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Published weekly. Entered as 2nd class matter ill post office at Los Angeles, CaUl Editorial-BuSiness Office: 258 E. 1st st., Los Angeles 12, Cal1t" .MAdlson 8-4f71 Vol. 43 No.5 Los Angeles, California Friday, Augus-t 3, 1956 Every Friday-lOc a Copy BY THE BOARD: Value of chapter WIRIN' HONORED BY ~good' public relations- JACl FOR 25 YRS. 84th Congress adiourns with C ntral California was o ne of the hotbeds of WO K WITH ACLU average 'on JACL-sponsored bills anti -J apanese sentiment Over 400 persons representing a d uring and after World variety of political opinion gather. WASHINGTON. - The 84th Con• cern were: 1956 and 1957. enabling the Japa- gress adjourned last Friday mid• 1. Evacuation Claims Amend- nese Claims Section, the Immi• W ar II and the "Not Wel- ed at the Statler Hotel last Satur• night with a " good average" on ment, authorizing the Attorney gration and Naturalization Service, come" signs were then ' day to honor A. L, Wirin for his legislation of special concern to General to compromise and settle and the Office of Alien Property 25 years work as counsel for the the Japanese American Citizens t he rule and not the ex- Am erican Civil 'Liberties Union, all of the remaining claims up to to function adequately; also funds League. Mike Masaoka, its Wash• $100,000. with the larger claimants for the payment of certain evacua• ception. Among those paying tribute to ington representative,. announced and those not satisfied with the tion claims. W have come a long th6 noted civil rights lawyer were this week. government's offer able to seek 5. Social Security Amendments, . Herbert L. Block (Herblock), Pu- Last day efforts to secure civil w ay smce and we like to litzer prize-winning cartoonist; Su• judicial review in the Court of lowering the retirement age for rights legislation and amendments Claims, and declaring eligible women from 65 to 62 and. for the think that we JACLers perior Judge Stanley Mosk, Helen to the Immigration and Nationality claims of west coast internees; first time, making retirement bene• had a lot to do with th Gahagan Douglas, Albert Lun~e- Act, which would have been of corporations, and those who post- fits available to disabled persons e ford of the Greater L.A, CIO Coun• benefit to persons of Japanese an• marked their claims before the at age 50. change of at tit u des cil. Saburo Kido of the JACL, and cestry, however, failed, he added. deadline but which were received 6. Civil Service Benefits, provid• am 0 n g Californians of Loren Miller of the NAACP. Over-all, the' 84th Congress, in after the bar date. Iing more liberal -retirement pen- this area toward us. I be- Kido, wartime JACL national its First and Second Sessions, en• 2. Mongolian Labor Bar, reyeal- sions and increasing "friDge" bene- lieve that the public re- president, recalled Wirin's associ- acted seven of the 12 major bills mg the prohibitipn against the use I Continued on Page 7 ation with Japanese Americans in in which J ACL had special inter• of "Mongolian" labor on federal lations work of the Nisei, early 1942 when he was acting in e.st, Masaoka said. 'reclamation projects, which was especially in the smaller the interest of evacuees. Wirin He added that in numbers this written into law in 1902. lost his job with a labor union be• on to say that in numbers this 3. Hawaiian Property Claims, Nisei candidate communities, has been cause of that, Kido said. "He ]tisk- equalled that of the last 83rd Con• empowering territorial courts to re• tremendous. ed his future in defending 0 u r gress. but that the bills in this turn property conveyed to '-'lU'ious in Washington An outstanding ex- rights. He gave us courage during past 84th Congr~ss were of greater governmental units in the Terri• ample of community ac- those dark days," he continued. · consequence than those of the tory of Hawaii by organizations of "We persons of Japanese ances• previous Congress. persons of Japanese ancestry in slate primaries ceptance for Nisei is to try owe a great deal to him for Bills approved by the Congress the early days of World War Two. SEATTLE. - Kunio Kuniyuld, 47, 4. Appropriations, for fiscal years beJound in Fowler (pop. the battles we have won in the' in which JACL had special con- who operates a restaurant with his , courts. We wish to thank him pub- 3,000). There, the Nisei licly here. And we hope he will father, brother and slster, has an• nounced his candidacy foe a seat and especially JACLers continue with his work for many in the state legislature last week. have made themselves in. more years to come in helping to CAB administrative acHon makes bill On becoming a candidate for the preserve the Bill of Rights for aU, dispensable to the com- regardless of race, color, creed, September primaries, the 442nd unnecessary for farmer .. nurseryman -aid veteran said, "Because Japan~se munity. It seems that no national origin or station in life," Americans are now well establish• ·t 'd t··t· Kido concluded. WASHINGTON, - Administrative Introduced at the request of Ni• Cl y-Wl e ac lVI y IS com- action which made legislation un- sei nurserymen particularly, the ed. it is about time we showed our plete without participa- Kido wrote in his "Observations" necessary in the just concluded legislation would have benefited political strength. It is also the tion of the Fowler JACL published in the New Japanese 84th Congress promulgated objec- not only nurserymen and shippers most opportune time because at American News: tives sought in one of JACL's bills of cut flowers and decorative the favorable public feeling toward chapter or some individ- ..... AI Wirin is among those for this sessiorr, Mike Masaoka, greens but also farmers and ship• us." ual JACLer. who have fought for. persons of Washington representative of the pers of perishable agricultural His parents hail from Yamagu• T Shir k ha Japanese ancestry dunng the try- J a pan e s e American Citizens commodities in competing by air chi prefecture. Eldest in the fame om. a a:va, c p- ing war Y7ars. James Purcell ot I Lea e re rted this week. ily of three sons and a daughter. ~,po for the eastern, midwest, and ter preSIdent, IS a past San FrancISco freed us from. re-, . . southern markets. Kunio is married and has four ~efers ~ m~!Xiuc- children. Born in Seattle, he. fin• councilman of the com- i location centers through the Mltsu- Actions to bill The Flower Consolidators of• . . - l ye Endo case, which is one of the ed early 10 the Fll'st SessIOn ot ished Univ. of Washington as a muruty. YOShlO Honda, landmarks in defining (N is e i) , Congress by Sen. Warren G. Mag• Southern California, Inc., whqse commerce major. now on the Council, has rights during wartime. Wirin handl- nus on !D.. Wash.) and ,Sen,. Tho- president is Frank Kuwahara, and A Democrat, he has support from. Consolidated Flower Shipments, ed the case to protect our rights mas H. Kuchel (R., Calif.) 10 the bee d 0 former s tat e attorney general n name mayor p~ - as voters in the case in~tituted by Senate, and in the House ~y Rep. Inc.-Bay Area, both organizations Davey Johnson to bid for a H!,use tem_ In the only serVlce lthe Native Sons. He was involved J. Arthur Younger (R., Calif.) and of shippers in which many Nisei oI Representatives post and be• club in town. eight Lions I in the Yasui-Hirabayashi case per- Rep. George P. Miller m .. Ca~.~. Continued on Page 2 came the second. Nisei in state his• J~CLers . Ha Hir I taining to curfew test cases. The which would exempt from Civil tory to file. are rry. a-loYama alien land case was en- Aeronautics Board regulations the Stockholm skipper once Clarence Arai was the first, be• oka, LIOns past presldent, gineered by Wirin and Purcell. interstate shipment of agricultural ing unsuccessful in his attempt -in is on the Fowler School Hundreds of stranQees are b~ck and horticultural products b~ air. captain of Gripsholm 1934 as a Republican candidate for board of trustees. in this country through his effo~t.;;. A similar bill, which in effect the state legislature. NEW YORK. - Capt. Gunnar Nor• (PC columnist Elmer Ogawa ' "There is no doubt that Wll'm woUld extenq. the same exemptions denson, 63-year-old master of the Big talk in Fowler the deserves the recognition he is be- in -air transportation as that pre- treats of Kuniyuld's background in motor ship Stockholm which crash• his report this week,-Ed Note.) past two years concerned ing extended. The fact that the viously enjoyed only in surface ed 'into the Italian luxury liner the super - displays built Los Angeles Times (was) one of (rail and truck) transportation to Andrea Doria July 25, was war-, h d the sponsors of the banquet should agricultural commodities and cut chapte~ time skipper of the exchange ship End search 9t ay by the at. the a.n-I be sufficient for the. skeptics that flowers and decorative greens, was Gtipsholm. TORONTO. - The bQdy of Saburo nual Fresno Dl5inct Farr. he is not a CommunISt. introduced in the 83rd Congress by The Grip!>o':~!m was chartered Shinobu, 67, local Issei leader. was ~e ~ue libera~, w~s Naturally, the displays I "He is. one Of . Congressman Younger and from the Swedish _Unerican line found in the Ottawa River on the 1... k th hi h t a champIOn of Civil nghts and lib- passed too late by the House 10 broug ht ~ac e g es erties. We are prone to compromise the Second Session for Senate con• by the U.S. government for three ninth. day of search by relativeS years from 1942 to 1945 and made last week. He had gone fishiDg awards posible. JACLers our principles to be realistic, but currence. several trips t.o India during the alone and did not return while va• are also in the middle of a man like Wirin fights for the In the First Session (1955), the war to exchallge American and cationing at his son-in-law's home ' B S t G' 1 S out principle in order that all men may Senate Interstate and Foreign Com- Japanese natior~l=s~. ______~1O_' __D_e_e_p_Fti __·v_e_r_. ______~ oy COU , rr c 'enjoy equal rights." merce 6ubcommittee on Aviation, PTA activities and in Lit- under chairman Mike Monroney of tle League baseball. They Fisherman injured in Oklahoma, held public hearings on ~ISEI· also contributed much to f II d 10ff the Magnuson-Kuchel bill but de- ARIZONA TENDED FARMS EYED steep a own c I ferred action at that time because the Fowler Hospital fund J' T" to fell the CAB was then conducting an ~~VELOPERSr ~~:. w~e ~=~ . th~ BY TRACT REALTORS drive. cliff near Iinvestigation into subject mat- GLENDALE. Ariz. - A'izona JA- tained by Japanese Americans. are Observing such activi- Forest Hill in Placer County July ter c,ovl!red by the bill. - announc~d CL's headquarters here 1 right in being eyed by tract developers. ties and of other active 21 and is reported to be in fair ThiS year, the CAB the middle of fight by 1" al res- Mas Tomooka. fonner Santa Ma· condition in the Highland Hospital its decision and, except for mm- chapters in the CCDC, . A b Iimum reporting, promulgated by idents seeking incorporation as a ria Valley resident, has negotiated . . 't 10 u urn. . th b ' t' sought separate city to be called 'iry- the sale of 160 acres of farm lanet the conclusion 15 meVl - George Hirakawa, a companion, regulations e 0 lec Ives . al this past week, it was-reported. e that an active chap- told sheriff deputies they separa.ted in the Magn(lson-Kuche~ and Youn- v T~e heart of Arizona's Japal!(" ,e' It would mean that local fa~ers abl th tr Hir ger-Miller bills. According to Cap- r and sound public re- to fish along e seam. .a- I'tol observers, there is no question area includes the two Japan"" \ would move elsew~ere in ~e Salt te _ kawa returned to the car and walt- enga~e bill~ churches on 43rd Avenue here a River Valley to 10 the!J' lations With the com- ed. but when Tsujimoto failed to that the introduction of the well as other shops and offices., nterprises. The Issel who first h d h t I k and the imminent action b"y the munity-at-Iarge run an -Ireturn by 7:30 p.m., e wen 00 - Congress was instrumental ill the The center of the new MaryvaL- ·~\ne here in. th~ e.arb: 1900s were ~_~ental in-hand. am all for the : in~:o~o~' the injur~ man un- promulgation of these new re~ would be 51st Avenue and fuw..u I... m ll'rlgating the de&• I School to the north of Phoenix. ert country into a producUve gar. small integrated 1 0 c a ] Iconscious. Tsujimoto suffered brok- lions which reversed operational Far~ areas here, ta.-'ely main- den basket. chapter. --Jin IshIkawa.. ~n legs and possible s kull frac tur e. procedure by the CAB since 1938. •
2-PACIFIC CITIZEK Friday, Aug. 3, 1956 s~o Official PubUcaUon: Japanese American Citizens Leng~e attend Detroit PACI~IC3CITIZ'N 'community picnic Editorial - Business Office: 258 E . 1s t St., Los Angeles 12, CallI, By YOSlftKO INOUYE Masno W. Satow - National Dlrecto.· DETROIT. - Breaking prevlou!I 1759 Sutler St.. S an Franc isco 15, Clllt!.. WEst 1-66q~ Mike M. Masaoka - Washington (D.C.) Representative attendance records, close to 500 Suite 1217 Hut ley-Wrlght Bldg.. 18th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW (6) enjoyed the Detroit community pic• E xcept for D irector's Report, opinions expressed by nic here July 15 at Middle Rouge columnists do n ot necessarily r e flect JACL policy. Park. Val'ious organizations ccr HARRY K. HONDA .. .. Editor TATS KUSHlDA ... . Bus. Mgr. sponsored the event. Contrary to other years, Jupe ~~ Pluvius Irain) slept in for the day, FROM litE FRYING PAN: by Bill Hosokawa to bring out groups from far away Ann Arbor, Ohio and Canada. Art Matsumura and Eddie Ma• SO years of service tsui. general co-chairmen, were Denvet· assisted by Kay Mio of JACL; Ken • Fifty year s ago a young Ohio school• Aoki, Ray mgo of Mr. & Mrs. teacl1er turned minister set out for Ja• Club; Tosh Sakow. Alex Mitsuna• pan with his bride. His na me was Clark ga of Bowling League; Fred Yo• P eter Garma n, his wife's Katherine. The shida. Friday Yoshida of Go 1 f Japan they saw inspired a deep and last_ Club; and Roy Kaneko, annOuncer. A group of 25 girls presented Ja• ing devotion. A few weeks ago the Rev. Four more Nisei have been selected for stewardess training with panese dance numbers. Many mer• Clark Garman's half century of tireless Pan American World Airways and are now attending classes at chants, including Frank Ebisuya service to the people of Japan, and' to the company's San Francisco headquarters. Shown, left to right: of Kado's Oriental Food Store, do• people of Japa nese descent in America, was recognized with Doris A ako Kakisako, 23 , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ka• nated the gate prizes. the "Social Action Churclamanship Award" of the Congrega• kisako of Honolulu; 'f-ose Kumi Shimada, 24, a native of Sacra• t ional Christia n Churches, mento, but who has hved in Tokyo since 1941. Daught-er of Mr. and Showers ruin Denver From 1906 to 1930, Garman served in J apan under the Mrs. Moriki Shimada, 34119-1 Chome Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, American Christian Conve:ntion. From 1931 to 1941 he worked Tokyo, Rose joins her sister, Nancy, already a Pan Am stewardess; area picnic for 1,500 with the American Board of Commissioners for For(!ign Mis• Gladys Chiyuko Isokane, 21 , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matsujiro DENVER. - A sudden downpotir sio)ls. His citation reads: "The whole of Japan felt his touch lsokane of Honolulu; Nancy Hiroko Naito, 23, daughter of Mr. and of summer rain July 22 dampened through his work as Secretary of the Christia n Literature So• Mrs. Sakae Naito, Honolulu, the spirits of some 1,500 turning ciety." out for the annual Denver Japa• When the atmosphere of war-bound J a pan became such nese community picnic at Newton tha t he could no longer serve its people, Clark Gannan and r Park. his wife came home. It was a sad decision. The three Garman Midwest sees more Nisei job opportunity Truck-loads of prizes and re• children had been born in Japan, and much of their lives and freshments were only half used as I. opes were bound inextricably with the land that was their but beller social oulle1s in California the picnic was cut short. No effort will be made to re-run the picnic second home. CLEVELAND. - " Do you thillk many soci~l outlets for everyone this year, but' it was hoped that 11 that there are more opportunities there, 'EVACUA TED' TO COLORADO similarly well-orglBnized a t f air for Nisei or Issei in California? It Da vid EoI.o-I think that oppor- could be scheduled next year with • But with the coming of war a new opportunity summoned so, why do you think so'?'" tunities in the Midwest are better better cooperation from the wea• the Garmans. They moved from California to Colorado to Seven opinions were expressed in than in California for professional therman. work with the evacuees. Perhaps Garman's greatest single the June-July issue-.-of the Cleve- men. Of course, there are more feat was in rallying the forces of good will and fair play to Over 100 committeemen, includ• land J ACL Bulletin published re- social outlets iil California. ing Mile-Hi JACLers, were sta-ging defeat anti-alien land law legislation in the state assembly. cently and reported in a feature Mrs. Rose Adachi-As for my- the event. But while he was lobbying vigorously, Clark and Katherine column by Ruth Kono. self, I disagree with the contention Garman were also opening their home and lending a hand The question was selected in that there are more opportunities to many a bewild:ered e\'acuee in need of comfort and en• view of the slow but steady return in California. In California, there 800 Clevelanders picnic couragement. The citation again tells the story: "As secretary of Japa nese famHies to their for- is more racial prejudice, whereas CLEV,ELAND. - An estimated sob for Christian Social Action for the Colorado Congregational mer west coast homes. The inquir- in the Mid\vest one can live in a attended the ninth aonual cdm• Conference, and for the city and state Councils of Churches, ing reporter, however. felt Cleve- better neighborhood which will munity picnic July 1 at Weigand's his service has been characterized by simplicity of living and land offered a pleasant environ· welcome them. Lake under perfect skies, Various sacrificial devotion." ml!nt for the family and a wide Hiro Babll-I really don't know Issei and Nisei organizations here, . Last week, as the formal engraved copy of the citation range of jobs for e veryone. about the situation there today, including -the loca) J'ACL, co-spon• was delivered, white-haired, smilin~ Clark Garman beamed The answers: however I would say that one can- sored the outing. happily over this gentle pat on the back and his church's "well Mrs. Tom Sashihara-Tbere is a not get a job tha~ is equivalent to done." Only one thing kept the occlasion from being one of r sentimental prewar old-time at- one 'that a Nisei has here. In Cleve• th.ink so" unless things have chang• s upreme happiness. Kathrine Garman, ~ who had shared his tachment and a memory of the Iland. th'ere s'eems to be less com- ed there. Socially, here one can work, heartaches and triumphs, had died a year ago last_ Jan• "good old - times". Also m' a n y petition for jobs. . . get into Caucasian and Japanese uary. Cla rk Garman meditated on how nice it would have friehds have returned to California Ken Yamamoto-It IS my smcere circles. In other 'Words, t h'e r-e been if Katherine could have been here to share his recog• where one's relatives may be liv- opinion that thete are more oppor• seems to be more opportunities for nition. lng. Socially speaking, there are tunities for boys and girls to get intermingling here. married in California. I can offer FROM WRA TO INDIA:N SERVICE no further comment on tbe matter. • I suppose it's ~incidental, but a good many WRA (that . Eugene Uyeki-I think that there s tands for War Relocation Authority, remember?) employees 'CAB ruDng- are more occupational opportuni• ties now in California than before are working now for the Indian service. Several of them were ~ontinued from Front Page in Denver this week for a conference and we had a chance to the war. are active. as well as the J ACL. Mrs. Betty Toguchi-No, I don't t.alk and remember old times with Guy Robertson, former were active participants in this , Heart Mountain project director, Find Wade Head who used legislative program which resulted to look after things down in Poston. in favorable administrative action. Japan school lunch . Robertson, after being in charge of the Blackfoot Indian Senator Warren G. Magnuson, as reservation at Browning, Mont., for several years was trans• chairman of the Senate Interstate J»rogram aided by U.s. ferred last fall to the Jicarilla Apache reservation at Dulce, and Commerce Committee. which TOKYO, - The United States is N.M. His immediate superior is Head who directs the regional has jurisdiction over legislation of going to help Japan expand its Ret.up with headquarters in Albuquerque, N.M. this kind. explained to his Senate school lunch program for the bene• Among other things, Head asked about Saburo Kido, war• colleagues on the' floor the reason fit of more than 7,400,000 Japanese time JACL president who, while in Poston, took a beating that his Committee had decided to pupils. I from hoodlums armed Wlth lead pipes. "The only time I really defer action on the legislation. During the next year the United got mad," Head admitted, "was when I went after' the thugs " We deferred action on the bill S tilt e s will provide SI5.000,OOO 'j who tried to kill KJdo for his strongly pro_American stand." because the Civil Aeronautics worth of wbeat and powdered milk. Ask us now tor free tntonnatioD Robertson recalled the hatchet job that the D enver Post, Board was conducting an investi• Japan will' pay the cOst of ship• under a previous managf'ment, executed on WRA in general gation into this problem (1955), On megt from American Ports, and Heart Mountain eenter in particular. Those were bitter April SO, 1956. the Board issued decisions, opinions, orders, and " bJJfftf!dft ,I times, but now we could talk and laugh about the!ll. Eye doctor promoted THE SUMITOMO BANK Incidentally, Indian Bure-au policy of educating the In• regulations which contaihed provi• (CALIFORNiA) Dr, George K. Kambara of Los dians so they can make their own way, and trying to relocate .,10IilS substantially accomplishing th ~ purpose of S. 1192 (exemption Angeles was promoted to the rank 440 Mont,omerySt, them off the reservations, is based broadly speaking on a of associate clinical professor in San Francisco - EX 2-196\l pllin inaugurat-ed by Dillon Myer. Myer was replaced by Glenn bill). "Inasmuch as the CAB has done the department of ophthalmology 101 S, San Pedro , Emmons of Gallup, N.M, friend of the Miyamuras, when the administratively what S. 1192 pro• of the College of Medical Evangel• Los Angeles - MI 4~11 Republicans took control of the White House three years ago. ists. The foriner Sacramentan has posed to do legislatively, tbe Com• 1400 - 4th St. mittee on Interstate and Foreign been on the medical faculty since Sacl'Bmento - Gl 3-4611 ~ VERY TRULY YOURS: by Harry K. Honda Commerce has decided to table the 1948, bill. I have requested notification by the CAB should it ever con· JACL's sweetheart template any change in its deci• EMPIRE PRINTING CO. sion. English and Japanese • I thought my heart was too old to "In this coming air age, when COMMERCIAL and SOCIAL PRINTING skip a beat. over queen candidates and competitive rates are essential to 114 Weller St. MU 7060 Los Angeles 12 contestants . .. Being in Southern Cali• survival. it is particularly vital fornia and very close tp Hollywood, that the economies of consolidation where beauty comes glamourized and and bulk handling be provided to overly commercial with cheesecake pic• growers and shippers of perishable· LI'L TOKIO CENTER FOR JAPANESE OONF£CTIONlmY_ tures and competitive pageantry, the and specialized agricultural pro• senses are somewhat i nsensitive . .. But ducts, especially cut flowers and MIKAWAYA decorative greens. This is vital to out of the north came Sharon Yasuko "Always Fresh" Nishimi, a 20-year-old armful of sweetness and el"gance. She's the Pacific Northwest and in fact our 1956 "Miss National JACL" ... It was hel' first try at to the entire west coast" 244 E. 1st St., L.A. - MU 4935 - K. Hashimoto such a contest, never dreaming for one minute she would Senator Magnuson also had in• make the first plateau as Miss Sacramento JACL. "I thought cluded In the Congressional Record it would be fl1ll just to ecter," she confided, .. Maybe many the text· of a letter which he had a lass enters with the same nebulous hope--like Miss Iowa sent to the chairman of the CAB BeN ADACHI who wound up as Miss Universe this year. informing them of the committee 8Ul Cblnn action and the reasons therefor. "ed Gat.ewovd BID YamIUDOto • This may take some 01 the thunder away from Sacramen• He also specifically requested that IWlr> Y;unacla ta JACL, which is justifiably proud of its cand1date and nOw he be advised if the CAB con• DeleD l"aDa&n. Queen. But a little known fact is that she's a Los Angeles girl, templated any change in the regu• - Continued on Page 6 lations in the future. - a-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, Aug. 3. 1956 VAGARIES: by Larry S. Taiiri Ike signs social . security measure Afli i tor design WASfIlNGTON . ....J Prr'sideni Eisen• hower :igned into law on Wcdn( ~ • Denver day thp socii,] sccurity bill j(Jwer· • There is a racial t reotype in the ing the I'etil'cment age for women making-a favorable one to be Sllre-• from 65 to 62 and providing pay• abollt the aftinity of Nisei 'io design. Mor(' ment!. to disabled workers 50 and and more Nisei are finding employment UveL in the various ramifica tions of industrial An estimated 800,000 women are art. s w 11 as in related fields ranging expect d to take advantage oC the from architecture to entel,'tainment. lower retirement age, which be·· This thought came to us last week as comes effective Nov. 1. Wives 01 we had dinner with Neil Fujita, art director for Columbia retired workers and working wo· Records, at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where the record• men retiring at 62 will be entitled ing firm, a subsidiary of CBS, '\\,as holding its annual sales to 75 and 80 per cent respectively meeting. of the full pensions they would reo Neil, Hawaiian_born. was 20 years old and a student on ceive at 65. Wido\vs and dependent lhe mainland when he was caught up in war, mass \'acua- mothers will get full benefits at 1.lOn and Il~ass detention. He was hustled out of art chool in 62. Los Angeles and landed at th Heart Mountain relocation Totally and.. permanently disabled center. "I was pretty confused and a little bitter," he recalJs. workers, meeting special tests, will be eligible for pensions at 50 in• Neil credits the friendship and advice of Bill Hosokawa I stead of 65, beginning next July and Haruo Imura, with whom h worked on the Heart Moun• The measure boosts pay 1'011 tain Sentinel., for helping him "figure things out." His first taxes for both employer and em· job for the Sentinel, incidentally, was to design a masthead ployee another YWalt Disney's pictures. "poor" . so they cancelled their applications in 1949. They renewed their appli• In Hollywood, Eddie Imazu, after more than a quarter. "Hot Rod Girl" with a compan• cation in 1955 but the American GEORGE'S century at MCltv'I, is art director on Teahouse oj the August ion feature opens locally on Aug. 15 at various first run th ater s and consulate in Yokohama indicatcd Moon. Al Nozaki is an art director at Paramount, wHile Bob that in his opinion they were i)ot Kinoshita (not to be mistaken for actor of same name) has drive-ins. MOTOR SERv.ICE entitled to the nonquota status or' Operated by been in charge of art dirtction on several reQent films mede returning immigrants. . by indep:mdent studios and also is art director on several TV Tot recovers, was pinned Since' Mi·. Yamagata is an hon• Geor.ge Kuramoto Michi~he series. At NBC, doe. R't use her surname profes• under family car' wheel orably discharged veteran of Unit• :;ionally-is head costume designer on the J ulius La Rosa ed States service in World War I , hour and was in charge of c06tuming for the recent spectacu• FOWLER. - Janet Teraoka, 3· Democratic Congressman Victor lar, The Bachetor.• year-old daughter of George Tera• Anfuso of New York introduced the There are Nisei on thc staffs of Designer Roaymond Loewy, oka of Fowler, who was thrown private bill for his relief last year. Ee];~ off the car driven b,y her father, is Architect Saarinen and others who are changing the :rIRBS and TUB_ well and romping at home. l' port• sli!apes of Niings to comp. in America. Min Yamasaki, partner LUBRICATION :n a Detroit architectural firm, rc-cently was honored by the ed the Fowler JACL Bulletin last MOTOR' TUNE-UP. American Institure of Architects tor his design of the $4 mil• week. REPAIRING lion SI. Louis air terminal. Yamasaki al 0 has blueprinted the She was hospitalizecl for f i v e American consulCbte in Kobe and the Michigan state capitol. days after being pinned under the FREE P .A.RKING Gyo Obata is one of several St. Louis architects who are doing wheels of hcr dad's automobile in TOY BATl'B1t1'ES the ove.all planning for their city's $100 million urban re• a strange mishap. :ACC:&'5S0RlBS development ,program. In recent y ars other Nisei architects Plt01lJll: ha ve been cOJIsistent wllmers of design awards, partIcularly Ask for . ~ . in the treat-m(mt of small homes. STUD I 0 (lierry 9630 _ III may be that Nisei have a cultural h eritage in design, 'Cherry Brand' 318 East First Street irrB a LAW~CB 8'1'1. a racial feeling for form and line. Certainly many Nisei-we Mutual Supply Co. L06 Angeles 12 (1100 2ttla BUeet) have named o'11y a few-have made considerable progress in 200 Davis St. DBNVBB. COLO. the field. But you couldn't prove 'it by.us. We've never been San Franoisco MA 6-5681 accused of having an artistic sense.
P rompt, Courteous SeTvlce Reservations. Tickets Toyo Printing Co. F UK U I MORTUARY Offset - Letterpress MIY AKO TRAVE_L SERVICE Llnotyplnc- -SINCE 1918- NEW LOCATIO!':: 105 WELLER ST. 325 E. 1st St., Los Anceles 12 707 Turner St., Los Angeles MA 6-5825 Los Angeles J2, CallI., Phone MU 813. ~1A6-8)53 4-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, Aug. 3, 1956 NAT'L DIRECTOR'S REPORT: by Masao Satow .... . '1000' Enthu$iasm runs high CLUB San Francisco • Upon the basis of enthusiasm shown to date for the National Convention, our NOTES 14th Biennial promises to be tops in at• tendance and spirit. We cannot recall any pre\' ious pre-convention rally where SAN FRANCISCO. - Ninety-seven Conv ntion feeling was so high as the renewals and new -memberships Pacific Southwest District Council gather_ were reported for the last half of ing l
5-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, Aug. 3, 1956 Sonoma ( ounty CLers to take over swim pool ceDe pre -confab perspec"tiIv-eIy SANTA ROSA. - The spacious and heated swimming pooL located in rally this Saturday YO"U."-S, the Ives Memorial Park in Sebas• FRESNO. - Central California topol will be the scene of the Sono• District Council will hold its pre• ma County JACL swimfest Aug. 11, convention raUy in conjunction [l'om 7 to 10 p.m., according to with the summer quarterly seesion Tom Shifnazu, gen~ral chairman this Saturday at the Fresno Desert by Je?7Y EnQmoto for the affair. The pool has be€'n Inn, it was announced by Jin Ishi• secUl'ed for exclusive use of JACL• kawa, district chairman. ers. The dinner will begin at 7 p.m .. A weenie bake wil1 follow at the with Sharon Nishimi of Sacramen• San Francisco pits adjoining the pool. Ed Ohki, to, who was recently crowned Miss • A concrete reminder that Challging Perspectivps looms ever chapter president. announced that National JACL of 1956, in attend• nearer arrived by insured mail in the shape of a small box all JACL members and their fam• ance extending the convention's ot• just the other day. The box in question was mailed from De• ilies are invited to attend. There ficial welcome. troit, and was chock fuil of no elty key chains provided will be no charge for the evening's Dr. Robert Yabuno, in charge of 1hrough the courtesy of the Argus Camera Co. These will be fun, the entire expenses to be de• reservations, said the dinner will distributed to Conventio!1 delegates, and the man to whom frayed by the local chapter. cost $3 per plate. - we owe thanks for this nice little touch, is Dr. Joseph Sasaki, Shimazu has requested all mem• of the Detroit Chapter. Such a gesture, coming as it does from bers to reply immediately as to the Coachella Valley CL many miles away, is both a great morale booster to the Con• number of persons attending in Lily Okura of Omaha was elect• vention Board, and a reflection of the widespread enthusiasm order that necessary amount 01 ed northwestern vice-president of in post-harvest outing building up for the 14th Biennial. food can be purchased. the National Secretaries Associ• ation CInternationall at its 11th INDIO. - The Coachella Valley national convention J uly 18-21 at JACL held its post-harvest outing SMOGLAN D HOSPITALITY • at Idylwild in t h e San Jacinto .. Memories remain fresh in that prexy Roy Iketani and mem_ Gilroy CL shows movie Detroit. She's active in a number of civic groups and JACL. m ountains recently. Highlights of bers of the biggest (unofficially) JACL Chapter in the USA, for Prop. 13 campaign the day were tae volleyball and ) eally rolled out the red carpet for our delegation of north• ~ softball contests after the weiner e-ners who recently took in the PSWDC pre-convention rally. GILROY. Gilroy JACL sponsor• GARDENA VAllEY READY bake. Mrs. George Shibata was in On the eve of our arrival, the enterprising Southwesters ed a benefit movie last Friday at charge of the bake. threw a real shindig, at which food, drink, and fun were avail• the Community Hall to raise fu nds FOR MEMBERSHIP PUSH for the campaign to erase the Alien able in abundan'ce. The locale was the oome of Haruo Fu• GARDENA. A member ship Wri~ Directly to Sheraton-Palace Land law off the statote book. jisawas-a man of many t;,lents who, we were informed de'• drive has been launched by the Hotel for Convention Reservations Committees working for the fund signed his own patio, den, and hi_fi set, has a bright red ;peed Gardena Valley J ACL following a raising drive for Proposition 13 on cabinet meeting held at the home boat setting in his garage, water skis, and beats a mean pair the ballot in November were: ('f drums in a combo. of its president, Dr. J ohn Y. Koya• Stamp ColleCtors Of Setting up the hall-Noby Iwa• ma, here Tuesday. Dorothy Do• Dr. Tak Shishino, an old buddy from UC days, and cur• .. J4.PA.N - KOREA rent prexy of the Venice-Culver Chapter, was there witfl side• naga, chairman, Jack Nakano, Joe hi, vice-president in charge, will Obata and Tak Shiba; getting the a~siste d CHINA - ISRAEL kick Steve Nakaji. Among the crowd were Dr. Roy Nishikawa be by cabinet members mOvie-Moose Kunimura; recep• and committee. Want Lists Filled - Approvals national treasurer, and past National Convention Chairman~ tion-Shig Yamane, chairman, Ka• (References Requested) Dr. Toru Iura, nattily attired in a maroon plaid jacket and The first general meeting has iso Nakashlki, Hiromi Nagareda, We h ave one of the best cutting a mean rug like allY active teenager; Herb Maruyama, been scheduled for Aug. 24 at the stock s in th e U .S. and Manabi Hirasaki; purchasing ARTHUR KORZTN owner of Nisei Trading; Pomeroy Ajima, Tom Shimasaki, Gardena Valley J apanese Com • refreshments - Robert Kishimura, munity Center at 8 p.m . National American Eastern Stamp Co. George Fujita, Toku Fujita, Joe Yasaki, Jim Yamamoto, Ruby chairman, George Soda, Ben Ya• 2516 Linden, Baltimore 17, Md. Okubo, Hiroko Kawanami, Dr. Sadao Hano, debonair Tats J ACL President George Inagaki mane and Yuk Oga wa; serving re• will be the guest speaker. A social Kushida and his gal Friday, Blanch~, anq Roy Sugimoto. freshments-Grace Taoka, chair• program and refreshments follo w~ Our memory being what it is, the names of the other fun man, Ida Ue -i, Setsuko Kuwaba• lovers escape us, and for that we apologize most heartily. Attending the cab in ~t m eeting KADO'S ra, Peggy Teramoto and Kimiko Ken Nakaoka, Dorothy Dohi, Sally - Okawa; clean up--Jim Yamane. Complete Line of Ot1eDtal Foo
16TH ANNUAL NISEI WEEK, FE$TIVAL SPORTS FORMAL * RA Y ANTHON Y'S ORCH ESTRA * $5.00 Per Couple SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1956 * 8 P.M. * HOllYWOOD PALLADIUM sponsored by the Commodore Perry Post No. 525, the American Legion
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a- PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, Aug. 3, 1956 ~ WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER: by Mike Masaoka Calif. governor extends welcome to JACL & 84th Congress W ashington nalio .al convention L ast F riday nigh t, the 84th Congress , SAN FRANCISCO. - Among the adjourned sine die until next J an. 3. Con• messages received from high rank• sidering that tills Second Session was ing officials to JACL's l ..h Bien• preparatory to a presidential and con• nial National Convention is that of gressional campaign this November, it Gov. Goodwin J . Knight of Cali• was a moderate and relatively nonparti• fornia. San one. In 1954, the State's Chief Elrec• Il was one in which the P resident re• utive presented the main address ceived aprroxialemly 75 per cent of the legislation he asked to the organization's 13th National for, though much of 1t was tailored by the Democrats to suit Biennial in Los Angeles. themselves. It was not a "Do Nothing" Congress, but it was In extending greetings to the a Congress in which Rep1.l blicans can blame the Democrats, members of the Japanese ' Ameri• a s the controlling party, for not enacting such m ajor bills as can Citizens League, the Governor civil rights, public school construction , immigration. postal rate said: increase, and Hawaiian statehood. It is also on e in which the "The emphasis which your or• Democra ts ca n claim th'lt in many instances they supported ganization has placed on sound, tue President better than did members of his oWl') par ty and positive, instructive citizenship has been a significant factor in the tre• argue as to whether th ::!y or the GOP were responsible for I the legislation that was not completed.. mendous gr.Qwth which we have enjoyed in California during the From the viewpoint of JACL, considering that Its major past generation. The achievements legislative objectives "Je re achil:!ved several years ago, the of Americans of Japanese ancestry 84th was a rela tively productive one. Of the 12 point pro• have done more than volumes of gram listed at the beginning of this Congress, seven were propaganda to demonstrate that E'nacteq before adjournment. With the exception of appropri• Americanism is not a monopoly of ations, which were approved in both 1955 and 1956, all of any race or faith. In time of war the statutes were enacted in the Second Session. and in time of peace, the patriotic service of thousands of Japanese Bills enacted into law ... Americans has earned for them 1. Evacu.ation CLaims Amendment. T his a mendment ·to the respect and affection of all expedite the final determination of the remaining evacuation their fellow citizens." claims was signed into law by the P resident -early last month. It authorizes 'the Attorney General to compromise and settle all claims up to $100,000, with the larger claimants and those JACl CONVENTION GOLF dissatisfied with the Attorney G eneral's offer empowered to TROPHY DONORS TOLD appeal to the Court of Claims for a judicial review of their claims. In addition, wes~ . coast internees, corporate claims, SAN FRANCISCO. - Three beau• and timely postmarked bu t la te received claims were qua li_ tiful trophies have been donated Miss National JACL of 1956, 3haron Nishimi, 20, of Sacramento, for the JACL National Convention fied as eligible claims. r elaxed with nearly 1,000 delegates and boosters at the PSWDC Golf Tournament, according to 2. Mongol.ian Labor Bar . Approved in May, this la w re• pre-convention rally last Sunday at Hollywood Riviera Club in tournament chairman Yone Sate• peals the prohibition against the use of "Mongolian" labor on Redondo Beach. She extended her official invitation to the 14th da. Donors are Yamato Sukiyaki f ederal r eclamation projects. Enacted in 1902. it was the last biennial national convention in San Francisco Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at and Tokyo Sukiyaki restaurants of discriminatory act on the federal books directed agaipst Asi• the dance climaxing the day. San Francisco, and Western Pi<>• Cl tiCS by name. -Toyo Miyatake Photo for Rafu S':timpo. neer Insurance Company of Oak• 3. Hawaiian Property Cta i~. Approved in June, this 'leg• land.. The trophies will be present• islation authorizes the return of property conveyed during ed at the Convention Outing on World War II by organizations of persons of Japanese ances• Sunday, Sept. 2. try to th~ Territorial and other governments of Ha waii to Noted S.F. store- breaks precedent With a maximum handicap set e leemosynary Qrganizaticns of persons of Japanese a ncestry of 27 and four flights, and with so