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Show Though Healed Lepers Want to Remain on Island HONOM-T,T. Dec. 15. (By Tho Associated As-sociated Press.) Lener natlents In the Kalaunapa settlement of the Island Of Molokal. known In former jr&an as "the lonely Isle." who are nntlcl- 1 pntlnsr release on parole or full discharge dis-charge as a result of the ohniilmoofrra oil treatment, fear tho plunge Into tho outside world and desire to bo perralt-l perralt-l ted to tako up land on Molokal ad-I ad-I Jacent to tho lper colony. Governor Wtallac R. Farrlngton, who hns Just returned from an In- 1 spectlon of the Kuhiupupa settlement, said a number of such patients asked jj that land on Molokal bo oponed to hm no that th.'V mlht settle there j for tho remainder of their days and not bo forced to take up again the life on "th- outside" from whose ac-tlvltles ac-tlvltles they have been cut off for so lon(r. The rcovernor has the mat-ter mat-ter under consideration. |