The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 11

HONOLULU ADVERTISER Aug. 31, 1972 A-U -1 rv i i nrJsasr1 iWl4w 4 Mrs. Burns presents a lei to the President as the Governor and Mrs. Nixon look on. 5 ijj hm Pill 4r I Milo ready for Pat 's visit I By HUGH CLARK Advertiser Big Island Bureau I i tirely through contributed funds.

Louie, who is learning both motor and speech skills at the center, will escort Mrs. Nixon through a main room, the speech center and a "patterning" room at the small center which treats 150 Big Islanders. Next she will go to Pomakai Senior Citizens' Cen ter, a County-operated and Federally funded housing and activities facility which is manned by four staffers and several volunteers who will outline the operations to Mrs. Nixon. A half-hour later she is to arrive at Keaukaha School, the Big Island's only predominantly Hawaiian school.

Students and their parents will conduct lessons in Hawaiian language for Mrs. Nixon and also demonstrate Hawaiian games and crafts. She will change cultures quickly in a stop at Liliuokalani Park Gardens, a County park created in the traditional Japanese yedo style. Mrs. Nixon will be welcomed by several women dressed in kimonos who will accompany her across several small Japanese bridges to a recently opened chashitsu, a tea-ceremony hut.

AT THE HUT, she will participate in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony to be given by Taro Nakamoto of Hilo who is representing the Urasenke Chanoyu Foundation of Japan which donated the building to the County Aug. 3. The major event will be a 5 p.m. luau, with Mayor Kimura as host. She will be seated at a head table with Kimura and three young persons and three senior citizens considered as representative of the various Big Island cultures.

During the luau she will be given an old Hawaiian hymnal by Imiola Church of Waimea, plus gifts of products by children. Kimura has invited 400 persons what he described as a Big Island cross-section to attend the luau, which will end when the Mayor escorts the First Lady back to Lyman Field for a 7 p.m. departure to Honolulu. In an effort to increase the size of the welcoming crowd, Kimura has declared a two-hour holiday for the nearly 1,000 County employes and urged businesses to do likewise. The police will open up a section of the airport runway not 'used by aircraft for temporary parking.

HILO Mrs. Donna Safki, principal of Keaukaha School, rushed to the beauty parlor yesterday while chairs used for the school's Lei Day court were dusted off, and a County painting crew was touching up the sign at the entrance of Liliuokalani Park. The Big Island clearly was preparing to place its best foot forward today when Mrs. Pat Nixon visits, while the President and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka open discussions at Kuilima Hotel on Oahu. Several thousand Hiloans are expected crowd General Lyman Field to greet Mrs.

Nixon on her arrival shortly after noon at a specially designated area at the makai end of the airport. THE FORMER military terminal was set aside for the welcome yesterday after earlier plans to have Mrs. Nixon enter via the temporary overseas terminal were canceled because of its, limited space. Only heavy rains will force the First Lady's energetic County hosts to return to the covered terminal. The U.S.

Weather Service last night predicted nearly ideal climate for today. Warm, humid and overcast conditions will be replaced by more typical Hilo weather with some light but infrequent showers, a spokesman said. After a traditional musical welcome from the County band and the Edith. Kanakaole Hula Troupe, Mrs. Nixon is to receive a key to the County from Mayor Shunichi Kimura who has gone all out to attract a large crowd for the ceremonies.

Then, she will embark on a fast-paced tour of Hilo with four stops at points of interest. The tour will last two and a half hours. A scheduled visit to Rainbow Falls was scrapped yesterday because while the "falls are beautiful, we decided Keaukaha School was more important," White House Spokesman William R. Codus said. HER ITINERARY stresses seeing volunteer efforts and experiencing a brief glimpse of the culture of the man her husband is meeting.

Mrs. Nixon first will meet Louie, a five-year-old patient at the Easter Seal Society's Crippled Children and Adults Treatment Center which is operated en You can't keep all the rain off and when it filters through, there's just one thing to do. 1 I Pi I iiwiimhi mil I I 1 i Advertiser photos III till UPI Photo Between California and Hawaii: Marshall Green, Kissinger, Rogers, the President and U. Alexis Johnson hold session. I If eat' 1 pv.i;y i -i It was dryer under the grandstand.

Island folk hoist the umhrellas as Nixon, addresses welcomers. Nixon, wife Pat and Gov. BurrKlead welcoming arty away from the Spirit of '76. 9 i.