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Earl Warren Memoirs

Earl Warren Memoirs

Earl Warren -. -.-1 IZ N memoirs:• Publication of the National Japanese AmerlcanC ltlzens League 'it was wrong'

Vol. 84 No. 22 Fri dav. June 10. 1977 Postpaid In U.S 20e 15 CENTS WASHINGTON - Chief recalled his one meeting in Justice Earl Warren's auter 1973 with the Chief Justice biography, "The Memoirs after dogging him with let• of Earl Warren", just pub• ters seeking a public retrac• lished by Doubleday, con• tion after Warren had re• tains a confession of wrong• tired from the bench in doing in the role he played 1969. Americans charge reverse bias as attorney gen• Warren acknowledged eral in 1942 leading to the in• Uno's personal interest to ternment of Japanese have expunged the public against Japanese firms in U.S. Americans. statements on Evacuation, "Whenever I thought of which Uno had held were NEW YORK-Many Ameri• that are qualified that want Leading case was filed in countants. technicians and the innocent little children "damaging and inflamma• cans working for Japanese to work with u . It Houston in 1975 by three managers. "We need a Japa• ... I was conscience-strick• tory" . companies in the United Peter Gay, president of Caucasian men alleging vio• nese staff to carry out busi• en. It was wrong to act so "While he recognized my States are complaining that Taft Employment. coun• lation of Title 7 of the 1964 ness here," claimed corpo• impulsively, without posi• sincere motives to enhance the path to promotions i tered, "We just wouldn't Civil Rights Act prohibiting rate secretary Sadao Nishi• tive evidence of disloyalty." Ius impeccable record by blocked because they are send a person to a Japanese di crimination in employ• tomi for C. Itoh in an inter• The quotes appeared in a removing one misdeed that not Japanese citizens, ob• company who i looking for ment against C. Itoh & Co., view, because over 75% of Washington Post (May 29) clouded his superb record serves reporter Nathania!. a high promotion. I would be Ltd., of Japan. The com• the business is with Japan review of the book by W.H. of public service, he told me Nash in the New York doing him a disservice. It plaint alleges American em• "and to do effective busi• Harbaugh, professor of his• that I would not have to wait .. Times May 3l. But, reminds Nash, the ployees of C. Hoh have less ness, you need a special tory at the Univ. of Virginia, too long before my wishes The unhappy employees phenomenon of a company opportunity for promotion knowledge of the country, who noted Warren was not would materiaJize," Uno are charging re erse dis• giving preference to its own to management positions. the people, the society and at ease with his role in the said in remarks before the crimination. Employment nationals abroad is hardly that the Japanese nationals the language". "displacement of Japanese No. Calif. ACLU Bill of agencies ha\ e joined in the uncommon. In the post• receive higher wages, more Nishitomi also noted par- Americans during World Rights Day program, honor- complaint, according to World War II era when U.S. frequent bonuses and better ent Tokyo companies regu• War II, though he first rec• ing him and Raymond Oka• Nash, though they note Sony firms flocked overseas, the fringe benefits. larly send their middle level ommended that they be re• mura for their efforts to re• is the exception. standard practice was to In a similar complaint, 11 executives to America moved from the coast rath• peal Title II of the Internal Hiroshi Tsuwano, person• have U.S. nationals running ecretaries have filed a for four or five years as part er than interned". Security Act of 1950. nel and general affairs man• the show. Only in recent class action against Sumito• of their career develop• • Uno later understood the ager for Sumitomo Shoji times has this changed be• mo, charging advancement ment. They need the extra Thus ends the lone ranger autobiography would in• America Inc., American cause of heightened local beyond secretarial or cleri• compensation to move and campaign the late Edison clude an admission of the subsidiary for Japan's fifth sensitivities and to the high• cal is closed to them be• "if we did not offer these Uno had waged to secure a mistake. largest trading company er cost of maintaining cause they are female and things, we would not be able public retraction of state• • which does almost $3 billion Americans abroad, Nash American. to get our Japanese staff to ments made against loyal Harbaugh found the book a year in business with the continued. Nash was told that the come over," Nishitomi com• Nisei Americans. "highly selective . .. like U.S., told Nash, "It isn't that Employee grievances U.S.-J apan mutual trade mented. After Chief Justice War• most autobiographies". The we are against promoting have led to several lawsuits treaty of 1948 permits each Ryo Nishiura, executive ren died in July, 1974, Uno narrative is only ''moder• Americans. We just have with more reportedly to country to send such spe• vice president of Nissho- then said "It was unfortu• ately sustaining", the prose not been able to find enough come "unpolished" and it ignores cialized personnel as ac- Continued on Page S nate Mr. Warren did not (live) to retract or apologize some important matters, for his influential role in the glides others and dwells too long on minor concerns. Evacuation as it remains a Judge Marutani polls 90,000 votes dark blemish on his career Nevertheless Harbaugh as a great civil libertarian." does justice to the man, who PHILADELPHIA-William Endo is secretary and with both parties but Maru tan i In late 1974, however, Uno Continued on Pqe 4 ~ M. Marutani, Judge, Court ran only on the Democratic her husband, Sim, took care of Common Pleas of the ticket. of mailing campaign and First Judicial District of According to Marutani's fund raising materials to the Philadelphia, who ran for a supporters, politics is un• Eastern area Japanese JACL office being moved full ten-year term for the predictable, such as Phila• Americans. Dr. Warren Wa• same position led in the pri• delphia's recent election tanabe was treasurer. mary election here May 17. when the District Attorney Dr. Tom Tamaki headed June 10 to old Nishi Bldg. Gov. Milton J . Shapp had and Controller who had de• the fund raising among Phil• - The Sun ficials to discuss the issues appointed Judge Marutani clared against Mayor Rizzo adelphia area Japanese Bldg. was being vacated this surrounding the temporary to the bench two years ago who won by big margins community. Fund raising week as tenants were moved relocation. to fill a vacant position. against party~ n d o rsed can• from the other supporters in by the Community Redevel• National JACL executive Marutani ran on the De• didates. The "Friends of the Eastern states was co• opment Agency to either the director Karl Nobuyuki said mocratic ticket, endorsed Judge Marutani" will have ordinated by Mike Masaoka, old Nishi Hongwanji Bldg. agreement was reached to by his party and Philadel• to continue its work for the Kaz Oshiki and Grayce Uye• at First and Central or to the have the JACL regional of• phia Bar Assn. Though list• fall election. hara. Other campaigners old Japanese Union Church fice and the Pacific Citizen ed last among 11 contend• The Asian American com• were: on N. San Pedro St. relocated this week with ers, Marutani scored a stun• munity of Greater Philadel• Miiko and Dr. Herbert Hon kawa. It paves the way for CRA, several conditions to be met. ning victory for the party phia organized a campaign Sumi Kobayashi. IAUibe Machara. which owns the Sun Bldg., to CRA has agreed to modify nomination, coming in first committee, "Friends of June Alima Schumann, Hiroshi Uye• fulfill its contractual obliga• hara and Dr. Mary I Watanabe. its rental agreement to as• with 90,188 votes. Some can• Judge Marutani", under the tions with East West Devel• sure tenancy at the interim didates had cross-filed with leadership of Priscilla Television appearances to JUDGE BILL MARUTAM . opment Corp, of conveying site until a pennanent move Chung. The committee was give Marutani increased the beleaguered parcel of to the Japanese American composed of representa• visibility were arranged but meet the committee people land by July 31. Cultural and Community PC Office tives from the Chinese, In• it was mainly the candi• and workers which account• JACL and Pacific Citizen Center is made. The matter at interim site dian, Japanese, Korean and date' indefatigabJe .dri ve to ed in large pat-t to the vic• representatives met last Filipino communities. Betty visit the numerous wards to tory. hi campaigner said . week (May 31) with CRA of- Continued on Page 3 On Monday this week, the Pacific Citizen office was relocated from the Inouye bill to aid Sun Bldg. to Rooms 305- Filipino veterans Census questionnaire questioned 308, 355 E. 1st St., Los An• W ASHING TON~ e n . SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The fic Islanders and Asians be• tant social program in the UPAC further contends geles 9OOU. Telephone Dan• U.S. lumping all "yellows" would number is unchanged. iel Inouye urged the Senate Chinese and Japanese have ing "melted in one big pot" been tabulated separately is the Union of Pan Asian (2) Responses by mem- deprive many communities The four rooms now pro• Veterans Affairs Commit• bers in the pan-Asian com- of social services that would vide separate quarters for tee to approve his legisla• by the u.S. Census since Communities of San Diego they first emigrated. By the County, Inc., which cele• munities- will be inaccurate benefit them, such as bilin• circulation, production, tion (SB 129) to recognize as most immigrants and -gual education, employ• editorial departments certain Filipino WW2 veter• 1970 Census, Filipino, Kore• brated its fifth anniversary and general office. ans whose names were an and Hawaiian had been last month. their children will not iden- ment training, affIrmative The Pacific Citizen ex• added. UPAC feels, according to tify themselves as "Asians action, housing, senior citi• stricken from official U.S. or Pacific Islanders". The zens, new immigrants, vot• pects to operate at this in• All this is disappearing Virginia Hom F\mg writing Army records in 1948. Asian American identity is ing rights, mental and pub• terim location until a As many as 125,000 Filipi• under the questionnaire in their newsletter "Pan permanent move to the no veterans may "have proposed for the 1980 Cen• Asian", an awareness of English- lic health. Japanese American Cul• sus as persons with such (1) Development of re• speaking activitists. On the basis of their own wrongfully been denied rec• (3) And those who do not experience in the county, tural and Community ognition and veteran bene• ethnic backgrounds are to spective pan-Asian commu• identify themselves as UPAC has concluded Cam• Center, which is sched-· fits to which they would be singly classified as nities would be affected ad• uled for occupancy in "Asian or Pacific Islander". versely as census data is "Asian or Pacific Islanders" bodians, Chinese, Guam• otherwise have been entit• would probably mark "oth• late 1978. led", the Hawaii Democrat The latest group to ex• used to evaluate, assess and Condnued on Nellt PII,e . er", which is disastrous. .- said. press grave concern ofPaci- plan for nearly every impor- 2 PacIfic Cltlz~n - Frid y, June 10, 1977 An expatriate woodcut artist decorated by Emperor of Japan ceremony. So were the art• legislative program over ist's wife, Teruno, and his years. daughter, Keiko Hiratsuka When the Emperor and Moore. The father's words Empress of Japan visited were translated by the Washington, Hiratsuka was daughter. "lowe this hon• commissioned by the Japan or," said Un'ichi Hiratsuka, America Society of Wash• "to those around the world ington to woodblock the lin• who, by cherishing my coln Memorial to commem• prints, have encouraged me orate his visit to that hallow• to try to improve my art." ed place in 1975. According • to Imperial Household tra• Hiratsuka was com mis- dition, only one print of the 'ioned by the Washington, Lincoln Memorial was D.C. ,JACL chapter to wood• printed and the woodblock block the Cap• was destroyed. Also, ac• Itol, which was presented at cording to the Imperial the Congressional Dinner Household, there are onJy feature of te 1972 National two "busts" of Americans in JACL Convention, to con• the Imperial Palace, one of gressmen and· senators who and the " had been helpful to JACL's other of Luther Burbank.

JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE National Youth Director • General DutIes and ResponelblIltlee - Under the general direction of the JACL National Executive Director: 1. - Plans, Implements, and/or coordinates pro- grams and activities for Japanese American youth and /. Woodcut scene by Hiratsuka Woodcut artist Un'ichi Hiratsuka the Japanese American Youth (JAYs) organization; 2. Provides technical assistance and general ad• ministration of youth and youth-related programs; (Special to the PaClfic Citi2en) the temples tiny images of His methods are antique, the printer. Hiratsuka does 3. Develops and administers JACL programs such WASHINGTON - For the Buddha established the tra• but his images are not. Of• it all himself. as the Cultural Heritage Fellowships, Presidential flrst time in recent memory, ditions that Un'ichl Hiratsu• ten in his prints one sees the The Japanese, to Western• Classroom for Young Americans, Scholarships, and the Order of the Sacred ka has extended and en• banks of the Potomac, the ers, seem somehow schizo• Student Ald. Treasure, 3rd Class, was larged. monuments, the Mall, the phrenic, equally attracted to Quallftc:atlona conferred by the Emperor He still carves into wood, , land• the old and to the new. The of Japan upon an expatriate employing the same chisels marks of this city, which has old techniques were dying 1. Knowledge of the diverse life styles, and per• Japanese artist, Un'ichi Hi• he has used for half a cen• been his home since 1962. when the young Hiratsuka spectives and characteristics of Asian Americans, speci• ratsuka, in ceremonies held tury, and he prints by hand. patiently revived them. The fically Japanese American youth, particularly as affect• May 27 at the official resi• The ukiyo-e printers were him ed by local environment The ukiyo-e artists, whose Emperor has honored a~nlstratlve dence of Japanese Ambas• woodcuts so impressed De• seen as second~lass; as arti• because he helped make 2. Knowledge of general office and sador Fumihiko Togo. gas and Cassatt, were at• sans, not artists, Hiratsuka woodblock printing a con• procedures. Hiratsuka is 81, his tech• tracted by bright colors, but is famous for diminishing temporary art. 3. Bachelor's degree from an accredited ooUege in niques are much older. The Hiratsuka prefers the old that prejudice. It took three The Order of the Sacred behavioral, social science, or related field preferred and forgotten Japanese who austerities of deep black men to make a ukiyo-e print, Treasure is given in six desirable. 1,000 years ago printed for and bright white. the designer, the carver and classes. A supreme court 4. Valid driver's license to operate a motor vehicle judge might get the first, a required. university president the AppUcation Procedure CENSUS cards are finalized," Fung ernment and private pro• second. When the Emper- Submit appUcation and resume to: grams seeking to eliminate Continued from Front Page said. or's birthday honors were JACL National Headquarters • racial discrimination in all announced on April 29, Un'- 1765 Sutter Street ~ JapaneSe, Koreans, Prior to the 1960 census, areas of American life• ichi Hiratsuka was the only , California 94115 Laotians, Malaysians, Pili• there was a move by the housing, employment, edu• artist, and the sole emigrant Rling Deadline: Postmark on or before June 2_0, 1977. pinos, Samoans, Thais, and American Civil Liberties cation, etc. to be given the third class. "Such an honor is, well, Further Information, CXlmplete job descrlptIon and application forms Vietnamese have widely di• Union to eliminate all ques• The Japanese American contactJACL National HeadquarteJS. verse demographic and Citizens League, since the tions regarding race from rare," said an ambassador- socio-economic patterns. the questionnaire on question was raised, held ial aide. 1------Each has distinct linguistic grounds they might be inva• racial questions in the cen• Goblets of champagne 1977 EDC-MDC Biennial Convention and programmatic needs, sions of privacy and not ma• sus were meaningful and were poured, many bows Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel UPACadded. terial to gathering of gov• that individuals should be were bowed. Franz Bader of Lack of a detailed popula• ernment data. But on recon• made to respond. There had the Bader Gallery, Hiratsu• Washington, D. C. 20001 tion characteristics would sideration, many ACLU been reported instances of ka's dealer, and Tom Law• July 28·31, 1977 disadvantage Asians or Pa• members felt such data was Nisei refusing to check "Ja• ton of the Freer Gallery of REGISTRATION INFORMATION c i f i c Islanders, UPAC absolutely essential to gov- panese". 0 Art, were present for the Chapter·______stressed. It expected mem• Name ______bers to urge for revision of Item 4 by writing to their Address Phone (A/C)J------congressmen and to: Pioneer L.A. Issei medic dies City/State/Zip ______Robert Hagan, Acting DU'eCtor LOS ANGELES - Memori- turned to Los Angeles and the Japanese SDA Church in Arriving via car__ buS-.- rail___ air_ _ U.S. Bureau of Census, al services were held June 8 practiced until his retire- 1918, and decorated by the Commerce Dept. Arrival Time Flight No. and Airline'___ _ _ Washington,D.C. 20233 at the Central Japanese Sev- ment in 1973. He then re- Japanese government in The census bureau should enth-Day Adventist Church married and moved to Yu- 1965 with the Order of the Courtesy bus available from National Airport 10 Twin Bridges Marrio" MOlor Hol.1. be requested to drop "Asian in Boyle Heights for Dr. H. caipa with his wife Fanny M. Sacred Treasure, 4th class. MOTOR HbTEL INFORMATION: Moil Reservations direct to Motel. or Pacific Islanders" and James Ham, 87, who died at Spillman. He was the Lorna Linda Check-in time 4:00 p. m. July 28; check-out time 1:00 p. m. July provide a distinct listing of his home in Yucaipa May 28. Dr.' Hara was also active alumnus of the year in 1956, 31st. Deadline for blocked room reservation, July 7th; thereafter racial groups to include: A native of Okayama, he in cultural and civic circles, recipient of the American• on room available basis. All reservations will be held on guar• Bunnese, Cambodian, Chinese, came to the U.S. in 1905 and .a longtime supporter of ism medal in 1958 from the antee basis. Guamanian, Indonesian, Japanese, attended Walla Walla Col- JACL, Japan America Soci- Daughters of the American Single Room $34 - Double Room $38 Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Pilipino, Quad (for JAYS not staying with parents, 4 in room) $44 Samoan, Thai, Vietnamese, etc. lege and received his medi- ety and the Rotary Club. He Revolution and the Paul l "Now is the time to voice cal degree in 1918 from the was naturalized a U.S. citi- Harris Rotary Award in REGISlRA liON: your concern before the of• College of Medical Evangel- zen in 1953, a co-founder of 1972. 0 Pre-Registration by July 1 ...... $25.00 ficial 1980 Census data ists (now Loma Linda Uni- ....-__------1 late Registration (ofter July 1) ...... $30.00 , versity). After s eve r a I New club in Ohio PACKAGE DEAL includes all activities, banquet and meetings. years of general practice in . DElEGATE TOURS planned for: White House CINCINNATI-Dlder NISeI ana is' Dr. Lawrence P. McCormick Moneta (Gardena), he en• (limited to first 100 registrants), Arlington Notional Cemetery, sei residents here have formed a Formerly an Assistant Professor, tered the Univ. of Pennsyl• Capitol (need tickets for Congressional luncheon; purchase at new club, the Pioneers. to exchange at the University of Pacific, School of Dentistry ideas and information on retirement vania in 1926 to specialize in time of registration). Smithsonian, library of Congress, FBI, and for fellowship. Those interested otolaryngology and eventu• Notional Archives (limited number). may call Fred Morioka (563-6718). announces the opening of his dental practice ally was conferred a doctor i MAKE REGISTRATION CHECKS PAYABLE TO: of science degree in 1934. in the Japanese Cultural Center Washington, D.C. Chapter, JACl mrat~!i He had married Dr. Marg• ~ 1741 Buchanan Street All Delegates and Boosters must be registered_ Dr. George Akira Isbjwara, 67, aret Farr in 1921. She San Francisco, California 94115 of Vancouver, B.C., dentist, died passed away Jan. 9, 1969. SEND TO: MRS. AKIKO IWATA, May 16. He was ~founder of the Ja· During WW2, he worked Telephone: (415) 922-6588 panese Canadian Citi2ens Assn. in 11719 COLLEGE VIEW DR., WHEATON, MARYLAND 20902 British Columbia and active with the at Hinsdale (ill.) Sanatori• (301) 942-8996 - ... Canada Japan Society. um and Hospital. He re- ~m . PacifiC' Citizen - FrlJay, JuWe " 0, S Ideas from community sought for Little Tokyo redevelopment update LO ANGELES - Now that be conducted m both Japa• eral rule, or 6 per cent of Little Tokyo Tow rs, Union nese and English. gross, if that figure is high• ·VACATION Church and Higashi Hong• Other actions taken at the er. wanji are completed, the LTCDAC meeting included He added that renova• CASH'? New Otani Hotel s t to open support for merchants in tions in the old Nishi Hong• We can get in ptember and Japane e the Weller St. triangle, who wanji Building are expected you there! Village Plaza and the Japa• wished to relocate into the to be completed this month, n Am rican Cultural and first buildings to be built in at which time Sun Building Community Center begin• the Japanese Village Plaza tenants who signed for tem• ning construction, how will specialty shopping center porary relocation into the the rest of Little Tokyo be together at about the same building can begin moving developed? time in order to keep di r-up in. Calif. First Bank ads To help answer that ques• tion of business at a mini• Action on the Japanese tion, the Little Tokyo Com• mum. LTCDAC asked CRA American Citizens League, Matlonal JACL Credit Union munity Development Advis• to complete the mall adja• which has refused to move PO Box 1721 Borrow up to $3000 ory Committee (LTCDAC) cent to those building be• from the Sun Building, is Salt Lake City. Utah 84110 on your signature at its regular monthly meet• fore tenants were moved in. now up to the courts, he Telephone (801) 355-8040 to quallfled borrowers. ing May 26 voted to ask Hiro Saisho, proprietor of said. Community Redevelopment Magic Radio, one of the Wel• -Agency planners to update ler St. shops, pointed out JACCC structural County park head the master plan for Little that without the mall, mer• Tokyo and furnish a variety changes revealed SALINA • calJf.-Tom "Lefty·· ~ lJ · chants fronting away from of options to the community INTERESTPLUS ... ranaga \\ elected chamnan of the Second St. would be at a dis• LOS ANGELES-StructuraJ parks COInnU for the future development Montere ' ounty " Ion advantage. changes proposed by for th coming year at the M il), ., of Little Tokyo, with first David Hyun, developer of A new concept In In JACCC general contractors meellng held a t San Antoruo Lake priority going to provisions the uthem part of the count)'. Japanese Village Plaza, was RST Construction Co./Sy Art for needed parking space. questioned about his mini• time deposits. And to make sure that ide• Concrete Co. will delay Home & Garden Show mum rent versus percent• start of construction on the LO ANGELES-Ikebana gue t art· as from the community are age of gross business rent part of the master plan up• Japanese American Cultur• i ts will jom 1unel Merrell, Home & structure and explained al and Community Center Garden how coord mator on flower date, LTCDAC organized a that rents will be negotiated by about a month but will arrangements, at the LA OlDven• Planning Task Force which between each tenant and tioDCenterJune 11 · 19. tyl foruse will meet every Monday save $160,000 in building in California homes will be demon· the Japanese Village man• costs in the long run, it was a rrated on the c10s Ulg day at 2 p.m. night, starting June 13, 7:30 agement, but that 6 per cent p.m., on the fourth floor of announced this past week of gross business was the by Tosh Terasawa, chair• In the race for top interest rates in time Uberty Ball July 3 the Merit Savings and Loan going rate for most shop• deposits, all good banks finish about the same. Associatin Building. Task man of the Building Com• LO ANGELES-The Thursday Nit· ping centers. mittee. But now Sumltomo moves ahead with the new ers present their second annual u b• force meetings are open to Michael Oh, CRA Little The change will also save IIdereItI'Iu ... erty Ball onJuly3, 9p.m., at the May' everyone. Discussions will Tokyo Project manager, ex• flower Ballroom, 234 Hmdrey Ave.. about two months' construc• Now, $2,000 in a one-year Time Certificate of plained that Weller St. mer• ba~ Inglewood, With Tak hindo's 16- tion time, Terasawa ex• Deposit earns a full 6%, the highest interest piece band. For delBils, call Mary NISHI BLDG. chants going into Building plained. Construction now is rate ... PLUS ... one of the most generous and Kato (2624085). Admission is S6 per "0," now being constructed unique package plans ever offered! person. Continued rrom Front Pa,e slated to start early in Aug• by the CRA in the Japanese ust, with completion sched• A maximum $1,000 credit line of JACL being able to obtairl Village Plaza adjacent to the uled for October, 1978. (overdraft protection)! Wine-tasting 321 Building on Second St., liability insurance at the in• Free checking account terim site is to be worked will only pay 10 cents per yields $2,400 square foot in rent as a gen- (no minimum balance required) ! out, Nobuyuki said. Hosokawa elected Commlsslon·free travelers cheques! LOS ANGELES-Mrs. Chie• CRA officials were pleased ~ ko Inouye, president of the at the constructive manner consular vice-dean PLUS many more opportunities Tak Shindo's band to save! . :t: West Los Angeles JACL in which the JAOrPC rela: DENVER, Colo.-Bill Hoso• Auxiliary, announced the cation issue was handled. coming back big kawa, honorary consul gen· So get the best run ever for time sixth annual Wme Tasting The L.A. fire commission, LOS ANGELES-Tak Shin• deposit money at Sumitomo...... eral of Japan in Colorado, Regulations Impose subslantlal Interest penalties upon premature Withdrawal. party held at the Yarnato in a related matter, vote do, jazz instructor at Cal was elected vice-dean of the Restaurant recently netted in a related matter, voted State-L.A.. has reactivated Consular Corps of Colorado $2,40(} and $1,200 each was Jooe 2 not to block CRA plans his orchestra with accent on at the group's annual meet· ~e 8umitomo~Galifor'lia donated to the American to demolish the Sun Bldg. the music of the Big Band + ing May 24. Member FDIC. Cancer Society and the after reviewing their staff era-the 1930s t h r 0 ugh Representing 24 nations. March of Dimes. and inspection reports. 195Os. It makes its debut at virtually all are honorary the Nisei Week Coronation consuls. They are promi• Ball Aug. 20 at the Bonaven• nent residents who have Umeya breaks ground for new ture. been appointed to watch the A 16-piece orchestra with interests of citizens of rep• million dollar sembei factory vocalist, its repertoire will resented countries. Hoso• The one that does more does It with include Japanese hits which kawa was appointed Octo• A COMPLETE TROST DEPARTMENT. LOS ANGELES - Around the fund drive to the aid of Shindo has arranged. ber.1974. y the corner from their pres• victims of the Ise Bay ty- ..~....- ______~ ______California First Bank has a full'service Trust Department with sent locale a block south of phoon. His- home town of , L An It J C Ity' I Ass offices to serve you in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Little Tokyo, Umeya Rice Shima, Mie-ken, honored OS gl S apan"l asva nsuranee II. Newport Beach. And our experienced trust officers are him with a bronze bust in Complete Insur.nee Protection .- available on an appointment bllsis at any of our LA and Cake Co. ceremoniously Orange County offices. broke ground last week (June 1972 for his many contribu- Aihara Ins . Agy., Aihara-Omatsu-Kakita-Fujiaka 1) for a new $1-million fac• tions. 250 E. 1st St...... 626-9625 A secure future is yours at over 100 statewide locations of The new factory with \nson Fujioka Agy .• 321 E. 2nd., Suite 500 ...... 626-4393 263-1109 California First Bank. Irs simply a mlltter of planning. So tory, scheduled for comple• contact one of our trust officers directly. or mllke lin appoint• tion in the spring of 1978. It 48,000 sq. ft. is the culmina- runakoshi Ins. Agy., Funakoshi-Kogowo·Monaka-Morey ment through your local office today. Irs just another way we tion of a dream of Little To- 321 E. 2nd St ...... 626-5275 462-7406 will be situated on Crocker inlend to make banking more. thlln it ever WIIS before. St. between 4th and 5th. kyo's "original rice cake Hirohata Ins. Agy., 322 E. Second St...... 628-1214 287-8605 Umeya, which now distri• manufacturer" who was Inouye Ins. Agy., 15092 SvlllOnwood Ave ... Norwolk ...... 864-5n4 butes its fortune cookies, present with civic and bank Tom T. Ito, 595 N. lincoln, Pasadena .. 795-7059 (LA) 681-4411 rice crackers (sembei) and officials to participate with MinOr\! 'Nix' Nagata, 1497 Rock Hoven, Monterey earle ...... 268-4554 TRUST DEPARTMENT OFFICES tea cakes throughout the the Rev. Tsuyuki in the Steve Nakaii, Il964 Washington Place ...... 391-5931 837-9150 lOS ANGELES U.S., Hawaii, Australia and groundbreaking. Sato Ins. Agy., 366 E. 1st St...... 629-1~25 261-6519 James Boyle :>ther parts of the world, 1I1111111111111111111111111111111l11ll1l1l1l11ll1l1l1ll11l11ll1l11ll1l1l1l1ll1l1l;lllilltflIIlIlUIIIIUII1lllllilUIlIIIlllllllllllilUIlIIIlllIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIllIIIllliUlIIlllllllllllllnlllllllllil1I11111111111111111111NIIIII 616 W. 6th 51.. 213/972-5272 needs additional production BEVERLY HillS :apacity, explained Takeshi Whitney lee Hamano, manager. FRIENDLY 9595 Wilshire Blvd., 213/278-2774 Umeya was started in J.. The Mitsubishi Bank SERVICE NEWPORT BEACH 1923 by his father, Yasuo Michael Silverberg Hamano, on Weller St. in 1501 Westcliff Dr., 714/642-3111 Little Tokyo. During the af Cal.ifarnia war years, he continued business in Denver and re• HEAD OFFICE turned in 1948. In 1967, he 800 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90017 (213) 623-7191 was decorated by the Japa• . LlTILE TOKYO OFFICE nese Government with the 321 East Second St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 (213) 680-2650 CALIFORNIA I Order of the Sacred Treas• GARDENA OFFICE FIRST BANK . ure, Sth degree, for his lead• 1600 W. Redondo Beach, Gardena, Calif. 90247 (213) 532-3360 ership in community af• fairs. He was responsible SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE for establishing the Long 425 Montgomery St., nr. California (415) 788-3600 Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Member FDIC program and spear-headed , 1~IIIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUllIIllIlIlI1l1l1ll11nlllllllllllllHllldllll1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIUUllnIllIlIlIlIlIlIlIIllIlIlIlIIlIllIllOlIn-.Hnln. PACIFIC CITIZEN o m ...... nt , leHers & features James Murak mi, National JACL President Alfred Hatate, PC Board Chairman Students in Japan w re renmlng about "A Sneak At• Harry K. Honda, Editor tt.tck". Arriving from ~mle that EI Pimentero: Frank Fukazawa Editor. SlIme d y my wife remembers me sayinR that It wos not a sneak, but a Second c:Ia-~ poslOQe paid lit l \k)n mt Wus rno t interest:-d In "Stud nt direct Invltutlonal or invelalcd ot• advance U r. l(l((>iQn , I r F,rst ct v llablo upon r t in ,llIpan Grow Up lRnonmt of World S5 01 JA l membershIp dves foi one yow s u ~ fiOn Ihrouqh JA l War 11 Fro" (PC, Mnr. 25) Th foct of tock for th ' purpo!le of gaivan.lzlnR Affluent Arabians our country into oclion ond Retting HeadQuarters. t76S Sutter S t an F OO!IOO C hI d Hurvurd Univcrllity, ond oth of our ooYIi would flRht on foreign serve today, Saudi Arabia today has the capacity to do any• cr knowledllcublc people in Jupan SOIl'". Thill wu~ our IllOlaltona'lt phil· EDITORIALS: kn w that the war wos lutU ond that osophy and just CJUictly what we thing and this desert nation is doing it-constructing and they ould n ' vcr dercut "tJie uwnk· wanted to hear until, of course, the constructing; buying and buying. emng gianl" undeclured war on Pearillarbor. urcly anyone conn ted with the /:Jut wu It octuItlly unannounced / Such are the immediate impressions of this wandering PC School Segregation waterfront In tJie lot' Thirt! and If one checks up on the books pre• correspondent after a week's stay at this seaport town fac• rending the do.iIy n w papers con- viously mentioned and even the ing the Red Sea. Other observations in capsule fonn would Te:stimony that man. Anglo teach rs in the Los Angele mlng the c on mJ boycott on oil news n count of the day we find be: public ~ls do not handle minority tudents tTectively IUld trategi metals hIld to realize that the Jopanese emissaries, No• the duCi ulty beina impo.~ on Ja• mUTD and Kurullu arriving In Wash· • With a population of 700,000, Jidda is on the verge of because theIr college training is 20 or 25 years behind them ington D. . three days before Pearl pan exploding. Ships wait at sea a month before docking to un• and that they have done little to improve their human rela• Thi I al. bomeout in uch books Harbor had defin.lte instructions from their government to avoid go• load their cargo. But cement, which is the priority item, is tions skills since then wa cited as the major reason for as The Final ret3 of Pearl Harbor by Rear Adrrural Theobald and We• mg to war at all costs unloaded at sea by helicopters. partial desegregation efforts rather than a more exten ive Unfortunately they could not, or at d meyer Report , 0 best !leUer In • Sudden affluence among individuals means big fancy approach. Making this claim in court was the Los Angeles 1959. These book and others mclud least were prevented from seeing President Roosevelt,or cabinet sec· autos are in big demand. Gasoline costs 15¢ a gallon. Their Board of Education president, Dr. Julian Nava, professor Lng magazine and penodi n ws· paper arti les are hIlrd to dI pute. retaries HulllUld Stimson. only worry is maintenance. at Cal State-Northridge. But first I t me tell you of my own So the attack, despite our fore• experien about November 1,1941, knowledge became lustory. Accord· • Famous brand perfumes and IS-karat gold watches Japan~ He told Superior Court Judge Paul Egly, who has been as the chief officer of an American mg to Wed meyer the code ($3,000) are sold almost everywhere. In fact, the world's through one means or another be• hearing the presentation for school integration now for fretghter at ebu, PtillJpptne Islands largest perfume shop is situated here in Jidda, fixed up like when we were ordered out of the came our property in early January three months, the average age of teachers in the school harbor because th uthonnes 1941. an elegant jewelry establishment at Place de Vendome with system is 47. They were trained before teacher colleges thought n ottack was Imrrunent To thmk that General Short and Admiral Kimmel hould be scape• thousands of vials on display, all gorgeous and breath• paid much attention to the special kills required to teach from Japan Other merchant vessel!l taking. In the aren receiVed the same warn• goots i preposterous. To their dying some minority youngsters. Ing. days both of these officer3 insisted • The marketplace (Souk) here is packed will! thousands on a court martial. We departed !lOme five or SIX days of shoppers hustling among the hundreds of stores. Everyone Because new teacher are unable to get their frrst jobs in later from legasPI in full bill kout Unfortunately the history of any war requires an Incident based on is carrying something which has been purchased-Sony predominantly Anglo schools. minority schools have by way of Torres tnut, Australia; !lOme 2.000 miles out of our way and economics. That or reUgion seems to radios, electric fans, textile, cigarettes by the carton. This served as training grounds-but with declining enrollment, for the first tim had to stop at Pearl be the basis for hostile action. World War 1I was no different from theoth• tremendous purchasing power is unimaginable for an out• Dr. Nava pointed out the board has been unable to hire Harbor for fuel OIL We amved in Los Angeles on Dec. er3 preceding It. sider who has come from a heavily-taxed country in reces• many of the better-trained younger teachers. He also re• In the Spanish·American War, it 6 and the next day the newspaper3 sion. vealed some minority parents prefer to keep their children was. Remember the Maine. In World War I it was the sinking of the Lu!i· • Saudi Arabia has no income tax, no sales tax, no cor• in neighborhood schools e en though segregated and "not tarua. ffutory regards both with be exposed to these poorly trained teachers" in the Anglo WARREN porate taxes. QuestIonable motives not to mention • Four out of five cars in Jidda show evidence of having schools. Continued from Front Page the more recent conructs. GUNNER OLSBORG been in a collision. The traffic is just as chaotic as can be When asked by the judge how he came to these conclu• was chief justice betwee~ Seattle seen in Tokyo, Paris or Rome-only in Jidda the thousands sions, Nava (a Mexican American) replied they came m 1953-1969. of cars are honking their horns every five seconds. It was part from his experience teaching Southwest history to Neither Warren, the son of a Nor• Wendy Yoshimura deafening and nerve-wracking the first three days. Forty classes made up entirely of teachers. Virtually all recog• wegian immigrant raJ.lroa.d worker Editor: years ago, the British explorer Philby was scoffed at in (the ancestral name was Varran), Has Nobuyuki Nakajima (PC, May nized their gross lack of knowledge in this area and of the nor the Court he presided over cre• 20) forgotten James Qda' letter (pc court when he predicted the automobiles would replace the skills they didn't possess in dealing with Mexican Ameri• ated the revolution. The moral and Feb. 11) which stated that a great camels in Arabia. That has become a reality but he didn't other forces that compelled a ruling many unself• can students. While not intending any hann, such an atti• on school segregatIOn had been gath· Ishly contnbuted to Wendy' de• foresee Jidda being the noisiest city in the world with honk• tude predisposes them to be less demanding of minorities, enng strength since before World fense funds? While the Nisei for the ing horns. Nava said. By that assessment, the Asian American ap• War II; the sluftina of population most part have remained silent, Desert Yields that made most state legislatures their actions do not Indicate rejec• pears at the other end of the learning spectrum-another outrageously unrepresentative had tion. Through centuries of extreme hardship in the desert, it indication that Asian Americans are not minority educa• been acceleranng for half a century; To me their ilence I sImilar to has cultivated the Arabians with a liberating sense of pride, tionally. the Qwckening of conscience that (va' silence about her prison life. courage, honesty and patience. the mutual sense of assis• calJed for the extension of Constitu• Her silence speaks more eloquently While no one quarrels with the need to assure quality tion-()rdained rights to criminals and than mere words. tance and hospitality and the spiritual guidance of the Islam• radicals had been taJdng place in<:e Wendy's lawyers are fully capable, ic religion are obvious. education for all, the method to achieve that goal has been the McCarthy era. Eventually, ac• of ~ to it that she receives jus• in the smokehouse since in schools was commodations would have been tice. It is part of human evolution to But the nomadic life is giving way to lavish modernity. declared invalid. Since schools are supposed to be in the made. but it is hardly Ilkely that they err. Whether Wendy profits from Changes in lifestyle brought on by sudden affluence could would have been so far reaching had this one error is tnctly up to her. demoralize any human being. But the hope is that this business of education, one might now suggest "educational" the California governor not Joined HASHIME SAITO segregation as the lock which has strangled the issue of the court. San Jose phenomenon never occurs for the Arabians have something quality education. which we have lost. 0 East Wind: Bill Marutani The Over-55 Employee To relieve the problem of unemployment in Japan brought On looking back at class reunions on by the practice to retire employees at age 55, a law was passed that firms as of October, 1976, must account for 6% or Philadelphia buildings that existed at oth• and your classmates babble claim that you haven't more of its personnel to be over age 55. A recent Japanese PERHAPS NOT UNLIKE er places were vacant, one about past days, engage in changed one whit from the Ministry of Labor survey indicated many ofthe flrms have many of you, this writer is at at a precarious angle, about conversations that start out days you were at college. I not achieved that goal. Bigger the company, the lower the that time of life when the to collapse. It was disap• with "Remember when ..." had several reactions and rate of over-55 employees. Thirty percent of the flrms don't urge to attend class reun• pointing. And sad. In the or "Whatever happened to thoughts on that to myself: ions finally takes hold. After midst of seeking to recap• ... ?" I saw a couple of "Boy, I wish that were so." have a single worker over age 55. passage of several decades, ture those years of yore, I spouses at my college re• Or "He/she must have for• The Japanese government, over the past decade, has many things have changed: ended up feeling old. union who stood glumly by gotten what a tender-look• the campus buildings, the while their mates unconsci• ing greenhorn I was then!" urged companies to extend retirement age to age 60. Since I CAN ONLY advise those the oil crisis, the situation has not improved. Unions want terrain of campus itself, and ously engaged in animated of course one's classmates. of you who may likewise be chatter with fonner class• I MUST SAY, however, retirement extension fixed by law but the government in• inclined to revisit and re• that there 8.f!! indeed among sists both labor and management fIrSt get together and There is a mixture of nos• mates. talgia and sadness to these capture: don't. Instead re• _ Yearbooks appear at Nisei, some who just do not discuss the problem. call the nostalgia of those events. Looking back, I find, those occasions, and clus• appear to age. Even to my The survey has stirred public interest in the problem .Qf always combines a mixture days in the secure safety Nisei eyes. Just goes to and comfort of your mem• ters of classmates huddle retirement age as the population of the middled-aged (51- of sadness, disappoint• over the yearbooks, going show what cbazuke-'n-koko ments, surprise, nostalgia. ories. along with some fishheads 60) in Japan keeps increasing while the count of those in THERE WAS ONE happy over them page-by-page, A FEW YEARS ago when taking inventory of each can do to preserve eternal their 20s decreases. What makes the problem acute is that a note, however, for Vicki and youth for them. For me it's a person over 55 does oot regard himself as old and because Vicki and I traipsed about page. While the non-class• Japan, on a couple of occa• me. We visited in Kyoto the bit late. Quite too late. 0 personal anxieties impel a willingness to continue in gainful place where we first met mate spouse idly stands by, sions I departed from a smoking or looking out the employment. scheduled tour to go on my and even found a friend who knew both of us then. window. Finally, what qIakes this survey relevant for Japanese own, to revisit places where NO DOUBT NISEI read• "A man is not learned be• Americans is the realization that many of our Issei were I had been stationed as a BUT GETI1NG BACK to ers who have attended class cause he talks much; he who about 55 when they restarted their livelihoods after coming member of the "shin-chu• class reunions. Another reunions-other than-all-Ni• is patient, free from hate out from internment camps in 1945. What our Issei have gun". Many places that I had "don't" is: don't take your sei reunions-have had sim• and fear, he is called the developed in the subsequent years economically and for the expectantly looked forward spouse along, unless he or ilar experiences such as learned." to seeing were gone, re• she is prepared to be prac• community cannot be minimized. The companies in Japan mine. That is the one when -Dharmapada placed by weeds; and some tically an outsider while you your hakujin classmates ex- ought not waste that kind of willingness there. Pacific Citizen - Friday, June 10, 19n 5

From the Frying Pan: Bill HosokaW8 Eight Times as Much

Denver, Colo. should be making $80 per week today. 0b• One recent Saturday noon Alice and 1 viously I make a little more than $80 a week stopped at one of those little Oriental res• these days, even after taxes. so perhaps I taurants now proliferating in Denver and really don't have too much reason to com• each of us ordered a bowl of pork noodles. plain about $2 noodles. In fact. I suppose it We wanted only a light lunch, but it was can be argued that I am substantially better lighter than we had expected. otT now in the relationship of the cost of a The price for pork noodles was $1.85, and bowl of noodles to total income, so I really for that kind of money we rather expected should be quite pleased with the state of to see a huge mound of noodles swimming my personal economy. in a large donburi bowl of soup with gener• Still, it is something of a shock to have to ous slices of pork as a garnish. pay 35 cents for what used to be a nickel ice As it tw"ned out, the bowl wasn't much cream cone, 35 cents for what used to be a larger than a standard rice bowl, and the three--tokens-for-1HpW1er bus ride, and portion of noodles was somewhat short of somewhere around 60 cents for what used to generous. There were two thin slices of pork be 18-cents-a-gallon gasoline. which were hardly more than shavings, • plus two eauallv anemic slices of kamabo• During the time I was commuting from leo, which of course is steamed fish cake. home to college on the other side of town, I Including the tax, this less than sumptuous was privileged to drive my own car. It was a repast set us back close to $2 apiece. Chevrolet, and I had purchased it for $65. To • help pay for gas, oil and upkeep, I usually I grumbled a bit but there was nothing I transported four fellow students from the could do, so I began to reminisce. Back in neighborhood. They paid a nickel apiece for From Happy Valley: Sachi Seko Seattle during the Depression, you could get each one-way ride. That represented an m. a big healthy bowl of noodles for 25 cents. At corne of 20 cents going and 20 cents return• the Gyokko Ken, which was a walk-up Chi• ing, if we all happened to be coming home at the same time which wasn't often. That m. A Car for Graduation nese restaurant run by a Japanese couple on Main street, they'd even toss in half a corne helped substantially in keeping the hard-boiled egg with the noodles for that car running. What's 20 cents today? It costs that much to make call from a coin ~ Salt Lake City Ern is a man who abides with dirt and points to this price. one I was so excited about my by a rigid set of rules. His with pride? phone in Denver, and in most cities around husband's departure for Ha• smile is misleading. A man I can't remember for sure, but I think the country that's the price of a newspaper. • Mrs. Vagi at the Rose Cafe further down waii that I wanted to take can smile and still have Where other men inflate We were talking about this the other eve• him out a day early to the principles. Sometimes mor Main street also served noodles in addition what little they have, Ern ning and Hatch Kita reminded me that the airport. After almost twen• than the silent type. What has made a virtue out of to a big bowl of tendon, a couple of pieces of ty-six years of marriage. I passes for strength in sil• poverty. The danger with shrimp tempura on a big bowl of rice. Eith• first legislated minimum wage was 25 cents am entitled to such senti• ence is often a masking for virtues is that they contain er dish was 25 cents, there was no sales tax, an hour. I couldn't remember that, maybe mental feelings about his stupidity. their own kind of arrogance. and nobody expected a tip. because in the places where I worked they leaving. From the time our son was seemed to be able to get away with paying We are both at mid-life Our son's adolescence old enough to turn the steer• If a bowl of noodles back around 1935 was less than the legal minimum. and some changes have oc• provided an opportunity for ing wheel in some imagina• 25 cents, and approximately the same kind Ern to test the strength of curred, are happening. I tive ride, it was impressed of noodles, ignoring the drop in quality, is $2 Hatch also pointed out the legal minimmn certainly didn't marry him his parental convictions. upon him that he couldn't today is $2.65 per hour, which makes it First there was the matter today, that means the price has gone up for his looks or his brains or expect a car from his folks. eight times. about 10lh times what it used to be. By this his money. The latter he did• of a car. It used to be cus• "You can earn your own," standard, if a bowl of noodles costs only n't have anyway. I did mar• tomary among Nisei par• his father said. "You'll ap• As J recall, I was making about $10 per eight times as much as it used to, we're ry him because he was a ents to bestow a brand new preciate it more." week back in my income had vehicle upon a son or daugh• 1935. If ahead of the game. But don't count on me to highly principled man. From the time be was 16 climbed by the same factor of eight. J stop grumbling. 0 Sometimes they are the best ter's graduation from high and licensed to drive, our husbands, but they also school. son considered getting a job make life difficult So I It was a middle-class sta• to start saving for his car. count on his occasional trav• tus symbol. Maybe to com• But his father had a few Plain Speaking: Wayne Horiuchi eling to unwind. pensate for our own frugal rules about that, too. • childhoods, or as a symbol "Don't you dare use any of Some Nisei clowns claim of love, Nisei parents have my business connections to that they have mellowed as had a tendency to deny their get a job. In fact, don't even Three Key 'Carter People' they aged. Those clowns progeny nothing. And some• ask anyone the family In the past several weeks, I had the priv- eral bureaucracy to her own personal staff don't realize they were basi• times these gestures of ex• knows." ilege of attending and participating in some in Office of Public Liaison. this travagance have exceeded the If be• cally made of marshmallow, Well, this is a mighty meetings here in Washington, D.C., with comes a reality, the first Asian American in or other soft, squishy ingre• the capacity of our imme• small town when you ellmi• diate financial a ets. high-level officials that have a great deal of a professional level in the White House will dients. A man of real convic• nate those connections. So significance to JACLers. I thought I might be appointed from the Carter admin• tions hardens as he ages. • Alan never did work until he share some of the issues which were aired: istration. People are like trees, if The car was a symbol to reached the university. there is any value to them. the Sansei, a generation It occurs to me that Alan 1. May 2O-Meeting with Secretary of They assume interesting which grew upon wheels It didn't suffer for lack of HEW Joseph Califano. The executive com• 3. May 31-Meeting with Leonel J. Cas• bumps and bends. It is true was a security blanket and transportation. He simply mittee of the Leadership Conference on Civ• tillo, commissioner of the Immigration and that some tree trunks are as• status, too. How quickly the confiscated my car. I was il Rights met with Secretary Califano to dis• Naturalization Service. Another ad hoc tonishingly hollow. I keep young can attach them• wondering where it went cuss civil rights issues. Though most of the group of Asian -Americans representing testing for this by periodic• selves to such fast depreci• the last eight years. I drove meeting dealt with the issuesoftransporta• various organizations met with Commis• ally tapping my husband's it a couple of miles to the ating articles of metal and tion for desegregation, discrimination in sioner Castillo and proposed to him that an head. No signs of hollow• rubber. store last night and was sur• advisory committee on Asian immigration ness yet, although there is Being a modern parent prised that I remembered employment and housing, and rights to the definite density in certain how to drive. I used to drive handicapped, of significance to JACLers for the IN&S be established. Though he and one young enough to could not promise that an advisory com• areas. remember his own brief in• making only right turns, was the fact that he was committed to ~ fatuation with cars, I wearing the tires out un• port in conjuction with the Justice Depart• mittee could be established with Asian though Ern would go along evenly. But last night I de• ment the Univ. of California Regents in the Americans. he did indicate that the IN&S JOB BIAS with most fathers and sons Cided to Jive dangerously so-called reverse discrimination case invol• was considering reconstituting the Hispan• Continued from Front Page about cars. And besides, and even negotiated an ex• ving Allan Bakke. ic advisory committee into a multi-ethnic tra left tum. advisory committee where Asian Ameri• Iwai American Corp., sub• ours was an only child. But the principle of mod• I detest driving so I have• May 25-Meeting with Special Assistant cans would be represented in proportion to sidiary of Japan's sixth larg• n't missed the car. The im• to the President, Midge Costanza. An ad hoc est trading company, has esty was more important the amount of immigration business that is than having a child happy portant thing is that Ern was group of Asian Americans representing conducted with Asian immigrants. announced a management able to abide by the princi• training program for Amer• with a motorized toy. Ern re• various organizations met with Midge C0- coils from ostentation. The ples of not buying Alan a stanza to discuss Asian immigration and In addition.the Commissioner agreed to icans bent on rising in Japa• car. And how many Nisei nese companies by having puritan work ethic is in• the lack of representation in the Carter Ad• meet on a regular basis with us in an in• grained too deeply, al• parents can match that for formal procedure. them spend several years in principle? Since June is the ministration of Asian Americans. Japan. ''The period of an all• though r sometimes think he What became of signal importance in our • takes free license with this. month of graduations and All in all, these several weeks have been Japanese staff in America new cars, I offer this per• discussion was Ms. Costanza's commit• What other husband has his very productive. I will keep you abreast on is coming to an end, " he pre• wife. toiling in the yard. sonal experience on how we ment to do everything possible to detail an dicted. 0 scratched and encrusted coped with the situation.D Asian American who is already in the fed- other matters of progress. 0 6 PacIfic Cltiz n - Friday, June 10, 1977 • Cleveland Grell Goto. Hlgh,lOn or the ni, president. Two years ago chapter Joe Got08; and GJlchi Fujimoto Me• Kawaguchi spearheaded All is ready for the Cleve• morial-Brian T8Uk.Imura, Walnut the chapter's Southwest din• Creek.Northpte HJICh, son or the Seabrook to pulse land J ACL scholarship Ray Tsuklmuru. Asian Refugee Resettle• ner June 26, 6 p.m., at St. Treasurer Tom Kawagu• ment program and the Nisei host EDC • 19n Membership Vladimir's Fellowship Hall, chi has been succeeded by retirement program this 3425 Marioncliff Dr., Par• Fred Okamoto, it was an• . past year. He has accepted a SEABR K. N.J . - The 31 port on ma. Tickets are $7 per per• Th Mar. r na· nounced by William Nakata- Continued on Next Pal~ East rn JACL Distri t tional JA L membership in· son and $S for students but Council will meet on tur• dicate ' 17.226 m m b e r s high school, university and Employment t day, June 18. at the Upper (57.8(>1 of the 1976 total of college graduates this year - Deerfield Township Muni• 29,775). Comparable figures will be guests of the chap• _ URGENTlY NEfDEDI ______Classified Beauty ~ hairstylist (w/clients). cipal Hall on tate Route 77 for the same period last ter, according to scholar• with the Seabrook chapter c ship committee chairman Manicurist, Asst U·""'''er. y ar were 19,530 (67.S ,,\ of The PC ClaaSihed Rate Is 10 cerna IEJa:trolysis thera ' .~ (wI as hosts. the 1975 total of 28.915). Jim Petras. per word. S3 minimum per lneertion. 3% eqmt). Skin care r:w c:osmetician. Delegates from the four When the chapter board discount II same copy &ppe8t8 <4"rnea. -Rent space available.- V THE TOP TEN Payment In advance un.... prior CfedIt was questioned why all TIlE PENnlOUSE HAIR SALON member chapters will learn Toyo Mlyalake Sludios As or Mar. 31, 1977 has been established with our office. of plans for the joint East• graduates this year are to 2218 W Beverly Blvd.. Montbello 906<10 Susan Takei (left) is crowned Jo e .... 1.108 Mateo .. .SOl (213) 724098> receive a $25 bond, the rea• ern-Midwest District Con• Miss East L.A. JACL by the Fran . ... 1.107 ' noma .....441 - Announcement-8chool being We t L.A. . I,OS7 ' 0 ta .....430 soning was thus: vention hosted by last year's titUst Elaine Kataoka. Washington, D.C. JACL IIc,to . .. . 669 Chicago .. .421 "In these days of drop• PAINT THE North Cascades Art - BusIness Opportunity Eo t L.A. . Sil Mont P .. 403 Works hOD. soonsored bv "Gal· tEAUTY SALON with clienfele in I!ewrtt. over the July 28-30 weekend outs, drugs, etc., on the teen• lery 76" at Wenatchee Valley Col· Wilcox Shopping c.m .... Montlbello, Calif. at the Twin Bridges Marri• • Berkeley age scene, we wanted some lege. Artists: watercolor. Robert ott Hotel. Key Kobayashi Miss East L.A. way to express our appreci• H. Meltzer A.W.S.; and oil/acrylic. Berkeley JACL will spon• All eqmt appraised at S60.tOl; 1. stations; and Grayce Uyehara will ation of the students who Don Ricks. "Rexbura Scbool of lease CMliioble; Iontostic bu$iness opporf\IIIi1y sor a benefit dance June 25, Art". First three weel(s of August. CMlIIobIe immediately. Mob off.... present the reports. JACL chosen have seen fit to complete take one or all. Contact Coordi· 8:30 p.m. at El Cerrito Com• THE PfNTHOUSE HAIR SAlON Also on the agenda are re• their studies and avoid nator. Jo Ann Watson. Box 1286. LOS ANGELES - Susan munity Center, 7007 Moeser 2218 W 8everty 8Nd, Montebello 906<

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