Huge, New MDG Supply Store Opening Shows Confidence in lslands Future

A public grand opening celebrated the late summer opening of MDG Supply, Inc.'s new $375,000 building materials plant in Wailuku, on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands.

A gala cocktail party and preview for customers, suppliers, stockholders, employees and special guests was held the night before at the new layout located at the east entrance to Kahului by Kanaha Pond.

The building represents a group of Maui businessmen's belief in the Vallel' Island's economic {uture, at a time when many are pessimistic. according to l-rank N. Dolim, executive vice president and general mana€ier of MDG.

"Maui's economy has been status quo," he pointed out. "But 1957 was the low point o{ employment here; since then figures show a net increase of -100 jobs on Maui. I believe we are on the verge of an upturn. It won't be spectacular, but it will be an upturn'"

The new building was financed by the State Employees Retirement System.

It is being opened for business just over nine months since MDG Supply Inc. marked the launching of MIMS-Maui's first depart' ment store-in the Kahului Shopping Center.

' Mossive lnveslment

MDG has invested more than $100,000 in fixtures and inventory at MIMS and has an investment of close to $750,000 in the nerr huilding materials plant, including inventory.

The new materials house, according to Mr. Dolim, is "a greatlY expanded operation" compared with the old Maui Dry Goods & Cror:ery Co. lumber yard it replaces.

The new plant is on a six-acre site leased for 50 years from HC&S Co. (Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.). It has 64,500 square feet, sales floor and warehouse under roof and offers parking for about 60 cars.

Mr. Dolim explained that MDG's old waterfront site lease 'oexpires in two years. the buildings there are old, the area is too small, and it is threatened by tidal waves." He said MDG suffered more than $40,000 in damage from tidal waves at the old location.

Complete Operolion

The new plant will include a complete home planning department and a retail store for do-it-yourself carpenters, plumbers, masons and electricians.

It ties-in with MDG's recently established home building venture. which already is supplying homes in the new Kahului 7th Increment.

Maui Dry Goods & Grocery Company was established in 1905. The board of directors consists of John Dolim, chairman; Norman C. Garcia, president; Frank N. Dolim, executive vice president and general manager; T. S. Shinn, vice president and secretary' treasurer; Arthur Nledeiros, assistant secretary-treasurer; W'illiam H. Balthis, James F. Dolim, John Louis Jr., Shizuichi Mizuha. A. H. Silva Jr. and Erling P. Wick.

Among other departments given the face-lifting of modernization was the Kula Store, now the Staiakoa Super Market, and the Photo, Art and Office Supplies Store in Wailuku.

Dr. Willis Wogener Retires

Dr. Willis W. Wagener, who began a distinguished career in research on forest diseases in California more than 40 years ago, has retired as senior forest pathologist of the U.S. Forest Service experiment station in Berkeley, California.

His co-workers in the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid honor to his pioneering studies in forest protection at a banquet on Saturday, October 6 in Spenger's Restaurant, Berkeley.

Dr. Wagener plans to continue his longtime interest in forest diseases. He will become a consultant to the Forest Service experiment station and will also work as a "dirt" forester managing his 160-acre tree farm in the Bucks Lake area of Plumas County, California.

Dr, Wagener has won international recognition for his research on diseases of cypresses, decays and root diseases of conifers, white pine blister rust, and tree survival following forest fires.

Born in northern Stanislaus Countv. near Salida, California, Dr. Wagener spent his early years in Modesto. He entered Stanford University in 1914, and worked in the Office of Forest Pathology during the summer of 1917. Service with the U.S. Armv in World War I intervened, and he 'rvas graduated in absentia from Stanford in December 1917. He obtained his doctorate from the Yale University Forest School in 1934.

Since 1920, Dr. W'agener has served continuously as a forest pathologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He began working for the Bureau of Plant Industry. In )929 he became pathologist-in-charge oI the San Francisco branch of that Bureau (later the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering). In 1952 Dr. W'agener was transferred to the experimcnt station in Berkeley.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Phytopathological Society, California Academy of Sciences, Mycological Society, and Society of American Foresters.

Robert Jordon Monoges Timber Growers of Northern Cqlifornio

Robert L. Jordan, Mill Valley, Calif., (Marin Co.), has been named manager, Timber Growers of Northern California, according to an announcement by William

Beaty o{ Redding, chairman of Timber Crower's executive committee and Manager, Shasta Forests Co.

Jordan succeeds the late A. Bristow Hood, well known California lumberman as manager, and will move to Redding in the near luture lo open an office for the organization, according to Beaty.

The new manager is a Montana native and for the past four years has worked in San Francisco where he was district manager for American Forest Products Industries, Inc. He was responsible for forest industry public relations and education programs in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.

Timber Growers of Northern California, according to Beaty, is a volunteer group of timberland owners and processors whose primary purpose is to develop and promote public understanding of the tiimber industry's problems which they feel will help to insure and maintain long-term economic benefits to timber counties of northeastern California by keeping private, taxpaying, timberlands on tax rolls; and to inform all segments of the public on the importance of a stable forest industry in the continuing development of land-use programs vital to the nine county area.

One of the greatest masters of the art of conversation that ever lived, said this: 'oWords are but barren sounds. We can but stand, and in the hush and silence, feel what speech has never told. What say another thinking man on the subject of words? ooTo know the words of the great men who are today gone is compensation for having to listen to the mediocrity of today."

For in the 'oolden days" it was the condensed and agreed opinion of thinking people that conversation was an artl that every word should be carefully chosen and selected and given its burden of meaning, or power, impression, color, force, or what not. So it was that conversation of the better sort that was reserved for people of thinking capacity and quality. We find that great and Good man Marcus Aurelius saying to one of lesser degree:'oA slave thou art; free speech is not for thee."

Opinions of this matter changed, however, for we hear Voltaire of France, he of the incomparable wit and rapier-like-tongueprobably the most gi{ted conversationalist in the world's historyuttering these words: "I do not agree with a word you say; but I will die defending your right to say them."

BY JACK DIONNE

Freedom of speech had come. But, as in all things, as quantity comes in the window, quality goes out the door. Conversation degeneratesl it's uses fairly engulfed by its abuses.

f,eny61salisn-its abuses.

Vhy not paraphrase the words of that brave Frenchwoman who was about to died, and say: o'Oh, conversation! What crimes are committed in thy name!"

Come with me today wherever humans gather together. Drop over us a mantle of invisibility that we may hear without being condemned as eavesdroppers, and let us take inventory of the human conversations of this day and age. Come to the club, to the forum, to the drawing-room, to the card room; come to the busy marts of the trade, to the street corners, to the lunch counters, to the halls of justice, to the ballroom where fashion holds sway; to the halls of Congress where the laws of the land are made and debated; come wherever humans gather together, and let us hear what we shall hear.

And what do we find in its place? Stale platitudes; the resounding vacuum oI the political drum; the buzz of barristersl glaring absurdities; crude conceits; stereotyped homilies; discordant clamor; weary maunderings; languid linguists; casual gabble; inane argument; intellectually moronic close-ups; petty versifiers; melodious sophistries; feeble efforts to express the inexpressible; bile and billingsgate; unprovable banalities; maxims utterly without wisdom; philosophy that disinherits the imagination; unreasonable reasoning; intolerable discussions of tolerance; continued conversation lacking continuity of thought; deliberate concoctions of crude diatribe; caustic and virulent denunciationl words, words, words, lacking grace, beauty, skill, proper array, and convincing quality. No force but in the use of diatribe and billingsgate; no originality but in our slang.

Because the USE of conversation is the exchange of ideas through the medium of well-selected words expressing interesting thoughts; words that may be terse, cryptic, incisive, impressive, expressive, colorful, volatile, thrilling, chilling, amazing, enlightening, cheering, enthusing, elevating, inspiring, convincing, clarifying, beautifying, illuminating, etc., etc., etc., translating interesting thoughts into interesting words and phrases, and illuminating them with the personality and character of the speaker, is the finest art of conversation.

Now, hie us to this colorful cocktail party, and let us listen there, still in our mantles invisible; surely HERE we will be regaled with conversation that will compensate us for our previous disappointments. The third cocktail has gone the rounds-the way of all drinks. The voices rise. The din grows. Nay, gentle friend, we hope in vain. Let us hasten away, lest we yield to the temptation to report these mental meanderings. Let us depart hence, and drop the mantle of charity and silence over that which we have heard.

D. C. EsSIEY, GENERAT CHAIRMAN, AND THE tOS ANGELES AREA

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