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A year and a half ago this typical family was braving the
rugged Winters of Buffalo, N. Y.; today they're thriving
in the balmy, booming way of life of our newest state.
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Tom and Jean Harling traded snow-shoveling
for year-round lawri cutting in Hawaii.
Like son, Chris, they think it's ideal.
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A year and a half ago my wife and
I sold our two-story home in Buf
falo, If. Y., and with our two-year-old
son Chris moved to Hawaii.
To do it, I gave up a $6,200-a-year
job as assistant sales department head
for a paint firm where I'd worked for
11 years. My wife Jean left a full-time
position as flutist with the Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra. Neither of us
knew a soul in Hawaii and I had no
job prospects.
What we found in the Islands now
pur 50th state wasn't entirely what
we expected. At first we wondered
whether we hadn't made the biggest
mistake of our lives. But not any more;
in fact, we'd choose Hawaii again if
we had it to do over. Why? For the
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same reasons that brought another 1,500
new residents to the Islands last. year.
In my case, the first reason was the
climate. It gets mighty cold in Buffalo
during the Winter. And after 11 years
of it I was tired of shoveling snow. I
began dreaming of the South Seas
beaches I'd detested as a Coast Guard
warrant officer during World War II.
But the idea of moving to Hawaii
didn't occur overnight. After all, I was
approaching my middle 30s and was
well along in my company's retirement
program. I'd just had a raise. There
was my family to consider.
Gradually the pieces fell into place.
I began to see that, if I didn't make a
move soon, I'd probably live in Buffalo
the rest of my life. For several years,
yourself!
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Recipe for Strawberry Jam. Chop 2
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Remove from heat; alternately stir and
skim off foam for S min. Ladle quickly into
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or liquid Certo products of General Foods.
Jean had wanted to sell the house and
move to the suburbs. But if we were
going to move, I wanted a big move.
The first time I mentioned Hawaii,
my wife said, "Don't be ridiculous!"
Even after I'd subscribed to The
Honolulu Advertiser and prowled the
second-hand bookstores for information
on Hawaii, she didn't take me seriously.
"It's a perfect place to raise Chris,"
I argued. "He could be outside all
Winter. That should lick his colds.
And can't you picture us sunbathing
on Waikiki Beach? Besides, business is
booming over there."
That went on for a year with no ap
preciable increase in Jean's interest.
Then one night in July I announced
casually, "I stopped by the American
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booked my passage for October. I think
you'd better stay behind while I get
set and find a place for us to live."
The next few months were a hectic
race to sell the house (we got $13,000
for it), our furniture (which we later
regretted) , and one of our little foreign
cars. In the other car I packed 500
pounds of luggage for the trip across
the country to San Francisco. I installed
Jean and Chris in a small apartment
before I left.
We were more solemn than excited
on the big day. "Be careful, darling,"
Jean whispered. "And write!"
I arrived in San Francisco on sched
ule and boarded the S. S. Letlani. The
voyage was perfect, but my heart
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Chris, who's become an accomplished banyan
and hau tree climber, hasn't had a cold in montns
and loves dressing Tom Sawyer-style.
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wasn't in the shipboard fun. I was
thinking of the day I would land and
start looking for a job.
My only lead was the name of a
man in the paint business in Honolulu.
His son-in-law was from Buffalo. We'd
met at a party one night when he'd
showed slides of his trip to Hawaii. It
wasn't much to base a future on.
Those first two weeks in Honolulu
were the most difficult of my life.
I made the rounds of the big corpora
tions most likely to hire industrial
salesmen. The only openings they had
were for beginners at salaries starting
around $3,300. I couldn't support my
family on that. My lead didn't help
since the man in the paint business
wasn't hiring.
In order to save money, I allowed
myself $2 a day for meals. That meant
eating' in cafes which serve inexpensive
Hawaiian foods. I had rice morning,
noon, and night.
The second week, in desperation, I
took a job selling kitchen appliances
on commission. Then my acquaintance
in the paint business called with the
kind of tip I'd been praying for.
"A friend of mine at California Ink
Co. needs an industrial salesman. Why
don't you put in for the job?"
I did, and after biting my nails for
a week was hired at $4,200 to start.
Our offices are on Cooke St., in an in
dustrial area near the harbor where
tuna fishermen moor their boats. You
couldn't ask for more pleasant sur
roundings or nicer people to work with.
The office secretary is Japanese. The
plant manager is Hawaiian-Chinese
and his assistant is Filipino. My boss,
Harry Rowe, and I are the only Cau
casians in the plant. But I've' never
been conscious of being in the minority.
It just doesn't matter in Hawaii.
My problems weren't over, however.
The biggest shock came when I learned
the prices of goods in Honolulu, from
groceries to gas. Milk costs 32 cents
, a quart, gas 43 cents a gallon for ethyl,
grade A eggs 69 cents a dozen, a little
Fiat 600, $1,605 about $200 more than
in Buffalo. Shipping costs, apparently,
are responsible for these high prices.
Homes come high, too. I finally
plunked down a payment on a modest
two-bedroom bungalow on a 10,000-square-foot
leasehold lot in Kailua, a
suburb across the Koolau mountain
range from Honolulu. Price for the
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