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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1953 PAGE 8 Mayor Lists More Than $5 Million Improvements in '52 Mayor Wilson has completed his Cf. American Broadcasting Files For TV Channel 4 With F.G.C. American Broadcasting Stations, today is on file with the Federal Communications Commission for television channel 4. The company recently purchased station KULA in Honolulu. The move appeared to be an effort to beat the new owners of KONA-TV to the punch in moving from channel 11 to the coveted Beach Plan Continued from Pare 1 cies and legislative committees.

The city lias kept the area in the Master Plan, but has not had the money to buy or condemn the property. Recently, the question came to a head when a Mainland hotel builder applied for a building permit to construct a new hotel on it. The city has refused so far to grant the permit. It has asked the Oahu Select Committee of the Senate to try to obtain Territorial funds for purchase of the land by the City-County. Meanwhile, pressure has mounted for the city to make some kind Wi I bar's Farewell Speech Urges More Medical Programs Hawaii's chronic disease prevention, dental health and nutrition programs need to be greatly strengthened.

Dr. Charles L. Wil-bar Jr. told the Oahu Health Council last night at a farewell dinner. He asserted that if Hawaii is to become a state soon, it is important for people here to keep pace with the best organizational methods in the administration of public health, social welfare and education.

The outgoing president of the Board of Health, guest of the council at the Oahu Country Club along with his wife and daughter Charlotte, outlined the basic principles of future health in Hawaii as he saw them. Statistics must be weighed carefully for significance, he said. Personnel preferably Island people must be trained and paid well. Police Officers Testify at Trial For Mrs. Shireman Two Honolulu police officers were witnesses today as the trial of Mrs.

Agnes M. Shireman, 29, charged with manslaughter, progressed today before a jury in Circuit Judge Carrick H. Buck's court. Sergeant Lawrence Brede and Detective Henry B. C.

Wong, told jurors that Mrs. Shireman appeared hysterical when they questioned her about the fatal shooting of Herschel R. Shireman. 38, her ex-husband. The shooting occurred at the Shireman home, 147 Malolo last October 21.

Sergeant Brede said Mrs. Shireman kept repeating, "Honey, I didn't mean to kill you. Please don't die. We need you." Mr. Wong testified the young housewife sobbed as she answered his questions.

According to the police officers and other witnesses, Mrs. Shireman told them her ex-husband had beaten her before the shooting occurred. HEARD SCREAMING William S. Bell of 41-049 Eku-kai Wraimanalo, was a Government witness yesterday. He said he started to walk toward However, legal complications delayed requesting FCC approval of the transactions, so KGU and KPOA aren't yet recognized as operators of KONA.

WANT LOWER CHANNELS The previous KGU-KONA interest in Channel 4 would indicate an effort still might be made to obtain it. However, the new KONA management would be running into a temporary FCC ruling that won't permit transfer of channels. With its new status on channel 11 not yet official, the new owners channel 4. The lower frequency channels, such as 2 and 4, are desirable in Hawaii because of the rough terrain. The FCC not only has the job of untangling the knotty problem.

It also holds the key to all recent transactions which are subject to FCC approval before they become effective. HERE IS TV PICTURE The channel picture looks something like this at the moment: Channel 2 Sought by Royaltel (Royal Amusement Co.) and KULA. Technically KULA would still be an applicant because its purchase by the American Broadcasting Stations hasn't been approved by the FCC. Actually, however, KULA probably will drop from seeking channel 2, leaving it to Royaltel. Channel 4 First sought by the Advertiser (KGU) and the Island Broadcasting Co.

(KPOA). Now KGU and KPOA have joined in buying KONA and automatically acquiring channel 11. FAREWELL GIFT Dr. Nils P. larseri, right, presents Dr.

Charles L. Wi I bar outgoing president of the Board of Health, with an inscribed koa and stiver plaque shaped like Oahu at a farewell dinner given by the Oahu Health Council. Dr. Wilbar leaves Monday for a new health post in Pennsylvania. Dr.

Larsen is vice president of the Oahu Health Council. Star-Bulletin Photo. Hawaiian Irrigation! Four Groups Seek Fund for Salary Chairman Claims Sylva Trying to Throw Out New Plan The chairman of the salary standardization board said today he believes the attorney general and two legislative committees are "trying to find some way" to throw out the new classification and "pay plan for civil service employes. The chairman, Robert G. made his remarks after he had annual report for 1952 listing more than $5,000,000 in public improvements for the year.

The Mayor says 12 new improve ment district projects involving more than $4,000,000 were put under contract during the year. The City also $205,000 on four hew bridges and $260,000 in street resurfacing in Honolulu and rural Oahu. MANY SUBDIVISIONS More than $2,000,000 in private subdivisions were completed during the year. The Mayor added in his report that great strides have been made in sewer projects, with 20 different projects in progress during the year, 14 of which were completed in 1952 for a total of 40 miles of new sewers. TRAFFIC PROBLEM The Mayor reported on plans for extension of the suburban water system and the development of new sources to serve Windward Oahu areas.

He said a major headache to the City is the mounting congestion of traffic and pointed out that a new downtown parking lot was opened in 1952 with prospects for two more to be opened this year. Six Legislators Named to New Economic Council Six members of the Legislature have been appointed to a newly-created Council of Economic Advisers to make a study and propose means of expanding the basic economy of the Territory. The Council was created by a concurrent resolution introduced by Senator Willianv J. Nobriga (D-Hawaii and passed by both Houses. Senate members, chosen by Senate President Wilfred C.

Tsu-kiyama (R-Oahu, are Mr. Nobriga, Ben F. Dillingham (R-Oahu) and Herbert K. H. Lee (D-Oahu).

House members, who were named by Speaker Hiram L. Fong (R-Oahu), are Richard P. St. Sure (R-Maui), Webley Edwards (R-Oahu) and Charles E. Kauhane (D-OahuJ.

OTHERS TO BE NAMED Eight non-legislative members are still to be appointed by Governor King. They will represent agricultural, labor, business, financial and Armed Services interests. The resolution creating the Council states. that the basic econ omy of tne lerritory is in a precarious state," largely through artificial inflation because of heavy Government spending as a result of the Korean war. GOVERNMENT AID Economic activity must be ex panded, it states, and calls for the council to study promotion of new industries, prospects of bringing new risk capital into-the Territory and Government aid in greater utilization of land, water and Other resources.

Present levels of Government services and costs and their ef fects on the economy along with thp nrnhahlA effects nf higher! Authority Bill Wins Cr-fl- JllUliy JUpui I Strong support of a bill propos ing creation of a Hawaii irriga- tion authority was voiced todav before the Senate Agriculture Committee by Atherton Richards. Hawaii Development Foundation I I manager. The measure. Senate Bill 188. is i designed to further the agricultural productivity of the Territory by constructing and operating irrigation projects, particularly ones benefiting small farmers.

Areas cited by Mr. Richards where such projects would be of special benefit included Kekaha. Kauai; Kula, Maui, and Puna, Kona, Waimea and Kohala, Hawaii. IRRIGATION DISTRICTS The authority, proposed in the bill introduced by Senator No-boru Miyake fR-Kauaii. would operate through irrigation districts, constituted somewhat similarly to present street improvement districts-.

Dean H. A. Wadsworth of the University of Hawaii College of Agriculture also spoke on behalf of the bill, but urged that special emphasis be placed on the bill's requirement that the authority make extensive economic surveys before going ahead with any projects. COMPLETE INVESTIGATION "This is an enabling act which would permit the Territory to act when the need is there," he said. 'The authority should proceed slowly ana deliberately, pick out the area where there is the big gest need, instigate a project and when that project is financially self-sufficient, move on to next." the HIGHEST TOOTH DECAY He said Hawaii's total dental health program is lacking despite what's probably the highest tooth decay rate in the nation.

He said "we have only scratched; the surface" in programs to pre-! vnt heart disease, diabetes and! ii 2.: if. li I tt aruiriiis. lie caiieu nawaus posi- tion in the nutrition field 'precarious." Dr. Wilbar leaves Monday to become Pennsylvania's deputy secretary of health. THANKED FOR WORK Mrs.

John W. Devereux. president of the Oahu Health Council, was mistress of ceremonies at the dinner attended by 100 persons. Dr. Nils P.

Larsen, vice 'president, presented Dr. Wilbar with an inscribed silver and koa plaque shaped like Oahu. Ernest N. Heen, outgoing public welfare director, and Thomas B. Vance, former public institutions director, joined leaders of various groups associated with the health department in expressing appreciation for Dr.

Wilbar's 10 years of work in the health department. Chief, Liu Brands Escort Charges As Irresponsible Police Chief Dan Liu today branded as "irresponsible" recent criticism of the department's policy of furnishing transportation to members of the Territorial Legislature. Results of an investigation into alleged "chronic abuses" have been submitted to Speaker Hiram L. Fong, Chief Liu said. The incident, which has resulted in a House resolution by indignant representatives for a report from the chief, stems from an item appearing in the Advertiser April 4.

Reserve Officer F. Roy Johnston was quoted criticising "chronic" abuses by at least five members of the House in calling for transportation by police cars. HAD TWO ASSIGNMENTS "Our investigation has brought out," Chief Liu said, "that Re- Botn of these calls were on the night of April 1. The reservist first picked up Rep. Raymond M.

Kobayashi and later Rep. Toshi-haru Yama. Chief Liu added that, contrary to information appearing in the Advertiser item and quoting Mr. Johnston, "there are no indications that Reps. Thomas Sakaki-hara, Thomas Toguchi and Toshio Serizawa ever utilized the services of the department for the purpose of transportation." NO UNDUE HARDSHIP' He said there is no evidence undue call or hardship" has been imposed on police or the public by the "occasional accommodation of legislators with police transportation." Chief Liu called the entire incident "regrettable and unneces sary.

Irreseponsibility underlies this "unhappy development," he added. The police chief promised that "appropriate and corrective measures" would be forthcoming, and that whenever possible, police will continue to respond "to all reason able requests for assistance from! our legislators." Oahu Prison Probe To Start Tomorrow fc -f tnmnrrnw aftomnnn af 9 coccinn a session of the Territorial House's public institutions rnmtniftpp i Mr. Richards and the founda-i -tion's attorney, Ernest Kai, Tl instructed by the committee toHaaiO, I KOSterS of decision on the land. At a recent Oahu Select meeting. Senator Joseph Itagaki (R-Oahu) said the 'main point" of the question narrows down to whether the Territory will provide the money or not.

The bill today is another proposed method of enabling the City to maintain the area in its Master Plan and keep the remainder of Waikiki Beach free of hotels. Mayor Wilson has been a strong backer of preventing any further hotel construction there. He has ordered the City-County attorney to prepare a condemnation suit to get control of thep roperty money or no money. Fong-Lydgate Fight To Be Aired at G.O.P. Meeting A meeting of the full Central Committee of the Hawaii Mean Party was called today for rtpm its one purpose being to hear "testimony" on the tion of the 1953 House of Repre sentatives.

Republican members of the House have been invited to attend the session, which will constitute the first official GOP airing of the fight stirred up by the formation of a GOP-Democrat coalition to elect Rep. Hiram L. Fong as speaker. Although a Republican. Mr.

Fong was not the choice of the official Republican House caucus, which he refused to attend. LYDGATE LOST OUT That group chose Rep. E. Percy Lydgate for speaker but was unable to elect him, or even place his name officially in nomination, because of the vote preponderance lined up behind Rep. Fong with Democratic support.

The agenda for tne Central Committee meeting is outlined in a letter sent out today by Randolph A. Crossley, party chairman. The committee will meet at 10 a. m. April 18 at GOP Headquarters, 842 Richards St.

Other matters far attention are reports of the patronage, legislative drafting and finance committees, and the setting of a date for the party's first off-year organizational convention. AVOIDS ELECTION CONFLICT By-law changes approved last year provide for new party officers to be chosen in odd-numbered years from now on in order to avoid a change just before election time in even-numbered years. The convention must be held In May or June. Mr. Crossley, who has been chairman of the party since 1950, said today that he will not be available for reelection.

At the time he accepted reelection in 1952 he had stressed that he would continue in the time- consuming job only if his term were confined to the one additional year. Senate, Governor Must Djecide on Promotiqn Policy It's up to the Territorial Senate and the Governor now to decide whether department heads will have power to promote worthies within their own bailiwicks without benefit of Civil Service examinations. House members passed such legislation 19-11 on third reading yesterday after downing attempts by Reps. Charles (D-Oahu) and Manuel S. Henriques (D-Kauai) to make it mandatory for department heads to decide who gets promoted.

REQUIRE EXAM Present rules require an exami nation before a vacancy is filled. The present bill would allow de partment heads to promote from within the department without examination. As House Bill 596 stands, it only allows and does not require department heads to fill vacancies with lower-ranking employes who meet minimum qualifications for the jobs. Rep. Henriques first favored the bill, then slammed it after colleagues quashed his amend-J ment to give governmental bosses even greater power.

He wound up saying Democrats in government jods win De "slaughtered" because Republi- ean department heads will pro mote Republican employes. Rep. Tosmo berizawa (u- Kauai) opposed the bill, saying the most qualified employes in a department might not be pro moted because they weren the "fair haired boys' of the department heads. Territorial and City-County Civil Service personnel directors are against this legislation because they think competition In filling positions should be continued. Second Cooking Class To Be Held Tomorrow costs are to be within the scope' SC1 ve jonnsion nas auo-of the study.

gether during this session handled The council will have the serv- assignments from the police ices and funds of Industrial Re- dlsPatch bureau so far as legisla- coarrh Arfvisnrv at it Hi-! rs Concerned. the Shireman house after he heard screaming in that direction. After hearing the shots fired, Mr. Bell said he saw Mrs. Shireman on the street brandishing a "shiny object" and heard another round fired.

She then approached him, extended the gun and asked him to take it. Mr. Bell testified he did so and wrapped the weapon in his handkerchief. He was unable to identify positively an automatic pistol shown him in the court room as being the one Mrs. Shireman carried.

Soon afterwards, Mr. Bell said, he saw police officers approaching. "I said: 'Hurry a wahine has flipped her lid and shot her Mr. Mell testified. WENT INTO HOUSE The witness said he then went into tfie house with Mrs.

Shireman and others. "When Mrs. Shireman got in she hit the deck. She toppled over his body, crying hysterically," the witness said. Bell described Mrs.

Shireman's eyes as being Vglassy and hollow." Joseph M. Gouveia. of 3327 Brokaw father of Mrs. Shireman, identified pictures of Mr. Shireman taken by police at the death scene.

Mrs. Shireman is defended by Arthur K. Trask, attorney. James H. Kamo, assistant public prosecu tor, is in charge of the case for the prosecution.

Robert Yamada Charged Again In Auto Mishap Robert M. Yamada, 29, Advertiser route manager already facing a negligent homicide count, was charged again by police early today following a two-car accident at N. King St. and Waiaka-milo Rd. Motor Patrolman Henry Hart reported Mr.

Yamada's station wagon, proceeding ewa on King, collided with a sedan going mauka and operated by Angel J. Mar-donada, 47, of 1223 N. School St. Damages were estimated at $350. Yamada was charged with violation of the right of way.

He is awaiting Circuit Court action on a felony count for the death of a pedestrian last month on N. King at Kokea St. Republican House Members Agree on School Committee All 19 Republican House members: signed and introduced a resolution today calling for appointment of a seven member select committee to study "all aspects" of the "imperative need" for new school buildings. It was adopted by the House. They introduced their measure after a half hour caucus shortly I before start of today's session.

It! was one of the few strictly GOP caucuses held in the House since a Democratic-Republican coalition was formed at the start of the session. The proposed select committee would be appointed by the House speaker. It would make the study and "take-such actions and make such recommendations as it may deem proper in order to enable an orderly, integrated and efficient meeting of said problem." The resolution said an estimated 25.000 more school children will be enrolled in the public schools in the Territory within the next six years. Many present classrooms are overcrowded and shifts in population require relocation of certain schools, it stated. Although it is estimated an adequate school building program will cost from $30,000,000 to the resolution said, "there is no present integrated program established by law to meet this problem." SAVE BY STANDARDIZING It said very appreciable savings might be made by standardizing plans, styles and types of construction of various new school buildings.

Even though Oahu voters recognized the importance of the problem by voting for a $10,000,000 bond issue in the last general election, "this action does not affect the Territorialwide nature of of KONA conceivably could still apply for channel 4 without hit ting the transfer rule. Conceiv ably, too, the FCC could consider this application before approving the purchase. However, if the FCC pursues the policy of taking up uncontest ed applications first, its course would be to leave channel 2 open to Royaltel, give channel 4 to ABS and leave KONA on chan nel 11. New Capitol Plans Completed for Ways Means Panel Preliminary plans for a new state capitol to be built at a -cost of less than $3,000,000 have been drawn up on orders of the Senate Yrays and Means Committee. Sketches of the proposed new building were shown yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Ways and Means Committee.

They were drawn by the architectural firm of Law and Wilson under direction of the Department of Public Works. The plans, ordered less than 10 days ago by Ways and Means Chairman Ben F. Dillingham (R-Oahu), are alternates to earlier drawings calling for expenditure of $5,000,000 for a new legislative-administrative capitol building. ANOTHER ADVANTAGE Mr. Montgomery said the new set of plans have another advantage.

They could be carried out in stages. Funds could be provided for building the new building in the present session, for instance. Funds for the conversion of Iolani could be provided by a later session. Money for making both the earlier and the new sketches were provided by the Public Works Department, Mr. Montgomery said.

Both are preliminary. Much more extensive plans would have to be drawn if either is approved. The Ways and Means Commit tee has been looking for cheaper plans as a money saving effort. LARGE INCREASE A large increase in the number of members of both the House and Senate under Statehood would make the need for a new legislative-executive building urgent. Present chambers and offices in Iolani Palace are already inadequate to handle the present legislature.

Many legislators have offices and committee rooms in temporary wooden structures built on the palace grounds in World War II. One major saving would be in the cost of land acquisition, according to Bert B. Montgomery, Public Works Director. The former plans called for constructing the building at Miller St. between Hotel and Beretania Sts.

Partv of it would be on the site of the present National Guard armory and part would be on land now occupied by the Schuman Carriage Co. COST $2,500,000 Acquisition of the land alone would cost about $2,500,000, Mr. i Montgomery said. The latest proposed structure would be on the mauka-ewa corner of Iolani Palace grounds with an expansion onto what is now Hotel St. The street would moVed about 60 feet mauka to make room for part of the structure.

Mr. Montgomery said the estimated cost of $3,000,000, however, would also include rehabilitation of Iolani Palace to convert it to a museum. It also would include extensive landscaping of the grounds around the palace and the new building. Cobb Quits T.H. Civil Defense Post William B.

Cobb has submitted his resignation as Territorial Director of Civil Defense and Governor King said today he "probably" will accept it. The Governor indicated he does not yet have anyone in mind to name as a successor to Mr. Cobb. While not a top cabinet position, it is considered one of the key posts under the chief executive's control. PAYS $750 MONTHLY Mr.

Cobb was appointed to the $750 a month job shortly after it was created in July, 1951. He had formerly been co-ordinator of the CDA's predecessor, the Disaster Relief Agency. He took leave to run as Democratic candidate for delegate to Congress in the 1950 elections. Mr. Cobb is an attorney.

He re cently returned from witnessing an. atomic explosion test on the Mainland. Public schools were established in New Mexico in 1721 by royal decree from Spain. Remedial Programs Four Honolulu organizations i i rn nnn see a mou.uw ipgjMauve appro- pnation lor remedial reading programs they think could even tually halve the amounts spent on prisons, training scnoois ana tne I lw 111-. Representatives of We, the Women, the Mental Hygiene So- ciety, the Oahu District PTA and the Territorial Commission on Children and Youth argued their case before House education committeemen yesterday.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Kellerman of We, the presented arguments designed to show how remedial reading can help young people who otherwise leave school ill equipped for life in a complex society. Committeemen took the proposal, contained in House Joint Resolution 46, under advisement alter voting out for favorable House action two measures that: 1 Let school teachers engage in profitable work, now denied them, while on sabbatical leave. 2 Require the Department of Public Instruction to pay vocational and special teachers a differential.

Education committeemen also have under consideration requests that House Bill 376 a measure curbing obscene literature be killed. Both William B. Stephenson, attorney for Hawaiian Magazine Distributors, and the Rev. John H. McDonald, chairman of the Oahu Commission on Children and Youth, argued against cen- sorshio aspects of the bill The Rev.

Mr. McDonald, whose organization has a "test case" due to come up in court against several magazine dealers, be- I lieves the present statutes are adequate. Get Union Charter Professional radio and television broadcasters in Honolulu have been granted an American Federation of Labor charter for their recently formed organization, Hal Lewis, temporary president, announced today. He said the American Federation of Television Radio Artists notified the local group today that a charter is being sent to them. Organized through the AFL Central Labor Council of Honolulu, the group has a membership of about 50, Mr.

Lewis said. "We're interested in job security and fair labor practices and the usual AFL high standard of cooperation between employe and employers," he added. Temporary officers and members of the board of directors chosen last week are: Clair Weide-naar, vice president; Mike Ashman, secretary-treasurer, and Webley Edwards. James WahL Joe James Custer, Ed Sheehan and Owen Cunningham, members of the board. Navy Man Loses Motorcycle License District Magistrate Calvin C.

McGregor today revoked the motorcycle license of a 21 year old Navy man who pleaded guilty to speeding 85 miles an hour along Kamehameha Highway. John P. Plummer, of Fleet Headquarters at Pearl Harbor, also was fined $50 by the magistrate, termed his violation "outrageous." The defendant's excuse was that he was in a hurry to report to the base. Plummer stood trial and was convicted of a secondary charge of unsafe movement, for which he was fined another $25. He was arrested several weeks ago after a pursuit by two police cars.

i. a. KODeiT IN. DOVaS Pq reD tS Or UaUQnter A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Robert N. Boyd III at the Queen's Hospital April 4, Named Patricia Louise Kalaola Boyd, she is the first child born to her parents and the second grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Boyd II of Honolulu.

Mr. Boyd is a linotype operator with The Star-Bulletin. She weighed 10 pounds two and one half ounces at birth. The father is a graduate of St. Louis College and the University of Hawaii.

He is now with the Air Force at Field. Scout Troop 63 Schedules Court A court of honor will be held at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow for Troop 63, Boy Scouts of America at Waianae School. The troop committee, representing the Waianae Civic Association, will be in charge of presentations.

Joseph DeMattos is scoutmaster and H. G. Horton, assistant been questioned yesterday after noon in a joint secret session of the Senate Ways and Means and House Finance Committees. Also present at the inquiry were Edward N. Sylva, attorney general, and a battery of his deputies Richard K.

Sharpless. Rhoda V. Lewis and Frank D. Gibson. It was the second such session held within a week.

At a similar secret probe last Thursday, all other members of the salary board were called in one at a time and questioned. Appearing to support Mr. Dodge's belief is the fact that the two legislative committees asked the attorney general for an opinion on the legality of the new pay plan several weeks ago. So far, no opinion has been rendered. SYLVA'S OPINION DUE Attorney General Sylva said today he has been asked by committee rs to have his opinion on the salary plan ready "not later than Saturday." More sessions of the Senate Ways and Means Committee on the salary plan question are scheduled for this weekend.

Exact times have not been set. PREVIOUS RULING Previously, however, Michiro Watanabe, who preceded Mr. Sylva as attorney general, ruled the new pay plan is legal. He said the Territory is legally obligated to pay more than $3,000,000 in retroactive salary increases under the new pay plan put into effect February 6. His conclusion has yet to be legally challenged.

Although declining to repeat the specific questions asked him yesterday, Mr. Dodge said 'ob-'iously they were not designed to find out if the board's actions under the law were correct and valid or whether the law itself were sufficient." The "law" he referred to is Act 320, of the 1951 legislature, which created the salary board and ordered the survey of civil service positions. 'MOTIVES UNIMPORTANT "If you look to find out if the law is valid and sufficient, you just look at it. Then if you want to see if the action taken was proper you just look at it and see what was done. The motives are unimportant," Mr.

Dodge said. "They seemed to be trying to find some way to throw the thing out," Mr. Dodge, an attorney himself, said. "We assumed a certain interpretation of the law when we acted. They asked if we would have acted differently if there had been a different interpretation." Questions asked other salary board members last week were largely technical.

One, for instance, was whether they would have voted as they did to put the plan into effect if the attorney general had ruled the board had did not have power to hear appeals from its decisions. Amateur Hour's Ted Mack Here From Korea Trip Fresh from a talent hunting trip to Korean battlefronts. Ted Mack, master of ceremonies of the Original Amateur Hour, is catching up on his sun at Waikiki before heading for the Mainland tomorrow. Mr. Mack arrived by Pan American Airways military charter flight from Tokyo yesterday with reels of motion pictures and tape recordings of G.

I. entertainers. Off the nation's radios and TV screens since September, he is preparing a new show slated for a premier late this month. The films and recordings made in will be used on at least one his new series. "There were lots of fellows who could really sing and dance.

We really cooked up a show," he said. During the tour, Mr. Mack covered all major units of 8th Army and auditioned "anyone who could do anything." The best of each group assembled Saturday night in Seoul for a 26 act amateur show. Research men have found that a pressure cooker is ideal as a ready-made gas chamber for the study of the arcing of contacts of a telephone relay at the Bell Laboratories. nnsfll Tt ran create suhpnmmit tees to make special studies.

I P.T.A., Parks Group To Study Dispute Over Ala Wai Land Representatives of the Parent-Teachers Association and the City-County Board of Public Parks and Recreation will meet with the Governor's administrative assistant soon to discuss a dispute over whether six acres of Ala Wai land park should be set aside for a new school. The issue was brought to the attention of former Governor Long shortly before he left office. He said he would leave it to Governor King to settle after he took office. WANTED FOR SCHOOL The land in question is in the park area just mauka of Ala Wai. The DPI is seeking it as a site for a new Moiliili elementary school.

The Honolulu Board of Supervisors has sent the Governor a resolution asking that he set aside the land for the school purposes by -executive order. The, resolution was vetoed once by Mayor Wilson who is strongly opposed to the transfer. The Board of Parks and Recrea tion also has sent the Governor a resolution backing up the mayor It was passed unanimously by the parks board which maintains that with Honolulu's growing popula tion, it will need more, not less. land for recreational purposes. REQUESTED BY FREELAND George H.

MeLane, administra tive assistant to Governor King, said todav a conference on the issue has been requested by Frank Freeland, chairman of the PTA's Legislative Committee, and by members of the parks board. No time has been set for the conference, but Mr. McLane said it will be held soon. Governor King said he has not had a chance to study the issue thoroughly yet and has no comment on it until he does make the study. Manchi Kamiya Services Funeral services for Mrs.

Man- chi Kamiya, 64, of 374-E' Halekou attorney general, in drafting certain amendments to the bill sought by the foundation. At the request of Senator Herbert K. H. Lee (D-Oahu), the committee, headed by Senator Toshio Ansai (R-Maui), will hear testimony from the commissioner of public lands before taking final action on the bill and the proposed amendments. C.

of C. Group Indorses Vet Home Loan Bills The legislative policy committee of the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce has indorsed House and Senate bills providing for veterans home loans in Hawaii, with an amendment, Bryan Ren-wick, executive vice-president, said today. The committee suggested an amendment, to the bills to provide for a revolving fund to be used in financing homes for veterans. "The chamber fully recognizes the role Hawaii's veterans played in helping to win World War II, and feels that the legislature should set up the necessary machinery for them to secure such loans," Mr. Ren wick said.

Jaywalker, Hit By Auto, Fined A pedestrian w-ho was struck by a car while jaywalking at Fort and Pr.uahi March 24, paid a $5 fine yesterday in Traffic Judge Griffith Wight's court 13 -11, ui iD4o ivewaio ane was ireaiea for minor bruises after being hit imposed a tine on Aiasao la niguchi, 36,. of 3039 Kaunaoa St.J whose car struck ana injured a pedestrian in a crosswalk A similar fine was imposed by Magistrate McGregor on Kather-ine Castro, 26, of 2326 N. School who, while driving, violated a pedestrian's right of way. Other sentences: Colleen Maket, 19, of 1039 Ki-keke heedless and careless (accident and no license; $40 fine. Roy W.

Joaquin, 23, of 1826 10th stop sign violation prior record; $20 fine, license suspended 30 days. Joseph Ignacio, 27. of 3226 Ma-kina right of way violation (accident, one injured; S20 fine. Cayetano A. Gagarin, 37, of 3169 Harding stop sign violation (prior record; S15 fine, license suspended 20 days.

Earl McPeak, 53. of 41-027 Wai-lea Waimanalo. demanded jury trial on a drunk driving charge. Over the greater part of the deserts of Sahara and Egypt, the rainfall is believed to be less than an inch a year. Warden Joe C.

Hampr. Denutviby the car which was backing up. Warden William P. Mottz andiand tnen was charged with jay possioiy otner prison otuciais due to appear. Dr.

Charles H.j Magistrate Calvin C. McGregor Silva. new director of institutions, has been asked to sit in. Also due. to testify is George Luis, business manager of Wai-mano home and a former prison official.

OPEX TO PRESS Rep. Joe T. Yamauchi, chairman of the public institutions committee, said the meeting would be open to the press unless committeemen voted to close it. The session will be held in the conference room building on Iolani Palace grounds. The prison probe is called for iby House resolution 36, fostered by Reps.

Manuel S. Henriques (D-Kauai. William E. Fernandes (D-Kauai) and Akoni Pule (D-Ha- Wail I nP IMI f-'t MHiIlUl A 7m Administration at Honolulu, will be at the Waialua Community Association at 9:30 a.m. and at the Waialua Agricultural at 11 a.m.

tomorrow. I the problem and does not Kaneohe, will be held at Christine Dent, visiting home a solution as it affects the economist and cooking school spe- City-County," it states, cialist, demonstrates menus andj The need for new schools al-recipes for Oahu homemakers to-i ready is looming as one of the p.m. today at tne cnapei oi VnH row nn Flowers. Nuuanu Memorial Parked the pi -ison Ajrew Crematory. charges of alleged She was born August 8, 1883 in- REPRESENTATIVE Okinawa.

ilX WAIALUA TOMORROW Mrs. Kamiya died at St. Francis Hospital yesterday. Bertha Kon fieM rep- mi il Surviving are her husbands. ma Kamiya, four sons, Tomonobu, Tomomitsu, Tomoe.

and Larry Ta-monao, three daughters, Rachel Tazuru. Ritsuko and Barbara Aiko Kamiya, and 10 grandchildren. biggest problems of the present legislature. It has been brought briefly into discussions of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The new House committee, if appointed, would be working on its own.

The resolution does not even go to the Senate for morrow in her second Island cook ing class. The free program begins at 10 a. m. in the Home Service Auditorium, second floor of the Hawaiian Electric Co. building.

King and Richards Sts. All homemakers are invited and no reservations arc necessary..