Micronesia: Island Millionaire

"It's fun putting things together," says Kenneth T. Jones, a former farm boy from Willow Springs, N.C., who has been putting things together ever since he hit the beaches of Japanese-held Guam as a Seabee in 1944. Now 50 and a solid 240-pounder, he is the millionaire owner of a diversified commercial kingdom ranging from supermarkets to construction and cattle ranching and, most recently, the first luxury hotel in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "Next to the Government, Ken Jones is the biggest thing on Guam," says a local...