Hawaii Tribune-Herald from Hilo, Hawaii • 1

MILO EIEU1 lEEALD LATE NEVJS EDITION VOL XXXIV NO. 185 HILO, 'HAWAII, T. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1956 PRICE: FIVE CENTS rn Sugar J2J.40 New York Coffee Sugar Exchanfe. Colombian Cof ft Ex-Dock San Francisco 4 CD IIia im PIiuan Jetx Step-Up Includes Big Island Nixon Flies To Bedside Of father Announcement Veep's Renomination SAN. FRANCISCO IP) President Eisenhower today clinched renomination for Vice President Nixon with a dramatic announce- ment that Harold Stassen had abandoned his drive to "dump" Nixon from the Republican ticket.

Elsenhower said Stassen personally had told him he now. is JIM I 7t? -111 iM I VL) A Fiji-, fr hh? sp lti6 If to a qUestioh about former Gov. CONVENTION GETS UNDER WAY The Cow Palace in San Francisco presented this jammed appearance as delegates stand as the opening session of the Republican National Con-' vention is called to order, with the placard of the Hawaii' delegation and lei garlanded delegates in the foreground thick of 'things. NEA photo. T.

H. Delegation Hails GOP's Statehood Plank SAN FRANCISCO President Eisenhower today approved, the Republican 1956' platform, apparently meaning he accepts the plank on immediate statehood for Hawaii and Alaska. A Honolulu Star Buletin. reporter called James: Hagerty, the President's press secretary, arid asked specifically if it meant the President now accepts the plank and ho longer -objects to Alaska. Hagerty replied: "He said today he approved it in full." SAN FRANCISCO A pleased Hawaii delegation to the Republican National Convention today hailed the GOP plank on statehood as the strongest, stand ever taken on the issue in any national platform.

The pledge for immediate statehood for both Hawaii and, Alaska, WHITTIER, Calif. UP) Vice President Nixon sped to this Los Angeles suburb by plane from the San Francisco Republican Convention today to be at the bedside of his critically ill father, Frank A. Nixon, 77, was strick en at 4 a.m. with an abdominal ailment. His physician said "it ft try doubtful that he will survive." KicLard Nixon, expected to be nominated for a second term as vice' president at the GOP con Ventlon, arrived by plane at In-ternational Airport.

He, and his wife, his brother Donald and the latter's wife, left at once by secret service car for the elder Nixon's home. "We won't know how long we're going to stay until we sw the doctor," the vice president said. 'X "But we're going to stay through Hie day1 and overnight. I conditions will permit, we'll try to get back to the convention tomorrow afternoon." Nixon said he couldn't say at vthi time whether he would be able to get' back in time for scheduled speech accepting his almost certain renomination. The.

vice president, looking drawn and slightly nervous, expressed concern over his father's condition. "The doctor has told us it is critical." he said. "It is the type of attack which could be fatal or he could hang on for a few days." -The elder Nixon, Quaker, came to California from Ohio in 1906. He was married to Hannah Milhouse in 1908. His first jab in California was a streetcar motorman In Los An- fides.

Then he became citrus rancKtr. He built a gasoline filling sta tion at Whittier, later adding tendril store. --r Young Dick worked as a boy In the store and filling station. He credited that experience of meeting the public with giving him i good start on his public ca reer. Fasi Pulls Out Of Oahu Mayor Race HONOLULU -) Democrat Frank Fasi says he is dropping out of the race for mayor of Honolulu because of hia wife's health.

Fasi yesterday, told a businessmen's lunch "I am not i candidate for mayor." "I love politics," he said, "but my wife's health is not good and have agreed not to run." Fast was unsuccessful in the 1982 and 1954 mayorality races In 1934 Fasi beat John H. Wil son, mayor at that time, in the primary but lost to Neal Blais-dell in the general election. His withdrawal from the con test now leaves two Republicans and three Democrats still in the running. Second Body Recovered HONOLtFLU-W The body next and put back on the where itleiongs." Bar ai -M a JQP I1IAUII Still Perfectly U-M FRANCISCO UP) GOP' National -chairman Leonard W. Hall said after a conference with President Eisenhower today that Vice President Nixon still is "per- footlv arppntahlp" hie nmnlnff mate.

Hall told a i.ews that Eisenhower did not specifi- 'Cally set forth that position at today's conference, but added that still is the way Eisenhower feels about it. Hall said that in his opinion Eisenhower has made his position Then the chairman went on to say. the President's position la that Nixon "is perfectly acceptable to him." He added that Eisenhower "will not discuss any other nominee! for the vice presidency." Hall said, too, that Eisenhower "hopes it will be an open convention." What it boiled down to was a reaffirmation, through Hall, that ing to have Nixon on the ticket-but at the same time favors an open convention with the delegates free to choose a vice presidential nominee. Given a rousing "We Lake Ike" welcome on arrival here from Washington last night, Eisenhower himself will be unanimously nominated for a second term at tlonal Convention. Ana it woud be difficult to find anyone among the delegates with any doubt that Nixon will be named as his running mate again.

Harold E. Stassen's drive to dump Nixon still isn't off the ground at this 11th hour. y' Eisenhower has said Nixon acceptable" to him althnllffh -Iia aTra hnn ennV.n ntit in Javor of an with the delegates free to choose a vice presidential nominee. The big question now is: What course will Eisenhower follow in keeping with Jiis expressed views regarding an open convention- ana mtne ngnt or his wanr praiseof Nixon during the la, several months? That is the matter which appeared almost certain to come up ivi uov.uiiuii ait a set ica u. Eisenhower conferences in advance of the convention balloting.

If. 1 A 1 i ne arrangea a uieatuasi meet ing in his St. Francis Hotel suite with Hall. Hall has been predict ing for- months it will be an Eis- i i nr rt n.I. Eisenhower, who came to Sar Francisco a day earlier than he had planned originally to have more time to visit with delegates.

smiled broadly as he stepped from his plane with his wife. A police-estimated crowd e' (Continued on Page 4) LATE NEWS Shot Down WASHINGTON UP) The Navy reported tonight that one of its patrol planei was shot down by. "unidentified aircraft" 160 miles north Formosa. The announcement said that the P4-M1 Mercator patrol plane was on "routine' flight" about 32 miles off the China Coast, international waters" when it report-, ed it was under attack, 1 The P4-M1 nqrmally car' -rfes' a crew of nine. i The Weathet All windward coasts Con- siderable cloudiness tonight and Thursday with increas- ing showers tonight and few showers continuing on Thursday.

Kau and Kona Partly' 'cloudy tonight and Thursday with a few afternoon upland' showers in'the Kona districtv Hilo and vicinity Mostly cloudy tonight and Increasing showers tonight. with a few showers contlnu-' ing Thursday. r. Kailua and vicinity Partly cloudy and generally dry tonight and Thursday but with a few upland showera-Thursday afternoon. HILO RAINFALL TOTALS 24 hour Year Lyman Field 01 118.41- Tree Nursery 01 131.51 Federal Building .00 127,0 TEMPFnATURK for the 24 hours: maximum, II; minimum, 64 WASHINGTON UP) -The government today took the first step in a big threejyear program in which 250 million dollars will be spent to increase aviation safety and get airports ready for the jet plane age.

The Civil Aeronautics Admi nistration (CAA) announced nearly 200 sites for installation of the latest types of air navigation and traffic control equipment, including long range radar units which eventually will blanket the mainland and Hawaii. CAA said contracts will be let by November and installation of some of the less complicated equipment should be started by late spring. These initial contracts call for the expenditure of a 75-million- dollar fund available for the cur rent fiscal year. Contracts for additional equipment will be let later. Originally the aviation safety program was set down as a five- year plan.

In early of the increasing need for safety inmprovements, the government decided to telescope the plan and complete it in three years. Honolulu is to get additional air-ground communications channels for airports traffic control. Molokai, the Big Island, and the Farallon Islands off San Francisco are among the points to get very high frequency omni directional radio range installa tions during fiscal 1957. Medics Say HMSA Fees Too Low HONOLULUATP) Doctors of the Hawaii Medical Association here have complained that fees charged higher income groups are too low. are in.

a re port by a special committee of the Honolulu County Medical Society that otherwise gives the HMSA program a clean bill of health. The report, revised last night at a medical society meeting, said that 188 doctors of the 199 in the program feel the present income level for the HMSA service plan is too high. The income levels are $7,500 a year for individual members and $10,000 for family. groups. Fixed fees are now set for doctors vis its, operations, etc.

Half the families in the terri tory are in the in come bracket and doctors feel the fixed fee plan should be applied only to 'such lower income groups, the five-man committee reported. Naval Reserve Officer Promoted Douglas R. Dauterman, execu tive secretary of the Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce and commanding officer of the local Naval Reserve Electronics Division, has been promoted t6 lieutenant commander. His new Naval Reserve rank was backdated to have in effec tive date of July 1, 1955. He had held the rank of lieutenant since July 5, 1951.

Mr. Dauterman, who came to the Territory in 1947, -has been in the Naval Reserve for 14 yars cer of the local unit since. November last During World War II he saw active duty with the Navy hi the Pacific Theater and participated in several invasions Gala Aloha Is Readied For Lurlinc A gala alpha reception will greet the Lurline when it tomorrow morning direct from San Franciscb With 761 passengers aboard, the ship will dock about 7:30 a.m. Big Islanders are invited to visit the ship between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Most of the passengers aboard will continue on to leaving at 6 p.m.. and arriving at 9 a.m.'. They will be greeted here tomorrow by songs and hulas, and maile lets from Visitor Bureau hostesses. The visitors are to tour the Hilo and Volcano areas. Ship serenades by the Haiti Choir and the Hawaii County Band are scheduled prior to sailing time.

convinced "the great mass of the delegates" at the GOP National Convention want Nixon as the vice presidential nominee. The President gave this word to a precedent-shattering, nationally televised news confer ence held in the last hours be fore the convention, moved into the formalities of naming him and" Nixon as GOP ticket Eisenhower met the newsmen at the "temp6rary. White House" set up in the pliish St. Francis Hotel. The president had just received a visit from Stassen.

Eisenhower recalled that he previously had called for an open convention with the delegates free to fill the No. 2 spot. He added that both he and Nixon still feel that way about it. His position, Eisenhower add ed, is that anyone of "nationar stature" would be acceptable to him. Significantly, in view of the President's two major illnesses during the last year, he said he has hoped all along that the vice presidential nominee would be a younger man than he is.

The President is 65. Nixon is 43. The effect of Elsenhower's statements on the Vice president showed almost instantly with the surrender of California's Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, most potent of the convention holdouts against a Nixon endorsement.

Only minutes after the presidential news conference, Knight said Eisenhower has "unmistakably indicated" that his. choice is Nixon. "I am pleased to accept the president's choice," Knight said His delegation under the unit rule is pledged to Nixon but there had been some talk of some' one's nominating Juiight.Jhimself for the vice presidency. Eisenhower Stassen told him he was going, to ask the con vention for permission to second the nomination of Vice President T1 1 m.ton ior a secona term. -yi "I told him I would come right down here and report it, to this group," Elsenhower told news conference, Eisenhower went before news men and -TV cameras less than four hours before the.

GOP convention session which wa all set torenominate him and name Nixon again -as his running mate. The news conference was the first presidential session of the kind ever televised "live" to the nation. isennower caned stassen "a team player," andsaid Stassen felt the best service he could per form as a team man was to sec ond the Nixon nomiantion y-k Stassen is the President's spe cial, aide on disarmament prob- lems. He took a leave of absence from his White House duties to push his effort to ease Nixon off the ticket. Eisenhower said there was no truth to reports that he came to San Francisco for the purpose of interviewing candidates for the vice presidential nomination.

"Not the slightest." he ti thatx report's accuracy. Speaking of Stassen, the Presi dent said he hopes the conven tion will "accord him the courtesy of a real hearing." Stassen is not a delegate, and would notbe entitled" to the floor except by unanimous Consent of the delegates. In view of his last minute switch, there seemed no question but what the convention would permit him to confess publicly his Elsenhower quoted Stassen as saying he is convinced the mass of the delegates want Nixon, a'nd that Nixon is "as good a man as you could get." As to his own health, Eisen hower said he is getting stronger every day. When he gets, out behind the White House to play, he said, he finds the (golf) clubs begin to drag. But he said he is feeling stronger, feel about as.

good as ever," the President said. 1 The President put-in a plus for election of a Republican He said he believes as a normal thing the country is best served when both the White House and Congress are in" the hands "of the same political party." He said if there is a Repub lican President elected then there should be a Republican Con gress. Elsenhower laid, in resoonse Thomas E. Dewey running for the Senate, that he had "nothing to do with New York politics." He added that he talked with Dewey recently and Dewey -said he was "out of" politics. The President was in good hu mor and laughed Asked, whether others than Nixon had asked him' about; running the vice presidential nomination, the President said the only people who had come to him in that connection had told him they did not want to run-though they had been mentioned "Never" was his reply as to whether the name of Gov, Goodwin Knight of California had been presented to him for the vice presidential nomination.

He was asked whether, if he were a delegate from Pennsyl vania, he would vote for Nixon. Eisenhower replied he thougnt he could refuse "iffy and was not going to express an opinion. But at one point he said: (Continued on Page 4) Shipping Proposal Accepted A hew shipping schedule proposed by Matson Navigation was accepted yesterday by members of the, Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii. announcement was made at a meeting of the Merchant's Council, HICQ; held at The Lanai at noon. The new plan Is said to be bene ficial to fresh and frozen food importers 5 as well as general cargo handlers.

it 1 aniiuunteu ci me meet ing were two parades: The Hallo ween Parade which will be held on October 31 and the Christmas parade scheduled for November 30. 1 Membership jOn T.fi County Boards Clarified person may serve on both a Territorial and a County, board or commission, Coirhty Attorney Yoshito Tanaka believes, unless the Territorial body's rules forbid it. For example, he said, Herbert Y. Taketa resigned from the Puu-maile Hilo Memorial Hospital Managing Committee in July, because he is a member of the Territorial Tax Review Board, whose rules forbid membership In other boards and commissions. Territorial law prohibits a person from serving on two or more County commissions or boards at the same time, Mr.

Tanaka told the County supervisors recently. This apparently means that four new appointments must be made to the Hilo Fieldhouse Ad visory Committee. It has members- who are also serving on parks and recreation committees. They are Mrs. Violet Nathaniel and Leonard J.

Costa of the North and South Hilo Parks Committee, and Mrs. Dora N. Gomes and Hideo Yoshiyama of the Hilo Re creation Committee. Koha la District Wins Traffic Pennant The 'Kohala District won the Big. Isle1.

Traffic Safety Council pennant for July. The official announcement is to be' made at the council's luncheon meeting at The La-; nai. Kau's 80 points and llama-kua's 75 points lead in the progressive safety scores this year. The. districts are scored by a comparison of the number of persons cited in accidents with the number of registered vehicles.

Kohala was followed by North Kau, Kona. South Hilo, Hamakua and Puna, in that order, in Ju- ly. At the bottom of the list in this yrar's stanflings is Puna, with 26 points. i I they believe, will answer the objections of the last Congress to lassage of a statehood bill. "AlEhbuglT it known def i nitely yet, the group also is hope' ful that, the Alaska portion of the plank will be fully acceptable to President Eisenhower who heretofore has opposed immediate or that northern In -its final version as it was adopted by the national convention yesterday, the Alaska plank pledges immediate statehood for Hawaii and also for Alaska, "re cognizing the fact that adequate provision for defense requirements must be made." It is the first time the-word "pledge" has-been used in the GOP platform.

In 1952 it used the words, we "favor" immediate statehood for Hawaii. Delegate Elizabeth P. Farrlng- ton, who -guided the statehood plank through the platform committee, broke into a spontaneous cheer when the platform was unanimously adopted with no change in the statehood section late yes terday at convention hair in Cow Palace. She had enountered opposition ot some members of the commit tee, including the chairman, Senator Prescott Bush of who voted against statehood in the U.S. Senate in 1954 and who did hot favor quite as strong a stand for Alaska in this year's platform.

She was fearful it might meet opposition on the floor. "It's the best platform we've ever had," "she "It should take the statehood issue out of the realm of partisanship in the Today's Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK -MP) Tom Stu- divant limited the Cleveland In dians to six hits and the New York Yankees won a close 3-2 decision before a crowd of 23,584 at the Stadium. CLEVELAND AB NEW YORK AB Avlla. 2b 4 Woodling, If 4 Smith, tf 4 Roirn, 4 -Strickl'd- 0 Ward, lb 4 Pnpt, rf 4 Hfnan. 3 b-Wertx 1 Cirrasq'l, as 2 ffynn.

2 Totslj ....32 Rmier, rf 3 4 Mantle, 3 Martin. 3 Skoivron, lb 3 Hitlxrn. lf 2 Vntryi 3 Sturdit'nt, S. lulals .....2 a Ran for Rosen in 9th; Struck jut for. Hegan in 9th.

Cleveland 002 000 0002 (few York 100 OOx 3 Rosen 2. RBI Woodling, Smith, Mantle, 'Siebern. 2B Martina SB Avila, -Woodling. Siebern, Mantle. CItaeeland New York 4.

BB Wynn 1, Sturdivant 2. SO Wynn 3, Sturdivant 7. R-ER Wynn 3-2, Stur divant 2-2. Sturdivant Wynn (14-7) Berry, Honochick Napp, Umont. 2:28.

A 23,584. BOSTON-Ph- The Chicago White Sox scored three runs in the eighth inning today for a 6-3 victory over Boston as Billy Pierce notched his 18th triumph of the season. The contest was the first half of a split day-night doubleheader. CHICAGO BOSTON AB Hatfield. 3b 2 2 Boiling.

...4 1 Kos 2b 4 2 2. 5 0 Poliy, cf 5 0 3 Williams, 4 Minoso, lf 3 1 Oernert, lb 4 0 Kivera, 4 0 1 Jpnsen. 4 1. hollar, 0 1 Plftsali; 4 0 Drnnn. 4 0 1 lpclo, 5 0 fc-Phillips 0 1 0 Iley, 3 0 Phtley, 10 0 Nlson, 3 0 Apariclo, sa 3 1 c-Vmon 0 Pifrw.

0 0 d-rirrt(r' 0 0 -Nortbey 0 fl 0 Hurd, 0 0 Kinder, 0 0 0 Totali ..37 11 8 a Hit sacrifice fly for Pierce in 3th; Ran for Dropo in 8th; Walked for Nixon in. 8th; Ran for Vernon in 8th. Chicago 200 000 1306 Boston 102 000 0003 Boiling 2, Fox. RBI Dopy Northey, Hatfield 2, Gernert, Piersall, Lepcio. 2B Doby 2, Rivera, Jensen, Aparicio.

HR-ttatfield. SB- Fox 2. Minoso, Rivera; SF Nortn- ey. Xeft Chicago Boston 14. BB Pierce 5, Kinder Nixon- 3.

SO Pierce 6,. Kinder 1, Nixon 3. HO Pierce 6 In 7, Kinder 2 in Nixon 10 In 8: Hurd 1 in 1. R-ER Pierce 3-j, Kinder 0-0, Nixon 6-5, Hurd 0-0. WP Pierce.

Pierce (18-5). Nixon Rommel, SteVena, TabacchI, Runge. 2:47. A 10,110, Detroit at Washington, night Foytak" (9-10), vs. Wiesler (3-9) or Stone (4-3).

Kansas City at Baltimore, nieht it 119. ftXcllOW Vfl tuimuvs 6). NATIONAL LEAGUE MILWAUKEE P) The New York Giants today salvaged, the final contest of a three-game se ries with the Milwaukee Braves, 2-1. as lefthander Dick Littlefield achieved his first victory of the season against 'five defeats. Hovt Wilhelm pitched the last two itt nings after Littlefield was lifted for a pinchhitter in the 7th.

New York 010 001 0002 7 0 M'waukee 010 000 0001 10 0 Littlefield. Wilhelm, (8) and Sarni, Westrum (8J; Phillips, Trowbridge (8) and Hice. Littlefield. Phillips. CINCINNATI (fP) The Pitts burgh Pirates gave Pitcher Bob Friend poor support and the Cin cinnati Redlegs had little trouble winning today's ball game, 6-3.

It was the ninth consecutive time that had lost to Cincinnati. Joe Nuxhall was the winning pitcher. Pittsburgh 001 101 0003 11 4 Cincinnati "201 030 OOx 6 6 0 Friend, J. O'Brien (6) and Foiles; coat -(7)- and Bailey. Nuxhall.

Friend, (Continued on Page 4) Use of the word "pledge" and the inclusion of Alaska make it the "strongest" plank the party has ever adopted, she said. V. Although she denied the Democratic charge that "the GOP has stalled on Alaskan statehood, Mrs. Farrington said the new plank should remove any excuse for the Democrats to repeat the assertion. "It is resolved and it is crystal clear," she said." "-i Here are comments' by other key members of the Hawaii delegation: Governor King "I think it splendid.

The plank is direct and explicit without any charges such as are contained in the Demo cratic plank. "It leads us to believe that the President will welcome statehood for Alaska under the conditions suggested by the plank. If that is true, both territories can be made part of the Union." Arthur D. Woolaway, Territor 1 party chairman "I feel it is very explicit inasmuch as it an swers objections of the White House on Alaska. I feel very confident Congress will suppprt state, hood now." Wallace' Fujiyama, delegate from Oahu who served, with Mrs Farrington as Hawaii's members on the platform committee "I am very well satisfied.

We got what we came here for. f. "The committee has treated us with friendliness and sincerity and if the feeling of the Presi dent I am sure we will have state-' (Continued on Page 4) and some bright ribbons vis being "disorganized" and fail sign near them reading: Statehood Orchids, Help Yourself. Aloha From The Hawaii Delegation." Thpv worA cnnnnArl iin In mln. utes and worn on lapels and women's Mrs.

Brandl and Mrs. also an alternate from Big Island, are keeping dozens of large orchid corsages ready for presentation to wives of party figures. The big. red ribbons were obtained by Emory1. Bronte, delegate from Oahu.

In gold lettering read: "Hawaii For Ike and Dick." Bronte distributed them the delegation and other Hawaii residents in the party. a second child drowned in thefand has been commanding offi- Big Island Vandas Prove Popular At GOP Conclave SAN FRANCISCO Objections that Hawaii' wasn't getting enough recognition at the Republican National Convention have tragic boating accident in Kane-ohe Bay. Sunday was found early today. The bo4y of nine year old Doris Ho was discovered floating, near the point where the motor-boat overturned, drowning four persons. Honolulu firemen yesterday afternoon found the body of 10-year-old Gordon-' Wong.

-Still missing fs the body of Douglas Lau, 5. The children weVe in a group of 18 crowded into 15-foot outboard motorboat on their way to a sand bar for swimming and a picnic. The boat capsized, drowning four persons. For -the average girl, the tone age is around 20 when she gets her first engagement ring. been quieted with a flood of orch ible even in San Francisco's fog Tne complaints of the delegation ing; to vi(ln attention for the is lands were made by several worn en leaders of the delegation at a caucus Monday.

But since tnen boxes of individual vanda orchids have been coming from the Big Island County GOP Committee to Mrs. Emi Brandl, alternate Irpm y. And she and other delegation members have' been distributing them far and wide on the convention; floor and at the bigger receptions and parties in town: She placed three large bags, of them in the lobby of the San Francisco Press Club which was packed with visiting newspapermen and women and guests, at a reception last night She put a. ids the top the to.