Journal 8/26/1983
P1 Thomsen to arrive for vote
Deputy US Representative to the Micronesian Status Negotiations Samuel Thomsen is to arrive here September 3 and stay until after the Compact vote on September 7. His trip here is termed, “orientation.”
P3 Workshop finished
A workshop to deal with the developing problem of juvenile delinquency ended August 24 at the Courthouse. Local residents who participated: Karlin Jarom (Women’s Interest, Social Services), Clement Capelle (Youth Bureau), Jimata Kabua, Oktan Damon and Milton Zackios (Courthouse), Frank Mojilong and Kalemen Jinuna from MCAA, Police Chief Dan O’Dell, and Bethesda Obed (police).
P6 Coalition traveling
Irooj Senator Imada Kabua and Irooj Kotak Loeak will be traveling to Ailinglaplap and Namu atolls to talk to people about the Compact of Free Association. Senator Kabua stated: “We the Coalition Party have committed ourselves to opposing the Compact of Free Association because we do not feel that it is the best alternative for the Marshall Islands. We do not believe the document is fair or even clear, and we do not feel that the Marshallese people have been adequately ‘educated’ in such a short period of time.”
Journal 8/28/1992
P1 Was syphilis reputation here undeserved?
Has the Marshall Islands been mistakenly maligned as the syphilis capital of the Pacific beaus of an error diagnosing a relatively common disease here? Officials at the Ministry of Health are undertaking a study to investigate. Suspicions that earlier surveys were tainted by an extraordinarily high level of yaws among Marshallese has led to a mass screening program of non-sexually active children. The ministry on Friday launched its first blood screening of five-to-ten year old elementary school children. “Why elementary age students? Dr. Neal Palafox, the acting assistant secretary for Preventive Services, said that yaws and syphilis are similar. “We’re drawing blood from the non-sexually active population to check the relative rate,” he said. “If children have a similar rate of yaws as the adult population, they we know the problem in adults is yaws (not syphilis).” Yaws is a skin disease caused by bacteria. If an adult had yaws as a child that was untreated, they can test positive on a syphilis screening test because the two communicable diseases are similar.
P5 Slip of the fingers
Accidents and typos do happen, but RRE’s Deli probably wouldn’t have liked this one. Working on their menu, one of our typesetters typed out the following: “Hand and egg sandwich — $1.55.” Good thing we caught that one.
P6 AMI flight attendants complete Air NZ training
Nine AMI flight attendants completed a four-week training course last week under the direction of Air New Zealand. The flight attendants are: Janerose Calep, Mary Jacklick, Chris Jacob, Beulah Kalles, Rodney Muller, Andrew Petersen, Michelle Silk, Newona Tabu and Nerling Yates.
Journal 8/31/2012
P25 Katwon talks his way to Japan
Rickson Katwon is the winner of the 2012 Japanese Speech Contest. He won a roundtrip ticket to Japan to attend the “Study Tour for Outstanding Students of the Japanese Language,” which is a program hosted by the Japan Foundation. Katwon is a senior at Marshall Islands High School.