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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 2, 1982

Maile DeSoto got a lofty view of the wild waves off Makaha Beach from Doug Ogilvie’s shoulders during the Offshore International Tandem Surfing Championship. DeSoto, 11, was the youngest competitor. She and Ogilvie placed third.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 8, 1957

Radio station KGU beamed its new 10,000 watts of power through Pacific skies, and the initial response from listeners on Oahu was “excellent.” While testing the new equipment, KGU engineers learned that listeners as far away as Missouri and New Zealand will hear the station clearly at certain times of the day and night. All Western states will get a strong KGU signal. Chief engineer Takumi Shigetani dials in the new KGU transmitter.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 16, 1964

The bullets are blanks, the bombs are duds and no one gets killed, but everything else is real as troops “invade” Molokai in Operation West Wind, meant to simulate retaking territory in a Southeast Asian nation from “Bahkanese” forces at the request of the legal local government and the United Nations.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JANUARY 8, 1965

Obsolete tunnels at Kaena Point, once part of Oahu’s defense system, recently were obliterated by a demolitions crew from Company A, 65th Engineer Battalion. The tunnels were discovered during an island- wide manhunt for an Oahu Prison inmate.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 4, 1962

The decor in the Okolehao Bar provides an interesting Polynesian atmosphere for jet passengers arriving at or departing from the new Honolulu International Airport terminal.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 22, 1958

The new Windward City Foodland is the first building in Hawaii designed with toridal cross vault type of construction, arching to four sides, each 120 feet long. Its thin-shell roof of reinforced concrete will have no central support and instead will be braced by four columns at each corner of the structure. The roof is expected to be completed by the end of the month. Wimberly & Cook is the architect.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 10, 1961

Foodland’s Ross Tamayose checks a shipment of strawberries from California ahead of a special sale at all of the supermarket’s locations. The price was 37 cents a basket, considered a real bargain in Hawaii for strawberries of top quality.
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