Hawaii Silent on Ike's Phys. Fitness Program
It has now been two years since Pres. Eisenhower was "shocked" by the Kraus-Prudden study that showed American children were 49.2 percent weaker than European children in tests of minimum physical fitness.
It has been more than a year since the President's Council on Youth Fitness was set up and Dr. Shane MacCarthy made executive director. For the past year, then, Dr. MacCarthy has been traveling about the U.S. making speeches about how we need to be more physically fit. In some states other steps have been taken. Kraus-Weber tests have" been given school children, usually with results about like the first ones that shocked the president. cont'd.
Haili Says Cops Beat Him; Bouncer Takes Blame; Claims Andrade Punched While Bouncer Choked
"If you want to see a victim of hoodlumism, take a look at me!"
So says Germaine Haili, 28, after being arrested by officers of the metropolitan squad last Thursday night Haili had two teeth knocked out, suffered bruises and contusions and was jailed on a charge of disorderly, and another charge of drunk.
It is not the first time Haili has been charged. In foot, he is currently awaiting the result of an appeal from a conviction on a charge that he exerted force on Honey Harlow, shapely night club dancer, and forced her to violate the terms of her Federal Parole. He has also been charged before. cont'd.
Bouncer Backs Up Police Statement; Says He Knocked Haili's Teeth Out
The police version of events attending the arrest of Germaine Haili in front of the Swing Club is that he was struck in the mouth, not by Officer Andrade, but by Hiram Kaukani, who is not exactly a "guest" bouncer at the Swing Club, but who works there part time, after the Tokyo Bar across the street has closed. (The Swing Club has a cabaret license which enables it to stay open an hoar longer than the Tokyo Bar.)
Kaukani backs up that story.
Late Wednesday, he told a RECORD reporter he knocked Haili's teeth out after the later "punched" a waitress at the Swing Club.
"I went for him and grabbed him," said Kaukani. "He pushed me back and said, 'You punk!' and I hit him in the mouth. Then I put a stranglehold on him and took him out."
The bouncer was asked, "Did you knock his teeth out?"
"Yes," said Kauhani. "It was when I hit him a punch in the month." cont'd.
Joe Rose Caffs Local Ex-Marine Reserve '5th Amendment Communist'
"I don't think the public pays much attention to Joe Rose anyway. I don't think people are foolish enough to believe the things he says. I took it as a joke under the circumstances."
Such is the statement of Frank Mendoza, member of the ILWU political action committee and a longshore clerk at Castle & Cooke. Mendoza was a victim of one of Rose's most flagrant errors of fact on a TV show four weeks ago, and a victim of Rose's effort to use a phrase locally that was made notorious on the Mainland by the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy.
Rose called Mendoza a "Fifth Amendment Communist." The term is one McCarthy used to like to apply to persons who cited the Fifth Amendment as a cause for not answering questions pertaining to Communism or the Communist Party. By his use of the term on Mendoza, Joe Rose indicated that at the hearing held by the Eastland Committee, here-last December, Mendoza had "taken the Fifth Amendment." cont'd.
Waterfront Beef; C and C Terminals Refuse to Hire Clerks; Argue Conversion
Consignees, of cargoes brought in on Matson Navigation Co. ships from the Mainland are complaining that pier service is unsatisfactory because of shortage of clerks, but Castle & Cooke Terminals, Ltd. is resisting the hiring of additional clerks.
Terminal Manager John Scott and Cargo Supervisor E. D. Haynes recently told the clerks that the company's policy of not increasing the number of clerks is in the interest of the latter.
The explanation was said to be unconvincing. cont'd.
Waikiki Peddlers at City Hall Again But Opponents Not There
For the second consecutive week, the Waikiki lei sellers and peddlers under attack by the Chamber of Commerce, Don the Beachcomber, and several merchants who charge unfair competition, gathered at City Hall, along with their representatives, only to be told the issue had been delayed for another week—while those who want them moved gathered more ammunition.
But their psychological warfare was at work just the same. The peddlers were worried about a report one of their number said he had from Don Beachcomber that they would all be moved away from their tables and stands on Kalakaua Ave. by the end of the week.
Neither Beachcomber nor the other complainants who claim the peddlers hurt some of the curio stores by cutting their trade 20 percent were present with data they were supposed to furnish—as to what Waikiki merchants would be willing to allow lei sellers to operate in their entrances and on their property and what restrictions would be made. cont'd.
Matson-OR&L Agree On New Pier Contract; Study Roll-on, Roll-off
With the contract for the use of Honolulu harbor piers between Matson Navigation Co and Oahu Railway and Land Co, expiring next May, there is speculation as to whether the latter will get more energetically into Mainland-Hawaii shipping operations.
Ben Dillingham, vice president and general manager of OR&L which owns docking facilities, informed the RECORD that his company and Matson have drafted a new agreement which must be approved by the Federal Maritime Board.
He said there should be developments before the year is up. OR&L is local agent for Pacific Par East Line and American Pioneer Line, a subsidiary of United States Line. cont'd.
Jail Guards at Iwilei Sax Grace, Too, But No legal Protest Planned
There is no move at present afoot, so far as the RECORD could ascertain to determine whether or not the saying of grace in the C-C jail at Iwilei may toe illegal. The question was posed to top legal authorities at City Hall after a New Jersey attorney general ruled that the saying of grace before lunch in a school in that state is illegal. Upon reading the story, a former Inmate of the C-C jail recalled that one of the guards always says grace there before each meal, and wondered, whether or not the legality would be questioned.
The investigation of the RECORD was somewhat stymied by the fact that Deputy Sheriff Lang Akana was sick this week and in no shape to be at his office to answer questions. C-C Attorney Norman Chung, asked for a "curb" opinion, said he would not attempt to dispute the Attorney General of New Jersey, but that he has had no request for a ruling on the point. C-C Prosecutor John Peters had no opinion, "curb" or otherwise to offer, but both attorneys agreed that the status of inmates of the jail might be in a somewhat different position from the students of the school in New Jersey. cont'd.
Sonny Sundstrom Mailed Into Court for "Visible Tax" on Action by Unions
First to be hit with legal action on the "visible tax" usage being pushed locally by the Chamber of Commerce was H. P. (Sonny) Sundstrom, owner of Kau Kau Korner. Unions opposing the move by the Chamber of Commerce and by some large merchants, have threatened such action for several weeks. Monday Sundstrom was served with two penal summonses, one charging him with breaking the tax law, and the other with a law against false advertising. The complaint was signed by David C. McClung of the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education. On a radio program Tuesday night, McClung made it clear that other merchants following the Chamber of Commerce plan may be hit with the same action any time. Robert McElrath," ILWU public relations official, speaking on the same program, sard merchants are apparently aware of that, since publicity on Sundstrom's case. cont'd.
UPW Wins $13.50 Raise in Contract At St. Francis
One hundred and twenty - non-professional workers at St. Francis Hospital will get raises under a new union contract signed at the hospital Aug. 7 by the hospital and the Culinary and Service Workers' Union, UPW.
The new agreement provides for $13.50 raises for all workers, spread over the next year. Wages will be raised $5.00 on August 1; $5.00 on January 1 of next year; and $3.50 next July 1. The contract will run two years, without any re-openings. cont'd.
Longshoreman Saves $21 on Auto Insurance with UIS
When auto (insurance rates throughout the nation, including Hawaii, are going up and the insurance industry pleading it is not making money, Union Insurance Service, Ltd., in the Territory announces that it is holding down its car-policy rates.
Seiko Shiroma, territorial manager of UIS, said that "keeping the cost of auto insurance down to an allowable minimum" in line with this organization's policy will mean auto insurance rates at least 29 percent lower than those charged by other companies in the Territory.
While UIS, which operates under TH insurance laws, is owned by two union organizations, its service is not limited to union members. The ILWU owns 90 percent and the United Public Workers 10 percent of the insurance firm. cont'd.
Quinn High In IMUA's Praise Before Senate
Like his predecessor Sam King, Bill Quinn has a great affection for IMUA, the outfit that had its inception during the 1949 longshore strike and has been used as a weapon against the ILWU ever since.
Speaking in behalf of Hawaiian statehood before the U.S. Senate Committee on Insular and Interior Affairs, April 1. Quinn called IMUA a "truly remarkable organization." cont'd.
No In-Service-Training For Students, Kunimoto Replies To Gilbert Minn
"He said he got an emergency call from the contractor to give grades. He said he had gone there and someone ratted on him."
That was the way Clarence James Olds, another surveyor with the C-C land division, says Gilbert Minn explained his month's suspension by C-C Engineer Yoshio Kunimoto and a threatened demotion.
Olds said Minn had made the statement to him and other C-C employes while they were all on their way to lunch together, telling them why he had got suspended. He had said nothing about in-service-training for the university students at that time, Olds said, and added that Minn said he had told the same thing to Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell. cont'd.
Washington reports say that the armed services are hit with a rash of resignations from the U.S. Military and Naval Academies, because Service pay is less than civilian pay. Reports say that it costs about $40,000 to give a naval officer candidate Annapolis training.
Editorial Comment
Call to Abolish House Un-American
In the sunshine climate where civil liberties flourish, un-American activities of Joe McCarthy, Eastland, Walter, Martin Dies and their like wither away.
Their heroes—the stoolpigeons who are coached to tell half-truths and complete lies—can't stand the light of exposure. For this reason they have been shielded. In a healthy climate, slimy witch-hunting politics dry up.
In Washington of the Cold War, where witch-hunters have caused political suicides, imprisonments, deportations, trials and inquisitions, a live issue today is abolition of the House un-American Activities Committee. cont'd.
Nicotine, Tar Content High; Inferior Tobacco in Filter-Tip Reader's Digest Test Reveals
The cigarette market suffered a slump in 1953-54 when the cancer scare drove many away from their long habit of smoking.
But, reports Reader's Digest, sales bounced back amazingly and they are expected to top all records this year.
What saved the cigarette industry?
The magazine says filter-tip has been its salvation. cont'd.
Japanese Jeeps Replace Donkeys In Kona; 10 Now on Trial
With the recent importation of Japanese jeeps into the Territory, Japanese automobiles have begun to compete with U.S. and foreign cars on the local market Ten Toyota Land Cruisers were brought in from Japan for use by Kona coffee- farmers.
In recent years Kona coffee growers have uprooted coffee trees for autornobile roads in their farms on the Maunaloa slope and the four-wheel-drive vehicles have largely replaced donkeys for coffee hauling on individual farms. cont'd.
Chiang's Pipe Dream
"The fiction that Chiang would open day return from Formosa to 'liberate' the mainland by force has long been buried in America . . . Has not the time come for the Administration to see the picture as a whole and to move boldly in line with realities? The American people, we feel, are ready for a change that would restore freedom of man oeuvre to the West's dealings with a Communist world in travel." --The Observer (London)
Police Benefit
Wednesday tickets went on sale at a booth at Police Headquarters for the police benefit game, Friday, Aug 23, at 7:30 p.m. The game is between the University of Hawaii and the prep school all stars, and, tickets are $2.50 and $1.25, depending on whether they're reserved or general admission.
Proceeds from the game go to the Police Benefit Fund, a fund from which moneys are paid to the widows and orphans of policemen and to policemen injured in line of duty.
Of the 569 new cases of tuberculosis reported, to the Territorial Department of Health in 1955, 85 4 percent were active or probably active.
Sport Shorts
By Skinny
Bobo vs. Rademacher Next?
Will Pete Rademacher, the Gifted Amateur scheduled to fight Floyd Patterson, the heavyweight champ Aug. 22, be the next opponent for Hawaii's Bobo Olson? The answer to that, of course, presumes that Rademacher will not "emerge triumphant," as Announcer Harry Balogh puts it, from his battle with Patterson. Few will argue that's much of a presumption.
But there's more than idle speculation behind the question. From reliable sources in the Northwest comes the news that Rademacher was considered as an opponent for Bobo to start the latter's comeback many months ago. Then the promoter found Gus D'Amato, Patterson's manager, amenable to a fight, so he dropped the project for the promotion of Rademacher vs. Patterson, which has set the boxing world on its ear ever since it became clear Promoter Jack Hurley and all other parties concerned are in dead earnest. cont'd.
Did King's Divine Right Put Junior or Boxing Commission?
Does Axel Ornelles, son of Adam Ornelles, now sit on the Territorial Boxing Commission because of the Divine Right of Sam King?
Or is a position on a commission supposed to be a hereditary, something like a royal title, to be passed from father to son?
Boxing fans pricked up their ears Tuesday morning to read that Axel, the son, will succeed Adam, the father, on the boxing commission while the latter is absent for some three months on a vacation to the Mainland. cont'd.
Tuskegee Negroes Boycott White Stores for Votes
Tuskegee, quiet little Alabama town (population 7,000) lying 40 miles east of Montgomery, is currently the scene of a boycott which may yet rival in fame the bus boycott that made the larger city world famous.
Tuskegee's boycott is in defense of a right which Southern congressmen are shouting needs no defense—the right of Negroes to participate in government by voting. cont'd.
Gadabout
“Police Accused of Brutality” is the headline on Sunday's Advertiser, in inch-and-a-half red letters. Remember when IMUA used to cry out against the RECORD for its "Communist tactic" of breaking down respect for law and order by calling attention to occasional examples of police brutality? Since probably as many people read the Advertiser on one , Sunday as read this paper in many months (and we can't afford two colors of ink), we wonder what IMUA will have to say about Messrs. Coll and Thurston. Now that the Advertiser has come out for statehood, IMUA should suspect the worst of it. cont'd.
Through A Woman's Eyes It Was Better Then
By Amy Clarke
Anyone who has traveled up and down the East Coast, the Pennsylvania Turnpike and some parts of the Middle West, will remember the colorful Howard Johnson restaurants that punctuate the highways.
They are all similar — large white clapboard "houses" in the Cape Cod style, usually with orange roofs and blue-green shutters at the windows.
Inside are three or four diningrooms and a soda fountain, all furnished in Early American maple, ruffled curtains at the windows and ruffled aprons on the waitresses?
The origin of these restaurants is a typical American success story. Howard Johnson, a druggist in a small Connecticut town, sold ice cream which he made himself from an old family recipe. cont'd.
Fruit of Witchhunting Is Profits for General Electric
The ILWU in Hawaii has been the key target of attack by the un-American Activities Committee and its counterpart in the Senate.
The un-American committee planned to come to Hawaii to investigate "subversion" during the 1949 longshore strike but it was forced to postpone the trip a few months. When it came the union was the key target.
The Smith Act arrests, took place when ILWU sugar workers were negotiating their contract with the employers. cont'd.
A Democrat Confesses; Dean Acheson Realizes “Grave Mistake” of “Loyalty” Purges
A former Secretary of State who years ago fired John Stewart, Service—recently cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court—has taken a good look at the "loyalty" purges instituted by the Truman Administration and now says it was a "grave mistake."
Service, a capable foreign service career officer with a rich background of Chinese politics, was fired when McCarthyites in Congress, the China Lobby gang and the Truman Administration pressured Acheson, then Secretary of State, to fire Service. Service had earlier been cleared by seven loyalty checks. cont'd.
Nixon, Graham Dodge South
Vice President Richard M. Nixon flies to Ghana to congratulate the new independent country and to New York, to honor Evangelist Billy Graham.
Many Americans are asking why don't Nixon and Graham go down South to spread God's message to the racists and encourage civil rights for Negroes and democratic-minded whites.
Shorter Hospital Stay
A year or more in the hospital. That's what people with tuberculosis had to face only a few years back. Imagine yourself faced with that prospect, and you'll understand how the TB patient or today feels when he hears words like streptomycin, para-aminosalicyclic and isoniazid.
Those words are mouthfuls, all right, but he doesn't have to pronounce them. cont'd.
Restaurant Owner Has Earful for legislators; She'd like to Punch 'Em
By Staff Writer
"I'm waiting for Jack Burns to come back I just want to tell him what this Legislature did
That's the way the worried woman who runs a little restaurant patronized by many government workers, begins the airing of her woes.
"People say it is the Democrats that did it," she goes on "We're Democrats and we don't like to hear that The Republicans did the same thing. I think those people in the Legislature, they all make good money, so they don't think about us. Maybe they thought they were doing good for people, but they didn't." cont'd.
More Petty Gouging By City Hall?
First the City Fathers legalized parking meters—a scheme which requires motorists to pay a minimum of five cents per hour for the privilege of parking along the sides of streets paid-for by the public.
Next, they legalized the extension of operation of these meters during Christmas holiday season into the night.
Recently, they legalized the operation of these meters into Saturday afternoons. cont'd.
in Our Dailies
The Star-Bulletin will use any stick however weak and dirty to beat the ILWU—with which it now couples Delegate Jack Burns.
In yesterday's lead editorial it quoted Rep B Carroll Reece (R Tenn ) to whom it gave a big build-up Reese wrote in the National Republic to the effect that Harry Bridges controls politics in Hawaii. With this conclusion of Reece's the Star Bulletin seems in a guarded way to agree.
The Star-Bulletin in praising Reece's ability, apparently assumes that readers are not familiar with the notoriety Reece earned in 1954 when he "investigated" the great foundations such as Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford-financed Fund for the Republic Reece out to smear them as Red-influenced, did not call spokesmen for the foundations but used almost en-tirely his own committee's hired "investigators " cont'd.
Assessed Value of Oahu Real Estate More than Doubled
The assessed value of all Oahu real estate—land plus improvements, including Federal, territorial, and other tax-exempt properties—has more than doubled since 1950, and increased six-fold since 1940 The average value amounted to $4,234 per acre early this year compared to $1689 in 1960 and $695 in 1940.
Among the forty-two census tracts into which Oahu has been divided, valuation per acre has consistently ranked highest in the tract bounded by Nuuanu Avenue, Beretania Street, South Street, and Honolulu Harbor The average for this area increased from $156,000 in 1940 to $179,000 in 1950 and $356,000 in 1957. cont'd.
Walking Bosses From Mainland
Walking bosses who are in charge of stevedoring operations on docks are being brought in from the Mainland.
"The old days when former ships' officers and haoles from the Mainland were brought here are back with us," an observer said this week. "When longshoremen joined the ILWU, Castle & Cooke Terminals began promoting local boys but now they are back to the old days." cont'd.
Firms Violating Food, Drug Act Make Corrections
Thirty-nine seizure actions were taken by the Food and Drug Administration during June.
A total of 928,000 pounds of "unfit food were seized under court order, four seizures were made of foods falsely labeled and 24 of drug products which were substandard in potency or improperly labeled.
The administration in its announcement praised the food and drug industries for voluntary actions to assure safety and purity of their products. After FDA inspectors found violations of sanitary and other requirements 71 business firms voluntarily improved sanitary conditions, thus relieving the FDA from taking legal action. cont'd.
Manpower Waste
"Today our nation is in the midst of a serious shortage of trained manpower—of teachers, of engineers, of scientists, of technicians, of health and social work personnel Yet at present only 55 percent of all youth graduate from high school. Of the top 25 percent who do graduate, fewer than one half finish college "This is perhaps the greatest example of conspicuous waste of manpower in the United States today," says the Committee for the White House Conference on Education.
Ike's Words and Deeds
Time and time again during the 1956 presidential campaign, Pres. Eisenhower pledged himself to support Federal school aid to states for school construction.
This same man has again gone along with the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that have openly and vigorously fought school aid measures.
Conservative Republicans and Dixiecrats have again taken the cue from Eisenhower —as they did in defeating the President's own civil rights bill—and have defeated the school aid bill.
The influential Washington Post, which every member of Congress, diplomatic corps and government official reads in the nation's capital, was sharply critical of the President's spineless posture which amounted to hypocrisy. cont'd.
Dollars Mightier than Words
By Koji Ariyoshi
Reader's Digest with 11,024,410 U.S. circulation is the biggest gun circulation wise in the magazine front in this country. It leads Life (five million) and Time (2 million).
But the Digest with its volley of highly-paid words lost out to nicotine, tar and aroma-filled smoke. It learned that its words were not mightier than the dollar.
Filter-Tip Unsafe
You may have missed the two articles Reader's Digest ran on filter-tip cigarettes. They did not comfort and assure smokers that filter-tips had made smokers any safer from cancer. (See elsewhere in this issue for article on cigarette smoking.) cont'd.
Dailies Regimented
We have often held the light over the dailies to show how frightened they are, how more frightened they can be and how regimented they are.
In the dailies when the dollar sign on the one hand is equated with humanity and general welfare on the other, the scale consistently tips heavily for dollar or profit motive.
Profit keeps the "free press" regimented.
How big business interests whip the dailies into line was never more glaring on the local scene than when boss-haole wives picketed the Star-Bulletin with brooms on their backs—because the daily merely published what Sen. Wayne Morse said about arbitration during the 1949 strike.
The moral and material support behind the broom-packing women came from men of dollar influence, the Big Five management.
In the days that followed, big display advertisement diminished from the Star-Bulletin and editions of the Territory's number one daily became thin, very thin.
The Big Five demonstrated that it meant business and the Star-Bulletin never will forget the punishment it suffered for getting out of line to inform the public—which is the chief function of a newspaper.
KowTow to Advertisers
If you are a person who) reads the dailies carefully, you see in every edition instances of a regimented press kowtowing to the advertisers. The dailies either praise a big advertiser's product or remain silent if publicity means criticism of the, product.
Sometimes they are forced to publish adverse news about a big advertising account. They have a way of handling this type of news. They bury the news in the back pages, under a small headline.
The local dailies almost never publish the monthly news releases from the Federal Pure Food and Drug Act by manufacturers and distributors.
It is news when big name products have been found to contain insect and rodent filth, and tons of contaminated products have, been seized. Newspapers have dramatized stories with less human interest.
But they purposely blackout the news because it hurts their current or potential advertisers. The public be damned is the attitude, for an informed public well be more discriminating about what they buy and eat.