The Sidney herald., 1955-02-17
TIE SIDNEY HERALD
Thursday Feb. IT. 1885
Ed Krebsbachs
And Art Redlins
Visit Hawaii

Have you ever dreamed of visiting
Hawaii3 We are sure you have. Then
by all means. allow your dreams to
come true. We have just returned from
\ Islands. and what a grand vaca-
ton we hadi
After a mere eighteen hours of fly
ing time from Minneapolis we arrived
IN Honolulu owe Northwest Airlines.
The trip yer the ocean was unevent-
fl and much TO our surprise we slept
during most of the 2600 mile flight
from Portland 10 Honolulu. We arrived
at Honolulu International airport at
9.45 in the morning, having started
our ocean voyage at approximately
midnight.
We viii never forget the reception
we received upon landing at this IA
nous airport. There was the custom
airy presentation of leis to returning
friends and 70 many who had eve
visited the Islands. After a brief stop
% claim baggage we took a cab
10 our hotel and we 500 came to
the realization, This is Honolulu at
last"
Honolulu is an old city and a very
reaches Waikiki that the true beauty
IS seen. Although the residential sec
tons OF Honolulu are built up on the
mountain sides, they are beautifully
landscaped with a great variety of
trees and flowers, and Towering
Honolulu IS appropriately called The
Melting Pot" The Cross Roads of the
Pacific and the Isle of Enchant-
ment." Waikiki is termed The Gold
Coast Of Hawaii. Here are the well
known hotels. The Royal Hawaiian,
THE Moaua." The Surf Rider" The
Edgewater Beach" and numerous 9TH
You don't have to learn the hula or
70 strum a ukulele while you're in
the Hawaiian Islands. You don't even
have TO surf-bOard off Waikiki to en-
JOY a brief stay. There are old Ha-
Waiian habits of Just relaxing that
anyone can slip into as simply as an
an old ration rocking chair. Just take
il easy. You don't have to 60 game
fishing, nor do you have to drive
around the Island of Oahu, through
fields of pineapple and over sugar
cane hills. but we did. Kids of all
colors and sizes. hefty beach boys,
Island housewives, Samoans. Hawaii
ans. Portuguese. Puerto Ricans, Japan
ese. Chinese and Koreans may ride
on you bus. You love them all and
visit with them freely.
One outstanding difference we no
was the extreme courtesy extend
ed 10 visitors and natives alike. A pc
deStrian may walk with absolute
and buses come to a gradual stop to
allow the pedestrian to pass.
The weather on the Island is the
same all the al around with the
temperature varying only a few de-
grees. While we were there we ex-
perienced a mild hurricane, which the
islanders said was the worse in 40
years. Several coconut trees were up
rooted and cOconuts and palm branches
Uttered the streets. Roofs were torn
off several homes in the residential
district and the Biltmore hotel, just
nearing completion, was badly dam
aged. One radio station had its tower
buckled. They were stin clearing away
the debris when we left.
To tell of the many interesting
places we visited while ON the islands
would be impossible on our tour of
Oahu. The Dole Pineapple factory,
which employs around 5000 people on
two shifts and where a maximum OF
175.Oo0 pineapple an hour are carried
into the cannery on a conveyor belt,
was one Of the many places we en-
joyed. It was interesting to travel
through the pineapple fields where one
can see a crop maturing almost any
of the year. f takes eighteen
months from planting tn harvesting
time Another OF the mala industries
is the raising OF sugar cane. which
is similar 10 the pineapple industry in
that II also takes eighteen months to
mature. A variety of bananas are
grown on the mountain sides.
At the Bishop museum n see
a great collection of P~olynesian Arts
and crafts. Included among the treas
ures Of the museum are feather capes.
One of these belonged to King Kane
hameha 1 and is valued at a million
dollars.
The excursion to Pearl Harbor re-
vealed TO US once more the infamous
attack by the japanese on Dee. z.