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8 Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Thursday, December 4, 1 986 Thursday report Council OKs CIP projects hu transit firm to take over Hele-On buses soon Chris Reed Tribune-Herald the administration to enter into a three-year Hele On contract with PHT, Inc. The Oahu-based firm will take over the county bus system from Laupahoehoe Transportation Co. on Dec. 16. The Council acted only after Chairman Stephen Yamashiro questioned Mass Transit Agency manager Steve Shinchi on the terms of the contract.

Shinchi confirmed that the contract only sets the hourly pay for drivers and the overall hourly billing for the few routes for which PHT will provide both a bus and a driver. $200,000 for Saddle Road safety improvements. $100,000 for a Pahoa police substation. $50,000 for Alii Drive shoulder improvements and bikeway. $183,000 for highway maintenance.

$48,166.55 for a Kailua police substation. $150,000 for the County Housing "revolving account." $311,927.57 for disaster property tax relief for 64 South Kohala landowners. In other actions, the Council approved a resolution allowing Council's' budget determines the level of service then," Yamashiro said. Also yesterday, the Council gave final approval to a bill trans ferring a $100,000 grant from the state for Hilo tourism promotion to the county's Hilo Tourism Promotion account, which will in turn be contracted out to the Hilo Hawaii Visitor Industry Association. Former mayor Bruce McCall was confirmed for appointment to the County Board of Ethics for a term ending Dec.

31, 1988. The County Council yesterday gave approval on first reading to $1 .53 million in projects sought by Mayor Dante Carpenter. Funds appropriated included: $344,500 for the Public Works' Solid Waste account, with $150,000 going to Hilo Landfill improvements, $100,000 for miscellaneous equipment and $94,500 for Kailua landfill improvements. $85,000 for a traffic signal in front of the post office on Palani Road in Kailua. VOLCANO Rare goose on the loose A very rare goose is loose in the vicinity of Nanue gulch on the Hilo side of Ninole on the Hamakua Coast.

The owner, Narahari Swami of Ninole Mauka, said the female goose is an exotic, almost extinct species of which only a few hundred remain worldwide. It is one of a pair which are the only two of their kind in the state. The owner said the female was lost Tuesday afternooon when the pair of geese were in a dog kennel strapped to the top of a station wagon. When a rope broke, the kennel fell to the roadway on the Nanue Bridge. The door was jarred open, freeing the geese.

The male as caught, but the female flew over the bridge into the gulch. The goose is properly classified as Cereopsis, but is commonly called a pig goose because the female makes a sound exactly like a pig, according to Narahari. The lost goose is large, has light grey feathers speckled with blue, and has an iridescent green beak. Narahari asks that anyone who sees the tame, but mildly aggressive goose to catch it andor call and leave a message for him at 963-6716 or call Honolulu collect at 595-8171. He said he will respond immediately.

Group supports anti-smoking bill A committee has been formed to support County Council Bill 253, which will limit smoking in banks, stores and restaurants. The committee is circulating petitions to show public support for the measure. This bill is scheduled to be voted on Dec. 15 at 10 a.m. at the County Council chambers.

"While it is anyone's privilege to smoke when they want to, it still presents a health hazard to non-smokers in close proximity. Recent medical findings show second-hand smoke is dangerous to non-smokers; especially young children, babies and those with respiratory problems," organizer Nancy Toribio said. For further information, call Alvin Grancell at 961-9283 or Toribio at 959 9789. Police probe rape report Big Island police are investigating a report that an adult woman was raped and sodomized Tuesday in Keaukaha. Police said the incident occurred between 8 and 9 p.m.

The victim sustained minor injuries on her face and body as a result of the attack. According to police, the victim was being transported to an unknown location in Puna when she jumped out of the suspect's vehicle as it was traveling on the Pahoa Highway near Shower Drive. No suspect has been apprehended at this time and the investigation is being conducted by detectives in the Criminal Investigation Section. In another case, police recovered 194.4 grams of dried marijuana this week in Glenwood. A search warrant was used to recover the marijuana.

Also this week, a 105mm artillery shell was recovered from an apartment on Pukihae Street. Police said the shell was not live, and has been transported to the Pohakuloa Military Training Area. From Page 1 As Kilauea continued to pump out lava last night, the Kalapana Community Organization held a special meeting and voted to ask Gov. John Waihee to declare their community a state disaster area. Waihee was expected to visit the Kalapana area today to view firsthand the devastation caused by lava flows which over the last week have engulfed 10 homes.

Kini Pe'a, a Kalapana Organization official, told the Tribune-Herald this morning that the organization will write a letter to Waihee seeking the disaster declaration. Puna Councilman Russell Ko-kubun also will ask for the County Council's support, Pe'a said. Last night about lo persons turned out for the meeting at Harry K. Brown Park in Ka lapana. Most were Kalapana area residents, with several county representatives, including Kp-kubun, in attendance, Pe'a said.

Participants included some of the residents who lost their homes at Kapaahu, as well as representatives of the Kalapana Community Organization, the Royal. Gardens organization, the Puna Canoe Club, and the Kalapana Ohana Association from the Star of the Sea Church. The Kalapana Community Organization will ask the governor to have the state disaster area include both the 10 homes at Kapaahu which have been destroyed by lava during the past week, as well as 16 homes in Royal Gardens which have been wiped out by earlier lava flows. AJ1 of the homes have been des troyed by flows from Kilauea's on-again, off-again string of eruptive episodes which began Jan. 3, 1983.

Last night organization leader William Carse said geologist have reported the eruption could continue for many years, or could end at any time. Carse said Kalapana residents may be in for a long siege and that all Kalapana area residents should consider themselves likely candidates to lose their property If Waihee does declare a disaster area, low-interest loans, free public lands and other special programs could result. Pe'a said there have been offers of land from both private individuals and from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. He said he recommends' that homeless residents study these offers carefully before making commitments. The County Council yesterday formed an ad hoc committee to investigate the situation and see what the county can to do help the affected residents.

"We need to fully assess the situation and look how to provide support from the county," Kokubun said. The Puna councilman said he hopes Waihee will declare the affected locations A disaster area The Council's ad hoc committee includes Kokubun and the heads of the Council's four standing committeesj Frank De Luz III, finance; Lorraine Jitchaku-Inouye, economic development; Takashi Domingo, planning; and Merle Laitpublic works. COUNCIL by James Dahlberg and Merle Lai on the safety check program. Dahlberg said he thought the two measures had been consolidated at the wishes of the full Council to reflect a common position on the controversy. But Yamashiro said he was not part of any consensus position.

"I have no idea whose resolution this is," he said. From Page 1 The Council upped the fee to $9.75 on Nov, 24. By this morning, "about 100" of the 108 inspection stations were back in operation, according to Police Lt. Richard Bartolome. But the Council continues to simmer over DOT'S handling of the controversy and the agency's refusal to send a representative to Hilo to explain the rationale for its actions, The panel has already passed and Mayor Dante Carpenter vetoed a bill pulling the county out of the safety check program on June 30, 1987.

An override attempt is expected. Yesterday, the panel deferred action on a related measure, a resolution that asked the governor, the State Legislature and DOT to assess the safety check program "to insure that it serves a justified and functional purpose." The resolution goes on to ask that the program rules and regulations be abolished. "We should direct ourselves to the law as opposed to the rules and regs," Yamashiro said. The resolution was based on separate resolutions introduced Obituaries De Luz invokes Council conflict rule thinks they- might not survive a legal challenge. "The Charter does not excuse a (Council) person from voting," he said.

De Luz said he has only a small interest in the 87-acre parcel. He said the entire parcel used to belong to his wife Phoebe, before she sold it to a hui of isle investors. That group invited him to join as one of 16 partners, he said. -) The rezoning passed on a 6-1 vote. Puna Councilman.

Russell Kokubun voted no because of his opposition to using one-acre agricultural zoning for what he believes to be basically residential subdivisions. The County Council's new conflict-of-interest voting rules came into play for the first time yesterday when Councilman Frank De Luz III abstained from voting on rezoning of an 87-acre North Kohala parcel. De Luz informed Council Chairman Stephen Yamashiro that he had a "substantial financial interest" in the N.S.B.L. Partnership. He is one of 16 major partners in the hui, which sought the change in zoning from unplanned to one-acre agriculture.

Under a resolution adopted in June, Council members are prohibited from voting on items in which they have a "substantial financial interest directly affected" by Council action. "Substantial" was defined by Corporation Counsel Ronald Ibarra as meaning an "interest which is sufficient in magnitude to affect one's decisions." Previously, it was Yamashiro's policy that all Council members must vote on issues before them, with silence recorded as an affirmative vote. Under the policy, conflicts of interest had to be declared, but members had to vote nonetheless. The new rules were adopted over Yamashiro's objections at the height of the Council's factional battles earlier this year The Hilo attorney said this morning that he is willing to live with the rules, even though he KIPA an islandwide station soon THIS WAS THE CLOSEST I COULD 6ET TO BOUGHS OF H0UV gins. It will be like three radio stations broadcasting the same programming," Gordonsaid.

"It's a big experiment, since this has never before been done in the United States. The FCC has given us the opportunity to reach the entire island because it realizes the tremendous need to improve communications, especially in areas such as Ka'u and Waimea which presently recejno Big Island radio," Gordonsaid. He added, "Being the primary Civil Defense station, we are particularly pleased to be able to provide island-wide coverage in times of emergencies." Completion of construction of the transmitters is expected by June 1 1987. Radio station KIPA in Hilo has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to begin serving the entire Big Island in 1987. KIPA President and General Manager Buddy M-rdon announced that KIPA was granted a con-si 'vt ion permit for two synchronous transmitters transmitter will be 5,000 watts operating on t20 Kilohertz as does the KIPA Hilo transmitter at Pepeekeo Point.

One station will be located near Keahole Airport in Kona and the other will be at South Point. "A listener traveling in a car will hear very little difference when one signal ends and the other be Edwin Keao Lindsey Sr. Edwin Keao Lindsey of Waimea, died Tuesday at Honokaa Hospital. Mr. Lindsey was a utility man for Parker Ranch from 1945 to 1965 and a heavy equipment operator for various construction firms 'thereafter.

He was also a veteran of the Korean Conflict. Mr. Lindsey was a member of the Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club, Ka Hea Ka Ahiu Hunting Club' and the Laborers International Union of North America. Friends may call from 6 to 10 p.m, tomorrow at the Door of Faith Church in Waimea, where a wake service will be held at 8 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday. A funeral service will be held at the church at 2 p.m. Saturday, followed by burial in the Charles Lindsey family cemetery in Waimea. The family requests casual attire. Mr Lindsey, who was born April 7, 1932 in Waimea, is survived by five sons, Lawrence Reed Lindsey of Arizona, Edwin Keao Lindsey Jr, of Honolulu, Thomas Weston Lindsey of Waimea, Theodore Kealoha Pumehana Lindsey of Waimea and Seymour Kahiliaulani Lindsey Kaniho of Waimea; and by four grandchildren.

He is also survived by five brothers, Charles Notley Lindsey of Waimea, John Kaleimaeole Lindsey of Waimea, Thomas Milimili Lindsey of Hilo, James Fay Lindsey of Waimea, and Frederick Maluhia Lindsey of Waimea, and by two sisters, Fannie Leialoha Moniz of Honolulu and Elizabeth Kamaile Moniz of Waimea. Noboru Nakamoto Noboru Nakamoto, 60, of Pahala died yesterday at Ka'u Hospital. Born in Hilea, Ka'u, Mr. Nakamoto was a retired heavy equipment operator for the Ka'u Agribusiness Co. Inc.

He was a member of the Tensho-Kotai-Jinju-Kyo Church. Friends may call tomorrow from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Dodo Mortuary Chapel. A memorial service will be held at 6. The family asks that casual attire be worn and flowers be omitted.

It's also requested that friends refrain from giving "koden" or memorial tributes at the service. Mr. Nakamoto is survived by his wife, Susan Tokue Nakamoto of Pahala; two sons, Art Nakamoto of Honolulu and Mark Nakamoto of California; three brothers, Mamoru Nakamoto of Hilo, Earl (June) Nakamoto of California, and William (Lucille) Nakamoto of Honolulu, and three sisters, Natsuyo (George) Nagano, Misao Seto and Maizie (Rufus) Tsuda, all of Honolulu. Cirilo G. Gaunia Cirilo G.

Gaunia, 98, of Kealakehe, Kona, died Nov. 26 at Kona Hospital. Born in Ilocos Norte, the Philippines, he was a retired sugar plantation laborer. Friends may call at Hualalai Memorial from 8:30 to 9 a.m. Saturday.

A graveside service will be held at 9. The family asks that casual attire be worn and that flowers be omitted. Memorial Mortuary Kona Branch is handing arrangements. Mr Gaunia had no known survivors. Shizuyo 'Venna' Martinson Shizuyo "Velma" Martinson, 67, of Pahala died Tuesday at Hilo Hospital.

Born in Pahala, Mrs. Martinson was a retired secretary for the former Kau Sugar Company She worked in the industrial relations department. A memorial service will be held at the Pahala Hongwanji Mission at4 p.m. tomorrow. Mrs.

Martinson is survived by her husband, James Martinson of Pahala; one son, Leland (Joan) Martinson of Seattle; and two brothers, Lawrence Yoshie) Teramoto of Pahala and Robert (Set-suko)Teramoto of Honolulu. Dodo Mortuary is handling arrangements. 21 shopping days to Christmas Weather Waiakea Uka Keahole Airport .42 .00 TEMPERATURE Maximum Minimum The forecast for windward Kohala, Hilo and Puna is for sunny periods this afternoon. Tonight will be mostly fair. Tomorrow will have a sunny morning and become cloudy in the afternoon with a few upslope showers.

Kona and Ka'u will be mostly sunny with some cloudy periods. Tonight will be mostly fair. Tomorrow will have a sunny morning and become cloudy in the afternoon with a few showers over the slopes. Winds will be trades 10 to 20 m.p.h. becoming variable 5 to 15 m.

p. h. tomorrow. A high surf advisory is in effect for the north and west shores of the island. BIG ISLAND WEATHER DATA Lyman Field 80 65 Keahole Airport 85 67 City Hi Lo Pep (Ireat Falls 32 17 Albany 45 35 Hartford 53' 35 .05 Albuquerque 55 30 Helena 35 14 Anchorage .10 21 Honolulu 81 69 Atlanta 49 34 Houston 59 45 Bakersfield 67 43 Indianapolis 44 27 Baltimore 61 31 KansasCity 42 27 Billings 36 17 Las Vegas 62 38 Bismarck 26 13 .01 I.os Angeles 79 55 Boise 43 20 Memphis 53 33 Boston 64 40 .87 Miami Beach 78 64 Brownsville 75 60 Milwaukee 35 27 Buffalo 44 31 .27 Minneapolis 32 16 Chevenne 35 10 New Orleans 58 48 Chicago 35 23 New York 59 37 Cincinnati 46 25 .01 Oakland 62 49 Cleveland 45 30 .13 Oklahoma City 51 31 Dallas 55 35 Omaha 35 22 Denver 30 17 PasoRobles 75 40 Des Moines 35 23 Philadelphia 60 36 .01 Phoenix 75 50 Detroit 42 29 Pittsburgh 46 31 .06 Duluth 26 7 .01 Portland, Me.

55 38 .89 Kureka 61 45 Portland, Ore. '48 36 Fairbanks 6 2 RapidCity 35 II Fresno 69 44 Reno 64 31 HIGH TIDES SUNRISE 6:40 MOONRISE LOW TIDES SUNSET 5:41 MOONSET Normal 116.76 Year-to-date 166.94 RAINFALL 24 Hrs. .24 .44 Lyman Field Piihonua 2.