LANA'I CITY, Lana'i — A Coast Guard rescue helicopter yesterday rescued one of two missing kayakers off Kaumalapau Harbor, but the search for his companion was to continue through the night.

The man was located about 11 a.m. about 25 miles off the harbor. A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter flew him to Kahului Airport, where he was checked out by an ambulance crew. The kayaker was reported in good condition with slight hypothermia, and was released to a family member, officials said.

The Coast Guard located an unoccupied kayak about two miles south of where the first kayaker was spotted, but there was no sign of the missing man, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Luke Clayton. Conditions were rough, with wind gusts close to 40 knots and seas of 6 to 8 feet, he said.

The names of the two kayakers have not been released but officials said they are believed to be construction workers on Lana'i. They reportedly set out from the harbor Sunday morning on 12-foot-long, blue motorized kayaks and were reported overdue that night.

Two Coast Guard helicopters and a C-130 search plane from Air Station Barbers Point and the cutter Kittiwake, an 87-foot patrol boat, were expected to search for the missing kayaker throughout the night.

WORKER DIES AFTER BEING RUN OVER

A construction worker was killed yesterday in an apparent industrial accident at the state's general aviation area off Lagoon Drive.

An employee of Jas. W. Glover Ltd. was run over by a pavement roller while working on a taxiway repaving job a taxiway repaving job, said state Department of Transportation spokesman Scott Ishikawa.

City Emergency Medical Services personnel responded at 1:06 p.m. and the worker, a man in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:20 p.m., said city emergency services spokesman Bryan Cheplic.

The state Occupational Safety & Health Division, the Transportation Department, police and Federal Aviation Administration are involved in the investigation, Ishikawa said.

ANTHROPOLOGIST TO INSPECT REMAINS

The Hawai'i-based Joint POW /MIA Accounting Command will send a military anthropologist to California to examine the remains of a man believed to be a missing World War II airman.

The body was found Wednesday in a Sierra Nevada glacier not far from the spot where a missing aviation cadet's body was found two years ago.

Command spokesman Troy Kitch said a parachute and clothes found with the body indicate the individual was in the military.

He says identification could take weeks or months, but the command is optimistic.

DOWNED POLES KILL WAHIAWA POWER

Two utility poles fell on Wilikina Drive in Wahiawa yesterday afternoon, knocking out power to 87 customers. Hawaiian Electric Co. crews responded to the downed poles and also to a report of a transformer problem.

HECO spokesman Darren Pai said the outage affected customers on California, Kilani, Olive, Walker and Kuahiwi avenues as well as on Wilikina Drive, where the poles fell.

Police closed Wilikina Drive in both directions at 4:14 p.m. between Schofield Barracks' McComb and McNair gates.

It was not immediately known what caused the poles to come down, Pai said.

In an unrelated incident, about 2,600 customers in Hawai'i Kai had no electricity for about an hour yesterday afternoon.

The outage happened at about 2 p.m., Pai said. Electricity was back on at 3:08 p.m.

The outage affected homes between Kuapa and Haha'ione in Hawai'i Kai.