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America recently added a
49th star to Old Glory,
and now a 50th one is on
its way. The 49th star, of
course, was for Alaska, so
it was fitting that Alaska's
member in the House of
Representatives, Rep. Ralph
J. Rivers, should introduce
the bill in Congress to grant
statehood to Hawaii.
by Jerry Klein
To most of us, this island
territory 2,000 miles from
the Pacific coast signifies
the hula and the pineapple.
But we're going to be hear
ing a lot more about these
tropical isles in the days to
come. Answer true or false
to these statements to see
how hep you are about
our 50th state.
1. Hawaii has the smallest population of any state.
2. Hawaii was a republic before it was
annexed by the United States.
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4. Hawaii resembles Ireland in that it has no poisonous snakes.
5. The "national anthem" of Hawaii is Aloha Oe.
6. All of Hawaii's ancient volcanoes now are dormant.
7. Originally, the islands were named after a British nobleman.
8. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. t
9. Hawaii is the smallest of the United States.
10. There are cowboys in the island territory.
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1. False. With a population exceeding 500,000,
the islands would outrank Alaska, Dela
ware, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.
2. True. In 1894 the monarchy was ended and
Sanford Dole was proclaimed president of
the Republic of Hawaii. The islands were
annexed to the U. S. in 1898, and in 1900
Dole became first governor of the Terri-
- tory of Hawaii.
3. False. The most important product is
sugar, with an annual output of about one
million tons. Ten percent of all workers
are employed in the sugar industry.
4. True. Natives are proud that the only dan
gerous pests to be found on the islands are
scorpions and centipedes. Even the sharks
that abound offshore are not the man-eating
variety.
5. False. Composed by Queen Liliuokalani,
Aloha Oe may be Hawaii's best-known
melody, but the official song is Hawaii
Ponoi, which was composed by a brother
of Liliuokalani, King Kalakaua.
6. False. Mauna Loa and Kilauea are among
the world's most active volcanoes, Mauna
Loa averaging an eruption every 3 years.
7. True. Captain James Cook, who reached
the islands in 1778, named them the Sand
wich Islands, after the Earl of Sandwich.
8. True. The Hawaiian alphabet has five
vowels a, e, i, o, u and seven consonants
h, k, 1, m, n, p, and w.
9. False. The area of Hawaii's populated
islands .exceeds 6,000 square miles. Con
necticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island are
smaller in size.
10. True. But in Hawaii, they are called
paniolas. There were cattle ranches in
Hawaii long before the business flourished
in America's West, and thousands of head
are marketed each year.
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