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Weather Forecast Honolulu and vicinity: Clear until 10 a.m., becoming partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy after 10 a.m. Warmer today. Southeasterly sea breezes 5 to 15 miles per hour in afternoons. KG THE NEWS STATION IN THE PACIFIC Radio 590, Channels 9, 3 i HOME EDITION 10e HONOLULU, HAWAII, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1962 Kennedy Asian Kingdom Joins Neutrals He's Hostile i 2 avoirs 1 I i J') 1 Is zz i 4 W- i t.

-v rf V': v--T Jt tv I r- ts --y a-sst li run MP" nil Vol. 51, No. 162 Denies Business off recent stock market gyrations. Among false issues which he said are frustrating efforts to push the economy forward, Kennedy declared, "Is the assertion that any and all unfavorable turns of the speculative wheel however temporary and however plainly speculative in character are the result of 'lack of confidence in the National He added: "This, I must tell you, while comforting, is not wholly true. Worse, it obscures the reality which is also simple.

"The solid ground of mutual confidence is the necessary partnership of government with all the sectors of our society in the steady quest for economic progress. FIRMNESS "This Administration is not going to give way to general hostility to business merely because there has been a single temporary disagreement with an industry, nor will the future belong to those who ignore the realities of our economic life in a neurotic search for unending reassurance." Corporations cannot base their planning on "political confidence in party leaders," Kennedy said, but on economic confidence in the nation's ability to invest, produce and consume. Business had confidence in Republican Administrations of 1929, 1854, 1958 and 1960, he said, "but this was not enough to prevent recession when business lacked full confidence in the economy." Kennedy Meets U.S. Steel Boss NEW HAVEN, June 11 (UPI) President Kennedy arranged a meeting late today in Washington with Roger Blough, U.S. Steel board chairman, and members of a task force of business leaders studying the gold outflow and balance-of-payments situation.

Kennedy made the disclosure shortly after an address at the Yale University commencement. The President will meet with Blough in his capacity as chairman of a special business advisory committee task force on gold and Members of Hawaiian societies, wearing their traditional cloaks, leave Kawaiahao Church following OfjO The question of who would get the defense (armed forces) and interior (police) ministries had been one of the toughest points blocking an agreement. The royalist government had expressed fear that turning these posts over to the Communists would mean seizure of power through a takeover of the armed forces and police. TRIPLE ROLE Under today's agreement, Souvanna will be premr, defense minister and veterans and social affairs minister. The interior ministry went to one of Souvanna's close associates, Pheng Phongsa-van, who will also be social welfare minister.

The coalition cabinet comprises seven representatives from Souvannas neutralists, four from the royalist group in Vientiane, four from the pro-Communist Pathet Lao and four from the so-called Vientiane neutralist group. Foreign affairs will go to one of Souvanna's aides, Quinim Philsena, who headed the neutralist delegation to the Geneva Conference on Laos. The information ministry will be given to a Pathet Lao official, Phoumi Vongvichit, who also headed his party's delegation to Geneva. The agreement is one of the West hopes may take Laos out of the cold war into neutrality. South Winds Oust Trades The weatherman predicts somewhat sultry weather for the Islands today as trade winds have been replaced by gentle winds from the south.

Today's high is expected to be 85, only about a degree higher than yesterday but higher humidity may lead you to believe it's much hotter, he said. The trades may be gone for several days. DIRECTORY Page Bulletin Board 33 Bridge Column 40 Classified Ads 33-39 Comics 25 Editorials 8 Obituaries 28-30 Theatre Guide 14 Tide Tables 33 TV-Radio 9 Visitors Guide 33 Women's Page 16-17 a mil Kamehameha Day services. At extreme right is the Reverend Abraham Akaka, Star-Bulletin Photo by John Titchen. Akaka Urges Hawaiians to KHANG KHAY, Laos, June 11 (AP) The rival Laotian princes agreed today on the cabinet for a coalition government aimed at ending the civil war and adding Laos to the ranks of the world's neutral nations.

Neutralist Prince Souvan-na Phouma, the premier-designate, announced the agreement, climaxing negotiations instituted by the 14-nation Conference on Laos at Geneva 13 months ago. Premier Prince Boun Oum of the present royal Laotian government is stepping out of governmental affairs, happily, he said. However, the strongman of his regime, General Phou-mi Nosavan, will sit in as deputy premier and minister of finance under Souvanna. RED POST Another deputy premiership and the economy portfolio will go to Prince Sou-phanouvong, chief of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao and half-brother of the premier-designate. Through domestic problems still abound, the three princes and their aides emerged happily fro ma one-hour meeting that wound up conferences begun in this rebel stronghold last week.

Immediately after the announcement, the three princes signed the cabinet list. Souvanna, however, said the three will meet again tomorrow to sign a formal agreement on formation of the coalition. Souvanna said he hopes to take his ministers to Luang Prabang, the royal capital, by next Monday to present the mto King Savang Va-thana. U.S. Welcomes Laotian Unity WASHINGTON, June 11 (AP) The United States today welcomed reports that agreement has been reached on the formation of a cabinet for a government of national union in Laos.

High officials said the report was "encouraging." The State Department withheld an immediate statement pending formal confirmation from the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane that Premier-designate Souvanna Phouma had won agreement from rival princes of the right and left on the coalition lineup. Toward NEW HAVEN, June 11 (AP) President Kennedy urged today that critics, business and political, discard "wornout slogans" and join hands with the government to pump new -strength and confidence into the nation's economy. Kennedy vowed his clash with the steel industry did not mean his Administration is hostile toward business. But in a speech delivered at Yale University's commencement, he said the government is obliged to exercise "watchful concern for our economic health" while business and labor must live up to their public responsibilities.

Kennedy said economic problems bearing down on a free economy cannot be solved without separating myth from reality and he said it's mythical to contend that government is big and getting worse or to argue that deficits in the Federal budget always create inflation. He responded by implication to charges by Republicans, including former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and some spokesmen for business that his polices touched 42 Children Die as Train Crashes Bus BUENOS AIRES, June 11 (AP) A commuter train collided in dense fog today with a school bus carrying more than 100 kindergarten children, dragging it hundreds of yards. Officials said 42 persons were killed and about 80 seriously injured. One of the dead was a woman teacher aboard the bus.

One of the few children to escape unharmed was a little girl who saw the hazy outline of the onrushing train in the fog and jumped through an open window. Witnesses described the scene as appalling. A rescue worker said "the moaning of these kids was pitiful." There is a railway crossing barrier at the intersection near the shantytown area of Buenos Aires. But police quoted the bus driver as saying the barrier had not been lowered and he never saw the train. By TED KURRUS Paying tribute to King Kamehameha the Reverend Abraham Akaka yesterday called for Hawaiians to unite as "modern Kamehamehas" and unify the nations of the world under one God.

In his sermon titled "Hawaiians Arise," presented before an overflow congregation at Kawaiahao Church, Restraining Order Served on Crew Of Vessel Planning Protest Voyage pastor of the church. Unite Kamehameha he said. "The modern Kamehameha is the one, because of his closeness to God, who can unify the nations and countries of the world." Mr. Akaka cited statistics comparing Hawaii with other States in health, education and welfare. He called for research projects and asked that more Hawaiians be sent to college.

"We must choose a higher standard of personal life," he said. First strengthen the Hawaiian people and they will fulfill a "destiny" in the new world, he said. Mr. Akaka, pointing out King Kamehameha had been accused of savagery, said "the savagery of King Kamehameha the Great is like a peanut compared to the savagery of modern children of Christ. "Bombs are now being tested and used I don't know at what hour we'll see the big flash.

"There is no more area big enough to test bombs here on earth just outer space where no people are." He 5aid if mankind is to survive. Christians must unite the world under one God in peace. "And this must begin with you and me," he said. king to a moral law higher than himself." "We in Hawaii now "must prepare to become missionaries to the whole world." Mr. Akaka called for the creation of a council of Hawaiian organizations for the betterment of "health, education and welfare of the people." "We must becdme modern During yesterday's outing, two Coast Guard cutters and an aircraft kept a close watch on them.

Any move today could lead to their immediate arrest. Local yachtsmen estimate it would take the Everyman II about two days to reach the edge of the surface danger area about 250 miles west of Honolulu even if the vessel defies the order and manages to elude the Coast Guard. Benello said yesterday that the three men originally intended to announce their voyage only after they had sailed, using their radio transmitter. But after the press learned about it, they decided to announce it. Mr.

Akaka told how King Kamehameha I united the Islands under one government at the turn of the 18th century. "He was a man with one clear goal to unify the Islands and bring peace," he said. "He promoted religion as a way of life and submitted the absolute power of down cruise to about a mile and a half off Diamond Head yesterday. They had intended to leave at 4 p.m. today for the test zone.

17lh Il-Tesl The biggest nuclear device to be tested in the current series was set off in the Christmas Island area at 6 a.m. yesterday, Joint Task Force 8 announced. The blast was in the. low megaton yield probably with a force equivalent of between one million and two million tons of T.N.T. It was the 17th announced test in the Operation Dominic series, and the third in three days.

United States Marshal Wesley Petrie served a restraining order on the crew of the ketch Everyman II early today, forbidding their departure for the Johnston Island nuclear test area. The order, signed by Federal Judge Martin Pence, was served on California pacifists Dr. Monte Steadman. C. George Benello, and Franklin Zahn, at 2:30 a.m., according to U.S.

Attorney Herman Lum. "Any attempt to leave the harbor (Ala Wai) for the test zone would be in violation of the order," Lum said. He added that Petrie served copies of the order on each individual. The three men took the 28-foot ketch out on a shake How Does the Hawaiian Fare Today 143 Years After Kamehameha? Editors AW: Veteran Star-Bulletin reporter George West, who takes the occasion of Kamehameha Day to discuss the achievements of Hauaiis people of Hawaiian ancestry, is part-Hawaiian himself. He was reared in a Hawaiian, speaking home.

He is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools and the University of Missouri. By GEORGE NL'UANU WEST Here is a story of the Hawaiian people, 143 years after the death of their first ruler, King Kamehameha I. When this monarch whom historians have called the Napoleon of the Pacific died in May. 1819, he had been the ruler of about 400,000 Hawaiians. They had been a race of people who roamed the vast Pacific.

They had been called great voyagers and superb navigators. When the king died, he had left a kingdom united a kingdom with a culture and self-sustaining economy that ethnologists and archeologists digging into Hawaii's past still marvel at today. One of the first of the scientists to pay tribute to the navigational achievements of the Hawaiians and their arts and crafts was the late Sir Peter Buck, former director of the Bishop Museum. At the time of Kamehameha's death, there were no other ethnic groups to induce an intermingling of races. With the coming of the era of the whaling industry and the cultivation of pineapple and sugar, there arrived other racial groups to toil in the fields or in commerce.

la the hospitable climate and culture, there began a vast cf--tie Haisssika. nee-ih rat gb. inter. part-Hawaiian to have served as a-Governor of Hawaii. He had only one-eighth Hawaiian blood, but insofar as the State's system of vital statistics is concerned, he was a part-Hawaiian, and was so classified in the records.

In its racial classification of a person, it makes no difference to the State Department of Health whether one is 3132nds Caucasian, or 6364ths Chinese, or 6364ths" Japanese. If such a person's birth record shows even only a trace of Hawaiian ancestry, he is automatically placed in the population columns as a part-Hawaiian. Neither does his surname make one iota of difference be it O'Malley, De Mello, Henderson or Wong. If he has a drop of Hawaiian, a part-Hawaiian he will be in the books of the Governor's Remarks Recalled At this point, it's appropriate to right a minor wrong that was done to Governor William F. Quinn several months ago.

The Governor caused a controversy when he spoke at the annual convention of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs in March, saying: "The Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians stand at the bottom of the human ladder in almost all categories of our culture." Quinn was quoting the Reverend Abraham Akaka, pastor of Honolulu's Kawaiahao Church, but the stories failed to make this point. Quinn, of Irish descent and with no Hawaiian blood in his veins, was criticized for criticizing the Hawaiians when actually he was merely agreeing with one of the Isle's leading Hawaiians. The remarks wrcrgly attributed to tha Governor rocked the Hawaiian community. Some took offense while other Hawaiian leaders endorsed his statements, either in part or in toto. Probably the resulting discussion has been all for the good.

Some Hawaiian leaders argue that no matter who says it, be he Hawaiian or Irishman, it's inappropriate to draw comparisons because the pure Hawaiian is a vastly outnumbered group when stacked up with other races which make up the State's population of 650,000. 13 the Hawaiian skilled in net-making, fishing, handicrafts, singing, dancing or in music composition to be termed a failure because he has not acquired a fortune, or does not command an industrial empire, they ask? Are Hawaiians lethargic because they have chosen careers at sea or in the military, where achievements are not as easily recognized at home? As one put it: "Is the Hawaiian at the bottom of the ladder because he is not in the political arena?" Another asked: "What is success? Two cars and money in the bank?" The Hawaiians also contend that even the part-Hawaiians, though a sizable segment of the population, are outnumbered in terms of the total population. They contend and emphatically that the part-Hawaiian classification is a "great and unfortunate" misnomer. They maintain that there are thousands and thousands of persons who do not truly merit the part-Hawaiian classification because they have so little of the Hawaiian strain. Those with SO per eent cr more Hawaiian blood are with less than 50 per cest Ha- Turn to Fa3r WJCcIssa 1 Today, as the State takes a holiday in honor of Kamehameha the Great, there remains a population of 9,862 pure Hawaiians and 104,352 part-Hawaiians.

About 250 of the full-blooded Hawaiians dwell on the privately owned Island of Niihau, speaking and thriving almost in complete duplication of the ways of their ancestors. Others among the pure-Hawaiians living in similar fashion may be found in such near-isolated communities as Halawa Valley on Molokai, Keanae and Kipahulu on Maui, and Milolii and Kalapana on Hawaii. Others are in such Hawaiian Homestead communities as Hoolehua on Molokai, Anahqjla on Kauai, Keaukaha and Kamuela on Hawaii, and Nanakuli and Waimanalo on Oahu. Some are on the cattle ranches of Maui and the Big Island. Some, tragically perhaps, live in the low-rent public housing areas of Honolulu and Hilo, unable to acquire plots of land of their own.

The part-Hawaiians are everywhere. This group the descendants of intermarriages are more affluent. Among the leaders of the Hawaiian group was Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, a descendant of the last king of Kauai. A revered leader, he was a Delegate to Congress for 20 years when Hawaii was a Territory. He is remembered especially for his success in getting Congress to enact the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, which made thousands of acres of land available for homesteading for the rehabilitation of Hawaiians with 50 per cent or more of Hawaiian blood.

Among the most noted leaders of the part-Hawaiian group was the late Samuel Wilder King. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and also a fcrr Delegate -to Congress, King vas and Is the only.

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