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A 4 nnXOIllU ADVERTISED Monday, Feb. 13f-! They'll Stay Together I'iu0ttd stein. ant to Build Town Again eopie WW Red Cross Scientist National Guard Policeman Fireman Civil Defense knew it telegraphed a volcanic eruption. Today Kapoho is dead. Most of the houses are buried under 10 to 20 feet of lava.

A few bent tin roofs can be seen jut By CI CK EICHWACH PAHOA, Hawaii --'Trom ttie ashes will rise a new Ka- Husky Alvin Kalawe's eyes as he reported the twockend decision made by his bow-homeless townspeople. Kalawe is a Hawaiian. was born in Kapolio 55 fcvears ago. He was raised ttliere. He to school 'there.

He worked there. He si? strong and straightforward. 1 i- i A ting out at crazy angles from the sea of uneven lava that covers what used to be Kapo-ho's main road. You caa stand on a hill that parallels that road, and the town looks like a 20th century Pompeii. Beyond the ruins, you tan see a wildly erupting volcano.

Jt's hard to believe it's reality and not an I i i' 'A -t i i 1 I ingenious set for a Hollywood spectacle. MK. KALAWE believes, although he's not now at Kapoho. lie's sitting on a canvas cot nine miles away, in the mM MO tj FIREMAN KAKU St'GATA GEOLOGIST DON RICHTER PATROLMAN JOHN KEKUA WARDEN ALBERT WILSON SPEC. 5th HERBERT ISIIII JOHN ROLFES Cordon Mors Photoi Volcano Victims Find Helping Hands Displaced by a volcano, their homes Firemen turned out to be fellows who risked their lives in heroic efforts to save homes -i il'I ut i Kill I'll tm i ill' lllii in Pahoa School gymnasium, the Red Cross disaster shelter.

This is now home for about 100 of the 300 residents of Kapoho and its "suburb," Ko-ae. The rest of the volcano refugees are living with friends and relatives. Tha townspeople of Kapoho had a meeting this past weekend. It was held without fanfare. There were no officials or reporters present.

"We decided we want to stay together, near Kapoho," Mr. Kalawe told me evenly. "We have good life. We have a hope for tomorrow. Scientists hiked through rugged and dangerous terrain and flew on hazardous small-plane flights trying to find out what was happening, to pro-1 vide adequate warning, and even trying to turn the flow of the volcano.

The Hawaii National Guard and the Office of Civil Defense provided men and machines for communication, transportation, and a helping hand to all. The faces above symbolize all those who came to help during the present Puna eruption. gone, the people of Puna found they were not without a helping hand. found ai 24 hours a day. Policemen became warm friends, not distributors of traffic tickets.

and belongings, hot neatly-uniformed men who played checkers at the Hilo firehouse. The American Red Cross turned out to be salvation itself, providing food, shelter and "We hope they can help id' Mil. KALAWE climate. The people are I'M JUST THREE WEEKS ago! good." seven years ago when orderj came to evacuate Kapoho. "TIIERFS NO better place for me than Kapoho," he still insists.

"I don't think the volcano will strike again this way. Of course, I felt the same way after the 1955 eruption." You talk to other refugees ill pe saw a cinnamon glow in II the sky north of Kapoho and HE PUFFED on a cigaret. lumber for new kitchen burned, house pau. He wiped his spectacles, wriggled his feet in his sandals: "Still, I like to go back nearby, if can." NAM RIDAD also would like to go back. He and his wife in Kapoho, paying $4.75 a month to rent the little shack in which they lived.

Ridad works on a papaya farm near Kapoho. "We lucky. We got everything out before lava got our, house. Just left one bottle of kerosene. That for Pele, and she got it, too," he grinned as he tugged on his green eye-shade.

Then there's Mrs. Kaaihue if" to think about the eruption." He shifts his 5-year-old daughter, Lindy Ann, on his shoulder. "The volcano has ruined our homes. But the people of Kapoho and Koae should get together and stay together on new land, close by." HE HIMSELF is from Koae, and was custodian of the Isaac Hale Park there and also custodian of the Kapoho School. "Only three of 11 houses are left at Koae.

One of them is mine, covered with cinders. There are no stores, no schools, and it's no good to live. We need another spot." Chang was born and raised in Puna. He came back from Hilo 10 months ago. He has a wife and four children.

The' oldest attended Kapoho ill' lilt III! iiit in; iiii Hi' III! Ill' IIII (HI till ill III! M' i us." By "they" he meant the state of Hawaii, the American Red Cross and Richard Lyman, the biggest individual landowner in the Puna district, who has lost an estimated acres in the current eruption. The people of Kapoho don't know exactly the legalities of giving them a new area to build a town. Some of them were just leasing land. Some were renting frame shacks, at monthly rentals as low as $4.75 a month. PEOPLELIKE these aren't looking for tax deductions or hefty mortgage loans they couldn't pay off.

They don't know themselves what they really need. But they have faith that the State, the Red Cross and Lyman will come up with the answers. You take Kalawe. He born in Kapoho courthouse. His father was a jailer and got $25 a month salary and lodging there, for him, his wife, and their four children.

In 1942, Alvin Kalawe got permission to live in the same courthouse, in return for some civil defense He was living there with two of his seven children his wife died -s living in the Red Cross-run gymnasium, where families are crowded into "rooms" partitioned off by furnishings or stage walls or by nothing. Kids in pajamas ride tricycles around the gym floor. A TV set is on, with a small grand- stand where spectators witness drama much inferior to what they're experiencing. THE REFUGEES for the most part seem in good spirits, and liveliness rather than dreariness pervades the shelter. The 32-year-old shelter boss, Chang Yank Aiona, has an explanation.

Elia, a sweet young Hawaiian-Chinese mother of four, ranging from 11 months to 5 HILARION IIENRIQUES "NOBODY KNOWS what we do," said Simeon, dressed in long-iohn underwear with a School. "There were 35 kids cigaret 'dangling from his MRS. KAAIHUE FXIA place to stay until Would she like to go back to Honolulu? "I'd love to. But I don't think that we could find a house to rent for the price we paid in Kapoho. That was $6 a month." Has she seen Kapoho since the evacuation.

"Just once. They took all of us in a county bus to see the eruption and what it's done to the town. "I cried." mouth. He turned down the volume years. A Farrington graduate, she and her husband came to Kapoho three years ago.

Her husband is a laborer and tractor operator for Lyman. "IT'S ROUGH living in the gym," she admitted, her ever-present smile showing even white teeth. "Too much noise and confusion for young children at night. But it's a and two teachers. Good teachers.

We have to have another school just like it." Mrs. Estaban Viloria, the Hawaiian wife of an Olaa Sugar Co. Filipino plantation of his portable radio. His wrinkled hands grasped his walking stick tighter. "We wait for the Red Cross to say." Faces of Kapoho youngsters reflect elders' worry.

Temperatures Lodge anil Wife Visit in Russia MOSCOW (UPI) Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, arrived here yesterday with Mrs. Lodge for a visit, Tass reported. The Soviet News Agency said Lodge was mat at the airport by representatives of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Llewellyn Thompson, American ambassador to the Soviet Union. worker.

Is sitting on the bed; with one of her children. The Vilorias have 10 children. Seven were living with them in Kapoho, the oldest 26 and the youngest eight; A P.IG, SMILING woman wearing a bright yellow muir-muu, she said: "I live in Kapoho' all my life. I never thought the volcano drive us out. We must wait and see.

But I want to stay around here." Son Roy, a good-looking 16, spoke up: "It's terrible. All our friends will go separate ways." The Vilorias are living In the left backstage wing of the Pahoa School. Next to them is 64 year old Hilarion Hen-riques, a retired' Olaa plantation worker who had lived in JANUARY 31, me I'NITED STATES, Atlanta 50 Koston 33 Buffalo 38 Chicago 43 Denver 45 Des Moinei 43 Detroit 33 Fort Worth SO HONOLULU 82 Jacksonville 53 Kansas City 52 Las Vegas 1 Los Angeln B4 Memphis 44 Miami Beach 70 Mpls-St. Paul 33 New Orleatu 44 New York 30 CHANG YANK AIONA 'They're happy and because they don't want Oklahoma City 42 24 14 27 29 23 27 30 66 49 29 83 48 37 57 16 42 34 33 31 41 25 44 28 28 26 31 48 51 48 35 33 64 45 35 21 8 7 51 39 5 44 51 51 38 37 63 Omaha Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Oie. Reno St.

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