39 Years AgoFrom the April 5, 1961 issue MISS KAUAI 1961 – Leimomi Buchanan was chosen Miss Kauai of 1961 at the pageant at Kauai High School gymnasium on Saturday night. She also won the Miss Popularity award. Trophies for
39 Years AgoFrom the April 5, 1961 issue
MISS KAUAI 1961 – Leimomi Buchanan was chosen Miss Kauai of 1961 at the
pageant at Kauai High School gymnasium on Saturday night.
She also won the
Miss Popularity award. Trophies for the two awards were presented by the West
Kauai Jaycees and Otsuka Sales and Service.
Janet Eguchi received the
First National Bank award as the second runner-up. Rhonda Palea received the
Kauai Pineapple Co. award as the first runner-up. Leimomi is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Buchanan of Kukuiula.
She is a senior at Kauai high
School. Leimomi has been a Garden Island carrier for several years. She also
has been a model and hula dancer for the Kauai HVB and for other entertainment
projects.
STUDENTS WANT POOL – The senior, junior, sophomore and
freshman classes of Kapaa high school voted by 96% to urge the House of
Representatives to support the pending bill to use available funds for a
swimming pool on the school grounds, rather than the natitorium on Kapaa
beach.
SAME OLD RECORD – County Chairman Raymond Aki accused Senator
Noboru Miyake of a lack of knowledge of county finances again yesterday in
Honolulu.
Mr. Aki said he had heard in Honolulu that senator Miyake told a
GOP senators’ caucus that Kauai is in the best shape of all counties and does
not need state help.
Mr. Aki said the cash surplus reported at the end of
1960 is the result of a bookkeeping system which no other county has.
He
repeated that Kaua’i is still one of the poorest counties in the
state.
BIRD IN HAND WORTH $30 – Two Lihu’e men were fined on charges
of furthering cruelty to animals when they pleaded guilty before Kawaihau
district magistrate Morris Shinsato on Thursday. The men were taken into
custody while preparing a rooster for a fight at a Wailua Homesteads farm the
afternoon of March 26. The arrests were made by officers of the metro squad.
One man was fined $20 and the other $10.
KAUA’I LEADS IN AIR TRAFFIC
-Kaua’i took over the lead as Hawai’i’s outer island airport by a distinct
margin in February. Statistics show that Kaua’i had 10,324 arriving passengers
and 10,264 departing, for a total of 20,588.
OVERDUE FISHERMEN BACK –
Two detectives and five firemen took a long hike into Hanalei valley Monday
afternoon to search for two fishermen reported missing at the end of the Easter
weekend.
The men had hiked into Hanalei valley Thursday night for a weekend
of oopu fishing. Mr. Eder had said he would be home Sunday evening. When he did
not return Monday morning, his daughter called police.
… At about 3:30 or
more than halfway to their goal, the search party met the two fishermen coming
down the trail. Both men were in good conditioned had plenty of oopu to show
for their weekend.
They said they had stayed put because of heavy rains
which caused the river to rise over the weekend, and blocked several crossings.
The search party and the two men returned to the road at about 5:30
p.m.
KEY VIOLATION – A Kapa’a woman whose car was stolen last week
forfeited $2 bail on a charge of leaving the ignition key in her car when she
failed to appear for trial in Kawaihau district court Thursday.
The car was
taken from the Kapa’a LDS chapel the night of March 24 by three Canadian
sailors.
CAR CRASHES INTO PORCH – A 18 year-old Hanapepe man was
admitted to Wilcox Hospital with a severe gash in his abdomen following a
highway accident at Kapaia early Sunday afternoon.
Police said the 1961
Oldsmobile sedan he was driving left on the road on a left-hand bend while
headed mauka near the Kapaia camp hall. The car jumped over a drain and then
crossed the road, knocking down the front porch on the house of Jose
Ballesteros and crashing into his chicken feed shed.
BUSTED CHICKEN
FIGHT – Two alert motor patrol officers broke up a cock fight at Ogata Camp,
Kapahi, on March 25 and detained one of the handlers who was to surprised to
let go of his bird.
80 Years Ago
From the April 6, 1920
issue
QUIET IN COURT – Judge Hjorth reports that March was a very
light month in district court business, the fine realizations being only
$34.
This is probably due to the prevalence of the flue, partly because
would be criminals or evaders of the law had other things on hand that absorbed
their whole attention, and partly perhaps because the police were more or less
laid up and were not as alert as usual.
MAKING IT LEGAL – Yesterday
morning Herman Koerto and Alice Adolpho, of Hanama’ulu appeared before L.A.
Dickey with the request that he bind them in the hold bonds of matrimony. They
had the required license but failed to bring witnesses to the event, so the
judge had to rustle around and find some witnesses.
He finally found two
people who were willing to act in this capacity and the two young folks were
soon tied hard and fast and sent on their way rejoicing.
Judge Dickey has
been splicing matrimonial knots ever since he was second district magistrate in
Honolulu, away back in 1900. In those days he used to perform more ceremonies
than the parsons.
MESSAGE FROM A QUEEN – The following letter purports
to have been written by the Queen Debora Kapule, as the date indicates, within
a few days of their arrival, to the mother of Mrs. Ruggles:
Dear
Friend:
I am glad your daughter came here. I shall be her mother now, and
she shall be my regular daughter. I be good to her; give her tapa, give her
plenty eat.
By and by she speak Hawaiian, then she teach me how to read and
write and sew and talk of great Akua, which the good people in America love.
I begin spell little; read come very hard like stone. You very good send
your daughter long way to teach us. I am very glad I can write you a short
letter and tell you I be good to your daughter.
I send you my aloha, and
tell you I am your friend.
CHARLOTTE TAPULE, Queen of Atooi
