Show Waikiki Sands Prove False Pepe Takes Mac Behind Lei Curtain Waikiki Beach is beautiful but it isn't true It was at one I j time lime a n big salt water slough j jand I and they have to keep hauling inthe in j I the sand Band which makes it one of the mo most t famous beaches inthe in inthe II the world Hugh hotels and apartment houses stretch for miles mUes along Ithe j I the b beach They front on the street an arid and back ack up to the sand There are ore are roped-off roped areas areas- be be- behind be 1 hind each place for tor p privacy of ot I Ithe the guests but of course the ropes dont don't reach to the water and any anyone one can can go almost any place A Day Off Oct The day we were there was the only day we had off a n holiday holiday hol hol- iday Washington's birthday The beach was packed A big sign said mId the air was 78 and the water was 77 degrees We spent the day lying on the sand swimming swimming swim swimming swim swim- ming in the Pacific repairing to the near-by near luncheon wo luncheon wo had ad guest cart cards to the Outrigger Club In Innes Ines es of Lehl Lehi was supposed to look up a town home-town girl andreport and andreport andreport report back bacle to her parents MacKnight night of Price and I went along Just so we could say wed we'd been been in ml I t the Royal Hawaiian I Hotel Its It's too swank Musti Must i cost a mink farm a day j We found Lynette Peterson of ot otI I Lehi Lehl working In the the- beauty I shop and she was tickled pink to see Russ In Morgan she sheI I knew a Phillips boy who was wasa a wonderful athlete l' l Remember ber Lynette Kent We split up tip to do some shop I ping and eventually missed co con con- It was about 5 pm p.m. and I was already suffering 1 I from sunburn So I called a acab cab 1 Remote mo p pI Places I My driver was very dark and his name was Pepe I asked him if It he could show me on the way back to the base some someI of the city Ity which tou tourists sel set seldom I dom see see He cot cou could d. d He dId I But first I had to identify myself The card from the I Secretary of Navy carried some weight We wl went nt to places In which I was the only Caucasian and I saw others turned away I from the door with the remark Were closing i Pepe was a real character I I Everywhere we we went all the people knew him film loved him made him hIm and and me me me- right s h n nj j home I finally figured he must be a labor bo boss s. s II He lip told me more inside of Hawaiian politics than I dreamed Maybe Maybo he kidding We ll see see- see Sefor for instance the Governor hasn't has nt a chance of re Next Governor will be the present present pres pres- ent Lieutenant Governor Natives gathered around our table to talk to me about things in the Mainland about bout the Navy about me Some of the conversation had to be inter Men and women of ot every possible shade and race Continued on Page Five I NAVY Y I I Con Continued from Page 1 U I dressed In every possible garb were Interested In Pepe and me j I They Ther brought delicious and t x x- otic drinks and food which I II I couldn't pronounce I didn't realize real ize In one ono spot that I was eating poi pol ol until alter after we left lett Only pot pol pol Iwo I wo we saw Raw In the Islands Islands and and I didn't even know It I II I Ate With Chop Sticks i 1 I I Fascinated I watched several I Orientals eating with sticks chop I It t And And so Pepe asked for cho sticks chop for tor ale mo and showed me h how haw w to use UBe them Next thing our table was WM surrounded by smiling friends whose fingers fingers' were twitching as I they mentally helped me mo manI- manI And when wilen I finally managed to get a sliver silver of spiced fish Into I- I my mouth they shouted 1 with glee and appreciation Wonderful peo pea people people pie these ns The chopsticks chopsticks chop chop- Chop I sticks by the way are In our kit kit- 1 rhen Chen Drop around Ill I'll give e you a alesson I I I lesson I Dy fly now Pepe's Pepo's taxi meter was shut off oft and we were one ole buddies buddies' j I I Pepe and Mac We got to quarters quarters' Quarters I I at nt 9 pm p.m. to r round und out one of the I II I I II I most completely enjoyable four I hours bours I ever spent I What People Wear Near Its It's worth the tho trip Just to stand stam standon i ion on a street corner In Waikiki and andI I watch the tho people leople And what they're wearing I A great many ninny women both Caucasian and native wear those horrible shapeless monstrosities mon man called muus muus muus Why Because they are so comfortable We can understand a lady with a misshapen form hiding It In one of these Mother but it if sho she is anywhere near normal we decided decided its it's a crying shame shamo Heres Here's a big fat man smoking a cigar elgar and wearing absolutely nothing but a pair of sloppy shorts Hero Here Is a lady carrying a abIg abig abig big sack of groceries leading a n. achild achild child chilli and wearing high heels and anda a bikini Nothing more Tho rho tourists are aro everywhere She Sho may be ho wearing anything usually what shed she'd wear downtown downtown downtown down down- town at home but he will have Bermuda shorts a new suntan an aloha shirt and a camera Incidentally if you plan to tour the Islands you MUST Include a visit to the tho other Islands besides Oahu I This one has become sO eo metropolitan op n so commercialized BO so full fun of tourist traps VS that hat It little lItHe of f the tt true e eI tIiA y you u v very tY Hawaii flavor Spend one day I there to say eay youve you've been there visit Pearl Harbor and the Beach then get out specially Especially you must eee see the lIthe big Island which Is Hawaii they told us Mormon l Temple Tenile Teni le leWe We didn't get to see the Pall either This ThIll Is a tremendously high cliff elUf at a pass over the moun- moun talus Here King lIng lame Kamehameha drove all hIE enemies over the cliff to their death The wind is III isso isso so 80 strong It will blow a tossed coin back up to you Four of our group group Wallis of Vernal Sumner of Orem Dunn of I Tooele and Warner of Spanish I took fork Fork took a Jeep across the Pall to visit the tho Mormon Temple The Temple Incidentally is a 1 real teat tourist attraction as well n 8 as A aWe shrine We didn't drive up we expected to fly over In hell lieU copters the next day But Dut the wind windI I was wae too loo turbulent so we wo flew I around Instead of over Hob nob Waldron Bob Dob Waldron son of Mr and Mrs Lew Waldron of Morgan lives in Honolulu and works for Howard Hughes lIe He picked me up one evening in hi his little tittle AU Austin th r and W wet wey zip z J alt over towns lown own I lie He and a friend have taken a beautiful home high up on the mountains which en the City 1 ht 1 stands alone at the top of a aI I cliff and the view is Js Just absolute absolute- I ily ly magnificent Add Added ell f feature aur an art outdoor movie about six blocks I down and away Bob Dab says hes he's going go go- goIng Ing to sneak In a sound wire A A. reader lip would have it made He lie Introduced me to hla his fiance a lovely and charming re registered red re nurse from Canada She Sha lives with two other Canadian nurses in a nice apartment She Sho reminded me of Dotty Betty Wilkinson of Morgan Later we went out on a n bit of oC the tho town Star of one of the shows was Vas a 1 girl seven feet tall There Them was also a big colored girl who danced on her head Bob Dob loves the Islands but ho ha wants to come como back to Los An Angeles Angeles An An- geles to live They plan a n. midsummer midsummer mid mid- summer wedding Next week wed we'd better get back to work More of at our read j 1 ers aro are interested in the submarine ine trip it seems than any other project So next week well we'll take takedown ier down feet Care to Join jUS zua us |