.and Health Association Now, if the U.S. were tcL drive forward by hold­ would be punishable. ing high the tradition of\1776, the democratic spirit would resurge through the bloodstream of This proposal is not farfetched. Within this country. The U.S. would win friends every­ the past few years there have been cases MISSILES AND TOURISM where—especially in economically backward of public officials who personally profited (continued from right) depression., ■ . qaiAos a.iaqAV sau^unoo economic assistance is be­ But the road U.S. economy is ginning to surpass- that of this country. for favors given private businessmen. There of the intermediate ballistic are suspicions of other payments having travelling runs into a certain models, costs about 50 million dol­ dead end. It’s profitable for big END RESULT been made, especially in the real estate lars. The malfunctioning Atlas industries. The end is total destruc­ and building fields. The Law of Probity cost far more.” ■ tion. The proposed missiles for The end result will be seen in the type of as­ Just consider, the cost of test­ Diamond Head are part of the big sistance given. ’ , will not do away with all evils but it will ing one missile can finance the picture of ultimate annihilation. Our system produces for profit, and restricts pro­ help to reduce graft and corruption. construction of more than 3,000 New thinking must prevail in duction to holp prices high, while the Soviet public housing units. If we spend this country. Recent developments bloc, countries produce for use, In our system it for peace, we will have a • better indicate more than ever that the is extremely profitable for big industries to manu­ life all-around. Soviet bloc countries welcome facture arms which they ship abroad, although in­ Honolulu Record Publishing Co.', Ltd. peaceful economic competition. creasingly their spokesmen have been saying that 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T.H. CAUGHT IN WEB Even William Randolph Hearst Jr. war is not for the immediate future and the danger The .people of Hawaii, as well after another visit to USSR says area is Soviet economic penetration in the eco­ Phone" 96445 as on the Mainland, are caught in so. nomically backward areas. Mainland §5.00; Philippines $7.00 a vicious economic web- spun by Tile ground is ready to be sown I read in the U.S. News and World Report Oahu $5.00; .other islands $6.00 airmail; the war industries. It’s got so that with the seeds of peace. U.S. can (June 21, 1957) that “Each test missile that falls, pe^ce and disarmament mean un­ lead the way. KOJI ARIYOSHI—EDITOR employment and recession, even’ a No missiles for Diamond Head. (continued at left)