Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 3

Monday, Moy 6, 1985 A 3 StD 1 1 Ct I Fl If 1 lilfil iitSill llllf WtM sl ift'SI ifeftt II 1 mm -i i Sli'lfiill. i till Will If I II II If It's Up to You A-10 Police News A-11 Obituaries A-12 ftvV ,1,1 Lking fro v86 fl Jh 4 4 For the first time in his political career, Fasi addressed a cheering convention crowd that loved every word he said. "It was the best speech I have ever seen him deliver," said former House GOP leader and City Councilman Andrew Poepoe. "He was in rare form." The standing ovation was music Fasi had never heard during his nearly 30 years as a Democratic politician. "If it weren't for the Republicans," Fasi told the 500 GOP delegates, "I would have never been elected.

i ir7' I vJyiify 4 ft By Gregg K. Kakesako Star-Bulletin Writer KAILUA-KONA With the rhetoric and pep talks of their state convention behind them, Hawaii's Republicans now face the task of making good their promises of unity, openness and providing imaginative, problem-solving programs. The stakes are high. But Republicans believe that for the first time in three decades they have a better-than-even chance of putting their candidates in the governor's seat and at least one of Hawaii's two congressional positions. They Star-Bulletin i '1 also hope to boost their numbers in the Legislature, where they are outnumbered 21-4 in the Senate and 41-10 in the House.

With the election still 18 months away, the possible GOP lineup looks like this: City Managing Director D.G. "Andy" Anderson, City Prosecutor Charles Marsland, businessman John Henry Felix and Big Island Son. Richard Henderson are strong candidates for the Hovernorship. i State GOP Chairwoman Patricia Saiki may run for the congressional seat now held by Democratic Rep. Cecil Heftel, who has said he will run for governor.

Saiki says the Republican National Committee has promised her major financial support if she decides to run. Attorney Jerry Jossem is considering seeking the U.S. Senate seat long held by popular Democrat Daniel Inouye. ANDERSON SAID during the weekend convention here that believes "1986 will be the best year for any politician whether he be Democrat or Republican." "It's going to be a watershed year. It'll be a year of new directions, new politics, new hopes, new ideas It's going to be healthy," he said.

Anderson predicted that "for the Democrats, it will all come to an end in 1986 thus the disarray." Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi, former Democratic maverick now one of the GOP's most popular politicians, put it this way: "Let's make 1986 the year of the blood bath, the year of the comeback." Fasi, in his convention speech Saturday, said Democrats have grown arrogant with their un-" checked power and are no long-" er in touch with the electorate. "The people of this state are waiting for leaders to emerge and lead this state out of the status quo that it has been in for the past decade," he said. WITH GLEE, state Republican leaders pointed out numerous times during the convention that it was the Democrats' senior leader. Senator Inouye, who said his party was heading for "a monumental bloodbath in 1986'' because of partisan bickering. Saiki, who was re-elected to a second two-year term as GOP chairwoman yesterday, said she hoped that by this time next year the GOP will be unified behind one gubernatorial candidate.

Throughout the weekend of Pat Saiki, the state Republican Party chairwoman, shows off her this weekend. Star-Bulletin Photo by Ken Sakamoto. it is the Democrats who have "a death wish" as "the party of the privileged." ANDERSON said that as long as the Republicans can raise the money for a multi-million-doilar gubernatorial effort and "hang together, we should be able to pull it off and even pick up some seats in the Legislature." Much of the GOP's optimism is fueled not only by the disarray in the Democratic Party but by the impressive 1984 victories of Fasi and President Reagan. form during a golf break during "I owe the Republican Party." It was Anderson who rebuilt Fasi's non-existent mayoral bid in 1984 when others had written him off as a loser with no money and no organization. Like Reagan.

Fasi said his decision to leave the Democratic-fold and challenge Democratic-incumbent Eileen Anderson as a Republican last May was because 'The Democratic Party left me," But Fasi then quipped: "1 can't even say that. was never accepted." Sessions Work Kept Prosecutor Away from COP COMING OUT SWINGING the GOP convention in Kona parties, golf matches and tennis games, there was no getting away from discussion about the 1986 elections still 18 months away. "We have the best chances in ages," said Obie Olson, Anderson campaign aide, "to take it all way from them." With three-term Gov. George Ariyoshi facing mandatory retirement and with no heir apparent emerging from within the splintered Democratic ranks, Hawaii's Republicans now argue Xy ft By Gregg K. Kakesako Star-Bulletin Writer KAILUA-KONA City Prosecutor Charles Mars-land didn't make it to the state Republican Party convention during the weekend because of developments in a criminal investigation, according to his aide.

Rick Reed, Marsland's administrative assistant, said Marsland, who is being courted to run for governor next year, "as late as Thursday had planned to be" at the GOP meetings. But Friday, Marsland had to meet with the city's organized crime strike force which had just returned from the Mainland with new information, Reed said. "It couldn't be put off," Reed said. "He had to get involved, talking to witnesses and other people." Reed, who attended the convention as a guest, said Marsland still isn't interested in running for governor. Nor does Reed see any circumstances which could change Marsland's mind at this time.

MARSLAND was not scheduled to speak at the convention which ended yesterday. The entire meeting, in fact, was engineered by party leaders to avoid any semblence of confrontation or dissent among any of the four potential GOP gubernatorial candidates Marsland, City Managing Director D.G. "Andy" Anderson, businessman John Henry Felix and Big Island Sen. Richard Henderson. In the past few weeks, Marsland and Anderson have had heated exchanges, the speculation being that gubernatorial politics is the reason.

This weekend, Anderson, Felix and Henderson played low-key roles. All three are unwilling to say much now other than that they will support the party's best candidate in the 1986 election. "I'm a team player," Anderson said. "I want a Although Marsland skipped the Big Island convention and appears adamant against running for governor, his supporters hope to change his mind. State Rep.

Hal Jones and other conservative Republicans believe Marsland is "viewed by the average man on the street as wanting to really clean up the city's crime problem." Jones said Marsland's law-and-order positions, his understanding of the plight of small businesses and his support of the state's education system enhance his image as the GOP's "most electable candidate for governor in 1986." "We will be circulating 'Marsland in 86' buttons and having people call him and write to him, telling him that he would be our party's best candidate," Jones said. He added: "We're not working against Anderson or anyone else. We just believe Marsland has the best chance." victory in 1986. The Democrats are leaderless. They are squabbling among themselves.

They are vulnerable." Anderson said "time, money, opinions and attitudes" will determine who will be the party's best candidate. HIS DECISION could, in part, hinge on the very-visible role he has taken as Mayor Frank Fasi's managing director. Like an Army executive officer, Anderson has taken the front position, absorbing the brunt of criticism for the city's commanding officer. "I'm making the decisions that need to be made," Anderson said. "I'm not ducking them.

I'm not worrying whether these decisions will be unpopular. If my political opportunities suffer, then so be it. But running the city is my number one priority. It's been fun to go to work every morning." Bacterial Disease Kills Boy After Falls Swim Isle Bakery Owner a Central Figure in Reagan Anecdote By Robbie Dingeman Star-Bulletin Writer A 16-year-old boy has died from a disease he contracted while swimming at Kapena Falls in Nuuanu Valley, according to a state Health Department spokesman. Damien Marks went swimming at Kapena Falls with an open wound and contracted leptospi-rosis, a bacteria that grows in freshwater streams that are contaminated by rodent urine, spokesman Don Horio said today.

Marks, a student at Damien High School, was the son of Richard and Gloria Marks of Kalaupapa, Molokai. A Queen's Medical Center spokeswoman confirmed that Marks died there Friday. He had gone swimming two weeks earlier. Horio said the department has put out pamphlets warning aqua-culture and agriculture workers of the dangers of the disease, but didn believe the risks warranted any general notice. "Leptospirosis is in the water everywhere," Horio said.

"You just have to be careful." The disease "is not that common," he added. THE ORGANISM apparently enters the water through the urine of rats that live in nearby grassy areas, Horio said. Health officials say the symptoms of the disease include a rash, headache and a fever. There have been several deaths from the disease recorded over the past 10 years in Hawaii. Three of the victims were prawn farmers who spent a lot of time in freshwater streams and ponds, according to newspaper files.

Horio said most victims of the disease, which is rarely fatal, pick it up while working in or near fresh water. He said he could not remember any recent cases of the disease being picked up by a swimmer. 30 in order for a decertification election to be held. They collected only about 180 signatures during the two-month petition drive, Reid said. He said he wasn't disappointed in the response because "I'm quite content with the notion that things happen in their time." He indicated that another attempt at decertification "jould be made in two vears.

i t. i 4. Mjtf ir-MiiM omwmmntimai Vincken and his mother had fled to the cabin, located near the Hurtgen forest, to escape the fighting, Reagan said, when three Americans, one wounded, asked for shelter. A few hours later, four German soldiers came to the door and also asked for shelter, which she granted only after insisting all the soldiers' weapons be placed in a nearby shed. "She didn't want any shooting," Vincken said.

"There was some initial tension, but that was over very soon." ONE OF THE Germans later provided medical aid to the wounded American. The next morning, Vincken said, the soldiers took their weapons and parted ways. "The boys reconciled briefly in the midst of war," Reagan said. "Surely, we allies ln-peacetime should honor the reconciliation of the last 40 years." Vincken, who now runs Fritz's European Bakery, said he supported the president's decision to go ahead with the visit to Bitburg cemetery, where dozens of German SS soldiers are buried. "The president is not trying to whitewash the SS," Vincken Combined Dispatches When President Reagan told a story yesterday of how a small German boy and his mother sheltered American and German soldiers during World War II, the young boy was listening.

"I was very moved," said Fritz Vincken. Vincken, now 53, was taking a break from work at his bakery on Dillingham Boulevard when he heard Keagan on the radio. Reagan told how Vincken, then 12, and his mother har bored three American and four German soldiers in a small country cabin on Christmas Eve, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. The president wove the anecdote into his speech at the U.S... Air Base at Bitburg, Germany, saying that hope "could sometimes be glimpsed in the darkest days of war." Reagan was given the story by staff members who had found it, billed as a Christmas story and titled, "Truce in the Forest," in the January 1973 issue of The Reader's Digest.

However, Vincken first told his story in a Star-Bulletin col- umn on Dec. 24. 1964. 1 president, I voted for him in both elections," Vincken said. Vincken emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1959, and moved to Hawaii in December of 1963 after two years in California.

He has a wife, Erna, and a daughter, Elizabeth, 2 No Decertification Vote REAGAN REFERENCE Fritz Vincken works at his Dillingham Boulevard bakery. Star-Bulletin Photo by Craig T. Kojima. A decertification vote against the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly won't be taken this year. That's because a move by two UH-Manoa education professors to decertify the faculty union has fallen short by a considerable margin.

Professors Ian Reid and David Sherill needed 30 percent, or about 900, of UHPA's 2.700 members to sign a petition by April said. "The Holocaust existed, and Germany stands to it, they will never forget it." "Forty years later, it is time for reconciliation," Vincken said. "In some way, we must find each other for a better future together." "I am a great admirer of the.