Micronesian Reporter 1966 V14 01

Micronesian Reporter 1966 V14 01. Micronesian Reporter (Report). Saipan, Mariana Islands: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. January 1966. p. 28.

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Abstract: Beginning in 1951, the Headquarters for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) regularly published a magazine that detailed its work in the region. From 1951 through the first issue of 1956, the magazine was known as the Micronesian Monthly; from the second issue of 1956 through the end of the run in 1980, it was known as the Micronesian Reporter. From 1951 through December 1967, publication cycles varied: For the most part, the magazine was produced monthly, though certain issues cover two or more months. Starting in 1968, the magazine was formally shifted to a quarterly publication cycle, which continued through the first quarter of 1980, when publication ceased.

The January–March 1966 issue centers on institutional consolidation and governance across the Trust Territory, with special attention to the first regular session of the Congress of Micronesia (February 1966) and the flow-down of new district legislation. The Reporter also notes internal upgrades—printing now done “at home” under Superintendent of Printing William E. Rimmel in Saipan—and carries recurring public-service features on sanitation, vaccination, and food safety. Transportation and communications appear as strategic themes, including the inaugural use of new DC-4 aircraft on inter-district routes and continued build-out of radio broadcasting (station call-outs and staff training referenced), along with economic items on fisheries and local enterprise.

Notable articles and items include a round-up of Marianas District acts enacted early 1966: measures establishing a Recreation Commission (Act No. 8-1966); prohibiting carnal abuse of a female under 16 (Act No. 10-1966); creating a District Emergency Fund for typhoon relief (Act No. 13-1966); requiring paternal child-support (Act No. 15-1966); zoning authority (Act No. 20-1966); procedures and fees associated with a district-wide referendum on the Marianas’ future political status (Act No. 26-1966); and adopting trial by jury in specified civil actions (Act No. 28-1966). “District Digest” pieces highlight “Dublon People Start a Credit Union” in Chuuk (then Truk; Dublon is now “Tonoas”), “Ship Line Shares Profits,” “Operation ‘Save That Tuna,’” and practical health campaigns (“Boil Your Water,” “People Learn to Out-Think Rats”). Cultural/education notes include “Yapese Cry Aloud,” local “Law Day” proclamations, and community events in Ponape (now Pohnpei)—including the installation of a new Metalanim Nanmwarki (“Nanmwarki”) (Samuel Hadley).

Individuals and organizations named across the issue include High Commissioner M. W. Goding, congressional figures such as Tosiwo Nakayama (Pohnpei), Lazarus Salii (Palau), Amata Kabua (Marshall Islands), and Petrus Mailo (Chuuk/Moen, now Weno), as well as Bailey Olter (Assistant District Administrator for Public Affairs, Pohnpei). Administrative appointments and reorganizations reference officials such as Willy V. Hofschneider and John M. Spivey (Commerce/contracting functions), while advisory roles to the legislature touch on Dr. Robert Robbins. Throughout, the issue links public-sector initiatives with missionary, cooperative, and training partners (e.g., East-West Center programs), and repeatedly situates developments in the orbit of the Congress of Micronesia to mark the territory’s shift toward more formalized self-government.

Volume Fourteen, Number One (1966) Index:

Agriculture 21 Aguigui 21 Ambassador 12 Ambilos 5 Anthropologist 15 Art 21 Bethwel 5 Bikini 10 Canoes 13, 17 Catholic 19, 23 Church 17 Congress 5 – 7, 9 – 13, 18, 27 – 28 Congress Of Micronesia 5 – 6, 9, 11 – 13, 18 Controversy 9 Court 8, 11 Craley 5 Delegation 5 – 7, 10 – 11 Ebeye 28 Economic 4, 6, 14, 26 – 28 Education 18 – 21, 25, 28 Elections 18, 23 Fefan (or "Fefen")14 Fisheries 21 Furber 8, 10 Guam 6, 9, 11, 19, 25, 28 Insular Affairs 5, 11 Interior 5, 8, 11, 28 Japan 11, 23, 26 Japanese 14, 23, 25 Kabua 10, 26 Kanoa 29 Kanost 28 Kapingamarangi 16 Kasiano 17 Kusaie (later termed "Kosrae")15 – 16, 23 Kwajalein 13 Language 18, 25 Majuro 7 – 8, 10, 13, 18, 20, 26 Mariana Islands 4 – 6, 8, 11, 25 Marshall Islands 8, 10, 20, 25 – 26, 30 Metalanim (or "Madolenihmw") 4, 16 – 17, 23, 26, 28 Midkiff 10 Migration 28 Mitaro 5 Mortlocks ("Nomoi Islands") 13 Namorik (or "Namdrik") 25 Nanmwarki System 4, 17, 23 Navy 10 Ngatik (or "Sapwuahfik")4, 16 – 17, 22 – 23 Ngiraibuuch 18 Nucker 10 Nukuoro 16, 30 Nuuan 13 Olter 5, 7, 10 Palau 5 – 6, 11, 18, 20 – 21, 28 Peleliu 20 Pingalap 16, 21, 23 Political Status 6 Polynesian 26 Ponape (or "Pohnpei") 5, 7, 10, 15 – 18, 21 – 23, 26 – 28 Protestant 19, 23 Saipanese 27, 29 Sawaichi 6 Shoecraft 10 Solomon 8 Spanish 15 Sproat 21 Status 6, 15, 25 Tamag 13 Truk (later termed "Chuuk") 4 – 6, 13 – 14, 18 – 19, 21, 25, 28 Typhoon 6 Udall 28 Udui 5 United Nations 6 – 7, 9, 11, 14, 27, 29 Wion 4, 19 World War 14, 21, 25 Yap 4 – 5, 7, 12 – 13, 15, 18 – 19, 21, 26 – 27 Yapese 4, 6 – 7, 13, 19, 27 Zaiger 4, 25