Water Bill Jumps $1 to $17 at Waipahu

STOCK SALESMAN AGITATES BOULEVARD BOWL QWIfE^ HONOLULU T.H. Magnet Boulevard Bowl, Ltd., has sent and Company are indebted' to you PAGE I - letters to stock_ _and debenture note in any way. Should you still feel 2 holders “regarding a serious and • however;, that any of the above, urgent matter” relating to alleged owe you any money, you and your statements made by a former sales attorney are invited to confer with Walter Dillingham & man- who sold Boulevard Bowl se me promptly to present and dis curities. cuss your claim or claims. Should Lave in Afternoon you fail to do so and should you PAGE 7 The attorney for the bowling persist ih contacting persons hav-- corporation and for Potter and Co., ing any interest in Boulevard Bowl, the firm which sells the securities Ltd., I will, have no alternative but- Ike and Christ and formerly employed the sales to consider that your actions con man, wrote 'an urgent, 'special-deli stitute an attempt to extort money PAGE 8 very letter mailed Sunday night, from my clients and its officers and Sept, 1, to the salesman. Attorney I will take or initiate such action, The Newspaper Hawaii Needs Robert G. Dodge wrote: including criminal proceedings, as Vital Job for * the circumstances warrant.” “This letter is for the purpose Governor Quinn Thursday September 12, 1957 Volume X No. 7 of informing you that neither The salesman, Lester Howard, PAGE 8 Boulevard Bowl, Ltd., nor any of its officers or agents, nor Potter (more on page 6) Water Bill Jumps from $1 to $17 at Waipahu Hike Results from Sugar Co.'s Sale Go-Getter Filipino Socialite Of Water to Capital Investment Co. Water bills.of 39 plantation fami committee of the ILWU unit at lies in Waipahu jumped from $1 Waipahu Sugar Co.,' because only and $1.50 per family unit a month their water rates have gone up, to upwards of $17 dollars a month while they are covered by the per -family unit since April' this same union-company contract that Leaves Bum Check Tr■. a• il ...........H...............e...........r........e. ... ■ year. -- says water rates will be The $17 represents for many An attractive Filipina who tra it is difficult to import UH. goods. E>.C„ and another from Manila, A housewife of one- of the&9 and they would take care of the' plantation workers in medium families grimly, lopkpd across - Ka- vels id the highest social and poli She told all about her connections grades nearly 10 per cent of their in the’ P.I. and people wpre im bogus check. laikii St. in the plantation camp. tical circles in the Philippines Re tuke-home pay, and many say the On the other side of the Wtreet, in cently came here reportedly 'to col pressed. ' WIRES LEEDS boast of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant front of houses similar to hers, lect $25,00(1 from a local syndicate BANK CLOSED Subsequently, Mrs. Quirino wired ers' Assn, that. Island sugar work for a down payment on a real es even the road had been watered to At Leeds Shoe Store she bought Leeds from Manila, informing the- ers are the most highly paid sugar keep down the dust. tate tract dn Mindoro Island and shoe store that she was sending tnerchandise and reportedly car workers is a misrepresentation and . “They pay $1 and we just got a departed with two. bogus ctiecKs ried some of her parcels with her the $291 through Consul General distortion. ' bouncing around Honolulu. bill for $16,” she said.' to her hotel. But she asked the (more on page 6) DISCRIMINATION The union unit headed by. Dlo- Mrs. Elicio Quirino, wife of the Store to deliver the major bulk of- These familes are terribly discri former governor of Hocos Sur and her order on Saturday afternoon, minated against says the housing (more on page 6) sister-in-law of the late president a time when Bishop National Bank of the Philippines, checked in at had closed, for the weekend. She IlllilllllllilWIlllllIlllilllllllllllllillllllU the Alexander Young Hotel June gave her check for $291 upon deli 22 and left July 14. She stayed at very of her merchandise. Waikiki prior to that. The following day she departed RECORD fo Get Bridges-Wallace Broadcast Brought She wrote a check for $195.72 to on a President liner. - - the hotel before she left on a Sun After she -had. left Hawaii, a Maytor McKinley Here; Newspapers Left Plenty Out: day. When the Bishop National friend of Mrs.. Qujrino’s visited Bank opened for-business Monday, Leeds and told the management Cemetery Facts You read accounts in local news the same picture you did from'the it was found that she did not have that the Filipina socialite did not papers about what Harry Bridges news stories. funds do cover her draft. leave sufficient funds to coyer her Maytor Hoppenyan McKinley, said on TV Reporter Mike Wal Remember the bit about how A charming socialite, Mrs. Qui dheck. However, this friend ex West Coast speculator who is be^ lace^ program ‘'interview,’’ a- Bridges said he thought it would rino did a great deal of shopping-, plained, Mrs, Quirino expected two hind the .pending plan to con couple of weeks ago, but there’s a be the right thing to strike Ameri telling local business people that remittances, one from Washington, struct a $50 million cemetery, on lot you didn’t read that was said can ports and hold up shipments Windward Oahu, is a man of ac over the ah. If. present plans ma of arms and troops tp some war tion: terialize, you’ll have a chance front if the union believed it was On August 29. the RECORD re shortly to hear and see the pro right? Well, It didn’t come out quite Dog Owners Criticized for Making ported in full how and why the plan gram over a local station because that way in the broadcast. / has aroused “the suspicion of im the ILWU has brought the tape In the first place, Bridges em portant segments of the business from - the Mainland and is now phasized in his answer to the Kapiolani Park Canine "Outhouse" world here.” dickering for a spot to show it. loaded question that .HE wouldn’t On September 6, by radiogram Some Honolulans who Use Kaplo- maintenance of the Parks Board, to the RECORD, Mr. McKinley But don’t expect to get quite . (mote on page 7) lani Park for recreation and pic says that dogs are not. allowed in said: nics are complaining that resi p^rks. “Am writing letter relating to ac dents in the surrounding areas walk tual facts ana records.1 Appreciate their dogs every morning and even “But when they are on leash we your courtesy of. my efforts.” , fighter Donnell Starts Dock Work; ing in the park so that the animals can’t do a thing,” he explained. Mr, McKiney’s letter was not would relieve themselves. He said that some people walk received at press time for this their dogs. week’s RECORD. Sees More Pork Chops, Security “It’s not like a stray dog doing: Isn’t there a purpose for these According to- Mainland sources, his business once in a while. ’Vylien early morning and evening- ex . Mr. McKinley’s financial credit Boxing may be booming,- but at a longshoreman for Castle & they walk their dogs every morn cursions in the park by the dogs rating Is good. He Is desribed as least one local top-flight fighter Cooke than he thinks lie would ing and evening in the same places, with their owners, he was asked. a vigorous promoter and personal figures he has a better way of mak fighting. you begin to have outhouses, not “We find out that is the pur- ly worth “about three million dol ing a living. “In August,” he told, the com- a park for families to spread -their pose,”- he said. lars.” Abel Donnell, the slashing light mission, “my take'-home pay was mats, picnic, let their babies crawl As to complaints about Kapiolani Mr. McKinley evidently enjoyed weight who has come to be recog $560.” on the grass and have a swell Park being' used for a “dog out the RECORD’S 9th Anniversary- nized as king of the professional Donnell has just started to work, time,” a Kapiolani park user said. house,” Haina said he will refer Labor Day issue of 56 pages be fighters at his weight in the Ter he explained, and is on a 90-day “Isn’t there a law? Can’t the the matter “to our police.” Com cause in his radiogram he said: ritory, voluntarily went into semi- probationary period during which Parks Board do something to clean, plainants say that the area.toward “Congratulations your Labor Day retirement at a meeting of the two “unexcused absences” would the parks and keep them from be- Pakl Ave. and along Kalakaua Ave. issue. Expressions by advertise Territorial Boxing Commission, cause his dismissal. He backed out Ing made into dog outhouses?” an near the Elks Club is frequently ments of so many friends exempli and gave a very good reason for of a fight with Leo Alonzo, Donnell other frequent user of" the park used for walking the dogs. fies support and appreciation.” doing it. Donnell is still young and explained, after learning that the asked. still probably not'at hib peak, but Sam Haina, superintendent °f (more on page 6) ■IIMIM he makes more money working as (more on page 6) PAGE 2 ' HONOLULU RECORD SEPT.

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