Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Friday, April 12, 1996
State budget officials wanted UH-Hilo to manage an additional cut of $250,000. That would have meant some library closings, staff layoffs and no money to buy toilet paper.
Student body President Kalani Kahalepau'ole called on students to donate a roll of toilet paper each in a "T.P." drive.
But yesterday, Chancellor Kenneth Perrin said the further budget cut has been called off. Perrin says he talked to the director of auxiliary services and passed on the word: buy toilet paper.
But union leaders say the measure will take away benefits from injured workers.
The proposal to create a managed care system for workers comp had been stalled in a Senate committee. But the House Finance Committee last week reintroduced the plan.
It's now headed for a House-Senate conference committee.
For expanded versions of these and other stories, see today's Hono lulu Star-Bulletin.
The victim refused treatment for injuries to his left foot. Police are seeking the driver.
The victim apparently spotted his white Oldsmobile Cutlass in the shopping center parking lot yesterday afternoon. He had reported it stolen earlier.
He confronted the man in the driver's seat and had him in a headlock when the driver apparently drove off, police said.
The man was dragged, then thrown to the ground after the driver swerved into another car.
An officer stopped Thomas Curtis early Tuesday on Moanalua Road after noticing the plates on the car he was driving appeared to have been tampered with, police said.
Recovered from the car were a knife and a .357 Smith & Wesson loaded with five rounds. The firearm had been stolen in a 1994 burglary, police said.
Curtis was charged with three firearms violations.