The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 1

February 4, 1982 The Honolulu Advertiser 8 neignoor isiana mfcm Blue grille lights legal on private cars Scoops Kreger msfixit NEWS has been in touch with the Police Department on this matter. Possibly a statewide law may be considered. DEAR MS. FIXIT: Recently, Queen Surf Beach and Kuhio Beach have become covered with brush, debris and rocks. The city used to have a man on duty at night to clean those beaches but no one seems to be cleaning them lately.

Why? And are there any plans to remove the debris and rocks from those two beaches soon? display or illumination of blue lights on civilian The amendment consideration was started prior to the recent Lisa Au case, according to HPD inspector Roy Kaaa. He said blue dome lights are issued to police officers but that, because the blue grille lights are owned by the officers themselves, it is to their advantage to remove and retain them when their vehicles are sold or otherwise disposed of. Kaaa said at least one legislator DEAR MS. FIXIT: Is there any law or police regulation that requires blue lights to be removed from the grille when vehicle is no longer owned by a police officer? If there is no such law, there certainly should be one. A There is no law or police regulation regarding blue grille lights on police-owned vehicles.

But. for some time now, the HPD has been working on an amend--ment to an existing city ordinance that would prohibit the mounting, Police brutality settlement $6,000 A Regular sweeping of those beaches has not been discontinued. Recent heavy rains and storm conditions have caused more than normal debris, making the beaches appear to be getting less than normal service, according to city Parks Department deputy director Sam Carl. Kennedy log lists secret recordings from page one tary working for the family. The recordings were said to be still in the hands of the Kennedy family, not yet turned over to the library.

Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's personal White House secretary, and several Secret Service agents who installed and maintained the system of recordings were the only ones who knew the full details of the secret recording system, according to well-informed officials. varez. Mahuna struck him in the eye. an injury that required four stitches. The two policemen also threw their prisoner down the stairs after he was handcuffed, causing him great pain and humiliation, according to the suit.

County attorneys claimed that Mahuna and Resurrecion used reasonable force necessary to make the arrest, prevent Alvarez' escape and protect themselves. The county did not deny the, injuries occurred or that Alvarez', required treatment, Council chairman Steve Yama-shiro said the settlement will cover all of the defendants, including the two officers. Court records yesterday showed the settlement to be second reached out of court involving Mahuna. Don Lord, who alleged brutality by Mahuna in Kailua-Kona on March 16, 1978. got a settlement prior to a trial on charges he had brought against the officer in federal court.

Lord also claimed he was struck in the eye by Mahuna. The amount of the Lord settlement was not shown in the court records here. County attorneys had submitted written arguments to Kimura arguing that the jury that would have heard the Alvarez suit should not be allowed to know that Mahuna was the subject of another brutality case. By Hugh Clark Adcertitet Big Island Bureau HILO The Hawaii County Council yesterday voted to spend $6,000 for an out-of-court settlement with a Kona man who sued two, Big Island policemen, charging brutality. Daniel R.

Alvarez will receive the money as a negotiated settlement approved by the council on an 8-1 vote following a 40-minute closed-door meeting with attorneys. The agreement to pay the money rather than risk a bigger loss in a trial came after council members agreed to hold a meeting soon with members of the police commission to discuss bruality cases in general. Frank De Luz opposed the settlement, saying the case should go to trial. Policemen Julio Resurrecion and Lawrence Mahuna were sued for $200,000 along with the police department and the county for the alleged beating of Alvarez following a traffic stop Oct. 5.

1978. in Honalo, Kona. In December. Judge Shunichi Kimura dismissed a claim by Alvarez for $300,000 in punitive damages. However, a trial was still pending on the $200,000 sought in general damages.

According to the suit, after the two policemen handcuffed Al Kennedy years Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. George Ball and J. William Fulbright. Dean Rusk and Robert Kennedy, George Kennan and Averell Harriman. The listing of subjects alone reads like a compendium of U.S.

and world history of that era the University of Mississippi and civil rights, the Test Ban Treaty and Andrei Gromyko. steel prices and the "lunar program." Ambassadors and world statesmen, Haile Selassie, Jean Monnet. and Paul Henri Spaak and Canada's Lester Pearson among them, are included. To scholars, obvious attention will center on recordings of deliberations during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 when the world stood in peril of nuclear war. Many meetings on Cuba and that crisis are logged.

So are many on the emerging problem of Southeast Asia, specifically Vietnam. As was true of the Kennedy period, these foreign dramas were interspersed with domestic ones. The theme of civil rights, in that time of freedom marches and confrontation in the South, runs through the logs. So does politics. the log is more specific in its description of the phone conversations than of the White House meetings Kennedy recorded.

It is a mind-boggling mixture of crises of state and personal items, sure to whet the appetite of historians and very likely to cause some anxiety among those on the other end of the calls. There are series of calls to Pentagon officials and to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett about the admission at gunpoint of James Meredith, the first black to attend the University of Mississippi. There are many calls, including one to former President Truman, about the nuclear-test-ban treaty. The picture that emerges, even from the log.

is one of a president deepl involved in congressional, political and personal matters The. identities of six of these people Kennedy talked with and had recorded are blocked out on the log obtained by The Washington Post. One is known to be Jacqueline Kennedy. The subject matter of these six conversations is also deleted of Pigs to the end of his presidency. The subject was the Far East, and the date was Aug.

29, 1962. Vietnam, then only barely a i factor in American life, was still far beyond the horizon. These alone are the. stuff that will make scholars, biographers and Kennedy political foes and friends drool with anticipation for what they reveal when full transcripts are made available from the Kennedy Library in Boston. They have another dimension a political one that will stir fresh controversy about the already controversial Kennedy years.

That is the fact the recordings were made at all. Disclosure that Richard Nixon secretly taped his White House and other private conversations was a crucial factor that led to his resignation during the Watergate crisis. Inevitably, attention that will now be focused on the massive scale of the Kennedy recordings will generate new partisan political debate about abuses of privacy, if not power, of other presidents than Nixon. Recent days brought news, for instance, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt also secretly recorded conversations in the White House during his 1940 third-term campaign period.

David Powers, former appointments secretary to the late president and curator of the JFK Library in 1973, said at the time of the Watergate hearings he knew of no similar telephone monitoring system in the Kennedy White House. "I cannot recall this ever being done." Powers was quoted at the time. "If it had been done. I would have known it. I was in the president's office every day." Historian Arthur Schlesinger reacted similarly.

A secret taping system would have been "inconceivable," he said, because Kennedy would never have approved such an "incredible" system. According to library director Fenn, he informed Kennedy aides after their public remarks that there were also Kennedy tapes. Fenn then issued a statement that provided a brief account of the existence of Kennedy tapes, including the fact that some were to be transcribed by a secre "1 was the engineer," Lincoln said in a recent interview. Lincoln said Kennedy had a switch in his office that activated a red light at her desk. That was the signal, she said, to begin the recording system.

According to Lincoln, if the red light went on when Kennedy was on the phone, she was to record the conversation on the dictabelt system hooked into his phone. If the light went on when he was in the Oval Office or the Cabinet room, she was to start the regular taping system for those rooms. "He was very conscious of history." Lincoln said. "He was always wanting to get exactly what was said to pinpoint precisely what was said. These were for history and he wanted to have them for that and he never once went back and listened to one." The log substantiates Lincoln's statement that the recordings were made with an eye toward history.

Nearly every major issue of the Kennedy presidency tax bills, the nuclear-test-ban treaty, the economy, foreign visits, civil rights, defense policy, foreign aid are mentioned in the log as topics of discussion in various meetings. Theodore C. Sorensen. special counsel to Kennedy and probably his closest aide, was shown a copy of the log last month. "I'm dumbfounded." Sorensen said, adding that he had no idea whatsoever that such recordings were being made.

Logs of the tapes show recordings not only with such major figures as Eisenhower. Mac-Arthur and Stevenson, but also with a host of other leading players on the national and world scene Also recorded are conversations with former President Harry S. Truman and Kennedy's vice president and successor. Lyndon B. Johnson.

Merely glancing through the pages of logs listing people recorded shows virtually all the names that once dominated headlines during the Prison may not help, but he's going there m. maui A courts on the log. VI I TIMOTHY WAILUKU Jack Lopes. 25, told 2nd Circuit Judge Kase Higa. won't help me." but was Sentenced anyway to five years in prison for burglary and attempted escape.

Lopes had pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary and a count of attempted escape. The burglary charges were reduced from original charges of robbery of stores in Kihei and Lahaina in August 1981. In his appearance yesterday. Lopes said; "I know I did wrong and I do deserve some time, but prison won't help me. I'll come out the same as I am now or worse." He asked to be allowed to enter a treatment program, particularly for an alcohol problem, but acknowledged that he was not likely to be allowed anything other than a prison term.

'Defense attorney Michael Tate-ishi also asked for treatment rather than prison, but, acknowledging that was not going to happen, said Lopes should be sentenced to prison anywhere but Hawaii. Tateishi said Lopes has had problems with persons who are now inmates in various facilities on Oahu. To that. Higa did agree, sentencing Lopes to five years on each count, but allowing him to remain at the Maui jail until arrangements can be made to transfer him to a prison on the Mainland. Also during yesterday's court sessions, Higa placed Joseph Sarol 19, on probation on charges of assault and criminal property damage resulting from a high-speed chase through Lahaina in September.

According to deputy prosecutor Diane Ho, Sarol was angry at seeing a former girlfriend in a car with two other men and chased them from Napili to Puamana, a distance of about eight miles. At the end of the chase, Sarol struck the car, causing it to hit a second car. He also struck one of the men in the car he had been chasing. Ho urged the judge to impose some punishment. "Now that he's an adult, he has to learn to control his temper better," Ho said.

Sarol had pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal property damage and two assault counts, including one involving injuries suffered by a woman driver whose car was struck in the accident. Higa placed him on five years' probation, suspended a 12-month jail term provided he make restitution for all damages and injuries, ordered that he be continuously employed and fined him a total of $500. ALWAYS AND GIVE THANKS "Everything that (iod has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks, because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to (od." FBII GOOD NEWS BIBLE, OLD I NEW TESTAMENT GOOD NEWS SOCETT 396-0760 01 J7U551 Kl 25746. 96I2S MflP I NflDfO TO MY POB THIS SPACI. HEART ATTACKPATIENTS Needed for participation in nationwide study.

Ages 30 to 74 Heart attack within last 3 months Free examinations, lab work, EKG's and chest X-rays Ph. 536-1157 Council gives okay to higher bus fares HILO The crice of a ride on tri jZ-sSP tv -jr. dT wr To) big island transit teTlNl the Big Island's Hele-On buses will double in April. A year-long study and analysis of the county's bus system ended yesterday with with the Hawaii County Council adopting the lower of two proposals for fare increases. The basic Hilo and Kona "intracity" fares will go from 25 cents to 50 cents a ride while the longer cross-island fares also will be doubled.

The most expensive ride, a one-way trip from Honau-nau in South Kona to Hilo will go from $2.25 to $4.50. The county will continue to offer senior citizens half fare. The County Transit Agency now is recovering about 19 cents from every $1 spent to operate the bus system. The new fares will raise the recovery rate to about 40 percent, said Dr. Youngki Hahn who served on the mayor's task force on transportation as a technical adviser.

During a series of hearing? held last year to discuss the future of public transportation on BY OKDEI Of THE U.S. BANKRUPTCY COUIT CREATIVE CARPENTRY, its. 96-1 362C WAIHONA SAT. FEB. 6 10 A.M.

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The Hele-On system, started up wnth federal grant monies to purchase the buses, began in December 1975. It never has broken even in terms of operating costs vs. fare revenue. The fare hike authorized yesterday is the first since the system was started. 'ALLY THE BEST IN CASUAL SUP-ON SHOES "SUNNY" WITH LEATHER SUEDE UPPERS AND POLYURETHANE BOTTOMS.

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The bank office will open for business Monday. KAHULUI The First Hawaiian Bank's Kahului branch will mave across the intersection at Puunene and Kaahumanu Avenues Saturday..