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Maui is neither easy nor cheap to get to, reports TIME Correspondent William Blaylock. Its Kahului Airport has been deliberately kept small so that it cannot handle direct flights from the mainland; jet passengers must disembark at Honolulu and transfer by cab ($3) or WikiWiki bus to the Aloha or Hawaiian Airlines terminal for the 20-min. onward flight to the Valley Isle, and may then have to rent a car to reach their destinations. Explains Elmer F. Cravalho, 53, the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.), tough-minded descendant of Portuguese immigrants who has been Maui's mayor...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...
...fleeting taste. Flame from the gun stabbed the dusk and in Kahului mongrel dogs howled and ran for cover. A shell crashed ashore, In the dun-colored houses along Kahului's waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage...