hUished .... eekly. Ent~red as 2nd class matter in post office at Los Angeles, Calll 01. 44 No.9 Los Angeles, California Published Every Friday-10c Friday, March 1, 1957 PRESIDENT'S CORNER: OREGO~'ANS Open letter to '57 ALBANY (CALIF.) "OTED HONORED FOR chapter presidents PRIMED FOR 11 TH \YARTIME SERVICE TO NISEI~ JACL Most of the new 1957 PORTLAND. - Three prominent by Nebi Sumida. chairman. as• Chapter officers have C.L. KEG (LASSIC Oregenians were henored by the sisted by George Azumano, Martba Japanese American Cit i zen s Osaki, V.p.; Roy Maeda, treas.; now' bet>n elected. ALBANY.-A let of Nisei who de League last Sunday for their Alice Kida, rec. sec.; Flo Ana• May I congratulate you little bowling .or cheose to engage "faith in Americans of Japanese zawa, cor. sec.; Mary Sasaki, in other sperts will find that New ancestry and (their) courage in hist.; Kimi Tambara. Dr. Tesh upon your election as a York is not the only state where .Jphelding the principles of demo• Kuge, del.; T. Tomiyasu and T • local JACL Chapter pre· a city of this name exists. cracy". Yasueda, advisers. On the other hand. JACL bowl• sident? This is one of the ers acress the country have been Natienal JACL scrolls .of appre• Gresham-Troutdale elected Dr. most difficult and most planning since last year to make ciation were presented by Masae Joe Onchi, pres.; Frank Ande, 1st the Hth annual Natienal JACL 5etow: JACL director, of San V.p.; Geerge Onchi, 2nd v.p.; Negi responsible positions that Bowling Teurnament opening here Francisco te E. B. MacNaughton. Continued en Page 5 we have in the national next week. Ameng Nisei kegling president .of the First Nat'l Bank organization. More and enthusiasts, the first week of of Portland and the Pertland Ore• March is beceming traditienal as gonian becrrd; and State Sen. Men· I. more, all of us are now " National JACL" teurnament time. roe Sweetland, alse publisher .of BILL HOSOKA WA it might be added. the Milwaukie Review. Former r ecognizing that the fu· Mo Katow. teurnament directer. ture growth and develop· last week disclosed a roster of 104 Gov. Charles A. Sprague was un• PROMOTED POST'S teams <80 men. 24 women) fer able to be present to receive his ment of JACL must come Deuglas MacArthur II arrived in award. the 1957 classic. (Looking back in Tekyo Fe!>. 15. to beceme U.S. EXEC. NEWS ED , from the initiative and the Pacific Citi~n files. we note Ambassader te Japan. On hand These three distinguished Amer· leadership of our local the first tournament of 1947 in to .greet him. his wife Laura and icans served as national JACL DENVER.-Bill Hosokawa, editor . Salt Lake City included 22 men's chapters. daughter Mimi, were a host of spensors during the war years. of the Denver Post Empire maga· teams.-Ed. ) Japanese and American officials The presentation was made at zine, was named executive news :rhe 1957 count falls short of the headed by Outerbridge Horsey, editor of the paper this week by record turneut of 107 teams (83 the joint Portland and Gresham· U.S. charge d'affaires, and Kao• Treutdal~ JACL installation recog• publisher Palmer Hoyt. It will . Our National JACL can men's, 24 women's) at the 1954 ru Hayashi. chief of the Fereign place the Nisei journalist in direct • tournament hested by the Long Office protocol sectien. nitien banquet at the Multnemah Beach JACL. These are the .only charge of newsgathering opera· be only as strong as the -Dept. .of State Phote. Hotel. Earlier in the day the first tions and daily make-up of the individual chapter units twe years when over 100 teams quarterly session of the Pacific P.ost. signed up. Northwest District Council was In 1951 , when ABC and WlBC A native of ,seattle and gradu· forming it. And much of held at the Japanese American So• ate of the Univ. of Washington, be the local ('hapter strength sanctiens were obtained for a Nisei SALT LAKE TO VOTE ON ciety .offices. joined the Post as a copy-reader tournament for the first time, Los will depend upon its pre- Angeles greeted 64 teams ( 44 HOSTING NATIONAL JACL The handsome scrolls read: "In in 1946 from the Des Moines Reg· grateful recognitien .of special ister in July. Four years later, sident and cabinet. You men's, 16 women's). CONVENTION IN 1958 he went to Korea as first war cor· The first tournament of 1S47 was meritorious service te the organi• as chapter president will a two "ay affa;" ( ... ·-1·. 29-30 ). . zatien and outstanding centribu· respondent in the Post's history -u ... .'·La SALT LAKE CITY.-The questJnn and returned in October to be• be called upon to exer· Through the years, the schedule of whether tbe Salt Lake J ACL tien to the welfare of persons of come editor of the Sunday maga• cise your enthusiasm, was expanded to accommodate the should host the next national .JACL Japanese ancestry in the United zine. competition and this year. It conventien in 1958 will be discussed States ... for his faith in Ameri· The PC columnist gained na• your ~agination, your spreads over six days. a.lthou~h at a brief meeting prior to the c;ans of Japanese ancestry and his tional recognition among his col• Perseverence your pa the tour.na!Dent p~eper IS ·till Membership Victory dance to be ceurage in upholding the- princi• leagues by being voted 1956 pres• , - handled lDslde three day.s. :V:lT,!D- held here tomerrow night at the ples of democrC\cy". ident of the American Association tience, your leadership. up events as the handicap rag 1Police Clubheuse. of Sunday Feature Editors, has . time doubles and mixed doubles - Beth MacNaughton and Sweet• The JACL memb ers m have always been pepular. Beth ~xpr~ss~ons pre and cen are land responded. had articles.p'ublished in the Read• mVl~ed fr~m er's Digest and Saturday Evening "your locality have placed men and wemen divisions have had bemg tht; general Satow, who was the main speak· Post, and has contributed stories 'their confidence and faith sweepers as early as the 1949 me~bershlp , ~ch~o DOl , chapter 1 . preSIdent, pemtea out. \ranous er; congratulated and praised the to Nisei publications. -In d w th N c aSS1CS . . cemmittee reperts \ViJ1 also be 31 Issei citizens who were special He began his newspapering with . you an e, on e a- Even befere the tournament . ted t th first aeneral guests of the evening. He also the late Jimmie Sakamoto's Japa• · I B d d St ff awards dinner-dance is over M 'lI .. pres~n a e b t'lOoa oar an a , 10 at the Clarement Hetel in meetmg of the year. told of the three fundamental ob. nese ' American Courier, first all• jectives of JACL: (1) public rela. English Nisei publication, in Seat- :are equally confident that Berkeley, keglers will mentally tle in the early '30s. By 1938, he )tou will unselfishly con· nete that Seattle is hosting the tarp~ tiQns, (2) good citizenship and (3) had gene to the Orient to beceme t . 12th annual tournament. Shonien 'red, r prometien of welfare ot Japanese editor .of the Singapore Herald, nbute y,our ,best efforts. The 11th annual. co-sponsored Americans, and. hew the Citizens then moved to the Far Eastern Althouoh vou will be) by th.e .East Bay Nis~i Bewling League has worked on them. Review at Shanghai, where be o. .. Asseclatien and the fIVe JACL ar ~a. JACL 'pinwheel' on Harry Takagi, 3rd national vice· stayed until Octeber, 1941. called upon to sacrifiCe chapters in the East Bay president, of Seattle administered Dur~g the evac:uation era, he much in the way of your Richmond-El Cerrito, Berkeley. the oath .of office to 1he 1957 cabi- I orgamz~d and edited. the Heart . Oakland, Alameda and E den L.A. museum exhibit net members of both the Portland Mount,,:m (Wyo.) Sentinel, before time, your efforts, and Tewnship, opens with a mixer at . relecatmg to Iowa. your substance, there will the Club Kona. a few blocks north -Two eye-catching pieces of cem• and Gresham-Troutdale chapter s, Hosekawa is a member .of the . .of Albany Bowl, 540 San P able. mercial art-the "Red Carp" pos• which h?sted the PNWDC quarter- Mile-Hi JACL chapter and a ,be at the same hme great next Tuesday night. ter for Shonien and the JACL Con• Iy meeting. l lOOOer. He is married and they challenges and opportun· The schedule of events: vention "Pinwheel"-are ameng The Portland chapter will be led h~ve four children. _. f Mar. 5-Mixer, ragtime deubles. ltIes or you and your Mar. 6-Mixed deubles. the 1&4 items selected by the Los chapter. There is a type Mar. 7-Men and Women S, eep· Angeles Art Director's Club for exhibit at the State Museum of Ja~anese of growth and develop- ertar. 8-Men and Wemen Teams. Science and Industry. MD. Calif. Americans !aunch ment and maturity which Mar. 9-Men and Wemen Dou· The " Red Carp" pester ~'a s de• bles. signed by Arneld Fujita of Les can come on I y f rom sac· Mar. 100Men and Women Sin. SSl}OO campaign for Immigration Museum Angeles, while the "Pinwheel" was SAN FRANCISCO.-Tbree organi• sent out by the San Francisco rifice and responsibility; gles; dinner-dance (at Berkeley's the creation of Hisashi Tani of and the rewards are cli. Hotel Claremont>. zatiens will spearhead a fund drive headquarters. San Francisco. They will be on in Nerthern California fer at leasl Chotaro Sbimamoto and Sadae rectly proportional to the display until Mar. 27, closing date $5.000 se that the Japanese Ameri· Hamada, secretaries of Nichibei efforts expended. of the 12th annual Advertising and cans here may beceme a founders' Kai and Japanese Chamber of Nal'l JACL Bowling Editorial Art show. greup for the American Museum Commerce are in charge of pub• of Immigration being planned at licity. The judges reported over 2.000 the feot of the Statue of Liberty I personally feel confi• entries were received from 11 in New Yerk. A March 31 deadline was set Tourney Records western states. Of which, 164 were for the mail solicited fund drive dent thtt you will carry The 11 recerds being assaulted finally selected fer the public Representatives of JACL, Japa• for Northern California. ~he nese Chamber of Commerce of on in thf' great traditions by bewlers at the .11th annual', shewing. Fujita's "Red Carp" was NorthEtrn California and Nichibei NatIenal JACL bewling touT? a- ameng the 22 "distinctive merit" of hundreds of our past ment next week at Albany (Calii.) . .. Kai met last week and selected UTAH HIGH COURT JUDGE JACL chapter presidents Bewl are as fellews : awards as a wmoer m the open Mas Satow, Shichisaburo Hide• MEN'S DIVISIO~ ' poster category. shima and Frank M. Nonaka as SPEAKER AT ISSEI FETE who now form the back• Team-2922 (1954 ) The "Pinwheel" arrangement is co-chairmen. Ten thousand pamphlets in both SALT LAKE ClTY.-Justice J. AI· bone of the national or· Marigold Arcade, Chicago conspicuous in that one pinwheel Ian Crockett of the Supreme Court Singles-696 (1952 ) is flattened, the secend is shown English and Japanese will be print· ganization. ed and mailed out with return en· of Utph was announced as guest Dr. Jun Kurumada, Salt Lake open half-way as the string is speaker for the fifth an:lual dinner Deubles-1269 (1953 ) velopes. Please do not hesitate Geerge Gee, drawn. and the third pinwheel fully Mailing address .of the commit· hRld last night honoring recently naturalized Issei. to call upon any of our Henri Takahashi. San Francisco blessomed. tee will be the JACL Office. 1759 During the past year, 18 more JACL offices or any Na• All-Events-I902 (1953 ) Beth Nisei art directors are ac- Sutter St., San Francisco. Checks Henri Takahashi, San Francisco tive JACLers. Fujita recently de- are to be made out to the Ameri· Issei were swern in as citizens, tional Board or Staff 6-Game Sweepers-13oo (1953 ) signed the Yes on Prep. 13 poster. can Museum of Immigration. according t 0 Rupert Hachiya•. Fuzzy Shimada, San Francisco Auditors appointed by the com• chairman of the dinner. swelling member for counselor the total to 193 the Salt Lake WOMEI"S DIVISION mittee are Kenji Kasai and Dr. aid. We are always ready Motoo ltatan1. They will ferward J ACL has henored the past four Team-2523 11956) EX-RENO CHAPTER HEAD years since passage of the Walter• Tashima Bros., Los Angeles all contributions to the San Fran• to advise and serve you cisco citywide headquarters. Re• McCarran Act enabling Japanese Singles-588 (1953 ) TO STAR AS 'SAKINI' alicns the privilege of naturaliza• and your chapter for we Chiyo Tashima. Los Angeles ceipts for centributions will be RENO. - This coming Monday tion. recognize that the chap· Deubles-H08 (1955 ) Honored guests were: ters form the base of our June Jue. night, Reno Little Theater raises Northwest B\Jssei leader .1rs. Isao OshIta. Kelko Morl. Hide Chi yo Tashima. Los Angeles its curtain for "Teahouse of the . 'ishida. FUml Sweson. ....tsuye Ha.. national organization. To All-Events-1747 (1 955 ' August Moon" and Oscar F ujii. SEATTLE. - Ted Tani~ uchi of "ashi Lawson. Katsularo NakamaY'!. w~s H iroji Okumura. Shl«eru Motokl. MI• Chiyo Tashima. Los Angelt-s former Rene J ACL president and Seattle elected president of chiko Ogata Morita. Yosblo Muraka• all of you, my kindest per• the Northwest Young Buddhist 4-Game Sweepers-1192 nBS] ) also fermer member .of the _ c• mi. Reiko Itoya LawlOn. Klyotaro Ta• sonal regards and best for Mickey Oyama. Seattle League, which concluded its an• naka, Masaye Wada. Su~ro Maw• Mixed Doubles-1192 (1951) WNDC board. will play one of the nual convention here Feb. 17.' The moto. Toyo Matsumoto. Hana Sonoda. success. lead roles as the Okina'\'an inter• all c.f Salt Lake City: John Muaharu Marge Miyakawa, 1958 convention v.ill be beld in J ada. west Jordan; HJdeklchl Yama• -Roy M. Nishikawa Pluto Sbimamura . Los Angeles preter Sakini. Ontarie, Ore. r.j£hl. Bingham Canyon. • 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957 ~ OU1c1a1 PubUcaUon: Japanese American Citizens t.eaau. Issei, Nisei, Sansei.. Sensei (4.uthO'r YO's" Taguchi, who is 23-lIears-O'ld, verSlt;, in Montreal Many oj our columnists, like PA(IF'IC'3CITIZ~N was oorn in Japan but was reared in Canada and Bm l1O'sokawa, Larry TapTi and MoUy Oya~ ' has articles New Canadimt• have articl~s reprint.e Oriental origin. To leave the situa• HARRY K. HONDA .... Edltor TATS KUSHIDA .... Bus. Mgr. a happy hunting ground in Nisei- This was our acid test and we tion is the psychological thing to dom. Examine the record! We are rose to the occasion. We sent our do. is it not? coostantly condemned, condoned older brothers to the battlefields But times have changed, and and criticized. in Canadian uniform. while the we Nisei in our twenties find our Just over a decade ago we suf- rest of us waited peacefully and strange heritage a unique asset. fered from what might be called patiently for the wild chaos of We are respected and we ar~ From the a Nisei-Issei complex, or we international blunders to come to liked, and for that we must thank couldn't get along with our Issei I an end. our older brothers. parents. And the unhappy Nisei I - One thing has not changed - who sought solace in J a pan lTd J C di we are still categorized as a promptly developed another syn- 0 ay, we apanese an~ an.s Frying Pan fnen~h­ group. But categorization is the drome, the Nisei-Nihonjin com- deserve, the respect and inevitable mark of education and plex, or the inability to get along ' ness we ve worked for and attam• as long as we respect intelligence, with true Nipponese. Today ow' ed. Moreover, w.e have demon• we shall continue to group people ever-resourceful clinicians have di- strated ~at raCial and cul~ral by Bill HO$okawa homoge~~lty ~ot. into tall and short, fat and skinny, agnozed another malady among are prereqwsltes mongoloid, negroid, and cauca• Us . We suffer from a Nisei-Nisei for ~ndivlded patnotIsm. We have Denver, Colo. ~an ~s soid. If you are disturbed by this, complex, or we can't get along sho n that we congrega.te you are immature. with fellow Japanese Ca ad' Japanese ~an~dlans ~nd mamtam SMALL WORLD NOTE-While in New York briefly n lal}s. our Canadlamsm (did we shout Thus our efforts should be di• last month, I happened to tell Tooru Kanazawa I'd like Dwin~lin.g interest in the JC<;A banzai! in relocation camps?). We rected towards improving the cate• to buy a Japap%e Noh mask to take home for a parlor an~ . ~lsel-sponsored community should feel no more guilty than the gory we willingly or unwillingly activItIes ~ave promoted keen ob- Irishman in this country who is a represent. Intermarriage, after--alJ. decoration. Not the expensive antiques, but on~ of tbe ser.veJ's, like Dr. Hayakawa, to little more "green" on St. Pa• is not the panacea of all raci~ cheaper modern copies with a dash of color and a suggest a possible therapy: "Let's trick's Day and the Scotsman who problems. ' Hawaii is not heavenly, stay a way from one another!" keeps his kilt in the back of his and racial problems are rampant pleasant expre:,sion. He made a number of calls for me, ~arried to. its logical c~mcll\~ion dresser. To throw aside our unique in the West Indies. (A recent novel but we couldn't find exactly what we wanted at the thiS suggestion means dlssemma- heritage is nonsense. and a forthcoming movie depict tio~, i':ltermarri.ag~ , and . absolute The question of our cultural .this.) W~ must develop a positive price r could afford to pay. ~xtinctJo.n of NiseI. The Idea has heritage has been grossly misun• attitude that is at the same time Then, just the other day, there came a letter from ltS men~s .. There would be. n~ derstood. The school-boy argu• realistic and sensible. It fr~m more Nlsel and no more Nisei ment that Nisei and Sansei are And let us remember how the the Belgian COl/go in steaming Africa. was complexes. completely devoid of the culture Frenchman replied to the sugges• Toge Fujihira, ;he cinematographer, who'd just heard. . The battle cry rna:\:, ha,:,e won of their ancestJ'al country is sure• tion that women be given the vote It.S adheren.ts .. ImpulSive, Impres- ly mistaken. After all .. culture is because, basically, they are no• from Tooru. slOnable. NlSel .T?ay have ~alled not a talent nor an acquired skill. different from the men: "Did you f nd the Noh mask you wanted in New up . theU'. haku]lO lady fnends, tt is, I fel, a subjective direc• "Vive la difference!" York?" Toge asked. "If you didn't get one, let me know while theU' less extroverted com- tive, a phenomenon that can be rades wondered whe~er. they recognized but not described. You and I can have one sent to you from Japan. I have some sh~uld ask that blonde ]O? 10 the need only to read the description Americanization class credit there and it wouldn't be much trouble to have one of~!ce ~or . a ~aturday eve~mg date. of the postwar Japanese character ST. LOUIS.-The local JACL is . AS~ , lmllqhon an~ lOtermar- by Ruth Benedict, or the works of again sponsoring Americanization sent to you." r!age, they cry, like the R~s· any recent Japanese novelists to classes at the International Insti• So it may be that the search for a Japanese curio in ;>,lans of ~ century ago who ~ne? realize how Japanese we are and tute. C( : ms~antlOe and . ConstItutl9n,. how Japanese we aren't. We are a Classes are bemg held on Thurs• New York City, somehow referred to Africa, may ex• bel.levmg all the tJI!'1e the .Constl- distinct hybrid. days with Paul Maruyama, wh() tutIon was Constantme's Wife . lend to Tokyo ;md the object eventually might wind up I . ~n~nd . . conducted previous classes, teach• Perhaps I am being unneces- A ?f mme.len!, me. a cony ing a group of 15. in Denver aftt.'r aU. sa~ily facetious, but in what other of HU'o~h~I?a DIary WIth the vem can I refute the loose-lipped comment. The .straJ?ge turn .of ESCAPE fROM MATRIMONY-By the time this iconoclasts who nave decided thai the Japa~ese. m~d IS . fantastIc, r eaches print, ~ ujihira will have completed his assign• we can mark social progress by most fascmating. laying aside anything that is reo I read the delightful story and ment in the Congo and be in Liberia. But he didn't get motely Japanese. The claim that hear familiar ideas from familiar ()ut of the Congo-"\vlthout a narrow escape from matri• our association with fellow Japa· people, and my conception of nese Canadians is anachronistic things oriental is no better than mony. It seems Fujihira's party was dri~ing alon gthe' and a sign of maladjustment is that of any o~er Nisei or Sansei. tropical rain fOl'12sts when it stopped by a gigantic funer• sheer nonsense. Let us join the I - III the Heart of the pat10r g ~ me and take another There has been a decided change al dance: Hundreds of natives were gathered for the oc• look at ourselves. in attitude towards the Japanese Japanese Atea casion. The men wvre only loin clothes and brandished - . Canadians in the past fiften spears, bows and arrows. The women wore less than . To be a Canadian of Japanese years. Many Nisei attribute this a . nces~y .1:5 years ago was a dis- change to the dispersion of the bikinis and ma,Ie u!> for lack of garments by paintil1g tinct habl~lty. Wf} were looked ~p. JC population. I have tried to I GEORGE'S themselv~s on as alien spIes and potentIal point out an alternative interpre-I with splashes of red, orange, blue and white. saboteurs holding secret meetings tation. After a gocd deal of dancing and drinking of palm MOTOR SERVICE to plot the downfall of the western I The fact that Nisei in their Opaoated .., . wine, says Tog~, bartering of the dead man's wives got Iworld. And when the storm blast thM-ties and forties favor the sev• came at Pearl Harbor we were eling of relations with other Nisei under way. Knives, spears, bows and arrows were offered uprooted from our dwellings and · is not an unexpected finding. It George Kuramoto in exchange for the women. Finally, the deap, man's shapeliest and best looking wife was put up on the sales block and one 111an offered a goat for her. There was a good deal of btckerjng back and forth, but the man re• TOKYO TOPICS fused to raise his bid. This so outraged the widow that '!'IRES aDd TUB_ By Tamotsu Murayama LUlJRICATION she picked up the goat and threw it at the man. JlOTOR TUNE-UP Just about this time a Congolese woman approach• REPAIRING ed Fujihira, flu:rered her eyelids at him and said some• FREB PARKING thing he couldu't understand. Fujihira called an in• BATI'ERIBS terpreter to fin! out what was going·on. It was a good Nisei Reputation Aided ACCBSSOIUBS tiling be did, for the interpreter turned to him and said: PboDe: Miss Miyeko Kosobayashi, for the Japanese will hear of a Ni• "Brother, you'd better get out of here. She wants you for m er secretary to Mike Masaoka sei a great deal again-only this Cherry 9630 in Washington, D.C., was the one a husband." time, it's on the good side. M"B a LA WRENCB 8'1'& JAPANESE THEME-Those bold, stern, complete• who informed me some time ago (1200 ZOtil Street) that a Nisei actress was coming * .. .. DBNVBB. OOLO. ly masculine samurai of old would be turning over in to Japan to appear in " Sayona• One of the pitfalls of national tneir graves if they could hear that their topknots are ra." Within a month, the press Japanese characteristics is their the inspiration for Parisian fashions. A Paris dispatch and periodicals blossomed with extreme narrow-mindedness. Ni• stories and pictures of this lucky sei were severely criticized be• reports that things Japanese are the rage this season, and girl very extensively. fore the war for their behavior one of the features is the Samurai chignon. (I looked up Miss Kosobayashi, working and mannerism. The Nisei In Ja• that word. My dictionary says chignon, pronounced for Far East Air Force Head• pan could not comprehend Ja• pan's spirit. It was only natural "sheen-yon," is a knot formed by twisfmg and pinning up quarters. has ben helping War• ner Brothers on location at Kyo• that the Nisei were regarded as the ends of long hair.) to.-Ed.) too Americanized. But that Ni• Also on tl1e smart list are obi belts and bows, lotus Her stage name is Miiko Taka, sei were spies for America, on the other hand, was grossly un• flower headdre5ses, Madame Butterfly boleros and Ja• 24-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shoji Shikata. One report fair and untrue. panese lantern jackets with frilled hems that stand here says her parents went to When Nisei soldiers came with away from the ligure. Wo,w. America more than 30 years ago the Occupation forces after the war, the Japanese admired them CHANGING POLITICAL CLIMATE-Our column of and 9perated a small store in Los Angeles. Miiko finished high but treated them with suspicion. a couple of weeks ago based on a "Frontier" magazine school in Los Angeles since the The so-called golden era for the artIcle about Tokyo Rose brought a nice note from wa r a nd was working at a tra• Nisei in Japan terminated with Frontier's edItor, Phil Kerby. "We ac;sumed," Kerby vel agency. Last year. she visit• the signing of the U.S.-}apan ed Japan with her parents and Treaty of Peace. The press in Ask us now tor free intormatloD wrote, "that the Tokyo Rose article would send a flurry was very impressed. Japan started to attack the Ni• of criticism our way and that we wourct be the target of sei for their behllvior during the 11Dm&dft * occupation, recalling the numer• the usual charg<:s that people have made against us for To show how extensive the sto• ous occasions when Nisei were THE SUMITOMO BANK the past se en years. To our surprise, the reaction has ries on Miiko Taka have been engaged in black marketeering (CALIFORNIA) been friendly, to date. The political climate seems to be circulating throughout Japan, an• and going overboard in their ex• 440 Montgomery St. other report says she was born ercise of authority. San Francl8co - EX 2-lJIOD i nproving .. . We came to the conclusion the (Tokyo in Seattle, while one says she's But with Miko's appearance 101 S. San Pedro Rose) story deserved to be told. In addition, we are ab• a native of Los Angeles. It does in recent weeks, it has been con• Los Angeles - MI 4911 solIJ.tely opposed to inflicting th2 barbarous punishment not matter where she was born sidered as a timely reorientation -she's American-born. Through 1400 - 4th St. of Nisei worth and reputation by BIIcr.-to - GI 1-4111 of exile on a native American." her screen activities in Japan, the Japanese. 3-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957 Seek central , in Orange (ounly lor VAGARIES Japan farm laborers By Larry S. Tajiri ORANGE.-Need for a centra) camp to house Mexican nnd Japa• nese nationals who are being em• ployed in Orange County a farm laborers was stressed at the an• Muralist 'erada nual dinner of the Orange County Vegetable Growers Feb. 15 at the Denver Farm Bureau. • Several properties ha\'e been in• When Eddie Terada dropped in on Denver the other day, it vestigated, according to Thomas was the first time we'd seen him in more than 20 years, The Keeler. Bureau manager. but they last lime we had met Eddie was in Tokyo and he was working had met objections from surround• on a mural on the wall of the Cotton Club, an American-style ing home owners. bar. Eddie's mural, as we remember it, was a nostalgic scene With the 125 grower-members cf the San Francisco embarcadero with oil storage tanks on are now 181 Mexican nationals and shore and piers jutting out into the bay. There was also Coit 118 Japanese workers. it was re• tower. that concrete finger which points up from the heights of vealed. Min Nitta. president of the Telegraph hill, O.C. Vegetable Growers, added Biil Matsumoto (left) . 1000 Club chairman for Sacramento JACL that temporary workers from Ja• Incidentally, Eddie has a mural on one of the Coit tower and long active member, is congratulated by Mas Satow, national pan were brought here through walls, which he did during the days of the WPA art movement JACL director, after being presented with the sapphire-studded good public relations "to learn our back in the 1930s. When he was in San Francisco recently J ACL pin denoting outstanding service and loyalty to the organiza• way of farming to take back with Eddie went up Telegraph hill to see his painting for the first tion for a minimum of 10 years. Seated is Sacramento Mayor them to Japan". timE' in two decades but the tower was closed that day, Azevedo. Award was made at the recent NC-WNDC meeting. Ko Takabashi and Henry Kane• San Francisco-born Eddie Terada went to Japan in 1935. -Ginji Mizutani Photo gae were elected to serve on the In tre intervening years he established himself as a painter board. Nitta and George Kanno and illustrator. His drawings now illuminate the serial novels retired from the board. which run in the great Japanese dailies and his murals have SaIl Lake JACL supports civil rights fiRST ~ROt~ OF FARM heen commissioned by department stores, business firms, bars WORKERS FOR '57 ARRIVE and restaurants. He's done so well, in fact, that he was able to STOCKTON.-A group of 64 Japa• leave Japan last July on a year's trip around the world. bUI pending before Utah legislature nese farm laborers arrived !rere Now in his 40s, Eddie wants to devote a future decade, SALT LAKE CITY.-The Salt Lake ComlJ1erce committee without rec• Feb. 15. the first group to be as• from 50 to 60, in serious painting and his trip is a sort of JACL is on record in favor of a ommendation. signed in the San Joaquin delta preliminary. He has spent most of his trip so far in California civil rights bill now pending in Among the restaurants, motels, area. They have been hired by with a month in Mexico, and he is making his way back to the Utah state legislature, intro- hotels and other public establish• R. C. Zuckerman, Mandeville Is• duced by Rep. Adam M. Duncan ments of the state, Rep. Duncan land grower of onions. potatoes, Japan via Chicago, New York, Miami, Paris and the Middle carrots and asparagus. East (R., Salt Lake City). said, 27 per cent discriminate The local JACL has evinced in• Next year Eddie will return to the United States to teach at The measure is similar to the against Negroes, 13 per cent terest in the group and the World the California Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco and California statute, according to against Japanese, - 12 per cent Affairs Council of San Joaquin posibly at the University of California. He will bring his Duncan, with the addition of the against American Indians and 10 County expects to honor the work· words, "or national origin", be- per cent against Mexicans. famil~ ', including two daughters, one of college age, who will ers at a program soon. cause of the existence in Utah of But Harry Hurley, execu4ive di• t:ontmue their schooling in the United States. numerous Mexican nationals who rector of the Utah Apartment • • • are; subjected to discrimination in House Association, said t hat 'WEDDING IN JAPAN' PLAY "Whatever happened to the Cotton Club?" we asked Eddie. public places to some degree. " there is no racial problem in the The bar was one of those places, back in the 1930s, where The bill, HB 87. concerns the state of Utah." REVISED, TO BE RESTAGED homesick Nisei could gather and pI'etend they were back home rights of persons to full and equal Everyone has the right to refuse NEW YORK.-A revised version in America. There was also a restaurant nearby called the service and treatment in phices service to whomever he chooses, of ~ed Pollack's "Wedding in Ja• of public accommodation and he said, and the "bill is complete• pan" is being rehearsed for an Florioa Kitchen which specialized in Virginia-baked ham (from amusement without discrimination ly unwarranted." off-Broadway opening Mar. 11 at Kamakura l afld candied potatoes. Well, according to Eddie, or exclusion because of race or Rep. Duncan asserted that he Greystone. Included in the cast the Cotton Club and the Florida Kitchen were burned to the color. believed Utahns "are ashamed of are Teru Masumoto and Jerry Fu· gr04ud puring on~ of the fire bomb raids during the war. The bill would make it unlawful th!;!ir racial prejudice." jikawa. There's a new pl'ace, t however, called! the Cotton Chtb and for inns, restaurants. hotels, mo- 'He noted that a ; similar anti• The play, 'tragedy-bound wheD probably a lo~ of .GIs are getting homesick there right now. tels, bowling a.lleys. sk.ating rinks racial discrimination bill has been a rejected white officer frames a 1 l~ed ~ and other ~ublic establlshments to introduced in the Legislature the Negr.o sergeant by a Japa• * kc refuse service to a person because past three sessions. nese girl. drew sharp criticism F'ILl\1 ROW: Albert Nozaki and two other Paramount art of race or color.. .. , . Most of the representatives will from many New York Nisei who directors have .been nominated for an Academy award for their I It would permIt CIVIl acbon m not speak out against the measure felt its general theme was weak• work on Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." Nozaki the cOl;,rts against the es~abl~sh-I he declared. But he added that h~ ened by what they considered-. bas been an art director on the Paramount lot since before ments ill cases of alleged dlscrun- believed the bill would die in the stereotyped characterization of the Pearl Harbor. One of his first big films was Claudette Colbert's ination. sifting committee. Japanese roles. when it first open• ~'Maid of Salem". He is currently in cbarge of art direction The measw'e is being sponsored " I believe if the bill gets out of ed in the summer of 1952. on the Elvis Presley feature, "Loving You." ... Teru Shimada by the NAACP and is supported the sifting committee it will pass," Although the ending was re• by other groups such as the AFL- he said. written then, Eileen Nakamura appears briefly in the Universal-International film inspired by who played the lead and Michiko the Korean war, "Battle Hymn," the story of Col. Dean Hess ... CIO, YWCA, Westminster College, ------Ministerial Association, Women's Buddhist encycloD, edia Okamura resigned from the cast 20th Fox still hasn't announced who will play Mr. Moto in their State Legislative Council, Jewish and the production was withdrawn forthc'oming " Stopover Tokyo," the new J.P. Marquand novel from the stage after six weeks. lit and Catholic organizations ;;lnd TOKYO.-A 10,000-page encyclo• in wl:ich the Japanese secret service agent, once portr;;lyed Police Chief Skousen. pedia on Buddhism in the English Pollack feels that in its present by Peter Lorre in a series of films, makes his return . . . Roger The chapter recently requested language is expected to be com• form, the play will not raise the Nakagawa, 10-year-old Sansei from Los Angeles, plays one of criticism of its earlier edition. members of the Utah State Legis• pleted this July. A group of 200 compl~te two kidnaped boys in RKO's " Escapade in Japan" which stars lature sifting committee to act Buddhist scholars in Japan is com• Casting was except for piling and editing the project, the feminine lead. the Hokubei Teresa Wright and Cameron Mitchell and is scheduled for favorably on the bill, which was Shimpo reported last week. earll' release. reported out of the Business and which was initiated in 1955. The $55,000 project is backed by the * :« * All Japan Buddhist Federation, WLA BRIDGE CLUB Myke Kosobayashi, formerly secretary to Mike Masaoka, Japan Air lines a dd s the government, and the Ceylonese PLANS BEGI~ERS CLASS is working for the Warner Brothers company which is filming government. Hisashi Horita, who has been the James Michener novel, "Sayonara", in Kyoto. Myke re• fifth trans-Padfic flight instructing many JACL chapter ports that Joshua Logan, director of the picture, is greatly SAN FRANCISCO.-Intensification ACTIVE NISEI VOTED bridge classes, will start a new impressed with Miiko Taka, the Los Angeles girl who is playing of travel between San Francisco TO HIGH SCHOOL PTA class for beginners on Mar. 9 for Marlon Brando's Japanese sweetheart in the picture. "Miiko and Tokyo has necessitated Japan GARD~N GROVE.-Mrs. George the West Los Angeles Bridge Club, Taka, our newcomer, is playing Brando's love interest just Air Lines increpsing its trans- Osumi >yas. elected corresponding which meets at the WLA Buddhist terr~ical1 y ," Logan said last week. Pacific schedules from four week- s~cretary of the Garden Grove . Church basement. The group has For Logan, one of America's top stage and screen direc• Iy flights to five effective April 5, High School PTA ~or the new been sanctioned to give master tors, making "Sayonara" is the realization of a longtime dream. it was announced last week by term. Her husband IS a member- point ratings by the American Con• Yoshito Kojima, vice president of at-large ~f the Orange County tract Bridge League. "'1 want to bring some of the cultural values of Japan to the JAL's American Region. J~A..:C __L=--c:.:a __ b:.:l..:n.:.e..:t. ______~ ______..., worl.d screen, such as the Noh and Kabuki dramas, and the I Eunraku (puppet) theater-all of which are woven into our J AL will put on ten extra sec- I tions during the popular cher~y - Always at Your Service - story line." blossom season in Japan, which "But we are also telling a poignant love story of modern extends from late March through Jap!ln," Logan says of his picture. "The tortures of a young early May. THE BANK OF TOKYO Occidental in love with a beautiful Oriental girl,' and all the Flights from San Francisco to Of Cali fornia accompanying problems of two cultures in conflict. We think Tokyo will remain the same, de• it is good entertainment. but we are also trying to say that the parting every Tuesday, Thursday, San Francisco-160 Sutter St. (11), YUkon 2-5305 old myth of 'East is East and West is West, etc., is just that; Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Los Angeles-120 S. San Pedro (12), MUtual 2381 we alEo saying that the twain have met and both peoples should PST, and the new fifth flight will ~ealiz(' it." Besides Brando and Miss Taka, other members of leave at the same hour each Fri• Gardena-16401 S. Western Ave., DAvis 4-7554 . ~he "Sayonara" cast are Red Buttons, Patricia Owens, James day. Tokyo-San Francisco flights will continue to depart every Tues- GarnE'r, Miyoshi Umeki and Ricardo Montalban (who plays a day, Thursday, Friday and Satur- Japanese actor in love with Miss Owens). day at 9:30 p.m., with the fifth Incidentally, the author of "Sayonara", James Michener, flight leaving Tokyo Wednesday 'bas been working out of Vienna, Austria in recent months with evening at the same time. his " .. iie (the former Mari Sabusawa.) Michener's newest book, on th .. Hungarian freedom fighters, is being published in March and will be the first full-fledged work on the Hungarian up• ORIENTAL FOOD SHOP rising. 2791 Bdway (l07) - AC 2-3100 New York City DIstributors or Ll'L TOKIO CENTER FOR JAPANESE CONFECTIONERY SUKI-YAKI INGREDIENTS Free Delivery MIKAWAYA "Always Fresh" liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll A Good PLace t"o Eat 244 E. 1st St., L.A. - MU 4935 - K. Hashimoto No@n to Midnight DailJl LEM'S CAFE REAL CHlNF:SE DISHES TAMURA & CO. Cal-Vita Produce Co., Inc. - • Bonded Cnmmlsslon Merchants 320 East First Street The finest i1t Jwme furnishings Fruits - Vegetables Los Angeles '774 S. Central Ave. - Wholesale Tenninal Market ~ TAKE PHONE ORDERS 3420 W. Jefferson Blvd., L.A. 18, Calif RE 1·1261 VA 8595 Los Angeles 21, Calit. TU 4504 Call MI 2953 4-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957 DIS EYLA DHOTEL RESE YED F PACIFIC SOUIHWE~T CONVENT ON SOU'WESTER i\laglc of " Pisneyland" h a _ I have been reser.... ed and baby sit• stru.:k the Pa'l!ific SouthwE;st Dis· ling service has been as ured. an• By Tats Kushida trict Council. which ha secured nounced Fred Takata and R~ the Disneyland Hotel ildjacent to IYamadera. convention co-cI13ir· the m ecca of fanta y and fancy as men. a s~te for its for hcoming filth Gues s of the hotel will be able postwar d istrict com·ention. May to u e the _\\ 'imming pool. shuffle- PC and Horses 18-19. board and pNtting green which are East Los Angeles JACL. which on the ultra-modern looking pre• has .... olunteered to host the con. mises. Chapters will be g tting our m em o on this soon but here's vention. IS busily engaged plan. The Saturday (May 18 1 com'en• the c dvance dope. PC's generous commission policy re new ning the final touches to make the tion activities will be quartered sub~c" ib e r s is a sweet deal a nd chapters are taking full ad• affair a weekend for the family. at the Anaheim Elk's Lodge. Reg· v ant:'lge oC it, as we ll as commissions on solicited renewals• even hopeful that JACLers from Iistration; . bu iness session. 1000 pro\',ded the commissions are deducted before remitting to the other districts might attend. Club ~ hillg-Dillg. banquet and PC uiz office. Simply trying to eliminate an extra bookkeeping A block of rooms at the Disney. East L.A.·s annual "Emerald Ball" _ chore of ha ndling commissions due here & there. now & then. land Hotel at convention rates will be held there. Ugi Harada. prez of the Arka nsas Valley (Colo.) JACL. Sunday events will all be held t ell us about how his chapter is plugging the PC among its JACL president Jack Kusaba (r) at Disneyland Hotel with the en• m embers. Instead of the chapter treasury keeping the com• receives gavel fl~om out-going New eight-week dance tire second floor of the Gourmet mission. they're giving . the PC subscriptions at a discounted president and toastmaster for the restaurant. which prO\udes dining g~t class series to open pricc to the job done fast and painlessly. We're with you, evening Hatsuro Aizama during facilities at the hotel. reserved Ugi. (pronounced U.G.) 1957 installation dinner held Jan. SAN FRANCISCO.-Under chair· for CLers. The convention proper • 25 at the William and Mary Res• manship of Miyuki Aoyama and will wind up with a luncheon and MIDDLE HORSE SCORES'" taurant. Will Maruyama. the San Francis· the afternoon will be open to dele• Since our na1'l legal counsel. F.F. Chuman. seldom blows co JACL is sponsoring a new gates and boosters who might wish eight-week dance class beginning to frolic at Disneyland and at other his own horn. we'll do 'it for him, and we don't mean shaku• Mar. 8 at the Park-Presidio YM- hachi. For a non-paid JACL official and board member. he's Livingston-Merced CA. 360-18th Av~., from 8:30 p.m. tourist attractions nearby. such as pretty peripatetic. His law practice takes him arou~d soCal A get-acquainted social tonight at Knott's Berry' Farm. the Jungle and even to Central America. And when we ask hun hows t.he. sam~ IQc!"le will serve as I and Alligator Farm. about it, he finds an open spot in his messy calendar and honors W!nton, Sr., I eglstratlOn night.. A bridge tournament is also ten- A gold medal illstruct~r fro!'l1 tatively scheduled for S d f- says okay. I'll go. . the Arthur Murray studios will . un ay a \"" hich is how he became the installing officer and speaker at !nstaUalion fele show numerous varieties. of steps ternoon at the Disneyland Hotel. of the evening for the annual installation dinner-dance of the in the new series, according to Ventura County JACL which took place at the usual spot, the MERCED.-High tribute was paid co-chairman Aoyama. Ki Tanama• ". Colodal House in Oxnard, on Feb. 22. to Gordon H. Winton, Sr .. of Liv- chi is in charge of transportation Dr. Sam Tokuyama, past prez emceed the affair. The '57 ingston. life-long friend of persons arrangements. Thelma Takeda will Salt Lake CL signs prez. Mike Mayekawa, presented thE! traditional pearl-studded of Japanese ancestry in Merced be ' C h g f . t l' 300 b pin to outgoing prexy Dash Kanamori, the pin which, by the County. at the recent Livingston- Dfck ~s~i~ ~~~~;~Shl~' chair· over mem ers wa\' JACL mfctrs in cahoots with Senor Mikimoto. Merced JACL installation dinner man, added the sign-up campaign . Looking at the menu on the printed progralTl, the Oxies held at the Club Joaquin here. now four weeks. old will be cli- I SALT LAKE CITY.-Surpassing He was presented an embossed maxed at the mlXer. previous membership marks in the really had a ball-charcoal broiled steak with all the trimmings copy of the Japanese American including hostesses Yori Hata, Ann Hosaki and Kathy Kanamori: Creed in appreciation of his chapter, Sam Watanuki, 1957 memo Bc.ing the peece-de-rezistahnss. Chuman came up with an staunch friendship by Jack Noda, Pasadena JACl pushes bership chairman, this week an- off·the·cuff, impromptu. ad-lib masterpiece' on George Washing• national chairman of the JACL nounced the Salt Lake JACL has t.on . so our grapevine reports. Gen. George was the first pres i• Recognitions Committee and 2nd 157 membership campaign signed up over 300 members. den~ to discover that national origin, race or creed had no national JACL vice-president. PASADENA. _ The decks were The organized campaign was to bea ring on a person's devotion to the cause of freedom, Frank Noda recalled the many kind cleared in the 1957 Pasadena JACL have ended Feb. 28 with a victory told '( m. adding that Washington's greatness was in combining deeds shown by' Mr. and Mrs. membership campaign. now un- dance at the Police Clubhouse atop Winton, especially to the pioneer derway and chaired by Dr. Ken Ensign Peak tomorrow night. Kay m ilitar y experience with infinite patience, his inflexible deter• Issei w~o firs~ settled into the Yamaguchi. vice _ president in Nakashima and Ray Omura are in minr- t'on. a sound sense of organization. absolute personal community. Willton was also one charge of membership. who has charge of the celebration. inte£!'ity and highest regard for civil rights and justice, elements of the . trustees of the Japanese promised a reward to the winning The drive was concluded by fout: just a ~ timely today and to JACLers as they were in the dark MethodIst Church. when It was team teams: Rupert Hachiya, capt.; day!' of 1776. We wish we were there to have heard this founded 40 years ago. . . George Yoshimoto. Amy Doi, Alice tr G . Elko Matsui is captain of Team Kasai, Shiz Sakai; Midori Wata. spee,·h. IS .s0!1, ordon H. WilltO?, Jr., IAye, composed of Harris Ozawa, nUki. capt.; Rae Fujimoto. Hito C E> tting on with our barrister's avocation, he convened local w?-s s.lmilarly honored for hiS con- Joe Kuramoto, Mary Yusa Kimi Okada, Jim Nagata, Mary Waka• attorneys last week preparatory to their conference on evacua• tnbub.on.s t~ the chap~er. He h~lds Fukutaki, Toki Yamag4shi,' Butch yama. Tats Masuda; Chick Tera• tion claims and renunciants with Department of Justice wheels the distinction of bemg the first Tamura, Ronald Ueda. Bill Yama- shima, capt.; Choppy Umemoto, frolT' Washington, Mesrs. Doub (Assistant Attorney Generall toA~~e~ta~~das~~~~/o be elected m~o. aOnd ~~nji Watana~e. Grace Kasai, Jeanne Konishi, Ike and Ellison (heading up Japanese claims section), and served State Sen. James A C be el .sakI IS spearh~admg Team Oki; Shig Kanegae, capt.; Dr. Shig a s their spokesman. Me~ced),. . . 0 y Bee With Sat YoshizatoMorik~wa Mack MN:g~~a t k Ku~f Ali Ka~e~~~. W t b T d H I) contimles to take care of housing discrimination cases (D., malO speaker f?r Yamaguchi, Grace Al a:nad e, e the evenmg, discussed changes I? Takata. Bill Wakiji, George Oka- Winning team to be treated to reif'!red to him from the regional office and serves as senior law .he ~oug~t necessary for C?-h- da Harry Takei Ken Dyo and dinner will be announced at the ward!:. n at his St. Mary's Episcopal Church as well as solo formans 10 view of t~e expand~ng To~ Ito.' dance. with its choir. His limited hours at home are spent trying to economy and populatIOn. Speakmg ______con\'jl1ce his two sons, Danny and Randy, just who's boss around extensively on the critical water the b(l use. No comment. With what time he has left. he prac• situation in Central Valley now tic e~ law with Dave McKibbin. being debated in the state legisla· ture. a stimulating question and Harold Gordon fealured in Chicago Daily '" answer period followed. We come now to this week's Japanese lesson, not because Newly elected chapter president New ar1!cle during Brotherhood Week' the " j Ian" in Chuman is norsy, but because it just happens to Frank Shoji and his cabinet were come to our mind at this point. As nocturnally we exercise our sworn into office by Buddy Iwata. (The Chicago D:\;iy News, during Brotherhood Week pub• s ali\,:.ry gland's (this might sound nasty but it isn't) and rumi• NC-WNDC executive board memo lished a special stOI'Y each day of the week telling what some nate the doings of the day while ingesting the morsels of a bel'. of Livingston. Cl'ticagoans are doinrr to further the theme: "That peopLe shall m eal that was, ana not, as did a great Asi,an spiritual leader, Upon relinquishing his gavel to live as one family on man." Daily News reporter Mary Kroncke, in contemplate our navel, bits of phonetic distortions short-circuit Shoji. retiring president Lester llt!r second instaHme,~r, told of HaroLd G'ordon, under the eye• our train of thoughts. Koe Yoshida publicly acknowledg· c:>tching headLine of "Wartime Enemy of Japanese Now Their ed the assistance and support of Champion." - Edit01·.) A cutie that derailed us was, we thought, pungent. Take his cabinet officers. the word " bucket". As the Issei pronounce it. in romaji, it Serving with Shoji are Walter • • • becomes baketsu. which translated is bake (ghost) and tsu Morimoto, V.p.; Leonard Kinoshi· CmCAGO. - Harold R. Gordon nese to attend a national conven-. (knowledge), or a spirit medium, better known as a cocktail ta, treas.; Midori Shiba, COl'. sec.; fought against the Japanese in I tion." Hagiwara relates. "and he glass. Actually, our first inspiration was the more earthy transla• Joyce Kimura. rec. sec.; Joyce World War II-but he's been fight- kept pushing and planning with tion of ba-kctsu, which means the south end of a northbound Kashiwase, hist.; Tom Nakashima. ing for them ever since. Ius." . hor s.:: . pub.; Tets Morimoto. Tex Kino· Gordon. a Chicago attorney with "He even went to Washington shita. Mrs. Dee Yoshida, area offices at 134 N. La Salle, has three or four times for us." spent 10 years leading and de· Finally, in 1952. in the Walter• TV POSTMORT reps. On the 1956 board were Ka· zuo Masuda, Ken Yagi, Mary Ta· fending Japanese aliens and Japa- McCarran Immigration Act, COIl• Indignant at Channel 9 (KHJ·TV) showing "Betrayal irom nioka, Snow Shoji, Frank Shoji, nese Americans. gress declared citizenship could the East". a phony pic about Japanese espionage in the U.S. Joe Hamaguchi. Walter Morimo• He is at least partly responsi· not be withheld on the basis of duripg WW2 , our sec, Blanche, wrote a hot protest letter to to. Margie Tanioka and Roy Oka· ble for the naturalization of 2O.l)OO race or religion. citizens of Japanese birth in the These few words meant much the station as well as to the sponsors of the show as did hara . . ver~ last three years. Ito many persons. ' SWT A chapter prez Kango Kunitsugu and others. A prompt It was the U.S. Army that really One of them, Mrs. Hatsu Matsu- a ~d courteous reply came from James D. Higson. program CLers in conference with prepared Gordon fGr his volunteer naga. 1300 E. Hyde Park, became director for KHJ-TV. in which he says " ... You will be glad work with Japanese Americans. a citizen in 1953. to I a rn that we do not plan to exhibit 'Betrayal from the Illinois state1s attorney They sent him back from a Pa- She had waited 35 years. E ast' in the future." cific outpost to attend military Mrs. Matsunaga and her hus- CHICAGO.-Harold Gordon, chair• government school at Northwes- band had been residents since • • • man of the Chicago J ACL legal• tern University. 1918. CHt'·KA JUNIORS legislative committee and also a His training. designed to fit him . Their four children and eight When Tom Nagamatsu, the chairman of the Central Cal member of the NAACP legisla• tive committee. joined officers of for a military governorship in Ja- grandchildren-born here, and eit.• Dist' Jct Council, wrote us inquiring about the background and the local NAACP branch in a re• pan. steeped him deeply in the izens-formed deep roots. forlT'ation of the Orange County JAYs (Japanese American cent conference with State Attor• country'S culture and customs. But the couple could not be Youth ), a Jr. JACL type group sponsored by the O.C. chapter, ney Benjamin S. Adamowski on "After my discharge I met one naturalized. we t :.rrned the letter over to Ken Uyesugi. who was the prez the question of discrimination of my Japanese American teach· "I have voted for a President,'" when the JAYs were organized. Ken shoved the letter over to against Negroes and members of ers on a Loop street and suggested Mrs. Matsunaga now says with other minority groups in places of we have a reunion." he says. deep pride. Bill " Mo" Mat;umoto, who was one of the brains behind the The reunion led to Gordon join· "I am very happy." JAY ~ (as was former Mis Nat'l JACL, Janet Fukuda Morital. public accommodation. ing the Japanese American Cizi- The pert little grandmother says H ~ I.S also the student body president at Whittier College. Assignment of an ass i s tan t state's attorney to handle cases zens League in 1947. Ishe has no desire to 'live in Japan. Bill 1"1 turn has written a lengthy letter to Tom which should of such discrimination was assured He immediately. began working though she has visited her 81-year• prove helpful. Huzzahs to Tom and the CCDC for their earnest by Adamowski. to toss out a law that made pers· old mother there. consideration of a youth program in their area which should ons of Japanese birth ineligible for "This country fits me much bet- JTl a!;e na~'1 prexy Roy Nishikawa quiver w,ith joy, this being SlUG WAKAMATSU AIDS naturalization. ter." she declares. "This is my one of hiS pet projects. "There was no reason for the home." IN BROTHERHOOD TEA discrimination." Gordon says now. Why has Harold Gordon giveD CHICAGO.-Shig Wakamatsu is '·It was just a quirk of the law." so much time and energy to help 1I!!of AD.'CBJ KAZUO lNoun serving as committeeman in plan- "Harry helped us develop a an American minority group? ning the annual Brotherhood Week leg~lative program," says Abe "I've been working for ·causes' Bill ChUlA Ge~rk~rbj~~~ Ha~wara. W't cl GaUwoo4 ~~ U in Woodlaw tea to be held this 1441 N .. Cleve I.a n.d. ever since 1 was old enough," Bt:.) Ya.ma.mo'o ••ALn 2t &dd.le Motokaue Sunday at the Grand Ballroom. chau'n:an of the Midwest D1S~l'1Ct ~~~on ans~ers., . Y_U Steve Kaca.... Initi t d It· b th U ·ted · Council of the Japanese American I m JeWISh, aDd 1 ve felt dis- "=e~J<)D "111 ear 11 Flma.tI D • • p .... • .. YWIllko Nacah1sa. W~ e a~ )I y e Dl 1Citizens League. He is American- crimination most of my life .• ••• 27 .... l~trneoD~. l..A...... awn OD erence. the e~'ent born. "1 saw these people needed me." drew 4,000. "H3t'!'Y was the first non-Japa· -Chicago DaiI¥... He",. Mass imt:-lJlltion rites of the activE: Sonoma County are (left 1.0 right) Sam Miyano, pres.; Jim Murakami. are Flort'·lce Kawaoka, Jean Miyano, Auxiliary social J ACL ann Auxiliary oficers for 1957 were conducted 1st v.p.; Fred YokoYl'ma, 2nd V.p.; Gcorge Hamap}oto, co-chmn.: Chiyoko Miyano, Aux. rec. sec.; Suzy Hiro• by Fran!; Oda (left, at microphone), vice-chairman of rec. sec.; Beth Yoshioka, cor. sec.; Jim Miyano, treas.; oka, Aux. v.p.; Margarette Murakami, Aux. pres.; Roy the No. CaJiL-Western Nevada District Council, at thE' Ed Ohki, 1000 Club chmn.; Greg Hamamoto, hist.; Yclma m"jo, Walter Taniguchi, and Iwao Hamamoto, Santa R l.. ~ a Memorial Hall on Jan. 5. In the back row George Yokoyama, board member. In thE: front row board members. - Bill Hamamoto Photo. S-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957 *------1951 JACL Officers REPEAL OF WASHINGTON STATE *----- ALIEN LAND LAW MOOTED BY JACL VERY TRULY YOURS Santa Barbara JACL PORTLAND.-Delegates from six inate district council officers to be Richal'd Tokumar'U ...... Pres. chapters attended the first quar• elected at the" PNWDC biennial By Harry K. Honda Harold Lee ...... 1st V.P . convention. slated for Dec. 13-14 :'.like Hide ...... ,...... 2nd V.P terly session of .the Pacific North• Tom Tsunoda ...... Treas. west District Council here last at Seattle. has also been appointed. Suzie Tamura ...... Rec. Sec Sunday at the offices of the Japa• Delegates also mooted on the rnnce. San" ...... COl'. Sec Xancy Kozuki. rfese American ·Society. Dr. Kelly prospects of employing temporary Ri yokui Fukumura ...... Social Yamada, PNW chairman, of Seat· Japanese farm workers in Oregon r Gripe with TV' Tom H il'ashima ...... 1000 Club i\IEMBERS-AT-LARGE tle presided. and heard Satow's report on the Mrs. Caesar UYesaka. Jerry Ka'.',ano. Groundwork for repealing the national. JACL program. Re". (:P'1rl!e Takaya. Julie Katayama. .• Letter published in the Los Angeles Examiner .radio-TV Joe Wa tana be. Washington state alien land law Puyallup Valley chapter will roaanzine two Sundays ago was called to our attenhon by a was presented for the attention of host the next PNWDC meeting frie-;d this week. It said: ,.! have a gripe with TV. These Chicago JACL four JACL chapters in the state. May 5. borr:ble war pictures of the Japanese and Americans are doing Dr . Fra nk Sakamoto ...... Chmn. The district has also recom- nothing but breeding a hatred of the Japanese in our children. Maudie N"kada 1s t V.C. (Prog. & P.R.) Tahei Ma tsunaga .... 2nd V.C. (Issei) mended a separate and distinctive PNWOC I heard my 7-year-old daughter say, 'Those dirty Japs'. That Hiro Mayeda ... . 3rd V.C. (Memb.) national membership card for the I finished it. We live near the most wonderful Japanese people Sat Takemoto 4th V.C. (Fin & Budg) Kozo Fukuda ...... Treas. 1000 Clup. in our community. They're clean, good parents, and thrifty. Nancy Ishikawa ...... Rec. Sec. Rather than organize a Pacific Continued from Front Page Why, for a few lousy dollars, dn we stand for the fostering Ruth Kumata ...... Cor. Sec. Frank Takahashi ...... Aud. Northwest JACL credit union, Asakawa, treas.; Kiyoshi Nishika• of hate in these movies?"-1>Iartha West, Gardena. Betty Iwatsuki ...... Hist. members were also urged to join wa, ass't treas.; Shio Uyetake, rec. sec. ; George Nishimura, cor. '. This letter is but an example of why Dr. Roy Nishikawa, Stockton JACL the National JACL Credit Union, our national JACL president, has been hammering us with which is headquartered in Salt sec.; Newton Takashima, Bukichi Lou T.sunekawa ...... Pres. Fujii, cust.: Henry Kato, del.; Ka• revitdlizing the project to eliminate anti-Nisei motion pictures Ted Kamibayashi , ...... 1st V.P. Lake City. froll'. TV . , . " Across the Pacific" and "Betrayal from the Ted Ishihara ...... 2nd V.P zuo Kinoshita, alt. del.; Helen Ta• Al Umino ...... Treas. Recognition of the outstanding East'·, two pictures containing anti-Nisei footage, have been mura, :Mich Sakauye, socia,; Jack Yukie Shinoda ...... Rec. Sec. chapter in the district will be Ouchida, 1000 Club. shown this year in Southern California and where other films Toyo Ij uin ...... Cor. Sec. made in the Chapter of the Bi• Fra nk Shinoda ...... Pub. Shig Hongo and Henry Kato, like " Air Force", " Little Tokyo, U.S.A.", " Black Dragon" and ennium award as a committee was Mitsuye Kamimura ...... Hist. immediate oast president of the "Behind the Rising Sun" are likely to be shown ... Headquar• Henry Kusama ...... 1000 tlub set up. Another committee to nom- Harry Hayashino ...... Issei ReI. two chapte;s, presented scrolls ters is in the midst of organizing a national campaign to Mitzi Baba, inscribed with the Pledge of Alle• acquaint television station managers across the country that Violet Kimura ...... Social Ted Wakabayashi. giance to the following new Issei these films place persons of Japanese ancestry in an unfavora- Mas I shihara ...... Sgt.-at-arms. citizens: . ble and untrue light. . Nisei jockey set Portland - Hisa,yo Akagi, Frank 1\1 The Chicago JACL, we learn, plans to recruit volunteers Arkansas Valley JACL. Hirata, Yuka Hitomi, Kei Ito, Toshiml REVISED LIST Kagawa, Yutaka Kahara, Kusuno Ka• (preferably parents of school children, since this sort of thing for SWLA meeting wasaki, Sei Kinoshita, Teru Koyama. bits them first) to check on film schedules ... Chapters in Ugi Hara da ...... P res. Shinano Migaki, Kiyomatsu Minami, Elmo S akai ...... 1st V.P . George Taniguchi, one of the Fumio Nakata, Kane Nakata, Kikuo other metropolitan areas ' might take this cue and be ready. Mrs. Aki Ushiyama ...... 2nd V.P . Nakata. Chika C. Niimi, Yasugoro M ike Fujimoto ...... 3rd V.P. leading jockeys on West Coast Ogawa, Katsu Okazaki, Tomikichi Osa• STORY OF A LITTLE STUD Tom Nakayama ...... Treas. tracks will be the guest speaker ki. Yoshi T .S. Phillips, Takuji Sasaki. Mrs. Susie Hinakta . . .• . ... Rec. Sec. Asano Sato, Mine Hasegawa Seymour ;VII'S. Mollie Harada ...... Cor. Sec. at the Southwest Los Angeles JACL '. This m ight be classified as an insignificant incident . .. Last Mitsuru Shoji, Kina Sugimura, Katsu Fred Morimoto ...... Aud. on Mar. 6, 8 p.m., at Centenary Tanaka. Chiyoko H. Tateishi. Yone week we battled the deadline furiously since one little stud, REPRESENTATIVES-AT-LARGE Methodist Church, announced Sam Toya N1asahi Yasui, Isa Yumibe. who~e parts catalogue number is BB 565, operating the safety Seido Mameda, Gresham - Kiuda Ouch ida, Yasu• Mrs. Setsu Harada ...... Rocky Ford Hirasawa, program vice-president. stop level in the Linotype pump pot mechanism broke. , , taro Oguri. Joe Wyeno. By coincidence, March 6 will be George Azumano was toastmas• Since the first week of February, reading matter other than Harry Wyeno ...... Crowley Bob Mayeda. just three days shy of two years ter. Ko Yada led in the Pledge headlines. editorial, vital statistics and Bill Hosokawa's coilimn George Hinaki .... Swink & La Junta since " Gootch" rode his first race. of Allegiance. Fumio Nakata re• is p"t'pared on the Teletypesetter tape, which is fed into the tV;.~.ry F:.!~o~orimoto ...... Granada Since his initial effort, he has sponded in behalf of the new Issei automatic typesetting machine ... This change was effected John Shiba, ranked among the top jockeys on citizens. Mrs. George Gokami. a with a slight degree of inconvenience, as all changes seem to Nobu Has ui ...... , . . Las Ani~as the west coast. former member of the Takarazuka incur. But the broken stud, with the parts house closed for Han'y Shironaka, Ted Maruyama. troupe, entertained with several tQe day, appeared to be a solid crippler in the production George Ushiyama ...... Advisers This meeting will also feature Japanese dances. June Kasahara, schedule. But it so happens (after we checked the parts cata• the installation of the 1957 South• daughter of Tom Kasahara of the logue for the other typesetting maG:hine ) that this stud is inter• San Jose JACL west cabinet officers by Dr. Roy Gresham chapter. also rendered changeable .. ,And we were able to dismantle the pump-pot Phil Matsumura (inc) ...... Pres. Nishikawa, national JACL presi• Harry Ishigaki ...... 1st V.P. several accol'dian numbers. mechanism without having the shop call a mechanic at $6 per dent, stated Kango Kunitsugu, Kehzo lshimaru ...... 2nd V.P. Shiz Ochiai and Sumi Fujita hour to do the job. I'm certainly not mechanically-minded, but Wayne Kanemoto ...... Treas. chapter president. Toshiko Ishimaru ...... Rcc. Sec. were banquet co-chairmen. if minor adjustments are necesary to keep this Remington• Dollie Kawanami ... / ...... Cor. Sec. Rand in operating condition, I 'd certainly apply the screw Norman Y. l'-lPAcn::,c CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957

THE NORTHWEST PICTURE

By Elmer Ogawa Currently thE' object of {'nthusi• asm among NLei sport fan' in Southern California, the only _ 'isei AAU basketball team in Lo An· geles-the JATB Tra\'eler.-host• Oldest Ue·S. Judo Club ed the yUting San Jo.e Zebras, No. Calif. >'Lei Athletic Union Ititli ts. and whipped them 8:?-il Seattle before 500 fans at Vemce High f ST WEEK, when we drifted into the local juqo club, Igym last Saturday. G!V€! nting seemed to be following the customary pattern. Each Assisting Kathy Kitajima, queen for the 1957 National J ACL Bowl• Dick Na~i. former eager for ing Tournament Mar. 5-10 at Albany Bowl, are attendants neft to the Trojan varsity, led 1he Trav• . h.c nt of the gentle art, as he enterea the practice area. rightl Mary Yeda of Alameda, Sumi Shimada of Richmond-El rnC" t? a formal bow, as a naval officer would salute the colors elers on the scoreboard with 26 Cerrito and Julie Sugita of Berkeley-all of whom are participants points. However Zebra center a~ l'-t.- boards his ship. But it soon became apparent that there in this year's tournament.-Utsumi Photo<;. W€ll~ Hank Nose. who played with San 14 Nisei-Sansei and 15 Caucasians practicing on the mats. Jose State College, took high point Ont:: lreckle faced little guy of grammar school age was prac, honors with 28 points. 14 of them t icng falls all by himself, and flip flopping on' the mat with from the free-throw line and 13 of . r es l.nding whacks. Another fellow with a blonde crew cut was Bill Ka jlkawa resigns head basketball them in a row. . t o a.1 appearances having quite a tussle with Shuzo Kato, a According to one local sports. blac" belter who enjoys quite a reputation in the national ~rizona scribe, the. Travelers were off• cor f' titions. men lor post al Stale (cUege form and if Nagai had his usual ~.1 1903 Prof. 1. Ito, an eighth grade black belt, made a TEMPE.-Niseidom's only bigtime a successor. Athletic Dil'ector night, the score would have been s peC'.a l trip from Japan to found the Seattle Judo Yudanshakai. college basketball coach in the IClyde Smith said they will look worse. The win may prove costly T hat makes the Seattle club the oldest in the United States. United States is resigning that first in the \ rank of coaches in for the Travelers, he added, since post this weekend, after his Ari.! Arizona . . Jim Miyano, who pairs with Na• The daddy of the local judoists is Mr. F. Y. Miyazawa, who gai in the frontal attack, was in• is in his 70s and is regularly as participant and instructor in zona State Sun Devils play their Smith said Kajikawa "bas al• final game Monday night against ways stood out as a person to jured during the game and may be the , ractice sessions himself. sidelined for the remainder of the the Univ. of Arizona. accept larger responsibilities in brief AAU season. '1 HE ONE individual who has done most to bring about Bill Kajikawa, head basketball meeting the needs .of the gr0:-vth pH'Stnt day activity in local judo circles is footballer George coach at AS since 1948, surprised of the health. ' phYSical education, The Southern Pacific-Border Con- d t d b ference AAU basketball playoffs to Wilsc n, who is no relative to George Wilson, the all-4merican students, faculty and alumni as an ~ecre~ ~on epartment ecause select the local area representative bal:ftack who starre1 on the Husky Rose Bowl teams of 1924 well as the local sports scene with of bls wlllmgness to accept and in the national tournament at Den• a nd 1926. This George is from Seattle U. and for couple of his announcement on Feb. 21. carry out assignments beyond the ver will start Mar. 8. The Denver years coached the Nisei Vet's " Fighting Irish" to regional However he will remain to head call of his regular duties." play begins Mar. 23. l"ittJe League championshitJs, and is at present on the football the req~ired physical education Kajikawa. Smith said, will have A single .elimination affair, JA- C03cf:ing staff of Kent-Meridian High School of Kent, Wash. program for men. responsibilities in the three im· TB's first opponents have not been Wils:..:1 is quite a man on the mat himself, but because of his portant areas. In addition to named. The series will be held at {ooHall activities, the Amateur Athletic Union has ruled him a One of the most popular coaches heading the required physical edu· Los Angeles City College gym. professional Which leaves him out of judo competition. in the Border Conference for nearly cation program for men, he will In the meantime, negotiations ':hrough his efforts, judo is a part of the physical education a decade, Kajikawa had been un· be working with majors in pbysical were reported underway for the currit:ulum of 'Kent-Meridian; the judo class is loaded with Idel' no real organized pressure education and will help develop -r:ravel~rs to meet with the San from fans or alumni to resign, a program in driver safety educa. t1m~ w.mner of the Salt Lake J ACL foott-all players, and the school's gridiron record will indicate although the Sun Devils have tion. Invltahonals. that one sport complements ilie other. never won a Border basketball . I In the 68-57 loss to Galbraith :1 was little 'less than a dozen years ago that George, then title during his regime and are The former Al'lzona State foot- Sporting Goods in an AAU tilt at a M"rine Corps sergeant, looked behind a Buddhist church in experiencing a disappointing sea• ball and baseball star was named Glendale High Feb. 19, the JATBs Hon":ulu to see what all the. grunting was about. He watched son in which they have won nine Border Conference Coach of the faced a pair of tall forwards, one a wbi~e, asked if he could play, and during the course of the games and lost 14. Year after the 1954-55 season at 6 ft.-9, the other 6-5. when his team made a late spurt Organized early this year, the. frienuship that followed, learned from his instructors that his " The past nine seasons as bas• own home town of Seattle Jor years had been a hot-bed of judo. to take thirtl place in the league. club sports a 3-2 record. ketball coach at Arizona State But he never has had a ~ng r:ot only by active participation as a member, but in the have given me a prioeless oppor• season since taking over from r ole of tournament director, and public relatiens for Seattle tunity to work and associate with Rudy Lavik in 1948. . Denver to bid for DojC'. George has done much to interpret the sport and its a great number of finel young Kajikawa's over-all record with trarli:ions to the sports page readers. men," Kajikawa told Dean Smith the Sun Devils is 86 wins and of the Arizona Republic sports '1960 nal" keg mee NORTHWEST corner is producing a plentiful share 135 losses. 'HIE staff. of c.':a mpions in many sports Nowhere is there such a con• A native of Los Ange es, Kaji. DENVER.-John Noguchi, mem· "T h e permanent friendships cenllation of top rated girl golfers: Pat Lesser, Jo Anne Gunder• kawa attended Maryknoll School ber of the National JACL Bowling made in this period are posses• son. Anne Quast, and Ruth Jessen. and Lafayette JI:. High School be· Advisory Committee, who departed sions I know I shall retain through ':'he fetes of the Slo-Mos, Shanty I , and Miss Thriftway have fore his family moved to Arizona, this week to participate in the my lifetime, perhaps even after c aL's~ d the hydroplane· capital to move 2,000 miles from the where he starred in football. bas· 11th annual National JACL Bowl• the win-and-loss records fade into ing Tournament, revealed that DeiJeit River to Lake Washington. No longer under the control ketball and baseball at Phoenix the past .. ' . " Denver will enter a bid for the 01 a tight little clique, next August it will require two days to High School, making all - state 1960 nationals. r un off the Gold Cup race because of the large number of Kajikawa praised the loyalty of teams in baseball and football. Denver hosted the tournament entnes. The two days of actual racing climax a week or more students, the college administra· Kajikawa quarterbacked the Ari· in 1951. tion, alumni, and fans, and said I of t::ne trial eliminations. zona State eleven for three years Noguchi, past Mile-Hi J ACL his present squad, which hasn't a Jll the ranks of the amateur boxers, we have Pete Rade• in the Border Conference and was president and Cathay Post com• single senior, has great potential. macher , Olympic heavyweight champion, and ex-Husky foot• named to the Little Ali-American mander, ' chaired the 1951 classics. Speculation about Kajikawa's re· baller Jim McCarter, who after winning the National Golden squad. placement started immediately. GlO"es heavyweight title last year, is going to the finals at With the outbreak of war, he TULARE COUNTY .YACL KEG One of the first names mentioned LEAGUE LEADERS NAI"IED Boston once again. A 16-year-old featherweight named Bobby voluntee'red for militarY service in discussions around the campus accept~d VISALIA.-B. Katayama rolled Hic;:!t goes to the national finals from this area and even boxing and was finally in 1943 a was that of Ed Long, one of Kaji· 255 recently to pace bowlers in the impcssario Jack Hurley, who is famously stingy with his and went overseas with the 522nd kawa's All-Border Conference for• eight-team Tulare County JACL eo.rr.i_liments,. labels Bobby as one of the few natural fighters Field Artillery Bn. with the 442nd wards of the early 50s, who has Regiment. League. H. Sadahiro's 605 is the he bas seen In so many decades of managing fighters. best individual series. won two straight Arizona Class He was the first Japanese Amer• ',V e would like so much to report that featherweight Tommy AA championships at Phoenix Un· ican to head a college sports pro• T allzc is on the superb team that will represent the Northwest ion. His Coyotes have won 53 1~e gram when named head baseball in National Golden Gloves final, but Tommy was eliminated straight games. coach at Arizona State in 1940. He ~ ~ Downtown in a split decision by a youngster named Ramos from Yakima While school officials indicated was freshman basketball coach at \vbe survived all other competition. We once saw Tommy put ~ITI San Francisco no particular hurry in securing the time of his varsity appointment up ;.J creditable exhibition with the phenomenal Bobby Hicks Corner Bush a~1l:~ ugh H~cks in 1948. Kajikawa, a member of and Stockton outweighed Tommy by 12 pounds which is a big the Arizona JACL and 1000 Club I dJ:1.ifl'ence m that weight class. Sacramento JACL holds has been associated with th~ '-I ':here was a time when this neck of the woods was identified ninth annual kegfest coaching staff since his gradua• HOTEL VICTORIA a s H:e area from which came the tall leathery oarsmen, and tion at Tempe in 1937. He is mar• M. Hosaka - Oper. Owner that was about the limit of local athletic fame. Just recently SACRAMENTO. - Holsum Egg ried to the former Margaret Aki• EXbrook 2-2540 an >:J quisitive Syracuse newspaperman learned that Washington rolled 3194 to win the ninth annual moto and they have two children. was not going to be invited to the annual intercollegiate rowing Sacramento J ACL bowling tourna• r eg;nta. That was to be the notification that the Husky rowing ment, held here Feb. 8-9, it was en."s are banned for two years as an outgrowth of the PCC announced this past week by tour• L.A. Japanese Casualty KADO'$ f oo~::; all in:,estig~tion .resulting from the Cherberg firing. The nament chairman Ken Shibata. A Complete Line of Oriental l'ooda P C,: has since lifted ItS ban on all Washington athletes except total of 46 teams vied for the top Insurance Association 'l;otu. Age._Maguro & Sea au. Complete Insurance Protectioa FREE DELIVERY IN CITY t ool~ a.11 .players ; but the NCAA and the Intercollegiate Rowing $200 prize. 1316 FenkeU Ave .• UN Z-oe5I Mich Takahashi of Palo Alto ~s~,cc) atlon came up with .this stinker decision. Georg (sic-no Detroit 21, Mich. _ e ) ~. Me~ers , sports editor of the Seattle Times reports an took the singles with 720, besting Aihora Ins. Agency Alhara-Riroto-Kakita l ~t~: \ ' IeW wl~h the Rev. Frank N. Gardner, president of the Jim Nagahara of San Jose at 713 114 So. San Pedro MU 9041 NCr..A who. IS professor of Christian Thought at Drake Uni• and George Nomura of El Cerrito, Sal~ who had 708. VE? ,ty. the Rev. Gardner: " The innocent have to suffer I _Anson T. Fujioka "Insist on the Finest" WJl1 the gwlty." B. Sternes-T. Ojima of Sacra- Room 206, 312 E. 1st St. mento paired to win at 1328. Tosh MA 6-4393 AN 3-1109 Hamamoto of San Francisco won 27 New Deluxe Units - Kitchenettes aU-events with 2018. Funakoshi Ins. Agency Free Radios - TV Available l WWle Funakoshi - ;\1. 1\IasUDaka I -::;::'I' 218 So. San Pedro St. MA 6-5275, Res. GLadstone "-5412 • t. SLEEPY HOLLOW MOTEL Tulare County CL bowling 1&1 544 W. MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, Calif. tournament results told Hirohata Ins. Agency 354 E. 1st St. -Conveniently Located on Highway 50- VISALIA,-Results of the mid• lIIU 1215 A'I' 7-8605 Kanemasa Brand season tournament of the Tulare at Approach to S.F. - Oakland Bay Bridge County JACL Bowling Association Ask for Fujimoto's Edo Inouye Ins. Agency IUiso, Prewar Quality, at MIKE &; LILLIAN NAKANO Phone OLympic 5-4796 at the Visalia Bowling AlIev were 13023 Sylvanwood A v~. reported last week as follows: Norwalk, C&lil l'Niv. 4-5'174 Your Favotite Shoppin&, TEAM: Wo!' bv Felix Cohen 2293. CeDter Oros i Truckme 2205. Sierra Farm 2192. DOUBLES: Won by W . Kurihara-T. Tom T. Ito S adahlro 1143, J . Hatakeda-Y. Kata- EMPIRE PRINTING CO. yama 1140; G . Hayakawa-H. Sadaluro ISS D~l (\Jonte St., Pasadena I FUJIMOTO & CO. EngUsb and Japanese 1127. S Hatakeda-G. Shlmaji 1118. F. BY '-1189 BY I-IUS 302·301 SoaUa 4tIl West COMMERCIAL and SOCIAL PRINTING Yada-N. Ogata 1116. SINGLES: Won by J. MOrioka 611, S. Hatakeda 574 T Soto Ins Agency • II Saft Lake CiW 4. Utah Mori 556. K . Tashiro 554, M. Katavama 114 Weller St. MU 7060 Los Angeles 12 ~51. ALL EVENTS: Won by G . Shlma- I 1~. So. SaIl . Pedro It. Tel. EMPire HZ7t JI 17t6. Y. Fukushima 1701. K. Tashiro Ken SaCo - Hilt Salata .. 1699. ~ ______-..! I l-______~ 7-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, March 1, 1957 I Francisco. NAKAMURA-BISBIDA-hb. II. Llbll T I 5, .. 1. G: S T. and Grace M., both Fresno. 1fUNOJ)"-Mf'Y~ - Tamots.! ami Kinuye, both C~enne. Wyo. SAYEGUSA-NAKAHARA - ,JAIl. to. BIR'DlJi.. N .... KASHIMA - HAYASHI - George Hll.wlU'Il. Y.. Los AD~et; ~le. LOS ANGELES NEWscrtTER LOS ANOEl£l'; I June, both Pasadena. OJaa. T.H. AlZAWA, Kiyoshi (Keiko Endo) _ NISHiMURA-H!ROKANE - Yoshio SUMIMOTO-SUZUKI - JAIl. 12. KIln. boy Glen Sehchj. JaD. 3. ~;~ Sacramento; Sachiko. San Fran- Fresno; Estelle. Bakersfield. By Henry Mori ARIMA. Wl!lliIce S, I Sel,!,a L. Wil- NORI-KOBA Y ASHI _ Asa and Bar• YAMANO-IZUHARA - Jan. 12. T;!~. bams) -gl.l. Wanda Kltruke. Dec. 31 I bara M both Los AngeJe San Fernando; Nancy H .. 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Basically, it was identical to the one vestment property and may put up he proposed last year . except that, additionally, this session. he a hotel-shopping center in the reqllE.'<; ted specific authority' for the Attorney Gener~l to adJust American style or some other the l> tatus of Hungarian refugees and Japanese and Korean venture with U.S. capital. What• orphans paroled into this country since last fall and to extend ever he can put up here will gain the discretionary powers of the Attorney General to parole respect and name for the Nisei into the United States future refugees from communist perse• here in Japan. cuticn and tyranny. Coachella Valley JACL, each year, honors those who have attained When he landed at the Interna• As was the case last year, the Administration does not tional Airport, he was met by his !heir 70th birthday. This year, under less formal but more two sisters, now residing in Ja• seek a complete overhaul of the Immigration and Nationality comfortable surroundings of Painted Canyon, the chapter honored (Walter-McCarran ) Act of 1952. Rather, as in the case of its pan. Within a few moments after tkft to right) Mrs. Flliino Seto, Rokuichi Arita, Asaemon Kitagawa his landing. he was constantly civil rights program, it attempts to follow a moderate or middle and Sakuta Shimizu. ;~bout 200 were in attendance at a combina• sought by numerous inquiries, in• course, with only a slight concession made to tho~e who would Hen picnic and instalLation of 1957 officers. cluding telephone calls at my of- materially alter the " natiol)al origins" formula for determining fice. ' the admissability of aliens into the United States under the Taul's visit appears to be an• regular quotas. TRAFFIC FATALITY SEEN other landmark followillg Mike Ex-Tule Lake head Masaoka's recent visit here. Taul's '" '" AS MINOR VIOLATION• work with the Home State In• Generally speaking, '"those provisions of the President's pro- vestment Co., developing commer• gram which meet with the specific approval of the JACL to install cabinet ONLY ANOTHER AUTO CAUSE cial centers, was widely publicized include the following : in the Japanese press prior to his 1 Use of the 1950 census in place of the 1920 census in SAN FRANCISCO.·-"Most of the arrival. 3.804 deaths and 130.982 injuries determining the maximum immigration into this country, with at Santa Barbara Another project Taul has in the additional quota numbers made available for distribution to occurring from traffic accidents in mind is a summer tour of Japan various countries in proportion to the actual immigration from SANTA BARBARA.-Richard To• California last year were caused by a group of American Masons. 1hese countries from 1924 to 1955. Under this formula, Japan's kumaru, newly elected chapter by what ordinarily would be minor If organized, it should help cement annual quota immigation numbers would be increased from president of the Santa Barbara traffic violations, except another Japanese-American friendship in JACL, and his cabinet will be in• automobile happened to be in the view of the fraternal spirit of 185 to about 563. stalled by Elmer Shirrell, one 2. Pooling of unused quotas on a regional basis, with extra way," commented Judge John Ai- freemasenFy. It is- one .of th'e time director at Tule Lake WRA so, visiting Los Angeles jurist at ~a~y ways to combat raCial pre- visac; made available to those with skills needed in this country Center and former supervi~or of . J d Judice. or to close relatives of United States citizens. Under this proce• the Midwest WRA Office, at Ker• the Con f erence 0 f C a liforma u g- T 1 . th f N' i es here last week. au I~ among. e e.w lS~ dure, Japan's presently oversubscribed-for-many-years quota ry's Restaurant on Saturday, " 'd "Th t f-f' Masons m Amerlca. Masonry IS waiting list may be reduced materially within a few years, Mar. 9. Judge AlSO sal , e ra IC Iyet n.ew among the Nisei like in perhaps eliminated entirely in abJUt five years instead of the Tokumaru will head a cabinet violator who reaches our courts .Tapan. It will take time' for this corrently estimated 20 or more years. made up of Harold Lee, 1st v.p,; must be impressed with fact. It movement to take hold. 3 . Admission of orphans adopted or to be adopted by United Mike Hide, 2nd v.p.; Tom Tsunoda, is hoped that through the work of The late Dr. Randolph M. Sa• States citizens. With United States troops stationed in Japan treas.; Suzie Tamura, rec. sec.; this committee Cof traffic court kada of Chicago was one of the and Okinawa, many hardship cases will result unless this type Frances Sano, cor. sec: ; Nancy judges) a statewide comprehen- very few Nisei Shriners. Kozaki, Riyokui Fukumura, so• sive traffic safety program will be Taul had inquired w h e the r of sf,ecial legislation is enacted. cial; Tom Hirashima, 1000 Club; 4. Elimination of the requirement for inspection of aliens developed to achieve this pur- American Masons were mistreat• Mrs. Caesar Uyesaka, Julie Ka• pose." ed or killed in Japan before the from the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska who seek admission tayama. the Rev. George Takaya, war, aware that such informatioD to the mainland United States. Hawaii and Alaska are integral Joe Watanabe, Jerry Kawano. would stir racial prejudice, But parte; of this country and there should be freedom of travel membs.-at-Irg. he was told no American or Euro• bet\\ een the United States proper and all its territories and The new president served as Honor new citizens pean Mason was killed or injured possE'ssions. vice-president last year and is a in Japan, although J a pan's 5. Repeal of that section of the Asia-Pacific Triangle provi• 1000 Club member. He ,is head Thought Police was always check• siom: to extend nonquota status to Japanese spouses of citizens Igardener at the famous Dos Pue• at Snake River fete ing on them. blos R;illch in Goleta and serves Taul Watanabe's coming sum• of North and South American countries admitfed into the' United as clerk on the Ellwood Elemen• ONTARIO, Ore.-Twenty-one new• State.:; for permanent residence. This will facilitate the main• mer tour of Masonic members tary School board of trustes. ly naturalized citizens were ho• would be most welcome in Japan. tenance of families where the father or the mother, hUSband or Tom Hirashima, past president, nored at a cUmler-dance. in con• we'd like to think. wife, is of Japanese ancestry insofar as the Western Hemisphere will serve as installation dinner junction with the installation of the is concerned. toastmaster. Shirrell will be the Snake River J ACL Chapter officers . 6. Abolishing file requirement of one year's residence in the dinner speaker. at the East Side Cafe, Jan. 25 United States prior to marriage in the case of nonimmigrants, \vith toastmaster Tom Iseri presid• Senate to vole on such as stUdents. This would help prevent the disruption of ing. families and unnecesary expenses involved in leaving the 1 Welcome addres was given by civil rights bHI country and returning to rejoin the citizen spouse. past president, Dr. Kenji Yaguchi, with responses by K. Tsukamaki WASHL'lGTON.-A Senate judici• • • • and Harry Kuramoto for the new ary subcommittee decided last Two of the President's recommelldations that the JACL citizens. Monday to vote on controversial feels should be opposed are those limiting congressional cOn• Grant Gardner, State Represen• ch'il rights legislation on March 5_ Chairman Thomas C. Hennings sidel ation of prh-ate bills and restricting judicial r eview. J AC!J tative from Payette County, Idaho, ID-Mo. I announced that the sub• believes that both are fundamental to our way of life and gave the main address. Troy Tin• committee had voted to put a Government. ney furnished the entertainment. termination date on its hearings The new citizens honored were: and settle the issue at the March • • I(al"; -hi 'r. Arthur oft~n V. Watkins IR-Utah) and RomaD the laW, although he has expressed himself as willing Bishop Shigefuji as head Hruska fR-Neb. >. to ccmsider such amendments as experience deems necessary SAN FRANCISCO.-Bishop Enryo and justified. Hennings said the subcommittee RICHARD TOKUMARU Shigefuji was re-elected to serve action will leave time for fourteeD New Chapter President as the leader of the Buddhist days of hearings. He said he plans • • Churches of America at a closed to conduct sessions six days a AUTHOR OF 1924 LAW DIES NISEI ELECTED TO POSj[' meeting of ministers convened at week, inclUding Saturdays. IN PHARMACY ASSOCIATION the San Francisco Buddhist church About Ute time that the President sent up his immigration TACOMA.-Luana Uyeda, secre• for the annual BCA conference. mes£age, the late Republican Rep. Albert Johnson of the Third tary, was among 1957 officers re• I Ministers and lay leaders from CA L E.... I DA R District in Washington died of a heart attack at the age of 87. cently elected by the Professional Buddhist churches affilitated with ...... He represented the District from 1913 to 1933, now represented Pharmacists of Pierce County the BCA held a three-