1939
1939
S.O.S. Anybody got a cork tree to spare? Please send same to Hilo Center. The CCC (Community Circus Committee) has been hunting high and low and far and near for said cork tree since receiving a letter from Ferdinand the Bull’s manager. The bull with the delicate ego will arrive in Hilo some time next week to fulfill an engagement at the Hilo Center Community Circus on Aug. 25-26. The committee’s been busy planting flowers and fixing up a pasture and all they need is a cork tree to make Ferdie feel right at home. They’ve promised to chase all the bees away from the circus grounds on account Ferdinand likes flowers better.
And there’s plenty of hustle and bustle around the center these days. Mother Elephant’s training her baby elephants for their big set … and I do mean big! Horses are being fattened and conditioned, the monkeys are getting tamer each day, the lions roar in perfect harmony, there’s a fresh supply of fish for the seals to devour daily and it’s a continuous debate between the giraffe and ostrich as to whose neck can stretch farther.
1964
The Hungarian Quartet, appearing here two weeks from Tuesday, is a unique group. To begin, they’ve been playing some of the world’s most magnificent music for more than 30 years, an unusual tenure of togetherness for highly artistic and creative personalities. They’ve also become famous twice. In their prewar beginnings, when they were all young men just out of Budapest music academies, so finely did they blend and time their music that within three years they achieved acclaim all over Europe. When the war began, they made Holland their home and were deeply appreciated by the stolid Dutch, who dubbed them “Our Hungarians.” When the war moved to Holland, the group broke up. … As the tides of war turned, the opera houses and concert halls of Europe darkened, and the four Hungarians … soon found themselves unemployed. They came together again, and for the endless days of war’s end, sometimes in the midst of bombardments, practiced at their art until the Hungarian Quartet became the phenomenally supurb chamber music group it is today. …
The Sept. 2 appearance will be the first for them in Hilo, but not in the 50th state. Two years ago, they were triumphant in Honolulu, packed the Waikiki Shell and were held over.
1989
The organizer of a protest against Hawaii Electric Light Company offered an apology for recent statements regarding the company’s rates and profits. But she will have to be a little more flexible in her approach to a solution to please one new influential recruit in the movement. Elise Walden, leader of a group called Fed Up With Hawaiian Electric (FUHE), said she was wrong when she said HELCO has the highest rates and profits of any electric utility in the nation. HELCO officials took offense when Walden recently publicized the claim about rates and profits along with the number of outages occurring in the Ka‘u District. HELCO acknowledged the outage problems but said Walden was wrong about the rates. …
Meanwhile, Mufi Hannemann, a Naalehu resident and former manager of Seamountain, a Punaluu resort complex, joined Walden’s campaign for better service from HELCO in Ka‘u. Hannemann is C. Brewer’s Ka‘u point man as a company vice president for corporate development. Seamountain was a C. Brewer and Company property until sold last week to a subsidiary of the Japan-based Sekitei Kaihatsu Co. …
Although he signed Walden’s petition as a gesture of concern, he said he’s not as fervent about it as Walden. … “I think at some point there has to be a meeting of sorts … in the spirit of cooperation,” Hannemann said.
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.