{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31448/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"SOS News Vol. 1, No. 3","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36039/full/143%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36039","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"attribution":"University of Hawaii at Manoa Digital Image Collection","related":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31448","format":"text/html"},"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"SOS News Vol. 1, No. 3"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Hawaii--History--1959-"},{"label":"Description","value":"Volume 1, Number 3"},{"label":"Creator","value":"Kelly, John"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Save Our Surf"},{"label":"Date","value":"1970-06"},{"label":"Format","value":"newsletter"},{"label":"Type","value":"Image"},{"label":"Extent","value":"8"},{"label":"Full Text","value":"UP TO just a few weeks  ago, the State wanted Sand Island  (SI) for other  things.   Like paying off some obligations to heavy  campaign  contributors. A State planning engineer explained that a lot of small auto and appliance  repair service outfits now  located mauka of Ala Moana Park would be moved out  to SI. To make room for  the Dillingham-Ward empire's West-Kewalo project.  A second or third Waikiki jungle in the Ala Moana area.   Something new to screw the people with.\\n\\nThe State also wants to locate gasoline storage  tanks  and an old fashioned sewage  treatment plant on SI right under  the  takeoff  zone of  the new airport and in the heart of Honolulu. And  two  1000-foot ship berths to accommodate other friends  of  the  administration. Fifteen surfing sites plus  righteous beaches  and camping areas were  to be  laid over with  concrete.\\n\\nThings were pretty far  -- along.   The State planned  to rip  off SI for heavy industry and petitioned the  City Planning Commission to  that  effect back in January. But SOS  rumbled and the hearing was postponed until March  19.   That was when some State professionals  got verbally skegged again, this  time by  teenage surfers  from Kalihi.\\n\\nBASE BUILDING\\nMeanwhile,  SOS was base building out Kalihi way where over half Honolulu's people -- mostly workers -- live.   A third of a million righteous  folk without access to  the sea or a beach park or anything else except polluted canals,  incinerators, junk yards  and narrow roads.\\n\\nOn January  17, SOS put on a rally at SI with  the Mopp Tops, a few  thousand leaflets, some speakers  and some ideas. A few weeks  later  a cleanup  of  the SI beach  area with a couple hundred solid citizens  of various  ages  and outlooks including ecology  freaks,  SDS,  establishment types, blue and white  collars -- all hanging together around SOS tripping  and a good plan. A daily newspaper laid it  on  the front page producing  cool  community vibes.\\n\\nThe  city-wide SOS  led by Kalihi's Farrington H. S. activists then began laying  the SI park idea on the House Policy  Committee and other politicians. Legislators not quite  sure whether  to off kids that won't vote  for another four or five years  or take  them seriously because why would they want  to vote?\\n\\nSOS  asked the only  legislator who attended  the  SI  rally  --  Sen. Sakae Takahashi  --  to write up  a bill  for the SI park.   He included  $50,000  for  the  cleanup.   Trouble was that  this legislator didn't belong  to the  \"in\"  faction of  democrats.\\n\\nThe bill lay  around quietly until the SOS  cleanup  and base building in Kalihi plus a boost from three professional architectural and planning groups.\\n\\nSuddenly  the park  came  to life  again  --  this time  in  the House with  a  SI, 000, 000 appropriation for the 250-acre park development.   Later  the Senate  cut it down to \"not  less than  140 nor more than 250  acres.   SI has  about  530  acres altogether.\\n\\nSATIRE\\nFrom then on, SOS  laid it  on still heavier with almost  daily infiltration of  the so-called legislative process.   On May  4, a second demo  at  the  capitol.   SOS members portrayed  their ideas  in a skit outside  the senate  chamber:  businessmen dusting  their cigar ashes  into the outstretched hands  of politicians while surfers  organize  to fight back.\\n\\nA couple of days  later, the amended House Bill 629 passed  the Senate.\\nNow what?  The  Chamber of Commerce jumped almost immediately asking  the governor to delay  the park until \"comprehensive plans\" are worked out,  just  the  opposite  of  their line on the Kuhio Beach widening for  their tourist hotels  and profit$.\\n\\nOK.   We'll do  the planning.   SOS  is working to mobilize itself,  Kalihi groups, volunteer architects, planners, lawyers  and others  to get real citizen participation in the planning of  the new SI Park.\\nThe  time is  over when these  things  are settled apart  from the people.   That's how things  got as bad as  they  are.  Haven't we had enough  of  it?\\n\\nThe  fight has  just begun. . .One  thing we  learned:   don't  leave  the  choice of weapons  up  to  the enemy.   Whatever 's necessary, DO IT!\\n\\nAnd  thanks, all you people  out there  --  architects,  Kalihi  folks, and all.\\n_________________________________________________________________\\nHERE'S a quick rundown on SOS work and results since the Dec. 10 Waikiki hearing. That's when the surfing world got on its feet and turned around.\\n\\nSAND ISLAND\\nBEFORE SOS: The State wanted SI rezoned for heavy industry. At least 15 surfing sites threatened. Last possibility for a beach park for the 350,000 people of West Honolulu.\\n\\nAFTER SOS:  Following a 5-month fight with emphasis on action, research, community organizing, unity with other groups, and after a massive demonstration at the Capitol and a second demo outside the Senate chamber on the eve of voting -- up to half of Sand Island was designated to be a State Park with $1 million appropriated for planning and construction (story on pages 1 & 2).\\n\\nNEXT:  SOS has taken steps to form a community committee to plan the park and wage a fight for the contested 110 additional acres.\\n\\nMAGIC ISLAND\\nBEFORE SOS: Dillingham Corp. had plans for one of the worst land grabs in modern\\n_________________________________________________________________\\nhistory on the reef off Kewalo: highrise luxury condominium and hotel apartment buildings would have destroyed a third of the reef and surfing areas off Ala Moana Park -- part of the park itself.  The administration of Gov. John A. Burns, with sidearm help from ILWU leaders, had rammed a provision through the 1969 legislature to enable the Dilco land grab for as yet unrevealed payoffs.  A storm of community opposition.  Union members' families would have been among the losers.  Ala Moana is Honolulu's only people's park.\\n\\nAFTER SOS:  Joining the outcry against loss of reef land, SOS brought out unknown facts about surfing usage of the area (three times more surfers use the reef than bathers use the Ala Moana beach), exposed State agencies attempting to give away public ocean park sites to private corporations, held a large demonstration at Ala Moana to save the Park, pounded the legislature up to the last minute (repeal of the 1969 giveaway resolution was shaky only hours before adjournment) and helped defeat the Magic Island Phase III development plan -- which is now dead!\\n_________________________________________________________________\\nthe famous SHARK HOLE -- a righteous left slide surfing site.  State and federal funds totaling over $350,000 had been appropriated. Bids were to be opened by June 30, construction soon after.\\n\\nAFTER SOS:  Roosevelt and Kailua High School SOS activists got a series of meetings with State Harbors Division officials and fishermen. We found that there was a navigational hazard in the channel.\\n\\nWhen SOS called for a delay to work out a plan to save the surfing sites, State officials and U. S. Army Engineers cranked up the fishermen, Hawaiian Tuna Packers Co., and tourist cruise boat operators to a wild pitch saying that if the stone wall wasn't begun by June 30 federal funds would be lost and \"it may be 10 years before you get your protective structures.\"\\n\\nSOS did some further probing.  We found that, 1) the two previous boat accidents -- one with loss of life and the other with loss of the boat -- both occurred twice the distance seaward of the planned stone wall (official Coast Guard records which the State had covered up); and 2) that the REAL purpose of the stone wall was as a retaining wall to be built at public expense for landfill for Dillingham's hotels on the reef!  Public exposure of this discovery got front page coverage.  State and Army officials were caught red-handed.  A Resolution was introduced in the legislature to hold up the project.\\n\\nNOW:  Fujio Matsuda, head of the Dept. of Transportation, promised SOS that an SOS alternative plan to solve the navigational hazard will be given to the U. H. Look Laboratory for feasibility study. We also discovered that the federal funds won't be lost, as officials had threatened, and can be held for at least a year. Another example of how the establishment plays dirty pool to get its way.\\n\\nKUHIO AT WAIKIKI\\nBEFORE SOS: Bids were opened on Sept. 25 for construction of the Kuhio segment of the Waikiki $4 million 2-mile beach widening.  State and U. S. Army Engineers plans would destroy Queen's and Baby Queen's, two historic surfing sites, very popular bodysurfing\\nsite at Kapahulu groin and, later, Canoes and Cornucopia (off the Royal).  The segments of the beach widening, including Kuhio, were to be \"compatible\" with one another.  In other words, what one destroyed, the others would also destroy since the new beach line was to be a 2-mile long curved arc.  Surfing at world famous Waikiki on average days would have been destroyed.\\n\\nAFTER SOS:  Following a very heavy hearing on Dec. 10 at the Waikiki Library, at which surfers, ecologists, scientists and others skegged State and Army officials on all counts, the project was held up pending formation of a Governor's Advisory Committee on Kuhio.  Two surfers are on the 8-man committee -- George Downing and Paul Strauch. A compromise plan known as the Akaka Plan was proposed which would save the surf, provide about 400% more sand beach and a protected swimming lagoon and would look cool.  The plan was well received by the community and media and endorsed for study by the legislature.\\n\\nAs of June 7, however, Dr. Charles Bretschneider, the committee chairman, had recommended in writing that the committee endorse the State plan!  This would precipitate a major confrontation in the community, especially since the Akaka Plan has not been studied for feasibility. With the present widespread concern for saving Waikiki's historic surf, the tourist industry, the Army and State may move ahead with the State plan at their collective peril. Nothing would more effectively mobilize public opposition now than such a stupid move.  We invite you to give it a try, gentlemen!\\n\\nALA MOANA BOWL\\n\\nBEFORE SOS: The State wanted to put a parking lot on the incomparable ALA MOANA BOWL, site of the annual Hawaii State Surfing Championships and other contests.\\n\\nAFTER SOS:  The Harbors Division is willing to talk about cutting back on the parking lot plans. Meanwhile, an SOS-sponsored resolution went through the legislature which would provide for judges' stands and audience viewing area on the present park development of Magic Island Phase I opposite the Ala Moana Bowl.  It hardly seems likely the Harbors Division would put a parking lot on the Bowl while the Land Department is building viewing stands for same.  But government designs screwups.  So McKinley H. S. SOS is in touch with the situation.\\n\\nOTHER AREAS\\nLook people, we're running out  of space. How about  cooling it  on other spots  until our next  issue?  The reef  freeway  to Koko Head is  long range;  tourist ferry system at Waikiki (see photo) isn't  that urgent yet (a resolution endorsing same passed  the  legislature); Pt. Panic and Ft. Armstrong aren't  tomorrow issues  either.\\n\\nHOT ITEM:   SOS WINDWARD  (Kailua area) formed a large  group with  35 surfers  and on June  4 began a drive  to open up  the  2-mile North Beach at Mokapu, for 30 years  an off-limits private preserve of  the U. S.  Marine  Corps.   North Beach may be  the best beach  in Hawaii!   Are you with us?\\n_________________________________________________________________\\nTHE HARBORS DIVISION of the State Dept. of Transportation plans to install parking meters at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.\\n\\nBefore the summer is over surfers, fishermen and others will have to pay 20 cents per hour for the \"privilege\" of using the ocean.  Question: Why does the administration of Gov. John Burns discourage Hawaii's people from enjoying the natural environment?\\n\\nThe State's excuse for the meters is that workers at nearby hotels use the parking spaces and thereby deny them to surfers and boaters. James B. McCormick, Oahu district manager of the Harbors Division, told a reporter, \"People who work in the area are using it for daytime parking while the yacht harbor is designed for boaters, fishermen, surfers and swimmers.\"\\n\\nPROTECT THE RICH\\n\\nMcCormick and his staff have never asked these people whether the present free parking system in any way interferes with their use of the recreational area. The only users who might gain from the State's plan are those boat owners in the higher income bracket.  Sure, they'd like to see the area purged of long hair surfers and beat-up cars.  So the State moves to protect rich rather than guard the rights of All the people of Hawaii.\\n\\nInstead of putting the burden of this \"problem\" on innocent people, why doesn't the State turn to the actual source of trouble --  the hotel managements? The State should require them to provide adequate parking for their clients and employees. Why must the citizens of Oahu be forced to subsidize these commercial enterprises? Highrise developers should be required to provide parking for their employees so that beach users are not forced to go elsewhere. There are only so many times you can go elsewhere before these private interests will have all the recreational areas under their control.  Why should surfers have to pay for the right to go surfing?\\n\\nMcCormack has promised SOS that he will hold a public meeting before installing the meters. That's nothing but shibai since the meters have already been purchased!\\n\\nWell, there are other ways of dealing with parking meters and threats.  For one, SOS is contacting workers at the hotels to build a united front.  Any bets on whether the meters go in -- or how long they'll last if they do?\\n"}],"sequences":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31448/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current Page 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