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'Magnum? gets 3- year use of Diamond Head studio residential land without a building permit. It was replaced by a National Guard headquarters. After Five-0 ended its run. Universal and Magnum moved into the 18th Avenue studio. Universal's lease on the studio expired on Dec.

31, and last fall, some of the Magnum people threatened that they'd have to pull out of Hawaii unless their lease was extended. At Ariyoshi's urging, the lease was ex-, tended till the end of this month. "The threat to pull out was not a real one," Ariyoshi said yesterday. "Efforts were being made, and something would have been worked out." He said "the film industry can be very beneficial" to the state. But the governor acknowledged that "we're going to be faced with the same problems three years from now unless we do something in the Hawaii.

The television industry as a whole has to look for a commercial facility a private facility that all TV studios can use." For now, however, everybody's happy with the new agreement. Ariysohi said, "It's a great benefit to the state, a great benefit to the university. At the same time, this will make possible the continuation of the filming of Magnum." Matsuda said, "It meets our needs iri'a positive way, and a further benefit is that in three years, we double our space." The land board's approval of the new lease is based on the condition that the' city issue or renew a conditional-use permit for the studio to operate on the site. The previous permit expired on Dec. 31.

City Land Utilization Director MiHe McElroy said the state had not yet beeri: notified of the expiration. If private industry can't come up with suitable studio facilities, he said, "then perhaps government may have to step in." Harris, however, said, "We don't expect the state of Hawaii to subsidize us. We are paying a very fair price for the use of this public land. We're continuing to look for alternate sites." The studio's location, he said, "is ideal." It is close to Waikiki and nearby neighborhoods provide lush backgrounds. Harris said a studio in outlying areas of Oahu, such as the one the state has proposed for Gentry-Waipio, would be less desirable.

He noted that, with the Mainland in the throes of the coldest winter in decades, Magnum's ratings have gone up. "Tom Selleck is the star, but Hawaii is the co-star," Harris said. "I think you're going to find even more people attracted to $900,000 will pay for construction of temporary replacement facilities equal to the studio's 15.000 square feet of area for the college. The state will collect most of the remaining $100,000 in lease rent. The balance would be held to convert the studio to college use after 1984.

Universal's month-to-month lease is revocable, but Ariyoshi said that, because of the payment to the state, "the understanding is they'll remain there through 1984." Robert Harris. Universal Television president, said the agreement was "very fair." He thanked Ariyoshi and university president Fujio Matsuda for their involvement. In 1975, Ariyoshi allowed CBS to lease the 18th Avenue site for a new studio for its Hawaii Five-0 series. Five-O's original studio, a half-mile down Diamond Head Road, was built in 1969 on By Mark Matsunaga I.Kdvtrtiitr Government Bureau I The case of the Magnum P.I. studio is 7closed for three years.

Gov. George Ariyoshi announced yesterday that Universal Television will get to use the Diamond Head studio where the popular "Magnum P.I." series now is filmed through December 1984. in exchange for SI million. The state Board of Land and Natural Resources and university Board of Regents 'approved the agreement yesterday. The four-acre studio site, at 510 18th is owned by the state and is part of a 52-acre parcel which the state has leased to the University of Hawaii for the Kapiolani Community College Diamond Head campus.

The university plans eventually to con- vert the studio into classrooms. Universal will pay $900,000 up front. The tew poors Honolulu II Saturday, January 23, 1982 A-3 a 7 ft II ii If. (Hhf JMnriti 4 fill Isl ii C- 1,500 march on Capitol to oppose abortion laws 1 jr ZCTaran I fa hjXw ttttfytyr the court that he said "subverted the Constitution of the United States." He added that he was praying that the state Senate "may never make a similar mistake." Guerin's appearance was arranged by the Hawaii Council of Churches, as are all of those who offer the daily invocation to senators. The timing of his appearance was not pre-arranged to coincide with the anniversary of the court's decision.

The Rev. Robert Mackey, director of special ministry at the St. Louis-Chaminade education center, said that though the march was primarily on the issue of abortion, the "right to life" concerns of the church are much broader. Other concerns touch on the quality of life from conception to death and the capital punishment issue, he said. Mackey said that in addition to Catholic school students, the crowd included Mormons and members of other faiths.

Hawaii was the first state in the nation to legalize abortion. The late Gov. John Burns, who himself opposed abortion, nonetheless allowed the measure to become law without his signature in March 1970. Although the march on the Capitol has become an annual event, there has not been much support among lawmakers to make the abortion law more restrictive. By Sandra S.

Oshiro Adi fTtise (ncrnmrnt flureau About 1,500 people, many of them Catholic schoolchildren, converged on the state Capitol yesterday to pray for lawmakers and to speak out against abortion. An initial crowd of about 500 people led by Christian Coalition organizer Victor Borgia, prayed for legislators to be "good stewards." The crowd was later joined by anti-abortion marchers who paraded from Our Lady of Peace cathedral to the Capitol rotunda. The march, one of many across the nation marked the ninth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion. The right-to-hfe group, along with some who attended the earlier prayer rally, walked around the Capitol.

Some held signs that declared such themes as, "Abortion is murder, not birth control." Even before the march got started, however, state senators got a dose of what was to come. The Rev. Mark Guerin. rector of Our Lady of Peace cathedral, raised a few eyebrows when he brought up the abortion issue in his invocation before the Senate. He said that the day marked the "ninth anniversay of the fatally wrong decision" of Hundreds marched yesterday to the Capitol rotunda, as did other people across the nation to protest the ninth anniversary of the U.S.

Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion (above). At left, a mother stands beside two children and carrys a sign with the Biolical saying "nt-- 1 il. womb, I knew you for my Advertiser photos by David Yamada Mat be victim of fake policeman Family answers the call of man tracing a memory Woman disappears on wav home had iust recently moved out of the bob krauss By Terrv McMurray Kdierliwr Staff Writer A 19-year-old Kailua woman has mysteriously disappeared and police suspect she may have met with harm from someone perhaps impersonating a policeman to get her to stop her car near the Kailua Dnve-m Theater. She was identified as Lisa U. Au of Wailepo Place, a hairdresser, last seen about 12:45 a.m.

Thursday Mk -dvertiter columnit Bob Morgan's long search for a little girl with a big smile came to a happy ending yesterday a few hours after The Advertiser appeared on Oahu's doorstep. Abigail Puli called from Wai-anae and said, "That's my sister-in-law." At noon. Morgan had lunch at Waioh Tea Room with the mother of the little crippled girl he befriended 30 years ago and had come 4,000 miles from Grand Junction, to find. The girl he knew was Gail Puli, a bright-eyed 5-year-old student at the Salvation Army School, who captured the hearts of submarine chief radioman Morgan and his shipmates aboard the USS Bugara in the early 1950s. Gail's mother.

Rose Kaolelopo-no, said her daughter is now married to a Navy man, has four children and is living in Lem-oore. Calif. "My wife and I are going home through Los Angeles on Sunday," Morgan said. "I'm going to contact Gail from there." Morgan said he came to Hawaii with the intention of finding Gail, who was a guest at a Christmas party given by the Bugara crew pretending to be a police officer stopping women drivers on the Honolulu-Kailua route. Searchers yesterday checked the embankments, brush and streams in the immediate area on foot and from a police helicopter, and planned to expand the search today.

Strengthening fears that she met with foul play was the report that only her driver's license and car registration were missing from her car. found with its driver's window rolled down despite heavy rain all that night. Police said a man who might have stopped her may have asked for her dnver's license and then her car registration after she opened her window to comply with what she believed to be a policeman. Her purse, wallet, a dollar bill and some change, a package and some extra clothing were found intact on the seat of her car, as were her car keys. The car's parking lights and windshield wipers were on.

The battery, however, was dead when the ear was found about 12:30 p.m. Thursday by Au's boyfriend, indicating that the wipers and lights had drained it, police said. When the battery was charged yesterday, the car started immediately. Au. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Chester D. Au of Pohakupu, Kailua. had telephoned her roommate, another Kailua hairdresser, about 1:45 a.m. Thursday that she was leaving her boyfriend's sister's Makiki home to drive back to Kailua.

She had declined the sister's invitation to stay overnight. She never arrived home. Her brown 1976 two-door Toyota was found the next morning by her boyfriend, who had been notified at his University of Hawaii dormitory that she was missing. He was driving to Kailua when he spotted the car parked on the side of the highway about 75 yards from Maunawili Road. 100 jards from a public telephone, about a mile from her parents home and two miles from her own apartment.

Its interior was soaked, with several inches of water on the floor, indicating the window was open during the stormy night Police left the car there until yesterday, let-ling it dry out in order to fingerprint and photograph it Au's family took it home yesterday afternoon. Au, a 1980 graduate of Maryknoll, family home and into a downtown Kailua apartment with a woman friend, her co-worker. It was the roommate who notified Au's boyfriend and family Thursday morning after Au described as meticulous and responsible didn't return to their apartment and also did not show up for work at the beauty salon. She was last seen wearing yellow shorts, a blue long-sleeved pullover sweater with a V-neckline, and leather zori-style sandals. Detective Roy Urakawa of the missing persons bureau asked that anyone who might have seen her or her car on the Pali route to Kailua after 1 a.m.

Thursday to call him or investigators William Jacinto and David Rodngues. "We're hoping someone saw something suspicious at about that spot where her car was found," he said. "Maybe a larger car was seen parked near hers, maybe between I a.m. and 1:30 a.m. We're hoping and investigating.

"But I'm afraid of what we might find. Her background shows she was in good spirits and to disappear voluntarily doesn't seem like her." leaving a Makiki apartment to drive in heavy rain home to Kailua. Her car was found abandoned the next morning alongside the Kailua-bound lanes of Kalanian-aole Highway, mauka of Mau-nawili Road, near. for students at the Salvation Army School in 1951. Gail received her dream present, a tricycle.

He said the children, especially Gail, gave the submariners so much pleasure they threw another Christmas party in 1952. By this time, Gail was in Shnr.er's Hospital having her crippled leg fixed. The sailors held a party for Gail there. They gave her a doll almost as big as herself. That contact with the hospital started Morgan on a lifetime of public service for hospital patients after he retired from the Navy, he said.

"She made such an impression on me. I've always want to come back and find her," he added. "Her mother said she remembers the tricycle and doll very well." Lisa Au the theater. A newsman reported the car was there at 1:45 a.m., an hour after she left Honolulu. Police were concerned by the unusual case and aware of reports in recent years of a motorist.

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