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The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 13

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Stop-Work Ban Lifted On Tunnel UlllkHWKH fit i Hawaii frewwJ-g SPORTS FEATURES CLASSIFIED By BOB KRAUSS HONOLULU. HAWAII. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER I. 1955 who liaa i rnuwN nanus wiiii a man only A weekend stop-work order, issued against Pali Contractor J.

M. Tanaka by the Territory was lifted yesterday afternoon s- inning nr liiifprs. lp nnt that 1 ri U1S- JJtUUSU Ul XlUIlCll 1 1 Oahu In Legislative Bind eac. in cae you tion understand, Hansen Dis icdse is another name for lenrniv The man I shook hands with was once con- Figures Show Reapportionment Need sulered an incurable leper. A lie was sent to Kalaupapa, Hawaii's leper settlement, in 1925.

He has two children he has not seen. His seven brothers and sUters have married. Only one in-law knows he exists. boo Figures intended to show why the total population. It had 40 5 t' the legislature should be 12 to consider a reapportionment resolution.

A portioned were released re THE RESOLUTION asks Con- tu Fifty years later Oahu popu-LroC trt rfn tu inh tf It was a mistake, my shaking hands with him. I did it before I knew there is a rule against jt. I5ut, now, Tm lad I did. Because, Aiitj iiiiuvv Iliac 111 ii." wanui K-J -o nnn i uao lui percentage of the total popula-l011 had jSenate of 25 membetsl0 from tion has risen sharply, that of PeVne.of the population '0ahu and 15 from the outside other counties has dropped. ButYet tlH only 40 per centilslands; and a House of 51 mem.

KRAUSS i.h 1 i i I xY i 4 i bers 33 from Oahu and 18 from icguiauve icficscuiauuii lias i mained the same. lhe governor has summoned jthe other Islands. Thus Oahu the 63 delegates to the Hawaii Would control the Hmiso anri th Oahu had IN 1900, Constitutional a popula- after the builder complied with safety demands. ROBERT B. EBERT, territorial safety director, issued the stop-work order last Friday.

The contractor had started two drifts into the rock as the start in a 500-foot tunnel. It will become a part of the new Pali highway. The tunnel wiTl run through a shoulder under the present Pali road near Lookout Point. i Among safety requirements which the Territory ordered were: 1. Oxygen apparatus at the tunnel entrance, as well as rescue equipment and other devices in event of a disaster.

2. An aerial tramway to carry explosives from a storage area to the tunnel portal. 3. A list of all machinery and fire-fighting equipment to be supplied, to the safety department. WORKMEN fulfilled all the requirements by 3 p.

m. yesterday, Mr. Ebert said, and the stop-work ban was lifted. Meantime, the contractor convention to a outside Islands ih Spnaf. tion of 58,504, or 38 per cent of 'meeting in Honolulu November! Th governor's figures follow: POPULATION AND VOTING DATA BY COUNTY, TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

1900-1950 OAHU: Chew Hin Au by Mrs. Effia Richard Abe and Judy Yanagawa are "shot'' maybe it helped break down the reserve between the two of us. the lucky one and the unlucky one. And because it helped me to understand life in one of Hawaii's most little known communities. Let me tell you about this man who has lived thirty of his fifty years in isolation, a victim of the world's jnost dreaded disease.

He's a small, slender, intelligent fellow. Well call him William Chang. At the age of twenty years, he was pronounced incurable and sent to Kalaupapa from Honolulu with thirty other lepers. The others are dead. Today, he is chief clerk in the settlement's main office.

An amateur radioman, he has his own ham set and repairs radio and TV sets for other patients on the sida Since 1939 he has been on a temporary release statu. That means, he could home whenever he wants to. He's cured. The doctors can't find a trace of the germ in his body. Yet, for 16 years he's lived on in this tiny, windswept, thumbprint of civilization.

To you or me, his life is the dullest, most dreary and drab routine imaginable. Why doesn't he go home? Total population Per cent of population Registered voters Votes cast for Delegate Per cent of total territorial votes cast Number of Legislators Per cent of Legislature B. Moller, public health nurse, at Kalakaua Intermediate. School TB Tests Start ect of the Oahu Tuberculosis and A five-year tuberculosis sliin- HAWAII: Health association. testing study began yesterday, at Kalakaua Intermediate school.

Total population Children showing positive re SOME 550 students received a actions will be given X-rays and be visited at home by public hopes to complete the two side single injection administered by 500-foot drifts within six weeks. Per cent of population Registered voters Votes cast for Delegate Per cent of total territorial votes cast health nurses. NEXT SCHOOL on the list of the $140,000 program is Kawa-nanakoa Intermediate. In all, the a team of two public health nurses and a practical nurse. An equal number will get their shots today, and the remainder, Wednesday.

Number of Legislators Pt cent of Legislature TB association expects to test MAUI: That Friday he tried to tell me A third drift (along the roof of the tunnel, will then be dug and the core will be excavated from between the three drifts. Pine Island Pair Honored Here's what he about 24,000 children The prolonged study is a proj Total population 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 58,504 82.023 123,527 202.923 258,256 353,020 38.0 42.7 48.3 55.1 61.0 70.6 n.a. 7,555 14,667 32.509 50,370 93,353 4,983 7,087 12,719 27,254 43,098 76,238 52.0 52.3 55.7 62.6 57.8 64.2 13 18 18 18 18 18 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.O 46,843 55,382 64,895 73,325 .73,276 63,350 30.4 28.9 25.3 19.9 17.3 13.7 n.a. 3,243 5,696 9,595 17,264 22,863 2,290 2,999 4,938 7,753 14,607 20,455 23.9 22.1 21.6 17.8 19.6 17.2 12 12 12 12 12 12 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 27,920 30,547 38,052 56,146 55,980 48,519 18.1 15.9 14.9 15.2 13.2 9.7 n.a. 2,510 4,000 6,563 11,952 15,468 1,680 2,401 3,451 5,505 10,193 13,333 17.5 17.7 15.1 12.6 13.7 11.2 9 9 9 9 9 9 20.O 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20,734 23,952 29,433 35,942 35,818 29,905 13.5 12.5 11.5 9.8 8.5 6.0 n.a.

1,134 1,972 3,455 7,735 9,635 636 1,054 1,725 3,032 6,635 8,680 i 6.6 7.8 7.6 7.0 8.9 7.3 6 6 6 6 6 6 13.3 13.3 13.3 13.3 13.3 13.3 154,001 191,909 255,912 368,336 423,330 499,794 11,216 14,442 26,335 52,127 87,321 141,319 9,589 13,541 22,833 43,544 74,533 118,704. 45 45 45 45 45 45 Per cent of population Registered voters Campaign Mapped Votes cast for Delegate. Per cent of total territorial votes Number of Legislators Nobriga Named Chairman Governor said: "They say we should go home. After all, where's my home? Here at Kalaupapa. I was sent here in 1925 as an incurable.

I was twenty years old. "There was my mother ami seven children in the family. My mother is dead. My brothers and sisters are all married and have moved away from where we lived together. "I don't have a home on the outside anymore.

"OnZv one of mv in-laws knows I exist. None of my nieces Per cent of Legislature KAUAI: Of Anti-Hoodlum Panel Two Lanai youths who won national honors recently were Total population Per cent of population commended publicly yesterday 1.. should exist between the two Faced with the warning that with special certificates from Governor King in a ceremonies Registered voters Votes cast for Delegate Per cent of total classes. to delay might mean more fatal and nephews knows about me. It would be very embarrassing at Iolani Palace.

gang attacks in Honolulu, Mayor territorial votes cast Blaisdell's new anti-hoodlumism Liberato Viduya, son of Number of Legislators Mr. and Mrs. Liberato Viduya, Per cent of Legislature committee selected Theodore F. Nobriga as chaim and mapped 3. Fuller representation from the military should be provided on the mayor's committee.

DR. CHARLES II. SILVA, director of the territorial institutions department, emphasized that won the national public TERRITORY OF HAWAII: a campaign yesterday. speaking contest of the Future Total population Registered voters Farmers of America Oct. 11 at Acting Police Chief Arthur M.

its national convention in Kan Tarbell urged the committee not Votes cast for Delegate Number of Legislators sas City, Mo. His award was to delay its work a single day. $250. the committee was interested in all phases of juvenile delinquency. But he said the immediate problem was one of solving "WE HAVE libraries full of Sources: U.

S. Bureau of the Census population statistics? Hawaii (Territory) Office of the findings," he said. "We don want RICHARD TESORO, son of Governor. Registered Voters and votes Cast at General Elections for Delegate to findings. Another man may be Mr.

and Mrs. Dionicio Tesoro, Congress, by Districts, Territory of Hawaii, 1900-1952. Honolulu, March 17. 1954. Reg killed next week, next month.

We Thursday's meeting, set for 9 received the national Veterans if I went to one of their homes to live. 'Tiey talk about going out into the How can I get a job in my condition?" He held up the stubs of his fingers. "Even today I cannot very well face people." The onlv people he has to face at Kalaupapa are the unlucky ones like himself. People who aren't ashamed because their best friend doesn't happen to have a nose. Here William Chang lives with a woman he married on the settlement.

A patient like himself. Their house is a neat little frame building with one bedroom. There's a well kept lawn. The sidewalk is lined with flowers. There's a goldfish pool in back.

He can go to church on Sunday and two movies a week in the social hall. For activities, he can join the Lions club, the Choral group, Stamp club, Photo cluh or Gun club. On weekends, he can get into his ancient model car and drive to his friend's house to chew the fat. That would he Johnny Camhra, best throw net fisherman in the settlement. want to stop something before it a.m.

in the mayor office, will of Foreign Wars Boy Scout istered voters for 1910 taken from U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Territories. Reapportionment of the Hawaiian House of Representatives.

Hearings on H.R. 6453 July 6 and 27, 1939. 76th Congress, 1st Session, Washington, 1939. P. 10.

Not available. gets started." help the full committee reach scholarship award of $500 and One serviceman was killed in "some definite conclusion" on its course, Mr. Nobriga said. a gold medal for outstanding achievement in scouting May recent outbreaks of fighting between military personnel and Island youths. Mayor Blaisdell, in His mapping committee had not 27.

He is an Explorer Scout. Great Dane Tiny Killed By Auto yet been selected when the meeting ended yesterday. Driver Fined, Loses License Laai L. Utaga, 27 of Bldg. Tiny, the big Great Dane whose photo was published by The Advertiser last week, was struck by a car and killed, II was learned by Mr.

and Mrs. Hans L'Orange, the owners. This was the first time that two island youth have won these awards. Liberator was the first Islander to win the contest in its 20-year history, eliminating a move to solve the hoodlum attacks, called the "exploratory" session. Chairman Nobriga is director of the Board of Parks and 66 enterprise was sen All-Out Campaign Proposed At Meet An all-out program to fight both juvenile delinquency and finalists from four states tenced to four months in jail, Governor King praised Lanai A GROUP of eight persons, se was fined $10 and lost his lected from those who attended hoodlumism, financed from pub for having two national win ners.

mmmm the meeting, will hold another lic funds as well as by private meeting Thursday morning to driver's license in traffic court yesterday. Utaga pleaded guilty to driving while his license was sus Parents of the two young men contributions, was proposed yes He contributes to the Polio and Red Cross drives to help the unfortunate. Also to Community Chest. In his spare time he tinkers with radios. In a way I envy that man.

Because, like few he has learned to live with himself. I only pity the people who haven learned enough about his disease to live with him. came from Lanai City to at terday. Ferris F. Laune, executive sec tend the ceremony.

Both fathers are employed by the Hawaiian map strategy. Mayor Blaisdell told the group which met in his office yesterday that juvenile problems were not peculiar to Hawaii. pended for failing to file proof! retary of the Honolulu Council of Social Agencies, made the pro Pineapple Co. posal in a five-page paper which was distributed at Mayor Blaisdell's exploratory conference. "It's a problem that everyone in the country is facing," the mayor said.

To prove his point, he had the lights turned off in his MAHOGANY LIVIF2G ROOLI SUITES AIIOGAHY BEDRQQr.1 SUITES BUY ON TIME TERMS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE OUTLET 909 Waimanu St. Phone 52671 mk. lalae proposed that a office and a movie, 'Vsny Van general committee, under aus dalism?" was shown to the group of financial responsibility and to driving without headlights. Both tags were given Utaga after an 85-mile-an-hour chase on Kamehameha hvy. Sept.

29. Judge Harry Steiner also revoked the driver's license of Sgt. James B. Rigmaden, 30, of Schofield Barracks. Rigmaden pleaded guilty to a drunk driving charge police lodged Saturday night after a Hotel St.

accident. The soldier was also fined $25. pices of the Honolulu Council of Social Agencies, be formed to ALSO PRESENT at the ceremony were Elmo Tanner, principal of Lanai High school and head of Boy Scout work there; Kengo Takata, head of the Lanai Future Farmers and Liberato's speech coach; Goro Hokama, Maui county supervisor; Eddie Tarn, Maui county chairman; James Ohta, Boy Scout official from Maui, and a delegation of Future Farmers and Boy Scouts from Lanai. AFTER THE movie was shown, the mayor said: study the problem. 'To achieve results will cost money, both in public funds and private contributions," he said.

"I want to keep my fingers on this. I don't think any one of us has the answers. But I think that as a group, working collectively, we might find some of the an "This should be forthcoming if the community is really serious about doing anything about the swers." delinquency problem." Police Continue Fatal Car Probe Police investigation into a two-car accident near Kawela Bay that killed one person and injured seven others Saturday night is still open, Lt. Vernon Nunokawa, of the traffic division, said yesterday. DONALD A.

COULSON, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coulson of Hilo, was killed instantly in the crash. He and five other sailors were in a rented convertible when it collided headon with a sedan. Police believe the convertible was driven by Albert N.

Mc-Shane, 23, of 2626 Kalihi St. None of the injured persons has been questioned yet. McSIIANE is in critical condition at Queen's hospital. The other six are at Tripler Army hospital. Sgt.

William Snead is handling the investigation. Round Table Talk MAYOR BLAISDELL did not BEAUTY Ward Land Suit Filed Hawaiian Trust guardian of Hattie Kulamanu Ward, filed suit yesterday in circuit court to divide evenly the multi-million dollar Kewalo property of Hat-tie and Victoria K. Ward. THE PARTITION suit filed by Attorney Robert E. Brown asked for appointment of a commissioner to undertake the division of the 32 acres between the two invalid sisters.

The division, Mr. Brown said, would make administration of the two interest "more advantageous" to both. Twenty-two acres of the property is the family home tract, the Old Plantation, where Victoria lives. Because Hattie is permanently hospitalized, she derives no benefit from it yet must help 1o meet its upkeep, he said. He said Hattie's guardian had not brought the suit with the intention of selling any xf her estate.

have a chance to study Mr, J. Ralph Brown, president of the Hawaii Congress of Parent-Teachers associations, said the "whole problem boils down to two areas: preventative and corrective." William Mottz, juvenile court referee, urged that distinction be, made between "hoodlumism" YOUR HOME, just as tha charming home of Mr. Mrs. Valentine F. Coelho of Hala-wa Heights, pictured here, can take on a new spaciousness and Laune paper.

However, the mayor told the 2C-odd persons attending yesterday's session that he didn't want his committee comfort. Add zest to your out- door living. Flo Tit tn tc TTf1f TVIthlfl VTHIT and "juvenile delinquency. drifting off into a long-range general study of juvenile delinquency. "We have a special problem right now," he said.

"I want this group to get together and give us some answers now." budget and its lasting quality -rffV and many uses make it the per- feet outdoor shelter lanai XXJC 'f4v i covering a protective car. JJP port a sun-sheltenng awn. Wi i h. ing even as a bright, striped, pifv poolside addition in four Kfe, hxx tropical garden. iJK "CERTAINLY ALL hoodlums aren't juveniles," he said.

After narrowing the problem down to the "one pressing issue of the conflict between local boys and service personnel," the various representatives came up with these proposals: 1. A study should be made of recreational activities for joint use of both military and civilian personnel. 2. Better public relations Juvenile Delinquency is the subject of an open round table discussion at tonight's meeting THE SUIT named Victoria Ward as defendant, along with a of the Theosophical Society. It is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

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