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DISCOVERY '69 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). To study the problems of the only coffee-producing area in the U.S., the Kona Coast, "Discovery Returns to Hawaii...
Five years ago, two-thirds of Hawaii's visitors saw only Oahu. Today, two-thirds of them see at least one Neighbor Island. And why not? Maui and Kauai are only $12.57 and 18 minutes away by DC-9 jet; Hawaii's Kona airport is a mere 43 minutes and $16.95 by turboprop Convair. Air-taxi services also operate to the 15 state and private airstrips on the islands, offer island-hopping tours for as little...
Some 35 miles farther south on Hawaii is Johno Jackson's isolated plush-primitive Kona Village, three months old. Jackson is a World War II P-51 pilot and California oil millionaire who delights in spinning tales of ancient Hawaii for his guests, offers them skin diving, sunfish sailing, and trips in his Jeep across the cinder beds and lava fields to explore ancient native burial caves. In the sleepy village of Kailua-Kona, close to some of the most exciting fishing grounds of the world (bonefish, blue marlin, Ahi and the jack crevalle), the venerable Kona...
Other Places, Other Builders. South of Rockefeller's Mauna Kea, California Oil Millionaire Johnno M. Jackson is opening Kona Village in September, which will consist of 130 cottages spread around a lagoon, each decorated and designed in Malayan, Fijian, Samoan or Tahitian style. Public facilities will be housed in an authentic long house built over the ruins of an old meeting house. Because a tortuous, seven-mile trail is all that connects the village with public highways and commercial airports, guests will have to be ferried in by private plane or boat...
Unlike past building booms, this one has jumped from bustling Oahu (the island on which Honolulu is located) to the rest of the archipelago. On Hawaii Island, largest in the group, a $2,000,000 shopping center will rise near Hilo and a 150-room Hilton hotel at Kailua-Kona. On Maui, work has begun on a seven-story, 100-room addition to the Wailuku Hotel. The building boom and the prospect of more tourists also aid other industries. Four new mattress factories have been opened, and Schlitz is about to build a 100,000-barrels-a-year brewery near...