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Tribwe-Herold, July 9, 1972-5 Hi ofl XATO Sflfptv Wlhl1nl Kir ft fie Sfl big Cmly rt- "TTV --'J Funds Announced more than one Superman series," he says. "But it was such a success that I kept on making them. "Playing Superman ruined my acting career and I've been bitter for many years about the whole thing," Alyn says. "But now it's finally starting to pay off." and they wanted to see if be had good-looking kgs. An athletic 6-2 and 195 pounds, Alyn found the series tough because the writers assumed he could do Superman stunts, and he had to dive out windows onto mattresses and vault over cameras as if taking off.

"I never intended to make He says the producer and casting director had him -come into their office and asked him to take off his shirt Then they asked him to take off his pants. "Wait a minute," Alyn thought this only happened to actresses." The men explained that Superman had to wear tights "Although our record was slightly improved, this record is far from good enough. Last year ther were still 28 pedestrian deaths, 538 pedestrian accidents, six motorcycle deaths and 427 motorcycle accidents, 154 deaths on our streets and highways and 18,048 total accidents with $9.8 million in property damage. "We must improve this record." E. Alvey Wright, Acting State Highway Safety Coordinator, announced today that $379,787 of federal funds has been authorized for use in the new fiscal year for- the State's highway safety program.

Wright said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration had, approved the release of the funds. The money will be used ChessBloody History "I still can't believe it, but suddenly I'm in big demand as a speaker," says Alyn, 61. I "Nostalgia groups and colleges all over the country want me. "I went to a nostalgia convention not long ago and all these prominent men came up to me and told me what an inspiration Superman had been to them 1 when they were growing up." He says he first tried to joke about Superman, but found his audiences didn't like anyone making fun of their hero. "So I cut out the kidding," -he says.

"They wanted me to be like the Superman they remembered on. the Saturday afternoon; matinee." Superman made his comic strip debut in 1938, and Columbia Pictures decided to make a movie serial in 1948. "They had trouble getting someone with a good build who could read lines," Alyn says, "so in desperation they called me." LOS ANGELES (AP) -When Kirk Alyn hung up his Superman suit it was like a dose of Kryptonite for his-acting career. A studio head told "Everybody thinks you're Superman, Kirk. They wouldn't believe you in any other part." Alyn, who played Superman in movie serials from 1948 to 1951, went to New York and searched unsuccessfully for stage roles.

"I couldn't walk two blocks without people recognizing me," he says. "They'd honk their horns and yell 'Hi ya, Alyn was so upset over what playing Superman had done to his career that he turned down the television role of Superman in 1952. that role was taken by the llate George Reeves. During the 1950s and '60s Alyn lived in California and settled for doing television commercials. But now with the nostalgia craze, Superman is once again in demand.

particularly in the areas of driver education, driver licensing, traffic direction and enforcement, drirer improvement and control, alcohol countermeasures, traffic control devices, skid accident reduction and emergency medical services, Wright said. "During 1971 the jiumber of traffic accidents and traffic injuries decreased for the first time in five years," Wright said. Ten more acres of container storage space will be added to the west end of the 42-acre Oakland yard and the pier will be extended by 250 feet. The Matson container Matson Will Expand Mainland Facilities chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reykjavik wjth" Boris Spassky, the world champion. Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, today's championship prize is chicken feed.

Rognvald played -King Louis for his head. A woman was the prize in pne knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The king lost. fury, shoved his chessmen into a bag and smashed his opponent in the fece witW if," leaving him a bloody med.

"Take that exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. But has brother stayed to split the king's skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard Fiske's in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature," published in 1905. It is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has.

gotten the highest stakes in history of NEW YQRK (AP) The insulted egos and white- kncukled tensions before the Fsicher-Spassky chess match, mtfy seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the- tales -of bloodthirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas' of the time. When a certain King Louis ost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a all bin- Matson Navigation Company will expand container handling facilities and equipment at its freight container yards in Oakland and in Los Angeles Harbor, it was announced by R. J. Pfeiffer, executive vice president.

A third shoreside gantry will be added in each yard. The new cranes, which will have greater hoisting capacity than the present cranes, will be equipped with telexcopic lifting beams to hoist containers ranging xom 20 to 40 feet in size. ale.15 off quilted Civic Club Sets Meeting The Hawaiian Civic Club of North Hilo will hold a general membership meeting today at 6 p.m. (Sunday) at Laupahoehoe School music room. Following the meeting, John Spencer will direct the club's choral group in song practice.

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In accepting the gold medal award, the Hawaii lawmaker praised the JACL for its role in the repeal of the Emergency Detention Act of 1950. "This high recognition will serve as a source of great encouragement to me as I continue my fight for civil rights, to right the wrong, to eliminate injustice whenever and wherever it rears its ugly the Hawaii lawmaker said. Matsunaga, the son of an immigrant sugar plantation worker in Hawaii, earlier attributed his success in public life to his "deep faith in American Democracy." "My parents and the other 'Issei' (first generation Japanese immigrants) never realized their dream of amassing a quick fortune in Hawaii and returning to a life of ease in Japan," Matsunaga said in a speech on the House floor earlier last week. "Even after becoming permanent residents of the United States, unlike other immigrants before them, they were denied the right to become American citizens and denied the right to own any part of the land that they tilled. "Undaunted by discriminatory laws passed against them, the Issei built a dream of hope not for.

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