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Hawaii Tribune-Herald from Hilo, Hawaii • 1

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i '1 AO Br ft VOL XXXXII NO. 226 HILO, HAWAII, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1964 PRICE TEN CENTS Ml mi 1 uu M'f Mii'J wfttf CrJr MV.J.f mCHI Stow dm In Hams 8W In Tension Offices, Shops Super Market High Fish Derby Finale i ill I mi A 'i" v'v'f A p-" DuriL Yesterday morning started with the Hawaii Big Fishing Club Team 8 In first place with 768 points. In the number three position at that time was Hick-am Air Force Base 616 points and the Channel Islands Yacht Club with points in fourth. In the first five, the Mexico Sailfish and Tarpon Club sported 562 points. These points are scored on a point for pound with bonus points for the big one of the day plus an addi- Equipment Taken Frorri Ice Plant Some person or persons helped themselves and walked away with the block and tackle from the Hawaii Ice and Cold Storage, Ltd.

Harry ArikI, foreman at the Ice plant, reported to police yesterday that the block and tackle was taken between 5:30 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. yesterday. According to Ariki, the block and tackle has been left hanging in the open for the last 15 years now, and that this is the first time it has disappeared. Ariki also told police that a new rope 38 feet long and inches thick, was put on only last week.

By HERB PRICE KAILUA At the last roundup before cease fishing on the final day of the 6th Hawaiian International Billfish Tourna- A final tally from the Kona fishing grounds revealed that the New Zealand team came through the winner In the Sixth Annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament for 1964. ment, the New Zealand Bay Island Swordfish Club appeared ready to take the event with 762 points. New Aircraft Revealed President Lyndon Johnson announced Saturday the Defense ment has approved a program for the development of an air craft designed specifically for air support of counter-insurgency This is a term applied to Jlon against guerrillas. Johnson said the plane will have limited war operations. The U.S.

Navy Department will contract for the building of mauka on Haili and Puna on Ululanl for about 200 feet. Development of the property will Include a shopping center complex worth more than $1 million. Tribune-Herald Photo. In a move forced by the "economic growth potential" the owners of the Food Town Super Market (left) on Kinoole Street have began steps to expand to Halll Street, (location of the United. Protestant Church with steeple shown on right), To Be Built By LLOYD SADAMOTO The Akamine brothers, opei ators of Hilo Food Town Supe Market, have acauired th United Protestant Church of Hi lo property fronting Kinool Haili and Ululanl Streets am are working on plans for i "over $1 million" shoppinj center complex, according to ai announcement made by Hirosh Akamine, manager.

Akamine said the firm ac quired the 74,000 plus squan foot property from the entire! in fee recently. Together with parcels Um firm has under lease, total lane area available for the new de velopment comes to over threi acres, he said. The three acres run from th Mamo Street intersection along Kinoole Street to Haili Street, mauka along Haili Street to Ululani Street, and along Ululanl Street for about 200 Neither Akamine nor the sellers are disclosing the purchase: price. Akamine said the United Protestant Church will continue at its present site until it rebuilds elsewhere. Once the church vacates the building, the building and other buildings on the property will be demolished and construction for the new shopping complex will start, he said.

Preliminary plans for the new building call for a two story structure with the Hilo Food Town Super Market and other commercial shops occupying the ground floors and professional and business offices occupying the second floor, according to Akamine. The present Hilo Food Town building will be remodeled and leased to commercial shops, be said. Civil Rights Act Will Be Discussed In Hilo By FBI, Local Officials Civil Rights Act, according to tional 100 points for the big fish of the tournament. It looked as though the New Zealand team had the advantage as all the fish were scaled. Extra bonus points are scored on light tackle in the 50 pound and 80 pound class line test.

As we closed Saturday afternoon, tension was running high at tournament headquarters, the King Kamehameha Hotel, with only four points between the Hawaii Big Game Fishing Club Team and the New Zealand team. The consensus of those listening to ship to shore communications however, slanted toward the down-under team. Last night's awards were presented at the Hale Halawal when the final count was tallied. Bullfighter Fatally Gored MADRID lift Spanish "ban-derillero" bullfighter Manuel Leyto "El Poll" was gored to death in a bullfight in the Monumental Arena Saturday. "El Poll" was gored several times.

He was rushed to the bullring but he died shortly after. He was the first "banderfl-lero" bullfighter killed to 20 years at the arena. potential growth areas of Wal-mea and Kawaihae, will jpur-portedly expand from a 13,100 population in 1965 to 15,800 in 1970 and 20,000 by 1985. These projections were planning points with which advisory committee chairman Richard I. Miyamoto and committee members, Dr.

H. E. Crawford, Sherwood Greenwell, Wallace Na-gao, Thomas B. Vance and Curtis W. Walters worked as they consulted with nearly two dozen other island leaders and put in their own research.

The committee Incorporated a County Attorney Yoshito Tanaka will share the speaker's platform at the conference, Faisst said. Purpose of the conference is to discuss the provisions of the newly enacted Civil Rights Act in addition to a review of the provisions of the Fugitive Felon Act. Mew Hospitals, Nursing Homes Projected As Future Bsle Needs According to Falsst, the conference will be attended by representatives of. the FBI and law enforcement agencies In this area. The meeting will be held in connection with a series of conferences throughout the Islands and the nation between now and Aug.

28. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said officials attending the conference will be provided with full information pertaining to the FBI's responsibilities under the Nui LuauSet For Oahuans HONOLULU -W- To mark the fifth anniversary of Hawaii statehood, Island citizens will be Invited to a mammoth luau next Saturday at the Japanese Chamber of Commerce Hall 2454 South Beretania St. The luau, starting at 6:30 p.m., Is sponsored by the Young Democrats Association. Gov.

Burns will be guest of honor. A specialized law enforcement conference will be held Wednesday, 8:45 a.m. to noon, at the Helco- auditorium, announced Ray L. Falsst, special agent In charge with the Honolulu office of the FBI. Police Chief Anthony Paul and galaxy of facts and figures into its drafts, one of which went 70 typewritten pages.

Over-all, the advisory group envisioned a centralization of patients in three general hospitals located according to population growth patterns at Kona, Kamuela and Hilo instead of the present five hospitals. This, felt committee members, would not only provide the patient more comprehensive and better medical services inherent in larger hospitals; it would also contribute efficiencies that would considerably lower the half-million dollar annual deficit The Akamines last year plan-; ned enlarging the present build-1: ing after they obtained a least l' for the Kutsunai Estate prop- now run up by county-operated hospitals. These are the area breakdowns: South Hilo and Puna districts Hilo Hospital, from all the evidence, has plenty of facilities and beds to implement its future mission as the island's medical center and an integral part of the statewide medical complex. Its 352 beds available for acute, chronic and nursing care patients are adequate to accept Turn To Page 2, Column 4 seven protective aircraft at a cost of about 18 million dollars. "This r-insurgency (COIN) aircraft will be an airborne equivalent of the 'jeep'," Johnson said.

"It will be able to perform peacetime emergency functions such as disaster relief, medical missions or riot control, as well as military mis-' gions to include light armed reconnaissance, helicopter escort and attack, and support of ground troops. "The aircraft will have the capability to operate from rough clearings, primitive roads, and waterways, In addition to prepared airfields and aircraft carriers." Johnson said the aircraft has been extensively studied by the military services. The U.S. Marine Corps initially stated the formal requirement for a light armed reconnaissance aircraft and the U.S. Air Force confirmed the need for it, Johnson said.

He said the first flight of the ntw aircraft will be In about a year. Japan Area Typhoon Has Strong Winds TOKYO V- Typhoon Kathy was located far south of Southern Japan early this morning, moving slowly towards the Ryu-kyu Retto, a chain of Islands aouth of Kyushu. The Central Meterologlcal Agency said the typhoon, with 78 miles an hour center, winds, was 215 miles east of Naze, Amaml Oshlma, at 3 a m. and moving west or west southwest of Amaml Oshlma sometime Hilton's New Kona For Construction In -V' Two new hospitals and two nursing homes will be built on the Big Island during the next 20 years at a cost of approxi mately $3,900,000 if recommen dations of a year-old Hawaii County Health Facilities Ad visory Committee are trans formed into structures. The new hospitals wbuld be established at Kealakekua and Kamuela.

The nursing homes would be at Kealakekua and Pahala. The advisory committee went to work last year as part of the Health Facilities Planning Council of Hawaii, a state-wide nonprofit organization which proposed to project the needs for hospitals and related health facilities of all The Islands up to 1985. Another advisory committee has been named for the County of Honolulu. Others will be named for Maul and Kauai. The projection of needs for Big Island hospital type facilities was based on the estimate that island-wide, population will swing upwards from 62,100, be lieved to be the count for next year, to 78,000 by 1985.

Kona, for instance, is expect ed to balloon from a population of 9,700 next year to 13,300 in 1970 and 21,000 by 1985 plus a probable 5,000 tourists 1 in the area then at one time. North and South Kohala, which take in Himakua and the Faisst. The conference also win con tain a complete discussion of the Fugitive Felon Act in an effort to inform local agencies of the services which can be ren dered by the FBI where a fugi tive has fled the state to avoid prosecution, custody or confinement after conviction of a crime which is felony under the laws of the state where the crime is committed, Falsst said. Texeira Fails In Derby Try AKRON, Ohio -(f)- Hawaii's Richard Texeira was eliminated in the second round of the Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. He finished second, half-a- length behind Thomas Winders of Lynchburg, Virginia.

The derby was won by Ameri can Gregory J. Schumacher, a tall 14-year-old who outraced a field of '238, contestants com peting for $30,000 in college scholarships. ident of Haas and Haynie, In vestment and Robert J. Caverly, Hilton Hotels International's executive vice president. The hotel is to be constructed on property presently owned by the Williams Hotel Corporation and is located approximately KIHEI BROWN HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE, Oahu An agreement today has been signed for the development and operation of a 150-room Hilton Inn in Kona, Hawaii.

The announcement was made jointly by Robert Bradley, pres 111 mi III lllililiinaiwim.il iii'W ill CSf 1 1 Bll erty on Kinoole Street. They changed their plans when negotiations for the acquisition of the adjacent church property were started. The sale of the church property was negotiated between Turn To Page 2, Column 7 Hotel Due 6 Months one half mile south of the center of Kona. Robert T. Williams of Ho-nolulu and Manila, controls the Williams Corporation.

The agreement signed between Haas and Haynie Investment Corp. and HIII calls for a first class tourist destination facility designed to provide modern air-conditioned accommodations for the increasing number of tourists traveling from the Hilton Hawaiian Village and other Waikiki hotels to the Kona ares. According to Bradley, and Caverly, contemplated working drawings and specifications art expected to be completed in six months, with construction slated to begin shortly thereafter. The two executives anticipate that the Hilton Inn in Kona will be opened 15 months after the commencement of construction. Affirming their belief in the growth in the state of Hawaii, the announcement- concluded that both business firms feel that establishment of a Hilton facility in the Neighbor Islands will be a maji: contribution.

Edwin- J. Hastings, vice president of Hilton Hotels International in charge of the Paclflt area, will supervise the development of the new hotel for Hilton Kihei Brown Bids For Board Seat '1! I HINTED Ity Kihei Brown of Hilo, personnel administrator for the Hilo Transportation and Terminal yesterday announced that he was joining the race for the Hawaii County Board of LSupervisors from East Hawaii on the Republican ticket. Brown indicated that, if elected, he would wholeheartedly encourage the growth of additional hotels and tourist accommodations in the Hilo area. i "Let them the new he said. "The jet airfield is not eyen open yet and the hotels are already overflowing, "How will we accommodate these people the, runway, completion? Turn To Page 2, Column 5 -J.

i 7 m' iife 13 Whether you have a House, Apartment, Office, warehouse or store location you'll get results when you advertise It In the Tribune-Herald Classifieds. 15 words for seven straight days cost just $2.80. Call 4621 1 and ask for Classified. Hilo Hospital, according to the1 Big Island health facilities planners, will serve as the Island's medical center and key link in the State's me dical complex for many years to come. Ambulance personnel are Benny Palisbo, left, and Francisco Rodrlqucs.

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