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OTOfJ: GOP FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO BLOCK CLINTON CRIME BILL few Mm II 8 Paradise Burnham signs off Burnham Broadcasting said to JULftJvii'UY 1 The NBC affiliate was sold, along with almost all other Burnham assets, for $229 million day it win sen khun-tv: Buyer: SF Broadcasting, a partnership of Savoy Pic-' tures Entertainment Fox i Television Stations and Cody Broadcasting Co. Seller Burnham Broadcast- ingCo. Employees: 117 Current Affiliation: NBC Tentative Affiliation: Fox When: Deal is expected to close in mid-January ing Fox, Savoy Pictures Entertainment and Cody Broadcasting Co. The stations including WVUE in New Orleans and WALA in Mobile, Ala. will be owned 74 percent by Savoy Pictures Entertainment; 25 percent by Fox Television; and 1 percent by a corporation owned by Victor A Kaufman and Lewis J.

Korman, senior executives of Savoy. The sale is to be finalized in bought KHON in 1985 for $47 million. The total sale price of $229 million is for almost all the assets of Burnham, including McHale Video Film production in Honolulu. The deal does not include KBAK-TV in Bakersf ield, said Mike Rosenberg, KHON's president and general manager. The purchaser is SF Broadcasting L.L.C., a joint venture involv mid-January pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

Thomas Herwitz, who heads SF Broadcasting, said it is expected that the three stations will become Fox affiliates. KHNL, Channel 13, which is owned by King Broadcasting, currently is the local Fox affiliate. SEE KHON, PAGE A-6 joint-venture company involving Fox Television Stations it was announced today. The sale of Channel 2, the local NBC affiliate, is part of a package deal involving two other stations owned by Chicago-based Burnham Broadcasting which Fox moving aggressively C-l ByJuneWatanabe Star-Bulletin KHON-TV, the state's No.l-rated television station, is being sold to a ang fish Edwin 'Sonny' Chillingworth jr. I July 14, 1932 August 24, 1994 Cancer kills guitar artist I sparks se crisis curity KaiihiY Farrinston HighY i-.

School Lf tiouShtainng IL. A gang fight yesterday leaves a 16-year-old! badly beaten. Slar-Bullelin Michael Quiaoit, 16, a Farrington junior, was in critical condition today at Queen's Hospital with head and internal injuries, Police said he is a member of the Filipino Cross Suns gang. He was stomped and beaten with sticks and pipes while on the Kalihi campus to register for classes, police said. Police said a member of the Sons of Samoa gang was stabbed in the back during the fight; he was treated and released from Kuakini Hospital.

Three members of the Sons of Samoa including the one stabbed were arrested for investigation of attempted murder in Quiaoit's beating, police said. A carload of six other teen-agers, some but not all Cross Sun gang members, were arrested after they brought a friend to Kuakini for treatment of a gunshot wound to the left leg, police said. Police said the shooting victim, 1 youth is critically beaten and nine are arrested in the incident By Christine Donnelly and Harold Morse Star-Bulletin Farrington High School increased its security today before school has even started -after a gang fight yesterday that left a gang member badly beaten and a member of a rival faction stabbed, police said. A third teen-ager was shot, but apparently not because of the fight. Nine people were arrested and released pending investigation Police are bracing for more violence as gangs retaliate for the skirmish.

"That's what usually happens, but we don't know when and where it will be," Sgt. Robert Feigenspan said today. 4 19, was not a student but was a gang member. He told police he was at home shortly after 1 p.m. when he dropped a pistol he was carrying and it accidentally went off.

He was in stable condition at Kuakini Hospital today. Of the carload, one 16-year-old was arrested for attempted murder in the stabbing of the Sons of SEE GANGS, PAGE A-6 j1 Lack of money public schools' top worry BREAKING TODAY What's happening around the world i in 1 1 1 fihi J. 1 -J- IN, A. II "1 15 And the A candidates disagree on where to getpf the funds and how to spend them By Christine Donnelly Star-Bulletin Money, or rather the lack thereof, is the major con- cern at many public schools. The funding question also weighs heavily on the minds of candidates and voters, but they don't always agree on the answers.

"The politicians have got to make sure the schools get the money to go along with the talk. They always say it's the topr priority but it doesnt translate to fund-' ing says Marilyn McGrath, a Kaimuki resident who has lived in Hawaii for 34 years. Lt. Gov. Bed Cayetano, the leading Democratic contender for governor, and six of the 16 Board of Education candidates responding to a Honolulu Star-Bulletin questionnaire cited inadequate funding and facilities as the most critical issue facing Hawaii's schools.

At $23,378, Hawaii had the seventh-highest per capita income in the' nation last year, yet it spent less than the national average on public education. Hawaii schools get about $5,700 per pupil, compared to $5,900 nationally, and that does not take into account the higher cost of living and schooling here, said SEE MONEY, PACE A-6 BY LJENNIiiOUA, Star-Bulletin A master of slack key, he was a huge influence in Hawaii music i musician Milton Lau. "He played with Don Ho." He could play anything! His foremost love was slack key. You've got to go back to the basic references in the music, and Sonny was one of them. His presence in Hawaiian music circles is so vast" Radio personality and writer Ron Jacobs, who hosted Chillingworth recently on the revived.

"Hawaii Calls" show, said the guitarist's professionalism "made him put out 100 percent, even ry SEE SONNY, PAGE A-IS By Burl Burungame 1 Edwin Bradfield "Sonny" Chillingworth one of Hawaii's most influential slack key guitar-, ists, died about 10:30 p.m. yesterday after a fight with cancer. He was 62. His death reverberated through the Hawaiian music community like a lost chord. "Ever since I was young boy, I always listened to Sonny.

He was instrumental and inspirational to slack key said slack key promoter and Suicide pilot takes 43 with him RABAT, Morocco The government said today a suicidal Moroccan pilot killed himself and 43 others when he plunged his airliner into the Atlas mountains in southern Morocco Sunday, i 5 I The Transport Ministry said preliminary exami-- nation of the doomed plane's two flight recorders in a Paris laboratory showed the crash was due to pilot's wish to put an end to his life. To do this, switched off the automatic pilot and directed the aircraft at the ground." The planewhich was on a domestic flight from Agadir to Casablanca, crashed after the female co-pilot had radioed "Mayday, Mayday, the pilot is message was cut off at this point, and the plane plunged to the ground 10 minutes after takeoff. The statement said the Casablanca-born pilot, Younes Khyati, 32, was experienced and professionally and physically fit. It said a commission of Inquiry is trying to determine motives for his incomprehensible gesture." t' Clinton taps Gillmcr for U.S. court President Clinton today appointed Honolulu lawyer Helen Gillmor to Hawaii's fourth U.S.

District Court judgeship, making her the state's first female federal judge. 1 Gillmor, 51, is a partner in Gillmor Gillmor and earned her law degree at Boston University. She was admitted to the Hawaii State Bar in 1971. She clerked for then-Chief Justice William S. Richardson and worked as a state deputy public defender from 1972 to 1974.

She served as a part-time Family Court and District Court judge before resigning in 1985. Gillmor also lectured at the University of Hawaii law school and recently served as the chairperson of the state Disciplinary Board, which reviews lawyer misconduct i Hawaii's three other full-time federal judges are Harold Fong, Alan Kay and David Ezra. The position pays $133,600 a year. State to crack down on fiery lots The state Health Department says it will order the user of a Nanakuli lot to stop operations. The action follows two fires in illegal dumps on the property this month.

I Nanakuli firefighters today returned to the site to monitor a still smoldering graveyard of tires. Leeward firefighters spent more than 11 hours fires in the area yesterday afternoon and jast night. Flames appeared at about 12:15 p.m. in an illegal rubbish heap near Hakimo Road. 1 v.

This time, the fire started on an adjoining property. Battalion 4 Chief Clement Chun said it appeared someone torched about a quarter acre of ld tires stacked 5 to 7 feet high. Flames from that tire jumped Lualualei Road, burned off an acre or more of fruit trees and continued about three-quarters of a mile up the mountain, Chun said. It was contained, but firefighters stood by to watch hot spots. From staff and wire reports CORKY'S HAWAII INSIDE TODAY Flying fast and but far from home Being a member of the elite Thunderbirdsmay bethebestjobin the U.S.

Air Force, but it means a grueling, on-the-road schedule 280 days a year. 1 See story, Page B-1 OUTSIDE So how's your yard today, was the -1 two-week accu- i mulation of leaves blown onto the neighbor's lawn, or -were you on the receiving end? You say you'd prefer a calmer 10-25 mph? You get your wish tomorrow. Details, PageA-2 i Vol. 83, No. 203 56 pages, 9 sections Copyright 1994.

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