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C6 NEWS HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2002 Coolant trouble hits Columbia on Hubble mission By Marcla Dunn 1 Freon was detected in the coolant loop for the radiators on the payload bay's left door. It appeared the loop was blocked by debris. A team of engineers immediately was formed to investigate the problem. They determined the radiators were still dispelling heat from various shuttle systems, and the coolant loop for the right door was working fine. "It started out looking a little gloomy, and it's looking a lot more optimistic," Dittemore said last night.

Astronauts have conducted five spacewalks on previous Hubble repair missions, including the first one in 1993 to correct the telescope's blurred vision. bility tenfold. With Hubble soaring nearly overhead at an altitude of more than 350 miles, Columbia lifted off before dawn amid the high security that has become typical since Sept. 11. It was a balmy 60 degrees, considerably warmer than the previous morning when near-freezing temperatures forced a delay.

It was Columbia's debut following a 2 12-year overhaul even more extensive than the one awaiting Hubble. NASA's oldest shuttle was stripped apart, checked for damaged wiring and modernized following its last launch, which was marred by a frightening short-circuit. Shortly after Columbia arrived in orbit, a reduced flow of sized that the seven astronauts were safe and the shuttle's cooling system was stable, for now. "This analysis, we firmly believe, will conclude that we are safe to continue the mission for the full duration," he said. "However, we just need the time to make sure that we dot all the i's and cross all the t's to be positive about that conclusion." Mission managers will meet again this afternoon to discuss the issue.

Barring a change in schedule, the shuttle and its repair team should catch up to the telescope tomorrow. Five grueling days of spacewalking will follow to replace faltering parts and install a new camera that will boost Hubble's discovery capa The shuttle's vapor trail drifted over Kennedy Space Center yesterday with a withered oak in the foreground. obituaries mf DAVS PUBLISHER AND STOCKBROKER Publisher brought Hawaii to mainland and islanders Associated Press aerospace writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The space shuttle Cblumbia blasted Into orbit for the first time in more than two years yesterday, and a cooling system problem Immediately raised concerns the mission to the Hubble Space Telescope might have to be cut short. Shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore said he was optimistic the 11-day mission would remain on track, but said engineers would spend the night analyzing the problem in one of two coolant loops for payload-bay radiators.

If it is considered serious enough, the shuttle may be called back. Dittemore empha Elizabeth Kfhomenanl Dusque, dd, oi iviaKawao, maul, a retired housekeeping employee for Hale Makua, died Sunday at home. She is also sur- vived by brother Peter Pana. The mortuary provided additional information for an obituary published Wednesday. Howard D.

Briner, 88, of Kailua, a retired captain for Hawaiian Airlines, died Wednesday in Kailua. He was born in Westford, N.Y. He is survived by wife Norma, daughter Carma Saito, sons Stanford Douglas and Daniel Briner, brother Bruce, sister Ruth Ross, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services: 3 p.m. next Saturday at St.

Christopher's Episcopal Church, Kailua. Aloha attire. No flowers. Donations suggested to Hospice Hawaii. Nadine Wood Dower, 103, of Honolulu, a retired schoolteacher and principal for Hawaii Center for the Deaf the Blind, died Sunday in Kapuna Waiola Nursing Home.

She was born in Pennsylvania. She Is survived by hanai granddaughter Cecelia Cambra, nephews and nieces. Services: 9 a.m. Friday at Central Union Church, Sanctuary. Inurnment: 12:45 p.m.

at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Frances Adelaide Conner Jurkens, 84, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died Wednesday in St. Francis-West Hospice. She was born in France. She is survived by husband Edward; daughters Jane Davis, Barbara Jurkens and Judy Johnson; six grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.

Services: 1 1 a.m. Tuesday at Unity Church of Hawaii. No flowers. Donations suggested to St. Francis-West Hospice, 91-2127 Fort Weaver Road, Ewa Beach, HI 96706; or to Macular Degeneration Research, 15825 Shady Grove Road, Rockville, MD 208504022.

Robert Seikl Matsumoto, 83, of Aiea, a retired timekeeper for McCabe Hamilton Renny died Feb. 14 in Oahu Care Facility. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by brother Shigeo lost the support of the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau, which used to include its travel planner in the publication but had passed it to another publisher. Davis had several other Hawaii tourist destination-re- Rick Davis: Loved practical jokes but believed in a direct approach in life, Mends say lated publications and at his death was producing the Ka-maaina Guide, a new magazine aimed at local readership to get them to enjoy low prices at local tourist attractions.

He also was publishing community newspapers for the residential complexes Ewa by Gentry, Waikele and Mililanl, and always looking for new By Russ Lynch rlynchstarbulletin.com Richard E. "Rick" Davis, a stockbroker-turned-publisher, died Tuesday morning at his home after a heart attack. He was 65. Friends remember Davis as a man who never let a setback get him down, even previous heart problems, but just went on to the next thing with an optimistic attitude. "He was just one prince of a guy," said friend F.T.

"Bamboo" Opperman, who knew Davis both' as a fellow boat owner and as a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club. "There was not a harmful bone In his body," said Opperman, whose business is commercial real estate. "He was a gentleman, a good father, a good husband, always very optimistic" no matter what happened to him, Opperman said. Davis loved practical jokes, especially computer-generated fake letters. In recent years he learned card tricks and became quite good at them.

Tired of cartoonlike swimming-fish screensavers, he once took an early Macintosh computer, ripped the insides out, waterproofed it and turned it into an aquarium so he could look at real fish in the office. Davis believed in the direct approach to most aspects of life, friends say. If he felt he had received less-than-perfect treatment from a local store or other business, he would call or write directly to the chain's national -president. In 1978, Davis created Aloha Magazine, a glossy publication aimed at mainland readers, and ran it for 20 years before closing it in mid-1998, when advertising revenues had fallen and Hawaii was in an economic slump. The magazine had also vocate and a dynamic leader who was known for his compassion and fairness." Pacarro also served as a member of the state House of Representatives from 1962 to 1970.

He served on the Council from 1971 to 1985. He died Monday in the Queen's Medical Center. "He loved the people whom he represented while in office, mation for an obituary published Thursday. Marguerite Madeline Rosa, 95, of Honolulu, died Tuesday in St. Francis-West Hospice.

She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by cousin and caregiver Blanche Enos. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Call after 9:30 Services Thursday for Rudy Pacarro 1963 the film ASSOCIATED PRESS looking newsstands in the lobbies of new office towers.

He was quick to anticipate the needs of his customers. When a subway ride in New York cost 15 cents, commuters could stop at his stand and pay a quarter for a newspaper and a token. Before he sold his company to Restaurant Associates In 1976, Green owned 120 newsstands in Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and in New York. Oskar Sala, the German composer and physicist whose novel musical instrument produced the sound effects for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," died Tuesday. He was 91.

Born in the eastern German town of Greiz, Sala Is known for developing and mastering the trautonium, one of the world's first electronic musical Instruments, invented in 1929. He performed with the Berlin Philharmonic several times, and the instrument, a precursor to the synthesizer, was used frequently In German ads In the 1940s and 1950s. The trautonium was most famously employed to produce the bird calls in Hitchcock's film. Few people realized cacophonous calls on the were produced electronically. Sala donated his original Mix-tur-Trautonium in 1995 to the German Museum for Contemporary Technology in Bonn.

Helmut Zacharias, a German composer and musician dubbed the "magic violinist" for his fast-flowing jazz, classical and popular renditions, died Thursday in Switzerland. He was 82. Zacharias also earned the title of "Germany's Mr. Violin" during a prolific career in which he produced and performed some 1,400 pieces of music, sold 14 million records and picked up awards internationally. He learned to play music before he could write or read, and made his first public performance in a German cabaret at age 6.

He started touring Germany when he was 14 and joined the Berlin Philharmonic on a European tour as war clouds gathered in 1939. In 1941, Zacharias branched out Into swing. He set up his own ensemble after being drafted into the German army and serving four years during World War II. He achieved International fame in the 1950s. His jazz interpretation of a 1930 tune, "When the White Lilac Blooms Again," was In the American Top 10 for six weeks in 1956.

In 1964, "Ask the Wind" topped the British charts. He won awards in several European countries and as far away as Venezuela, and became known as one of the world's best violinists. In Germany he had his own television variety shows from 1968 to 1973, often appearing alongside violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Zacharias withdrew from public life in 1996 to his home in Ascona, a lakeside town in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. iry YOUR DONATED VEHICLE HELPS VJV PEOPLE IN NEED iliii Star-Bulletin staff Former City Council Chairman Rudolph Pacarro, 74, will be remembered in services 6 p.m.

Thursday at Kalihi Union Church. City Councilman Romy Ca-chola, a friend of Pacarro's, said: "Rudy spent many years here on this very Council, where he was an outspoken ad and sisters Sunae Fujii, Hiroe Ebesu and Clara Trousdale. Private services. Shirley Lei Pacheco, 64, of Eleele, Kauai, a dishwasher for the restaurant industry, died Sunday at home. She is also survived by lifetime partner Manuel Pacheco Jr.

The mortuary provided additional infor publishing opportunities. Davis was born in Freeport, Long Island, and grew up in Hollywood, Fla. He attended the University of Florida-Gainesville and the New York Institute of Finance. He was a Wall Street broker when he joined the Army and came to Hawaii in the service in 1958. Out of the service, he lived in Phoenix, where he had a brokerage business.

He moved to Hawaii in 1968 and opened his own firm, Davis Securities. In the early 1970s he had a stock watch program, "Stock Market Watch with Rick Davis," on KHON-TV. He Is survived by wife Valerie, son Jeff, daughter Pam Davis and sister Lee Wachtstet-ter of Hollywood, Fla. A memorial service will be held 8:30 a.m. Friday at the Outrigger Canoe Club In Waikiki.

Mary; sons Rudolph William, Clarence Randolph, Rudy III and Hiro; daughters Catherine Jeans and Laura Jeans Hitchens; brothers Clarence, Samuel, Frank and Harry; and 15 grandchildren. Call after 5 p.m. Thursday at Kalihi Union Church. Call from 9 a.m. Friday at Borthwick Mortuary.

Burial: 11 a.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Ush! Uyehara, 97, of Kailua, died last Saturday. She was born in Japan. She is survived by sons Hidehiko, Thomas M.

and Manabu; daughter Toshiko Kino; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Wednesday at Kailua United Methodist Church. Call after 5 p.m. Inurnment: 1 1 a.m.

next Saturday at Oahu Cemetery. Casual attire. No flowers. Anne Doreen Wagner, 85, of Honolulu, a real estate investor, died Wednesday in Maunalani Nursing Center. She was born in Canada.

She is survived by brother Mike Babchuk; sisters Lillian Chibri, Kay Ross, Nancy Brusky, Eileen Wilson and Zella Sieben; and two grandchildren. Services: noon Tuesday at the Renaissance Ilikai Hotel, Pacific Ballroom. DEATHS ELSEWHERE Bernard Green, who built a million-dollar chain of newsstands across the country, died last Saturday. He was 91. Green started his career as a newsboy when he was 1 1 years old, hawking 2-cent copies of the Daily News and profiting when his customers paid with a nickel and didn't ask for change.

He opened his first newsstand 23 years later in Brooklyn's St. George Hotel, offering papers and "a good 5-cent cigar." In the 1950s, Green began building sleek, modern- and it showed during his many years of public service," Cacho-la said. "In addition to being a respected legislator and strong supporter, Rudy was a dear personal friend who touched many lives, including mine," Cachola said. Pacarro was born In Water-town, Hawaii. He is survived by wife Jean a.m.

No flowers. Donations suggested to charity. Bounmak Sisouthavongsa, 80, of Kailua, a veteran of the Lao National Army serving in the Vietnam War, died Thursday at home. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Thonchanh, son Niphone and daughters Christine Sing-haraj, Joann Regenold, Souda Phonesavanh, Souda Phonesa-vanh, Malyna Sombatphibane and Kanhnyka Sisouthavongsa.

Services: 1 p.m. tomorrow at Oahu Cemetery Chapel. Cremation to follow. Robert Susumu Towata, 86, of Honolulu, a retired driver and salesman for Frito-Lay, died Thursday in Kailua. He was born in Honolulu.

He is survived by son Mark, daughter Lani Thompson and sisters Hazel Okazaki and Mildred Leong. Services: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.

Donations suggested to the Hawaiian Humane Society. I FUNERAL NOTICES I Nuuanu Mortuary CATHERINE B. ABELLANA Ago 76, of Honolulu, died Feb. 24, 2002. Born in Kalihi, Oahu.

She was a member of St. Augustine Church. Survived by daughter, Debra K. (Rob) Kay; two grandchildren, Gordon Katie; sisters, Hazel Guzman. Mane Medeiros.

Family requests that Aloha attire be worn. Visitation 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki (130 Ohua Avenue) Mass 11 a.m.; Inurnment to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park at 12:45 p.m. Uwi Ittilyd Uiwvad Uutfitwd Wa ll Cast and Hold Your Personal Check Until Payday.

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