1939
1939
I SAW… About five minutes before I was due at work I came out on the street to wait for a bus …One of those “half pint cars” came along and as I was getting desperate I “thumbed” it … Luckily it was a friend … I expected a bumpy ride but the car, although small, had “knee action”… “Action” is right…It was a pretty good car for all its size…You have to be a good driver to run one of these contraptions because of the car’s insignificant size…The horn on this particular car was on the weak side … I suggest putting in one of those horns which sound like the baying of a wolf …Then the car ahead of you will think that there must be at least a 10 ton truck behind him…
The Waimea CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys started last week on the building of another resthouse at Hale Pohaku, which will stand at a right angle with the present house. The boys are hauling all the stones needed for the job and doing the construction work under the supervision of two foremen. Another crew of CCC boys worked on a planting project at Hakalau and also constructed a fireplace at the Akaka Falls resthouse. 1964
Maurice Zimring has resigned as administrative assistant at the Hilo Training Center of the Peace Corps, Associate Director David Englund announced this week. Zimring has handled special assignments for the Hilo center since March 1963, Englund said. Much of his work involved informing the public of the Peace Corps training program. Zimring, a former Californian, told the Tribune-Herald that he will leave for Washington, D.C., Wednesday to investigate a couple of U.S. government job offers not connected with Peace Corps.
An ex-newspaper man, Zimring has also been an instructor at the University of Southern California and a former contract-writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures and Universal International studios. He was a contract writer for the Perry Mason TV series and won the Radio Digest Award for the best human interest script on the air. Honored recently by friends at a hotel dinner, Zimring indicated that he hopes to be back to the Big Island fairly often, perhaps in another job capacity. Mrs. Zimring, a Hilo attorney, will not accompany her husband on his Washington trip.
1989
A move by the owners of the Waikoloa Beach Resort to more than double the size of the development by expanding it out toward the Queen Kaahumanu Highway is meeting with opposition from state planners, who say they worry that a golf course near the highway would interrupt motorists’ views of the barren, stark lava fields of the Kohala coastline. Atpac Land Co., Waikoloa Development Co. and Waikoloa Land and Cattle Co. have asked the state Land Use Commission to reclassify about 853 acres at Waikoloa from Agriculture to Urban. The panel is to begin its hearing into the application 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the Resolution Room of the Kona Hilton.
Although the action would more than double the size of the existing 500-acre resort, the developers say the change would actually greatly reduce the planned building density for the area. Instead of the 3,430 resort condominiums and town-homes now planned and approved for the existing 500 acres, the developers say they would build 3,365 — 1,605 on the original 500 acres and 1,760 on the new acreage. Their plans also call for three golf courses, a lagoon for boating activities, and a commercial area. This Day in History is compiled by Brandon Haleamau for the Tribune-Herald using newspaper archives. Whenever possible, the news accounts provided in this column were taken verbatim from the newspaper.