ROMANZO ADAMS SOCIAL RESEARCH LABORATORY BULK MAIL U. S. Postage TH PAID Permit No. 708 Honolulu, Hawaii OF HAWAII 10 A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO FURTHERING THE PROGRESS OF HAWAII'S FILIPINOS VOL. I — No. 4 May 15,1962 HONOLULU, HAWAII Tobacco Key To Philippines $73Million W ar Damages Claims FOR FIRST OF SERIES ON THIS CRUCIAL SUBJECT READ PAGE 2 ON-THE-SPOT p h o t o s O F AN ACTUAL COCKFIGHT THE FILIPINO HERALD GOES TO A COCKFIGHT . For Dramatic On-The-Spot Description Of Exciting Sport Read Pages 8 and 9 May 15, 1962 PAGE 2 THE FILIPINO HERALD THE FILIPINO HERALD Office : 1739 Iwi W ay, Honolulu, H aw aii Ph. 776-466 TEDDI MEDINA ________________________ _____ Editor FELIPE de G U Z M A N ____________ Associate Editor RUMELIA FLORES____________ Contributing Editor Ilocano - English Section ANITA RAMILO ONSTAD .................. Production JAIME BLANCO ............................................Staff Writer The Filipino Herald published twice monthly with a printing of 10,000 and an approximate readership of 50,000 Is owned and published by The Filipino Herald, Incorporated. ITS OFFICERS ARE: PRESIDENT ......................................... Dr. Stanley Standal VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR 1 Teddi Medina SECRETARY It TREASURER______________________ M rs. D. A. M eredith EXCELLENT COVERAGE INTERESTING Dear Miss Medina: Can U.S. Afford Loss Of Philippines Friendship? Dear Miss Medina: I found your current issue to be quite interesting, Congratulations to you and all members but I note one oversight in your fine article on While President John F. Kennedy is attempting to get the radio and television in Hawaii. Andres Baclig pre­ of the staff of the Filipino Herald of Ha­ United States legislature to reconsider repeated rejections sents an outstanding Filipino program daily over of a $73 million payment to the Philippines for World War waii. Publication of this newspaper is in­ KHBC, the Tribune-Herald station in Hilo. He is dicative of the steady progress being made on the air from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday through II damages, U.S.-Philippines relations are suffering. by Hawaii Filipinos. The Department of Friday and from 7 to 10 a.m. Sunday. Since the days when the Philippines was one of the United Labor and Industrial Relations wishes you Sincerely, States’ territories, the two countries have been the best of A. E. P. WALL every success in this new venture. friends. But now this long smoldering issue may completely Editor We appreciate your excellent coverage of split the two former friends. my appointment of Carlos Ramelb as Dep­ To emphasize his disgust with the United States, Philip­ CONGRATULATIONS uty Director of Labor and Industrial Rela­ pines President Diosdado Macapagal recently postponed a Miss Medina: state visit to the U.S. and announced his plans for changing tions. The department is fortunate to have Congratulations on the launching of The Filipino the Philippines’ Independence Day from July 4 to June 12. a man of Mr. Ramelb’s high caliber in this Herald. The need for such a publication has been post, and I look forward to working closely, evident for a long time, and I am very glad that Macapagal's state visit was to include a stop in Honolulu you and your colleagues were able to fulfill the and Hawaii’s residents of Filipino ancestry were eagerly with him in carrying out our various pro­ grams. need. Enclosed please find my check to pay for my awaiting his arrival. This newspaper sincerely hopes that first year’s subscription to The Herald. the U. S. Congress can see its way clear to pay this sum, re­ Please feel free to calLupon us if we can My best wishes for good luck and a long life tain the friendship of the Philippines and reschedule Maca- be of any assistance to you or your readers. to your undertaking. With best wishes and Aloha— Yours very truly, pagal’s visit at the earliest possible date. GEORGE M. KOGA, Ben Dillingham, a recently announced candidate for the Sincerely, C. F. DAMON, Jr. Chairman, Government Efficiency U. S. Senate said, “The U.S. has a habit of kicking its friends /■“Committee, in the pants and handing out money to its enemies.” In this Director of Labor and House of Representatives, case, the Filipino Herald completely agrees with the Senate Industrial Relations State of Hawaii. candidate. Tobacco politics is blamed in many circles for the defeat of the bill to pay the Philippines’ claim. In this issue, the Philippines Struggle To Herald presents the first of a three-part series which ex­ plores the Philippines’ struggle to regain its tobacco market, the War Damages Claims and a possible $300 million sta­ bilization loan. Regain Tobacco Market As one politician said, “The way the United States is ( Editor’s N o te : This is th e first in copra, was now in little or no de­ “However, since 1961,” Mr. Alba handing out billions and billions for this and that, it would a series of three articles on a situa­ mand in any other country. explains, “the Cuban embargo has tion fraught with problems effecting In 1951, a distinguished, astute not only the rights and lives of soma caused other factories in the Phil­ seem to hie that it would be worthwhile paying this com­ Filipino, Enrique C. Alba, working paratively small claim, with or without justification, just to 4,000,000 people in the Philippine ippines to become aggressive and tobacco regions, but also millions with the cooperation of a chemist they, are trying harder to open cement- the bond of friendship with the Philippines.” more who make their living from the evolved a simple process of cur­ markets for their products. The sugar industry. Also effected ere ing leaf tobacco which advanced As the Herald goes to press, we hope that the U.S. will diplomatic relations between the Philippine g overnm ent also has b e­ the aged, mellow flavor several finally decide to pay the claim so that we may pave the way Philippines and the United States and gun an assistance program to find to extend Hawaii’s famed hospitality to the Philippines perhaps a $300 million stabilization years. A three-year-old tobacco new markets.” could be made to taste like tobac­ One of the ways the govern­ President. The FILIPINO HERALD has made co that had been aged seven to an effort to study the problems as ment started to help was by un­ extensively as possible in order to nine years. derwriting an advertising promo­ (Reprinted from Hilo Tribune-Herald) help clear up misunderstandings, to The method of enhancing the tion campaign aimed at American inform Filipinos and Americans as age of the leaf was used in the stogie puffers to create greater ISLAND FILIPINO POPULATION well of the intricacies involved and to manufacture of cigars which were suggest a possible solution which consumer demand. This year it is would benefit both the Philippines found to have immediate accept­ intended that the government will IS A GROWING FORCE and the United States. ance on the American market. augment these efforts, Mr. Alba The first article deals with the It was then that Mr. Alba se­ says. Some of the Parker Ranch and a free economy. man in Hawaii who is perhaps more cured the exclusive world fran­ versed on the tobacco problem than “It is my personal opinion that employees who attended a Americans generally have any other person in the Hawaiian Is­ chise for sales of La Patria Philip­ the growth of small business in dinner honoring Consul Gen­ a high regard for Mr. Maca­ lands. The second article will trace pine Cigars, which was what the the Philippines is essential to the eral Alejandro Yango of the pagal, and wish him well in the background and troubles which new product w as named. W ith Mr. country’s sound economic growth,” have hounded Philippine and Amer­ Alba guiding the way, three or­ Philippines Friday night had his program to stress the ican relations as a result of the to­ he says. He also suggests the bacco situation and the third article ganizations were set up to handle Philippine government “might do to cover many long miles to value of a high moral code will suggest possible solutions.) the production and distribution: well to institute strict and en­ get from ranch outposts to in both government and (1) The La Patria Cigar Factory forceable controls on quality By JAMES W. COWAN Kamuela. business. at Malabon, Bulacan, near Manila, standardization — in the tobacco Back in the “good old days” of It was plain that all of And Big Islanders have an which makes the cigars; (2) For­ industry, particularly.” the five-cent cigar the Philippines eign Traders, a firm which handles them thought the trip was equally high regard for Mr. While these two statements may were exporting to the United exports of the cigars; and (3) the seem at first to have opposing, well worth it. Yango, who represents his States some 158 million stogies a La Patria Tobacco Co., which Mr. views, Mr. Alba says the two are’ Mr. Yango made the most government in an outstand­ year. The cigars could sell for Alba owns and which handles dis­ tied together. “In spite of the tre­ favorable impression pos­ ing manner and who. under­ five cents because labor was cheap tribution and sales. mendous market in the United —50 to 75 cents a day per worker. sible on all of the guests at At his desk at State Savings and States for Philippine products, stands the country to which And the cigars were of good Loan Co., on Bishop street in manufacturers in the Philippines the dinner, which was given "He is now assigned.