Wednesday, July 16, 1969 | Volume II, Issue XXVIII
ON THE COVER
“Second Carnegie Hero Cited”
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Another Carnegie Hero Award is being made in connection with the April 14, 1968, rescue at Lae Mamo Point. Last week, Kwong Sin Paik of Captain Cook received a $750 cash award and the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s bronze medal.
This week, the commission notified Joseph C. Canada, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lorenz, of Honaunau, that he has been selected to receive the same honor.
Canada, a 17-year-old Kilauea Camp Job Corpsman, said he did not know he was being considered for the medal.
Canada already had joined the Job Corps when a commission officials came to Kona to investigate a report filed with the commission about the rescue. While being interviewed, Paik related Canada’s courageous role in the rescue.
“Everyone thought Neal Okuna (the 9-year-old who was rescued) was dead,” Paik said. “But when it seemed he still might be alive, Joe went in after him with no equipment at all. It took fearlessness most people wouldn’t have expected of a young man.”
Canada and Paik are two of three Hawaii Island residents to ever receive the honor. Henry C. Hua, 45, of Honaunau, and an employee at the City of Refuge National Park, was cited for the dramatic rescue of five persons whose canoe capsized in stormy seas of Honaunau in 1961. He received the award in 1962. Just six other residnets in Hawaii have been honored.
“Milolii Gets OEO Boost”
By Irma Chillingworth
A portion of Milolii’s share of the recent $30,000 grant by the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity will go toward the purchase of two mobile refrigerators with generators. The reefers will enable the Milolii fishermen to get better prices by having the facilities to hold fish for larger shipments to Hilo. It will also help in preventing the waste of ice brought back from Hilo for the fishermen’s daily use.
At present, the fish have to be trucked into Hilo immediately after a catch because of the lack of cold storage, making it impossible to wait for the next catch for come in for shipment all at one time. The ice is also trucked back to Kona and almost 50 per cent of it it is lost in the melting during the shipment.
“Marsha Casil Joins Staff For Summer Internship”
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An 18-year-old Konawaena High School graduate — Marsha Casil of Honalo — has been selected to participate in West Hawaii Today’s first summer internship program. She will be exposed to all facets of a weekly newspaper operation as a member of the staff during July and August before she enters Church College in Honolulu.
As a Wildcat, Casil served as editor of the Wildcat, the school newspaper, and business manager of the school yearbook.
OTHER NOTABLE HEADLINES
“Yoshida-Onizuka Vows Exchanged”
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Lorna Leiko Yoshida and USAF Lt. Ellison Shoji Onizuka were wed at the Tri-State Buddhist Church in Denver recently. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Yoshida of Naalehu. Mitsue Onizuka is the mother of the groom.
V Weekly deals:
At Tex Drive-In (grand opening in Honokaa): Hamburgers, four for $1; hot malasadas, 12 for $1; and kalua pig with lomilomi salmon and poi for $1.
At K. Taniguchi Super Markets (KTA Super Stores): Hormel Vienna sausage, five four-ounce cans for $0.95; Northern toilet tissue, eight rolls for $0.77; and Borden’s mayonnaise, two quarts for $0.89.
N Featured films:
At Aloha Theatre: “More Dead Than Alive,” “Project X,” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
At Kona Theatre: “Sound of Music,” and “Devil’s Daffodil.” For adults only, “The She-Beast.”