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• ariana ariet c?/ew§ c;&, 'View~ REFERENCE .... ~ .. ' HAWAII STATE LIBRARY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ON SAIPAN M.I. HAWAII & PACIFIC UNIT November 28, 1980 - Vol. 9 No. 28 - Price: 15 cents inah Damage: $7 Million Outside help was beginning and report to President Carter. to arrive by mid-week as Red Cross disaster specialists Saipan was slowly recovering started to arrived Monday and from Typhoon Dinah that opened a service center at caused an estimated $7 Gara pan School on Thursday. million damage. Assistance was also provided No lives were lost and few by personnel from Guam and injuries reported from the the military, and needed equip 110 m.p.h. gales that caused ment for water and power the destruction of 36 homes, services was scheduled to arrive left 98 with major damage by Dillingham barge on and 116 with minor damage. Saturday. More than 1 ,000 persons were But for the first few days, evacuated, and 400 supplied NMI personnel handled the with food at emergency unblocking of roads, re centers, according to a report storation of some water and by Frank Chong, disaster power service and cleanup control officer. without outside help. The fast-moving typhoon, Public Works crews began the worst since Jean hit in early Sunday morning clearing 1968, destroyed almost all major roads of fallen trees and crops, caused major damage other obstructions. to public buildings, snapped Pete Sasamoto, director of power poles like so many the Department of Public match sticks and for 41 hours Works, said that his super halted supply of all electricity visorial personnel and 80% - and water, except power 90% of all employees worked produced by standby long hours, beginning Sunday PAPER CHASE - Files and documents were scattered all over what had been the Saipan Stevedore Co. generators. to start to reestablish essential Tanapag, San Roque, services. Only those whose Garapan and Capitol Hill were own homes were severely the most severely damaged. damaged or destroyed did not with which government rubble that had once been had smashed windows and Tanapag and San Roque report, he said. By 6 p.m. employees were restoring their home. debris covered what had been Villages were in shambles after Monday, power was back on services and engaging in the a , Next door, at the pretty an attractively landscaped the typhoon struck at 4 a.m. the feeder line along Beach huge cleanup task. ~ little Tanapag Church, where yard. Sunday. It was centered 30 Road from the power plant to Camacho held a press people had sought shelter, Other houses on the street miles west of Saipan and Chalan Kanoa. Water, briefing Monday in Tanapag on chunks of roofing had been nearest the beach were either moved at a speed of 25 m.p.h. pumped with portable property where the Max blown away. Across the partly or totally destroyed. Gov. Camacho declared generators, also was available Taitano home had completely street, neighbors were In San Roque, several Saipan and Tinian major in some areas on Monday collapsed, to underline the hammering back tin sidings and houses in the village were disaster areas on Tuesday and evening. By Tuesday, severity of that village's roofs on their partly destroyed partly collapsed of rni~ing tin requested federal assistance. A evening power service was damage. Taitano, a teacher at houses. roofs, with sheetings strewn Federal Emergency Manage extended to several other areas. Tanapag School and his wife On the other side, the con around. ment Agency team arrived The governor said he was were searching for salvagable crete house owned by House While none of the concrete Wednesday to make a survey "very happy" with the speed possessions in the pile of Speaker Joaquin I. Pangelinan {Cont. on Page 8) Business Brisk in Building Materials Hardware dealers were generators to pwnp gasoline. doing a booming business this But they disappeared on week as homowners bought Tuesday as electricity was building supplies to repair restored along Beach Road and damage homes and stores. there appeared to be no The biggest run appeared shortage of gasoline. to be on tin sheets to replace Banks were open only from roofing that had been blown 9 a.m. to noon because of lack away, but lumber also sold of power with which to well. operate their electric Candles and flashlight accounting machines and also batteries also were sold because there was some briskly as residents found absenteeism among employees l' themselves without power on whose homes had been Sunday and Monday in some damaged in the typhoon. areas and longer in others. Saipan Stevedoring, whose All ice had been sold out by office was destroyed, reopened Monday afternoon. Wednesday, but United Lines began to form Micronesian Development BO ITOMS UP - Fishing boat nearing completion was toppled oft scaffold at Ken Kamemura '.s boat works Monday at those service Corp. received major , damage at Charlie Dock. , {Cont. on Page 8) '"' stations that had their own Page 2 - MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS & VIEWS - November 28, 1980 • e onda Reck ess Driver's otel Switc 0 The hotel will pay $25,000 major shipping interests, owns teen e evo ed The Saipan Continental a year rent for the land or a 72 .5% of the hotel. Hyatt will Hotel is expected to change its percentage of the gro~, which own 25% and the Jack Layne Saying that when people Ronald Attao, 16, suffered name and ownership Monday ever is larger, he said. family, 2.5%. Layne is the drive reckle~ly they should be serious head injuries, said with the last government The hotel will be known as attorney for the Wah Kwang off the streets before they kill Alex Castro, who prosecuted technicality out of the way. the Saipan Hyatt Regency, interests. tltemselves or others, Common the case. Pete A. Tenorio,executive Tenorio said, with the new wealth Judge Robert Moore Moore stripped the director of the Marianas Public management taking over this The new owners reportedly this week revoked the driver's defendant of his driver's license Land Corporation, the said paid in excess of $13 million license of a man convicted of indefinitely instead of sending board had approved the lease Monday. Tenorio and some of the for the hotel. They will con reckless driving. him to jail for 30 days or futlng transfer of the 4.7 hectares tinue its present sub-leases. Juan K. Rabauliman, 21, of him $100, the maximum property to the new owners. ·public land board members Tenorio said. An apartment Chalan Laulau, was previously penalty, Castro said. He said the 30-year lease will talked to Hyatt Corp. and Wah Kwang Corp. officials during a house for staff housing was convicted of the reckless expire in 2001, with two 10- included in the purchase, he driving charge and was year extension options avail recent trip to Hong Kong. The Wah Kwang Corp. which has said. sentenced Tuesday. able. The charge involved a Sept. Pedestrian 22 incident in which the Becomes 4th • • prosecution charged I I a Rabauli,nan was traveling at Judge St s 60 m.p.h. on 2-W Highway raffic Dea h when he tried to pass three signed the order that cuts off natµral resources; Francisco A. The pay of six resident de cars near- the Sugar King Monu A pedestrian became Sai this week's paychecks. He also Hocog, community and partment heads on Tinian ment intersection. His vehicle pan 's fourth traffic fatality of ordered that no salary be given cultural affairs; Guadalupe R. whose appointments were not collided with another whose 1980. any replacement in their jobs, Hofschneider, public health; confirmed by that i<;land's driver was attempting to make Police said Jesus Lisua, 59, unless approved by the Tinian Guillermo C. Borja, public senatorial delegation, was a left slammed into a of Chalan Kanoa, was fatally delegation. safety; and Rufina B. tum, ordered stopped this week. injured when struck by a pick Affected by the order were Villagomez, fmance. power pole and then struck Commonwealth Chief Judge up truck while crossing Beach Bernard V. Hofschneider, a pedestrian. The pedestrian, Robert A. Hefner Wednesday Road in front of the Beach Road Market last Saturday about 8:30 p.m., according to Lt. Frank Pickelsimer, head of the police traffic division. The victim died of head wounds at Dr. Torres Hospital before he could be evacuated to Guam, he said. Boycott Threatened In Dumping PONAPE - A resolution requesting the FSM President to begin talks with other Pacific Island nations and territories to organize a boy cott of Japanese goods if Japan proceeds to dump nuclear waste north of the Mariana Islands or elsewhere in the Pacific basin, was adopted by the FSM Congress during the Grand Prize last day of the fourth regular 4 days for 2 in Tokyo, session. The resolution, stated in Japan Via Air Micronesia part that despite unanimous and vigorous protests "the PLUS ¥100,000for spending. Japanese Ministery of Science and Technology is still pro- . ceeding to convert the Pacific Plus lhousands of dollars in prizes: Ocean into a nuclear dumping * 2 Sweepstake tickets site." for 5 packs of any Washer and Dryer, Complete Living Room and Bedroom Sets, Dinette The resolution noted that , RJR Menthol Brand. Set, Color Television, Motorcycle, AM/FM Cassette Players. nations and territories of the Pacific imported "hundreds of million of dollars in goods Enter today and often as you wish. from Japan" and that the Entry forms are available at your threat of a unified boycott by these nations and territories favorite shopping center. Simply of Japanese goods.