Journal 7/25/1986 P4 Hot party in Enid By all accounts it was a bit Marshallese celebration in every sense of the world: nearly 200 people, food enough to feed any army, singing and dancing, and volleyball, softball and basketball competitions. The occasion? July fourth weekend. The place: Enid, Oklahoma…where else? As unlikely as it might […]
Journal 7/18/1986P3 Peace Corps promoting healthy islands The 20th anniversary of the Peace Corps in Micronesia is rolling around, and with it are coming some big changes in the program in the Marshalls. Since the day a new group of nine Peace Corps Volunteers stepped off an Air Mike flight last week, they have been […]
Journal 7/11/1986 P1 Big winner, big smile Kenneth Kramer showed off the 190-pound Pacific blue marlin he caught Friday to win the Fourth Annual Marshalls Billfish Club tournament. Five marlin highlighted the two-day event. Fifteen-year-old Kenneth wowed the thousands of spectators dockside Friday when he brought in the first and largest fish of the tournament. […]
Journal 7/4/1986 P1 The end of a health era Dr. John Iaman, one of the longest practicing doctors, and certainly the most prominent physician in the Marshalls, officially retired last week. While leaving service with the government, he will continue running his private clinic. Public Health Nursing Director Ruth Harris noted that he used to […]
Journal 6/26/1987 P1 N-suit vetoed Marshallese nuclear claimants were handed a stunning set back when a US judge dismissed the billion dollar lawsuits last week Tuesday. US District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled that his court had no jurisdiction to consider the claims filed by the Marshall Islands Atomic Testing Litigation Project, which represents […]
Journal 6/20/1985 P1 Discrimination may bring windfall for Marshallese The Trust Territory government’s policy of paying Micronesians less than expatriates for doing the same work is an intentionally discriminatory policy and a breach of United States obligations under the Trusteeship, ruled a US District Court judge last week. A front page Pacific Daily News story […]
Journal 6/12/1987 P5 Reward for pampers If you know know who was driving a green 4-door sedan Sunday morning with license number 0798, tell her she is the lucky winner of $15 from Majuro Atoll Local Government. The reason for this mystery woman winning $15 is that she was observed by a spy for the […]
Journal 6/6/1986 P1 Majuro milk factory opens I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. To quiet things down a little the Pacific Maid milk and ice cream factory was opened here last Friday. Thousands of kids were on hand and a good portion of the adult community felt like kids for the […]
Journal 5/29/1987 P16 Unwelcome Saturday morning workout A heavy wind out of the east often results in a huge pile of garbage along the beaches in the Long Island area. In today’s modern world of plastics and petrochemical products, we have a new version of driftwood along Majuro beaches. I stepped out in front of […]
Journal 5/22/1986 P1 Sparks fly over disco Sparks have been flying since the opening of Uncle Sam’s restaurant/disco and they aren’t coming from the dancing feet of the many people who patronize the disco on Friday and Saturday nights. Since the Small Island disco opened in January, there have been complaints from church members, a […]
