Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 1

wiliii' Today's N6ws Today Vol. 57, No. 55 HONOLULU, HAWAII Saturday, February 24, 1968 PHONE 567.222 10' Home Thant: Hanoi Tmhsit nefworK mutes proposed will talk if bombs stop The 29-milestretch of rapid transit would be served by 230vehicles traveling on rails or some other fixed form, of separate right-of--way. The road network would cost million, including some funds already committed to highway construction. It would include a makai i ar between Middle Street and Kapahula Avenue, at grade level, that would swoop through two tunnels to pass beneath the channels of Honolulu Harbor.

It would cross Rainbow Island on the surf ace. North-south connectors, be-, tween Nimitz Highway and interstate H-l would follow Liliha Street and South and Alapai, streets to circulate, traffic around the Civic Center and the central business district. -Alternate routes The OTS highway plan recommends three alternate routes to serve the Waialae-to Koko Head area, each of them tying into a makai arterial along Ala Wai canal. Building them would entail: Upgrading Kalanianaole Highway to six lanes, matched by an additional six land lanes of highway on the reef off or: Double decking Kalanianaole Highway, with six lanes in a viaduct over six lanes at grade level. A connector highway would be built from the Ala Wai-high- way along the Manoa Palo-lo drainage, canal to interstate H-l, Extending the- makai facility that parallels the Ala Wai through Waialae Kaha-la along Kilauea Avenue to tie into H-l.

Financing a problem Financing the transportation network will be. a major problem, the study notes. Debt limits may be a i but raising the funds for. the transit system appears possible if the State and the City-County cooperate on financing, the -study said. But it may be necessary for the City-County to raise real property taxes.

i The Legislature will need to appropriate funds for. the additional amounts for' the State highway fund if there is to contain enough financing for the recommended road improvements, th? stuay said. The report said the City-County should be primarily responsible for the development of mass transit. There should be a short range program for improving the existing bus system in the meantime. Providing roadways that would serve all the needs of east-west travel in central Horolulu not be receptacle to" the public, the study Instead, a network of connector streets and major roads will help preserve; land uses and community values.

By Byron 'Bakery Star-Bulletin Writer Oahu should have a 209-mile transit system and 543 miles of new or improved roads and freeways worth more than $1 billion to serve 1985's transportation needs, according to the Oahu Transportation Study. The study, completed earlier this year at a cost of more than $1 million, was submitted today to the Legislature. It recommends a transit system containing a 26-mile, Y-shaped rapid transit route reaching from Pearl City to Hawaii-Kai and Waikiki. It would include three miles of subway. Outlying areas would be served by "flexible transit" (buses) traveling over a 180-mile route.

The highway-freeway system, of which the federal defense highway network now under construction would be a part, includes 67 miles of freeway and 476 miles of major highway streets and collector roads. Upgraded streets Much of the road mileage represents upgraded existing streets, rather than construction of new ones. The transit system would cost a total of $278.9 million, have annual- operating of $22.7 million (annual passenger revenues: $24.7 million) and a daily patronage of 363,100 persons. car ROCKY ROAD THROUGH Marines crouch low in the rubble of one of the towers of Hue's Citadel. They wait -for an artillery strike before advancing on North Vietnamese positions In the old stone fortress- halt House arouD won of auction Mag ic "The Department of.

Lands and Natural Resources will, have tight-controls on any development on Magic Is- land," Toyofuku said. "The area will be mainly for the public with some private en-, terprise." In addition, Toyofuku said the City and County: has strict control over any zon- ing for the area, which has i INTERNAT State faces Big six-year deficit LEGEND RAPID -TRANSIT STATION H-RAPID -TRANSIT CORRIOOIK reerenpe to akey point In President Johnson's San Anr tonio. formula calling for assurances, that Hanoi would not take advantage militari1 Turn to Page Col. 4 ung up continues at 7. Hue Ci SAIGON (AP)4 With palace 'grounds secured under South Vietnam's flag, allied troops -slugged away at remaining Communist pockets in flue's Citadel late today in what commanders called -a moppoing-up process.

Other fights flared on the streets. A battalion of U.S. Marines pushed out of the old imperial capital and liberat-. ed a South Vietnamese engineer battalion had held out for" 25 days against surrounding enemy, forces little more than a mile west of town-. An Associated Press correspondent reported the Marines, moving beyond the en-gineer's camp, ran into, heavy fighting with an enemy force in, prepared South of the Marine sweep, troopers of the U.S.

101s: Airborne Division moved through another enemy-infiltrated area. Other avenues of approach of escape around Hue were being worked over by U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troopers and South Vietnamese rangers. A company of Black Panther all and a battalion of Vietnamese infantrymen made the firal assault that wrested the quarter-square-mile pal- Trn to Page'A-2. Col.

3 to back food tax re The AFL-CIO win support proposals to remove the 4 per cent tax from food and drugs during the current legislative sessionvthe Star-Bulletin learned todays The' union has been on record since 1966 as favoring peal of the tax on food, and' drugs. The union will stand by its commitment in the i of partisan battles over what form of tax credit to give consumers. Removing therfood and drug tax is a Republican Gov. John Burns has proposed an across-the-board tax credit of $20 per exemption. And individual legislators.

are drafting measures embodying various approaches to easing the tax burden on necessities for low-income earners. It was thought, however, that AFL-CIO support for the GOP tax proposal may be "lukewarm, v- er face against Johnson than does Nixon, and leads by a 46 to 41 per cent vote, wHh 13 per cent undecided. But with Wallace jn the race, Rockefeller's advantage is somewhat offset and he leads the' President by 40 per cent to 37 per cent, with 13 per cent for Wallace and 10 per cent undecided. The. South accounts primarily for Rockefeller's losses nationally.

Wallace takes away twice as many votes from Rockefeller in this region as he does from President Johnson. Index and weather on Page A-2 ft a r-iopf tadel poll Harrelson Associated Press. Writer 7 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y; Secretary General Thant asserted today the door is open for Vietnam' peace talks despite intensified fighting and that negotiations-will begin within a few days if the bombing of North Vietnam is halted. The secretary general said he had been assured by Hanoi representatives that talks would start as soon as a bombing ban became effective and that' the United States could bring up any matter it chose, including a reduction of military opera-, tions in South Vietnam. Thant's views were made public in a statement assessing his recent round of dis-cussions with interested world leaders, including President Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin, British Prime Minister Harold ii Indian Prime i i Indira Gandhi, French President Charles de Gaulle and two North Vietnamese officials. Peace or escalation Unless the essential steps are taken now to initiate peace talks, he said, "the' conclusion i inescapable that there will be continued intensification and escalation of the conflict, resulting in unforeseeable developments with dire consequences." He called the war futile. "There can be "no victory, no defeat, only more sufferings more death and more "destruction," he 'The very survival, df -Vietnam is at stake'. It is time to call a halt." The secretary" general said his discussions convinced him that a halt in the U.S. bombing of North Viet: a is tthe indispensable first step.

"If such a step were to be he am more than ever "convinced that meaningful talks rwiJl take place much earlier than is generally even perhaps within a matter of a few days." Among those with whom Thant conferred were; North Vietnamese Consul General Nguyen Hoa in Delhi and Hanoi's Delegate General Mai Van Bo in Paris. He disclosed for the. first time details of these including assurances' from Bo that negotiations would begin as soon the stopped! i i. No limit on topics The secretary general said he had been told by Bo that the United States could bring up any matter in including reduction of the fighting in South Vietnam and the question Of re-c i the Geneva Conference." 1 Thant added that, once the' bombing was halted, it could reasonably be assumed that questions 1 a i to the fighting, "particularly in the demilitarized 'zone and across the frontiers," will be dealt with in good faith. i This appeared to be.

a ly from Johnson and Nixon (7 points in each case), iHere are the results of the 3-way race compared with those of the two-way race: l- Sway race Johnsoh 39 .29 .11 11 Nixon Wallace Undecided 2-way race -Johnson 42 Nixon 42 16 100 Present survey evidence indicates that Wallace would take away more votes from Rockefeller than from Rockefeller runs a str.ongr By Max latest Isle been in dispute for the past decade. Toyofuku said he is anxious to see that something positive is done to encourage the development of Magic Island this session after disa- eement between the House and the Senate over a period of years; -t': "We've waited too long on this." Toyofuku said. x. A major factor in the defi- cits would; be the tax credit pro a for which Gov. John A.

Burns has allotted $10 milhon in his budget' proposal for the next fiscal year. The amount of the. credit would grow in subsequent vears. as population in- creases and more people be- come eligible for i The tax credit would reduce revenues available to State. The projection reflects administration proposals 1 0 plow accumulated cash surpluses back into the operating budget in the next fiscal year.

The result would be a modest surplus in that year of about Ing said the fiscal prbjec-tions are based on a growth rate of 7.5 per cent in tax revenues and 1.5 per cent in fees collected by 0 ment. These are the rateslat which revenues' have increased Actual increases conceivar bly could be higherr be said. "It's a long look ahead that we can't be sure of the figure but' this is about the -way it looks now," "he said. Diarnon II 0 Lands Committee Chairman George Toyofuku yesterday said that his com-, i 1 1 will not take any seeps to block plans by tne Department of Land and Natural Resources to auction a lease for: the development of Magic Island March 8. In.

the Senate, John Lan-ham, chairman of the Lands and Natural Resources Committee, also said he sees no reason to thwart the auction plans which were postponed last month. However, he said the question be discussed by Democratic senators in caucus next week. "If we are going to do anything to stop the Magic Island lease Lanham; said, "it will have to be by someone coming up with a. better idea than what is being j. Toyofuku said he endorses the general concept of a pak recreation Use on the 34 acres of reclaimed coral off Ala Moana Park although he would not commit himself on the specific proposal being made by Francis Rux-.

ton Schuh. Schuh, who heads a California firm interested in turning part of the: island i into a recreational complex, is one of three developers expected to bid on the lease. Some critics have claimed that Schuh 's. proposed plan and others similar to it will transform badly needed public lands near Waikiki to a cheap "Coney Island" type of resort. -7 Lanham said he still favors a portion of the island being used for an international trade center.

Toyofuku said yesterday he has no fears that developers will turn Magic Island into anything othr than what they have indicated. posed fund drive pro KANEOHE over some adjoining land, Skrivanek said. simple may not be necessary, in all cases," he Said. He added, that the latest land sale in the area was for iabout $10 a sauare This figure, il; applicable, to the entire area under consideration would mean a total investment considerably less than the $10 million price tag vthat has been quoted, Skriva- n.sai; The City Council approved apprisal or the land eoie tw0 weeks PormalitJr 0, 'gVough the red tape," Skrivanek S3id. Hopes for donations He is optimistic about chances for soliciting a large amount of money for the Diamond Head land purchase from private sources.

Skrivanek pointed out that the Nature Conservancy has offered its services in the proposed fund raising drive to save Diamond Head, adding that the National Foundation for. Historic Trusts likewise has volunteered to lend assistance. "There are others (national foundations) available," Skrivanek said. "It would depend, I think, on whether the federal government would let us stretch it out a little more than, one year. "They have to make the commitment within a one-year appropriation time period." Skrivanek said the application for federal money would erne The State government could accumulate deficits of $104.3 million over the next 'six fiscal years, Andrew T-F.

Ing, director of the State Department of Budget and Finance, said today. The estimate is based on current predictions of the size of government revenues and the cost of government programs through 1974.. "The picture doesn't look very Ing said. The cumulative deficit fig-. ure would represent annual deficits of about $19.5 million on fiscal 1970, $22.5 million in 1970, $22.5 million" fiscal 1972, $24.4 million in fiscal 1973 and $16.1 million in 1974.

Bulletin DETROIT-(AP) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York said- flatly today 4 that he would run for President if drafted by the Republican national con-; vention, but added that he -expected no draft to de-velop Another factor that could also greatly affect this year's race and one that; is causing mounting concern in both Republican and Democratic circles is the can-: didacy of ex-Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. Wallace, who is running on the American Independent Party ticket, has hopes of placing his name on the ballot 43; of the 50 states.

iJ If Wallace should win enough states to deny either major party candidate a ma-: jority of electoral votes (270), the Constitution re- quires that the U.S. House of. Representatives decide the winner on a straight alloca-; tion of one vote of each state delegation in the newly-elected Congress. If Wallace succeedsin bringing this about, he says th LBJ in or a be submitted to the City Council within two weeks. He expects the City Council meeting of either March 5 or March' 12 to be a "crucial" one.

The vote on- whether to submit the prepared applica-. tion for funds to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development probably will be taken then, Skrivanek; said. The Department of the Interior has designated Dia- mond Head as a national natural landmark. Gov.

John A. Burns will have to make the final deci- sion on whether the extinct volcano is to become a national monument, Skrivanek said. PRINCETON, N.J. Richard Nixon has drawn even with President Johnson in the latest test of election strength after having trailed the President by a sizable margin in. a survey conducted prior to the recent turn of events in Vietnam.

Nixon holds a commanding lead (his widest to date) as the top choice of both Republicans and Independents the 1968 presidential nomination. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York is; the runner-up with both groups. The public's attitudes about the course of the war -and. specifically, the President's handling of the situation, are closely related to the changing tide of political sentiment and may well be the decisive factor in the election this Nixon Frank Skrivanek, City planning director, has indicated he would like to see some sort of trust fund for Diamond Head set up "in which individuals and, possi blv companies could make' donations." He added that the City Council has not made any comments on the idea so far.

Contributions would be tax- deductible, Skrivanek said'. for both State and federal in- come tax purposes. nB Diamon Head has the City planning department hard at work preparing a help mm the slopes of Hawau trade-, OKIlVitilfri. Sdiu ajijJioiur nrlr Vine hppn spt-in motihn work has been set in motion to determine the market value of the Diamond Head land area. Expenses involved would be for purchase of Diamond Head land by the City "possibly for a park" and perhaps for purchase of air rights 'A' motorists nearing deadlins All Oahu motorists whoise last names begin with the letter A must have their licenses renewed by March 1.

Otherwise, they will (be driving without a valid driver's license. Drivers whose last nanes begin with or are now being relicensed. March is officially the month for the group to renew their licetises. "As of drivers had been relicpnsed out of an estimated 7337 in the and groups. he will seek a one of the candidates and tlirow his votes to the man who agrees, to support his policies.

Three-way test To test Wallace's strength, he was a against Johnson and' Richard Nixon in a three-way trial heat. who draws 11 per. cent of the vote nationally in such a test and 25 per cent of the vote in the South, is found hurt both major party a i a about equally. With Wallace in the race, Johnson and Nixon each lose 3 percentage points nationally and the race remains standoff. The losses for both men are a in the South, but again, come equal The following question was put to a carefully drawn sample of registered voters in a.

survey conducted in early February: i "Suppose the Presidential election, were being held TO- DAY If Richard Nixon were the i Republican candidate and' Lyndon Johnson were the Democratic candidate, which would you like to see win?" The following table gives the latest results and the trend over the last three months. It will be noted that the undecided vote has grown from 6 per cent in November to16 per cent LBJ Nixon Und, 42 42 16CC 51 39 10 ..47 .43 10 45 49 6 LATEST Jan. Dec, '67 Nov. 55;.