Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Monday, November 29, 1999

Millennium Moments

Names of UH dorms
rooted in isle history

Many a University of Hawaii student has lived in the campus dormitories. But how many dormers actually know for whom the buildings were named?

Johnson Hall, the men's dorm on the UH-Manoa campus, for instance, was named for Maj. John A. Johnson after the building was completed in 1957, according to "Place Names of Hawaii" by Mary Pukui, Samuel Elbert and Esther Mookini. Johnson, a 100th Battalion soldier, was a UH graduate and outstanding athlete who was killed in action on Jan. 25, 1944.

Then there's Gartley Hall, built in 1922, named after Alonzo Gartley, a Navy officer who settled here in 1900, say the authors. Gartley, chairman of the first UH Board of Regents, also was a Hawaiian Electric Co. manager, then a vice president of C. Brewer and Co. until his death in 1921.

Less fortunate need
community's help

At this time of year, it is traditional to ask members of the community to look into their hearts and pocketbooks to help those who are leading lives of quiet desperation. The Star-Bulletin's Good Neighbor Fund offers a way to make a difference.

Monetary gifts may be sent to the Good Neighbor Fund, c/o Honolulu Star-Bulletin, P.O. Box 3080, Honolulu 96802, or dropped off at any of First Hawaiian Bank's 56 branches.

Clothing, household items and other gifts can be left at the Community Clearinghouse, 914 Kapalama Military Reservation.

You also may participate in the Adopt-A-Family program, in which businesses, employee groups, families, social clubs or individuals can pick a specific family to help.

For more information, call 847-1362.

New rules in the works to protect dolphins

WAILUKU -- Federal officials are gathering information to develop more regulations to protect Hawaii's spinner dolphins from harassment.

Federal biologist Trevor Spradlin said enforcement officials have been receiving an increasing number of complaints about people harassing spinner dolphins in bays in Hawaii and of the marine mammals being injured by boats.

Spradlin, an official with the National Marine Fisheries Service, is on Maui as a participant in the 13th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals.

Some 1,600 people from various nations will attend the conference, beginning today at the Outrigger Wailea Resort.

Times meat cutters return to their jobs

One hundred and five meat cutters at 13 Oahu Times Supermarkets returned to work today after ratifying a new contract, following a five-day strike over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Terms of the new contract were not available.

But Mel Kahele, president of Hawaii Teamsters Local 996, said the union won "substantial increases in wages and pension benefits" for the meat cutters, bringing them closer to parity with their peers at other supermarkets.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Ewa Beach murder suspect arrested

Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the fatal shooting of Gercel Ong, 21.

Edwin Alexandre Kim, 23, has been charged with second-degree murder, police said. He is being held on $500,000 bail.

Kim is the suspected shooter who fired into a car in which Ong was riding in Ewa Beach on Nov. 20.

Kim was arrested yesterday at his father's Ewa Beach home without incident at 12:40 p.m.

Three armed teens rob Kalihi Burger King

Police are searching for three armed suspects who robbed the Kalihi Burger King yesterday.

An employee was confronted by a knife-wielding male when he opened the drive-through window of the North King Street Burger King at 12:45 a.m., police said. The suspect climbed in the drive-through window, followed by two other males armed with a handgun and rifle.

They forced four employees to the ground and escaped via the drive-through window with an undisclosed amount of money.

Police described the suspects as teen-agers.

Pearl City man allegedly threw knives at girlfriend

A 20-year-old man was charged yesterday in connection with attacking and throwing knives at his girlfriend at a Pearl City home.

Shayne L. Edralin was charged with second-degree assault, first-degree terroristic threatening and kidnapping, police said. He is being held in lieu of $40,000 bail.

Edralin allegedly threw knives at his girlfriend Friday after beating her, police said.