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Pigeons cause problems
for restaurants in Honolulu
Associated Press
HONOLULU — Waddling
across a basket of croissants or
nibbling at a french fry, the pi
geons of Waikiki patronize the
very best restaurants and live at
the finest hotels.
Hardly anybody but the pi
geons is happy with the arrange
ment.
The number of pigeons, and to
a lesser extent, doves and spar
rows, has ballooned in the past 10
years, to the point where they
land on restaurant tables and
wander into hotel rooms and con
dos through open lanai doors.
They aren t eager to socialize —
they’re looking for food.
The birds of Waikiki have
worked out in their teeny bird
brains that it’s easier to make a
meal off a leftover English muf
fin than to scrounge around the
greenery in Kapiolani Park
looking for seeds. Then kind-
hearted ladies see the dear birdies
munching on human food, and
promptly scatter crumbs from
their luncheon rolls to attract
more of them.
The result is a population ex
plosion. "Flocks of pigeons are
enlarging rapidly," said Ralph
Saito, wildlife biologist with tne
forestry and wildlife division of
the state Department of Land
and Natural Resources. "People
are feeding the birds, there are
more open-air restaurants mak
ing more food available to them,
and there are no real predators to
reduce the population.”
There actually is one predator
—man — and for years, the De
partment of Land and Natural
Resources has issued permits to
kill birds. The permit is issued
only after investigation has deter
mined that the birds complained
about are causing health or envi
ronment problems.
The objection to the birds
is not simply that people
don 't like them tramping
through their chicken
curry, but that pigeons
carry psittacosis, giarda
and salmonellosis, which
can be transmitted to
man.
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The destruction of the birds is
done with chemicals and by some
one certified by the state Agricul
ture Department to use them. At
least 20 hotels, restaurants and
condominiums in Waikiki cur
rently have these permits. Corn
kernels are poisoned and left on
window ledges or rooftops gener
ally inaccessible to humans.
Because the birds often don’t
die immediately and occasionally
appear to suffer, there have been
complaints by concerned people.
“We don’t feel the present sys
tem is either a concerted effort or
a humane one,” said Alex Wade,
executive director of the Ha
waiian Humane Society. “We re
alize that we will have to cull the
bird population, but instead of
doing it piecemeal, condo by
condo and restaurant by restau
rant, we should look at the num
bers and put in strict controls.
It has oeen suggested that the
most humane method would be
to trap the birds and release them
elsewhere on the island, but Dr.
Thomas Sawa, pathologist with
the state Department of Agricul
ture, doesn’t think this would
work.
The objection to the birds is
not simply that people don’t like
them tramping through their
chicken curry, hut that pigeons
carry psittacosis, giarda and salm
onellosis, which can be trans
mitted to man. which can be
transmitted to man. Psittacosis is
an influenza-like ailment, the
other two cause intestinal prob
lems, and nobody wants any of
them.
“We are now seeing pigeons on
the beaches, looking for hand
outs,” biologist Saito said. “They
leave droppings in the same sand
that people lie on and children
play in. This has the potential of a
big problem. W’e eventually have
to look at these birds as vectors
(disease carriers) like roaches and
rats."
Wade feels that management
of the pigeon Hocks will be possi
ble only when people stop feed
ing the birds, and this may re
quire legislation making it a
misdemeanor.
Waldo
by Kevin Thomas
Frogman
Former policeman remembers World War II service
Associated Press
NORTH HUTCHINSON IS
LAND, Fla. — Recollections remain
vivid of the many times Dan Dillon,
laden with explosives, stealthily
swam into harbors of Japanese held
islands in the Pacific to blow up
obstacles and traps designed to stop
Allied invasion forces.
Now, 43 years later, the retired
New York City police lieutenant and
some of the surviving Underwater
Demolition Team men trained in
World War II are working to set up
a museum on this coastal island, con
sidered the birthplace of the Navy
frogmen.
Joining them is Elizabeth Bush,
sister-in-law to Vice President
George Bush. It was her brother, the
late Rear Adm. Draper Kaufman,
who founded this country’s frog
men.
Still agile at 70, Dillon climbs the
concrete and steel tetrahedrons
strewn along the beach here, re
membering them from almost a half
century ago when he was in the first
of volunteers for what would
first be called Naval Combat Demoli
tion Units.
“There was nothing here then,”
he says, looking at a growing skyline
of condominiums. “The water was
filled with sharks and the mosquitos
ate us alive.”
Dillon smiles as he recalls he dis
obeyed police orders, to join the U.S.
Navy Dec. 14, 1942. Following basic
training and gunnery school, he was
awaiting assignment when he volun
teered for “extra hazardous duty.”
“The good part they promised
was first-class hotels while in any for
eign country and, if you survived,
first-class hotels when you got back.”
Dillon was one of the fewer than
100 men selected to train in early
1943 with Kaufman, then a lieuten
ant commander.
“Early in World War II, the U.S.
Navy became painfully aware of the
need for frogmen,” says retired
Capt. Norman H. Olsen, who spent
most of his 30-some year naval ca
reer with amphibious forces.
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Dillon and Olsen emphasize that
training for frogmen was extremely
physical.
“We had a high attrition rate and
lost about 75 percent of the volun
teers in training,” says Olsen.
“There’s no mold to be a frogman.
There were all sorts of personalities
and the common thread is the broth
erhood of what we went through.”
For the first group that trained
here, “a cadre of coal miners taught
us how to use explosives,” recalls Dil
lon. “We blew up everything in sight.
Dynamite is unpredictable and mtro
would get into our skin and give us
headaches. We found out beer was
the best antidote.”
After several months of strenuous
training, Dillon became one Ameri
ca’s first combat swimmers. Most of
his buddies went to England to pre
pare for the Normandy invasion.
Dillon was among two five-man
teams detached to the South Pacific.
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