Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 11

In Beijing: Messenger makes the news B-2 Ail-American night at the Tonys B-3 Beck: Writer calls shots after Cannes B-4 Monday, June 5, 1989 Star-Bulletin Section 1 EVER GREEN By Lois 4 Taylor -4 -vi rN. 1 I A ii i 4-h The Rolling Stones will be one of several "classic" acts on the road this summer. The group's line-up today (left) has remained intact since 1975, when guitarist Ron Wood replaced Mick Taylor. Above, the of the '60s. I 11 1 i f-v-rh -i 1 in Mitiaiiiiii.W dMhki 11 i ses reaoy iPlI Gift of hobby perfect for dad with everything a man interested in orchids or gardening, I a miltonia would beat out a necktie as a good I i Father's Day gift.

Miltonia orchids, says the man who grows more of them than anybody else in the state, are about the most satisfactory hobby you could ask for. Hajime Ono, a retired Del Monte Corp. employee, has been growing miltonias at his Wahiawa home for 20 years, and now has about 10,000 plants. Ono has a shade house in his yard where the orchids grow, and a shed where he hybridizes some plants and grows others from clones. Clones are cultivated in flasks from the tissue of parent plants, a sterile process that Ono farms out to another grower.

"Hey, this is a hobby," he said, explaining that cloning is a complicated procedure with very little entertainment value. He does the hybridizing, which is the cross-pollination of two or more different species, a process that he finds fascinating. "I'd say that 90 percent of the miltonias I grow here are either my own hybrids or clones," he said. His hybrids are vibrantly colored in deep orchid, ivory, lavender or lemon yellow, and the flowers have a velvety texture. Two of his most prized hybrids, both an ivory white, are named for his granddaughters Alysen and Lorene.

Miltonia blossoms are about 4 inches long and 3 inches across, and almost flat. Ono says that the flowers will stay on the spike for at least three weeks, but die within an hour or two when picked. MILTONIAS do best in a cool climate like 1 Wahiawa's, in the heights or back in the valleys. They will blossom in Pearl City or Kaimu-ki, but the flowers will never be as large as those grown in Nuuanu or Alewa Heights. Miltonias bloom from late March to early July.

During this period, the plants should be not be fertilized or sprayed. He takes the seedlings from the cultivating flasks and plants them in small community pots filled with New Zealand sphagnum moss. When the plants are about 2 inches high, they are transplanted separately into 2-inch clay pots in a potting mix to which he adds black cinders or fine fir bark. The pot size is increased as the plants grow, and when he repots, he sprinkles a half-teaspoon of Osmocote with minor elements around each plant. It takes about nine months for the plants to grow from flask to individual pot stage.

You can expect the first flowers about a year and a half after that. "The key thing seems to be what I found out about watering. Never water in the daytime, and always water in the evening when it's cooler. I water every other day, no more, and I water by hand. That way I see every plant, and I know if there's something wrong," he said.

Ono grows his miltonias in 75 percent shade because sun burns the flowers. When the plants are blooming, he does nothing but water them. As soon as the flowering is over, he cuts off the spikes and regularly uses a foliar fertilizer mixed with water and sprayed on the leaves. He continues this until the new spikes appear about eight months later. In the summer, he gets rid of mites and fungus on the plants by spraying them with garden products formulated to destroy these pests.

Miltonia orchids are native to the Colombian jungle where they grow at 3,500 to 6,000 feet elevation. They have been established in Hawaii for many years and the plants have become accustomed to the lower altitude and the warmer weather. Blooming plants may be left in the house for two or three days, then should be returned to a shady area outside for several days. Because the growing of miltonias is a hobby with Ono, he doesn't market them vigorously. Through a family connection, he allows Wally's Garden Center at 1935 S.

Beretania to sell a number of plants each summer, and Ono said they have a fair stock now. He also sells a few at flower shows. Lois Taylor's gardening column is a Monday feature of Vie Todau section. Write her at the Star-Bulletin, P.O. Box 30S0, Honolulu, Hawaii 96)102.

Cure needed for nuclear 'disease' Doctor says a ban of the bomb marks the first step to humanism By Susan Manuel Star-Bulletin Twenty-eight years ago a group of medical doctors, outraged at the health problems of Americans who had lived in the vicinity of the 1950s atmospheric nuclear tests, formed the first group of doctors to take a stand on the global arms race. One of the founders of the group Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Victor Sidel, is in the islands this week to talk about the latest work of the activist medical organization. He'll speak tomorrow at St. Peters Church in Honolulu and Friday on Kauai during the medical conference called "The Power of the Art: Humanism, Healing and Health Care." Co-sponsored by the Kauai Foundation for Continuing Education, the Hawaii Medical Association and the Kauai Medical Group, the conference will "examine the non-technical aspects of caring and curing," says Michelle Long, project coordinator.

Experts from the fields of theology, nursing, ethics, literature and anthropology will address medical workers. "I'll be talking about the fallacy that more and more weapons increase security. The PSR argument is that that simply decreases security, particularly when it involves nuclear weapons," Sidel said from Montefiore Hospital in New York, where he is a distinguished university professor of social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. IN the late 1950s, physicians were concerned about the effects of radiation that showed up in residents of Nevada and Utah after nuclear blasts cast fallout for hundreds of miles around: fit was strontium 90 in bones and teeth and iodine 53 in thyroid glands of children," Sidel said. "One of the first things we did was to urge cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing.

Along with pressure from other groups, that culminated in the Atmospheric Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1903. "I think we also played a role in the recent agreement to destroy intermediate nuclear weapons in Western Europe," he said. "We're trying to get all nations to stop all nuclear tests." Sidel says last week's NATO talks on reducing short-range nuclear weapons and conventional arms are "extremely hopeful." Many physicians believed growing incidences of cancer among Nevada and Utah residents in the 1970s and 1980s were direct outcomes of atmospheric testing. But the U.S. Department of Energy, assigned with both the nuclear See BAN, Page B-3 Bands of the '60s and 70s hit the tour trail with a vengeance B-3 Bottom line bolsters oldies By Randy Alexander Newhouse News Service rUHE summer at hand that marks if the 20th anniversary of Woodstock is also the summer in which a glut of acts from the I k-4, I 1 I ft i (.

Aerosmlth, Van Halen, Def Leppard, George Michael, Bruce Springsteen, ACDC, Whitesnake or Sting. "There was such a glut of groups on the road last summer that it really was a mess," says Performance's Jane Cohen. "The promoters learned a lesson: You can't put everybody on the road at the same time." The old-timers are back, Cohen says, thanks to Pink Floyd, the highest-grossing act of 1988. They generated such enormous business, bands said 'Hey, there's still a market for us out Ringo Starr has decided to put together a superstar band to survey his 70s solo hits on the "shed circuit," industry talk for outdoor amphitheaters. The lineup to date of the Ringo band is Billy Preston as musical director and keyboardist, Joe Walsh on guitar, Jim Keltner and the Band's Levon Helm on drums, Dr.

John on keyboards, Clarence demons on sax and either Cream's Jack Bruce or the Band's Rick Danko on bass. The latest line on another Beatle, Paul McCartney, is that his tour will Indeed happen, but not before the fall for indoor shows. McCartney, who hasn't toured since the 1976 "Wings Over America" shows, already has put together a band that includes wife Linda. The new McCartney album, "Flowers in the Dirt," is due out this week. Though the Rolling Stones never officially broke up, they've been bickering through separate and group projects during the '80s.

All egos will be checked at the door while Mick Jagger, at 46, slips on the Spandex tights once more to prove time is still on his side. After lying low in the first half of the '80s, living legend Bob Dylan See CLASSICS, Poge B-3 '60s and 70s hit the road. "It's the summer of classic rock," says Philadelphia concert promoter Stephen Starr. "I keep saying it's the last hurrah for these acts, but I don't know. They keep coming back.

Pop acts just aren't able to draw the stadium-sized crowds, so we keep going back td the classic artists who have 15 years of audience built up and several generations under their belts." Leading the way are the Who and the Rolling Stones, groups that haven't toured in, respectively, seven and eight years. The summer of '89 is generally assumed to be the last blast for both of these '60s dinosaurs. The Who, coming off a 1902 "farewell" tour, is convening for a 25th anniversary stadium celebration that's been a quick sellout. "I don't believe most of that audience is people in their 30s and 40s," says Starr. "It's going to be kids.

The Who gets pounded into them every day on the radio. I think the Who get played more than any other act other than the Beatles on the radio-" Of Performance magazine's top-10 touring acts of 1903, only one the Grateful Dead will be performing this summer. No Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, 19W, now enjoy separate lives. cPouna 1 Island guarded races death in Saipan 0 i il Itrry Ink, Star Baitedn While miltonia orchids from Hajime Ono's garden. As our story ended yesterday.

Detective McDougal had heard a man and woman speaking in English at one end of his cell: "I recognized the rather boyish Caucasian woman Her male friend started toward me when another crashing blow sent me into lullaby land. 1 remember one last silly thought, 'What was Amelia Earhart doing in MURDER, HE WROTE By Glen Grant BEST BET Saioanese crow was wailing its head off as a warm Pacific sun rose over my barren beach- side prison. A knot the size of a pipskin twisted ud in mv belly. was a reeling ia naa oniy A celebration of hula: The Festival of the Pacific continues with hula performed by Robert Cazimero's Gentlemen of Na Kamalei at 7 tonight at the Sheraton-Waikiki Hotel. Tomorrow, keikt hula with Halau Hula Ohana will be featured at 5:30 p.m.

at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Admission is free. Call 3-J5-3342. once before in the trenches of the Somme when it was our turn to go over the top and I as sure death as ailing. My tongue was so dry and brittle I couldn't even THE FAR SIDE By Gary Larson GIpii Grant's June murder mystery, begun in yesterday's Today section, is set on the Micronesian island of Saipan, where private detective Arthur McDou-gal has gone to investigate the disappearance of Ichiro Yamaguchi, the brother of a friend.

As the story ended yesterday, MrDou-pal had just discovered Yamapurhi's head, strung up under a banyan tree (local tradition had it that banyans boused taotiiomona, or evil spirits). For his trouble, McDougal was thrown into a Japanese prison cell. In the next-door vkns a with a vry faTDihpr face. "Death Strikes in Saipan is set in 19 wh-n the Japanese controlled Saipan by Learue of Nations mandate and were secretly fortlfyirg the island in preparation "for war. It incorporates a Iwal that Amelia fcarhart was and k.lled cn this tiny Pacific isio.

The suspci Dr. Goodrneyer, an an-thronicjzirt and Yzmacuchi's boss, urrMr.jon Slpan t.i try sttd discover a cunr.ertwn between the natives tf the ar.i the Hawaiian. (': -i JA.r.i heal of f.Ttw on an is the r.rfff who ord--ri frcn after he fin. is the "And it'll be even worse if you hurt that white woman and her friend." I nodded toward Earhart. "I'm sorry, Mr.

McDougal," he muttered as his composure suddenly returned, "that your curiosity has now caused your death." The cell door shut behind them. I spent several hours contemplating my fate when a noose slipped around the bars of my prison window and the tug of a Carolinian water buffalo tore open my adobe confinement. Miguel Guerrero at that moment was Fourth of July, Christmas and Chinese New Year all rolled into one. My deliverer tossed me an old shotgun and I followed him along the shore, expecting the enure Imperial Armory to be blazing around us. Instead, I heard distant shots like a firing squad.

"They killed the white man and woman. I knocked out the one guard they left uh you. Hurry, my uncle and I ill take you in his fishing boat to Tmian." Ill fAIT.We'vegot to get Dr. Coodmcyer. They'll kill bim for sure." It seemed an eternity before Miguel returned with the professor.

The rwon came up full, but dark thunderclouds passod before the orb, casting strange shadows on our anxious faros. I tossed Goodmeyer the shotgun and told bim be might need it. The Japanese bad executed Yamaguchi. they were going to kill me and they may very well have shot Amelia Larhart "No, no, no my boy. You must have Saipan fever.

Amelia Earhart. my word." "Lot's go doc. You're not safe here He raist-d the shotgun level it a my chest and K-t cut a Icrn. torn-lets I spit. My friend Captain Hirapuchi came into my cell about noon and started drilling me.

He wanted to know my true connection with the late Ichiro Yamaguchi. Was my anency some cover for U.S. intelligence? Did I know Yamaguchi was a spv? Who was the Saipan contact? The geisha pirl? It went on like this for at least an hour. When the captain wasn't plying me with questions I couldn't answer, one of the guards was practicing his soccer game on mv solar plexus. The way I figured it.

Yamaguchi bad stepped over the line. He was fraternizing with Miwa and maybe acting a little sneaky about petting her into Hawaii Then he headed out to Lagua Katan and like me, stumbled cnto what is obviously a -Japanese military buildup in violation of the League of Nations' mandate. Only instead of arresting Yamaguchi, the Japanese executed bim on the spot and put bis head in a banyan to frighten ghost fearing locals out of the area. Then yours truly showed up on his errand of mercy. HI don't know anything, Let re to or it may be worse I for von.

After all you've killed one American. Ar.d you don't reallv expert to hid? a fighter airplane bae, da you? Le re-aL-tic. The Navy boys m't need to send a private investigator in here acting like a bull in a China shop to know that you're fortifying Saipan." 1 was talkiru fast, ar.d non-step. I was hcfir.g ta keep my bead attat ted to my neck. You could covtr up death, but who's coins to that two of us mysteriously drepp-ed into the trench? In lure you nt want this ir.terr.ah.ir.al to any worse than it actually is" Elr ro.

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