Walkerton Independent, Volume 83, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 April 1960 — Page 3

MAINSTREET GOSSIP A long, long time ago, the flo r of the great Pacific Ocean "cracked” open for a distance of 1 MH) miles and molten fire and nek broke forth in a raging sea. buil ling up a mass of rock, layer abo.e layer, as the years passed, until finally the first peaks of rock stood out ab ve the sea. This was the beginning of the Hawaiian Islands as we know them. tod iy This process of volcanic action continues from time to time (the last big eruption coming in January of this year), building now peaks or extending new shoreline? Tile tnpnnt peak of the Ishin s extend-, over 13,000 feet above th • sea. The Hawaiian 1 lands, local. I over 2.0w0 miles southwest from Oil:Airnia in the Pacific Oct in, were discovered by (.'aptam Jame Cook, an Engh.-hman. in 177 s He called them the Sandwich Han '. in honor of the Ea*l of San iwi. b. who sj><>n . >red his expe hli <n. lb." Inlands came under the tribal rule of Chef Kamehanieha. who, v. ’ ” his descendents, rule! until lsp; when Que»*n laliuokalanai was dethroned and a Republic dec lai cd On July 17, IHOR, the Islands were annexed to the United States an t only a few mon’hs ag » became the both state of the Union Eve yone with whom we talked was very happy over their new stavhood. Thore are eight main islands and 16 smaller ones m the group. Visitors to the islands land by a r or by ship in Honolulu, the Capitol city, on the Island of Oahu. Visits to the other islands nrc made by aarplane "taxis". We visited Kauai, pronounced Ka-Wahie, Maui, called Mow-ee, and Hawaii, tho largest of the group. The distances from island to island vanes from 102 to 170 miles With Mr and Mrs L D Baker of Kendallville, we flew jet from Chicago on February 25, the day ? » Walkerton Independent Robert E. UrMn. Editor Publisher Independent-News Co. WALKERTON, INDIANA Publication Time: Thursday of each week Second Class Postage paid nt Walkerton. Indiana Subscription rate si U. 50 for each year for each paper tn Indiana; out-of -state subserf ptiom, M 00.

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the f^rst big snow storm broke on the Central States, and we returned March 27, the first nice day here f<V over a month. ’.Ve like to think that we were smart enough to be away during all the bad weather in Indiana, and to be responsible f r tho coming of nice weather with our return The point may be open to donate! After a day in San Francis >. we flew jet to Honolulu, arriving late nt night, but our travel agency was there to greet us and to take us to our rooms. Our god fi lend, Eden Brede, who had be a in Honolulu since early in January, tried to meet us at the amort, but we were so late that she postponed her greeting until the next morning when she came to our apartment and had bvakfaM with us. She brought some sw< 1 rolls, a large ripe pineapple and four beautiful floral bis which .a presented t< us m true Hawaiian fashion with a kiss Wo wi, e glad to see her and I'm sure she was h ippy to see us We had e\ - oral rice occasions together it rd she did a great job of directing much o? our sight-seeing and ea* • ing in Honolulu. T am sure tha' our readers would be Ixared by a "blow-by-blow” account of our trip, s> well stay with the highlights, with the h< pe that you’ll stay with us only as long as we hold your int» rest I should say, first of all. that we loved the Hawanans and the I hinds and can hcart'ly rixemmend them as a vacation spot. The people there are so friendly and so eager to be helpful to their visitors. There is an air f f informality which |* evades among the people, even (in Waikiki Beach. Honolulu, which, with all its fin* hotels, is the Miami Beach of the Idan Is The temperatures range from 70 to R 5 the year round, so that swimming in the ocean, surfriding and dining out in the open on the ocean front are possible all the time. The people of the Island? are truly a blend oJ many nationalities. In IHSO the population of tlm islands was M.bdo. mostly native Hawanans Today thev number 350,000 made up of Chinese, Japanese, Phillipmoea and peof le of Spanish and Portugese descent, which have been assimilated, an that there are few full-blooded Hawaiian^. Their intermarriage i so extensive that they are a veritable melting jx>t of all races, and if this conditi in continues to exist, as it probably will, the Hawaiian race as such will some day pass out of the picture. There a; c few Negro or Jewish people or the Islands Mostly they are an Oriental people In spite of their Chinese and Japanese backgrounds the FBI found that the

Japanese-Americans. had nothing to do with the sneak attack (f 1911. or acUi o? Sabotage. When the Islands be< inie the sQth sta’ in the Union, its official family included Orientals as well Hawaiian people. Even modern vi itors soon bee ni ■ act limatt I with tl’.e people and their custom , m the extent of adopting -ome of their dress customs while on the Islands. Every won. m wants t own a Muu Mini iM- M oi, sort of mot her-hllbba i d off. r, o; a hob'ku. which is a l eg fitted more formal garment And ev< n the men succumb to wearing the bright-*'o’ored. light w. ght Aloha shirts sorta. ' and c . f. • t Tue Hawaiian . 1: iiabct is < r m forest, too. It consists of f. Enin Vowels and sc.-n con onants. The vow< Is are pion urn • ] • sonants are h. k. 1, m, n. p a. 1 w. Every werd and every syllable ends with a vowel and two i<; sonants can nev r oc ar wtl rv. a vowel between. The fit I v. i ! one learns in Hawaii is Akih \\h h means Welcome and Far< well.

Sec I c D :ah Shore Che.y Show Sunday NBC T»-t e Pit Boc , ’ij Chevy A?c py .. 5 Hein . ■BPBw^■Rns|M£te “ - ^SIBi '** Jjß i •' ■ .! fee,.* ' ... t * ■ I 251$ '&■ =’^ a h- » ■ SrJ d e • .. .. i Jit »111 l in ^ll >ll 7b * I ji m ill wM b jll iwP mmi^mmmQmmiißnEESHSESSi^99n3EE^&Eißi Four-wheel independent suspension totally unlike any other I S.-built car” . . . "air-cooled aluminum engine . . . not dejicndent on the properties of a liquid coolant” ... a rear-mounted traiisaxlc allowing a Hattri ^oor and a lower roofline. . . .” Those are some of the praises heaped .:pop Corvair by the editors of Motor Trend —the world s large-t goner : auto motive magazine—in announcing their coveted (Lir of lhe Yea ard. Other cars didn't even come close. The Motor Ir<n 1 e vpert<. who e mated every make in the country, were unanimous in tin ir d-u i-iuu, publi lied in the April issue. But, unle;--. \.<u have per>onallv driven a t’orvair, s ou can't appreciate what this engineering a< i,i»A, mmt really means in combining compact car econonn and at litv with big « car ride, room and MH’c-footednes Ih op down t > h■< your de tb'r’s, take a trial driv<‘and then ju 1 • the w'^al Car of the Year for yourself! BY CHEVROLET * • yo’jr I >cil iufh»riz'<l ('hevrolft !■:rj r/. ' (A/.! ry\ fi> >r flea!*! Powell-Mann Chevrolet Co., Inc. 301 Roosevelt Rd. Walkerton Phone 19

April 7, 1960 — WALKERTON INDEPENDENT —

Sugar cane a the principal pn duct of flit- Islands, wit'i a millim. ' tons praluccd annually When you buy (’ &• H sugar .it y Hu m ti l it means that it is Ciliforma and H o.vamin .ug o All ' r» faum is 'lone in Calif' rma The ;•! wim. of piniappb s s the non! n. important indu.strv I’a|? I. i - tk" largt t । mn: g fact . y in h • world at Han. lulu, wh.ch is ’er to the public ior inspect mu. Tmu - i d.s make up th- tiur I most arp< >v ant ii.d ; dry in p. -. a a volume. (More next we».’.: ) “Special Diets" Subject At Club A ic son on "Spe< al I',.’,' «.«. . g ven veste diy aftiir.o n hr ' i. • in T< >: : . st’ a’ion . > bv Miss X . e H x Hoir»' Agent from S< .Hi Bend i’ U e Waikerton (,’ommunity I mg. \x is sieved the 43 women ■ •. Mrs. V, L (kune . a g <• ' the invocation. E. : ( a t - f • puls decorated tin t' i• e .;.m

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