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PageA23 A Beached: Water experts say Kuhio Beach safe I for swimming despite runoff. A25. Police Beat, A28 Obituaries, A26, A28 i The Honolulu Advertiser Sunday, August 13, 1995 City Editor. Dan Nakaso, 525-8090 56( on(BMlf sSeto(q EEn3fl01E iii.m, in ill lmuml.KK iu. A Accessibility Has ruined Olowalu petroglyphs i i V- By Edwin Tanji Advertiser Maui County Bureau OLOWALU, Maui -Petro-, glyphs painstakingly chipped into a cliff face at Olowalu by ancient Hawaiians survived enturies of weathering.

jBut the ancient carvings could not survive a decade of vandalism. A Hawaii Visitors Bureau sign used to mark the rough dirt road that led to the petroglyph site. Now that sign is gone, replaced by a Pioneer Mill warning against trespassing. Vandals have ruined the site, according to the Rev. Nani Saffery, who remembers first Council members visited a petroglyph field at Nuu Bay, where a county park is proposed, Councilman Sol Kahoo-halahala said the county did not know how to protect such a site.

On Lanai, where Kahoohala-hala has been involved in cultural preservation, a Lanai Archaeological Committee made up of residents makes decisions on how archaeological sites, including several with petroglyphs, should be treated. With some sites deemed to be particularly significant, "the best protection is no access: See Olowalu, Page A27 seeing the petroglyphs when she moved to Olowalu in 1938. "I don't know what happened, but there are people who go up and do their own thing," she said. A retired Pioneer Mill manager, Keoki Freeland, said the plantation once supported efforts to publicize the petroglyph field as part of a program to show visitors the cultural artifacts of Hawaii. "The plantation made it accessible to the public.

But there was no security. People vandalized the place," he said. Some scrawled their initials. Others chipped their own designs. Graffiti were spray-painted on the rocks.

The defacing of the Olowalu petroglyphs occurred in the 1970s, when the site was listed on tourist maps and brochures at the start of the growth spurt for Maui's visitor industry. Making the site a public area may have encouraged the damage. That is why some who know of similar sites are reluctant to reveal them. Last month, when Maui Advertiser photo by Edwin Tanji Vandals have left their own drawings alongside the original petroglyphs at Olowalu. The figures with the triangular bodies, such as the one on right, are authentic.

I Sti'j a- 'I I lit ill I 'II "''I Oil IfVjte i Kauai seeks to clear Iniki debris in Kekaha By Jan TenBraggencate Advertiser Kauai Bureau LIHUE, Kauai County Engineer Steve Oliver is desperately seeking ways to divert thousands of tons of hurricane-generated woody trash from the county's Kekaha Landfill, the latest financial challenge following Hurricane Iniki. The trash is lumber from broken buildings, old utility poles, tree trunks washed down rivers and deposited on beaches, and all kinds of vegetation that was torn up in the Sept 11, 1992, storm. The stuff has been diminish 1 mi Advertiser photo by Carl Via The fighting was over when Dai Woon Sur, above, arrived at Guadalcanal. He built boards and surfed with other soldiers, right, on the island during World War II. lie ing in volume with the action 4: For some, Guadalcanal a 'South Pacific' scene of rot and termites.

But there's still close to 35,000 tons of it, Oli uadalcanal means desperate fighting on bloody beachheads to most ver said. It wasn't a problem two vcafo stern vhpn Oup Honolulu 5 ii' i Kaupu from'Molokai. The pilots of a bomber group on Guadalcanal had put up a shanty to use as an officers' club where they invited nurses for dances. Men from Dai Woon's platoon played music for the dances in return for free rides in the bombers during training exercises. One day, a Hawaiian soldier was unloading lumber from a cargo ship when he spotted a piece of plywood about the right size for a surfboard.

He borrowed some tools and shaped it. Surfboard fever swept the Hawaiian encampment on Guadalcanal. Even soldiers who didn't know how to surf, like Dal Woon, made boards. A fellow Korean with an artistic flair, Dai Bok Chun, painted the boards in return for beer. when his company was assigned to Guadalcanal in January of 1944 to guard Adm.

Bull Halsey on the famous atoll. Equipped with guitars, ukuleles and fishhooks, the Hawaiian National Guardsmen pitched tents 15 feet from the beach. "During the period we were there, it was like a picnic for the local boys," Dai Woon confessed. He said they built a mess tent using coconut palm trunks for posts, grass and palm thatching for a roof. Every Friday he sent a squad out to catch fish for the company.

"I assigned them a truck and a trailer," he explained. "They patched camouflage nets together and made a hukilaxjL There were so many fish that the squad came back each time with a trailer full. "Guadalcanal was where I learned to surf," said Dai Woon. "But the surf was only 2 feet high, at the most. About all we did was paddle.

'On Sunday, our day off, we'd paddle four, five miles up the coast See a school of aholehole, chase 'em up on the beach. That's how easy they were to catch. Build a fire and roast the fish on a stick. We traded fishhooks to the natives for war clubs. They were friendly but backward.

The only way they fished was to spear 'em. The men made the women do all the work." Dai Woon said he was so eager for battle that he applied for officer's training. He was accepted in November 1944, when he left his surf board on Guadalcanal and headed for the Mainland. He retired from the service as a major. World War II veterans about to celebrate V-J Day.

Dai Woon Sur is embarrassed to admit that's where he learned to surf. "This war wasn't only killing and destruction," said the former National Guard platoon sergeant. "We had our fun." Which explains why Dai Woon's war on Guadalcanal reads like James Michener's "South Pacific" with Hawaiian music, instead of John Wayne's "They Were Expendable" with machine-gun fire. It wasn't Dai Woon's fault "We were ready for combat, armed to the teeth," he sighed. But the battle was over the county, Olo- "ver kele Sugar Hawaii State Civil Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Program developed a disposal system that won Kauai County a national award.

The county would separate out of hurricane debris all its recyclables. And waste wood would be burned in Olokele's boiler. Olokele, whose assets last year were bought by Gay Robinson, did the required testing to get state Department of Health approval for a system for burning the stuff. Two years later and the award-winning program has collapsed under what Gay Robinson president Alan Ken-nett called bureaucratic delays. FEMA, faced with its own See Iniki debris, Page A27 By Bob Krauss "We'd have a fish fry for the whole company, more than 200 officers and men, on the beach." For fresh meat, the soldiers built bamboo traps in the jungle and baited them with garbage.

When a wild pig entered the cage, a trap door came down. "We kalua the pig," said Dai Woon. "Dig a hole, get rocks from the river bed, light a fire. Two, three hours, the pig is done." Music came as naturally to the soldiers from Hawaii as fishing, especially to William E-W Center confirms layoffs forthcoming 0' Man arrested in slaying killed two other women MHWWi "I ir 4 4 major university." Smith's concerns were reaffirmed Friday when letters were sent to union and nonunion staff, notifying them of plans to cut at least 50 employees from the staff of 225, according to East-West Center information officer John Williams. The notification is required under a federal law that calls for a 60-day notice on layoffs.

Williams said officials have yet to determine which jobs will be cut The center received $24.5 million in federal funding this year. A reduction in that funding seems ensured, but the exact amount has yet to be determined by House and Senate budget negotiators. Smith said, "The budget cut may be beneficial if it forces (the center) to reduce its dependence on one source of funding." "I -still have loyalty and interest in the center's goals," Smith said. "I hope to be back." seen leaving the apartment after shots were heard. Police searched the neighborhood yesterday, often running with their guns drawn.

Detectives believe that Barrett mistook Kastner's friendly nature for romantic overtures, but have not come up with a motive. "At one time they lived in the same apartment complex, but there is no romantic relationship," said homicide Lt. Allen Napoleon. Barrett has two convictions for killing women. The first came in 1959 after he shot and killed a mother of five.

After running from the woman's apartment, neighbors who heard the shot caught Barrett and beat him before police could arrive. He received a life sentence for murder, later reduced to 50 years, but was paroled in 1971. Two years later, after an argument with his ex-wife, he stabbed her to death and received a 10-year sentence. By Meki Cox Advertiser Staff Writer Employees at the East-West Center were told late last week that one-fourth of the total staff may be laid off because of anticipated cuts in federal funding. That's why Kirk Smith isn't sticking around.

On Tuesday, Smith, a senior fellow member in the East-West environment program, is saying goodbye to his East-West Center colleagues. On Wednesday, he's saying hello to the University of California at Berkeley. Although Smith was in a tenured position at the East-West Center, he and his family decided life would be more secure if he accepted a position as a professor of environmental studies in California. "It's hard to know what to do when the budget is not even passed," said Smith, who worked at the center for 18 years. "But it's hard to turn down something secure at a By Mike Gordon Advertiser Staff Writer A two-time convicted killer who is a prime suspect in a Friday homicide startled Columbia Inn waitresses yesterday when he insisted he needed to turn himself in to authorities.

He was considered armed and dangerous during his day on the run. Police arrested Eugene Walter Barrett, 64, of Kinau Street, without incident about 4 p.m. after they were called to the restaurant. Only moments before, Barrett had been the focus of a police briefing to solicit the public's help in solving the murder of Doneshia "Roxanne" Kastner. Kastner was shot twice with a small-caliber handgun at 5:10 p.m.

Friday at her apartment, which is across the street from Barrett's apartment, police said. She died about three hours later at The Queen's Medical Center. Witnesses said Barrett was Eugene Walter Barrett required hospital treatment in 1959 after neighbors caught him fleeing from the scene of a slaying and beat him..