Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 60

E-8 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Thursday, May 16, 1968 7j JPsl EAST Of KAM. HWY. VAIMAIU VIADUCT WAIMALU VIADUCT 1 WAIAWA INTFBCHANGf fA2J'i55TON SECTION ll I ill 'pill i ilv tyAIPAHU SECTION VUKIATOVMIAWA 568-169 CUSTOM MADE KAIPIilDliS BORDER RUG BOUND Off 4 SIDES 5'x6' Pink Plush Green Tweed ...27.00 8'xlO' Red Tweed ......39.00 Gold Plush 54.00 Blue Green Shag 72.00 Green Shag ....72.00 8'xl 0' White Plush 54.00 7'x9'. White Plush 42.00 0' Green Nylon 39.00 Green Shag 1 5.00 Beige Nylon ....10.50 h'xZI" Gold Nylon .....24.00 Gold Tweed .8.95 Green Plush 1 8.00 1 0" Of White 1 2.00 Green Nylon ..16.25 0' Gold Nylon 1 2.00 9'x12' Gold Nylon 42.00 9'x12' Green Tweed ....48.00 10'x12' Green Nylon ....60.00. 1 2'x12' Gold Nylon 80.00 12'x15' Green Nylon ...100.00 12'x18 Gold Nylon ....120.00 SELF NO NEED FOR LINING CHOICE OF 8 COLORS The State has a target date of 1972 for completion of the 27.5-mile freeway from Aina Koa to Barbers Point.

Highway officials know they face a difficult task getting this part of the freeway finished by 1972. TARGET DATE 1 972 This detailed map by Star-Bulletin artist Ray Higuchi illustrates the massive H-l freeway system from Kunia Road across 'central Oahu to Middle Street. Dates shown are the starting and completion times of each segment of H-lj as scheduled by the Department of Transportation. SPECIAL 1 00 Continuous Filament Nylon State 1 completion pressing RUG X-i i CALL 58M 88 FOR HOME ESTIMATIONS OR BRING IN YOUR MEASUREMENTS mi ESTIMATES Sat. 'Til 9 P.M.

'TilS P.M. 'Til 4 P.M. When the Waialae section is completed by next April, freeway traffic will, speed uninterrupted to Aina Koa and local traffic will move on the ground level. For a while in April, State officials were hopeful that a new revised formula for fed- eral highway aid would allow Hawaii to obligate more money this calendar year. TFrom what we can gather, however, this doesn't affect us at all," Zane said.

"We're still asking questions, though." war. Hawaii was among the hardest hit. In addition, the State's anil a 1 allocations from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads have been sliced, and this year it was cut from $35 million to about $32 million. H-2, H-3 deferred The H-2 freeway from Pearl City to Wahiawa and H-3 from Halawa to Kaneohe have been indefinitely deferred, although plans are being kept up-to-date for the hopeful release of money.

"We're shooting to get H-l done," Zane said. "If we spread the money all over the place, we won't have any freeway completed." The entire interstate and Vocation rehabilitation conference first of kind By Kay Lund Star-Bulletin Writer Hawaii is i for tcompletion of the freeway from Aina 3Coa to Barbers Point by and highway officials concede the target date will toe difficult to meet. A Of the 27.5-mile freeway, 11.5 miles are completed; 6.1 are under construc-ttion; miles are out for bid ready jor work; and 6.8 tiniles are under design. the worst part is still yet to come," said Larry C. I' Fruto, assistant chief for administration with the State Highways Division, Department of Transportation.

This includes the massive $11 million Waiawa interchange and the entire Pearl City-to-Middle Street portion of Interstate H-l via the airport which still is under design. "The bypass of Pearl City is a very critical and pressing area," said Albert C. Zane, chief of the highways division. Cutbacks in funds Zane said corrmletion hv 1972 will be "tough to meet" largely, due to the drastic cutbacks in the federal highway funds by the Johnson administration. The interstate and defense highway system, which includes H-l, H-2 and H-3, is financed 90 per cent by the federal government and matched 10 per cent by the State.

"The worst part is the money which is still frozen by the federal government $46.7 million. This represents back money which we cannot touch," Zane said. President Johnson ordered Hawaii's inter-governmental conference on the State Vocational Rehabilitation Plan next Tuesday through Thursday is attracting Mainland attention because it is the first of its kind to be held in the nation, according to Dr. Doris Martin, plan direc- t0Sessions will be held in the Princess Kaiulani Hotel. The conference will be led by federal, State, county and private agency representatives.

Program emphasis will be on inter-governmental and inter-agency coordination. Dr. Martin reports four other national representatives will join the roster of speakers previously announced. The four are Ed- defense highway system was to be completed by 1972. Now it has been revised to 1975.

"The Pele-Victoria-Keeau-moku segments of the freeway often known as the "missing link" have been particularly difficult on both' motorists and construction crews because of the intense flow of traffic. "We have new problems there everyday," Zane said. 2-phase viaduct The 30-foot-tall viaduct from Keeaumoku to Victoria is being built in two phases. Now under construction is the makai viaduct which hopefully will handle downtown-bound autos by July. The entire "missing link" port with the Social Security Administration's bureau of disability insurance, Leonard Grassman ot the regional Office of Emergency Planning and Charles H.

Shreve, regional director of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Look who's tdlkina RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) While actors clustered on the steps of the Municipal Theater here to protest federal censorship, a passerby stopped to admire a mini-skirted demonstrator sitting on the top step. A male demonstrator stepped in front of the girl to obstruct the admirer's view. The man glared, shook his head and before walking away told the actor: "And you say you are protesting censorship?" h. for in the freeway is not expect-' ed to be done until the first few months of 1969.

Commenting on the equally hectic Waialae construction, Zane said traffic should be able to flow more normal-ly as soon as workmen can move to the upper New method used "Actually, we have used a new method there with a minimum of false work or scaffolding," he said. "And it's worked out much better than before." 1961 Similar Kixwry LINED $T175 NOW PER YD. I a yd. ONLY AMPLE PARKING IN FRONT AND REAR OF STORE 6C KA1LUA 737 KAILUA ROAD Phono: 262.8141 the ceilings on highway ward M. Carpenter, associ-spending as a means of halt- ate executive director of the ing inflation and meeting the Bay Area Social Planning heavy costs of the Vietnam Council; Clifton E.

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