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o) O) Miss Manners B2 Symphony Review B3 Wayne Harada B3 Television B4 The Honolulu Advertiser OWflPDgs Tuesday, OctoDer 6, 1987 I i 5. i 4 7 i A. H1'H Advartiaaf photo by Ron Jatt 1 If Hi Ethel Chun Lum and Ellery J. Chun holding one of Ethel's original aloha shirt fabric designs. Chun is wearing a rayon King-Smith aloha shirt from the 1940s.

The creators of the Aloha Shirt Advertiser photo by Ron Jett Jeanie Campbell with a class of 1 st graders at Punahou, flexing her right arm to explain that hearts are muscles too. Speaking of a healthy heart Teaching kids about food and exercise By Ronn Ronck Advertiser Artt Writer WHO created that first aloha shirt? Most references in Hawaii's fashion history say Ellery J. Chun is the father of the "Aloha Shirt." He registered the name in 1936, and was the first major retailer to heavily advertise and sell these brightly colored Hawaiian print shirts. At $1.95 each, they were the most popular item he carried at his King-Smith Clothiers shop, located at 36 N. King St.

What is less well-known, though, is that Ellery Chun couldn't have done it without his sister, artist Ethel Chun Lum. It was Ethel who designed those early aloha shirt prints for Ellery. She still has some of the original artwork. "The boards are around here somewhere," Lum says, digging around in the back of a closet. "Let's hope the cockroaches haven't been around since I last put them away." Lum needn't have worried.

She backs out of the closet with her treasures, several vintage hand-painted designs that were transferred to King-Smith Aloha Shirts back in the mid-1980s. Included are designs featuring the malolo or flying fish, the kihikihi or Moorish Idol fish, and a Hawaiian man fishing at night by torchlight. Also in the pile is a tapa design that Lum says was extremely popular and, like the others, was reproduced in a variety of colors. "There were lots more designs, of course, but this is all the artwork I've saved. Ellery gave them to me to keep as historical mementos." King-Smith Clothiers was originally named C.K.

Chow Co. It was founded by Ellery and Ethel's father, Chun Kam Chow. Ellery, now 78, was graduated from Punahou in 1927, and then went to Yale to study economics. He returned to Honolulu in 1931, with his degree and took over the store at the age' of 22. He changed the name to King-Smith Clothiers because it was located on King Street and close to Smith Street.

Ethel, at 73, is five years younger than Ellery. She also attended Punahou and later graduated from the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1936 with a degree in home economics. She also took courses in drawing, painting, and sculpture at the university. When she was able to take a break from her studies, she See The birth, Page B-2 i i Ah i yr. "Oooh, gross," said one little fellow.

But Campbell proceeded, in class after class, to talk about how important exercise, the right foods and not smoking are to keep hearts healthy. jto teach them early how to prevent heart disease so they won't haveJO she said earlier; The outreach program began as a direct result of a new phenomenon: an increasing amount of high blood pressure in teenagers. "We've found there are lots of adolescents who come in with high blood pres- sure," says Campbell, a pediatric staff nurse. "It starts because of diet eating fatty foods and becoming sedentary. "Most tend to be overweight and most aren't involved in any sports.

What will See Teaching, Page B-2 By Beverly Creamer Advertiser Staff Writer JACK aqd Jill went.uk. thjihUl tolVna-hou yesterday Morning to teadi first-' graders about heart disease. Jack and Jill afe S500 dolls-wfth mulfe-ple-layered chests that fasten with Velcro and open to reveal ribs, lungs and They live at Queen's Medical Center where they're used as in-house "buddies" for young patients undergoing surgery, and now they're going out to schools with nurse Jeanie Campbell to teach a Wider audience about disease. "That's why we're here today so you don't get a heart attack when you're your grandparents' age," said Campbell, bending toward a class of eager-faced six-year-olds and ripping open Jack's chest. a Advertiser photo by David Yamada Campbell with Jack and Jill dolls.

i 'Silk Screen takes a look at East in West I ctQILK Screen," a public television se-ijries about Asian Americans, returns tonight with "Made in China," a documentary about a Chinese American woman's return to her ancestral homeland. This month three stories about immigrants to a land of promise, their dreams and disappointments, struggles and successes, will be on screen. The award-winning series airs at a late hour 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays, on KHET, Channel 11 but it's worth staying up for. "Made in Tonight's program follows Lisa Hsia from a Chicago suburb to China, where she experiences cultural differences.

An old photograph of a family reunion in Shanghai in the 1930s leads Hsia to relatives in China, where she goes to study. She weaves together home movies, animation and family photos With live footage to tell the tale of two cultures. "Dollar a Day, 10 Cents a Dance," airs Oct. 13. It's the forgotten story of the Filipino farm workers who came to the U.S.

in the 1920s and '30s. More than 100,000 Filipinos, mostly young men, came to the U.S. between 1924 to 1935 looking for fortune and economic opportunity. Most found disappointment. Through interviews with elderly men, their story of survival in California is told.

"The New Puritans: The Sikhs of Yuba City," airs Oct. 20. The 8,000 East Indians who live and farm in Northern California's Sacramento Valley are shown maintaining their cultural and religious traditions. Many came to America in the 1900s, yet still practice such traditions as that of arranged marriages. 1 Ethel Lum's design of the malolo or flying fish, an aloha shirt design from the mid-30s.

v- i I ml People By Milt Guss Advertiser Columnist 1, 1V LJ Koch Trump Joanne Woodward, smiled and clicked away with her knitting needles. When Walter Hudson weighed himself in E. Meadow, N.Y., yesterday, he may have broken a world's record. For sure, he broke the scales. He weighs at least 1,000 lbs.

Three weightlifters hoisted him up on the platform scales, designed to handle 1,000 lbs. The scale indicated its max of 1,000. Then the spring on the scale snapped, the platform started shaking and he fell backward. But the weightlifters kept him from falling. He's going on a diet Tom Rafferty, food manager at the Providence Civic Center, says some celebs are very exacting.

Whitney Houston insists on non-carbonated distilled water at room temperature. He says the easiest star to please is Frank Sinatra. All he asks for is a bottle of wine or a special pastaD presidential race similar to the one he won in 1976 because voters will reward candor. He said: "The American people are fed up with constant misstatements of fact that have been coming from the White House." Miss America, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, met Bill Cosby at the taping of his TV show. When Cosby learned her dad smoked cigars, they phoned him in Monroe, Mich.

Cosby promised to send Lanny Rafko one of his special cigars. But Cosby made Rafko promise he was going to smoke it. "I don't give people cigars so they can put it on the mantel piece and say, 'Bill Cosby gave me Paul Newman was in D.C. yesterday at a ceremony to pick up a check for his Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for kids suffering from cancer. The $5 million check was presented by the Saudi envoy on behalf of KineFahd.

Newman appeared moved by the gift. His wife, standing inches apart, but their eyes were not on each other. They didn't kiss and make up but they did shake hands in sort of an uneasy truce. Brigitte Bardot, ex-sex kitten, helped 410 abandoned cats and dogs find new owners during a French TV show broadcast on the holiday honoring St. Francis of Assisi.

Gary Hart, speaking in Ann Arbor, predicted the Detroit Tigers would beat the Minnesota Twins in the American League Playoffs. Now, he doesn't have to worry about offending Minn, voters. Our guess is that Tom Selleck would agree with his forecast. Truck driver Clarence Dees was upset when denied permission to move from one movie to another in a Lexington, multi-screen theater. Police say he drove his tractor-trailer through the front window of the theater, knocking over the concession stand before halting Bill Jones says he was born a slave on a farm near Leland, in Dec.

1863. That would make him 123-plus and the oldest person alive. But he has no birth certificate or other proof. At his nursing home he gets 8 ounces of whisky daily. And that's at least 80 proof.

Jerry Falwell wasn't too busy with PTL bickering to perform a labor of love. He officiated at the wedding of his son, Jerry Falwell 25, to Becky Tilley, 21, in Lynchburg, Donald Trump has called N.Y. Mayor Ed Koch "a moron" and "a jerk." Koch has referred to the rich developer as "piggy." They appeared together during a ceremony yesterday outside City Hall. All eyes were on them, in the lobby. Ex-House Speaker Tip O'Neill said yesterday that N.Y.

Gov. Mario Cuomo could win the Dem presidential nomination if he entered the race by Dec. 1. The high court yesterday refused to hear an appeal of a ruling that blocked publication of a bio of J.D. Salinger because unpublished letters by the reclusive author were used by the researcher to write his book Jimmy Carter says recent events have made the 1988.