Liana Green-Wright won the 33rd annual Mrs. Hawaii State Pageant last night at the Waikiki Beachcomber.

She will represent Hawai'i in the Mrs. America Pageant in September in Tucson, Ariz.

Green-Wright is the wife of Matt Wright, a former University of Hawai'i football player. She is the daughter of Michael and Estrellita Green.

She succeeds Mrs. Hawaii 2008, Kristina Lum.

CRONKITE WILL BE BURIED IN MISSOURI

Walter Cronkite's final resting place will be next to his late wife, Betsy, in Missouri, where the two first met, his chief of staff said yesterday.

The 92-year-old former CBS anchorman died Friday at his Manhattan home of disease involving blood vessels in the brain, according to Marlene Adler, his longtime chief of staff.

A private funeral was scheduled for Thursday at St. Bartholomew's Church. Adler said the Rev. William Tully will preside over the Episcopal service at the Park Avenue church, which the Cronkites attended for many years.

50 CENT'S PAD NOW ONLY $10.9 MILLION

The price of the Connecticut mega-mansion owned by rapper 50 Cent has dropped again — to $10.9 million.

The 50,000-square-foot mansion is in the Hartford metropolitan area suburb Farmington. It was owned by boxer Mike Tyson.

It has 19 bedrooms and 37 bathrooms. It boasts a gym, billiards rooms, racquetball courts and a disco with stripper poles.

The New York City rapper bought it for $4.1 million. He said it had "a 'Miami Vice' feel" and spent $6 million on renovations and repairs. 50 Cent says he's tired of the two-hour commute to New York City and wants to downsize.

WHITE, JIMMY STEWART IN AVIATION HALL

Astronaut Edward White, who gave his life as part of man's race to the moon, was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, yesterday along with the first female shuttle pilot and late Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart.

White, who made America's first spacewalk in 1965 but was killed in a spacecraft fire two years later, was presented for enshrinement by the man who first set foot on the lunar surface.

"Ed had an acute dedication to his work," Neil Armstrong said. "And he was committed to superiority in the conquest of space."

Joining White as enshrinees in last night's ceremony were Eileen Collins, the first woman to command an American space mission; Russell Meyer Jr., former head of the Cessna Aircraft Co.; and Stewart, who was a bomber pilot during World War II before starring in such classic movies as "It's a Wonderful Life" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window."