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n7 i 1 il I I jiMMauaiuJI I in II I 0 -Pi I i 1 i ug a I VJ 1.4 frP v'y pi nrr Jv7L II Mil Hi nJO) rOl a) 1 1 DlAMONDHEADl 1 Koko Head Area To Be Developed Henry J. Kaiser and Bishop Estate announced yesterday that they were teaming up to build a fabulous, $350,000,000 resort and residential "model city" on the southeast corner of Oahu. 5 if HEAD VKOKO HEAD CRATER? lHANAUMA BAY 1 KOKQ This photograph The development, sweeping from Maunalua Bay around Koko Head to Maka-puu Point, envisions hotels, apartments and homes for 50.000 people on more than 6,000 acres of land. THE COMMUNITY is to be known as Hawaii-Kai and it will, in effect, become the new State of Hawaii's second largest city in terms of population. Plans are for the projected homes to range through the medium, upper-medium and luxury brackets.

There will be a marina for boating and water sports "and all the facilities and services that make up a completely rounded-out community," the joint announcement said. THE BOARD of Water Supply said there were presently 10,000,000 gallons of water a day available for the area, enough to meet all the needs of the development. The community will front the ocean on Maunalua Bay and on the east coast of Oahu between Koko Crater and Makapuu Point. It will also extend into seven largely undeveloped valleys and along the ridges dividing them. THE ANNOUNCEMENT said "the aim is to undertake the first building in a matter of months, followed up rapidly with other units in an orderly master-planned program." It added: "Steps will be taken for the satisfactory relocation of persons who in future years may be in the path of certain large-scale undertakings." It was understood that long-term Bishop Estate leaseholders in areas such as Portlock Road would not be relocated but would benefit reveals the vaslness and sweep of Kaisers projected Ilawaii-Kai development.

JS ys a is t-i nds Off India. Ha ionoiuiu Ac iveruser Nehru YEAR NO. 34,613 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1959 KAISER from the development's added facilities. YESTERDAY'S announcement was the fruit of more than two years of informal discussions between the Territory's biggest builder and industrialist, Kaiser, and the Territory's biggest landowner, Bishop Estate. Kaiser, whose Waikikl holdings make him the biggest single land owner in that district, spent $14,000,000 to develop the 20-acre Hawaiian Village project.

Hawaii-Kai will be exactly 300 times as big. THE 6.000 acres earmarked for the development are roughly one-tenth of total Bishop Estate holdings on Oahu. The announced agreement involves Kaiser, builder Fritz B. Burns, architect WTelton Becket and the Bishop Estate trustees. Burns has been a partner for 15 years with Kaiser in various enterprises.

These in- Sce KAISER on A-6, Col. 1 NEW DELHI (UPI) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru yesterday denied Communist Chinese charges the Tibetan rebels operated from Indian soil and at the same time warned the Reds not to try to tell India what to do. CI CENTS ran A s1 1 r.w. Hr IliC fit TEN 2 name With sie Tour Franc LOS ANGELES (UPI) Two travel promoters pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of grand theft and criminal conspiracy in connection with a low-cost vacation plan which left some 300 persons stranded in Hawaii early this year. HAROLD RAVITCH, 39, general manager of the Voice of Israel radio program, and Peter Du Boff, 60, treasurer of the program, entered their pleas at a preliminary hearing before Municipal Judge William R.

Gallagher. In addition to criminal conspiracy and grand theft, they were charged with violation of the California corporation code. THE CHARGE 'stated that some 300 people were stranded in Hawaii with unpaid hotel bills and no return trans portation in January after they paid the pair $127.50 for the supposed vacation flight. It was further charged that there were 623 persons who paid for the flight but never got to make it. The 623 persons paid the defendants a total of $39,000, it was TT 1 103RD WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower returned from a five-day Easter holiday yesterday to learn that his doctor wants him to take another in a warm climate where he can get some exercise.

White House Press Secre- ens itea used India as a staging area and the Communist warning India not to discuss the Tibetan revolt in parliament because it was an internal affair of China's. When he informed parliament Peiping could not tell India what to do, his statement was greeted with wild cheers. NEHRU AND the parliament seemed to have Indian public opinion behind them. One newspaper referred to the Communist suppression of the revolt at Lhasa as "The rape Tibet." Hundreds of Jan Sangh Party members who staged a three-mile procession through New Delhi Streets carried placards that called for United Nations intervention in Tibet, and denounced "Chinese Camera Hawaii The Weather Today: Partly cloudy with occasional light niauka showers; gentle to moderate trades. Yesterday's temperatures: High 82, low 63.

Yesterday's rainfall: A trace. Quinii Eyes Mid-June rnnarv Governor Quinn tentatively has decided to hold Hawaii's first state primary election June 16 or 17, it was learned yesterday. Although the Governor was not available for comment, he reportedly mentioned those dates conversations with legislators. HE ILS stated publicly that he "guessed" the primary would take place in late June and the general a month later. Meantime, the Governor told legislators yesterday they should move quickly on essential transition legislation, especially election laws.

Problems like whether there should be one ballot or two must be decided quickly, he said. Vhere To Find It A SECTION Amusements 7 Business and Finance 8, 9 Radio, IV Programs 12 Sports 10, 11, 12 What to Do 7 SECTION Classified Ads 7, 8 Comirs 4 Crossword Puzzle 6 Dear Abby 1 Editorial 2 In One Ear 3 Jacoby on Bridge 6 Women's News, Features 5 Your Birthday 1 i Lineiq, had just turned back a stampede. "I don't understand. Here we were open all day Satur day and Sunday. We had only 500 or 600 people Sunday.

Somehow they (the motorists) come the last two days," Goto said. GOTO AND his employes worked well into the evening yesterday tabulating, counting-money, checking applications, filing applications and, preparing for the big day today. Coming: 'Tiser's Statehood Edition It's coming soon The Advertiser's big Statehood Edition, marking Hawaii's admission into the Union as the "50th." Relations between the two countries appeared to be at a new low. The press and public clamored for the government to take a firm stand against the Hungary-like suppression of the Tibetan revolution. THOUSANDS OF demonstrators massed in front of the Communist Chinese embassy displaying "Death to Chou En-lai" signs and hundreds more protested at the Reds' consulate in Bombay.

Some observers predicted the suppression of the Tibetan revolt could lead to a major Shift in India's neutralist policy in regard to China. Nehru's warning to China not to try to dictate to India was, for him, unusually blunt. NEHRU addressed a fist-pounding, shouting session of parliament on China's formal charge that Tibetan rebels Who will be our state's first elected officials Inter HAYIAll'S COLD STAR-POLITICAL FORECAST LiSJ to of imes Dear Ike: Yesterdfy's temperature in Honolulu ranged from 69 to 82 degrees. Hotels are pretty crowded, but we're sure accommodations could be arranged. Golfing is good here and the scores are low.

Be a fine time to come take a look at the 50th State you helped bring into being. Aloha, The People of Hawaii (An aside to the Legislature why not make this a formal invitation?) uled to end Sunday. "I sincerely hope he can go and I think he'd like to go," Hagerty told reporters. "He needs some warm climate and some exercise which he has not been able to get. Dr.

Snyder thinks so too." hazardous if not impossible. Parking-lot attendants in the Hale lot had their hands full. All parking stalls were filled and refilled. Many were double and triple parked in the lot's driveways. While the vehicle's owner was inside the Hale, the attendants would jockey his car here and there to make room for more automobiles.

MOPPING HIS brow, Treasurer Lawrence S. Goto looked like a cattleman who foi Ike er-again record of Hawaii written at the time of statehood. The record will cover our. history, our industries, our-commerce and utilities, our shipping, our tourist and travel business, our health, our food, our real estate and land development, our community life, our fashions, our armed forces and ever so much more. DAILY subscribers to The Advertiser will automatically receive the Statehood Edition.

If you're not now a subscriber, just pick up the phone, dial 52-977 and ask for Circulation. For those who wish to buy additional copies for their own use or to send to the' Mainland, a supply will be provided. Watch The Advertiser for details. tary James C. Ilagerty made known the doctor's advice when he was asked whether the President would make his customary trip to Augusta, next week.

HAGERTY SAID the White House physician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, and other White House staff members have advised the President to take a warm weather break from his official routine. The President has taken on an increasing work load, especially in the foreign policy field, since Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was hospitalized in early February.

EISENHOWER IS scheduled to deliver two foreign policy speeches this week to the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to a college convocation. The President usually goes to Augusta each year just after the Masters' golf tour- Inament ends at the Augusta National Golf Club. This year's tournament is sched- IT WAS nearly impossible to walk through the three and four abreast lines of the registration windows yesterday. And, it was practically as bad on the streets outside. Traffic was jammed all day on Punchbowl St.

from Queen St. to the Mauka Arterial, and on S. Hotel St. for several blocks. Even seven-lane-wide King St.

had trouble moving traffic at its customary pace. LEFT TURNS at intersections around the Hale were FOR SEVERAL months now a special staff of researchers and writers has been preparing this historic record, in text and photos. This will be an excitingly different and lastingly valuable reference work on the Islands. You will want to save your copy and also send many copies to relatives and friends on the Mainland especially those who wrote their senators or representatives and put in a good word for Hawaiian statehood. WHEN WILL this be published? Not for some weeks because we are determined that it be of the highest quality, both in story content and photographs.

This is not another "special edition" it is a once-and-nev- 5) il trra ran License Seekers Face Long fl SZs 7 A GOLD STAR AWARD GAS. RANGE wm By BUD BEND IX If yesterday's crowds were any indication, the City treasurer's office should qualify as a movie mob scene today when last-minute motorists try to beat the vehicle registration penalty deadline. Yesterday, more than vehicles were registered. From 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., the line extended from the treasurer's office, across the City Hall lanai, then doubled back outside for the full length of the building.

Today, 12,000 are expected. AMD A TOUR OF THE STATE FOR 2 FIRST CORRECT INTRY YJMSl Get ballots and details A from your Gas Appliance Dealer What it Means to You (Fifteenth in a Series of Daily Articles) QUESTION Will judges be elected by the people in the state instead of appointed by the governor as under territorial status? ANSWER The Hawaii State Constitution provides that the governor shall nominate and, with the consent of the state Senate, appoint the justices of the State Supreme Court and the judges of the Circuit Courts. NOTE Readers' questions on statehood are incited. GAS COMPANY PHONE 51-571 HONOLULU TEN-FIFTY BISHOP STREET.

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