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# 2,432 Vol. 104, No. 12 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200, , CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, March 27,1987

'More Perfect Union' Date Set for Introduction Smithsonian of Bill; 6 Sponsors Added Gets Hate Mail WASHINGTON - Sen. Spark Matsunaga CD-Hawaii) will intro• duce the Senate redress bill on March 26 with at least 60 of his colleagues as co- ponsors. on JA Exhibit As of March 23, Ole latest senators to add their names to the WASHINGTON - The Smithso• list were Dennis DeConcini CD-Ariz.), Terry Sanford (D-N.G), nian Institution's upcoming ex• David Boren (D-Okla), Jake Garn and OlTin Hatch (both R• hibit, "A More Perfect Union: J a• Utah), and Robert Stafford (R-Vl), according to Elma Hender• panese Americans and the Unit• son, Matsunaga's legislative aide. ed States Constitution," sched• "All those who have been working on the redress issue for uled to open Oct 1, has already many years and who began to doubt whether there would be begun to generate letters of pro• any real movement in Congres to SUppOlt the issue," said LEC test from veterans and others. executive director Grayce Uyehara, "need to look to Sen. Matsu• "As you can imagine, this one naga as an example of a Que believer. He has given a great is warm," said Roger Kennedy, deal of personal time to talk with his colleagues by phone or eet organizers Toko Fujii (left) and Henry Taketa with Walerga marker. director of the Smithsonian's Na• on the floor of the Senate. tional Museum of American His• "I think he wants to show the Nikkei community that redress Walerga Park tory. " .. . Hate letters are already can happen we put our mind to the work which needs to be if coming in to the Smithsonian be• done by each one of us." WW2 Assembly Center Site cause we are treating people of Asian extraction like other Amer• icans, as if that were a strange Memorialized With Plaque thing to do." Kawakami, Hawaii's House 'We've gotten letters from folks saying, 'My dad was on the SACRAMENTO - Under cloud• departure of the last Japanese Bataan death march and 'Don't Speaker, Dies Suddenly at 56 less skies in northeastern Sacra• American internees in late June, you realize that Manzanar wasn't mento, a crowd of more than 250 1~ After being taken over by Dachau?'" said exhibit curntor witnessed the dedication of a the Army Signal Corps, tlle camp's Tom Crouch. HONOLULU - House Speaker ter Commission. bronze marker and shade struc• facilities greatly expanded to Richard Kawakami, 56, died Much of hi legislative career ture at Walerga Park site of a house and train military person• Bicentennial Project March 8 of an apparent heart at• was devoted to water and land WW2 assembly center, on Feb. 28. neL Camp Kohler became one of Although the musewn has tack while on a hunting trip in is ue . He erved for 12 years as A plaque mounted on a 6,

Saturday, April 4 Saturday I April 4 Sunday, March 29 10 am - 3:30 pm 9 am - 4 pm 10 am - 3 pm Veterans Memorial Bldg. Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital Culver Palms Family YMCA 4117 Overland Ave. - Auditorium 4650 lincoln Blvd. 4500 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Culver City, CA 90230 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Culver City, CA 90230 Friday, March 27 Sunday, March 29 Saturday, March 28 10am-3pm 10am-3pm 9am-4pm Westwood Elementary School Oakwood Recreation Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 2050 Selby Ave. 767 California Ave. 8700 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Venice. CA 90291 IlAllilAll.\ A"" "I) Kl , los Angeles. CA 90048 Saturday, April 4 Wednesday, April 1 Sunday, March 29 Personalized 10am-2pm 10 am - 3 pm 10 am· 3 pm j Sales - Leasing - Fleet Tho Hoallh Fair expo 1& sponsorod by Iho Amorlcan Rud ClOSS. Cl1ovlon USA. Inc. KNBe·TV find 1I1 Q Hospllnl COlln~11 ol S uthem Cnillomin (,r.,dll {'lIlolI ,lIelll/)(,/'s ",eIUllllt' Chevron ( ,\" (21;';) I02·';2H I (71 I) ';22·'; 12() =- L----______~ ______... _* L ll"ltjISA()ASA lltMINI1:[t'-______...... ______...... - _____ -,_J 4-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, March 27,1987 JACL Personnel Manual: Framework for Discussion

by Ronald Ohata and work rules. PSWDC Legal Counsel Legal Deficiencies There has been much discus• Certain modifications are sion about a proposed J ACL per• necessary for the CUlTent man• sonnel manual, so I have been ual to conform to continuing asked to provide a framework by changes in the statutory and case which the chapters can intelli• law. Other than an illegal or ill• gently discuss this matter. advised personnel practice, these The Personnel Committee was modifications are primarily a assigned to revise the CUD'ent matter of clarifying and updating SWINGING manual to be consistent with cur• the language used in the manual. in the rent legal requisites. This has re• This is to have the language con• ~RCH-KAZE quired an examination of the cw'• sistent with the evolving law and rent manual and proposals for new requirements, and confolm• necessary modifications. These ing any inconsistencies with modifications can be in fOlln mandated personnel practices. (cleaning up the language), minor Procedural Changes modifications (e.g., changing the To discuss the substantive Crime and Heroism number of militaIy leave days), changes, one must address the is• and substantive modifications sue of whether the administra• (e,g., changing a practice or pro• tion of JACL should remain in been unthinkable, and receiving greater. In Hawaii, the Asian in• cedure which has been found in• the hands of the national direc• EAST a sentence would have been "so• carceration rate is almost three consistent with prudent person• tor with oversight by the presi• WIND cietal death," at least times greater than for whites. nel practices). dent and board. The changes pr(r Back in my birthplace commu• FROM THESE RATIOS, the The proposed personnel man• posed would transfer much of nity of White River Valley (state reader might (mistakenly) assume ual, most everyone agrees, goes the authodty and decision-making Bill of Washington), I vaguely heard that these non-whites commit the far beyond the charge to the com• from the national director to a Marutani about some Issei who was charged same ratio of crimes that result mittee. The proposed manual proposed thre~member person• with smuggling some controlled in incarceration Based on my per• makes fundamental changes in nel committee. This committee substance. I think the word I sonal observations of ''working the administration of JACL staff. would be appointed by the na• I RECENTLY READ a report heard was ahen. To lend a bit of on the inside" for a number of It also alters accepted assump• tional president citing statistic relating to crimi• drama, it was supposedly stashed year'S, I have little doubt-nay, no tions which have formed the Such day-to-day OCCWTences nal imprisonment in the United away in a barrel of shoyu, those doubt-that non-whites are dealt basis for the working relation• as requests for leave, adjustment States, and I found some of the Shoyu-dCL11L with which many of us with more harshly than whites ship between the staff, the Na• of working hours, and work eval• frgw'e difficult to believe. are familiar. a haven't seen one for similar offenses. tional Board, and ultimately the uations are to go through thi For starters: the .S. ha the in ages.) I knew the man slightly While one might proffer some membership. committee. The national director highe t incarceration rate of any and wa impressed by his attire "reasons" why this should be so National Director's Role would effectively be out of the industriaJ ized nation except for and elan, for he was one of the -greater community stable con• As JACL is a national civil decision-making loop. As a prac• South Africa and the U.S.S.R, few non-farming Issei that I had tacts, greater resources to defend, rights organization comprised tical matter, one question what hardly commendable company. ever met at that time. "more respectable" character primarily of volunteers, the na• the role of the national director For evelY 35 male adults, one is I DONT KNOW what the cur• witnesses, etc.-the main factor. tional director and his staff are will be. in prison, on probation or on rent crime statistic reflect in- distasteful as it may be to declare, paroie-and not that ti1i do vested with the integral re ponsi• Staff Benefits ofar as AJ ' ar'e concerned. al• is racism If there be some doubt not include femaL or tho e W1- bility of giving day-to-day con• The proposed changes ubslan• though my hunch i that while as to this conclusion, let me I'efer del' age 18 years. tinuity to the operation of the tially reduce the current benefits the rate has increa ed ince my to po itive performances where Since 1972, tile pri on popula• program Be it meeting ow' mem• of the staff. While it is t.rue that youthful day (as it has for all seg• racism operated. tion ha more than doubled. On bership, conducting our network• there is some ambiguity as to cer• ments of our ociety), it i still THE 442ND SOLDIERS dis• any given day in some half ing with other civil rights organi• tain benefits, the staff and man• 1985. con iderably below the national played many valiant acts ofbero• visi ~ a million Wei' in prison \ ith an• zations. or maximizing our agement of JACL wel'e hitherto average. Of COUl e. even ti1at is i m on the battlefields ofElli'ope other quart r million in local bility in the community and in in agreement as to how each ben• too much. and it hopefully hould to receive a citation and medal jails--and tl1i do not include the media it is and always will efit was interpreted. Ifambiguity l'educ d. that wel'e below, often far below. tho held in police lockup , im• r~ be the national director and staff was in fact the problem, then the The tati tical oW'ce fn t that given to white soldiers for migration d tentiol1 c ntel or battl~ members who will be available solution is language with clarity. [el1'ed to above how that in• imilar valiant acts on the ju enile institutions. to realize the goals and desires These cuts are included be• carceration for the following field. peak to any 4l2nd vet of our membership. cause it is believed in some quar• NOT NUKE MANY i, wel'e gl' ater than for white : who' \villing to tell you the facts. Changes in the personnel man• ters that the staff benefits are ex• wh n it om to the ubj ct of Blacks. even tim gl'eater; Hi - I've heard white officers who ual which may effectively ham• cessive; other r ason proffered crim , my backgl und i one of panic m n, although compl; ing were assigned to the 442nd make per the authority of the national go to the language. con ervati m inherit d fi'Om til tht e percent of the adult popu• this observation director and his staff can serve The discussion here centers I ei. a oungster, v n being lation. ten percent; Native Amer• o IT L . \' e've a bit of a 'Ya) to diminish the influence ofJACL on what the staff benefits should charged with a crim would hav ican in outh Dakota, flv time to go to attain parity. and must be throroughly exam• be. Some factors to be considered ined before being implemented. are: (1) benefits at other compar• The national director runs the able organizatons; (2) salary sbuc• administration ofJACL, which is ture at other organizations; (3) Sim Togasaki: Pragmatic Visionary comprised of chapters, in both promotion potential-wheth r its day-to-day operations and in thel'e is job advancement.; (4) job wa mathematic-. founder of J CL, he had vi ion. implementing the policies of the ecutity; (5) training available; FROM THE im \Va 01 bu in man of Today I can alm -t hear him. National Board. He oversees the and (6) perks. lhe family. "Dad in i ted an edu• ri ing at J L' emergency con• staff to ensw'e its pelformance FRYING PAN An cxamination of these fac• cation was worth m 1 than any ti 1 nc in alt Lake ity in the and compliance with the direc• tors may well I ad to the conclu• mat rial thing h could give u ." fall of 19-!2, t bling an end to tives of the board.. The oversight sion that in som areas (such as he one told me. "1 got my fll t pirited d bat about whether to of the national director is the rc• carry~vcr of unused sick and an• Bill new 'uit at 16, ntil U1ey gt w a k for military rvi.ce: sponsibility of the national pres• nualleavc-currenUy 7.ero), JACL Hosokawa up, each of I11Y i tel got on~ ' "I f 1 tl'Ongly that III t of u ident and his board. benefits fall below thc norm. two new cit e ' n for grad de il to b treat d in the 'am To give a structure to discus• Staff Work Rules school graduation and HI OU1 l' way a all oOler Amelicans. both sions on the proposed personnel The proposed manual will Cor high 'cho 1 omlllencem 'Ilt. a to acrifice and ben fits. ThL manual, I suggest the discussion place rigid work rules upon the It's a pity that mOl'e Sans 'i and AJI of our other dOtil \i 1 L a matt r which vitally affects three (1) focus upon issues: chang• staff. The basic work I lation• Yonsci didn't hav th opportu• hand-mC'-lI<'r 'I .• ':I" I rlllld"'II. ( \ I) II ( II I ·HH murkublt' C'hilc\I'('1l [htlll'l'<.'d by wrilt '11 up in till' is 'i PI '$ '. To• form. but whe n the war 'nded I'uhll"hul 11\ th4' hipilll"·.. "· .\11\1.' Ii.. m l III/t'll" I '"jIJUH' "\1 ' 1 \ IlId,l\ t \t C'PI IIIl' Iii "II Iliul ht" I ikllll1atsli Togasaki, a ~"l'nclut\lt' gnsaki wOl'k din (h '1 :wkgl'ound mal'll' st'wml tlips to """h" "I ill(" \l',11 .11 ')11 F ird'i II 2CH ! Iii .. ' \l1g~ ' ll "" f \ ~)tI(lJ" 1.... '1\ • ""c. 'llJ\H.1 (h' ...... h Okinawa PfJ""I'H(.' Pi,l" :11 to.... \n)otd,'" ( \ • '1lIllllli "lu h ,(lll'llfJlI' J.\( I \I\-',"Iwr... ' II riO III thl' ora JapHl1l'se govprnnwnt school with his s)wC'inl sl ill, which was and Japan t )t'Ii ithl' Prqit 't,lnt'.. 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A pril 11 Orange County Sansei Singles will celebrate il.~ first Rights Activist 9 p.m. to t a. m. birthday/anniversary with a Prom N ight Yesterday at the Anaheim Hyatt Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 SAN FRANCISCO - Asian Law at the door. Info: Grace Masuda. (714) 496-m 9. or Ron Caucus will celebrate its 15th an• Yamasaki. (714) 894-7947. niversary April 4, 7 p.m., at the CHICAGO Sheraton Palace Hotel, with the April 2 "A utumn and Spring" a play by Keith Uchima. opens at Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, a for• 8 p.m. the Chicago Dramatists W o rk ~ h o p , 3315N. Clark SI. Per• mer Wilmington Ten defendant, formances will take place Thursdays. Fridays and Sat• as keynote speaker and dance urdays at8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. through May 3. All music by the band Pride and Joy. seats are $10. Info: (312) 472{l55(). Once located in a tiny storefront SAN JOSE office, ALC has grown into a na• RISING STARS -Mas Fukai (left), chief deputy to Los Angeles County tionally recognized organization A pril 5 Asian American Social Club will host a Day atthe Races Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, and Dennis Nishikawa (right), member of the 11:30 a.m. at Bay Meadows Race Track Tickets are $13 for mem• with offices in Oakland and San Los Angeles Board of Public Works, are presented with California Senate bers and $15 for non-mem bers. Price includes admis• Francisco and with five full-time resolutions by Sen. Art Torres in recognition of their recent promotions. sion, reserved seating and lunch i n the TurfCIub. I nfo: attorneys and ten staff members The presentation took place at a March 5 reception held in their honor Joyce Satow, (415) 952-2856. who deal with housing, immigra• at the New Otani Hotel, sponsored by the Asian Pacific Planning Council. tion, employmentJlabor, the el• LOS ANGElES derly, and community education ApriJ3 Benefit potluck reception for the N ikkei H elpline will ALC also helps build a new Chavis, a :?2-yearveteran of the Chavis will speak at our fund• 6p.m. lake place at the Japanese American Cultural and Com• generation of Asian American munity Center, :M4 S. San Pedro SI. Tickets are $10. Pro• civil rights movement, is execu• raiser," said ALC executive di• ceeds will benetit the new telephone helpline. Further attorneys and community work• tive director of the United Church rector Peggy Saika. "Not only information may be obtained by contacting the Little ers through its summer law clin• ofChri st's Commission for Racial does he have an incredible re• T okyo SeIVice Center, (213) 680-3729. ical and volunteer programs. Justice and was recently named cord of accomplishments in civil A pril 4 "W inter in My Soul." a documentary on the Heart ~loun­ One ofALC 's best known cases by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo rights. but he is a captivating and 6:30 p.m. lain camp produced by K1WO in Wyoming. \\-;11 be was its work on the coram nobis to the State Commission on Ra• in pirational speaker." shown atJapanese American Cultural and Community legal team of Fred Korematsu. cial Violence. Admission is $40 general, $20 Center. :M4 S. San Pedro SI.. second floor. Donation: 53. whose wartime conviction for As one of the Wilmington Ten, for students and $10 for seniors. Sponsored by National Coalition for Redress Repara• violating internment orders was Chavis spent 4Y2 years in NOlth Info: (415) 835-1474. tions and Visual Communication·. Seating is limited. vacated in 1983. In addition, ALC Carolina prisons in the 19705 for I nfo: (213) 680-3729. has favorably settled Chinatown his civil rights activitie . In 1978. Chapter A ward ApJil6 peaker from the Amencan Red Cross will discuss restaurant workers' claims for Amnesty International called the 1 p.m. earthquake safety at the next meeting of the AARP. back wages. unpaid overtime and ten the flI'St case of politkaJ pris• SACRAMENTO - Flor.n JACL's Down town Chapter, at nion Church, second floor con• vacation benefits. and recently oners in the U.S. In 1980. tile $200 scholarship went this year ference room. Info: Harold lshibash~ (213) 942-1954. reached a settlement holding a FOUlih Circuit Court of Appeals to Mark Shigeo Alicaya of Elk OAKLAND major garment manufacturer ac• overturned their convictions, Grove High School. He plans to countable for the unlawful labor clearing their records. study accounting at C Santa A pril 9 ian Pacific Democratic Club of Alameda County will practices of its subcontractor. ''We are very honored that Dr. Cruz or CS Sacramento. 6 to9p.m. co- ponsor a candidates' fOllJm at Lincoln School A uditorium, 10th and Jackson Streets. Candidates for the Peralta Community CoUege Trustees Board, Oak• land School Board and Oakland City Council have been i nvited to participate. Wo: Eddie Wong. (4.15) ~38i2. SAN MAR I NO A pril 4 Workshop on personal investment planning. conducted 9 am.tonoon by ~lark Sakanashi. presid nl Pearhill Financial Con• sulting Inc.• will take place at Pearhill. 'lRZ7 ;\Iission St Cost is S30 per person or $35 per couple. Info: Sharon 'yeda Fong. (818) 700-9511. SAN PEDRO April 3 FOUlth annual weater howcase Luncheon. sponsored by Parents Anonymous of California, \\ill take place at lIZ tich's Restaurant U1 Ports O· Call \'iIlaoae. Doors \\ill open at lO::ll am. for bro\\ ing. buying and socializing L unch will be served from noon to 2:30 p.m. Tickets are S?5 per peniOn. For further infurmation. contact Fran- hikahisa. (213)541+121.

Nominations Being Taken for Tatsukawa Memorial Award

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CHICAGO Chapters Hold SAN FRANCISCO - Fonner Na• Succeeding Hany Kajihara, .Chapter will host a theater party for a perfonnance of "Autumn tional J ACL presidentJerry Eno• now National JACL president, as and Spring" April 3, 8 p.m., at the Chicago Dramatists Workshop, Joint Program moto of Sacramento was elected fund-raising chair will be Cen• 3315 N. Clark St Tickets are $8. Info: Paul Igasaki, (312) 975-0058. chairman ofLEC for 1987 during tral California District governor CONTRA COSTA LOS ANGELES - Eight JACL the LEC Board meeting held at Mae Takahashi. Kajihara will still JACL National Headquarters on serve as a member of the LEC .Chapter's annual Spring Golf Tournament will take place chapters-Latin America, Mari• na Del Rey, Orange County, Pasa• Feb. 13. Executive Committee. March 28 at 10 am. at Galbraith Golf Course. Info: Jack Other officers are Grant Uji• Gary Glenn of Cambridge, who Hamahashi, (415) 223-1164, or Tak Sakanashi, (415) 235-1475. dena, South Bay, Torrance, Wil• shire, and Venice-Culver---

Tickets are $7.50 per person. For infonnation and loan ap• ------~. plications, contact the Midwe t Greate r Los ~ e l el! Wat omille. Calif. . WEST VALLEY District JACL Office at (312) 728- A AHI TRA VEL Tom ~ ak ase Re alty .Chapter will host the Northern California-Western Nevada• 7171. ~ UI ' . ,...,,\, ~ ~ ("I"'OUIJ U~( · ounlJ,. \ pt''lrt. " a rt's \ t · r"'Y~"" ·, K ll ll (' b ~ Bum...... lut: ouJr Pacific executive board meeting APlil 5 at 1545 Teresita Dri e, \.OfH IW' ·rurtl· l;:loIUJt·t! I V\l , \ "- ,,1:.. Kcahur 1111 \\ . VI Y"'I'''' ijh.J. Lo. \ "l'd,... 'XI\) 15 25 Lbflor-J \ \" . , .081 ;2+6-l77 San Jose. 12 1.1i/,2 :I-b I 25/:!') . 1..U J .... .,d.lad) . FL ~ ' E R \'l E ~ c.;A.RD E:"I #2 San Fr ancisco B ay Area Los Angeles Japanese 't·,.. Olwu lIoH"I, I IO~ Lull' \l\f.U'I ..~ II IA" \0 ",.·1.·, 'IOU I:! I \ r. 10 0 J r . EDSATO PCads (. , ' ~ ~ n Casualty Insurance Assn. ... do · 11.·1" II:! IJ I (.:!O·OllOli PLUMBING & HEATING make Remodel and Repairs. 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( ... 1 Uti Ruth Fukui, Vice Pres/dent S/Jrvlno tho Community (2 13) Sib 0110 Nobuo Oluml, Counsellor lor Ovor 30 Ynnrs '- 8-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, March 27,1987 PC Address Changes Entered on Monthly BasIS Center Seeks Four to Be Honored for Community Work PC Address Changes Entered on Monthly Basis Artifacts From SAN JOSE - Actor George Takei member of Asian Americans for as a historical landmark 1987 WEST L.A. will be the featured speaker at Community Involvement and San KRON-TV news anchor Emer• JACL Travel Program Camp Period a benefit dinner celebrating the Jose JACL president; ald Yeh will emcee the program, which will include a perfonn• Administered by WLA Travel, Inc. 10th anniversruy of Asian Law • Jacinto Siquig, co-founder of For JACL Members, Family and Friends SAN JOSE - Community lead• Alliance at the Le Baron Hotel, ance by San Jose Taiko Group. Filipino American Senior Op• 1987 Airfa re: LAX-TYO-LAX-$548 ers are seeking camp art, handi• 1350 N . 1stSt,onAprillO,6:~p.m portunities Development Coun• Asian Law Alliance is a non• crafts, homemade fwnitme, news• Takei, best known for his role cil and Northside Community profit group that provides low• papers, and other objects from as Sulu in the "Star Trek" televi• Center; cost legal services to Asian Pacif• the wartime internment for an sion and fi lm ~eries, will speak ies and low-income persons. Legal archive and resource center on on the importance of Asian Amer• • Connie Young Yu, author of assistance with problems arising local Japanese American history. ican involvement in community Prq{iles in Exce/lence and My An• in housing, immigration and do• The San Jose Commission on affairs and the role actors play cestOl's Are From China, coordinat• mestic violence is available in the Intenunent of Local Japanese in building positive images with• or of an eduational video on do• Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese Americans, established by the in a community. mestic violence in Asian commu• and other Asian languages. city in 1983, will establish the ar• Four people will be honored nities, operations manager of a ALA also works with other com• chive in conjunction with San for their work on behalf of low• Santa Clara County Department munity organizations in efforts to Jose JACL's proposed Japanese income and Asian Pacific com• of Health project assessing needs curb anti-Asian violence and to American Resource Center. munities in Santa Clara County: of Asian immigrants, and vice maintain bilingual services and • Travel Meeting: Apr. 19 Members of the commi sion, • Masuo Akizuki, a pioneer or• chair of the citizens' committee equal access to the legal system MOVies, slides. fellowship renewal wrth c