Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from February 1998:
Asian economic woes hurt visitor numbers for 1997
Feb 02, 1998; ... Mainland tourists flowed to Hawaii in December in big enough numbers to counter a substantial downturn from Asia, but the state's No. 1 industry saw only minimal growth in 1997 and expects another slow year for 1998. December tourist arrivals were up 2.5 percent, but shorter stays meant ...
Cannery developer bails out
Feb 02, 1998; ... The developer of Dole Cannery, the struggling retail complex in Iwilei, has reached an agreement that would turn over operations of the center to property owner face=+Bold; Castle & Cooke Inc.face=-Bold; The agreement announced today calls for face=+Bold; Horizon Group ...
Music man
Feb 02, 1998; ... WHEN Marek Lieberberg sees an opportunity he doesn't simply reach for it, he pounces. The former Associated Press reporter turned concert promoter -- Germany's largest -- is feeling pretty voracious about Hawaii's music concert future. "I am looking at being the No. 1 promoter in ...
Serving scoops of aloha in California
Feb 02, 1998; ... WHADDYA do if you've lived in Milpitas, Calif., for 26 years without being able to go out for saimin? If you're Waianae expatriates Richard and Marian Nashiro, you open a restaurant serving a full-on Hawaiian buffet every day of the week -- plus saimin. Next month, the Nashiros celebrate ...
Lindsey defends Bishop Estate
Feb 02, 1998; ... Kamehameha Schools is not in the business of educating all children of Hawaiian ancestry, according to Bishop Estate trustee Lokelani Lindsey. Lindsey, the guest speaker at a Honolulu Rotary Club meeting at the Pacific Club this morning, said studies have shown that the estate would run ...
Two OCCC inmates cut steel to escape
Feb 02, 1998; ... Two inmates with violent criminal records escaped early this morning from the Oahu Community Correctional Center by sawing their way through steel window bars. Wayne Jenkins, 44, and Reece Dull, 28, escaped from a second-floor room at the Annex 2 medium-security building sometime between ...
UH-Hilo may get 'Vulcan Village'
Feb 02, 1998; ... HILO -- A $40 million to $60 million "Vulcan Village" at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, including a Chinese studies center, could break ground next year if the sensitive issue of ceded lands can be resolved, UHH university relations director Gerald De Mello says. Taiwanese investors ...
Sen. Baker wants change in Good Friday holiday
Feb 02, 1998; ... The state holiday on the Christian holy day of Good Friday would be changed to a nonsectarian Aloha Day, under a bill introduced by state Sen. Rosalyn Baker. The substitute holiday would be set for the first Monday in April rather than tied to the Christian observance of Easter ...
Moon most valuable with game on the line
Feb 02, 1998; ... Warren Moon, with fluid on his knee and 41 years of wear on his body, said he wasn't going to pass judgment on John Elway's decision not to play in the Pro Bowl. But asked if he would've forsaken the honor, even after winning a Super Bowl, the ageless Seattle Seahawks quarterback said, ...
Short-handed Bulldogs will be a handful
Feb 02, 1998; ... It was a kinder, gentler Riley Wallace on the sidelines during yesterday morning's practice at the Stan Sheriff Center. Just as he had done during Saturday's game against San Jose State, the University of Hawaii basketball coach sat quietly as his coaching staff ran the show. Passivity ...
Wahine hope streak stays alive against San Diego St.
Feb 02, 1998; ... The University of Hawaii women's basketball team arrived in San Diego late yesterday afternoon and, within an hour, were getting familiar with San Diego State's new facility, Cox Arena. Sunday is normally a day off for the Wahine (18-1 overall, 8-0 Western Athletic Conference), but UH ...
Dog days for 'Bows
Feb 02, 1998; ... WOOF. The 'Dogs were barking when Jerry Tarkanian came back to the locker room last night. His Fresno State basketball team had just turned the Stan Sheriff Center into its own private kennel and the Bulldogs were woofing it up after chewing up Hawaii, 91-76, on national ...
Blue Mondays get Hawaii down
Feb 02, 1998; ... Maybe the band should stop playing "Hawaii 5-0" and replace it with "I Don't Like Mondays." It was another ESPN Big Monday and another big letdown for Hawaii as another dastardly opponent stepped up big on the road at the Rainbows' expense. Two weeks ago, the evil Billy Tubbs and ...
Pageant to cost state, business $5 million
Feb 03, 1998; ... The state will pay $3 million and the local tourism industry will donate $2 million in goods and services to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Hawaii in May, it was announced today. For the investment, Hawaii will get two hours of international television coverage on CBS, including ...
Banks seeking profit amid the produce
Feb 03, 1998; ... Business was slipping at its little branch office in Kapaa, so Central Pacific Bank moved its tellers into a Big Save Market down the street. Within a year, the 450-square-foot "in-store branch" had nearly tripled accounts on Kauai. "These are the same people, the same ...
BFI buys rival's isle contracts
Feb 03, 1998; ... face=+Bold; Browning-Ferris Industries Inc.face=-Bold; , one of the nation's largest garbage disposal companies, has purchased the hauling operations of it's biggest competitor in Hawaii, face=+Bold; Waste Management Inc.face=-Bold; The deal, completed over the weekend and announced ...
Cyanotech blames sales slump for layoffs
Feb 03, 1998; ... KAILUA-KONA - face=+Bold; Cyanotech Corp.face=-Bold; President Jerry Cysewski says he is frustrated by problems with sales of his company's microalgae products but still believes the company has a strong future. Cyanotech yesterday announced the layoffs of 23 workers, or about 26 ...
Designer fashions fantasies
Feb 03, 1998; ... FOR little girls, playing dress up with Barbie is a given. Dressing up the family poodle -- in a sailor suit, no less -- is a bit out there. But Lisa Schienle was born with a sense of whimsy that had her designing doll and dog couture before she was 12. Since then, she's turned her ...
AFC Cashes In
Feb 02, 1998; ... The NFC was on the sidelines counting its 25 grand a dollar at a time when Warren Moon sneaked in from the 1 to steal the dough. Thanks to the thrill-ride comeback engineered by the Seattle quarterback, the AFC overtook the NFC, 29-24, yesterday before a sellout crowd at Aloha ...
Tourism outlook: Flat
Feb 02, 1998; ... Mainland tourists flowed to Hawaii in December in big enough numbers to counter a substantial downturn from Asia, but the state's No. 1 industry saw only minimal growth in 1997 and expects another slow year for 1998. December tourist arrivals were up 2.5 percent, but shorter stays meant ...
Self-storage business builds at Waialae
Feb 02, 1998; ... PUBLIC Storage, which has owned and operated self-storage facilities in Hawaii since 1987, plans a new facility near the H-1 Freeway on-ramp at Waialae Avenue. The addition--at the old Waialae Drive-In site and next to the luxury Nohana Kahala subdivision--will be the fifth in the firm's ...
Judiciary's mission: recover unpaid fines
Feb 04, 1998; ... face=+2; Aki 'truly sorry' his legal woes occupied Senateface=-2; face=+2; Testimony mixed on land use, fate of commissionface=-2; face=+2; Cost, logistics wilt bill requiring leis for air arrivalsface=-2; The state Judiciary is hoping to hire a private collection ...
Trustees investigate Holt's use of credit
Feb 03, 1998; ... Bishop Estate trustees Gerard Jervis and Oswald Stender are investigating reports that estate employee Milton Holt ran up about $21,000 in charges on Bishop Estate credit cards at local hostess bars, restaurants and Las Vegas casinos. Jervis, speaking through his attorney Ronald ...
Case's Hawaiian autonomy bill to die
Feb 03, 1998; ... Citing the need to leave discussion of sovereignty and autonomy to native Hawaiians, state Rep. Ed Case (D, Manoa) will recommend that his Hawaiian Affairs committee hold the proposed Native Hawaiian Autonomy Act. Although House Bill 2340 may be dead, Hawaiians caution there are many ...
First Hawaiian closing research department
Feb 03, 1998; ... The economic research department at First Hawaiian Bank will close this summer, a victim of the Hawaii economic stagnation that it has been reporting in detail. The bank said the department will phase out after Leroy Laney, the bank's senior vice president and chief economist, leaves ...
'Bumpy' Kanahele gets minimum term
Feb 03, 1998; ... Dennis "Bumpy" Kanahele isn't focusing on the two weeks he will spend in federal prison as part of his sentence for interfering with a federal agent in 1994. He's thinking about turning 150,000 native Hawaiians into a voting bloc. About running as a trustee for the Office of Hawaiian ...
House hunts commuter solutions
Feb 03, 1998; ... What would a people-mover system in Waikiki have in common with a commuter ferry from Kapolei? A lot, if these plans can be integrated to handle Oahu's overall traffic problem, says state Rep. Romy M. Cachola (D, Kalihi). Legislative discussion of a monorail people-mover from ...
Teen may have hacked 20,000 Internet accounts
Feb 03, 1998; ... Police are advising thousands of Internet users to change their passwords. A boy has hacked into accounts with GST Hawaii OnLine, Hula Net Inc. and Hawaii Government Employees Association, detectives said. Police searched the boy's North Shore home on Friday and found evidence ...
Flu hits Punahou's 7th- and 8th-graders
Feb 03, 1998; ... A flu virus swept through Punahou School's seventh and eighth grades over the past two weeks, causing heavy absences. "But it's pau," Barbara Weimer, school nurse, said today. "The kids are fine now." She said up to 100 students may have been absent for one or two days, mostly ...
Waianae linemen pick UH
Feb 03, 1998; ... Three key members of Waianae High School's defensive front for two straight Oahu Interscholastic Association championships have verbally committed to the University of Hawaii. White Sosene, a 1996 Star-Bulletin all-state end, nose guard Kainoa Evangelista, and tackle Stanford Evaimalo ...
Seoul is hurting: Hawaii feels the pain
Feb 03, 1998; ... From "IMF" lunches to shared office space, Hawaii's 35,000 Koreans are tightening their belts to get themselves and South Korea through the economic crisis that has dried up the Korean tourism market. An estimated $70 million spent annually by more than 120,000 Korean tourists has ...
Castle & Cooke's 1997 net plunged
Feb 04, 1998; ... face=+Bold; Castle & Cooke Inc.face=-Bold; today reported a 23 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit but most of that was due to a one-time gain and the company's net income for all of 1997 was down nearly 58 percent from 1996. The company said it earned $1.6 million for the final ...
Hawaii farmers hurting in El Niño's dry winter
Feb 04, 1998; ... A drier-than-usual winter in Hawaii has been a blessing for the visitor industry but not for some crop farmers. "I'm already getting low productivity and poor quality, so it's going to get worse if we don't get rain in a couple of weeks," said Kauai farmer Richard Coffman, who raises ...
The new chef at Michel's says atmosphere makes the meal romantic
Feb 04, 1998; ... Ian Russo knows the importance of being earnest. The new executive chef at Michel's at the Colony Surf is drive, personified. Along the way to Michel's, the 30-year-old Brooklyn native once earned a job at Roy's Restaurant by buying a one-way ticket to Hawaii and working free for a week ....
Cayetano plan ousts some top state jobs
Feb 04, 1998; ... State Budget Director Earl Anzai could be losing his job under a plan Gov. Ben Cayetano is proposing to downsize government. Or it could be state personnel Director James Takushi who goes, while Anzai remains. Cayetano's plan also could mean choosing among Agriculture Director James ...
Judicial maverick inspires, advises UH law students
Feb 04, 1998; ... University of Hawaii law students swarmed around the 60-something woman in the broad-brimmed hat, navy tunic top and tinted glasses. Role model. Pioneer in gender equality. Hero. The labels flooded the law school's courtyard yesterday as conversation and cameras focused on U.S ....
Internet firms upgrade security
Feb 04, 1998; ... Experts say computer "cracking" is difficult to do, as police investigate a North Shore boy who allegedly hacked into three local Internet service providers. "I can't say it's easy," said Stephen Itoga, a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at ...
Gov orders girls soccer back to Oahu
Feb 04, 1998; ... Under vocal pressure from athletes' parents and the intervention of Gov. Ben Cayetano, the Hawaii High School Athletic Association has reversed its decision to move the state girls' soccer tournament to Maui. "The governor has stepped in to correct an incredible injustice," said Gender ...
Verbal commitments academic for Rainbows
Feb 04, 1998; ... Coaches across the country will tell you verbal commitments are one thing. Getting academically eligible recruits to sign on the dotted line is quite another. University of Hawaii head football coach Fred vonAppen is no exception to this way of thinking. He got down to his office early ...
Micah's Madness
Feb 04, 1998; ... It will be March soon. Micah Kroeger's favorite time of year. His favorite season. The season of March Madness. Even though basketball wasn't always his best sport, he was enthralled by the NCAA Tournament. From the time he was 10 years old, Kroeger was caught up ...
Wahine wallop Aztecs
Feb 04, 1998; ... SAN DIEGO -- The focus the University of Hawaii women's basketball team maintained on its three-game trek through California resulted in the most decisive victory of the trip last night. With Kylie Page's 28 points leading four starters in double figures, Hawaii ran its 1997-98 road ...
"freaky accident" [Derived Headline]
Feb 03, 1998 ... It wasn't even a big wave -- just a "freaky accident" that instantly changed Garrick Lau's life on Feb. 15, 1991. Then 16, an Eagle Scout and a water polo champion, he was on a swimming outing with his Iolani School senior class at Waimanalo Beach Park. He dived through a wave, hit a ...
Dino name needed, no bones about it [Derived Headline]
Feb 03, 1998 ... Sue is big. Sue is scary. Sue is all bones -- and soon could be Mary. Or any other name officials from Chicago's Field Museum pick from a contest to rename Sue, its nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton bought at auction last October for $8.3 million. U.S. children in ...
Japanese tour firm closes [Derived Headline]
Feb 04, 1998 ... face=+2; Japanese tour firm closesface=-2; face=+2; Jetour Corp. wasn't able to make the payments on its debtsface=-2; From staff and wire reports Jetour Corp., a Tokyo-based travel agency that uses Hawaii as one of its major overseas destinations, closed yesterday ...
Banks seeking profit amidst the produce
Feb 03, 1998; ... Business was slipping at its little branch office in Kapaa, so Central Pacific Bank moved its tellers into a Big Save Market down the street. Within a year, the 450-square-foot "in-store branch" had nearly tripled accounts on Kauai. "These are the same people, the same ...
Ex-Duty Free exec joins Hata
Feb 03, 1998; ... Laurence Vogel is the new president and chief executive officer of Y. Hata & Co. Ltd., one of the state's largest food service wholesalers. Vogel, 61, also remains as president emeritus of Duty Free Shoppers Group Ltd. Frank J. Hata, the current chief executive and board ...
Ex-Duty Free exec joins Hata
Feb 03, 1998; ... Laurence Vogel is the new president and chief executive officer of Y. Hata & Co. Ltd., one of the state's largest food service wholesalers. Vogel, 61, also remains as president emeritus of Duty Free Shoppers Group Ltd. Frank J. Hata, the current chief executive and board ...
Banks seeking profit amidst the produce
Feb 03, 1998; ... Business was slipping at its little branch office in Kapaa, so Central Pacific Bank moved its tellers into a Big Save Market down the street. Within a year, the 450-square-foot "in-store branch" had nearly tripled accounts on Kauai. "These are the same people, the same ...
Hawaii farmers hurting in El Nino's dry winter
Feb 04, 1998; ... A drier-than-usual winter in Hawaii has been a blessing for the visitor industry but not for some crop farmers. "I'm already getting low productivity and poor quality, so it's going to get worse if we don't get rain in a couple of weeks," said Kauai farmer Richard Coffman, who raises ...
Cayetano proposes $111 million in cuts
Feb 05, 1998; ... In a 50-page budget message sent to legislators today, Gov. Ben Cayetano is recommending general-fund budget cuts of $111 million. The proposed cuts are a result of his recent order to department heads to slash their budgets by as much as 10 percent, in light of the state's tight ...
Mother urges lawmakers to tighten seat belts
Feb 05, 1998; ... face=+2; 'Clean money' campaign reform bill would provide total public financingface=-2; face=+2; Session workers find a rough road in waiting for payface=-2; face=+2; Maunawili land swap bill dead, sponsor saysface=-2; Every day, Barbara Babyack of Kailua lives with ...
Tweaking tax-hike package won't satisfy opponents
Feb 05, 1998; ... Tweaking the numbers won't persuade Laura Manis to support Gov. Ben Cayetano's task force plan to restructure Hawaii taxes in hopes of boosting the economy. It won't make a believer of Bette Tatum, either. Both represent large but very different groups that are opposed to the ...
Mainland boosts Schuler's profits
Feb 05, 1998; ... An expansion to the mainland early last year paid off big forface=+Bold; Schuler Homes Inc.face=-Bold; The Honolulu-based home builder today reported a 760 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings. Schuler earned $2.19 million, or 11 cents a share, in the three months through ...
Oahu home sales up, prices fall
Feb 05, 1998; ... Home resales on Oahu jumped in January, continuing an upward trend that has run for seven months, but prices were lower. Sales of existing single-family homes were up a whopping 69.7 percent, a total of 185 units last month compared with 109 in January 1997, according to the monthly ...
Singing through the pain
Feb 05, 1998; ... The impossibly elaborate outfits worn in Beijing opera aren't really a problem: all the work is already sewn in place. A jacket is a jacket, after all, and it goes on one sleeve at a time like any other jacket, even if it does have embroidery slagged on like an everything-goes pizza. The ...
D-day for the carnival cavalry
Feb 05, 1998; ... The U.S. Army has nothing on the ladies of the PFA. Give them loaded weapons and a few tanks and these women could invade a small nation. Instead, they put their formidable organizational, troop-gathering skills to work on Carnival. Not face=+Italic; theface=-Italic; carnival, not the ...
Big power ballads suit Celine best
Feb 05, 1998; ... When Celine Dion pretended she was going to call it a night after doing a 70-minute show that didn't include her current megahit, "My Heart Will Go On," her fans played along. They applauded and screamed and waved glow-in-the-dark concert souvenirs as if there might not be an ...
From the clay
Feb 05, 1998; ... The Japanese have a name for Japanese-Americans whose ancestors came to Hawaii more than a hundred years ago. It's "kaseki," meaning "fossil." It's based on an observation that while Japan has moved forward in terms of social customs and rituals, Hawaii's Japanese uphold many of the ...
For 2 years, absent exec got salary
Feb 05, 1998; ... The president of the company that processed claims for the failed Pacific Group Medical Association was paid $6,000 a month for two years -- and told to stay away from the office. Donald Wakeman Jr.'s paid absence shifted day-to-day control of Pacific Benefit Services Inc. to Peter P ....
Insurance bills will drop for homeowners
Feb 05, 1998; ... Consumers should be seeing lower homeowner and property insurance rates, or the state may step in and mandate rate reductions. That's what Insurance Commissioner Rey Graulty said after an industry newsletter reported insurance companies in Hawaii have the highest profit margins in the ...
Abercrombie rakes in big campaign bucks
Feb 05, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Honolulu, continues to stock his 1998 campaign war chest at more than double the pace of previous races, the latest campaign finance reports reveal. Expected to face a robust Republican challenge this year, Abercrombie collected $406,000 in campaign ...
'Bows' woes continue
Feb 05, 1998; ... Dazed. Dizzy. Disoriented. And that was just the coach. About the same time Riley Wallace's head started to spin, his Hawaii men's basketball team went into a tailspin. Maybe even a death spiral. The Rainbows blew a 10-point lead with 10 minutes left last ...
Aztecs get a good grade in chemistry
Feb 05, 1998; ... Midterm grades are in, and the San Diego State basketball team is acing chemistry. Meanwhile, Hawaii seems to have misplaced its textbook. The Aztecs got a pop quiz last night at the Stan Sheriff center, when they trailed the host Rainbows by 10 points in the second half. But ...
Castle & Cooke's 1997 net plunged
Feb 04, 1998; ... Castle & Cooke Inc. today reported a 23 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit but most of that was due to a one-time gain and the company's net income for all of 1997 was down nearly 58 percent from 1996. The company said it earned $1.6 million for the final quarter of 1997, up from ...
Pageant's price tag: $5 million
Feb 04, 1998; ... The state will pay $3 million and the local tourism industry will donate $2 million in goods and services to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Hawaii in May. For the investment, Hawaii will get two hours of international television coverage on CBS, including in prime-time in major U.S ....