fa Not HQNOLULU RJ^O RD W in Death The Newspaper Hawaii By Hanging The wrists of 12-year old William VOLUME VII NO 6/7 —SINGLE COPY 10 CENr THURSDAY MAY 31, 1956 Kakalia, found hanging in his father’s storeroom last week, were not “tied’’ behind his back, as re ported by a daily newspaper. In stead, the coroner’s office reported, an end of the same lariat which encircled the boy’s neck, had been passed over a rafter and back down behind him, where it was wound PUC Puts 7jxi Co. several times around his wrists, without being knotted. Police investigators were of the opinion it was entirely possible he might have arranged the rope himself, in an effort to simulate a mock hanging, and then actually hanged himself when a stool on which he appeared, to have been Out of Business standing slipped from under him. (more on page 3) editorial Comment Leeward Bus Co. Job Comparison Shows Some Aiea Will You Carry Big Hotels' Load? To Profit By End Workers Get $1 Less Than at Crockett A proposed improvement project for Saratoga Road, the street adjacent Fort De Russy, will cost Of 4-Driver Firm As the strike of about 125 work times even more than $1 an hour, ers of the Aiea refinery of the. McElrath went further to show a total of $92,217.40, according to figures of the city An economic war between a com California & Hawaiian Sugar went, that even workers in the Dixie- and county, and the government will shoulder $71,- paratively big company and a very into its third week, an ILWU crat South, where wages for labor 215.48, assuming the Federal part of the cost, leaving small one wound up last month as spokesman noted that nothing but are notoriously low along with liv 20 residents whose property fronts on the street to pay K such fights usually do—with the a “roar of silence” has echoed from ing standards, receive more for big one winning and four 'small the propaganda mills of the em working in sugar refineries than $21,001.92. businessmen going out of business. ployers and offered a guess that the striking workers at Aiea. But who will benefit most from the improvement of As a result the four small busi the present demand of the Aiea With the base rate at Aiea $1.21% Saratoga Road? True, property owners directly on the nessmen are today Unemployed, workers for increased wages is so per hour, McElrath named eight the Aiea Taxi Co. is defunct and valid that .the company spokesmen' companies operating sugar refin street receive direct benefits—for which they will pay. the Leeward Bus Co. can look for just can’t find anything to say. eries in Louisiana and Texas-which But the street will be almost a direct entry to the Reef ward to increasing its profits.. As Citing figures to prove the case, pay a higher base rate. That list Hotel, and it will be of much use to the Halekulani and "another result, a number of resi Robert McElrath, ILWU public along with the base rate of pay at the Edgewater Hotels. Yet these thriving commercial dents of Aiea and vicinity are un relations officer, quoted wages each refinery, was as follows: happy because they don’t get the paid on 28 different jobs, which enterprises will not be assessed a red cent for the im exists both at Aiea and at the Imperial, refinery at Sugar Land, provement. kind of transportation service they Texas, near cane fields worked by once could. Crockett, Cailf. refinery of C&H convicts on Texas prison, farm, The Halekulani is owned largely by Richard K. The field of battle in this econ to show the wide disparity be $1.49 per hour; Colonial, Louisiana, (Klngie) Kimball, who adventures at times in politics omic war was finally the Terri tween wages the same compahy $1.44; Godchaux, Louisiana, $1.44; pays workers here and those on and at times in all-male “exploring” flights to the torial Supreme Court, but the bus Henderson, Louisiana, $1.49; Su company did not have to fight its the Mainland. Pacific Islands. The Edgewater ai d the Reef are owned preme, ’ Louisiana, $1.33; South own battip. It had instead power Although the economic discri Coast, several parishes of Louist- largely by John B. Kelley who, along with Kimball, has ful champions in the Territorial mination against local labor was appeared at City Hall in" the past to protest the ex Public Utilities Commission and obvious from the figures, some (more on page 6) penditure of tax mon^y to enforce «the rent control Attorney Richard Sharpless of the law. That law, of course, benefits people who have to attorney general’s . office who re presented the PUC. MIDST STARS AND BARS fight to pay the rent on housing that is a far cry from Following a complaint by the (more on page 8) bus company to the PUC that the four-man taxi company was break- Comm. Warns Applicants of Poor (more on page 6) Landlords Scream, But Rent Control Trade; Sam-Morse in New Waikiki Bar A recent slump in the bar busi one chance in a hundred of get Which Cop Beat ness, reported for some weeks from ting my vote. Now I’m for you.” Report Shows Housing Scarcer In ‘Sb sources in downtown Honolulu, was But Kronick, too, said he has underlined at Tuesday’s meeting visited Wahiawa bars and he found Even the Star-Bulletin had re March of this year was 1.3 per Up Cuffed Seaman of the G-C liquor commission when the absence of customers “depress versed its long opposition to rent cent, and to show the trend, it the commissioners warned appli ing.”. Still, if Swaydis could. in control this week and come around states further that in Feb. 1955 cants for new licenses they stand fluence a lot of people to write in an editorial last Friday to the it was 1,1 per cent; in June 1954 On Hotel St.? an excellent chance of going broke letters and lend, him - their sup stand the RECORD has held for 4 per cent; in the summer of 1952 —especially those moving into port for the project, Kronick said years—that rent control is neces 2.4 per cent; and in. April 1950 it A police officer who allegedly areas heavily saturated already he might give his vote for ap sary until private enterprise builds was 3.5 per cent. beat’ up an inebriated merchant with dispensers. proval. far more housing in the low priced seaman on Hotel St.- last weekend Fernandez, however, reminded - The report also reminds,-as many missed being identified when a Albert Swaydis, a man applying rental area. reports in the past, that landlord the applicant that other applicants But not the Honolulu Property shocked eyewitness failed to get to take over the “Suzy-Q” in Wa sources on the Mainland have the correct badge number. from Wahiawa have been turned Owners Assn. generally held 5 per cent to be hiawa; who mid, “It has been the down. Violent Opposition The number he got was that of ambition of my life to own a bar a "normal” vacancy ratio. Other and nightclub,’’ got the most warn SAMMY MORSE, heading a That. diehard landlords’ outfit, sources have claimed that a 10 a motor patrolman stationed at project that has been kept in con through its spokesman J. Kaneohe, whose duties made it im ings. Chairman M.B. Carson told siderable secrecy, appeared as an per cent vacancy ratio should exist possible for him to be the officer him he’d visited Wahiawa twice Donovan Flint, condemned rent before rent control is abandoned, in the past week and visited every other applicant for ■ a new license, control as being “no more needed though this last statement does in question. and he also got warnings from than is the blackout today.” An not come from the current report. But according to the eyewitness, bar there, finding only a few cust the commissioners of impending the officer came in answer to a omers in each. Commissioner John extension of rent control is also The point the report seeks to Fernandez added his observation disaster, though the warnings were “unfair, "unconstitutional and an make is that the. trend is not call from a Hotel St. bar, arrested not as strong. Morse heads a firm abuse of the legislative powers of toward more vacancies, but toward the young seaman and put the to Carson’s, and asked Swaydis if called Waikiki Enterprises, Ltd., the City and an absolute waste of fewer, and it states: "Vacancy ra handcuffs- on him without diffi he knew why his predecessor left. which proposes to install a bar in culty. In the meantime three other Fernandez strongly suggested that $100,000 per annum df our tax tio Is not static but changes with the predecessor had Jost too much a new building on Kalakaua Ave.,- money,” Flint went on to say in additions, eliminations and con officers had arrived, apparently approximately' opposite Waikiki a letter to the mayor and the versions of housing population in answer to the call, but stood and money to continue. Sands. board. movements, birth, death, income watched when they saw they were Swaydis continued in his optim It is an area which abounds with All the hubbub came, of course, changes and the like.” not needed. ism, however, saying he has lived bars, as Chairman Carson pointed from the latest report of the C-C The officer allegedly became' en in Wahiiiwa for 25 years, that he out, and asked. “Can you show rent control commission contain Big Shift Foreseen raged at derogatory remarks made knov.'s many people there he be how granting this license would ing data from all available sources Population movement and the by the seaman and punched and lieves will be both his supporters be in the public interest?” in the city bo show just what the prospect of it is one of the chief kneed him until the patrol wagon in any campaign to get a pctitiofi, Morse answered in such low tones situation is regarding the avail concerns of the rent control com arrived. Then, he allegedly threw and also his customers. He ex that it was virtually impossible for ability of low cost housing mission nt the moment, as well the man bodily into the rear of pressed strong faith in his ability anyone but the commissioners to Perhaps the most succinct ex as of the Hawaii housing authority the wagon and climbed in to ride to profit by' paydays at nearby hear his words, and even Carson, pression of that situation came on and the Honolulu redevelopment down with. him. Schofield Barracks. at times, seemed to have ■ diffi- ' the last of approximately 50 pages agency. The report shows tfiat The personnel division at head Commissioner Harry Kronick culty what with the heavy rush- of the report—stating that the va within the next four years, Honb- quarters is still wondering who told Swaydis, “Before you started hour traffic outside City Hall. One cancy ratio for all rental units in (more on page 2) tne rough cop was. to talk, you had no better than (more on page 3) PAGE 2 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 31, 1956
More Milk In Territory Then Govt. Reports Say, Forest Tells Dairymen Tlffl The Territory has more milk for gram will depend on what Federal the special school- milk progra'm officials decide about . Hawaii’s than reports to the U.S. Depart supply of milk here. If Hawaii is ment of Agriculture had indicated, included in the program, schools Herbert L. Forest, director of the will be reimbursed by. the Federal department’s dairying division of government at the rate of 4 cents the agricultural marketing serv for everything over the first half ice, said on May 19 at a meeting pint of milk consumed by stu he held with milk producers. dents. Becuse of this subsidy, in But .whether or not. the schools some states students drinking then- in the islands will benefit from second half pint ..pay as little as the $75,0(10,000 national.., special one cent or get their milk free. milk program has riot been deter In the . Territory milk is sold mined, the Washington- official at 10 cents a half pint, therefore said. v the' Federal subsidy will cut cost He made a 10-day?.fi^^ here to six cents. J and left Monday. He wULmake his Forest said there was Confusion recommendations to Secretary of in Washington because of conflict Agriculture Ezra T.. Behson. ing reports from Hawaii on' the The special milk program, he local milk supply. He said pro H-BOMB FIREBALIIN PACIFIC—The gi minous as the sun. The flash is almost ob explained, was estabUrvied to en ducers say- there is surplus milk courage consumption of fresh.,milk. when they are paid less for milk gantic fireball from the first U.S. airborne scured by heavy clouds that hovered over But since the departirie’nt iff Wash they deliver to distributers oyer hydrogen bomb lights up the sky over Na- the target area. The H-bomb exploded 10,- ington had learned that’ powdered' their assigned quota. The di'.dri- mu Island, Bikini Atoll, after a blast des milk was recombined arid'; sold in butors say there is no Surplus when cribed by eyewitnesses as 50 times as lu 000 feet above the island. (Federated Pic.) liquid form here, “we, ..wondered the surplus milk is used in by-pro how you could justify a program ducts. requiring fresh milk.” . .. . The agriculture department of Milk producers did not speak up ficial explained the Federal milk on the subject of ' surplus' milk marketing order can be brought which distributors like'- Dairyriien’s here through majority approval oi and Foremost buy at low prices. milk producers. Desmond Fletcher, One said privately the distributors a representative of the dairy in should not sell reconstituted milk dustry, said 90 per cent of the as long as there is surplus milk milk producers do not want the here. marketing order. After the meeting A labor official said one farmer individual farmers differed from recently sold 46 per cent of his Fletcher but they did not speak up milk to a distributor at “surplus’’ in the meeting. rate. A retired navy official who The marketing order -would es made a survey of the dairy in tablish a minimum price of milk dustry here sald_about 12 per cent which producers sell to distribu of the milk produced here is bought tors and regulate sale of milk at surplus price. in an area. The distributors would Whether or not Hawaii will par have less control over producers ticipate in the special milk pro- under the setup.
Alabama Racists Take on U.S. Armed Forces Over Shuttle Buses
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (FP) The isterial duties merited, but national White Citizens Councils around selective service director Louis here seem to feel they are big Hershey is reviewing his appeal. RAIDS—Shaded states are those with cities Civil Defense during July 20-26. In all, 76 enough to tackle anybody—includ "We. . , . understand that this which will come udder the nationwide si- areas are involved. (Federated Pictures) ing the U.S. armed forces. potential draftee is is his- 27th year On the eve of Armed Forces Day, and is fast approaching the sta the Montgomery County Citizens tutory age limit, after which he No "Blank Check" in Ike Is Loafingest Council placed an advertisement in will be ineligible for the draft,” the Cash reserves of most families the local papers urging a boycott of WCC message said. “Could it' be are no higher than in 1949, des ceremonies at Maxwell Field be- possible that undue pressure is pite higher incomes and high , level Advance for Demos President of Century c^k^" 'the shuttle buses .taking being brought from higher au of employment in past seven years, spectators around the air force thority to delay his being drafted notes the weekly economic report From Labor-ILGWU WASHINGTON _(FP) Pres. Ei installation were to be .operated on before he reaches the maximum of City Natl. Bank & Trust Co. of senhower has averaged more days a nonsegregated basis. Said- the age limit?” Chicago. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (FE)-The on vacation than any other presi advertisement: . , The great WCC investigators American labor movement will not dent of this century. “We believe that desegregation didn’t bother to get their facts issue a “blank check” endorsement Not counting 81 days of con on buses is just as illegal at Max straight—Gray is only 25. Selective About two-thirds of all taxes in advance to any presidential valescence from his heart attack, well as it is in Montgomery ,or service' officials had no comment. which are spent for civilian serv candidate chosen by the Democrat he averaged 87 days a year on va anywhere else in Alabama;' We ices are now levied by state and ic party, the officers of the Inti. cation since he has been in office. believe that segregation in any op local governments, where the bur Ladies Garment Workers Union His trips to his farm in Getysburg, eration at any level is against den fulls more heavily on persons warned in their report to the clos which averaged 24 days a year, are the best interests of all the people Oregon Longshoremen least able to bear it. The bulk. of ing session of the ILGWU con not figured in his vacation average. in our community—white or col federal tax receipts goes to war vention here. ored. Those of us who .believe-as preparations. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt av we do will refuse to take part in Hit Attack on Lawyers Tire Democrats must name a eraged 39 days .a year of vacations, any desegregated activity.”, candidate satisfactory to labor if and Pres.; Truman averaged "40 NORTH BEND, Ore. (FP). Coos citation by a lower court justice. they want support, the report de days. Brave, If Not Suicidal Bay longshoremen have taken up Mrs. Bouslog, member of a la’w ’ clared. Convention delegates ap This attack on Maxwell is real the ■ cudgels for labor attorneys firm representing ILWU in the” proved the statement. brave—if not suicidal. One out of who' “are now being persecuted by Hawaiian Islands, was ordered sus If the Democratic presidential Among measures he urged were: ten persons in Montgomery is em the same forces that persecute la pended from practicing law for one candidate is not to labor’s liking, Elimination of colonialism and ployed there; the base .contributes bor leaders.” year by the territorial supreme the officers declared, labor would racial discrimination; abandon $57 million annually to-the local In a recent resolution Local 12, court for alleged "gross miscon be forced to press for political ob ment of pressure to force neutral economy, three times as much as Inti. Longshoremen’s & Ware duct” during the Smith, act trial jectives by concentrating on con powers to take sides In the contest the next source of revenue, agri housemen’s Union, pointed out that of union director Jack Hall. The gressional contests. Labor would be between east and west; and chan culture. Should the city be de union struggles increasingly are misconduct, according to the com “reluctant,” their report said, to neling a major share of United clared off-limits to air force per ending up in the courts,, with re plaint, consisted of comments she support “political- leadership _or States economic- aid through the sonnel, the business district-yyouid prisals against the barristers re made on the Smith act in the parties whose liberalism is tainted United Nations. be brought to its knees in a week, presenting labor. The local cited course of a speech when the trial with regressive policies or anti Dubinsky was unanimously ’ re In a second, assault on military the'eases of attorneys George Shib- was in progress, three years ago. New Deal philosophy and outlook.” elected for a 3-year term as pre policy, the Montgomery WCC sent ley of Ban Diego, Calif., Harriet The territorial- bench made no ob Earlier, the convention delegates sident and secretary-treasurer of an open letter to state selective Bouslog of Honolulu, and Vincent jection to her comments until Ap heard an address by Hugh Gait- the union, the office he has-held service headquarters demanding to Hallinan of San Francisco. ril 6 of this year. skell, leader of the British Labour since 1932. He was voted a $2,500 know why Negro attorney Fred D. Hallnan represented ILWU Pres. The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap Party who was Introduced by IL- raise in salary. . Gray hasn’t been drafted. Gray, Harry Bridges in the next to the peals stayed the suspension, pend GWU Pres. David Dubinsky as the who has handled most of, .the ,le final deportation action against ing consideration of her case. next prime minister of Great Bri gal problems of the bus boycotters, the union leader. Bridges was ac-' Shibley defended an ILWU mem tain. He presented his program for Sweden has rejected a Soviet is an ordained minister and assist quitted by the U.S. Supreme Court, ber under Marine Corps court mar ending western bloc disunity and offer to guarantee Swedish neu ant pastor of his church. He re but his attorney was sent to Mc tial, and is now facing a prison regaining the initiative he felt the trality, saying "That’s already cov cently lost the deferment hltPiniri- Neill Island prison on a contempt term. west had lost to the Soviet Union. ered by the U.N. charter." Comm. Warns Applicants of Poor Labor Scores Smash MAY 31, 1956 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 Trade; Sam Morse in New Waikiki Bar Victory with Wayne Morse in Oregon (from page 1) outfit is already “in” so far as a ^-7 phrase did come out, though, that license is concerned, and that some PORTLAND, Ore. (FP) The big being “Mainland capital.” of the money invested in the cor news for labor, nationally, in the If that could be interpreted to poration includes some of the lo Oregon primary was the huge vote mean Morse is fronting for some cal bigwigs, as well as “Mainland returned for Wayne Morse, run big money it is in accord with the capital.’’ In fact, it’s said one lo ning for election as a Democrat talk in mid-town Honolulu where cal judge has some shekels in the for the first time in his 12 years Morse already runs one bar. venture. This commission, how in the Senate. Morse raised his voice a bit an ever, has upset more than one ap GOP claims that Morse commit swering other questions, so that plicant who talked too much about ted political suicide_when he bolted those attending the public hearing being “in.” the Republican party proved false. learned the new firm intends to In the 1952 primary, Morse polled spend $15,000 setting up the new ORCHID KAINOA has turned 119,633 votes as a Republican. This bar and it will carry an “Hawaiian blonde, in case you hadn’t noticed, year, running as a Democrat and motif.” though she’s still dancing exotic with the backing of the unions in Commissioner Fernandez pointed ally at the Blue Note. It’s said his home state, the fighting sena out that many applicants have she and Susan Marshall, star at tor (at this writing) had piled up been rejected. the Beretania Follies, are no bet more than 190,000 votes. ter friends than Joan Crawford Whatever the justification, talk It was a smashing vote of confi- has gone around town in bar and ~ ..and Bette Davis used to be. Prb- denewin the Taft-Hartley act op liquor circles that Morse’s new ?sWhSsional jealousy? ponent by the people in his state. Morse was opposed in the pri mary by an. apple belt business RUSSIAN BAPTIST GROUP HERE—rFive Russian Bap Landlords Scream, But Rent Control man, Woody Smith. tist church leaders are .shown on'their arrival in New In November,"the senator will York to visit the “great and remarkable” United States^ face the man whose timber and The group of four ministers and one youqg woman, who Report Shows Housing Scarcer in '56 power giveaways he has crusaded against in Washington: former is a Baptist church worker, is the first religious deputa- (from page 1) Of the low cost housing in use, Interior Sec. Douglas McKay. Mc from the USSR to visit the U.S. since the 1917 revolution. and in some few cases available, Kay’s vote was only 118,000, with (Federated Pictures) lulu must find homes for about •much of it-is in such poor state 20,000 persons who will have been 10 counties defecting to his pri that it is generally fit only fbr mary opponent, Philip Hitchcock, THERE’S NO REAL PARALLEL, displaced by various government emergencies. The report quotes a projects. showing GOP rank and file re of course, but the anti-comic bill preliminary bit from an FHA study sentment against the handpicked Boy's Hands Not Chairman Robert H. Lloyd of made in March of this year to say candidate: of the Hilo board somehow reminds the HHA is quoted as saying, “It that the section of Honolulu where us of the action a Texas county, seems apparent that governmental the worst housing exists is in a 'Tied' in Death on the border of Mexico, once assistance and action is mandated 251.7-acre area bounded by School passed to facilitate trade. By fax and possibly the problem is of a St., King St., Liliha St., and Kalihl magnitude that will, of necessity, St. The report states as follows: By Hanging the majority of residents of the county were of Mexican extraction, result in legislative action.” "In this one segment of the city (from page. 1) Armed Forces Need Great of Honolulu, the survey showed The stool, about three feet high, and still are, and the difficulty Although the armed services approximately 75 per cent of the was found beneath his suspended was that their Mexican relatives have, seen the need for more low- district to be of - poor and sub -body-by-his-parents-when-they-dis=“ across the border were always at cost housing for some time and standard environment.’’ covered him. a disadvantage because “they had taken steps to remedy it, their pro As for parts of the island where posed projects cannot hope to be vacancies occur, the report shows roners and investigators say, that came to the U.S., and the rate of finished in time to alleviate short only 20 per cent are between Moi- __ other—children—might—have—been- ages that will occur. liili'and Kewalo, and only 6 per playing with him: at' the time and exchange was 4%’ pesos to one "At best it will be 18 months be cent between Kalihl and Kewalo, fled in fear when the accident oc American dollar. So the cdunty fore the first of the Capehart an area where thousands of work curred. , . just passed an ordinance making Housing Act dwellings will be the two units of money equal in ers live. Another 20 per cent of the The tragedy occurred last Fri value. What could .be simpler? ready for occupancy,” the report vacancies occur In Waikiki, Ma- day night at the Damon Tract states. klkl has 13 per cent, and the rest residence of David Kakalla. After O
MORE U.S. ARMS FOR AR^BS—The deck of the freight ( VENIPLEK & ALUMINUM .YENETIAN BLINDS REAL ESTATE er. Monterey swarms with seamen at Sunny Point, N.C< • Terms—36 Klonths to’ Pay-^D^count on Cash where the ship was being loaded with $1 million worth WALTER WONG of arms for Saudi Arabia. A St^te Dept, spokesman said SELL or BUY ISm VfNCTIANBUND the shipment was part of an “bld order.” Democrats in , call Congress attacked the shipment, because, the. State Dept, Th. 6-4713 Phones :51615—Res,98081 O^^^es, Mon. & Thur. ■refuses to sell weapons to Israel during the'middle east Evenings - Ph. 7-1353 742-S. Beretamiatc j, Broker crisis. (Federated Pictures). PAGE 4 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 31, 1956 What's the Gag With oocxpoocxxxdooooooococxxxxxxxx>3ooooooooooooooooooo All-Sports Almanac? Hope Voiced for Successful For Bettors Only? Sports World If you want to win an unusual Treatment of Mental Retardation bet or two on sports history, get your opponent to agree to use Confidence in the future was and damage to brain tissue. Early Frank Clement’s All-Sporte Alma By Wilfred Oka recently expressed in an area of diagnosis of any of these conditions nac for 1955 and then bet the fol medical science which in the past may prevent mental retardation. lowing : has so often evoked only a feeling What about the child who act That Joe Louis kayoed Max Baer of hopelessness and helplessness— in 15 rounds in Chicago; that Louis the problem of retarded children. ually is mentally retarded? Chn anything be done for him? In the decisioned Bob Pastor in 11 rounds; Retaliation action against a number of other schools by UCLA, after that he knocked out Arturo Godoy The optimistic note was sounded vast majority of cases, the answer the PCC champs got one of the toughest punishments meted out to-them to this question is, yes. In his pre in 15 rounds the first' time and by way of player suspensions, is breaking out with UCLA backers and at a national institute jointly six rounds -the second; that he sponsored by the New York Me sentation, Dr. Wortis had this to friends putting on a concerted “detective’’ program. Undercover agents, say: “Fortunately most mentally kayoed Tommy Farr in 15 rounds; sleuths, detectives, operators or whatever you may call them have been dical College and the Natl. Assn, that Primo Carnera beat Paulino for Retarded Children. The sci retarded children are mildly re working night and day on the theory that what happened at UCLA tarded and can usually find sCme Uzcudun by a decision in 15 rounds also happened at the other PCC campuses. Up to date these dicks, entific meeting was discussed in in Miami, Fla.; that James J. Brad the medical weekly Scope. Reports place for themselves in the normal claim UCLA friends, have uncovered enough facts to put the ban on adult community.’’ dock won the heavyweight champ USC and the University of California. Included in this “survey" are from experts in the field indicated ionship from Primo Carnera in an many promising gains m diag other schools up north also members of the PCC, aside from the The doctor estimated that 80 per 11-round decision; that Carnera University of Washington which is already in the banned group. nosis and treatment of mentally cent of all retarded children fall won it from Max Schmeling on a handicapped youngsters. into the “mildly” to “moderately” kayo |n 15 rounds Right now, the "I Know" club, made up of members who know of backward group. It is these child Is your head spinning? By the Treat Four Types cases of violations of under the table payments made to athletes, is ren who can be most helped. They way, one of those best listed above filling the sports pages of West Coast papers. Former and present One of the grounds for this op can often be taught to care for is correct—the second Louis-Godoy athletes are coming up with instances which start with the familiar timism was stated by Dr. Joseph themselves and to perform simple fight—but the others are so far “I know.’’ And case after case of violations by other schools is getting Wortis, director of pediatric psy jobs which may mean self-support off they're ludicrous. the play, to show that UCLA or U of Washington is no worse than the chiatry at the Jewish Hospital of in adult life. Doing this job re Makes us wonder, in fact, if we other schools. However, presidents of schools banned by the PCC have Brooklyn, who noted that doctors quires cooperation among rr^ny didn’t get hold of a trick copy of been making serious study of their own schools, and in the light of can now successfully treat four dif professional groups, including Cie the Almanac specially printed for the report of Victor Schmidt, PCC Commissioner, people like Prexy ferent types of mental retarda family doctor, the specialist, the just the purpose we suggested at Robert Sproul of UCLA can’t help but feel that an inward look by tion: cretinism, which is the stunt the social worker and others. Above the head of this story—of fixing the administrators is necessary. And his findings are expected to come ing of both mental and physical all, the assistance of understanding a few bets around the hot stove out soon on his own school with expected drastic action against his growth because of severe thyroid parents is necessary. league. athletic department in the cards. deficiency; two inborn metabolic defects; and retardation caused by This mess on the Pacific Coast has been common knowledge but incompatability of the Rh factors it took the U of Washington pilikia, which started with the firing of in the blood of the parents. an assistant coach, to ignite the fire which is burning with intense heat all over the West Coast. The result of all this mess should be a Of course, these four are among realistic look at payments to athletes or complete de-emphasis of all hundreds of different causes of athletics especially football. ’ The course of action may be to raise the mental retardation. Still the ad ante on the payments made to the athletes instead of doing it under vances in the field were sufficient the table or it may mean the continuance of .another string of strict to enable Dr. Wortis to say: regulations with loopholes in them to continue the reign of hypocrisy. “It can be confidently expected THE MOST SURPRISING team in the reorganized Hawaii Major that, with modern technological Baseball League is the University of Hawaii which is ahead of four developments, many of these will other teams in the conference. While the Red Sox, Asahis, • and the be tracked down and methods of Braves are ahead of them in games won and lost,-the-local U is ahead—— prevention and treatment evolve! of four service teams: Hickam, Marines, Naval Base, and Barber’s Point. for them. Last Sunday the Manoa ball team won over the Braves by a score of 7 to 3 with Skippy Dyer getting a field day with the bat and Allen Parenti? Must Be Told Yamamoto, usually a first baseman, doing some terrific relief pitching. Among the most Important needs TOMMY KONO who usually lifts in the 181 lb. classTn International in the approach to the problem of competition is reported to be entered in the 165 lb. division at the retarded children is what one National championships to be held in Philadelphia this weekend. Kono speaker at the meeting described has been termed a natural at"the middleweight division but due to the as "parent counseling.’’ This is factor of team points he had been entered and competed in the heavier particularly essential since many division. If he enters in the 165 lb. class he is expected to break the retarded children who in past years record. Of interest is the entry of Dean Higuchi as Mr. Hawaii in the were institutionalized are now be Mr. America contest also to be held in Philadelphia. ing treated at home. Making pa rents understand the cause of DALFUS BROWN and John Kaheaku are the main eventers for mental retardation, and above all the next smoker of Boxing Enterprises on June 5'at the Civic. Not making them realize that they are much of a ballyhoo has been given this one to date but this bout may in no way responsible for their work out into a real good match. Kaheaku has been given a build-up child’s condition, is often the first with some mediocre opponents and for theTecbrd Dalfus Brown should step in assuring proper care and take this one. In one of the prelims Aladino Gusman is matched development of the youngsters. with Mike Innes who has been working at his trade regularly, thanks to Sad Sam who once managed him. This bout is full of angles what with The doctors who discussed the Gusman coming out of “retirement for the umpteenth time and Mike problem agreed that being frank Innes having the reputation of being an “actor.” The barometer says with the parents is essential. When rising stocks for Gusman. One good feature among the' prelims-is a mother or father asks queestions Anacleto Battad just out from the amateurs who is pitted against Pasia about a child’s future—his chances Palii. The Takano-Melandez match should evoke some interest. of marrying and having children, “SHUZENJI MONOGATARI,” a period piece in Eastman color, is of holding a job, of taking care playing at theJNippon Theatre this week for an extended run of another of himself—the questions should week because it received some good VioCices in Europe and in the US be answered on the basis of the where it has been shown. The photography of the background in and individual case. Pat answers.' are around Shiizenji was taken with an eye to give the movie a historical at best useless, at worse danger perspective. The Hawaii Cancer Society which. has been sponsoring ous. the movie has been gratified with the excellent public response. One of the pat answers that was THE MARITIME DAY canoe races held last Sunday in Honolulu raked over the coals by the doc Harbor drew a good crowd of fans and tourists who saw the event from tors is the telling of parents that Pier 10 which was opened up for the occasion. Waikiki Surf Club won their children are suffering from the team honors. The kids' races evoked a lot of interest. In our opinion “emotional blocks,” and that psy BRINGS CORNEA FOR HIS EYE—Surgeons at Lenox the event for men, 40 years of age and over, won by the, Waikiki Surf chiatric treatment not only for Hill hospital, New York, are shown (top) transplanting Club made up of Joe Kukea, N. Stewart, John Lind, Abel Gomes, Noah the child, but also for the parents, Kalama, and Ken Tosaki over the half-mile route was something to should be employed. Emotional cornea in the left eye of John Kolor, a machinist from see. We saw most of the races from "the vantage point of a small problems are one thing, and men Ballston Spa, N.Y. Kolor, who lost the sight of the eye rowboat in the harbor. tal retardation is another, the doc in an industrial accident, rushed the cornea to New tors asserted. It is important to York in a refrigerated container when the donor died. PROSPECTS look very bright for the West Maui AA Tommy Kono differentiate' sharply between the exhibition after he returns from the national championships. As we two in diagnosis and in the treat-' Below, his wife, a registered-nurse, comforts her hus understand, plans are being worked, out so that Tommy Kono plus ment which follows. band. (Federated Pictures) several other weightlifters are scheduled to show in Lahaina. Tommy is expected to run a clinic plus an exhibition with - some of Maui’s Early Diagnosis Important talent also appearing in the program. Most inental retardation in Before you BUY or SELL yo«r Automobile THE THREE-WAY mayor’s race with Leon Sterling, Frankie Fasi, children stems from three princi and' Charles Kauhane on the Democrat Party ticket hasn't picked up pal groups of causes; (a) physical CONSULT too much momentum as yet as all three jockey for position with different disturbances which affect the em groups. Tire amazing thing was that all three worked together to work bryo before birth; (b) injury at STEVE SAWYER at Universal Motors out a'coalition to dump the opposition. How long this "love and' kisses” birth; and (c) encephalitis in the NEW & USED- PLYMOUTH—CHRYSLER—etc. will work out will depend on how soon the individual barrages start new born, ■ a disease condition Phones: 903155—91141—901235 'Res: 6-3145 on each other. It wouldn’t be merely sniping but we understand sortie caused by either germs or allergies big 16-inch guns will be bombarding soon. In the meantime Mr. Blaisdell which may result in inflammation merely smiles and continues his merry way! • MAT 31, 1956 PAGE 5 Gadabout Through A Woman's Eyes
AS THE GOP heads toward its instead of the policy-making, semi- convention, the tumble around is 'political level that so often makes Who Has It Easy? that the frantic search for young the front pages of newspapers. blood has estranged a number of By AMY CLARKE cleaner because they have never seen one. old-timers who figure they’ve THE HILO BOARD of super known the ropes these many years visors seems to have set a strange and managed to keep the party pattern for comic books in an or American women are said to be the most Here are some figures from the 1950 in the saddle for a long time. dinance that passed first read emancipated in the world. Census of Housing: In 1950, when there And maybe they feel a little ing when it says they may cover were 44 million dwellig units in the United miffed that the youngsters are subjects other than “accounts of States, finding fault with their methods methods of crime, of illicit sex, Women across the sea look at us envious the first time in a half-century horror, terror* physical torture, ly and wish they had our automatic wash they’ve lost an election. On the brutality, or ‘physical' violence.'” ers, clothes dryers, floor polishers, vacuum 37 per cent (16 million) were sub other hand, some of the youngsters Now the aim of the Hilo board is cleaners, dishwashers, and freezers stocked standard; —Is it Young Turks, they like to both obvious and admirable. Cer with food. 14 million lacked hot and cold run call themselves?—may attempt to tainly there have been plenty 6f make Nat King Cole’s “They Say objectionable comic books aroilnd ning water; We’re Too Young,” the theme song in the past decade. But can you LIKE most popular conceptions, this one 13 million lacked a private flush toi of the convention. Yet with all that effectively ban them by the sub is only partly true. American industry is let; rumble, we’ll bet there aren’t jects they treat—without at the turning out miracle appliances by tITe thou- 14 million had no private bath; enough fireworks it the GOP con same time banning many time- vention to make Sula White start honored classics that have been sands tjiat take over more and more of a 4 million were “dilapidated ” (run circulating a petition. considered excellent reading fare home-maker’s job. down or unsafe); for youth. For instance, think a 2% million were grossly overcrowded. CLEM McCarthy, the old- moment on the violence to be These labor-saving devices, together with time radio sports announcer, missed found in Treasure Isdand, Tom It must surely raise the blood pressure his first Kentucky Derby in years, Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Oliver modern knowledge about child-spacing, according to a knowledgeable Twist, A Child’s History of have done far more to free woman from of the bone-weary, over-worked tenement source, because he’s very sick and England, Call of The Wild and the her traditional inferior position than legal mother to read in the paper (if she gets hospitalized and there are doubts tales of Davy Crockett, just to equality and the right to vote, important time to read the paper) some headline he’ll ever be back. It will be a mention a few. Censorship is a though they are. hunting psychiatrist or columnist shooting sad note to those who can remem touchy thing at best. At worst, it ber the days when McCarthy took involves thought control of the off about how lazy American women are. over from Graham McNamee. Mc type Hitler slapped on the Ger But, like all good things, the benefits of Namee, of course, was the pioneer man people. these discoveries are enjoyed first by up The columnist who recently drew nation in the sports broadcasting field, per-class, well-to-do women whose hus wide attention by taking over a mother’s but the Tunney-Heeny fight was SOMEHOW the Russians’ fan just about his last. The poor guy tastic acount of Honolulu, in the bands can afford to buy them. role for 5 days was .careful to pick a modern got mixed up and kept calling the news earlier this week, reminds suburban home with automatic washer;, fighters “Hunney and Teeny” all us of an encounter one of our Even in this era of relatively high pros- vacuum and 2 bathrooms. The family pur night. He tried "Gene and Tom” friends—a lady friend—had in Vi perityj it takes a long time' before they chased a deep freeze the. week he was there. after a few rounds, but that didn’t enna. help much. McCarthy made an in On a streetcar, she got into a trickle down to the level of the working It would have been more of a test and stant hit with the tension he man conversation with a young man man’s wife. less of a stunt if he had taken over for aged to convey to listeners. The sitting beside her. He wanted to some tired-out mother in one of our low in only trouble was, when he came know where she was from. Even today, there are still many thou come housing projects. to the Sharkey-Stribling fight, he "Honolulu.” conveyed so much more tension “Honolulu? Do you see any sands of American women who must keep than there was that night under green in my eye? Honolulu! That’s- house without hot water tanks,, washing To keep a 4-room apartment tidy when the Florida stars, the fans who lis a place in the musical comedies.” machines and refrigerators. The danger you have 5 or 6 children and no enclosed tened to his broadcast and then “Oh, but I am from Honolulu,” ous kerosene stove is common. play space, with no extra appliances and rend the papers next day had a lot and she began telling in some de of gripes. But no one ever objected tail about her home city. Finding no room for them if you could afford them, to the way he broadcast horse the young man still unconvinced, To many families living in the slums of is quite an achievement. races. she dug Into her handbag and pro great American cities, a private bathroom duced an envelope with a Honolulu is a luxury not to be dreamed of. One hall But then, everybody knows working class MARY ROBINSON, the form postmark. toilet for a three-story tenement is not mothers complain less and get more done er senator running for reelection, The Viennese Jumped up in is one of the first to get into the great excitement, calling to his unusual. than their well-to-do sisters. When they business of sending out campaign friend across the aisle: finally do get their work-savers, you can ‘letters to voters. Mrs. Robinson, a “Karl, Karl! Come over and THROUGHOUT the rural South; on the be sure these women won’t turn-into idle Republican party-liner, tells the meet this dame. She’s from Hono tenant farms of Indiana; in the rat-in neurotics. voters of the many organizations lulu!—and Honolulu REALLY she belongs to, conspicuous among EXISTS!” fested Negro ghettos of Baltimore; in the which are We, the Women, IMUA, California shanty-towns where the Mexi- The habit of work is strong. They’ll be the Oahu, Outrigger and Pacific WHAT DID THESE VETS of ca workers live, toilets are outdoor sheds. helping the pregnant mother down the Clubs.. Two or three of those don’t the 442nd and the 100th ever do street, or the old lady who has 'trouble allow Orientals, you’ll recall, and for anyone but"themselves? It’s a couple of others can’t get nearly a question asked in recent years There are many children today—yes, doing her marketing. as many as they’d like. Mrs. Rob occasionally, even by AJA’s, who American children—who never have seen inson ought to take credit, too, for somehow resent the strong part a flush toilet, or taken a shower, and who They’re the backbone of our nation, and her vigorous participation in t'he veterans have come to play in the would be terrified at the roar of a vacuum deserve the best. Broom Brigade, when the bosses’ present political picture. Perhaps wives came down to try breaking it’s. a fair question, at that, since the longshore strike of 1949 and even some veterans have felt the frustrate the efforts of Hawaii’s clubs gradually degenerated from underpaid stevedores to win a wage their original high ideals to inter closer that paid on the Mainland. ests principally related to beer She makes considerable mention of busts, social activities, and the Hawaiian organizations she fund-raising schemes to finance belongs to, but we’ve a notion that more beer-busts. But that’s unfair, won’t have any appeal at all to and maybe it’s time to remind all the big Hawaiians who hit the and sundry of one of the earliest bricks that year only to hear “Girl and most far-reacuiing reforms ie” Hart Robinson broadcasting achieved by the 442nd. That was from her own sound-wagon telling the elimination of passports for them they ought to take what the Hawaii-born Orientals travelling boss offered and forget their strike. from here to the Mainland. Maybe there should be a special Any Oriental who made a trip ticket for the likes of Mirs. Robin to the Mainland will recall that, son and Maurice Sapienza. Maybe until 194G, he had to have a pass they’ll both get on IMUA’s slate. port to prove he was an American citizen—just as though he were AMY, CLARKE, whose by-lhie coming from a foreign country. was inadvertantly left off her_col- The 442nd got behind the Ameri urfin about the PTA last week, hit can Veterans Committee, small as a lot of truths right on the nose, that short-lived outfit was, to find says a father who gives the PTA out why. Not the government, but considerable of his time and at the steamship companies and air tention. Mere framework and form lines required the passports, It was won’t do the job, -he agrees, and discovered, because they would be some intelligence in planning meet subject to a heavy fine if an alien LAUGH AFTER RADIATION EXPOSURE unshielded capsule of radioactive iridium, ings as' to notices, access and pro slipped in without one. So the Nine men joke about their exposure to which had apparently spilled from its lead- grams • is badly needed. Another 442nd sent a delegation to see atomic rays in Ft. Belvoir, Va., after the reader thought the merit of the Randolph Sevier, Matson’s king Atomic Energy Commission announced that lined container in the huge vapor cham message came, in the fact that it pin, and a few other places dhd bers where tfie men were working on re dealt with PTA problems on a presto, the carriers knocked off the radiation doses were “not serious.” grass-roots, or rank-and-file level, that passport requirement. Foreman W.S. Battles (r) discovered an actor construction. (Federated Pictures) PAGE 6 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 31, 1956 Leeward Bus Co. HRA Suggests Improvements For Job Comparison Shows Some Aiea To Profit By End Compiling 1960 Census Tract Study
Workers Get $1 Less Than at Crockett Neighbor islands of the Terri and control, or type of ownership Of 4-Drlver Firm tory, as well as Oahu, should be of dwelling units listed. (from page 1) other enterprises besides sugar. included in the census tract studies (from page 1) of 1960, the Honolulu Redevelop The HRA also believes the cen ana, 51.28; Southdown western McElrath reiterated, however, ment Agency has suggested to the sus maps should be amplified and Louisiana, $1,28; American Sugar, what the union has said before— ing the law, the PUC first pushed for an injunction in the court of U.S. Bureau of the Census. Al made into more different types. New Orleans, $1.59. that the object of the immediate though it is yet four years away, One reason the HRA is taking These companies vary in size strike is not to seek immediate Circuit Judge Calvin'McGregor and got it. But the injunction Judge the cergus of 1960 should be care the initiative in making the sug from the smallest to American Su parity with C&H workers at fully prepared for, the HRA be gestions, it explained in a release gar with operations from New Jer Crockett, but to narrow the gap McGregor gave wasn’t the kind the PUC and the bus company lieves, and toward that end, has this week, was that the Honolulu sey to Cuba and the Philippines between the $1.21% paid here and submitted a list of detailed sug and with interests in a number of the $1,948 base rate at Crockett. wanted, though the taxi company chamber of commerce, which didn’t object. Under that injunc gestions for improvement of the formerly maintained a census com The jobs listed at both Aiea and Crockett refineries, and tion, the taxi company was merely census tabulations—-at the census mittee, has discontinued that tract level. the wages paid at the two places were as follows: restrained from picking up passen service. gers along the road. The census tract is the unit by Aiea Crockett Had Plenty of' Customers which census takers attempt to With plenty of customers willing divide a community into areas that Fork truck operator 1.36 2.208 to pay 25 cents, instead of the 20 are somewhat homogeneous in Utility relief worker 1.36 2.256 cenjs charged by the bus company, backgrounds, interests, economic Gadabout Liquor gallery operator 1.36 2.55 for &e privilege of being able to status, and other ways. Such Power plant operator 1.42 2.566 call ' for transportation at un studies are highly valuable to scheduled times, the taxi company planners and to all who have oc Utility engineering dept. 1.42 2.18 MAURICE SAPIENZA, the law continued to operate on a money casion to study sociological and yer who came from N. J. to fall Boiler room operator 1-48% 2.566 making basis. other types of trends in a region. into good luck neck-deep to get Pan man 1.48% 2.55 But with surprising tenacity, the himself appointed circuit judge 1-56% 2.008 Some of the HRA suggestions, at Hilo, has now decided to expose Senior lab analyst PUC appealed to the supreme aside from extending the tract Journeyman 2nd class court and last month, after con himself to the public vote by run system to the neighbor islands, in ning for the Hawaii County board (mill wright, mason, electrician) 1.56% 2.457 sideration of almost a year, the cludes the following: court gave a permanent injunction of supervisors. He’s running on the Senior pan man 1.66% 2.706 restraining the taxi company from Democratic ticket but he’s not; to First class journeyman, all crafts 1-77% 2.566 • Military areas should be sep be confused with any of the Demo operation. If the four taximen arated from civilian parts of cen Janitor 1.21% 1.948 should attempt to operate now be crats who helped the Democratic sus tracts. In the last study made, Party win a majority in (the legis Watchman 121% 1.948 tween Aiea and Honolulu, they military bases were included with would be in contempt of court. lature last election. Sapienza was Laborer 121% 1.948 plantation communities. a Stainback flunky and, as such, Yard man 121% 1.948 An attorney interpreted the did everything possible to estrange words of the supreme court as fol • Large institutions, such as Le- organized -labor from the Demo Packer (paper pocket baler)— 1.25% 1.967 lows: “They admitted that the ahi Hospital and the Territorial 1.967 crats. From a historical point of Char house worker 1.25% legislature, in passing the law, in Hospital, should be designated view, it will be extremely interest Crystallizer operator 1.25% 2.007 tended to exempt taxi companies separate census tracts. ing to see whether Big Island Boiler room fireman 1.25% 2.316 like this one. But they said, the Democrats can eliminate Sapienza Shop aid 1-25% 1.948 legislature didn’t say so specifi • Major public housing pro in the primary, or are saddled with cally, so they would grant the in jects should be defined as sepa 100 lb. packer (Bates packer) 1.25% 1.967 him for the general election. If junction.” rate tracts—a step already taken they are, of course, Republican Raw sugar centrifugal operator 1.30% 2.007 The economic war and, in fact, for Manoa War Homes. chances will improve. Remelt centrifugal operator 1.30% 2.007 the inception of the Aiea Taxi White sugar cent, operator 1.30% 2.007 • Some areas which have seen DO YOU REALLY put much Co. goes back to 1952 when the bus unusual growth, such as the Wai Maintenance handyman 1.30% . 1.967 company was sold by the Dilling faith in the elaborate weather fore anae District, housing areas_near casts you hear every morning? If Packing station crew chief 1.30% 2.297 ham interests to Kaname Saito. At that time four drivers for the Pearl Harbor, Kailua-Lanikai and so, you’re far more credulous than Char burner 1.30% 2.184 Dillinghams were not reemployed Kahalui should be re-tracted. seasoned commercial airlines pi Metal equipment worker 1.30% 2.038 by the new owners and they de lots. Captain Harold F. Blackburn, cided to go into business for them • Parts of the Territory not yet a senior TWA pilot who flies the selves. ■ They were Arthur Ohelo, tracted should be assigned one or Atlantic like a milk run nowadays, county, municipal and school em-. Malcolm Narimatsu, Larry Ka more tract numbers. These would is quoted in a New Yorker profile "Reluctant 21;" Now ployment. include Palmyra, Lehua, Kaula and May 5 ’ as saying: "I attended a wamura and Alfred Emery. the leeward islands. Eighteen of the teachers re meeting a few weeks ago where For some time they flourished— the speaker said that the accuracy Target is NAACP signed, but three who refused to to such an extent that the bus The HRA also has suggestions sign also refused to resign. Seven of weather forecasting has im company felt they were cutting for the making of the census tract proved something like three percent ELLORE^S.C. (FP) Twenty-one of .the school’s 31 teachers signed deeply into the revenues it ex Negro teachers at the Elloree reports, some^of “them being as in the last 50 years. I think that's affidavits. Three were out of town. pected to receive—and the bus follows: ‘ j: Training School refused to sign , M.G. Austin, school superintend about the size of it; Weather fore company filed a complaint with casting is still an art, not a science.” statements that they are not mem ent, said several of the teachers the PUC against the taximen. 1. All previous statistical data bers of the Natl. Assn, for the Ad told him they were not members given in census tracts for 1950 vancement of Colored People.. Un of the NAACP, but they “objected Data Inaccurate? THE BOARD SAT TIGHT and should be included in the 1960 didn’t attempt Tuesday to over der a law_passed by the state legis to signing anything that expressed At this point the taximen charge study, but modified and added to. lature this year, members , of the their personal opinions on such the data collected by PUC in ride Mayor Blaisdell’s veto of Bill NAACP are barred from state, - questions.” r ' vestigators . is inaccurate. 21, the fireworks control law that 2. The population of each tract bans sale of the high caliber stuff, Arthur Ohelo, one of the four, should be classified according to i n v J it.:' ■ but allows small stuff. The Pyro says, “When we were under the military status, as either military, technics Assn, of Hawaii (fire police taxi control, the officers military dependent, or other civil works dealers) made an offer at would find out about the custom ian. self-control' and got a better press ers. They would even stick their out of it than have the super heads into the taxis to ask cus 3. Labor force tabulations should visors who suggested the same tomers if they had oalled up, Th6 give a breakdown into groups em thing via law. And the reason for public utilities investigators didn’t ployed, and in school, etc. that, of course, is that most of ask. They would see us pick up 4. Income should be separately the supervisors are Democrats passengers around the bus stop reported for families and unre whom the daily press has a sub and report we were taking the lated individuals. stantial interest in defeating. The bus’ passengers. But they wouldn’t 5. Data on residential struct dealers’ suggestion was rejected, know the passengers would have ures, as well as dwelling units, though with praise from the mayor called us to pick them up there.” should be reported, - houseboats and the press. The dealers have a Ohelo says the taximen never and other irregular dwellings listed, financial interest, of course, and picked up passengers unless the the supervisors have none, yet the passengers summoned them, and he. press has shown no charity of says that, in most cases they had' spirit toward the board. Could one regular customers who had stand Frank-ly Speaking rightly accuse the daily press of ing orders "to be picked up at the trying to create distrust in our same spots, day after day. (from page 8) - city government by needling the not fight Jim Crow on one hand supervisors and suggesting they Ohelo and the other drivers feel 'and bow to it on the other. His have some ulterior motive in voting they have been the objects of agreeing to sing before a segre as they do? . strong economic discrimination for, gated audience at Birmingham as they point out, a number of was a serious mistake in this day THE PUNAHOU School teacher other companies are operating and age when, such crusaders as who pled guilty to lewd and las just as they did in various parts Autherine Lucy are risking life and civious behavior, as reported in of rural Oahu without any inter limb to eliminate separate colleges last week’s RECORD, got 15 ference by the PUC. In Alabama, or when 90 leaders months’ probation in Judge Car The answer to that lies in the risk' jail to break down prevailing rick Buck’s court prior to his de-, policy of the PUC, which takes bus practices at Montgomery. parture for the Mainland, After action only after complaints have As. they say in America’s Har the sentence, C-O Prosecutor been made against a company by lems, King Cole got down wrong. George St. Sure called army au a competitor under its regulation. But' in the words of one of his thorities and suggested that the MM By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH the same. He is comparatively a Hike, Damon Tract Residents Declare In the West Virginia mountains, poor man and a farmer, and there On Damon Tract as elsewhere over the nation, the are a lot of poor farmers in his Gov. Samuel W. King received Despite the insistence of At possible alternatives. political fires are getting hot, and county. So even at this distance a letter of thanks this week from torney Chuck Mau that K.J. Luke A motion was approved to we see from a mountain paper of 20 • years and several thousand Henry B. Kukona, Sr., spokesman and Mrs. L.T. Loo, now listed as send a delegation to meet with that Rep. Jake Neal, who has spok miles, we’re surer he’ll get re for Hawaiian Civic Club members owners of Damon Tract, made no Gov. King, who had aleady ex-, en for the people of Nicholas Cty. elected than we are President Ei of Damon Tract and past presi mention of eviction in their let pressed some concern on behalf in the legislature for more than senhower will. dent of the Kaloaloa Neighborhood ter to tenants, the residents main- of the residents. 20 years, and who gloried in the But we’re not so sure of another Assn., for' promises the governor tain the threat of eviction was in Roberts Reports fact that as a Democrat, he often young man running, though he made Kukona in an interview last herent in the letters they received “No concrete results” were re outran FDR, is running again. comes of a family so powerful that, week regarding the plight of Da demanding the same increased rent ported by President Roberts, who Rep. Neal, as we say speaks for even at the same distance of time mon Tract residents. Damon had asked recently—an in made a report on the joint meet the people of Nicholas, and they and years, we’re not going to men Kukona, referring to the inter crease running up to 300 per cent. ing of government agencies to dis have always seemed to like what tion his name. You’ll see why in view, commented on King’s state Residents say they forwarded cuss a possible solution for the he said, even though Iris handling a moment. ment “that you intended to re checks at the old rate to the new problem of the residents. But there of the language makes him sound One of his ancestors has a leg locate the people of Damon Tract owner for their rent, with inscrip might be promise of future action like a ruralized version of Sam end of having pulled off one of to Aiea, Halawa, all estate lands tions on the checks otating that in the ideas expressed at that meet around Salt Lake and 75 to 100 they were “paying in full.” But the ing, he said. Goldwyn. the most daring and amazing bits hottie lots at Waimanalo at auc Once, when a constituent com of flimflammery ever executed on. checks were returned .by the new There was also some discussion tion, 118 house units at Palolo and owners along with letters advising plained that Jake didn’t get some the U.S. government—and got away 118' house units at Kalihi. If the of the possibility of extending rent' thing done, he explained, “Well, with it. We went after the story that the new 300 per cent rate control to land, and residents ex owners of the estate refuse that, would have to be paid. , you know how it is. These fellers years ago, though it was supposed you will recommend the Legisla pressed surprise that the C-C at from the big cities domino us lit to have happened years before ture to condemn: it The Kaloaloa School was filled torney’s office shoul'l have issued tle fellers from the country.” that, and even then we ran into a Commenting further, Kukona to overflowing Monday night when an opinion to the effect that the Jake’s A Better Bet Than Ike suggestion of massive retaliation, if wrote, “I admire-your courage that- Damon Tract residents gathered in board ofsupervisors has no right Jake’s constituents chuckled we should go further. you will carry on your program answer to a summons by the Ka- to extend, rent control to land. when they heard that, and they According to the legend, this an ... in spite of an article. . . . re loalda Neighborhood Assn, to con chuckled about many another cestor, call him old Jones, had a Since the present rent control leased by Ferdinand J.H. Schnack, sider ways and means’of fighting of houses .is at the disposal of the Nealism and voted him back just son who was an officer in the navy. spokesman of the Land Owners' eviction, and seeking- possible Tm—son was a wild lad and. he supeviscrs,' some felt, control of Assn, that your.plans are “Social eventual sites' for .new homes, or land rent should also be within shot and killed a sailor, for which removal, when the Hawaii Aero he was sentenced to death by a ism.” their realm, and , some called the Indicating . further- steps men nautics Commission puts its plan opinion “purely political.” firing squad. into effect to enlarge the present tioned by Gov. King, Kukona wrote, Attorney James King, who" Refined Foods Teddy Wouldn’t Budge “Summarizing your conversation airport to accommodate jet trans But Old Jones had such power port planes. handled the Damon Tract resi that he went directly to President that you are depending on the 1957 dents’ legal advice during Mrs.. Vs. Health Foods Theodore Roosevelt—and got noth Legislature to float bonds before Mrs. Bouolog Welcomed Bouslog’s brief period of suspen your plans will be materialized. sion, also received the thanks of' By Ben Lieberman ing more satisfactory than an au “I ask you, Honorable Govern The residents gave a warm wel dience. Teddy wasn’t changing any come to Attoreny Harriet Bouslog, the meeting. Industrial Health Director death sentence handed down by or, to support the wishes of the people of Kaloaloa that all ten their legal adviser, on her first There are two kinds of material the navy to suit any political pow appearance since the U.S. 9th Cir in food—materials of positive and er. ants of Damon Tract to remain ’status quo.’ cuit Court of Appeals granted a negative forces. So Old Jones went to'the navy. “I thank you again for your stay of execution on an order by Chemists refer to..them as al According to the legend, he bought promise that you will recommend the local supreme court to suspend Longshore Talks kaline and acid materials or as the CPO who would supervise the your government agencies to give her from practice for a year. Geo. “bases” and “acids” arid sometimes loading of the rifles. He bought the those who' are eligible to apply for Roberts, president of the asso Go Off Record; as minerals and acids. Nature, has doctor who would pronounce his Hawaiian Homes Land, low cost ciation, recalled how she had been balanced all foods in their natural son dead. Then he bought a coffin housing, etc., the priority, or first, helping fight legal battles of the state. It is the SEPARATION OF arid had it nearby. Damon Tract residents since 1948. When the rifles went off, ac- preference.” Wage Parity Goal FOODS that causes trouble. cording to the legend, they had To Study HHC Screening Mrs. Bouslog advised that, in The Root of Evil lies in breaking nothing but blanks, but the son, Kukona said, as a Hawaiian Civic the event the new owners push act Seeking a (13-cent hourly in the food as nature made it and instructed ahead of time, fell for spokesman, he will visit the Ha ion to collect the increased rent or crease that would, bring parity with' serving only part of it and throw ward and was Inspected by the waiian Homes Commission off'ces rsmo'-e the tenants, some sort of West Coast dock workers, ILWU ing the other part away or con doctor, who pronounced him dead. shortly td study screening rules for Jcgai test case may be in order. longshore negotiators went off verting it into something else. Then the "corpse" was loaded in applicants, in order to apply them She said a letter had gone from the record May 22 In negotiations; to such Damon Tract" residents us Attorney James King May 22, These foods are known as refined to the coffin and hauled away by with Hawaii waterfront employers, Old Jones. are eligible for HHC land. querying the new owners as to just six days after negotiations foods, which means- that the al But Domon Tract residents w’it their intentions, but until this kaline minerals have been mostly Trail, To - Mexico began. Once to a safe place. Old Jones fight to the utmost, Kukona said, week no answer had been received. Chairman of the longshore nego extracted, leaving a high and un against removal from their pre healthy concentration of acid ma is supposed to have given the boy If the new owners wish to treat tiating team was Fred Low of a few thousand dollars and told sent site until an adequate alter with the residents in an amicable terials to -depend on. The reason native has been shown them. Hilo, while chairman of the em this is done is that refined foods h’'m to get out of the country. fashion, Mrs. Bouslog said, an ans-. ployers’ negotiators was Capt. Jack And the boy is supposed to have He said furtherJ,_he expects to put wer should be eventually, forthcom keep longer than the natural a resolution‘before the C-C plan -Bertrand. < kind, for the insects cannot live gone to Mexico where he eventu ing. Otherwise, residents will have At present, local longshoremen' ally became manager, maybe own ing commission asking that body to wait to see what happens. . on them. They leave them strictly to rezone Damon Trait as “in receive $2,16 per hour while West alone. er, of a big ranch. Stories some While waiting, President George Coast dockers get $2.29. - times drifted back to West Virgin dustrial” for airport purposes, fol Roberts of the asociation said, ef The fight to achieve parity with It would be wise, therefore, to ia of how he had been seen at lowing plans of the Hawaiian Aero forts should be made to explore West Coast dock workers has been avoid white flour products such- some American race track or oth nautics Commission to enlarge the a long one for local longshoremen,, as white bread, cereals, cookies, present airport co accomodate jet er with his string of Mexican aircraft. the hardest recent struggle coming pastry, etc. Also white sugar, white horses. in 1949 when the union won a ’ rice, candies, sodas, white macaroni That much of the story I had Denver School Kids 21 cent increase: in a five month and spaghetti. The consumption heard vears ago when I took it strike. Originally the union had of these demineralized foods can to a man who had known the fam- Kauai Skin Divers Nearly Poisoned by demanded a 36. cent increase, or result in slow starvation, tissue Vv. a man whom I don’t hesitate parity, on., arbitration. The com weakness and lack of energy. to name since he’s dead. He was pany’s beto offer prior to the I recommend whole grain wheat .Tudee Jake Fisher of Braxton Train for Depth Spoiled Turkeys strike . was 12 cents, bread, whole cereals, brown rice County, a small man with a power ■ Two years ago Hawaii longshore- ful voice and eyebrows like John WASHINGTON (FP) Two ship men ’ a shaved wage parity for a and brown sugar. Also cookies and ments of spoiled turkeys "unfit for pastry made from whole wheat L. Lewis and he listened quietly as Whh Aqualung brief- moment, but when^West I pieced together the tale as I human consumption” almost grit . Coast deckers wen another-;.in- They are better. Who would serve LIHUE—The Pulehu Skin Div into school children’s lunches, in humanity should feed the people had heard it. ing Club of Kauai is going in for sefease', Jornl sto. adores were again Denver, a Senate labor and public "left behind. the right food, and give them the When I had finished, the judge diving with aqualung. welfare subcommittee disclosed at right knowledge. stood quiet for a moment, and I Several members_jecently com Seek RecognTUon of Rights asked, “Do you believe that story?” hearings on legislation to require Other major demands cf the un For information and free litera pleted their training classes with compulsory poultry inspection. Without changing his express intentions of exploring deeper ’Wa ion in negotiations include the ture on health food phone me at ion at all, Judge Fisher said, “No, Under the present voluntary, in recognition by the company of the 99-0487 or write to me at 1413 S. ters for rare shells and unique I don’t believe that story. It would coral formation?.: spection system, the putrid poul- union’s right to refuse to cross any King St. n’t be safe to believe it. But I’ll . try was distributed by the Agri bona fide union picket line, and “Tookle” Evans, Gordon Freund culture Dept, for use in school Recipe for Today—Chop Up one tell you, that boy came back and and Ralph Sung of Honolulu con to support an ILWU strike in an- - or two onions. Fry in a greased pan. ran up a bunch of debts and bor lunches and charitable institutions,, .other area. ducted the classes. it was reyealed in a letter from Heat but do not boil one cup of rowed money before he left again.” Even In shallower waters the Another major demand is for an sweet milk. Thicken with fresh The Judge was known as fear Dr. R. L. Cleere, executive director increased measure of union secur- Pulehu members bag catches that of the Colorado State Dept, of ground whole wheat meal and heat less, in every respect before fists, are the envy of the more nu IJy, or something approaching a the mixture a minute or two. Pour guns, or superior courts, and I was Public Health. Only a check by union shop. merous divers of Oahu. alert local health authorities pre this over the onions. Empty into a a little shocked by part of what The Pulehu club is the only out Secondary demands include im bowl and serve with baked or he had said. With limited faci vented an outbreak of mass poison proved .rights of seniority, a uni er island affiliate of the Hawaii ing among the city’s school child boiled potatoes, or with whole lities and no expense account, I . Skin Diving Assn. form safety code as recommended wheat muffins. couldn’t check the story at the ren. by the U.S. bureau of labor stand Question—What causes COLDS? time—unless I Invaded a few miles on Old Jones’ descendant who’s When the first shipment of ards, and the first opportunity for Answer—Colds are often caused of private propertv and tried dig running for ’office this fall, either. turkeys was impounded-as unfit, union members to enjoy job va by toxic -matter In the blood ging to see whether or hot there He's not a poor farmer like Jake because of a high percentage, of cancies, whether they be new jobs, stream and cells of the body— was really anything -besides- rocks Neal. And some people still re spoilage, Washlngton^fflclals were or other types of vacancies arising. usually through devitalized and in a grave that was'rharked by a member how powerful Old Jones- notified but failed to act. Dr. Cleere Another demand is that non separated foods and also by lack of fine tombstone. So It still isn't got before he passed on. He was said. A second shipment the next members of the bargaining unit sufficient fresh fruits and vege safe to use the name. the kind of man who would try to month was also found to be "un cease doing work that is- proper tables in the dally diet. But I wouldn’t put any money, “domino” the Jake Neals. fit for food.” ly that of bargaining unit members. HONOLULU RECORD HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T. H. Frahk-ly Speaking ifep Ariyoshi...... Editor BY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS PHONE 96445 On Oahu $5.00 a year; elsewhere $6.00 Much Ado About King Cole Of late the King Cole known to singing fans has Not Too Many Youngsters not been the merry old soul of the children’s rhyme. But I am happy to report that he is cur “The city-county, the Territory and the rently doing his best to regain the prestige he had federal government are doing all in their among the Negro people before he was attacked in power to keep abreast of the rapidly-ex Birmingham'' last April. panding growth in school-age students. There are just too many new youngsters.” Nat (King) Cole was set upon by four mem That’s how Charles Turner, reporter for bers of the racist White Citizens’ Council as he the Advertiser, summed up the situation performed on the stage. Since then his assailants after Mayor Neal Blaisdell, supervisors and have been given maximum misdeameanor sentences DPI officials visited a dozen new schools, of 180 days in jail and fined $100 each. Cole can-j “lamented” that “As fast as we get new celled several scheduled appearances in Dixie. schools built, we have to plan additions or Immediately after the assault, the singer is another new school.” O’Neal also explained said to have told reporters: “I can’t understand it. that the job of providing adequate school I haven’t taken part in any protests. I haven’t facilities is almost overwhelming. said anything about civil rights. Nor have I joined The three governments have puny mus any organizations fight cles, indeed, if that’s all the power they ing segregation. Why have. But that’s not the situation. And should they attack me?” there are not “too many new youngsters.” When Roy Wilkins, *iT*LL BE ALL OVER A5EC0NP AHO IT’S A LOT executive secretary of the This situation blights not only Oahu but National Association for many other U.S. communities, which are v EASIER the Advancement of Col ored People, wired Cole plagued by juvenile delinquency. an invitation “to join us This ^ftuation prevails not because of in the crusade against government poverty but through callous Will You Corry Big Hotels' Load? racism in order to create disregard of the educational needs of the (from page 1) a society in which the Birmingham incident youngsters by legislators especially on the the luxurious Waikiki tourist hotels; would be impossible,” the singer replied: “I am national level. Are these men to be handed an outright gift on a crusading in my own way. . . as a gentleman.” Members of Congress vote tens of billions silver platter by all the taxpayers of Oahu? for weapons of destruction and a tiny It was not good publicity, to say the least. . From the point of view of sound .business, an im ------VirtuallyeveryNegro^newspaperand-leader_rose fraction of that amount for schools, pub proved Saratoga Road with pavements, curbs and side- up in arms. The anger that had been aimed at lic health and general welfare of the popu walks materially increases-the-value of-all-three-hotel- and leading Negro clubs began an active boycott of lation; properties, and will be an instrumeht of profit for them, A medium=size tank costs, as .much as _____Cole’s-records.-Many spots-removed them-from-the — making them more attractive and desirable to tourists juke boxes and disc.* jockeys attacked him over an elementary or junior high school. A than they were formerly. the air waves. tew years ago it was estimated that a B-29 Efforts have been made for some years to put bomber cost as much as a housing unit of King Cole claimed he was misquoted. He also through a plan to widen Lowers Road, a project that Mayor Wright Housing size. Today’s jet branded stories that he had refused to join the would also benefit the same hotels and the Royal NAACP "a complete liev and cited instances of bomber would undoubtedly cost about one Hawaiian as well. contributions and public appearances on behalf and a half to two times such a housing of that organization. unit. It would seem there should be some plan, possibly one of improving a whole area at once, that would pro In the current May 30 issue of Down Beat It is a national disgrace that the gov vide for improvement of both Saratoga Road, Lewers Magazine, there is a letter from King Cole which ernment does not provide adequate faci says: - Road and maybe Beach Walk with a method of charg lities for education. The strength of this ing something like a fair share of the costs to the country rests in the quality of youths it “I have been quite concerned over reports ap hotel interests that will benefit by them. pearing in newspapers which purport to’represent produces. my views on Jim Crow and discrimination. These Certainly it doesn’t seem right for the taxpayers of Recent reports from Washington say that reports also attributed to me statements I was this country is failing to produce personnel Oahu to pay the freight for the hotels, whose owners supposed to have made regarding ttie NAACP and get off scot-free. its activities. for scientific pursuits, while the number of science students in the Soviet Union is in “First of all, I would like to say that I am, creasing at a rapid rate. have been and will continue to be dedicated to jational facilities will help control' juvenile delinquency and ‘ the complete elimination of all forms of discri- The cold war environment, loyalty probes mination, segregation and bigotry. There is only one and political persecution in this country contribrut^toward ljuildihg healthy mindsl The problem of providing adequate school facilities is position in this' matter and that is the right one: stifled scientific progress to the point Full equality for all people regardless of race, where scientists became afraid to work for not “overwhelming,” nor are there too many youngsters. creed or religion.. , the government. "... I have always supported the NAACP and The dark cloud of fear and suspicion, other organizations fighting segregation and dis however, is moving away slowly and in Star-Bulletin Wises Up crimination. Only last November I played a bene- some areas the political atmosphere is get- fit for the Las Vegas branch NAACP. Roy Wilkins___ ------HundredsofmillionsprotestedtheuseofthcH-bomb has in his files my written offer to help in the ting better. in tests and in actual warfare. But for months and years NAACP program in whatever manner I can. I On the other hand, there seems to be a warmongers worked on the lethal weapon, ignoring the have in my personal records cancelled checks of relaxation of control in the Soviet Union censure of the majority of the world’s people. my contributions to several NAACP chapters, as well as to the Montgomery Bus boycott., and news reports indicate that the politi Now, after the Frankenstein monster has been built, cal climate there has improved. This helps Thomas E. Murray, a member of the Atomic Energy Com “Since it is obvious that those who are op global relationships. mission who has spoken out against the H-bomb, said after posed to equality and dignity of all men have used This week U.S. Air Chief of Staff Nathan the recent Bikini test bombing: “No man on earth, seeing the unfortunate Birmingham incident as a weapon F. Twining accepted an invitation to at against the NAACP, against me, and against the this spectacle, can fail to realize^that what he is seeing por fight for first class citizenship, I am today sub tend the Soviet Union’s air force show tends, if unchecked, the destruction of mankind.” scribing to the NAACP as a life member, June 24. This indicates progress, for there The Star-Bulletin editorially called him a “patriotic was a time not long ago when it was con American official/’ ' “I sincerely—hope^that in a small way, this sidered subversive merely for one to ex will set the record straight and help bring closer Not long ago those who opposed H-bomb development the day when bigotry and discrimination are things x press interest in visiting the Soviet Union. were called “subversive” and “Communist.” Finally the Star- of the past, wherever they exist.” In some quarters it still is, depending on Bulletin seems to have opened its eyes. who is doing the talking. It said, Murray’s “words ring like the inspired sayings What this indicates -is that the Birmingham incident has taught King Cole a lesson already But it would be a tragedy if Twining’s of the prophets of old.” visit results in continuing the race for known to the White Supremacists. No matter to Many before Murray warned about the dangers of the what heights he might rise as an individual, he bombers and fighters. ' H-bomb, but Murray’s words registered with the S-B. And is still black and subject to the same restrictions Billions now- spent for weapons of des today it is not “subversive” to sign a petition against the encircling all Negroes. The way out is by con certed action, such as. that of militant organizations truction should to a sizable extent be spent H-bomb. Times change and people help change the situation, for developing and nurturing the youth of like the NAACP. including those who stick their necks out and are called I think King Cole has also learned that he can- this country. More schools and other edu- “subversive.” (more on page 6)