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Anti-Nisei Housing Bias Mooted by Utah Civil Righters TZI; Publ\abed weekly. beeFed .. !lid eJu8 III&tter ba post orttce at t.. All...... CIaI& . Vol. 48 No.3 Los Angeles, Calif. Published Eyery Week - TOe Friday, Jan. 16, 1959 tOLUMN LEFT: I Racial relocation Anti-Nisei housing bias to ease tension? I We don't know how I serious the senior sen­ mooted by Utah civil righters ator from Georgia was that Sunday b e for e (Special to Pacific Citizen) ineligible to citizenship to reside in the State of Utah. The Japanese Christmas when he an- SALT LAl<.E CITY. - In reviewing Association of Utah fought against a nounced plans to intro. the status of Japanese Americans the bill, but in 1943 during the SO OF CALIF 'S duce a bill in this Con. in Utah for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the absence of hysteria of the Second World War. the measure was passed as the representatives from the home- 80 ASSEMBLYMEN gress to bring about more influx of evacuees settling in Utah e qua I distribution of building industry at the recent mounted. The law was repealed in whites and Negroes in fact·finding committee hearing at CO-AUTHOR FEPC the State Capitol Bldg. served as 1947, the measure being introduced by Glen F. Thompson, then na· mute testimony to an area of SACRAMENTO. - More than 50 this country in an effort tional commander of the Veterans to ease racial tensions. major di~crimination for the Nisei. of California's 80 assemblymen of Foreign Wars. , joined last week to introduce leg­ The headline over the " A cross-section of the Utah Ja· Discrimination practiced by 51> /It. panese community-urban and ru- islation urged by Gov. Brown to n.tlanta news story in our ral-was present at the Ja.n. - 6 cia I fraternities and sororities at give the state its first FEPC law. the Univ. of Utah was also dis· paper had "racial reloca. meeting, presided by James W. The list of co-authors easily as­ cussed. Their memberships are sured Assembly passage of the tion"-which caught our TOM KITAYAMA Quinn. member. of the Utah Civil exclusively Caucasian. It was the Uuion City Councilman Rights Commission, with Adam M. measure creating a Fair Employ­ ever - scanning eyes for, Duncan, commission councilor, as- committee's contention that elimi· ment Practices Commission with nation of the anti racial and non- power to police job discrimination. Ni- sisting. stories with possible Christian membership ban on Proponents expre.sed hope the­ sei angles in them. Rural Nisei indicated to the fact- campus could be eli min ate d new Democratic look would clear 1 N C I si~ce "By giving each state st o. a Ilinding committee that they enjoy through legislation these I the way for the bill in the Senate almost full acceptance from the groups are partially sustain-ed by where similar legislation has never community socially, economically I an equal share of the state tax funds. gone beyond committee. But. they race problem," Sen. Rich- NI-sel- wl-ns and racially save for scattered in· The meeting was held in the ' said, they expect no walkaway. ard Russell was quoted, cidents of prejudice. They pointed Governor's Board Room. Toshi Fifty-lour assemblymen in aa "we would have a work. to the recent election of a prom i- Odow and Mrs. Alice Kasai served signed the bill, including 11 Re­ -t t nent Buddhist layman, Masaru Ya- as meeting secretaries. Participat· publicans. able means of easing rae· CI Y pOS mada. as president of the Davis ing from the Japanese community Gov. Brown hailed the proposed ial tensions and of achiev. County Young Farmers Assn .. pre· F~PC. s~tute lon~ ove~due. • dominantly comprised of Cauia- were: I as lUg a permanent and SAN LEANDRO. _ Tom Kltaya- sians. Rupert Hachiya, past Salt Lake This IS an area 10 whlch we JACL president; George Yoshimo. have lagged behind other progreso ma, 35, prominent nurseryman and Bias in Housing peaceful solution to the I to, Salt Lake JACL; Raymond sive states," he said. "The experi­ problem." 1000 Club member, was the top But in the urban areas. Nisei Uno, representing Nisei teachers; fence there indicates that this leg'­ The senator said his vote .getter i~ the special incor· still meet discrimination m' at­ poration electIon Tuesday of two attorney Jim Mitsunaga; and Bis. islation will go a long way toward proposal would create a nearby communities, Alvarado and tempts to purchase new homes. hop S. Aoyagi, Nichiren Temple. eliminating job discrimination." The committee was informed of Named to the Japanese Ameri. ~r<:>wn: who called f~r a~ti-d!s- voluntary Racial Reloca- Decoto. which will be known as the selling code as practiced by can Sub-Committee were: cnmmation meas~res 10. hiS tn- !ion Commission to as. Union City. national and local real estate Roy Nakatani, 0 g den Buddhist augural address, IS~Ued hIS state­ S· t d Kitayama will be one of the boards prohibiting realtors to sell Church; Ken Uchida. pres .. Japanese I ment after conferrmg on Jan. & IS an eneourage per- five city councilmen to be sworn homes to people considered to be Far,!,ers Assn. ; Masaru Yamada, pres .. with 15 assemblymen and 3 sena~ DaVlS County Young Farmers Assn .; sons wishing to relocate in soon. There were 15 candidates detrimental to the area by such Ichiro Doi, pres .. Salt Lake JACL. tors, all Democrats, who agreed to other states having a on the special ballot. specific terms as "race and na· and SLC Buddhist Church; Dr. Dan to introduce the bill. Onikl. Mt. Olympus J ACL; l';Un Ma- low percentage of Ne. Probably the first Northern Cali· tionality" . tsumori. pres .. Salt Lake County Vege· Meaningful BUI fornia Nisei to seek an elective Alan Brockbank. ACTION board table Growers Assn.; Joe Kurumada. The bill provides for the gov­ groes and by offering post as city councilman, Kitaya· member; L.P. Roberts of the Japanese Church of Christ: and Mas Yano. chmn.. Intermountain District ernor's appointment of a five-man federal ·assistance. The rna is currently first·vice-president Apartment-House Assn. and Henry Council. Fair Employment Practices Com­ same aid would be avail- of the Alameda County Farm Bu· P. Kipp of Federal Housing Ad· mission, with enforcement power. iiible to white persons liv. reau, and a past vice-president of ministration, only three out of I EX-JUDGE SUYEMATSU'S It would prohibit job discrimina­ the Eden Township J ACL. eight representing the housing in· WIFE APPOINTED DEPUTY tion because of race, religious ing outside the South His younger brother, Kee, is the dustry present, noted that accept· creed, color, national origin or an­ who would like to relo- newly-elected president of Eden ance of Japanese Americans in ATT'Y GENERAL IN WYO. cestry. Violators could go to jail. - cate in that region. To Township -JACL succeeding Dr. the housing field has improved The co-authors, Assemblymen " Steve Neishi. Another brother, greatly in the past 10 years and CHEYENNE. - Ellen Crowley of Cheyenne has been appointed dep­ William B. Rumford m., Berkeley) accomplISh thIS reshuf· Ray. is a past president of the it could cQnceivably continue to and Augustus F. Hawkins (D .. Los fie, he estimated cost Fremont JACL. improve under the present trend uty attorney general. I Attorney Gen. Thomas O. Miller Angeles), cleared a generally simi­ would not exceed the New Community shown by the general public. "Edu· lar proposal through the 1955 As­ cation" rather than " force of law" announced the appointment and amount the nation now .The. new community of Union would be the advisable means to said he was "very pleased" to sembly lor the first time. Then, like a 1957 version, it met defeat spends each year in for. City In southern. Alameda county accomplish the objective in hous· have Miss Crowley serve as his in the Senate. eign aid-about $4 bil. boasts a . poPul~tion of 6,000, ve.ry ing, the fa ct·finding committee deputy during the balance of his cosmopolitan In makeup Wlth was told term of office. The sponsors apparently at'e lion. residents of Mexican, portug~lese'l Albert Fritz, local NAACP presi. Miss Crowley was the first wom· counting on the changed Senate We wonder how volun. German, Japanese and Chln:se dent, also related the problem of an assistant attorney general for complexion- 26·13 Democratic-to t descent. The threat of annex<'ltion housing and oth d' . t Wyoming, and is the first woman break down the upper house's tra­ ary would Ne~r~es. O~ by Hayward to the north and F.re· . practices agains~r oth~~cr~":~~~i~:~ deputy attorney general to serve ditional resistence to FEPC laws. Georgia or MISSISSIPPI m:ont to. the sout~ drove Umou at this time. in the State of Wyoming. As an Initiative Sen. John F. McCarthy (R., San emigrate to such states City reSidents. to Incorporate. Wh'lI e no speCifiC. recommenda- (In private life. she is the wife of former Justice of Peace Tosh Rafael), Senate Republican leader, as North Dakota, Monta- The Kltayama Brothers . operate Itions were made, Raymond Uno, W . one. of. the largest carnation nur· a Gchoolteacher, and Duncan, fact· Suyematsu, who did not !'eek re­ told a reporter, however, he is Continued on Page na,. yom 1 n g, or to i s en~s In the country. Tom being finding committee chairman, em. election.) 8 Mame, ':ermont and New ~resldent . and co:>wner of the I!'h?sized racial discrimination ex· HampshIre? The Deep firm.
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