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KITV dismissed two reporters george daacon old on racial grounds, court were fired that same month, according to attorneys for Baker and McWilliams. Richard Grimm, KITV vice president and general manager, testified that he commissioned a survey of viewers' opinions in 1975 after the newscasts slipped to No. 3 in the ratings behind KGMB-TV and KHON-TV. He said the survey showed that both men scored low in terms of viewer recognition. Richard Egged Jr.

of Surveys Hawaii, who conducted the KITV survey, testified that a "significant response" was that 39 percent of those who watched the newscasts said they wanted to see more local people in the news. Attorneys Charles Hurd and Paul DiBianco represent McWilliams and Baker; KITV is represented by attorney Terence O'Toole. statements when the trial resumes today. Baker and McWilliams contend they were fired on the basis of race. Baker, who was 43 when terminated, also accuses KITV of age discrimination.

The two seek back pay totalling $12,600. Visiting federal Judge William Byrne Jr. of Los Angeles, who is presiding over the non-jury trial, has ruled out recovery on other grounds. McWilliams testified that Cheifet told him in September 1975 that the station wanted "more local looking faces on the air." Baker, who was hired by the station in 1972, testified that Cheifet told him in September 1975 that the station wanted "a younger, more ethnic staff." Both men and two other Caucasians on the news staff By KEN KOBAYASHI Advertiter Stttt Writer A trial on race and age discrimination charges against KITV opened yesterday in federal court with testimony from two Caucasian television reporters who were fired by the station in 1975. Don Baker and Tom McWilliams, who are now reporters for other television stations, testified that the KITV news director told them at the time that the station wanted "more local-looking faces" on the air and a more "ethnic staff." KITV's attorney has denied the allegations of race or age discrmination and Stewart Cheifet, the KITV news director in 1975.

is expected to deny making any such DIAMOND HEADLINES: At Don Joile Over's house Saturday, Rory Calhoun was gabbcrflasted to see guests at his fake remarriage to Sue Rhodes wearing T-shirts bearing a reproduction of a 38-year-old Confidential magazine the issue which featured a police mug shot of Rory on the cover and a story about he being arrested for auto theft The bumper sticker on Larry Beck's Seville pleads: "Please BARE with us Hawaii Nudist Park" Fred Monsell of Vista-Pacific Inc. (the Tuff-Kote Dinol people) handing out business cards that look perfectly ordinary on one side but flip it over and it says: "Confidentially, some of our competitors are a bunch of bastards" Little known fact: that Robert Cazimero is so into music he oftentimes sings in his sleep Tavana about to ink a new two-year, $4 million contract with Sheraton Honolulu-to-San Fran commuter Milton Shoong's 3-year-old son Alexander already has staked a claim to fame. At age two, the little tyke wrecked a $25,000 Mercedes by slipping it in gear and letting it roll down the nil Honolulu Advertiser Wednesday. April 25. 1979 A-3 mm AS THE WORLD CHURNS: Watching the Kai-lua Madrigals at the Halekulani Sunday nights is a sobering experience they clear the tables of all booze before the kids perform Speaking of booze, now that Billy Carter is on the wagon, and they don't make Billy Beer any more, Gene Kaneshiro has a real collector's item in that autographed Billy Beer can at Columbia Inn Lt.

Steve Poole of the National Oceanic and Mango crop has experts out on a limb Atmospheric author of a repon mat suggests the missing research vessel Holo Holo was photographed by a U-2 search 4 plane 9 days after it left port, was a close friend and colleague of Robert Harvey, one of the four UH scientists missing aboard the craft Bank of Hawaii's Wilson Cannon on whv Hawaii is a I good place for international cor- Cannon waii is about the only place in the world where you can talk to An exclusive Krauss Survey of the mango crop this year indicates that, if you have friends or relatives on the Waianae Coast, now is the time to butter 'em up. That's where the mangoes are. You might also be nice to people in Pearl City, Foster Village and Aiea. It doesn't matter so much in Wahiawa and Waialua because the mango crops there are lousy. I think.

But it's hard to tell. Production follows no logic this year, which makes it very difficult to advise you on mango diplomacy. Last year it was easy. We had mangoes coming out of our ears, so mango tree owners had to be diplomatic to everybody else in order to get rid of their mangoes. During bad years, everybody else has to be nice to mango tree owners if they want a taste.

This year the entire structure of mango diplomacy will undergo tremendous strain. It may be that trees bob krauss Advertiser columnist New York and Tokyo on the same business day" I usually don't get excited about baseball till World Series time but this year I'm starting early because it's so much fun seeing the bum L.A. Dodgers getting trounced Since Pete Rose has a new disco song written about him, Charlie Kamasami Kong is making a pitch for someone to write a song about UH hero, Derek Tatsuno. TTEAR THERE: The Maui Planning Commissi sion and Maui Council met on Molokai last week to talk about Friendly Isle planning. The outcome: the West end may be developed but the East end ain't to be touched And West Molokai has become a hot real estate market.

One Moana Makani lot sold three months ago has just been resold for double the price TV review: Aaron Gold describes the televised session of Congress as "Just another unnecessary situation comedy" A 70th birthday party for Arthur Smith in Aiea Heights turned out to be a triple-surpriseroo when in walked niece Pam Larson from Oregon and daughter Hoela Sherwood from California who gifted Smith with 100 lbs. of fresh asparagus from farmer friends near Sacramento Servco Pacific gifting Richard Clarenli Yokoi with a new infant car seat because the couple made headlines in Nov. by having their baby born in the front seat of a Toyoto en route to hospital I don't have an item on Bob Cisco of Harris. Kerr, Forster but I'm feeling mean today and if I mention his name he'll be fined at-Rotary Club Ooops: Dr. Bob Oldt's writing a book on optimal health, not ophthalmology.

Guess it was the twinkling of his baby blue eyes that made our female spy think ophthalmology. WIAT'S NEXT: A planeload of daring Maui art lovers flew into Honolulu Sat. for the unveiling (at Spats) of the self-portrait, "Bill Christian," which'll go on display at Gallery Hawaii. They were daring because their pilot was Peggy Bekins, who had just received her pilot's license and is Bill's daughter Christian by the way does three self-portraits a year. And with his interesting face why not? He hasn't had a which always produce will go on strike; trees that never bear will suddenly produce bushels of mangoes.

This means that people who severed diplomatic relations years ago may have to start speaking again if they expect to feast on Hawaii's favorite kamaaina backyard fruit. But we can't be certain because of the unstable nature of mango politics. It is easier to find out who is going to overthrow Iran than to get hard information on the intentions of mango trees. "I understand the mango crop is slow this year," I said to Steve Oda, manager of The Garden House on Beretania Street. "No.

it's early." "Early! My tree hasn't even blossomed. It was covered with blossoms in February last year. So I'm trying to find out what kind of a crop we'll have this year." "Depending on the variety ahhhhhh, hold on a minute." There was a conference on the other end of the line. Then Oda said his parents' mango tree was acting normal but if my tree hadn't set fruit by this time, it probably won't. A friend out in the back shop at The Advertiser assured me that his mango tree in Aiea is loaded as are trees in Foster Village.

But Ms. Fixit's tree in Aina Haina hasn't even bloomed. Warren Yee, retired extension specialist at the College of Tropical Agriculture, said his mango orchard in Waianae will produce a "fair" crop and that Pearl City should be good. Also, Neighborhood Assistant Jerry Cayer at the Waianae Satellite City Hall insisted there are oodles of mangoes all over Waianae and that her friend, Ann Caminos, has a tree that is bearing heavily but she's not giving any away. Russell Yoshida, owner of Wahiawa Pet Garden Supplies, confessed that the mango trees there "aren't Advertiser photo The person who owns this tree should definitely be treated with respect and kindness this year doing so good" and that he hasn't seen many mangoes off one side of his tree but the blossoms on the other in Waialua where ne lives.

siae Dore HKe crazy. However, Molly Foti in Lanikai said her two trees are So there you have it. full of mangoes. My advice this year is to play it cool. Don't argue m'imKwimvmimwmmm ia.ui uiout lave suite IOl so lor ur.

nenry maKasune, piam oieeuci ai luc iauuiis wilii yuui neigiiuor umu you re sure niS mango ti 1 1. 1 v. i low in mango production," he said. "My tree in the Fort never know which one has a loaded mango tree. Ruger area hasn't even bloomed." Above all, don't judge people by they way they talk or On the other side of Diamond Head, Oliver Kinney is dress.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of rollmg in mangoes. He said the wind blew the blossoms their mangoes. deciding 20 years ago: "Damned if I want to make King Gillette any richer" Romance inflation-fighting (two can live cheaper etc.) work together this weekend when Seigle Rolfs Wood art dir. Ron Hudson marries Christine Elliott of Hawaiian Graphics Larry Bid-die says the Lee Marvin case indicates one thing: "With some girls, after you split from them Marriott's Kaanapali Hotel gets planning commission OK Christian story towers on a 15.4-acre site be- twppn thp Maui Surf Hntpl anrl tho npui $150,000 settles suit in beating A 19-year-old man has obtained a $150,000 out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit which charged that he was assaulted in Waikiki last year by security guards employed by a firm. Lee Magers, who was represented by attorneys David Schutter and Jan Weinberg, filed his Circuit Court lawsuit against Cinerama Hawaii Hotels Inc.

and William Au Young, described as a security guard for the hotel, as well as unnamed others. The lawsuit is over an incident near the Red Lion restaurant on Lewers Street Jan. 29, 1978, when Magers, a pedicab driver at the time, was parked on the sidewalk. Magers, also known as Leroy Dell Harkness, charged that the guards assaulted him and pushed him down a stairway while he was handcuffed. Magers suffered a broken jaw and the loss of a couple of teeth, according to Schutter.

The settlement is believed to be one of the highest involving claims of assault against security guards in Hawaii. The settlement canceled a trial which was scheduled to start next week. they want to split with you" And Dick Perzentka says he doesn't want to sound like a male chauvinist, but he believes his wife's place is in the kitchen "helping me with the dishes!" THE DEADLINE DASH: Hui Lanakila Canoe Club to sponsor a unique (for Hawaii) hulled canoe race May 26 at Waikiki Another reason why Honolulu is a favorite port city of Royal Viking ships: Captain crew are invariably invited to a penthouse party hosted by Rainee Barkhorn, who has sailed the seas with them many a time Woodjabeleeve that socialite Sally Martin, studying aboard the U. of Colorado college ship, is now editor of its newspaper? Jackie Burke's Breakfast in Bed service expanding to the great outdoors. Tomorrow she'll serve an elegant breakfast on Diamond Head Beach to Siobhan Dunn's bf, Glenn Booth, as a b'day present For preferred clients, Rex Chandler sends his Mercedes sedan to pick up diners take them home again.

Rex'll also offer it when he reopens for lunch Kurt Fiegel was on the Mainland where he saw a camper piloted by a pair of senior citizens with this sign on the back: "Your Social Security taxes at work. Thank You." public parking stalls would be adequate for two planned beach rights-of-way and charged the proposed hotel would not benefit Maui residents. "Who are you representing? Are you representing the people of Maui?" he said to the commission. "This land could be a beach park. Do you truly represent the people, or are you representing the special interests or the tourists who will come to this hotel?" Aiona said he personally was not for or against the hotel.

But, he said, during a council meeting in Lahaina, some residents expressed opposition to the hotel. "We were told they felt we had too many hotels there was an overtaxing of recreational facilities such as tennis courts and parks," he said. He also said Lahaina residents believed the hotel would employ 600 persons. He said they questioned whether those employees would be current residents of Maui or would be recruited from outside of Maui. The Marriott hotel as proposed would provide 720 units in two nine- WAILUKU Wayne Nishiki, runner-up in last year's Democratic primary race for lieutenant governor, joined the vice chairman of the Maui County Council yesterday in speaking against a request for a permit for the 720-unit Marriott Kaanapali Beach Hotel.

But the Maui Planning Commission approved the special management area permit for the $50 million hotel proposed for a beachfront lot at the Kaanapali resort. Speaking against the project were Nishiki who ran unsuccessfully for Maui mayor in 1976 and for lieutenant governor in 1978 and Councilman Abraham Aiona, who said he was representing the council. Nishiki suggested tourism breeds crime and questioned the adequacy of parking for the public at proposed beach rights-of-way planned with the hotel. He said Michael Sterrett, head of a federal crime strike force in Honolulu, told him that organized crime and extortion is attracted by tourism. Nishiki also questioned whether 20 Hyatt-Regency Maui Hotel, now under construction.

Francis Wong, general partner for the developers, Kaanapali Beach Partners, said his group is hoping to start construction by the end of summer, with completion projected for early 1981. In statements to the Planning Commission, Wong said the hotel is expected to employ 500 to 600 persons. He added his partners, along with Amfac and Maui Land Pineapple have worked out an agreement to provide employee housing. As the Mariott Hotel's contribution, he said there would be a donation of 6.5 acres at Napilihau, as well as 71 units in the planned Kelawea Mauka subdivision near Kaanapali. In addition, he noted, Amfac owner of the Kaanapali Resort is planning to turn over 30 acres in Lahaina to Maui County to develop into a single-family housing project..