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MR. ARAKAKI : About a week. MR. TRULSON: Okay. Would it not be possible in the two or three days after that to mail him the one other ballot that he can work on while he' s up there and still meet the deadline? Without having to change the election date? MR. ODA: It ' s possible. MR. TRULSON: Why couldn ' t that be done? He could take with him everything that we've approved except that one. And as soon as we make a decision , mail it to him and he ' s got it. He ' s already there. I don ' t think we 'd lose that much time and I think we could still meet our time requirements by statute. MR. ARAKAKI : The other area must be considered. I 'm not an advertising expert like Bill Kikuchi but in all the things that we are preparing on the tabloid and whatever infor- mation, we need those finished ballots to go in the tabloid both in Japanese and in English. They have to be translated. So all those things come into play, too. The Japanese and the Ilocano tabloids will have those ballots interpreted into those languages. MR. TRULSON: But don ' t we have until September 15? Or the 16th? So we are talking almost a month from the 17th. Say we should meet on the 19th, we almost have another month and just for only one proposal on one ballot. The rest could still be worked on. We are only talking about this 3-2. It' s not that they have to wait to do the whole thing until we make that decision. They only have one part to do. Maybe I 'm looking at it the wrong way, but it would seem to me they could start on everything except that one point and as soon as they have it, they are still going to have a month after they get it to complete it. MR. ARAKAKI : Mr. Trulson, I think Bill Kikuchi will be here in a short while. Why don ' t we address that section to him because I 'm not aware of the timetable under which the printers operate. I 'm not a printer. He would know because he was working for the Tribune-Herald. He will know what the deadline is going to be and everything. For your information , we are printing 19 ,000 for the Sunday circulation tabloid. You say 5 , 000 for the. West Hawaii. We also need 40,000 for ourselves for precinct distri- bution and we have to give each English speaking group a copy at the polls so that they can ' t say that they didn ' t know what they were voting on. We want to see that they have that privilege. We are going to di_s_trib.ute :some among the department of the aged, also. So we are going to consume the 40 , 000. So we are going to have 45 , 000 plus the 19 , 000. In printing these the Tribune-Herald will need a few more days also because they don ' t have that capacity either. So I would like to ask for a little delay on this final decision until Bill will be here. Those things can be answered by him. -5-