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The Hawaiian paper did say that they only announced births reported to them from the Health Department, however, I would question whether anyone at the newspaper really knows what the policy was 50 years ago. Even in banking where they have policy manuals for everything it would be difficult to locate what a specific policy was 50 years previously since the policy manuals would have likely been disposed of many years before.

I remember reading a long, long time ago on FR that someone contacted the newspaper/s in Honolulu and whoever talked to them from the newspaper (don't know if they contacted both - I think they are owned by the same company) said that they did not know the policy in 1961. Maybe the newspaper/s changed the story now. Anyway, the policy then could not have been printing info from the DoH because each paprt had different lists.