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Hawaii Report Tht Sunday Star-Bulletin Advtrtittr bf Honolulu Advortiw, Inc. All miwvod. Prepared by the taH of the Honolulu Adwertleer May 27, 19B4 a4 Isle Democrats tilt toward I Vloedale National political roundup on Page A-22 By Jerry Burris Advertiser Politics Editor Hawaii's Democrats, determined to maintain an officially uncommitted stance in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, yesterday appeared to be edging slightly in the direction of Walter Mondale as they opened their biannual convention. One party leader man Daniel Akaka formally Joined the Mondale effort yes-terday as he addressed the crowd of nearly 800 gathered at the Ala Moana Hotel. Senior Hawaii Sen.

Daniel Inouye and Rep. Cecil Heftel already have endorsed Mondale, and Inouye predicted yesterday that Sen. Spark Matsunaga also will back the former vice presi- dent by convention time in San Francisco. (Matsunaga, in Washington, was unavailable for comment.) vi The leading advocate of an uncommitted stance is Gov. George Ariyoshi, the titular head of the party.

Ariyoshi in- sists he has not made up his mind, saying he wants Hawaii to remain neutral at least until after the key June 5 presiden-y tial primaries in California and I "Instead of talking about whether it will be Cec or Dan (Akaka) or Eileen (Anderson) or John (Waihee), we should talking about the future," he said. "A Democratic Party without a vision of the future is a party without a soul." Heftel also had some things to say about the public school system in Hawaii, the state's treatment of native Hawaiians and its "anti-business" image. "To say that fiscal constraints prevent improvement in schools begs the question," he said. On the business climate, Heftel urged local leaders to "be prepared to sit down with our business leaders and be prepared to listen i Akaka, also up for re-election, charged the Reagan administration with "handing out politically attractive economic trinkets purchased by mortgaging our future. I "Behind Ronald Reagans easy optimism lies the hard fact that things are very wrong in our country," Akaka said.

Ariyoshi predicted that Hawaii will buck a pro-Reagan trend among Western states and commit its four electoral votes to the Democratic nominee. I "There should be no reason that, in 1984, Hawaii should not be going for a Democratic nominee and, as in 1976, Hawaii wijl lead the way," he said. By some analyses, it was Hawaii's Democratic vote in 1976 that pushed former President members of the Hawaii delegation on the fence. The Hart campaign cannot sew up the nomination before the July convention in San Francisco; therefore, it wants to maintain as many uncommitted delegates as possible. Hawaii Democrats will choose six delegates committed to Mondale and 13 pledged to remain uncommitted on the basis of a precinct preference election.

The other eight delegates party leaders and elected officials may vote as they wish. Decisions about who will represent Hawaii at San Francisco will be decided In floor voting today, as will contested races for the three top party slots. The convention also will adopt new rules and a platform. A floor fight is possible over a plan to impose a first-time biannual $5 party membership fee. Most votes on these issues were being lined up at formal and informal caucuses that went late into last night.

Yesterday's business focused less on internal matters and more on the ultimate goal of the party: defeating President Reagan this fall and continuing the Democratic Party's across-the-board domination of the Island political map. That message was delivered most forcefully by Inouye, who admonished delegates not to become so embroiled in local matters that they lose sight of the major issue: the defeat of Rea- Advertiser photo by David Yamada Senior Sen. Daniel Inouye, Gov. George Ariyoshi and First Lady Jean Ariyoshi confer at the Democratic Party convention. New Jersey.

But even local Gary Hart supporters concede privately that everything being equal Ariyoshi likely will cast his vote for Mondale. Hawaii backers of the Colorado senator are hoping their candidate will do well enough in the June 5 primaries to keep the officially uncommitted gan and a cooling of the arms race with the Soviet Union. The issue before the convention, he said, "is not the hotel tax. It's the continuation of the species. Homo sapiens.

That's us." Congressman Heftel left national politics to Inouye and instead turned to the local political scene. no commitment.) After reviewing the 30-year history of Hawaii's modern Democratic Parly, Heftel warned that today's Democrats might be running out of steam. There is a danger, he said, that the party will turn into "defenders of the status quo" with candidates merely "fighting for the spoils." Although Heftel is running for re-election to Congress (he said yesterday that he has taken out papers and will file them shortly), the speech sounded more like that of a man who might run for governor in 1986. (Heftel is on record saying he's interested in the idea of a bid for governor but has made Jimmy Carter over the top. All winners in this Olympics By Donna Reyes Adcettitet Staff Writer Russell Julien took a deep breath and braced himself.

This J-was his last chance to sprint, across the grass and leap over the bar, and he knew he had to make it good. The small crowd on the foot- ball field was cheering. "Come i on, Russell! You can do it!" peo-r pie shouted. They watched as Russell ran full-speed ahead, then took a forward leap over the bar and landed on the thick foam pad. Whoops! The bar came down, too.

But that didn't matter. "Good try," reassured the small cheering section of Wahiawa volunteers. "You did great, Russell." It didn't matter that Russell, couldn't clear the 1-meter mark in the high jump event of the 16th annual Hawaii Special Olympics State Games yesterday at Kaiser High School. He did make the 85-centime-ters mark, and besides, "I'm having fun," the bespectacled youngster said after he was finished running and jumping. "I watch the Olympics a lot (on TV).

I like this. It's easy." Actually, Russell, 15, a physically handicapped student from Konawaena High School on the Big Island, is a veteran at the Special Olympics. "I've been here lots of times. It's neat," he said with a big grin. Even though the teenager didn't win the high jump contest, his West Hawaii coach Bob Hanlin said, "We all win, right, Russell?" in reference to the Special Olympics dedication to making every participant a champion.

More than 1,100 handicapped athletes from 100 schools and organizations from throughout the state, Japan, American Samoa and San Diego participated Friday and yesterday in Olympic-type events. They included volleyball, soccer, and 29 swimming and track and field events, a wheelchair slalom and a wheelchair obstacle course. Even the awards and review stands for the winning athletes resembled those of the real Olympic Games, with separate blocks for gold, silver and bronze medallion winners. While Russell's legs were doing the trick for him. all it took was a flick of the wrist to win Peter Kubo a gold medallion.

Peter, who has cerebral palsy, was in an adjacent field at the high school, competing in the Frisbee distance contest. It seemed only fitting that Peter, 15, a student at Waiakea High School in Hilo, should win first place with his 20-yard throw. He had practiced and trained hard for the event for the past six months, said his coach, George Brandt. Peter also won white ribbons for two other events fourth place in the 50-meter dash and fifth place in the softball throw. After three events, you'd think he'd be tired.

But he was heading for the cafeteria "to play more games," meaning, of course, videogames. His coach just shrugged, smiled, and followed Peter past the red-haired clowns, white paint-faced juggler and Some valedictorians find it's not lonely at the top I I 1 jt -Jaws y' 1 I fc I i I 1 J- I i r- WfS "VyZ i ft 1 ti" 4 L' Advertiser photo by Oavid Vamad Three Special Olympians give it their atl in the lOOyard dash at Kaiser High School. clined students. Actually, there were six youngsters In consideration for valedictorian but one got a B-plus in English in her sophomore year. "It's Just one of those unusual things.

Some years are very lean. Some years there are kids with two Bs who are valedictorians. "These (five) students all value academic achievement very strongly. All are involved in sports, service clubs, student government, all of them are in the National Honor Society, which is devoted to service, character, leadership and scholarship." "It's sure nice to have these kids around." The Konawaena valedictorians are: Brenda Haral, who will study veterinary medicine at By Laurel Loo Advertiser Education Writer A high school valedictorian is, i typically, the one student who I excels in a graduating class. J.

But this year there are at I least five schools out of the 70 or so high schools in Hawaii that are not typical they all boast more than one valedicto- rian. And all valedictorians will I be attending colleges to pursue a professional career. Perhaps the most unusual I case Is at Konawaena High School, where there are not 1 two, not three, not four but five valedictorians. All have straight-A averages. Principal Edward Mural is ec-t static.

"It's a very unusual senior 2 class in the sense that there are very strong, academically in the University of Hawaii-Manoa; Myra Horiuchi, who will study biology at the University of California at Berkeley; Trisha Kimura. who will study prelaw at UC-Berkeley; Raymond Koshi, who will study electrical engineering at the University of Southern California; and Elise Sachs, who will study physical sciences at Princeton University. The two top students at Puna-hou School this year are Janyce Mitchell, who will study aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Vincent Chow, who; will study physics at the California Institute of Technology. Both have 3.9 grade-point averages. At Maui's Seabury Hall, the two valedictorians are Mild Crane, who will study electrical engineering at the University of Southern California; and Niel-son Schulenburg, who will study engineering at Harvey Mudd College.

Both have 4.0 averages. At the University Laboratory School, the two valedictorians have 3.99 averages. David For-man will study engineering at Harvard University and Char lotte Manly will work as a computer programmer for a year and then study at the UH-Manoa. Waianae High School has three valedictorians all with 4.0 grade-point averages. Lisa Morishige will study either journalism or psychology at Wellesley College; Robert J.

Sellers will study law at the University of Michigan; and Linda F. Shiroma will study either English or environmental engineering at Princeton University. i in 1 ii ii Mim ill mTjiu ii i mi ii i n- iittt ii ii Comuelle to speak at banquet honoring state's valedictorians Pioneer's Money Market Deposit Account Pays HIGHER INTEREST THAN ANY BANK OR SAVINGS AND LOAN Interest Is compounded daily. Limitsd check-writing. Minimum Deposit: $2,500.

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