III. appellate PACIFIC CrrlZEN court overturns Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League Okubo-Yamada Vol. 86 No. 1 New Year Special: Jan. 6-13, 1978 20¢ Postpaid U.S. 15 Cents STOCKTON, Calif.-It was a go law firm of Baskin, festive Christmas for the Server and Berke. It is "ex• Okubo and Yamada families tremely unlikely" the appel• here upon hearing from late court would grant Hil• their Chicago attorneys just ton Hotel a rehearing at the before the holidays that the appellate level nor receive Jr. Miss Pageant bars alien aspirants lllinois appellate court had permission to appeal to the SEATTLE-Pacific Northwest JACL leaders concede the "It would seem only right and proper that the pageant reversed the Cook County lllinois supreme court, fight to reinstate a 17-year-{)ld Vietnamese girl of Dayton, rules should be amended to include in their qualifications trial court decision and or• Berke added. He said! Wash. who was denied the Touchet Valley Junior Miss dered the 1975 civil suit "The end result, after all of pageant candidates the words 'and aliens legally ad• aeainst the Hilton Hotel title because she was not an American citizen has most these petitions, is that we are mitted as pennanent residents of the United States'," Ya• Corp. to be reheard going to be given amthero~ likely been lost. mamoto wrote in a letter to the Spokane Spokesman Re• The Okubo-Yamada case portunity to try this case or The state Junior Miss Pageant will be held at Wenat• view. had alleged a breach of ex• settle it before trial" chee Jan. 21-28, and local Jaycees sponsoring the event "As an emergency measure, we feel that-to the ever• pressed or implied warranty In Sacramento, national have not softened their stance since the Oct. 15 local con• lasting credit of the Jaycees-they should take whatever and negligence on Hilton's JACL legal counsel Frank A test, when Phoeng-N goc Davis emerged as the Dayton steps necessary to change their pageant rules and regula• part in not providing ade• Iwama commented the good winner. . tions to reinstate Miss Phoeng-N goc Davis to her original quate security and accom• news should boost the JACL J ACL leaders, however, are still working to eliminate title as the current Touchet Valley Junior Miss." modations at the hotel and OkubolYamada Fund drive sought to recover for injur• the citizenship requirement for the contest and are hop• (see Sept. 16, 1m, PC) to Miss Davis, daughter of Sau-Thi Davis, was born in ies sustained by Carol Ranko ing to persuade Jaycees statewide the stipulation is un• help the Okubo and Yamada Vietnam and is a student at Dayton High SchooL Yamada and for the death of families defray legal ex• necessary, said Ed Yamamoto, immediate past governor Under immigration rules, she is not allowed to apply for Evelynn Okubo. penses in the case. No funds of the Pacific Northwest District Council, of Columbia citizenship until she is 18, Carlton said. The news of the appellate raised will be used for attor• Basin JACL. While PNWDC officials commended the Jaycees for court decision filed Dec. 21 ney fees. (To date about In letters to the Dayton Jaycees and local newspapers, "demonstrating its fairness in the selection process" and came from their attorney $3,500 has been raised both Yamamoto and Minoru Masuda, chairman of the not denying Miss Davis her scholarship, they cannot un• Perry M. Berke of the Chica- -Ed.) 0 PNWDC Committee Against Defamation of Seattle, pro• derstand why the citizenship requirement was not discov• tested the disqualification of Miss Davis. ered until after the pageant. Pageant officials did allow her to keep the scholarship "It seems to us that this knowledge could have averted u.s. again to ask race she won in the contest, though they disqualified her from this hurtful and embarrassing predicament," Masuda the state event. First runner-up Jerri Jackson, 17, of Pres• said in a letter to Carlton. and sex data for jobs cott will participate instead, according to Bob Carlton, Both men agreed the case was an unintentional mistake W ASHINGTON-WithPres• ted employment opportuni• Dayton Jaycees president. on the Jaycees' part. 0 ident Carter's approval, the ties of persons of Japanese Civil Service Commission ancestry commensurate with once again will require U.S. their qualifications. The JACL HEADQUARTERS BACKS SPOKANE job seekers to answer ques• Washington D.C. JACL in tions about sex, race and eth• 1963 recommended the U.s. nic background in their job COmmission on Ovil Rightl!i Wash. State charged with anti.;.Asian bias applications, according to the launch a comprehensi~ Washington Post study as to the number, 0c• SPOKANE, Wash.-A four said, currently maintains Later, a proposal for a Na• dences discriminatory treat• Federal officials said they cupation levels and progress year battle over whether an other ethnic programs, in• tional Endowment for the ment of Asian Americans did not know precisely when being made by federal wor• Asian American studies pro• cluding black, Chicano and Humanities grant was pre• and a lack of good faith on the new infonnation will be kers of Japanese ancestry.) gram should be instituted at Native American studies. pared, with the hope WSU the part of the WSU adminis• required of job candidates, Now, however, with the Washington State Universi• Efforts to secure an Asian would not have to finance tration". but they expected questions approval of many of the same ty has culminated with American studies program, the entire project. The -ll-page complaint to be on applications for var• civil rights groups, the go• charges of discrimination however, have been re• In both cases, the propo• said the university has "ab• ious positions in early 1978. vernment waI1ts to obtain the and a complaint' being filed buffed, causing the Spokane sals were eventually reject• dicated its responsibility The government had infonnation again to help in against the school by the JACL and entire Pacific ed. But the disapproval of towards its Asian American dropped all race and sex iden• recruiting of more women JACL Spokane Chapter. Northwest District Council the studies center hit sup• students and the communi• tification from job applica• and minorities. The administrative com• to consolidate their support porters the hardest. ties it should ultimately tions during the 19605 after Civil rights groups further plaint, filed with the U.S. in pressing the case. No clear-cut reason was serve, and in so doing, has civil rights groups com• argue that lack of reliable in• gi'{en by the university as to Dept. of Health, Education At a PNWDC meeting Dec. violated Title VI of the Civil plained the infonnation was formation about job appli• and Welfare in November, 11, chapters unanimously why a program failed to sur• Rights Act of 1964 and used to discriminate against cant's race and background alleges WSU administrators voted to support the Spokane face. One concluded that the Executive Order 11246". minorities. hampers official efforts to have discriminated against Chapter's efforts. The chap• percentage time of the pro• (It is recalled that JACL hire minorities and to mo~ Asian Americans, prompting ter has also garnered sup• fessor who would head the Complainants go on to al• was aware then that lack of tor their careers under affir• some to sayan unhealthy af• port at the national level, re• center would be fractional• lege WSU has failed to pro• job statistics by race affec- mative action 0 firmative action environ• ceiving the green light from ized too much, leaving him vide monies fo- recruiting ment has been created on National Director Karl No• unproductive in the two Asian students, although the campus. buyuki. other areas he was assigned $4,000 is allocated to lure "There has been a nega• Still, the chances of seeing to. documents said. Chicano, black and Native tive climate at WSU. There a program instituted in the Finances were another Americans, and similarly are people interested and in near future are slim. And matter, with administrators has failed to attract Asian American faculty and ad• support of an Asian Ameri• Yasuhara is not overly op• saying enough money to sup• can program," Denny Yasu• timistic the HEW will step in port secretarial services ministrators. and investigate the universi• were unavailable. • hara, Spokane Ad-Hoc Com• The issues were further mittee chairman and spokes• ty, although "HEW is one of In 1976, however, 28 new the better" federal agencies positions were funded by the complicated when instruc• man, said. "There are Asian tor Anthony Wong was de• staff members coming to to intervene in such issues. university, and not one was "It's nothing but pure, un• designated for an Asian nied a reclaSsification as a meetings who ordinarily Senior Architect, though his would not attend. But this is adulterated insensitivity," American Scholar position, he · s~j . "Basically, the uni• although backers had re• credentials exceeded the re• a can of worms. Most of the quirements. When the Asian staff are not tenured." versity has ::.'i..)newalled us. ceived a "firm oral commit• They think we're a fly-by• ment" such a post would be school's Discriminatory The unsuccessful at- Practices Committee found tempts to establish a pro• night organization We don't created. want to make it an emotional Although disappointed af• he had been a victim of race gram at the university came bias, Dr. Wallis Beasley, to the Pacific Northwest Dis• issue, though. We get more ter WSU's failure to assign mileage out of being factu• the position, supporters re• WSU executive vice presi• trict Council's attention last dent and officer in charge of September, according to Ya• al." ceived continued encourage• ment, which led to "good the Mfirmative Action Of• suhara. At that time, • fice, still refused to overturn lengthy memorandums and The facts are clear-that faith efforts" by Asian Los Angeles County Supervisor KenneIh Hahn receMJs a J .... American faculty to develop the decision. various proposals support• in 1973, a pharmacology pro• "Makoto" saoI from Kart NobuyukI (left). NationaI.lAo.. ~ Beasley claimed the mat• nasa ing an Asian studies pro• fessor submitted a 2112-page the scholar post. utivedirector. "The caUigraphic painting is aJapill 888 t¥"bOIfortrull gram had already been sub• memorandum outlining the The position was again de• ter was an "external" one be• which our believes best represanlS SupeMIor HaM.. tween Wong and the Higher orgcnzatbn mitted to WSU officials. development of an Asian nied in fall 19n,and,accord• Nobuyuki said. Joi'ling him was Q)u1ciIman Mas FuIcaI otGaldlna. The university. Yasuhara American Study Center. ing to the complaint, "evi- CoDtinued OD Next Pase SPECIAL NEW YEAR DOUBLE· DATED ISSUE 2-Pacific Citizen New Year Special: Jan. 6-13,1978 that if efforts to procure lerns and needs that their fi~ they could get by they're hinging their beliefs good faith", and "disparate these requests, and others mothers and fathers before ~th it. This is the underly• on the Bakke case. The deci• SPOkANE treatment of Asian Ameri• relating to the program's de• them have bad," it was added. mg treatment of all Asians. sion dealt a blow to Asians. can students". Though they velopment, were not met by Yasuhara said he has no We're getting short• This is just part of the back• have f!1et with JACL repre• December, 19n, public idea why the university has chaneed." lash. The community, I Education Personnel Board sentatives, WSU adminis• know, is tired of waiting. Ie' ' pressure would be exerted • no t an mternal" matter in- hesitated in establishing a trators contend the universi• on the institution." program for so long, but In San Francisco, Nobu• "I know the JACL has volying the university. Com• ty would "abandon its tradi• The Beasley letter contin• yuki could not pinpoint the come on to something big," plainants maintain, how• guessed, "it relates to the tional academic analysis and ued, "It should be apparent status of all Asian Ameri• university's reasons, but he continued. "Affirmative ever, the university has deliberation procedures" if that the logical first step in said he feels the recent Bak• action has always been a challenged unfavorable cans. We're not very aggres• it entered into a legal written the process toward estab• sive and it's because of our ke brief rendered by the At• clear JACL objective and we Higher Education Personnel agreement with J ACL, as the lishment of an Asian Amer• torney General which ques• feel we have to stand behind Board cases involving Cau• background and their per• group has requested. ican Studies program should ception of us. tioned the classification of Spokane. It's a years-old is• casians in court. In a letter dated Nov. 12, be the formulation of a pro• "There is no way they Asians as minorities had sue and I am glad to see the . Pacific Northwest taking ac• . 19n, Beasley, following a posal for submittal to the ap• would do this with other mi• some influence. To rectify the situation meeting between JACL offi• "My concern is that tion." 0 th~ propriate bodies for review. nority groups. I guess they the JACL has requested cials and WSU personnel, The ce!!,tral administration establishment of an Asian stated: certainly would not object if Classified American studies center "We want you to know that Asian American faculty 1978 JACL ~cholarship with adequate support staff· we will work with JACL, or The PC ClaSSified Rate IS 10 cents' m~mbers at the University 0 America~ per word S3 minimum per tnsertlon. 3 0 funding of Asian any group representing Wlsh to commence this pro• discount If same copy appears 4 limes student organizations at an AS1an Americans in an effort cedure." applications available Payment In advance unless pnor credit equitable level with other to resolve misunderstand• has been established With our office Asian Americans current• SAN ~CISCO-Appli and screened by six prelimi• minority groups; funding • Employment ings that may exist. ly are one of the largest mi• nary committees which se• for recruitment of Asian "But we also want you to cation forms for the 1978 Na• nority groups on the WSU tional JACL scholarship pro• lected the top 10 within their American students; the re• know that we will not allow campus and Washington it• gram were distributed this f~. Final judging trimmed AGRICULTURAL classifi~tion of Wong, and threats of discrimination self is comprised of one of past week, it was announced tile number to 23 winners. MANAGER ~rrectIng the minority staff charges or demands for ex• ~e l~rgest Asian popula• for 40 acre farm-home in unbalances in accordance by Dr. Izumi Taniguchi, • Riverside County, California ternal investigators to be tIOns ill the continental Unit• In Fresno, the local JACL with Affirmative Action scholarship chairman and (Rancho California), 20 acres utilized as devices to under• ed States. chapter anoounced two Dr. mandates. Richard Okabe, National planted avocados and limes. mine established and tradi• Youth Director, to all local Thomas T. Yatabe scholar• University officials, on the tional procedures for deter- ' Complainants maintain an Retired farmer desired, couple JACLandJAYS chapters and ships were established, one preferred. other hand, have vigorously mining academic policy at Asian American program is New furnished one bedroom Washington State Universi- vital in educating young to a number of high schools for a high school graduate denied any allegations of and the other for an upper• apartment, utilities, salary, ty." students of their people and around the country. time off. "insensitivity" , "lack of level college student Yatabe (Following the November cultures-particularly in Scholarships are open to all Clean au and environment persons of JaP.8Ilese ances• founded the chapter in 1923 i!ll'utit.6 ' meeting, JACL requested and around the Pullman with no smog. r that an Asian studies center area, where WSU is located. try, JAYS and JACL mem• as the Fresno American Loy• References please. Call or write. Ci~~t~~~:li~f~~~~!: bers and their children who altyLeague. 0 . HENRY HAVEN be started by fall 1978, with "The impact.on college stud- are graduating from high 13632 Fairmont Way Tustin, Calif. 92680 morhage. Sheis survived byh Haruo agreements made for an ents .not havmg'exposure to school in June. Four graduate Asian firefighters onetime No. Calif.. Western Nevaru: Asian American scholar in a . ethnic cultures and their 7l~2-9583 JACL regional director, s Eric Y, d tenure track position to be at contribvtion at the universi• awards were also available. workshop slated Forms and documents have Jaclyn H, br George Yano (Seattle), WSU no later than the open- ty leve~ in this ~eographi~al • Real Estate-Los Angeles :~:ri~f~:~:~~ J~c; ~:. an April 1 deadline for sub• ws ANGELES-Persons in• ing of the fall 1978 semester. area will result m producmg mission to National JACL terested in becoming fire- BY OWNER. 3 on lot, 3 br, 2 br, 1 br _ geles in the early 1950s. The letter further stated fu.ture leaders and citizens plus den. 3 Garages. fenced, 60 x Headquarters. . fighters can attend the Asian 160 large lot. Near Brooklyn! ~~~=~=~~~====~~~ ~ t::--- . ~:;~~~_ Wlthground, the sameperspective lack of back-and Documents required in• Firefighter Workshop being Soto. Boyle Heights. Priced to ~ sensitivity to minority proh- clude: held Saturday, Jan. 21 at the seU. (213) 263-8013. , I-High school transcript,2-Test Dept. of Water and Power scores, and ~nfidential parents' Denver to host financial statement. building, 111 N. Hope St. The Wesley UMW Cookbook Awards average $500, made workshop, sponsored by the 14th Pnnting. ReVised city and County Employees Oriental and FaVOrite Recipes available from trust ac• Donation $4.50 (includes haIldlino.l JANSA pinfest counts and donations, will to• Asian American Assn., will tal over $10,000 this year. run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Par• Wesley United Methodist Women DENVER, ColO.-the 4th an• 748~ 566 N 5th St.. San Jose. CA 95112 Last year, 217 high school ticipants should call nual Japanese American Na• 8431 or 747-7623. C. tional Bowling Assn. tour• graduates and 41 graduate Pacific nament will be hosted by the . applications were received Denver Nisei Bowling Assrt Cookbooks by Kay Shimizu March 5-11 at Celebrity EO 9066 display Square NEWI Just off pr~esl Cooking WIth erotic MusIInIolM (Shiltake. OVSler Malsutake. Enoki• Lanes. John Noguchi is tour• SAN FRANCISCO-The widely tra• Will History Repeat? On Method of Redress WITIIthemandateoftheJACLNation- merce (Dec. 12), a national business daily. PARTEIGlIT demonstrators arrested in A common view is that be• al Council indicating the JAcL must Here are excerpts as space permits: The conflict between indi• May 1971? ing a child in camp had no ill ~~ .a cam~ for reparation, one MONCKS CORNER - "A Pudge, grabbing the shotgun. viduals vs. trust fund pay• The concept of per diem effects. This may be disput• finds It mterestmg to uncover the various year that will live m infamy," Anns high,ashort,5UPplefig• ment does not appear seri• payment for time spent in able, as will be explained in snorted Uncle Pudge, scan- ure scrambled forward. "No ous. There is no reason why wri~ of the times and of the In ning the headlines 10 the banzai," he yelled, "no ban• camp has many opponents. later presentations. "Camp present the best of the two methods the. reVIew of current material, it is inter• morning "monacle". "Ifonly zai!" Those who braved the hos• babies" are reminded of the Roosevelt and MacArthur "Why, it's a Jap," said cannot be combined. Claims tile world outside the camp ~ high level of hys• Evacuation incident to note the racial were around now ... " Pudge, incredulous. "Keep could be for both individuals earliest would receive the throughout their lives when• tena that was characteristic of the times Aunt Madge, dozing m the your hands upandoon't reach and for a group or organiza• backporch rocker, stirred, for your camera," he cau• least; those who sat out the ever their birthplace is prior to, duringam immediately following "What's allin' you. anyhow?" tloned ... tion, just as in the German war in camps would receive asked. They cannot escape WorldWarll. she snarled solicitously. "Wait " said Madge who restitution scheme. the greatest amount of pay• the label . It does not take a learned scholar to . "Those Japs, ~ Y' re t:umb- always hact a secret weak5pOt ment. Among the latter, The use of Internal Reve• recognize the glowing eITOrs and paranoia 109 us out of our Jobs WI th an for orientals. "I'll fetch him Fund eannarked for indi• however, were most Issei nue Service mechanism to sa billion trade surp.lus this some mountain dew." v,idual payment at a speci• characteristic of the press and of public year ...Them and thelrC~ "Orange juice, American who had nowhere to go and finance reparation (Seattle steel, cars and stereos. Stnol orange juice " the Japanese fIed per capita basis, pro• with little prospect of jobs on Plan; Shimomura Plan) is an leaders being unable to distinguish the :' ~ , y '. I'~ cessed through a Nikkei Japanese American from the Imperialist surprised," she pleaded. "In' Japan forbid• the outside. ingenious proposal, but a~ said. Am t they the same den fruit." trust foundation, could well parently unpopular in Con• Japanese forces. "A Jap is a Jap" was a f~lk s thatusedtomak e them "Hey," said Pudge, "who satisfy both sides. Fund ear• n~ gress because it would set a familiar slogan of the times. Hence the in• nice red, white and blue the hell are ya, some kind of yea: sna?per::> and little statue defector or something?" marked for organizational precedent for other groups carceration of 110,000 Japanese Ameri• of hbemes? "You hit bolt on head I dis- use can be administered by to do the same. cans was an "acceptable" act condoned by "Yeah, to soften us up," illusioned Japanese steel- the same Nikkei trust foun• REPARA Justice does not require Pudge grunted. worker. Escape tburbus two dation for educational and the general public and public officials. Just then, Madge spotted weeks ago after I read how unanimity. It would, how• Over a quarter century has passed and someone"t>ehind the big ~- we cause you so much prob• cultural purposes by Japa• ever, be helpful if Japanese the Japanese Americans have come a long lea b~~ Comeon~~t, you re lem. I give myself up, as you nese Americans. 110 N co-:..n! Americans in general and bendm the hedlZe. shouted say in movie. I no want war." • their fellow citizens under• way since those nightmare years. Many What is an equitable sum Nikkei have weathered well and while a The article speaks well enough for itself, stood the true motive behind of compensation? The pur• The simplest definition for the reparation claim-that great many are still struggling to make but tl;tere are questions that Japanese pose is not to put a price tag beneficiaries would be to Amencans must also address. The first is the event such as the Evacu• ends meet, they have much to be proud of. on ~reedom or human rights, limit compensations only to ation and incarceration of Yet it is often said, and observers will point immediate: "Are they talking about us an unpossible and a foolish those evacuated from the concen~ Japanese Americans did it out, that ''History repeats itself" (when too?" Second: Is their reference to task. The sum should be suf• Western Defense Command happen, that should it ha~ we make the same mistakes). Though not tration camps in reference to the U.S. con• ficient to discourage future area and detained in camps. pen again it will be costly, to the same degree in all instances, there centration camps of World War II? 1bird: abrogation of freedom and But the injustice of abolish• that the successful restitu• ing freedom and civil rights are parallels of the present with the past Does the writer, and for that matter, does human rights in a manner tion of the tragedy and the used against Japanese to persons of Japanese des• The current differences between the Uni• the press recognize the difference be• mistakes of 1942 will protect Americans during World cendants during World War future civil liberties for all ted States and Japan regarding the balance tween the Japanese American and the Ja• War II. II extended to many beyond of trade appears to have touched off ''pub• panese? Will Japanese Americans again be Americans. The various proposals mainland U.S.A. Those from • lic reaction" which is growing. held responsible for actions beyond their submitted have varied con• Alaska, Hawaii and South Reparation questio~ For instance, Richard Lawrence touch• control by "reason of race"? Not intending siderably in the amount be• America came under the has been circulated by vari• es on many salient points in his satire, to be an ~t, 1978 is expected to bring ing sought. Would it be wise same injustice at the hands ous JACL groups. We will ''Easy on Trigger Finger Uncle Pudge, 'It more artIcles to the public's attention simi• to ask the Washington, D.C. of the United States govern• gather them all together and All Work Out in End'," appearing in the lar to the one above. It will bean interesting court to decide on the sum, ment. Should they be ig• compare their findings ored? World Trade column of the Journal of Com- year.-KKN. as it did in the case of 1,200 our next presentation. fell in love with Caroline Hitch, is a Mongoloid.") tellect will be stimulated when my PC Ron yoo Shako be considered are JACLers, whose support moJces Ho/idaylssue daughter of Colonel E.V. Hitch, a Kiichi Kaneko, a young Japanese arrives. While I have wildly dis• P.S. If T.S. Shiraki is interested in JACL and the PC possible.-Ed. Confederate Civil War hero and plan• socialist, entered Harvard at the turn agreed with items from time to time I my sources I'll gladly provide them. • tation owner. Takamine had to go of this century. He later moved to don't believe that I have ever felt that DON ESTES Editor: my intelligence has been insulted. San Diego Subscription On behalf of the East West Players back to Japan but returned to New New York where he met Josephine Conger of Missouri, a socialist writ• However, T.S. Shiraki's letter of Dec. I should like to thank Pacific Citizen Orleans in 1887, where he married • (TbJ.s is a condnuina series ~ let• the southern belle with the aplX"ovai er; they were married October 1905. 9 badly mis-labeled "Military His• ters to the PC cooceming suIIKrI~ for its generous coverage in the tory" has proved the exception. Info, Please Christmas issue of the opening of our of her father. They moved to New In 1907 they moved to Chicago and don service.) Betty rs copy "at re• began publishing a monthly, "The Let me first say that the question of Editor: second show in repertory, ONCE York establishing the Takamine In• turned by the PosIaI Service willi the was POW's and their motivations and ac• I am enrolled in an American Ex• UPON IN AMERICA and for the ac• stitute and successfully marketed Socialist Woman"-Josephine notatJon, MOVED, lEFT NO FOR· editor and Kiichi its managing editor. tions is a far too complex subject-as perience I class. The teacher sug• knowledgement of the immeasurable Take-Diastase, he also was the dis• WARDING ADDRESS.) The magazine was the only national we discovered in the Korean War-to gested the topic of the 442nd Regi• contribution made...:o the growth of coverer of adrenalin, etc. He died in Editor: voice of women within the Socialist be dealt with in the simplistic and mental Combat Team. I am experi• ," our theatre by our artistic director 1922 and is buried in the New York We have not moved! Party and had 12,000 subscribers at cavalier manner utilized by Shiraki encing difficulty in rIDding enough ~o _a nd executive producer Rae Woodlawn Cemetery. its peak. However, Kiichi's tubercu• However, I'll try to respond to the information. Only resources I have There are many other Issei, who Gardena, Calif. Creevey. losis condition worsened and he de• most glaring of the assumptions a\>" are Hosokawa's "Nisei: the Quiet married Caucasian women, after This is Case "8 ". The Postal Seror However, may we set the record cided to return to Japan for better pearing in the letter. Americans" and a copy of the Con• straight ... the East West Players, Ul coming to this country to study, and ice has since explained the party had treatment in June 1909 but died there 1. "Military history has never re• gressional Record, detailing the ac• its 12-year history, has utilized the became known in their particular complishments of the 442nd, which indeed "moved" from Apt. I to Apt. 2 professions or cultural fields. I would the following October. corded 85,000 Japanese or German talents and energies of many people. Also many tragedies resulted from soldiers surrendering." was sent to me by George Konoo at (not true numbers) although the like to mention a few, because each the The build• We are not only as strong as our inter-racial romances. The name Shi• WRONG-In 1943 over 90,000 Ger• JACL Headquarters. I am told there strut address is same. one made contributions to America in ing has no directory oj'residents. The artistic director and executive pro• gew Yoshida comes to mind. For he man troops (including a Field Mar• are numerous articles in your past is• his own way. carrier has since corrected the ducer, but as strong as all of those not only was one of the first Japanese shall and 24 General Officers sur• sues of the Pacific Citizen. pn» who work with us and support our Kanichi Asakawa in 1896 at age 24 , I know it is impossible to send all !em. Label should show the Apt. entered New Hampshire Dartmouth railroad workers in 1884 that was em• rendered to General Rokossovsky. goals. Included in this number were not the information you have but would Number. Therefore the Postal SenIice College and then went to Yale. Upon ployed by the Oregon Short Line, but said it feels the 25· f~ (Illhich ~ Among the many names not men• also was the first mainland Japanese only 55 ~egiments , but 55 Divisions. appreciate receiving pertinent ma• tioned in your article who should just• graduation in 1902 he taught Oriental terial. I would be happy to pay any lishers pay when notified of any History at Yale and married Miriam lynched by an Ogden, Utah, white In May 1943 British and American ly receive recognition are Beulah forces jointly captured 240,000 Ger• costs involved. Both of my parents change in a maU ad.dTe$s) was JUSfi. Cameron Dingwall of New Haven, mob in April of the same year after he fied.-Ed. Quo, Yuki Shimoda, Pat Li, Swni killed a white prostitute who had mans and Italians of Army Group Af• are active Contra Costa JACL mem• Haru, Clyde Kusatsu, Jimmy Hong, Cormecticut. He wrote numerous bers for many years ... • books on the history of Japan and broken her promise to marry him. rika. Of this number 125,000 were Ernest Hirada, Terry Tam Soon, Of course, the first known Japa• German including intact SS units GAIL TSUJIMOTO Short Notes China. He died in New Haven in 1948. El Cerrito, Calif. Soon-Teck Oh, Guy Lee, Jesse Dizon, nese and non-Japanese marriage is above the size of a regiment. Hideyo Noguch .....who later be• The "standard" reference of the Editor: Bill Shinkai, Ed Sakamoto, Sachiko that of Kuninosuke Masumizu, one of In 1945 before the Japanese sur• came a world-renowned toxicolo• 442nd ReT suny is OrviUe Shirey's Myfaceisred lha~n'tcommitted Penny Lee, Dana Lee, Richard Lee the 1869 Wakamatsu colonists, who render over 100,000 Japanese mili• gist-in 1901 came to Pennsylvania "Americans: The Srory the 442nd seppuJru yet! In my review of "Udy Sung, Nobu McCarthy, Alberto Isaac, married the daughter of a Blackfoot tary personnel surrendered to Soviet cf Robert Ito, Sheri Emond, Wakako University to study serpent venoms, Combat Team" (1946), published by is Dying" . there is an error of omis• Indian woman and her Freedman military forces, again with many sion. Yamauchi, Frank Chin, Shizuko etc. Later he was appointed first military units intact. the Infantry JourrUJl, Washington, (freed slave) husband. Their descen• out~-print . lt Kenji Ono wa very ably portrayed Hoshi, Momoko Iko, Jon Shirota and assistant to the director of the New 2 '1'he point is their (SS) loyalty D.C., and long is pr0b• York Rockefeller Institute and dants live in the Sacramento area ably in the home librQT)l cf a 4of2nd by Ume Niahikawa. me or the best many others who have joined our Although mixed marriages are . . ." Consider the number of SS per• married Mary Dodges. He died at age veteran in your city. ... We C41I't actors in the play. Nishikawa g • ranks within the last years. more common today, their beautiful sormel involved in the plot on Hitler• 52 in 1928 in Africa from yellow fever charge for the photocopy work cf the poet-writer. Without these and Mako and Rae offsprings are everywhere and no their commander in chief. Creevey, the East West Players while studying how to conquer it. 3. "No Japanese marine regiment thru articles endosedfrom OUT fiJu, Yone Noguchi, poet, in 1893 came doubt many face problems of identi• espedally of so~ whose parenu Berkeley, Calif, would certainly not be looking for• ty, racism, etc. We stxluld continue has ever surrendered. to San Francisco at age 19, where his ward to its 13th year as the only pro• dialogue QUESTIONABLE: First, the wwn first poetry book "Seen and Unseen" further research and in or• fessional Asian American repertory der to bring more understanding in Japanese military did 001: have an ISSN ClOJO.SS79 company in the United States. was published in 1896. He spent four organization corresponding to the US years in Oakland with Joaquin Miller, human relationships. NORMAN COHEN, Administrator KARL G. YONEDA Marines. Instead they had Rikusentai East West Players Inc. famous American poet, and married San Francisco or Special Naval Umding Forces,who a Caucasian woman (Leonie Gilmour ~ "'!~ . £~!S f", ~J!.I~~ yO$ Los Angeles. P.S. A slight correction in coverage were in fact sailors, and commanded -Oct 14m PC). Thefr son born i904 • of our story-Elaine and Tom were by naval officers. These units were 81356 E FilS! St..l.os~ Caif 90012 /21J.....&!&.6936) in Los Angeles is Isamu Noguchi, the V Editor: taken to the Death Valley Camp, never found in regimental strength, Pat Tashima's interesting and in• world recognized sculptor. along with about 60 others, after the but more usually in company or bet• James Murakami, National JACl President fonnative article on "Inter-Racial Another poet, Isen Kanno, came December 6th Manzanar riot, but talion strength. Alfred Hatale, PC Board Chairman Marnages" in the 1977 Holiday Issue from Japan in 1903 and also studied they stayed there only till December 4. "An American likes til think he is Hany K. Honda. Editor wluch states: "The fir.it Japanese• under Joaquin Miller. While there he 19. 1942 when allowed back to San Wild Bill Hickock.·' That represents Caucasian marriage in the U.S. is be• met Gertrude Boyle, a sculptress, Francisco under a special military such a gross generalizatim that I Secxtld class pQ6Iage paid aI L06 Angeles Call Subeictlpkn rales payaoIe ., lieved to have occurred Ul 1888, . .." and decided to get married but since pass for Tom. won't comment beyond asking if thaI adviVoce US S9 year !aegn $13 year Fir Glasa II'IlIIIatlIe UJUl rfQ,eSl California prohibited inter-marnagoe, prompted me to look in my files and • statement includes Nikkei 1OO? 55 01 JACL memoershrp dues lor f e year SUO&CtIpllOn lhroug JACL I' ~ found there had been such a mar• they made a hurried tnp to Seattle to Military History It's been a long time since seen HeaoQuarters 1765 Sutter E San Fr I 94115 (4 S-92 JACl) riage to New Orleans a year earlier. tie the nuptial knot. (Note: Early 1890 that much factual ern.- in so shan • Editor: ...... net opInIofw ..preued by colli...... JACt. a n Issei named Torrue and a Cauca- space. J DUght suaest to T Shiraki Namely. Jokichi Takami_ Who I know W1 h certainty that each .s. ..." wrtwa. do 101 ,.... JACL ..... that before committmg • letter ID late r became an outstanding pharma• ian woman went to San Francisco Thursday aJh:moon my adrenalin print that the old J..-nese proverb cologist-while attending the 1i1&l Ory Hall to obtam a marriage license will begin to Sl1T8e. and mat my in- World Industrial Exhibit Ul that city: wluch was denied them because "he WEU-, FOl.KS - SINCE New Year Special: Jan. 6-13.1978 Pacific Citizen-5 IT IS lHE YEAR OF THE HO~/'T'5MY FROM THE FRYING PAN: Bill HGIOUWI TURN TO SAY .. , AND l'HAi'5 'SH/NeA' OMEOETO STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH. GaUl-A14SlI./ I l The Holidays at Home Denver, Colo. ces in putting down the common oppressor. While the adults were sit- But the rest of Patrick's sentence blasted the t ting around eating, gab- image: "I'll go, too, and reportwbatbappens. n bing and watching New Year's football bowl games on television, the SoPatrickwasreveaIed,notasalion-heart• little people were playing their own version ed combatant committed to involvement, but of parlor games. One of them, dreamed up by as an observeron the sidelines, like his grand• a little rough-and-tumble type, consisted of father who reports what happens while try• running full tilt at any convenient kid and ing to avoid personal bloodshed. bashing him into the wall. Well, shucks, Patrick, not everyone can be Grandson Jon, who is a pacifist at heart doers and fighters. Some of us must bewatcb• and none too steady on his three-year~ld legs ers and reporters, and there's nothing ignoble under any circumstance, seemed to have been about that. How else would others know chosen as the most appealing target for the what's going on? bashing. This could have been predicted since, This was a particularly pleasant holiday a short time earlier, he had come up to tell us season since son Pete brought Patrick from of a mounting level of hostility between him the Coast to be with us, joining Christie and and the tough kid. her family, and Susan and her spouse wbolive "He called me dummy," Jon said. "I told here in the Denverarea. Only Mike ofour four FROM HAPPY VAllEY: Sachi Seko him shutup. He called me dummy again I told youngsters (they really aren't that young any him snut up again." more) couldn't get away. Perhaps we can make it a full family reunion next year. And the adults, who assume open warfare And a Happy New' Year can be avoided simply be telling the belliger• We had plenty of opportunity to do a lot of ents to play nicely, did just that. Of course it sitting around, over-eating, talking and rem• Salt Lake City our short legs in and out of the house, carry• didn't work, and Jon returned sbortlytocom• iniscing. In the regular course of events, we My sister called me to check the Japanese ing the past year's trophies and treasures. plain tearfully that he did not enjoy being all do a substantial amount of visiting by tele• zodiacal calendar. She wanted to know All that carefully collected junk went up in bashed into the wall phone, but that kind of conversation isn't whether 1978 was her year. It was, since she smoke. nearly as satisfying as chewing the fat togeth• was born in the year of the horse. Jon's fathers next move was to pass res• er in low-key talk. • ponsibility for Jon's welfare to his brother Just into 1978, I feel the change which It was part of a spell the adults cast over Matt, two years older, somewhat stronger When the youngsters wereathome,mostof possesses her. Normally cautious, she is sud• us. Although we prided ourselves on being physically, but still inclined to be on the shy the dialogue was about housekeeping and denly suffused with confidence that nothing an ordinarily civilized and moderately ra• side when it comes to combat. other mundane daily matters. But now we can can go wrong in her year. tional family, some of the sense escaped the "Matt," his father admonished, "can't you converse about ideas, business, politics, the Overnight, she is laughing at everything, adult thinking around this time of year. sorry state of the world and a lot of other take care of your little brother? Don't let that things. It also comes as a rewarding surprise anything. It is a flourish of farewells to aches They talked a lot about omens. It seemed bad boy make Jon cry. Look after him. Now and pains, to inflation and energy shortage, that unless all the past year's business was go." that the youngsters remember a great deal to low cholesterol diets and yesterday's dirty properly completed, the new year was bound about growing up at home and are happy to laundry. to be doomed. Any debts had to be repaid by That was when their cousin Patrick, visit• reminisce about what it was like. When they ing for the holidays from California, demon• can recall so many amusing and pleasant I experienced the same giddy feeling that time. strated his mettle and perhaps gave us a hint things about their childhood, it would seem when it was supposed to be my year. It fol• as to his future in life. "I'll go, too," he volun• that not everything Alice and I did in rearing lowed a rotten year, truthfully, a whole suc• This did not mean only financial obliga• tions. Those were relatively fewer back then teered, and we had visions of the three tykes, our brood was all that wrong. And finding that cession of them. Although I generally scoff out, any parent will tell you, is a very reward• since credit buying was generally unpopular allied by blood relationship, venturing forth at superstition, I resorted to every remem• bravely together to join their slender resour- ing matter. 0 bered trick as the eve of my year arrived. among Japanese. So were checking accounts, for many immigrants did not trust I felt very Japanese as I repeated the ritu• banks and transacted much of their com• als of my childhood. Probably because they When the grayness left Heart Mountain merce in cash. are associated in my memory with my Favors and gifts received during the year, Following piece by Bill Hosokawa appeared on Christ• longed, our loyalty suspected by our nation grandparents, who were purely Japanese. mas Day in the Denver f'>st editorial page. It is written II> in a war emergency, forgotten by our fellow for which no opportunity had arisen for re• They had no intention or desire to be Ameri• his son, now an associate professor of health education at citizens. turn, were remembered with New Year the Univ. of Missouri Bill said reader reaction was good. canized. On Christmas Eve we went to the messhall gifts. These were often in the form of sacks -Ed. for a party. It was crowded with wide-eyed • of rice or tubs of soy sauce. They did little to DEAR MIKE: A long tiIpe ago, when you New Year's was the most important holi• children and their parents trying to be resolve the obligatory nature of the family, were just a toddler, you were a small part of cheerful, and song-leaders struggling al• day in our household. Sometime before for the receiver was quick to return a similar a dramatic Christmas experience. Of course most frantically to whip up the Christmas Thanksgiving, salesmen from various you were too young to remember, but it is gift. He did not want to be beholden in the spirit. Slowly the crowd wanned up, joining specialty stores came to take orders from worth knowing about, so let me tell you the new year either. in singing the carols we had learned as child• Grandmother. They often brought samples story now. ren in a happier day. • It was the Christmas of 1942, just 3S years of the newest items. She tasted them slowly Every soiled garment and bedsheet and and soberly, spitting some out. ago and not a happy time for a world at war. THEN CAME SANTA CLAUS, riding towel was collected and washed. It was in• It was a particularly depressing period for My grandmother was extremely particu• from messhall to messhall in an olive drab tolerable to sleep on sheets of the previous your mother and me who, along with you and government truck. Clad in an ill-fitting red lar about food. She smelled and poked and year. Everyone took a ceremonial bath to 10,000 other people, were living in a place suit, his whiskers awry, he stomped into our held things up to the light to check the color wash off last year's grime. called Heart Mountain, Wyo. messhall, full of loud cheer. before using any ingredient. Fish grabbed On- awakening into that virgin year, we This community was made up of row on The younger children, you among them, by the tail were slapped against the sink to were warned that each act and spoken word row of black tarpaper-covered barracks. It gaped in pop-eyed amazement Many of the certify freshness. was a portent of the whole year. I guess was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded tots were too young to remember previous For days before the holiday, as Grand• that's why New Year's is remembered as an . by soldiers so we couldn't get out. Christmases, and here it was a real live Santa mother began the preparations, the bouse exceptionally long day. We were so careful We were there because our country, in its Claus with a great bulging sack on his back. had a vinegary, soy.sauce smell The smells that we went around like robots. infinite ignorance, figured we could not be The gifts were passed out, and there was intensified as paint and cleaning solution For the first meal, sheets of waxed paper trusted to be loyal because our forebears had one fur everyone from the youngest child to odors combined with it. migrated to the United States from Japan. So the oldest grandmother. There were books were removed from the display of food on without bothering to make formal charges We didn't wait for spring to do our clean• the dining table. Grandfather served each of and toys and games, pictures to hang in ing. It was always done in preparation of the the government suspended our constitution• bleak barracks, wash cloths and toilet soap. us a small taste of warm sake in thin porce• al rights and forced 110,000 of us Japanese trinkets and useful gadgets, all of them new year. Every cupboard and drawer was lain cups. Grandmother prepared a cauldron .emptied, scrubbed and lined with new paper Americans out of our homes and into 10 con• poured into the desert camp by the great, of sweet rice cakes cooked in broth with centration camps in the desert West. . or oil cloth. Walls were washed or painted. generous heart of fellow Americans wbo t.d vegetables and pieces of chicken. Out of our barracks window we could see heard of our plight Screens came down. Bed springs were only gray sand, scudding gray clouds, gray dragged out into the yard to-oo hosed. This' was followed by the serving of a Cards from the donors were enclosed willi sagebrush that stretched to the gray horizon. the gifts. They came from the Jonesel, die We children were told to assemble all un• sampling of each of the two dozen or so var• Gray wallboard on four walls and ceiling of ieties of food on the table. We children Smiths and the Browns, and common folk necessary items in our drawers and to de• our cubicle, a floor gray with the desert dust whose names indicated they probably came posit them by the outside incinerator. There balked at eating some of the stranger looking ground into it to America with later waves of immigration. was considerable controversy over what objects on the plate. The gifts were from BillingI!I, Mont, and Boe• When we tried to shove them under ASCHrnUsnMASAPPROACHED,wetrred was necessary or disposable. It depended on to make our lives brighter with little gifts ton, Mass; from a mountain town in New whether you were a child or an adult. Child• chicken bones or other convenient camou• purchased through mail order houses, even Mexico and an orphanage where the ren's opinions weren't worth a darn in our flage, omens were cast at us. We would suf• a little artificial tree fashioned of odds and youngsters had saved ~ ~ buy p~ ents for little like you who family. fer poor health, cars would run over us, we ends and draped with cotton snow. evacuee children Grandfather tended the fire. He ordered, would go hungry. To ward off such mis• Yet the grayness permeated the air, for we had no homes, either. "Bring more to burn." Our offerings never fortunes we quickly swallowed the food. were lonely in the midst ?f the l~,OOO. ~t THE GRAYNESS LEFT the camp dlar partlC~ fnen~; satisifed him. As he poked at the fire with a Money was never spent on that first day. wasn't longing for any It night and never really returned. It WIIID'r long, iron rod, he scolded, "More, more. To do so would have meant that during the . was the hollow, numbing feeling of being due to the presents alone. But tbey were outcast, unwanted and forgotten. Outcast c-' ....., Hurry up." Contlnuet on Page 7 from the home communities where we be- Too frightened to disobey him, we pumped 6-Pacific Citizen New Year Special Jan 6-13. 1978 Calendar, pulse & memos ficers, and the evenmg's en• nated Jan. 29 for its inaugur• Five Midwest chapters slate Jan. inaugurals tertainment will be provided al dinner to be held at the Da• by Harry Habata of Twin ruma Restaurant The pro• CmCAGO-Inaugural sea• Public Affairs, AcrION, 100. hold its installation dinner at gram is still in its planning The remammg Midwest Cities. son is underway in the Mid• Washington, D.C., was guest the Sheraton Westport Inn. Detroit will hold its instal• stages. installation dinners will be west. These events provide speaker. His topic was the Joseph deRotaeche, Mana• lation dinner at the Bonnie According to Rev. George held in January. chapter members with a "Super Minority". ger of the World Trade Sec• Brook on the same night. Nishimura, Cleveland Presi• Milwaukee's inaugural is chance to install new Board On Dec. 4, the Cincinnati• tion of the St. Louis Regional Further details will be forth• dent, they have not, as yet, slated for the Country Gar• members, socialize, and give Dayton Installation was held Commerce and Growth coming. finalized the arrangements den Restaurant on Jan. 14. the members a chance to at the Congress Inn in Cin• Assn., is the tentative speak• Hoosiei' chapter bas desig- for their January inaugural hear guest speakers talk on a cinnati. Dr. Roger Daniels, Guest speaker, Father Dan• er. His topic is "U.S.-Japan variety of interesting topics. Professor of History at the iel Sharman, will talk about Trade: Myths and Realities". About 180 Chicago mem• University of Cincinnati and the changes in Japan that he Judge Bill Marutani of bers hosted their 33rd An• author of numerous books saw during his 25 years of Philadelphia will be the key• chapter pulse nual dinner-dance on Dec. 3 on Japanese Americans in• residence there. A Mary• note speaker at the Twin Cit- - • Hollywood Politic~ headed by Fred Hashimoto at the Case and Cover Res• cluding "The of knoll Missioner, he recently ies inaugural dinner on Jan_ Hollywood JACL is spon• was instrumental in solici• became a Milwaukee JACL taurant in the American Fur• Prejudice", spoke abotlt the 28 at the Nonnandy Inn. soring Tomoo Ogita's talk on ting greetings for the PC Ho• niture Exchange. George "Japanese American Exper• member. George SakaglU:bi, MDC Japanese woodblock prints liday Issue. Proceeds go to• Wakiji, Acting Director of ience", to a crowd of about On Jan. 21, St. Louis will First VG, will install the of- at Pacificulture-Asia Mu• ward helping chapter youth seum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., representatives attend the S26-99-Frank Iwama, Sac; Dr. & Pasadena, on Friday, Jan. 20, Presidential Classroom for Mrs. Tom Taketa, SJo; Omaha JACL; Deadlines Riverside JACI.. 7:30-9:30 p.m. It will be a gal• Young Americans. Assisting eJapaDese Americanofthe Biennium. lery tour of the exhibit which him were: -Nominations by Mar. 31, Nat') JA• 3-Nov.l~ Betty Minabe, Lena H.amagucbi, Q. Hq; presentation at Convention, • No. includes outstanding exam• SI-2S-James J Fallon Jr, Son; Tad ples of Shunsho, Utamaro, Ken H.amaguchi, Leonard Kinoshita. July 22, Salt Lake City. Fukushima, Sto; Momoye M. Hiro• C. and Tom Nakashima and Robert • Nat'! JACL Scbolarships (Fres~ oka Son; Toyo ljuin, Sto; Mits Kane• Kiyonaga, Hokusai, Him• Tanji mao/Graduate)- Forms and docu• ko, MT-li: J;'.C. ~tagawa, Vnc; Hitoshi shige, Toyokuni and many ments by April 1, Nat'! JAQ. Hq; an• Kobay~ . Iti. Son; Crne & George Kon• • Lodi nouncement in June. do, fi~r , Bessie Matsuoka, Son; Hito others. Okada, SLC; George Okamoto, Son; .Ogita is an art historian-lec• Lodi JACL insta1led Jim • JACLer of the Blenniur.>-Nom• Tsugio Sano, Liv; Peggy & Bill Shima, Ishida as 1978 chapter presi• inations by May 1, Nafl JAQ. Hq.; Sto; Martin Shimizu, Soni Fred Suga• turer and' past Hollywood presentation at Convention. July 19, wara, Son; Yoneo Suzuki, Sac; Dr & JACL president Parking is dent during its New Year's Salt Lake City. Mrs. Kenneth Takeda, I..od; George fun night party Jan_ 7 at Hale Tsurumoto, Son; Sam S. Yamasaki, available on the left side of Son. the museum. France Yoko• Park Recreation Center, Calendar S26-99-John & Michie Fujiki, FrC; yama (662-4954), the new where a catered Chinese Margaret Murata, Ora; Frenc~ Camp chapter president, said spe• gourmet dinner was served. • JAN. 13 (Friday) JAQ.; Mayor Katnich installed the Reno-Inst d·nr. SI00 or more-Dr. Harry Hatasa• :cial showing to members and • JAN. 14 (Saturday) ka, Seq; Dr T~rry ~a$. S}o~ Lodi friends can be arranged upon new board and the Swing livingston-Merced-Inst t.lnr, Ran• JACL; Sonoma County JAW reservation. TIle museum ' Tones played for the daIlce cho Del Rey restaurant, Atwater, 7 charges $2 admission. that followed. p.m .; Karl Nobuyuki, spkr. • No. 4-Dec. 12, 1977 Handling membership will Milwauke&-Inst dnr, Country Gar• 51-2S-BA Watanabe, Sto; M. K TateYllf!l8l Sto; Ruby Dobana, Sto; • Las Vegas bepastpresidentTaul Takao, dens restaurant, 6 p.rn.; Fr. Daniel Shar• Shig Taxanashi, Sto; Fusako Watana• man, MM, spkr. "Japan: ~l97S " . ~. Sto; Y. Tazuma, Stt; Y. Onishi, William Endow was elec• 2115 W. Walnut (368-7940). San Francisco-As ADler Bar Assn 'N I; Lily Shirakawa. Chi; Satoru Ni• ted Las Vegas JACL chapter Chapter also announced of Grt Bay Area inst dnr, Claremont 1978 FRESNOJAY&-8ack rr:m: Mrs. Barbar~ T~iguch . i,~; shita, Con, Yurii Kyogoku, Cle; Ken• president. He and his board the top three winners of its Hotel, Berkeley, 7 p.rn.; Judge Thomas Victor Hsu, vp; Ian Taniguchi, hist; and Dr. Izumi Taniguchi, adviser. nie K wal!a~~ Shoichi Kim..\!rB, Tang, U.S. ~pp Ct. .spkr. Con; Hana u. S epard, LA;tlenry were installed at the annual first annual Lodi J ACL Front row: Neal Taniguchi, -c:Iist rep; Adair Takikawa, p~s; Janel Mori~, Sto; Stephen Itaya, Fr~ • JAN. 15 (Sunday) FrC; dinner-dance Jan. 8 at Royal striped bass derby held in Urushima, pub!. Not pictured: Stan Morita, sec; Shoko Tanida, treas; S. Sugunoto, SJo; F\isa U. Wtlson, Phi; Seattle-Inst dnr, Bush Garden, Kiguma Mura~ Seq; C. S. Kawaka• Inn's Gold Room. November. They were: 5 p.m .; Rep. Norman Mineta, spkr. and David Nishio, memb. mi. MtO; Hachiro Mayewaki, Ora; Chapter is now looking to• D.Drewey,32lb.4oz.;TaulTakao, 3Hilh; and Shig Shimada, 29-8. -.JAN. 18 (Wednesday) FRESNO JAYS RENOJACL Stan Shikuma, Wat; Florence F. Sato, Sam Wada, pres; Michiko Sphar, WDC; Seichi Konzo, Oli; Harry Ota• ward hosting its first dis• Solano/Napa Valley-New chap• Adair Takikawa, pres; Victor Hsu, vp; Dorothy Kaneshiro, sec; Tom ni, Son; Frank K Oc:!Bt~n; Isoji Sato, trict council meeting next Condnoed ClDNat ter mtg, Fairfield Civic Ctr, 7:30 p.m. vp; Stan Morita, sec; Shoko Tanida, Gar; Karl K. Nobuywo, SMC; Albert Plae • JAN. 20 (Friday) treas; David Nishio, memb; Ian Tani• Oki, treas; Kiks Wada, memb; Molly month when the No. Calif.-W. Yamashita, social; David Baba. schol• Morimoto, Cor; Mamaro Wakasugi, HoDywood--Gallery tour, Pacificu1- guchi, hist; Janel Urushima, pub; Sna; T.O. Togo, Sto; Richard Tanaka, Nevada delegates convene tureAsia Museum, Pasadena, 7:30 p.m. Neal Taniguchi, del; Dr. and Mrs. arship; Ron Yamamoto, 1000 Club; Sto; Jimmy Watanabe, Sto; Paul here at the Maxim's on Feb. Wilson Makabe, Youth. Matsumoto ~o; George Okubo, Sto; with TomooOgita, "Evening'withJapa• Izumi Taniguchi, adv. l 10. Special flights from San M~=F nese Woodblock Prints". Roy Yonesnige, Sto; Margaret Kik• ~PCY A Benefit din- 1978 Officers JAPANESE Name ...... • ...... · .... • BERKELEY JACL ,Address ...... ,······· ...... Paul Takata, pres; Hank Hama• taka, vp (program); Gordon Kondo. VILLAGE vp (civ afn; Gordon Yamamoto, vp : City. State, ZIP ...... -- ...... (budget); Sady Hayashida, treas; PLAZA Please make payable to the Yatabe Scholar hip Gregory Pearson, rec sec; Yone ~a 1 check.s kamura, cor sec; Terry Yamashita, 'Fund and mail to: Clu~ ; ______memb; Akira Nakamura, 1000 Chicago JACL. 541-5 N. Clattl St .. Chicago, III 60640 J Jean Nakaso, schol; Tish Yamasaki. Coming Soonl I - hist; Jordan Hiratzka, insurance; ~Ul I Sano, youth; P Takata. del; Dwmht Gilchrist, newsltr. ------New Year Special: Jan. 6-13.1978 Pacific Citizerr-7 friends going to movies. SEKO With all the care exercised on the first day, cence and invented some of the omens. ever possible. stopped using charge cards. Condoued from Page 5 only good things should have been in store. I don't ever remember questioning the On the first day I went around like a mute, whole year we would only spend and not save The bad omens couldn't have had a chance. certainty with which my childhood New not letting my tongue doubltxross me_ any. So we wistfully watched our white Maybe the adults took advantage of our inno- Years were greeted. The feeling that one For all my preventive measures, it turned could control the direction of the future, the out to be a mediocre year. Perhaps the • Chapter People Handling Memberships magnitude of the optimism. omens have become weaker through neg• - lect. My grandparents may have taken all Membership fee sbown after tbe name of the Chapter the SlDaIe rate applies. Student (5) dues do not Include PC We waited for our zodiacal years when the secrets of casting spells with them. ref1ec:t the currart nt2 for Single and Couple. TboWlllDd 5ubscrfpdoo but sucb members may subecribe at the Club members now COIIttibute S3S and up; their spouse JAa.rateofSSperyear.Membersbipcbecksa.repayable good fortune was. reserved for us. And so in I'll have to see how my sister's year of the (TC 51) may enroll .. a ~ rate as shown, otherwise to the JAa. chapter of the Individual's choice. the year which was to be mine, I cleaned, horse turns out Maybe she can get the old Report Late Cbimges to Pacific Citizen. discarded, washed. I paid with cash when- magic working again. 0 Pacific Northwest ReDO (SI3-25) Gardena Valley (SIIhlO) Mt Olympus (SI5-27) KiksWada Dudley Otake Mary Takemori Columbia Basin (S18-3O) Gardena JACL 170 Pioneer St. Ed Yamamoto 2007 Branch Ln. Reno, Nev. 89509 P.O. Box 2361 Midvale. Utah 84047 4502 Fairchild 1.00 Gardena, Calif. 90247 Pocatello ($15-30) Moses Lake, W~ ~7 Sacramento (5IS~29) cepted by Ronald Franklin, ted l~min footage taken in Percy T. Masaki Greater Pasadena ($15-28) Marie Proctor Gresham-Troutdale (SU-IS) Bob Uchida . 1605 Monte Vista Dr. ·chapter school superintendent, and 1942 of Japanese being eva• HawleyKato 2739 Riverside Blvd Sacramento, Calif. 95818 852 S. Los Robles Pocatello), Ida 83201 placed at El Rancho High cuated from Guadalupe. His Rte Il~x 187 Pasadena Calif. 9ll06 Salt Lake (~15-27) Gresnam, Ore 97!m Salinas Valley (S15) ·pulse· School library. Larry Umetani, 00 Hollywood (SI~, sP3) Chiz Ishimatsu mother-in-law. 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III. Appellate Court Overturns Okubo-Yamada
