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ISSN: 0030-8579 I Whole No. 2,325 I Vol. 100 No. 5 244 S. San Pedro St., #506, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3981 (213) 626-6936, 628-3768 February 8, 1985
Wakijob Day of Remembrance still in jeopardy During the next two weeks, Japanese Americans across the countIy will gather for c mmunity events that mark the 43d by Robert Shimabukuro anniversaIy ofthe signing of Executive Order 9066. That order, SALT LAKE CITY - Hruston signed on Feb. 19, 1942, by President Franklin Roosevelt, au• JACL president Betty Waki, a thorized the military to carry out the mass expulsion of all Houston art teacher who was American citizens and permanent residents of Japanese an• twice cut from the staff of Sharps• cestry from the west Coast Some of the activities taking place town High School so that the are listed below. school could comply with dese• • Sacramento - A memorial to be pennanently displayed gregatioo rulings, will be speak• as a reminder of the violation of constitutional rights will be ing at the JACL lntenmxmtain unveiled at a public ceremony on Feb. 19, at 11 am in the District Council meeting on Feb. board of supervisors' chambers, 700 H St 16. The memorial consists of colorful 6-foot by 15-foot mural She will speak about her em• made up of6-inch-square ceramic tiles and a poem A collal:r ployment difficulties and subse• oration of two artists, ceramic artist Y oshio Taylor and poet! quent fJght to retain her job, a job playwright Hiroshi Kashiwagi, the memorial will hang on the that is threatened because she west wall immediately inside the south entrance to the Sac• and other Asians in the Hruston ramento County Bldg. Independent School District It was constructed as a result of an ordinance passed last (HISD) are classfied as "white." May, which also established a fund to compensate former county employees for having been dismissed because of their Analysis ancestry during WW2 • Salinas - Watsonville Chapter JACL conducts a special Waki has just returned from ceremony on Feb. 19, from 2 p.nt to 3 p.nt at the Salinas Washington, D.C., where she con• Fairgrounds (Sherwood Park), site of a former "assembly ferred with people from the Dept. center." of Education and the Office ofCivil The program includes a rendition of 'God Bless America" Rights. As a resultofthese consul• by tlle Watsonville Issei Choir, who learned the lyrics phonet• tations, she decided not to pursue ically, and readings by Sansei youth Information: Sumio Koga, the case through the courts, which (400) 7'lIHXm. she said would be too costly aDd • San Francisco - Rose Bird, chief justice of the California take approximately six years; Supreme Court, is main speaker at a program to be held on instead, she plans to seek a "poli• Saturday, Feb. Z3, from 1 p.m to 4 p.nt at Christ United Presby• tical solution." terian Church, Sutter and Laguna St.s. Waki, a tenured school teacher Asian American Dance Collective also performs during the in HlSD, has been teaching at event, which is sponsored by National Coalition for Redress! UPI Photo Sharpstown High School for over Reparations. This year's theme is "U.S. Concentration Camps, HEAVENLY HUG - Maj. Ellison Onizuka hugs his daughter 13 years. Her teaching career has 1942 - Could It Happen Again?" Darien, 9, on his return to earth Jan. 27. Related story, page 11. been successful and her job per• • San Jose - A candlelight procession through Japantown formance has never been the sub• follows a memorial service at 5:30 p.nt on Sunday, Feb. 17 at ject of controversy. However, she Wesley United Methodist Church, 566 N. 5th St The procession has been active with the local ends at the San Jose Buddhist Church, where an educational Dachau revisited by 442nd liberators teachers union, which she organ• program will take place. Sponsor of the event is Nihonmachi ized 7 years ago. Presently, she Outreach Committee. The theme is "Redress in '85: Build the J ACL has begun preliminary tour ofEurope last year. Reporter serves as the unioo's shop steward. Progressive Tide." discussions with representatives Mark Matsunaga accompanied Dan Watanabe, former presi• of the American Jewish Ccmgress the vets as they revisited places • Gardena - Sen Alan Cranston (D-Callf), Rep. MeIVYIl Dym• dent of Houston JACL, feels that in San Francisco about the possi• where they had fought 40 years in anti~on Houston, this fact, ally (D-Callf) and Gardena City Councilman Mas Fukai are bility ofa reunion between surviv• before. A ceremony at Bruyeres, main speakers at a program to be held Saturday, Feb. Z3, more than anything else, has con• ors of the Dachau concentration France, marked the 40th anniver• tributed to Waki's problems with from 7 p.nt to 9 p.nt at the Ken Nakaoka Memorial Center, camp and Nisei GIs who helped sary of the 442nd's liberation of 1700 W. 162nd St "Political Power Through Unity" is the theme Principal William Jackson, who liberate the camp in 1945. that toum. seems determined to frre her. of the event sponsored by Pacific Southwest District JACL, On Jan. 19, Matsunaga, the only National Coalition for RedresslReparations, and Little Tokyo The following* *article, * one of a journalist from Hawaii to cover The fact that Sharpstown bas People's Rights Orgru:rization series that appeared in the Hono• the event, was given a plaque by never been in compliance with the • Chicago - Northeastern illinois University is the site for lulu Advertiser, describes a visit Wilbert "Sandy" Holck, organizer Singleton Ratio before lends cre• dence to claims by Waki's sup• a program entitled ''Dialogue and Participation," featuring to the site of the Nazi death camp of the trip, for "comprehensive speakers from JACL, National Council for Japanese Amer• by 100thl442nd veterans during a and diligent coverage." porters that Jackson has a per• ican Redress, and the Japanese American Redress Commit• ------sonal vemetta going against tee, the program's sponsors. The videotape "Some Kind of by Mark Matsunaga Waki. Within thelflSD, a Teacher Apology" will screen. and Minasama-No, an Asian American Honolulu AdveJ1iser In OctDber 1984, some of the vet• of the Year is selected anmally. theater group, performs a short skit erans made a grim visit to the Da• Critics charge that after a mmi• The program takes place at 7:30 p.nt on Tuesday, Feb. 19, DACHAU, West Germany- 'We chau concentration camp, which nating committee unanimously at Commuter Hall, 5500 N. St Louis. got here after the ftrst guys. But is maintained as a reminder of the nominated Waki, Jackson changed the incinerator was still warm. unspeakable brutality of Hitler's nominating procedures aDd, in • New York - A showing of the documentaIy "Unfinished There were bones inside," Ray "Final Solution' '-the extennina• another break with traditioa, Business" highlights a program on Saturday afternoon, Feb. Kunimura recalls. tion of ITX>re than 6 million Jews. counted the ballots by himself, Z3 , at New York Buddhist Church The program is sponsored Kunimura, a semi-retired con• In late April 1945, members of denying Waki the award which by local Nikkei and Asian American groups organized under tractor who lives in Lanikai, is one the 522rxi Field Artillery Battalion most teamers thought she would the slogan, ''No More Internments! The Coalition for Japanese of several hundred veterans of the passed through Dachau and were receive. American Redress." 442nd Regimental Combat Team among the ftrst liberators of the For two consecutive schoOl Information: Phil Nash, 966-5932. who last year revisited the Euro• camp. years ('82-'83, '83-'84) Jackson pean battleftelds where they A short while before Kunimura has notified Waki that she would Cond ...... _ ..... ~ fought 40 years ago. Continued 011 Page 7 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, February 8, 1985 ~------Ill) I~ I~ Another 800 view 'Unfinished Business' I~ LOS ANGELE~More than 800 coram nobis cases; and Fred Ko• people attended benefit screen• rematsu, whose resistance to the ings of Steven Okazaki's "Unfin• WW2 evacuation orders is depict• ished Business" at Little Tokyo's ed in the film along with the cases Japan America Theater on Jan. of Min Yasui and Gordon Hiraba• 26. Proceeds will go toward pro• yashi. The program also featured motional and educational materi• "Gaman," a short film about the als to be used in connection with a camps by Great Leap, Inc. national broadcast of the f11m on Sponsors of the benefit were PBS. Japanese American Community Speakers included actor Mako, Services (JACS), National Coali• who emceed; fllrnmaker Okazaki; tion for Redress/ Reparations attorney Lorraine Bannai, who (NCRR), and the Pacific South• explained the current status ofthe west District Board of J ACL. Photo by J.K. Yamamoto RENEWED FRIENDSHIP-Fred and Kathryn Korematsu (far left and far right) dlat with Mas and Alma Takahashi of Torrance after the l.A. premiere of .. Unfinished Business." Alma was part of the bridal party at Legal service agency finds new home the Korernatsus' wedding in 1948 in Detroit, but had not seen them again until 1983, when Fred's 1944 Supreme Court case was reopened. NEW YORK-Asian American community and will facilitate co• Legal Defense and Education alition work on important issues • Fund (AALDEF) celebrated its affecting minorities and women, ------_. tenth anniversary and its joining said program coordinator Mar• For the Record four otl~r major civil rights or• garetFung. In a computer printout supplied Coram nobis hearing may be pushed back ganizations Jan. 25 at a new home AALDEF will continue to con• to the PC, the name of Indiana SEATILE - u.s. government attOlneys on Jan. 25 requested in the Public Interest Law Center duct free legal advice clinics and congressman Danny Burton (R- more time to prepare their pretrial order for the coram nobis (PILC) in lower Manhattan. The educational presentations in all 6th) was mistakenly included in petition of Gordon Hirabaya hi. The attorneys say they need other PILC member organiza• the Asian communities. the list of co-sponsors of redress until March 11 to develop their case against Hirabayashi, partly tions are NAACP Legal Defense AALDEF is a non-profit, tax• bill HR442 published in the Jan. 25 because the would first like to ee the report of the House and Educational Fund, Puerto exempt organization that does PC. The "Burton" on the list was Judiciary Subcommittee on Admini trative Law and Governmen• Rican Legal Defense and Educa• litigation and community educa• actually California congress• tal Relations. The subcommittee, which conducted hearings on tion Furxi, NOW (National Or• tion in the areas of employment woman Sala Burton (D-5tb), who redre bill HR 4110 last June and September, is expected to ganization of Women) Legal de• and labor rights, immigration, co-sponsored redress bill HR 4110 issue its report early this month. Among tho e who testified at fense and Education Fund, the land use and housing, govern• during the last session of Con• the hearing were John McClo , assistant secretary of war during Council of New York Law ment benefits, and Japanese gress. PC regrets any confusion the internment; former intelligence officer David Lowman; and Associates. American redress. It also con• that may have been caused by the Karl Bendetsen chief of the War Dept Aliens Division and assis• The five civil rights groups are ducts a law student recruitment mix-up. tant chief of staff in charge of Civilian Affairs, Western Defense exploring ways to share resourc• and internship program to en• The article should also have Command. es, including libraries, computer courage more Asian Americans mentioned the fact that New York Attorneys for Hirabayashi say that if the government is granted facilities and other administra• to practice community law. congressman Frank Horton (R- an extension, they in turn will request additional time to respond tive services. AALDEF's move to AALDEF's new address and 29th), whose name was correctly to the government's case. This would push back the evidentiary PILC will also bring heightened telephone are: 99 Hudson St., 12th listed, is among the representa• hearing date to perhaps the fall of this year. visibility for Asian American is• floor, New York, NY 10013, (212) tives supporting lffi 442 who did sues in the nqtional civil rights 966-5932. not co-sponsor HR 4110. Repeal of Calif. loyalty code sought SACRAMENTO-A bill that employee 1) is a dual citizen of the would repeal the section of the U.S. and a country with which the government code used to fire all U.S. is at war, 2) has renounced California state employees of Ja• U.S. citizenship or allegiance and! panese ancestry during WW2 was or pledged allegiance to another introduced Jan. 8 by assembly• country, 3) has committed an act men Phillip Isenberg (10th dis• of disloyalty or disrespect toward trict) and Patrick Johnston (26th the U.S. or 4) has obstructed the district). war effort. Designated as AB 198, it calls " Section 19573," the bill states, for the removal of Section 19573 , , . .. has been used only once-to which allows for the dismissal of terminate the employment of all state employees in wartime if the state employees of Japanese an• cestry, regardless of citizenship, during World War II. The right of the state to demand loyalty of its eon- The 'Jimmie' Awards employees is adequately expressed LOS ANGELE~The Association in provisions of the Government of Asian Pacific American Artists . Code ... [which] do not possess the (AAPAA) holds its first media discriminatory overtones of Sec• awards dinner March 18 at the tion 19573." Hollywood Palace, 1735-37 N. Isenberg charges that the sec• Vine St. The awards, nicknamed tion was created for the express "The Jimmie" after Academy purpose of firing Japanese Amer• Award-winning cinematographer icans arxl that no effort was made James Wong Howe, will be given to determine the loyalty or citi• to those who have helped create zenship status of any employee positive and realistic screen im- prior to termination. f you're planning to retire on your social ecurity, you may find ages of the Asian/Pacific Ameri- In 1983, the state legislature c~, and to those who have pro- passed a bill, authored by John• your golden years rather thinly plated. Today, the average person's vlded equal employment opportu- ston, that provided monetary benefits are $15.68 a day. nities for the Asian artist. compensation for the employees At California FIrst Bank, we think you deserve more. That's why Among the celebrities sched- who were frred. Since Johnston's we offer a choice of Individual Retirement Accounts that amply uled to be presenters are Edward bill recognizes the injustice of the provide for your future. You also save money now, since your deposits Asner, Eileen Brennan, Nancy mass frrings, Isenberg says "To Kwan, Ricardo Montalban, Pat maintain Section 19573 o~ the are tax deductible. Morita, Sidney Poitier, and John- books is not only discriminatory The next time you re near one of our 131 branches, stop by. We'll . ny Yune. Lucille Ball and Olympic but also inconsistent. " , be happy to find an IRA that's exactly right for you. After all, $15.68 skater Tiffany Chin were among California Secretary of State a day doesn't amount to much security. the frrst to lend their names as March Fong Eu has declared her honorary chairpersons. support of the bill, calling Section Dinner tickets are $125 each for 19573' 'a lingering reminder of the CALIFORNIA RRST BANK I •. Golden Circle seating and $60 each unjust treatment of our citizens of ,The Right-Size Bank MembnFDIC for seating at unreserved tables. Japanese heritage during those Information: (213) 654-4258. dark days. " Friday, February 8, 1985/ PACIFIC CITIZEN-3
Culture, business mix in week-long 'Sa/ute to Japan' Asian immigration topic of conference .. Japan illag ," Thw 'day, LOS ANGELES - International of business, labor, education and F b. 21, 1 p.rn. and 7:30 p.m., her• Noon conceIt of kot<> and experts on Hispanic and Asian government, the conference w Hall, La J lla Mu urn of on• hakuhachi mu ie, free, cripps Cot• immigration issues join key bus• covers such topics as the effects mporary Art. D cumcntaty film. tag , D U. F b. 18. iness and labor leaders on Feb. of immigration on labor unions, Tick ts at $2-3. Cultural fair at Mu cum of Man, 15 for a conference on ''Immigra• prospects for federal immigra• Ft howings of KUl'o awa' Balboa Park, Feb. ~24, 10 arn. to 4 tion and Jobs in Los Angeles: tion legislation, and labor mar• "Rashomon," H pn r Hall, Rrn. 130, p.rn. Feature demonstrations, ~nt ilnpacts, FU~ ket trends in the So. Calif: immi• D U, F b. 18; Ozu' "Floating exhibits, folk arts and crafts, chil• Trends." grant labor force. Weeds," N. Education Bldg., Rm. 00, dren's activities. The conference will be held at Cost is $45, which covers lunch DSU, F b. 2ll; and Mizoguchi' Art and hi torical exhibits, Feb. the Davidson conference center and conference materials. Res• "Sansho the Bailiff," Little Theatre, ll-March 1, Love Library, SDSU. at the Univ. of So. Calif: Ed Edel• eIVations are limited. H pner Hall, SDSU, Feb. 22. All Programs on aspects of Japanese man, chair of the county board Sponsors are U>s Angeles Bus• fIlms at 7:30 p.rn. life on KPB8-TV (Ch. 15), Feb. 1~24. of supervisors, is keynote iness Labor Council, Center for ~. Affairs ~t;",..~~~~ speaker. U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Community Designed for representatives Diego, and United Way-Asian! DEL REY, Cali( - A reunion of the its monthly dinner meeting Feb. 15. Spring to be welcomed Pacific Research and Develo~ Japanese community here is t for Among the events planned for the Morik~mi Nikkei Demos to host ment Council April 1~14. Planned are a dinner, year are out-of-toWt1 trips, picnic , at Museum Infonnation: (213):m.3400. conununity introduction and a vi it golf, bowling, and c By Ichiro M. Murase, Design by Michael Nakayama A project of Visual Communications/Asian American Studies Central, Inc. Published by Little Tokyo Centennial Committee A selection from over 65,000 Tokyo or who has friends who Pacific Citizen, #506 images from a variety of sources, grew up in the greater Los An- 244 S. San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA Paid quarterly plus bonus dividend. ding the 26,000 housed in geles area will discover a famil- 90012 Free Savings and Loan Insurance. the Visual Communications arch- iar face in one or more of the Please send __ oopies at $21.25 each IRA Accounts available. ives of the early 1900s, the war pages ... 24 pages of text; se- postpaid to: Now over $6 mIllion in assets years and contemporary period lected bibliography ... A picto- Name:______1 NATIONAL JACL PO Box 1721 ... A kind of medley of images rial companion to Pacific Address: ______• Salt Lake City. Utah 84110 drnirrorofLittleTokyo'spast. Citizen's UTTLE TOKYO LIFE CREDIT UNION Telephone (801) 355-8040 who bas lived in Little series. City. State, ZIP ______4-.PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, February 8, 1985 lJIArs sm416£-Z"PON7 ReM£MI!I£.R ~NG 7Jl4r A Postal Bombshell ,qfrr~/i!N • •• U. . }X>Stag rate' go up acro s are fewer than 24, then they are the board n Monday, Feb. 17. orted into Level ,. A. " Most peopl already know about 3 l-"ln-County." The cheapest the two-cent in rea e on 1 tter rate are in this category. PC is and onEH.'ent increase for po t• fortunate to be in Los Angeles, cards. But we couldn't belie e the where it has 5,000 subscribers. No new third-cla rates would be the other county in the U.S. has that same as fIr t-class for piec up to many ! two ounces ! So the low-moving 4 )-' 'Outside-County. " Because cenario to ha e }X>Stage the arne 80 of the PC's subscribers live for any clas mail has come to outside of L.A. County, the new fruition. postal rate increase hurts us most To understand the impact on the here. The presort levels A, Band Pacillc itizen, which is sent (carrier presorting which is too seCond-cla . here is the picture fme for PC) prevail in this cate• with newspaper and magazine gory. in focus . It i incredible that most postal ------.- 0 -- There are at least four tiers of rate increases fall in the 10-20 ----.--. rates thatmu t be obser ed: range but that newspapers pre• ------1 )-By weight. One rate is for sorting their outside-county ad• non-ad ertising matter ; adver• dresses are being stung by a tising matter rates, which ar e sharper increase in the 3040 ~ He was given extensive coverage screaming about a "sneaky Jap" higher. are broken dO\,vn into eight range. We estimate that this will Lost in Space by the Asian American vernacu• being sent on a toJrsecret mission. mailing zones. mean spending ~ 51)0 more peT lars and by the local press in his One couk:t even argue that the fact .K. 2 )-By the piece. The fmer the issue than we are already paying. by J Yamamoto native Hawaii, but in the main• that no one mentioned Onizuka presorting. the better the rate. In The bomhshell which fell this past Astronaut Ell~n Onizuka has stream mainland media, there proves row accepted we are by PC s case when there are 24 or week may bury small newspapers fmally gone into space. It was an appears to have been no mention our fell Heart Mountain Memorial Needs Support PRESIDENTS CORNER: About the time a few weeks ago this year, and that would mean of the campsite. So there is an in- when I was writing about Chester high sclDol students of the time terest in the place. and Mary Ruth Blackburn's ef- are now approaching age 60. Per- In addition, it seems important by forts on behalf of a war memorial r ,...... haps memories are growing dim, . as part of the campaign to make Frank Sato on the site of the Heart Mountain FROM THE ( and some may not want to have sure that Americans never forget WRA camp, Bacon Sakatani of FRYING PAN: , . recollections of an unhappy time the injustice of the Evacuation, to We t Covina had a companion Bill prodded. make sure the Heart Mountain projecttmder way. On the other hand, Sakatani is story is told in some permanent Sakatani had written to some Hosokawa pushing a worthy project. Heart form. And certainly the story of Constitution ttu'ee dozen members oftheHeart Mountain is off the beaten path, the hundreds of Nisei men and Mountain High School class of far from any concentration of Ja- women who demonstrated their Committee 1947 to see if there was any sup- panese Americans. Only the dedi- loyalty by going off to war is an port for the project to memorial- names of those who- didn't come cation ofthe Blackburns and their important part of history . Proposed ize servicemen from the camp back. friends, who have developed a I've found the names of 15Heart who died in military ser ice. Sakatani asked all members of deep respect for the sacrifices of Mountaineers who died in mili- In 1987, we the people of the Uni- Homesteaders, who settled in the class of '47 that he could locate the evacuees, has resulted in tary service. They were listed in ted States will be observing the the area around the old campsite, to indicate support, indifference creation of the memorial park, this space several weeks ago. Sa- bicentennial of our Constitution. ha e established a small memo- or opposition and suggestions for and it seems fitting that the evac- katani found 18. However, he has Over the course of some 200 rial park telling the story of the raising the approximately $1,500 uees themselves should have a seven names that are not on my years, this docwnent has guided camp. A bronze plaque has been necessary to complete the pro- part in making it a more mean- list. They are John Nagafuchi, our system of democratic gov- mounted on a boulder in the park. ject. He also said it might be well ingful place. Tadashi Hachiya, Hiroshi Kyono, ernment. After visiting the park last sum- to ask members of the classes of What got the Blackburns start- George Oyama, Akagi Nagaoki, If we were to consider govern- mer and seeing what the home- '45 and '46 for help. ed in the first place was the num- Kei Yamaguchi and Roy Kawa- mental institutions throughout steaders ha e accomplished, Sa- So far I haven't heard what sort ber of former camp inmates who moto. Perhaps there are others. the worJd, we would fmd many katani got the idea for creating a of respoose Sakatani has re- dropped by, while visiting Yel- I hope Bacon Sakatani can get governments that are many hun• similar plaque telling of the Nisei ceived. If there isn't much en- lowstone National Pa(k, or while his project off the ground. His dreds, if not thousands of years who went to war in defense of thusiasm that's understandable. driving from the Midwest to the address is 210 N. Shadydale, West older than our own. ______their country and listing the The camp was closed 40 years ago WestCoast toseewhatremained Covina,CA91790. theYet, United despite States its and relative its constitu- youth, about the general American pub- dual school system. HISD was di• students), the U.S. 5th Circuit tion is the most highly regarded lic's refusal to recognize that rected to devise a new desegrega• Court of Appeals ruled that HISD set of principles by which any WAKI was a unitary (non-segregated) group of people have guided their Continued from Front Page Asians need to be included in any tion plan. formulation of desegregation and So in May 1970, the district court school district in Ross v. HISD. daily lives and their future. The ruling affmned the district The JACL was founded in 1929, be " absorbed or laid off, pend• racial policies. adopted a new zoning plan with court's findings that: 1) all ves- with a preamble that reads: ing reassignment. Both times, Two years after the historic the stipulation that students were angry Asian community leaders Brown v. Board of Education to attern schools in the zones tiges of de jure segregation had ' We, Members of the JACL, in and Waki 's past and present stu• decision made in 1954, black par- where they resided at the time of been eliminated, and 2) all ves- order to foster American Demo• dents protested, and the united ents and students flIed a com- enrollment regardless of change tiges of discriminatory practices cracy, promote active participa• effort forced Superintendent plaint against HISD charging that of residence during the year, un• had been eliminated. The fact tion in civic and national Life and William Reagan to issue an ex• the district was operating a dual less they elected majority to min• that integrated student attend- secure Justice am Equal Oppor• emption in the case. public school system by means of ority transfers; in other worns, a ance had not been achieved was tunities for Americans of Japa• racially segregated attendance student attending a school in not from unconstitutional segre- nese ancestry, as well as for all Jackson both times cited com• zones. In November 1957, the dis- which his/her race was in the ma• gation practiced in the past but Americans regardless of Race, pliance with the Singleton Ratio trict court found in the parents' jority was permitted to transfer to from population changes that Creed, Color, National Origin or as his reason for " absorbing" favor am entered an order de- aschooUnwhichhis/herracewas have occurred since the litigation Sex, do establish this Constitution Waki. Sharpstown, according to elaring void Texas statutes that in the minority. In September, the began." for the JACL of the United States Jackson, has too many whites to had fostered the dual system. circuit court added a pairing plan One of those population changes of America." be incompliance; hence, " white" Three years later, the court or- and guaranteed transportation has been the influx of about 50,000 So that we in the JACL may Waki had to be absorbed. dered the implementation of a (busing) to implement the plan. Southeast Asian refugees into the have a better appreciation and The Singleton Ratio, which be• voluntary transfer plan by which Two factors ensured the failure Houston area, along with the con- working knowledge of our Ameri• came IDSD policy in 1970, is black or white students could of this plan. Hispanics were at tinuing growth of the Hispanic can Constitution, at the upcoming named after the circuit court rul• elect to enter the school within that time classified as "white" population. By 1983, Asian stu- National Board Meeting from dents made up 3.2% of Houston's Feb. 8-10 in San Francisco, I will ing in Sing leton v. Jackson, their attendance zone which (and were not recognized by Miss. (1968), which required that served the other race. Dual HISD as a separate group until student population, but at Sharps- propose the establishment of a town High, Asian students com- Committee on the Bicentennial of the ratio of black to white teach• schools with this voluntary deseg- 1973). Caucasian families moved ers in each school reflect the reg ation system continued to op- from the paired attendance prised 13% of the student body, the U.S. Constitution. This com• black to white teacher ratio in the erate under court order until 1967 . schools or enrolled their children making them the largest minority mittee will be charged with the district as a whole. After the 1973 In July 1967, under rights in private schools. As a result, the group there. responsibility of recommending Waki is the only Asian teacher appropriate programs, activities Supreme Court decision in Keyes granted by the 1964 Civil Rights 1970 plan resulted in pairing and at Sharpstown' and is advisor to and ceremonies that may be v. School District No.1, IllSD Act, the federal government in- busing Hispanic and black stu• expanded the ratio to include His• tervened as a plaintiff. Both the dents. In addition, white, black the school's Chinese Cultural adopted by the JACL members at panic teachers. government and the original and Hispanic parents all opposed Club, Vietnamese Students Club, the chapter, district and national plaintiffs, the parents, wanted transportation of their children and Hwnan Relations Committee. levels to heighten our active in- Presently, HISD is free to set its HISD to move at a faster pace. In from neighborhood to paired In a letter to JACL National volvement in understanding and own racial policies along desegre• September, the district court in- schools. Headquarters, Waki's attorney, protecting our constitutionally gation guidelines. Waki says that stituted a freedom-of-choice plan Consequently, in 1974, a Task George Kirk, said ' that, "The mandated rights and freedoms. it is the intent of HISD board to under which students were free to Force for Quality Integrated Edu• HISD, in documents med with the amend the Singleton Ratio so that choose any school regardless of cation was formed. After consul• Court, indicates presently that ... Asian/Pacific Islanders (A/PI) where they lived. tation with many diverse groups, Asians will continue to be classi- will be considered "white." (pres• The plan was too unwieldy and the Task Force recommerned a fied as white. Further, the district ently, they are in a category of had the effect of depleting black magnet school program in which expresses an intent to continue "whites and others.") Waki'ssup• schools, as whites chose to re- one-race schools would provide without modification imple• 1bankYou porters want A/PI to be exempted main at their neighborhood programs which would attract mentation of Singleton should the for Writing ..• from application of the ratio in schools while blacks seeking students from other races, In July case be dismissed." schools with a significant number quality education generally had 1975, HISD, with the sanction of Waki says that she "is not of Asian students. to travel outside their neighbor- the district court, instituted the against the Singleton Ratio or Remember: All articles In the protests over Waki 's hQods. Since this plan sidestepped magnet school program; the affirmative action quotas" and letters to the editor absorption in '82 and '83, Asian the issue of bringing quality edu- paired school plan was elimi• except when they are selectively should be typed or com• community leaders asked for a cation to black neighborhoods, nated because the government, enforced. In addition, she wants separate classification. In both blacks were prevented from truly the parents, and the district court to see the district policy recognize puter-printed, DOUBLE• cases, their requests were ig• exercising free choice. were dissatisfied with it. the growing number of Asians in OR TRIPLE-SPACED. nored. Waki was granted an ex• Both the parents and the gov- In the 1978-79 school year, 7500 the district. Deadline is the Friday ception by Supt. Reagan for the ernment were dissatisfied and students attended 62 magnet When Waki was asked by East/ school year '82-'83. At present, again took the issue to court. On schools-2600 ' white, 3400 black West reporter Robert Tokunaga before the date of publi• Waki holds a position because an• July 23, 1969, the court made an and 1500 Hispanic. Of that num• to reflect on her experience, she cation. other art instructor decided to oral fmding that the freedom-of- her, 3000 students were majority• replied, "I get so angry some• All submissions are take a leave of absence. When that choice plan did not meet the re- to-minority transfers. Despite the times, that I feel I wasted 12 years subject to editing. teacher returns, Waki's position quirements of the 1968 Singleton fact that 70% of the black students of my life, but since I have re• will once again be in jeopardy. v. Jackson ruling (among in HISD attended schools !hat ceived so much support from the Waki's case emphasizes the others) with regard to staff de- were 90% or more minority (in• Asian C FRESNO, Calif - Delegates chaired by Patrick Ogawa A San• from the Central California sei Leaderstpp Mini Forum fol• Pacific Southwest, and No. Calif lows, led by B. J. Watanabe. - W. Nevada - Pacific Districts Frank Sato, national presi• gather here for their biennial dent, and Ron Wakabayashi, na• Tri-District Conference over the tional director, will answerqu~ April ~21 weekend tions from the delegates for a I ~ The evening of Friday, April hour session on the morning of 19, will be spent in a reception Sunday, April 21 and, for the Sansei, in a special An update on the activities of mixer. Workshops begin the fol• the Legislative Education Com• lowing morning. They are: mittee, chaired by Min Yasui - Women's Concerns, led by concludes the conference. Irene Hirano Registration InfOlmation - Ethnic Concerns, led by The Fresno Hilton, site of the J.D. Hokoyama conference, is located in down• - Singles' Concerns, led by town Fresno on Van Ness Ave. Midori Watanabe Kamei A number of rooms have been - Interracial Families, with blocked off on a first-come, first• speakers Harry Kitano and Ste• served basis. Group rates (Plus ven Murphy Shigematsu tax) are $45 for a single; $55 ' for - Aging and Retirement, with two persons; and $65 for three speakers Gail Uyehara and Pat persons. Okura Reservations must be made di• - Social, Economic and Polit• rectly with the hotel, (200) 485- ical Impact from Pacific Rim 9(XX). Special group rates are in Countries, led by Frank Nishio effect only through April 5. During dinner, a Leadership Registration for the confer• Development Panel will be ence itself is $30, which includes the Friday evening reception and mixer, Saturday dinner, and Intermountain participation in all workshops. District to hear Waki Those who wish to attend the dinner only may pay $15. Attend• SALT LAKE CITY -Betty Waki, ance at one or more workshops, the Houston art teacher who con• without the dinner, costs $15. tinues to be classified as "white" Checks should be made pay• and therefore laid offby her high r------. able to JACL 1985 Tri-District I 11m "".,_ned In becoming. S,.,_ Tr.ftk Officer school so that it can comply with Conference and mailed to JACL FILL THIS OUT AND MAIL TO: affinnative action quotas, will Tri-District Conference, 912 F St, Name ______• speak about her employment dif• Fresno, CA 00700. Indicate name, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL OFFlCE OF EOUAL EMPLOYMENT ~ .. ." ------ficulties at the Intermountain chapter, address, and whether OPPORTUNITY . District Council meeting on staying at the Hilton Those wish• 2555-151 AVENUE, P.O. BOX 898 Saturday, Feb. 16. ing to be picked up at the airport SACRAMENTO. CALIFORNIA 95804 For more information call or Amtrack station should indi• Alice Kasai, (801) ~2902; or cate arrival time and airline and (916) 322-6862 Smiley Amano, 472-3381 flight number if applicable. ._------_. friday, February 8, 1985 I PACIFIC C1TIZEN-7 The visiting .veterans were Lehner does not remember Boxscore: PC Typesetter Fund DACHAU guided on a tour of the camp by much about the camp's liberatio(l. As a sign o} our conatant appreciation and to give recognition Co Cootinued from Front Page former inmate Mike Lehner, who He had typhus and was in a week• JACL chapters, districts and special groups within the organization, came upon the camp, another now lives in the town of Dachau. long deliriwn. He was 20 at the we list their contributions to PC. This being a very important appeal to 522nd smut opened one of the He spent six months in the camp time, guilty of nothing more than J ACLers, we trost everyone wiU respond in the coming wee,". prison gates by shooting the locks after three years of forced labor 'being a Jew. Typesetter Fund Goal •...... •..••...... $40,000.00 _ away. The man, who resides on in Hungary. Rabbi Paul Biberfeldt of Mu- A_s of: Jan. 26 1985 •••••••••••••••.•••.••• 21,938.49 (588) Oahu, does not want to talk about Lehner pointed out the former nich led a service honoring the t what happened, his comrades' Alameda ...... Parlier ...... am administration wilding, which veterans and the victims of Da• Arizona ...... Pasadena...... 35 recollections have been dimmed now houses several hundred chau at a memorial that has been Arkansas Valley ...... Philadelphia ...... by the passage of almost 40 years. photographs documenting the erected at one end of the camp. Berkeley ...... 200 Placer COunty ...... 100 The images linger, however. horrors of the Nazi camp. Later in the day. the Anti- Boise Valley ...... Pocatello ...... 'We were advancing so fast, we Carson ...... 100 Portland ...... One series of photos shows a Defamation League of B'nai Chicago ...... Prog Westside ...... were ahead of the infantry,' re• Dachau inmate undergoingasim-B'rith European Federation and Cincinnati ...... Puyallup Valley ...... calls Fred Hirayama, who now ulated high-altitude test at the the B'nai B'rith of Munich msted Cleveland ...... Reedley ...... works for the Army Corps of En• hands of an SS doctor. The prison- the veterans in Munich. Clovis ...... Reno ...... gineers. "I could remember the er, suspended in a parachute har- Shimon Samuels, European Coachella Valley ...... : .. Riverside ...... 300 stink-you could smell it from far Columbia Basin ...... Sacramento ...... ness in a pressure chamber, con- Federation director, said his or• Contra Costa ...... 50 St Louis ...... 100 away." torts with pain and then slwnps ganization started as a Jewish or• Cortez ...... Salinas Valley ...... Recalls Joseph Obayashi, a re• heavily in the harness. The last ganization 71 years ago but is to• Dayton ...... 150 Salt Lake ...... tired federal worker who lives in shot shows his brain after the top day uconcerned with all fonns of Delano ...... San Benito ...... Pearl City, 'The prisoners were of his skull was removed. prejudice and discrimination Detroit ...... San Diego ...... 500 Diablo Valley ...... San Fernando Valley .....200 skin and bones. They were dressed Lehner led the group through a against all minorities" and has Downtown LA ...... 100 San Francisco ...... in striped wmorms, just like paja• reconstructed donnitory designed helped IOOby the U.S. Congress for East LA ...... San Gabriel Valley ...... mas, and there was still snow on to hold 45 prisoners but more usu- payments to Americans of Japa• Eden Township ...... San Jose ...... 100 the groun:i. ' ally stuffed with WO living in the nese ancestry woo were interned Florin ...... San Luis Obispo ...... Ft Lupton ...... 300 San Mateo ...... Don Shimazu said, "We saw the most inhumane cooditions. during WW2. Fowler ...... Sanger ...... starving prisoners walking around No one really knows how many Several of the men in the room, Fremont ...... 50 Santa Barbara ...... outside the camp. They tore the people were killed at Dachau. Es- in fact, frught and bled for Ameri• French Camp ...... 50 Santa Maria Valley ...... meat off a dead horse-they ate timates range from 30,000 up to ca 40 years ago while their fami• Fresno ...... Seattle ...... anything they could get hold of." more than 200,000. lies were locked behind barbed Gardena Valley ...... Seabrook ...... Gilroy ...... Selanoco...... 50 Others recalled how they gave The gas chamber, located next wire. Golden Gate ...... Selma ...... 100 the prisoners all the food they had. to the crematorium in a small for- "The same way you fought for Gtr LA Singles ...... 50 Sequoia ...... 200 J ames Mizuno recalls finding est otT to one corner of the camp, \ the values of democracy and Gtr Pasadena Area ...... Smike River ...... some Dachau prisoners in a near• was never used. Instead, many of against the oppression of Nazism Gresham-Troutdale ...... Solano CoWlty ...... Hawaii ...... Sonoma County ...... 100 by town, where their SS guards the Jews clergymen and others here, so today you are a symbol to Hollywood ...... South Bay ...... 100 had left them. at Dachau were executed else- a resurgent extreme-[ the] voice Hoosier ...... 100 Spokane ...... , They were milling around the where. Death at Dachau came in of hate that is growing in Europe," Houston ...... Stockton...... 50 town," be said. 'They knocked the form of an SS guard's bullet or Samuels said. Idaho Falls ...... Torrance ...... down two horses, and in five min• Imperial Valley ...... Tri-Valley ...... bludgeon, a hangman's rope, Racial prejudice in an econo- Japan ...... sk~letons. Tulare County ...... utes, they were just " starvation or sickness. mically troubled Europe is grow• Lake Washington ...... Twin Cities ...•...... ing against the Turks in WestGer• Las Vegas ...... : .. Venice-Cu1ver ...... Internment credit committee lends many, Jamaicans in Britain, and Latin American ...... Ventura County ...... 101 North Americans in France, he Livingston-Merced ...... WasatchFrontNortJi .... . Lodi ...... support to JACL redress campaign said, adding that there is a group Washington, DC ...... SAN FRANCISCO - The Com- In a letter theJACL, commit• Marin CoWlty ...... Watsonville ...... to in California that is trying to re• Marina ...... West Los Angeles ...... 500 mittee for Internment Credit has tee co-chair William Kyono said vise history, to say the depraVities Marysville ...... 50 West Valley ...... contributed $1,501 to the redress that the members ''favored of Dachau did not occur. Thus, he Mid-Columbia ...... White River Valley ...... campaign, announced JACL na- donating our remaining treasury concludoo, the AJA veteransofthe Mile-Hi ...... Wilshire ...... tiona! headquarters on Jan. 30. to help in your redress efforts." Milwaukee ...... ' ...... 522nd, woo saw Dachau frrst-band, Monterey Peninsula ...... Central CaIDC' ...... The committee was instrumental In accepting the contribution, must never forget. Mt Olympus ...... EasternDC ...... in the passage of Public Law 95- National Director Ron Earlier in the day, at Dachau, New England ...... IntennoWltain DC ...... ,' 382, which provided retirement Wakabayashi stated that, ''In a Samuels explainOO the rearon for New Mexico ...... Midwest DC ...... 500 credits for the internment period real sense, this particular con• New york ...... 100 Mountain Plains DC ...... his organization's work. No San Diego ...... NCWNPDC ...... to many Japanese Americans. tribution is appropriate in help• 'Words can kill," he said as he Oakland ...... Pac Northwest DC ...... Until recently it had been pursu- ingJACL provide legislative sup• walked through the prison com• Olympia ...... Pac Southwest DC ...... 3,000 ing efforts to amend the public port to the Nikkei members of pound where so many suffered and Omaha ...... law to extend benefits to persons Congress, who were responsible died. "What starts as words can Orange CoWlty ...... JACL/Blue Shield ...... 1,000 who were under 18 years of age for the enactment of the Intern- Pacifica ...... Women'sConcernsCmtte .250 end here." Pan-Asian ...... at the time of the internment ment Credit legislation." Salinas Redress Cmtte . . .. 50 C. Harvey Gardiner /981: 248pp James Monon 1980: 294pp Fro m the Univ. of Washington Press Pawns in a Triangle of Hat e List: $25.00 In the Sea of Sterile Mountains List: $7.95 The Peruvian Japanese and the United Stales The Chinese in British Columbia The luU account of a hille-known chapter 01 WW2 lustory-the evacuallon in ce the gold rush daysol 1858, the Chinese have made imponaOl contribu· .... 01 nearly 1,800 Japane:.c from Peru to the U.. Some were ex~hcl n ged lor U.. uons to British Columbta, despile being .-u bjected to racism, bigotry and the pnsont:rs of war 10 Japan, lewer than 100 re tu rned to Peru. Ga rd lOt:r (who rough edges o f a pIOneer !oOClelY. testified on tim phase bc:t re the Committee on Wartimc Relocallon and Intern· (111111 New and Distingu ish ed ment of Ivilians) relate. the polities oftl1t~ U.S . and Peruvian govenunems that Ronald T. Takaki 1982: 379pp Books in resul ted LO U.S. intcm mem. Iron Cages: List: $9.95 Ilttit> Takeo Up Nakano with Leatrice Nakano 1981: J3 6pp Race and Culture in 19th Century America Asian American St udies A higilly indIvidual. discerning and provocalive analysis of while America's Within the Barbed. Wire Fence List: $ 15 .00 racism Irom die time of the Revoluuon to the Spanish· American war . .. (By speaal arrangement WIth the Un/v. of Washington A Japanese Man's Account of His Internment in Canada lmmensely readable,'-Publishe rs Weekly. Press, the Paafic ell/un oDen books In AsIan American Even Ul th IS period of anxielY and sadness, Nakano. an a complished poel. -.. lxWASH/# 128 StudIes on a "dtrea sfupmenJ from UW Press" basIS. turned 10 wriung poeLry (tanka) lor suslenan e. #4Meridien, #2-Mer-BF, #} Mer-itl7,8,9pt Some ofth e books are In the PC library for rtIiIM but not avaIlable for sale here.) Monica Sone 1979: 256pp Pacific Citizen Amt. Enclosed $, ____ Nisei Daughter $8.95 (soft) S. Frank Miyamoto 1939: 200 pp (1984 reprint) With hwnor, charm and deep understanding. a Japanese American woman 244 S. San Pedro St., RID. S06 Social Solidarity List: $ 7.95 (soft) tells how it was to grow up on Sealtle's walerfront in the 19305. then be Los Angeles, CA 90012 Among the Japanese in Seattle subjecled to "relocation" during WW2. First published in 1952. Please send the follow~ books in the quantilies indicaled: A classic prewar (1936) study of a Japanese community within the larger Bienvenido N. Santos 1979: 200pp o MiyamolO, Sodal Solidarity $7.95 conteXI of th e majority socielY and larger h istorical process within (impending o Okubo, Citizen 13660 $8.95 Evacuation) which It was moving. Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories List: $7.95 Sixteen stories dealing with the lives of Filipinos in America-the barbers, o Uchida, ~rt Exile 58.95 Mine Okubo 1946: 209 pp (I 983 reprint) cooks, munitions workers, clerks, sludenlS and aging Pinoys- I fIrst learned about the letter from were ever censored by the military or MariiK. Hasegawa (Jan. 4PC) in a meet• that this photographs were seen as p~ ing with Frank Sato. What follows here is ganda and refused by museums. I was the "story of the small photographs" that stunned by·the people and their experi• I told him. It is also an account of some ence recorded by this camera and made reactions to the digging out of a buried history by his bOOt. I, too, was a secmd• photographic treasure and my responses generation American citizen, born just to them. after the war with a family culture and , The essence is that I was stopped from language different from my native one. publishing any larger than miniature re• Could this happen to me? I was unaware producfuns of the photographs by theAn• of the Japanese American experience sel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. The during WW2 and confused by my lack of Trust, which, consists of three nonfamily knowledge, history and facts. My xerox members, holds the exclusive publishing copy of the original book became my in• rights to all of Ansel Adams' photography troduction to America in the early 19405 and manuscripts. and the internment. Di~ I considered their decision an unfortu• up controversial material, nate mistake. I chose not to pursue the even with Ansel Adams' name on it, matter due to the considerable legal ex• would not be without risk. Many ques• pense and my personal relationship with tions wmt through my mind. Although the Adams family. I accepted the limita• forty years had gone by would the Art tions of the Trust decision in order to ob• World still see the work as "political"? tain permission to re-publish without de• What wruld the public reaction be to this lay the new edition of Born Free and reminder of an American tragedy? Equal as the exhibition catalogue. My Would there be an interest in the book? original plan included fuU-page repro• § I made an intuitive decision to proceed ductions of all fIfty exhibition photo• tB" with the excavation by making the exhibi• 'tl tion catalogue into a new edition of the graphs. The Trust reduced the size and ~ book and the sole source for fmancial sup• number of the reproductions and limited Q) ~ port for the exhibition. I made a decision the edition. In order to prevent any fur• LA: ther censorship or restrictions, I decided to illustrate it with 19 duotone reproduc• to have my photography company, Echo• ~ tions (limited in size to 1¥4 by 1lh and number by the Trust). I still believe that Light, publish the book at 'cost only" to E generate the funds needed for the ,g the value ofthe new edition will outweigh exhibition. I/) the size of the photographs. E rec~e In 1944, Ansel Adams visualized Born as I that some readers may be Free and E qual as an exhibition and ~ disappointed. Yet, this exhibition is book. Although completed over forty 5i unique in comparison to most photo• years ago, they have never had the public c: graphy ones. Actual reprints (8x10 and larger) of each of the photographs in the audienre that Adams planned for his L-______~~------~ ======I~ work. The volatile climate of WW2 was Aiko Hamaguchi, Nurse Born Free and Equal exhibition are unreceptive and hostile to his new work. available for purchase by writing the Library of Congress (Photoduplication An exhibition in New York City was can• In 1965, Ansel Adams donated all 204 consider this project. On August 6, 1984, I celled twice before the exhibit was shown prints and negatives to the Library of Service, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, saw Ansel Adams' Manzanar photo• D.C. 20540). without the text panel of the 14th Amend• Congr~ to insure a public audience in graphs for the fIrst time. It was on that In 1944, Ansel Adams made a similar ment. The publication of the book was the future. However, it was not un,til my day that I put my own cameras away and decision to work independently so that his complicated by military censorship am a request last year for a traveling exhibi• started the production of Born Free and work would not be seen as propaganda. lack of courage of the part of the pub• tion on behalf of the Fresno Metropolitan E qual. If I did decide to uncover the The high cost of the exhibition produc• lisher. Less than 2,000 copies of the ori• Musewn that the work was brought to the buried controversial work, I would make tion, travel, and publicity made it diffi• ginal10,OOO press run ever reached book• public's attention. the journey on my own and independent cult to produce the book for under $15 a stores in spite of positive reviews across It was only six months ago that I was of any outside interest or support. copy. The limited edition required by the the country. asked by Michael Adams, Ansel's son, to I could not believe that his writings Trust further raised the unit costs and fIxed revenue. Coosequently, I have pro• vided my professional services without compensation in order to keep the book price at $15. The expenditures for the ex• Book Unfair to Adams hibition have been as follows: exhibition The PC's column on Emily productim rights, the pictures are production, $9,200; book production, Medvec's booklet (Nov. 30 issue, much smaller than in the 1944 edi• $17,800; national publicity videotape p. 9, UIXier heading " Manzanar tion)"-a statement helpful only news release, $15,000; local publicity, photos re-released") appealed to to readers familiar with the 1944 $3,200; exhibition travel, projected at my interest in Ansel Adams' pho• edition, incidentally. But the $2,800. tographsand in all reports on WW2 handful of small photographs' ap• The expenses are slightly greater than U.S. internment camp life. I sent pearing in the book are so minia• the expected revenue from the book. in my $15 (actually, $16.50 includ• turized and faded they are ren• Without the substantial costs for publicity ing handling) for the book almost dered-4.mfairly to Ansel Adams the experrlitures would be less. However, immediately. -dull. without the publicity there would be no What arrived in my mail was When PC directs its readers' at• exhibitim. The news release video re• utterly disappointing. tention to a partirular book for or• leased nationwide in December bas been It is Ansel Adams' photography der, the readers should be able, it seen by nearly 8 million viewers. The ex• -not his prose-that is renowned seems to me, to assume that the hibition and book will not have a chance SUmitomo's Individual and powerful; yet the Medvec book is of special interest, of unless the American public can be made booklet was devoid of any of the course, but of high quality, too. aware of Ansel Adams' important bu-. Retirement Account manitarian efforts. I believe that as Bom kind of Ii'lotographs one would ex• AIKOADACHI Free and E qual tours the United States pect to fmd in a book identifIed Sudbury, Mass. All Wage it will act to make the public aware of the with Ansel Adams. I did note your See Emily Medvec's response (this P3!enthetically stated disclaimer page) to an earlier letter expressing Japanese American experience. Earners Eligible! -"(Because of restrictions on re- similar complaints. -Ed. I will keep PC readers informed about • Deduct up to $2,000 on your federal the exhibition schedule. It presently isbe• tax return ing considered by ' the following institu• • Protect your savings for retirement Taking stand requires wisdom tions: Balch Institute (Phil.), Academy • Choose from several Sumitomo IRA Plans I read with great interest the Relations," by Glen S. Fukushi• of Sciences (SF), Photographic Resource • Check our floating rate account with high Jan. 4-11 PacifIc Citizen. I wl'sh ma were well-written, well-docu• Center (Boston), Japanese American money market interest and an automatic deposit plan particularly to say that the pull- mented, and emotionally moving. Cultural and Canmunity Center (LA), Keogh plans are also available. Visit your out was outstanding. The articles As a Nisei, I awreciated your Portland Art Museum, Denver Art Muse• local Sumitomo Bank today! " Racism to Terrorism: 1934 - bringing the articles to my atten• um, Asian Society Gallery (NYC), and 1935" by Mary Norton; "TheRise tion and giving me the opportunity the Library of Congress. Sumitomo Ba k and Fall of the Nisei in Hawaii," to read them. EMILY MEDVEC by Dr. Franklin Odo and "Japa- All the articres were important Publisher and Curator • Sumitomo Bank of California Membern FDIC '------_____---1 nese Americans and U.S. - Japan Continued on Next Page Washington, D.C. Friday, February 8, 19851 PACIFIC CITIZEN-:9 Women's Concerns parents-to see their children ~m~ Chapter Pu~e grow, take their first step, say their frrst word---but if the par• Riverside Miriam Mw-a , I ted for h I' Women's Place Is in the Home ents are at work, these events will RIVERSIDE, alif - David outstanding academic achieve• be lost to them forever. Nakayama. national outh direc• m nt, demon trated leadel hip, By Sandi Kawasaki make an intelligent decision on Children invariably bring joy as tor i bU t peake!' at th hap• defined purpo for higher edu• Because of the opportunities why they want children and both well as aggravation to their par• t .' installati n dinn r SatuI'• cation, and Wlitten ay. The that opened up to women in the need to share in the responsibility ents, so unless parents really d~ , F b. 23, at th calif Stat $1,(XX) award will b presented past decade or so, many women of rais~ a family. I agree that want children and are willing to ni I ~ ity mmons in an B r• to Mwase F b. 8, during the concentrated on their careers and quality time is important, but so is commit to the time and love re• nardin. ocial how' begin at chapter' installation dinner at put off starting their families. But quantity time. quired to raise that child, it is un• 6 p.m., with dinner at 6:30 p.m the H liday Inn at Fi herman's as these women reach their 30's, I'm sure you'll all agree that fair to bring a child into this com• Tic~ ts are $1250. R ervations: Wharf. they start worrying about their children are different; some can plex world without the advantage Swni Harada biological clock running out, and grow up normally with little at• of a seclU"e home life. It's also un• Salinas Valley many are opting to put their ca• tention, but many need the nur• fair to this society to have to care San Jose ALINAS, alif - President reers on hold and to start families. turing of more constant supervi• for the ills that may be produced AN JO E alif-Th annual Han y Sakasegawa and mem• Women are also choosing to be• sion. Serious physical problems by that environment. (It is well bridge townament tak plac bers of the JACL chapter at• come single parents. These wom• can be corrected if discovered docwnented that a closely knit on aturday, Mal h 23, at 7:30 tended the city council meeting en want to achieve all their early am some psychological family is the basis for low juvenile .. p.m at the We Ie Methodist on J an. 29, where Violet de Cri - goals-mother/ wife and career• problems can be detected by a delinquency.) I'm not naive Church ocial hall, 566 N. Fifth toforo, Kinenhi coordinator, but I don't think they realize fully watchful parental eye. enough to think that even if the St There "vill be ocial bridge thanked the city for erecting an their re5l>0nsibility to their un• The fIrst fIve years of a child's child received the best care and for fun, as well as three ection iron fence around the Japanese born children. life are the most important, as love, that he could not turn out to of duplicate-beginneI , inter- Memorial Garden in Sherwood In my opinion, if a woman they learn the fastest and their be socially unacceptable, but the mediate and advanced Prize Park chooses to become a parent, then surroundings and the people who chances are that he would be \vill be a\ arded in all three The metal fence was suggested the responsibility of raising that care for them help develop their more socially unacceptable if he categories. by the chapter to deter further child should be a major concern. I morals and personality. This time did not receive nurturing early in Entry fee i $3.50 per person. vandalism Restoration of the feel that both parents need to should also be the most joyrus for his life. Coffee and refreshments will be garden is under way in prepara- elved. tion fo r the Day of Remem- JACL members. Many Japanese Information and sign up: Aiko brance ceremonies later this Arizona relatives and friends are invited. families who lived in the Oxnard Addresses of postwar resi• Nakahara, (408) 258-7874. Other month (see page 1). area prior to WW2 have loved PHOENIX, Ariz.-The valley Japanese community will have dents who have left the valley are committee members are Sachi Ventura County ones bwied in the cemetery. It especially needed. Persons who C ~ l : t' an "all-time" reunion during the Miki, Diane Kawamw-a Amy Th hist . al has been designated a historical have the address of any valley Higuchi, and June Miyakusu. OXNARD, c:u.u.- e . onc landmark by the Ventura County weekend of April 19-21 at the . Japanese Cemetery at Etling and Westcourt Hotel and Metnr resident should call Mary Tanita, San FranCISCO Pleasant Valley Rds. will un- Cultural Heritage Board. infor• m7~; or Hide Watanabe, 009- mation: Vas Umeda, 484-1313; or center. All past and present Nik• SAN FRANCISCO-Winner of dergo a clean-up this Saturday, kei residents and their spouses, 6486. the chapter's 1985 cholarship is Feb. 9 from 8 am to 3 p.m by Teri Komatsu, 984-1007. quite clear whether he is propos• LETTERS ing that JACL should become the FULLY INSURED Continued from Previou Page institution for U.S.-Japan rela• tions or that a separate U.S.-Ja• COMPREHENSIVE MAJOR MEDICAL and of equal interest to me. They pan Studies Institute be formed FO R INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS reinforce each other- for ex• by Japanese Americans. How it PAYS 80% OF THE FIRST $5000.00 ample, Mary Norton s excerpts would be fmanced I do not know . on Arizona cotton growers sale of As far as I have observed, JACL 1 00% AFTER TO $1,000,000.00 cotton to J apan arxi Federal PW A already does engage in Japanese ANY DOCTOR - ANY HOSPITAL grants to Arizona etc., and Dr. cultural activities such as pre• Franklin Odo 's comments on rac• sentationof Japanese movies, Ja• ism in Hawaii, a place which was panese food / bazaa.... s, etc. I did COMPARE THESE COVERAGES WITH previously perceived to be the not know it took any st3nd on U. S.• YOUR PRESENT PLAN: ethnic melting pot or the pru-adise Japan policy relations. DEDUCTI BLE OPTIONS - $100, S250, $500 or $ 1.000 of the Pacific. IfImay, however , I As I understand it, the JACL SIMPLIFIED ISSUE WIT H 7 HEALTH DUESTI ON S 180 DAY WAITI NG PERIOD FOR 7 CON DITI ONS would like to comment on Glen S. promotes the U.S. interest of its PRE·EXISTING CLAUSE - 24 MONTHS Fukushima s article. members as patriotic U.S. citi• SE MI-PRIVA TE ROO M CHARGES NOT RESTRI CTEO other Ihan Reasonable Cos ts Mr. Fukushima's article struck zens particularly in civil rights, MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES NOT RESTRIC TED other than Reasonable Cosls a responsive chord in me, since I etc., and more recently in Asian DOCTOR/S URGERY FEES NOT RESTR ICTED oth er than Reasona ble COSIS ANESTHETISTS FEES NOT RESTRICTE D other than Reasonable COSIS come from New York City, where American interests. RN /LV NURSING COSTS NOT RESTRI CTED other than Reasonable COS IS the pre-World War II role models For the identifIable Japanese SPECIALIZED EO UIPMENT, ETC NOT RESTRICTED other than Reasonable Cos ts BLOOD PLASMAS. ETC NOT RES TRI CTED other th an Reasonable Cos ts for a Nisei were the U.S.-Japan American, the pursuit of his hap• DOC! OR 'S OFFICE CHARGES NOT RESTRIC TED other than Reasonable Costs trading companies and allied in• piness, his job, support of his fa• LABORATORY & X·RAY COSTS NOT RES TRICTED other than Reasonable Costs HOSPITAL CHARGES (mental Illness) NOT RESTRICTE D TO $10.000 stitutions. Many of the New York mily and his allegiance to the U.S. PRESCRIPTION DRUG CHARGES NOT RESTRICTED other Ihan Reasonable Cos Is AMBULANCE BILLS NO! RESTRI CTED other Ihan Reasonable Costs Nisei already subconsciously is pararrount. He will probably INTENSIVE CARE BILLS 3 TIMES SEMI· PRI VATE ROOM CHARGES realized the difficulty of accept• fmd that his job and related social ance in U.S. mainstream activi• activities become increasingly DENTAL RIDER AVAILABLE - $50.00 ANNUAL DEDUCTIBLE ties and did not yet realize that it important as he is promoted; his 80% USUAL & CUSTOMARY CHARGES would be diffIcult for them to en• outside activities in church, Boy ter the J apanese mainstream. Scouts, or whatever will be all• For more in formati on. fill In below and It was therefore thought by time-consuming. mall to : many of the Nisei in New York The allotment of this time for Yamamoto Insurance Services that it would be wise to learn Japan-U.S. relations in any in• P.O. Box 908 about Japan from a commercial formed way, unless professional• Redwood City, CA 94064 sense, even though unlike the ly pursued, will be difficult. He 415-367 -9350 (ask for MOTO) pre-war West Coast and Hawaii) cannot compete with the profes• organized Japanese language sional student, Caucasian or schools and formal cultural otherwise. His knowledge can schools such as "Ocha no yu"• only be superficial. Name: ______although available to a degree• If he can get canned opinions of did not exist. the Japanese American view• Address: ______The war, of course, disrupted point from some institute, it may any notions upon pursuing a ca• be helpful, but woo is to give this reer in Japanese trade or in allied opinion and can it be fully in• City & State: ______businesses. With maturity and formed and wise in its policy changes in U.S.-Japan relations, stand? The past tends to haWlt the Phone: ______other considerations became pa• future. I do not know if we have ramount. It also enforced upon the wisdom to make proper policy the New York Nisei that for him stands. If we are fuzzy , because the U.S. mainstream, difficult as we are uncertain, this will be open i.t may be, was the place to be. to misinterpretation. The step, if GREAT REPUBLIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Although I agree with Mr. Fu• taken, must be exercised with kushima's analysis, proposals great care. and caveats for the identifIable YEIICill(KELLY) KUWAYAMA Japanese American, it was not Washington, D.C. 10-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, February8. 1985 PC's Classified Advertising Q 1000 Club Roll Pang is short story winner 2-Announcement 3--Buslness Opportunity 5-Employment ~Real Estate t Year of lember 'hip \o~ n) MONTANA CALIFORNIA Topskout Personnel Service • ntu ;.. orporale ; AN lVlATE , alif. - Ja• Excep~onal 7500 Sq Fl, SASKATCHEWAN,CANADA L Llf ,M 1 monal; RESTAURANT Sales AsstlBooldceeper 10 15.500 pan Am ri an Olrri u• 400 person Actl Receivable' 10 16.900 PRIVATE OFFERING ~ 'I L ntury Life lum Proj t Book Com mit- Central Coastal Town near Gen OIClBookkeq)er • 10 14.400 Condom.niums tor sale in Humboldt. Secrelary/Booklceeper' 10IS ,OOO W.II Irade tor cash. land. homes or WIll :summary \ ' in 'e 12-1-1984 I 1 has awarded Valerie Restaurant/Nightclub Hearst Castle. Seating 100. Exec Sec (Bilingual) 10 19,000 IN consider any Irade. PIlone (306) 682- cti e (pre IOU lotal> . 142 k Pang of S attl th MISSOULA , MT., Lovely decor & surrourdlngs. Secrelary/Gen Ofc . 10 16,000 2638. (3061682·2055: Of wnte Full bar facility for beer & wine • ConversallOna1 Japanese reqUIred Tolal thi report: #3 ..... 46 award for best hort tory home 01 UniV 01 Monl~na ana d norOo 01 Above openflgs are only L.A area Box 478. Humboklt. Sask, or liquor. Calr: Canada SOK2AO. urr nltotal ...... 188 about Japanese Ameri• oul-eJlcrs Almospnere IXlUpllld Wlin (213) 742·08 10 TLX 673203 oulSI ndlng Iallm COOSISICnlly gcnerale ca· Mr. Cole JAN 21-25, 1985 (46) cans for intermediat pac,1y nlgn lcllO crow ds Ouallly and loca· (213) 547-9005 CALIFORNIA Alameda: 2O-Betty Akagl, 25- grades. lion dad up 10 nOn lunch and dinner Iralilc SECRETARY Hiromu Hi Akagi. Buy In,S ana a strong managemenlleam lor 5-Employment (INVESTMENT) • SAN CLEMENTE Arizona: 2O-Dr Richard K Pang' tory "Gambat• ~50.000 plus nl1lnlOIY Terms IOqualllled 3 bf/ 2 ba.. I~ lam. rm w/-. bar & te '. is about a young Sansei Ouyer Premises &liquor license ar& leased JAPANESE AMERICAN CUL TURAL AND Acbve pllone answenng and word pro• frpk:. Enac:-:t SLI1 porch WIIh spa. A Matsuishi. COw.tJNITY CENTER cessing. Salary plus banefU9. Qown• bargain. OPEN 54T. & SUN By own• BOI e alley : 22-Michio Ta• girl, Midori, and how she CHARLIE BRAUN BROWN . lawn office. Cal 'Y. Clifford Tanaka or er Courtesy k> brokers. 10 Ihe Execuhve Director Jor1Ilhan Tanaka kasugi. deals with a racist incident umbros Rea lly. 1 15 WEST LDBOS MARINOS hicago: l&James Henne• directed by her Caucasian 1001 S H'QOflS. MISSoula. MT 59801 • SECRETARY (213) 486-9016 Original pnce $3OOK. Recic:ed 10 \4061543·6663 Or(406) 251 -311 3 • BUSINESS MANAGER Also (000) 824-8632 $265K. Assm1 S200K 30 yr. bed. rate berg, It-Rose Marie Kura• friend at another Japanese 12V.% (714) 492-5774. ta, 2-Harry ni hI·, 29- American. MONTANA • GALLERY DIRECTOR Rare opponunl\y to own p[Olllllble opera· Salary Negotiable. GOVERNMENT JOBS NOATHERNCAlIFORNIA Louise A uski·, 16-Sueichi P&ng is a part-time in- lion In an It«:OMPARABLE FACILITY $16.559 · $5O.553/year. Taguchi. aI1l LOCATION . Send resumes/applications to: Now Hiring-Your Area . Is ,llrue? tructor in the College of FrIO 001 now. For Sale Ie eland: 29-To hi Kadowa• Call (805) 687·6000 Exc. R-1317 ki. Education, Univ. of Wash• 7, 000 Sq Ft Restaurant JACCC by Owner ington, specializing in Japanese American w/Lounge - ()le 01 our IIneslln cDwnlOWn 244 S. San Pedro St., #505, ortez: 18-Peter T Yamamo• Los Angeles, CA 90012, For 39 + acres. ModBniI8 to Sleep. to. multi-ethnic education. Journey rurrently in de• Missoula . MT DIller ,ncome area exceedS Be a 'PC' Ad Watcher Excellent v_. 2900 Sq Ft SuOS!arohalland lor 8lIPanSIon further information, call Zoned A. prqlOllBd county changes Detroit: 12.James Kushida. Her short tory will be• velopment. The book will ,nCluoeo Ample paveo pariung, Good labor (213) 628-2725 to high ~ project 4 bedroom oase - MISSOUO IS home lor \he Un,v 01 home. 4 bathrooms. 2500 sq. It shop Diablo aUey: 25-Dr H Quin• come part of the interme• also contain history, biog• ot~""9 MOnlana Included al no extra COSIIS abase PRE ·Auctlon SOl • . SPE' on property. Homes has rNf1I( 3.000 tusSakai. diate-level book titled The raphies and poetry. CIAl 10,. oncts on form "'U'I>• .sq. fI. $1.000.000. Owner will 01 pauons wno love 10 eal OUI TOIaI pnce mffll 'rom now "nhl March S. AsJcJng Downtown Los Angeles: 24- SI 475 million plus flvemory. Terms to Family Practice AUCTION DAY MARCH S. 9 JO =.~next to major Japa- Kakuo Tanaka, l-Gerald 16-RoyOta. LIFE qualolled ouyer. MS T Olferlng 100 Iroclon . "'on v IroClor and loaoer como.nohons oshltomi. tockton: 19-Dr Kengo Tera• Masami Honda (SD). Rob• Also over lOO o.tcts 01 form "'01. Call (415) 538-9147 shita. ChARLIE BRAUN ··BROWN . Urgent Care For a comol. SOle O,If ,.rot. 0( CQIf East Los Angeles: 38-Yosh ert Sakai (Ede). GARY 'S INPLEMENT Write: Owner Inadomi. Twin ities: 22-Kay Kushmo. CENTIJR Y CLUB'" Ulnoros ReallY, Ipt'~~~{.\2~l69116 1001 S HIQOII1S. MISSoula . MT 59801 INDUSTRIAL Rouf. 5015 Old Dublin Road Eden Township : Life-Robert emce-Culver: 15-Chiye Y 2- Harry Onishi (Chi), 6- \40b) 543·6663 or (406) 251-3 113 Castro Valley, CA 94552 Sakai, lO-Dr George Y Ta• Harada. Louise A Suski (Chi ), 7-Jack MEDICINE kahashi. Washington, DC : I-Richard E Russell (MP), I3-Henry J Florin: 5-Alfred I Tsukamo• K Hayasaka·. I-Mays A Ishida (NSD), ll-Eddie Mori• INVESTMENT to, 5-Mary Tsuruko Tsuka• akashima. guchi ( F ), 3-Dr MikeMichio $300K annual gross_ ARCURI STABLES West Los Angeles: 29-Joe OPPORTUNITY moto. Yagake (ZLA), I-Richard K Oklahoma enlrepreneur seeks SeattlelTacoma area Standing World and National Mile-High: I-Robert Sakagu• Uyeda. Hayasaka (WDC) . S'h million. W111 generate Sl00 CHAMPION STALUONS chi. million In Sales. Proht margin Milwaukee: 13-Lily Kataoka, 15·30%. Nalural gas galherlng HOME OF WORLD CHAMPIONS 4-RonaldKiefer, 14-Dr Tho• PARADISE OKAZU-YA RESTAURANT and markeling concep\. On Such As: Specializing In Hawallan-Ofllnt Culalne Rebound Penn Square Bank. $25,000 mas G Samter, 4-G€orge Rapidan Appolo, U.V.M. Promise, OPEN Tu.Sat, 7am-7pm • Sun. 7am-5 pm Contact Sommers. 1\111 (405) 524·9540 or Westwald Dona Rasa, 1631 W. Carson Sl. . Torrance - 328-5345 Monterey Peninsula: 7-Jack Box 26023, ALSO E Russell·. LOMI SALMON E., In or T.k. Out Okl ahoma City, OK 73126. Hanover Super Lady North San Diego : 31-Henry J CloMd Mond.v Only Call LAULAU end Van Lu Lovestory Ishida·,I4-YoshikoIshida. Quick service from steam table. Dr. Schroedl Oakland: l&.Jean AikoRowe. Combination Plate Ma Extended family sees astronaut off KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, "philosophically deep. " Fla.-Loaded with macadamia The space shuttle Discovery nuts and Kona coffee, Ellison Oni• blasted off on Jan. 24, delayed by zuka's family and friends flew last one day because of inclement week from Honolulu to Florida to weather, and landed without inci• watch the space shuttle launch dent on Jan. 27. Though it could from Cape Canaveral. Mitsue have stayed in orbit one more day, Onizuka, 71 , the astronaut s moth• it was feared that more inclement er, headed an entourage of20other weather would make a landing relatives and friends from Kona, difficult the following day. Be• Hawaii for the historic occasion. cause of the shuttle's cargo, a sat• Ellison's sister Shirley Matsu• ellite designed to listen in on Sovi• oka and her husband George had et communications, few details already arrived in Florida a few about t.re flight were released by days earlier. They were joined by NASA or the Dept. of Defense. brother Claude and his twodaugh• Shortly after the Florida land~ ters, Lisa and Lori; sister Norma ing, 0ni1llka and fellow crew Sakamoto and her son Jason; members Loren Shriver, Thomas cousin Jean Katoku; cousins Har• Mattingly, Jim Buchli and Gary old and Eveline Tasaka and their Payton were flown to the space two children, Bryan and Harlan; center in Houston, where Oni• and aunt Tsuruko Katoku. (Elli• zuka's relatives am friends, along son's father Masamitsu died in with his wife Lorna, also a Hawaii 1968). native, aM daughters Janelle, 151 Because of the ban on informa• and Darien, 9, were on hand to tion about this tOIrsecret military welcome him home. flight, no one knew when they The Kona-Kohala Chamber of Honolu Star-Bulletin photo by DenniS Oda would see Ellison. As sister Nor• Commerce and others plan to hold READY FOR TAKEOFF - Family and friends headed for Florida to watch Ellison Onizuka's liftoff are, from ma said, "We're real proud. A lit• a welcome-home parade when left, Midori Fujimoto, Francis Ouye, Harold Tasaka, Claude Onizuka (kneeling), Jean Katoku, Eveline tle worried, too. We 're aU going to Onizuka visits his hometown. Tasaka, Minoru and Jane lnaba, Fumiko Nagamine, Tsuruko Katoku, Takeo Nagamine, Norma Sakamoto have to see what s going to haIr The 33-year-old Sansei is the and Mitsue Onizuka, the astronaut's mother. The two boys standing are Bryan and Harlan Tasaka. Kneeling pen. We really don't know what country's fIrst Asian American with Claude Onizuka and David Ouye, Jason Sakamoto, Noren Nagamine and Lori and Lisa Onizuka. it's all about. " astronaut and the fIrst fr EDSATO Upcoming 1985 Escorted Tours PLUMBING & HEAnNG Women's anthology still accepting artides Remodel and Repairs Water Heaters, Fumaces EXCEPTIONAl FEATUREs-ouAUTY VAlUE TOURS Garbage Disposals Japan Spring Adventul'8 ...... Apr. 8 OAKLAND, Calif. - Asian graphics by or about Asian Servlng~A~ Europe: 7 countries (17 days) ...... ; ...... May 25 293-7000 733-0557 Women United has extended the American women. Canadian Rockies - Victoria (8 days) ...... June 19 deadline for its upcoming anthol• "If writers and altists have . Japan Sumner Adventure ...... July 2 ogy to Feb. 28. Outlines of alticles existing , completed materials Hokkaido-Tohoku (No. Japan) ...... Sept. 30 will also be accepted in lieu of that they would like to submit, East Coast & Foliage (10 days) ...... Oct. 7 we'd like to receive them by Feb. WI: OfffR lHt: PROft:sSIOIYAL I'fAIY Japan Autumn Adventure ...... Oct. 15 finished works. A COPIrUTf 8USINt:SS WARDR08t:. Far East (Bangkok. Singapore, Malaysia. Funded by the federal goveln• 28. If it's something new which Hong Kong, Taiwan. Japan) ...... Nov. 1 ment, the year-long book project they are now just proposing, they CARRYING OVf:R 500 SUITS, SPORT will produce a 250- to :n).page can send in just an outline or COATS AND OVfRCOATS SY GIVINCHY. LANVIN. VALfNTlNO. ST. RArHAfL It For full informatlonlbrochure collection of contemporary and some sort of summarized treat• LONDON fOG IN Sllf.S l4·42 SHORT ~ historical essays, creative writ• ment by that date," said project fXTRA SHORT, OUR ACCf.SSORlf.S TRAVEL SERVICE ings, oral histories, photos and coordinator Diane Yen-Mei INCLUDt: DRlSS SHIRTS. SLACKS, AND 441 O'F_".II St. (415) 474-'- Wong. TIf.S IN SHORT ~ SMLL Sllf.S / LfNGTHS. s. ~IICO, CA IM1. "We do need those short pro• IN ADDITION. WI: RtCt:NTLY t:XPANDfD TO INCLUDI AN ITALIAN DRlSS SHOt: posals in by the end of February LINt: IN Sllf.S 5· 7'11. ~noda to be feted so that our editorial board can make some preliminary deci• 785 W HAMIL TON A VENUE by Women Warriors CAMPBELI.,CALIFORNIA 95008 sions about what to include." PHONE 408/374-14"" dmerican Holid(l~1f(lvel LOS ANGELES-Asian! Pacific M F lUI 30. SAT 10-5. SUN 12·5 Women s Network holds its fourth From Small Businesses to War Proposed topics for the book annual Woma~ Warrior Awards 1985 Tour Schedule banquet on Friday Feb. 22, from include economic roles (for 6: 30 p.m. in the ballroom of the example, small businesses, em• Senior Nikkei Japan Golf Tour ...... May 23-June 1 ployment patterns, garment Tokyo/Chiba-Narashino Country Club: Hakon&-Hakone Kohan Golf Hyatt Regency Hotel 711 S. Hope Course. Da.·Hakone Country Club: Kaw~Kawana Country Club' (FuP St. workers, and profession'al worn: & Oshima Course). en); family and cultural changes European Holiday Tour ...... June 22-July 8 This year's award recipients HOli