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--r-M 't- ttx grvif-jy 'n A A A 4y fete! Honolulu and Vicinity: Variable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow. Occasional light showers, mostly mauka. Moderate to fresh southeast winds. Temperatures last 24 hours: High, 80; low, 70. Rainfall, 1.93 inches.

iDiscomfort Index: 76. Note: Oahu subscribers only If your paper has not been delivered, call the Circulation Department, 57-911, between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. MM Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Vol. 57-911 HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, U.S.A., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1959 HOME EDITION 10e jSL7 II lB(gM(ir lK(QQJ(QlB i rF Kauai residents quietly began cleaning up tons of debris and surveying heavy damage today in the wake of Hurricane Dot's howling passage over the Island yesterday. Dot's 75-miles-an-hour winds ripped roofs of houses, smashed older buildings, flattened sugar cane, knocked down power and telephone lines and sent almost 1,000 tourists and residents scurrying to high ground.

No injuries were reported. Roads throughout the Island were blocked by debris and fallen trees. The first airplane that landed at Lihue Airport this morning had beeh chartered by the Star-Bulletin and was carrying reporter Jack Schreibman and photographer Terry Luke. They reported that from an altitude of 500 feet it appeared that most of the sugar cane from Lihue to Ha-nalei Bay had been flattened. Many taro patches and other small farming plots were flooded, and roofs from houses were scattered about.

One cane field of about 25 acres situated three miles north of Kapaa was strewn with large sheets of galvanized metal roofing from buildings. Some of the metal sheets were wrapped around utili- trunk four inches in diameter. A line of large television antennas some three inches in diameter at the base were bent over by the hurricane's wind. A Wailua River excursion boat 40 feet long was dumped high and dry on the beach near the Coco Palms Hotel. At Hanalei Bay, a large number of houses, garages and outbuildings were partially flooded.

Although the sugar cane appeared at first glance to be heavily damaged, some growers believed the roots Turn to Page 1-C, Column 3 ty poles. Banana and papaya groves were smashed flat. Heavy rains sent four rivers to flood stage. Waves up to 35 feet high battered the south coast. A Civil Defense worker said damage may exceed $1 million.

The main streets of Lihue were covered with mud and debris. Store windows were stripped with protective adhesive tape and suffered little damage. Many large trees were sheared off and a large piece of galavanized metal roofing knifed through a tree I Kl Jf; 1 jJWBtL 1 lay in shambles today. coconut grove. Star-Bul 1 nun Kauai's Coco Palms Hotel Aerial photo at left shows how the hotel looked under four feet of water and debris.

Circle marks flooded dining room area. That same area is sector pictured in photo at right, where boatman removes furniture by canoe. Arrow in left photo shows site from which picturesque footbridge was washed. To -4Vy left is the swamped royal letin Photos by Terry Luke. 4" 48, No.

188 4 ytv Ms 1 'A Roof vl I Phone ivnm.m um-m -wm; vm: c-i a 'S rt i i saes LUCKS Hurric x11 If If fi -At I 4 If- IT'S Hotel Owner Undaunted by Wind, Flood By JACK SCHREIBMAN WAILUA, Kauai, Aug. 7 Grace Buscher, spirit behind the Coco Palms Hotel, looked out upon her partially submerged "pet" today and announced "we'll be operating tonight." Water stood four feet deep in the lodge's bar and dining room after the storm. Several palms were sheared off and hundreds of coconuts and debris strewed the grounds. The hotel's pumps and cesspools were flooded and inoperative. Many buildings had suffered exterior damage.

But Miss Buscher, the manager, remained daunt- less. This is the second hurricane in which she has been Turn to Page 1-A, Column 3 DIRECTORY Bulletin Board 32 Business 26-27 Comics 25 Editorials 8 Obituaries 12 Society 20 Sports 22-24 Theatre Guide 19 TV-Radio 21 On-Spot (Editor's note: Radio-teletype circuits to Kauai were, knocked out by the hurricane last night. The following account of the storm was telephoned from Lihue early this morning by the Star-Bulletin correspondent on Kauai.) By JOE ARAKAKI CIVIL DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS, Lihue, Kauai, Aug. 7 It was the worst storm I've ever seen. Hurricane Nina which hit Kauai in December, 1957, ft, doors.

The entire Island looked deserted. Everyone went home or to the evacuation centers and stayed there. There was hardly a car on the highways. It was just as well. During the night I tried to drive to Poipu (on the southernmost tip of the Island) with a photographer but had to turn back.

Trees and branches were down all along the road. Pieces of galvanized iron, Turn to Page 1-A, Column 1 (t EE i "Damage would Lave been very extensive and lives endangered because of the Koolau Range. There would have been a smaller area for the wind. Some would have passed over the mountains and some would have been deflected along the range at much greater speed." He added that damage reports from Kauai indicated that "either the buildings Turn to Page 1-B, Column 4 close to earth as 160 miles. A spokesman for NA.S.A.

said the small "kick" rocket attached to the satellite, to provide added speed if necessary at the perigee or low point of the orbit, has not yet been fired and is Turn to Page 1-A. Column 5 1 Queen Elizabeth Expecting Again 3 LONDON, "Aug. 7 (AP) Queen Eliza- beth II is going to 0 have another baby, fl her third, probably in January or February. A Buckingham Pal- ace spokesman an- nounced today that a i royal baby is on the way, disclosing the 33- year-old Queen was pregnant during her long and tiring tour of 4 Canada this summer. i The spokesman said Turn to Pg.

1-A, Col. 2 if As Hurricane Dot churned northwest across the Pacific today relieved weather observers said it could have been worse, both on battered Kauai and throughout the Hawaiian chain. "We were lucky," said H. Dean Parry, chief meteorologist at the Honolulu Airport. "I shudder to think what damage might have been caused on Oahu if the storm had turned this way." WASHINGTON, Aug.

7 (AP) The Explorer VI satellite is in orbit and will remain aloft for more than a year, the space agency announced at 1 p.m. E.D.T. (7 a.m. H.S.T.) today. The 142-pound' "paddle-wheel" satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:23 a.m.

E.S.T. It will reach a peak altitude of 23,000 miles at 3 p.m. E.S.T., directly over South Africa, the space agency announced. It will reach its low point 140 miles above the earth at 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.

today. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had not calculated the point over- the earth which the satellite will reach at that hour. The satellite will take about 11 hours to complete each of its elongated orbits. That is very close to advance calculations. The satellite has been programmed to cUmb to 23,000 miles and come back as is rum of Joe's Barbershop on Kukui Street in Kapaa, Kauai, comes down on a parked car Report Tells How Dot Smashed Garden Isle fense instructions.

Regular advertisers gave up all their time. The local station was forced off the air for a couple of hours. But then two Honolulu stations, KGU and KPOI, quickly came to our aid and took over the job of broadcasting instructions. Lihue was like a ghost town yesterday afternoon as the hurricane approacneatne Island. Stores closed.

Workers taped their plate glass windows and boarded 'up was mild in comparison. Manuel Medeiros, who's been here at Civil Defense headquarters since early yesterday directing the Island's fight against the hurricane, agrees that it's the worst storm in his memory. Chief of Police Edwin K. Crowell says it was the worst he ever experienced. Luckily, Kauai had plenty of warning.

Civil Defense forces mobilized early yesterday and the evacuation of the beach areas proceeded smoothly. Scientist: Page 1-B Storm on Page 1-D Islanders switched to their car radios 6r used transistor portables. Charlie Fern, publisher of the Garden Island, weekly newspaper here, and KTOH owner, served as disc jockey. He was on the air during the entire emergency, alternating music with hurricane advisories and civil de Hurricane Worried Pictures of Oahu It's hard to say too much in praise of local Radio Station KTOH. It was on the air for civil defense throughout the day yesterday and during the night until the storm began to wane.

Power was knocked out across most of the Island during the night. Home radios were cut off but many 4 4.