Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, November 28, 1996
Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, November 28, 1996
Hawaii National Bank wants to open a branch in the Times Square Shopping Center in Pearl City. Hawaii National Bank wants
Pearl City branchThe bank said it has applied to the federal comptroller of the currency for permission.
Hawaii National said it expects to open a full-service branch there in mid-1997. The bank has nine branches on Oahu, two on Maui and one on the Big Island. Hawaii National is the only federally chartered bank in the islands; All others are state chartered.
Creativity motivator Dewitt Jones will discuss "Putting Your Creativity to Work" at a Honolulu Advertising Federation luncheon Tuesday in the Mauna Kea Ballroom of the Hawaii Prince Hotel. Ad Federation sponsors
motivational speakerJones, a nationally recognized author, columnist and National Geographic photographer who lives half the year on Molokai, defines creativity as the ability to find something extraordinary in the ordinary.
Proceeds from the luncheon as well as Jones' speaking fee will be donated to Moana's Hula Halau on Molokai. The cost is $22 for Hawaii Advertising Federal members, Ad2 members and students and $30 for nonmembers, with a $5 late fee for walk-ins. For information, call Roberta Cullen at 532-0555.
AT&T Corp. said it would raise long-distance phone rates by 5.9 percent - its largest across-the- AT&T to hike basic rates 5.9%
board increase in nearly three years.
AT&T, the nation's largest long-distance carrier, said yesterday that it would also increase rates 5 percent for calls made with a calling card, and 2.6 percent for calls assisted by an AT&T operator.
The increases, which take effect Sunday, will be felt by a large majority of AT&T's 85 million residential and small business customers, according to Mark Siegel, a spokesman for the company.
The only people not affected are the roughly 1 million customers who enrolled in AT&T's two-
month-old One Rate calling plan, which offers a uniform rate of 15 cents a minute for all long-distance calls within the United States. Rates for overseas calls also will not be affected.
For the average residential customer, Siegel said, AT&T's monthly bill will go up by 60 cents.