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Since World War II, the Navy has bombed Kahoolawe island, located within 50 miles of Maui, for the purpose of training young pilots. In 1969, a defused bomb inadvertently fell into the backyard of Maui Mayor Elmer Cravalho, who since then has urged strongly that the military return Kahoolawe to Hawaii...
...Hale statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness...
...floor, two men placed two separate long-distance calls to Honolulu. One was the Territory's twelfth appointed Governor, Republican William F. Quinn, who was calling Acting Governor Edward E. Johnston. The other was Democratic Territorial Delegate John Burns, who got through to Territorial House Speaker Elmer F. Cravalho, who was standing on the dais in the assembly chambers of Hawaii's lolani Palace...
...Jack," cried Cravalho to Burns, "I can hear you fine. Have you got anything to tell us yet?" He listened, frowned, then brightened. "Jack says everything looks fine," he told the legislators and onlookers...