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'Camp Harmony' Remembered Betty Hwang, 17, a Stu • ISSN: 0030-8579 Two Chinese sisters in death leap over dating dispute • J New York but doubled tmck. As a ~ Two Taiwan-born teen­ lice car entered the block, PACIFIC CITIZEN age daughters--apparent­ Betty stepped off, followed Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League ly in despair over their fa­ by Jean. They were p~ ther's insistence that they nounced DOA at Bellewe No. 2021-Vol. 87 Friday, December 1, 1978 25¢ u.s. Postpaid 15 Cents stop seeing non-Chinese Hospital. • boyfriends-fell Nov. 10 to their-death from the roof Neighbors in the heavily of their six-story midtown Hispanic block told New Manhattan cqmtment York Times reporter Ju­ Betty Hwang, 17, a stu­ dith Curnm~ that there • dent at Seward Park High was no tenSDn between 'Camp Harmony' remembered School, and her sister Jean, them and the Hwangs who 13, a junior high schooler, have lived on the block for Over 2000 experience the Evacuation in one-day demonstration for redress had been in an argument more than eight years. The with their father who had tragedy was described as reprimanded them for "an old story" of city-raised Puyallup, Wa ton, Ohio, wOO relived the military areas orzones." This was youngsters clashing with • the order, signed by Lt. Gen. J.L East West Players in Los breaking his rule against Upwards of 3,000 came 1942 trek to Puyallup with DeWitt, that three Nisei tested in Angeles, also read a diary dating non-Otinese boys parents struggling to pre­ by Army truck, buses and her mother, Mrs. Benko I­ court and lost. 'frey were Minoru of camp life-in Japanese, and ordered a'Puerto Rican serve old country ways. # caravan of cars here Nov. toi of Seattle, now 80, told Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi and belonging to aSan Diego Is­ boy friend of Betty's to Fred Korernatsu.) 25 to rename Western the Pacific Citizen that the sei. Born in Kobe, Mako leave the family's top-floor • Washington Fairgrounds Day of Remembrance was The program to remem­ came to the U.S. in the late apartment Guyana reveals "Camp Hannony" for one "a positive expression" and ber the 3% years of Japa­ '4Os. His wife,Momo Yashi­ The Hwang ctuldren Cult's references was "to the IX>int". She ex­ nese Americans in Ameri­ were celebrating a third sis­ day more. It was a day to ma, told the Pacific Citizen: ter's 16th birthday when New York remember and demon­ plained: "The buried anger ca's concentration camps began auspicbusly by rais­ "The power of the people their father came into the The Guyanese govern­ strate for redress. over Evacuation has been apartment, according to corruptive of the Nisei, but ing the flag over Camp poured through the experi­ ment publicizErl a list Nov. • Camp Harmony was one ence of re-living the Evacu­ witnesses, am ordered the 20 of prominent Ameri­ of the 1942 Army reception now our feelings are open Harmony by a detail com­ youth to leave Apparently and that's healthy. It's only prised by Nisei veterans. ation in this trip to Camp cans whose favorable com­ centers processing some Harmony. I'm glad I carne upset, Betty and Jean went ments on the Peoples Tem­ right to show our anger As program emcee, Dr. to the roof's edge, then re­ 110,000 Japanese Ameri­ here ~as a member of the ple and its leader Rev. Jim cans being interned be­ openly over the injustice." Min Masuda roted the fl~ sponded to pleas to leave Her book, "Nisei Daugh­ ceremony marks the "years postwar Sanseigeneration) Jones formed character cause of their race. references that attempted • ter" (1953) w~ one of the of hardship Japanese toexperiencethis ... we've ABC-TV s 20/20 News­ State panel backs to show why Guyana was first evacuee-written sto­ Americans endured to stumbled on to something magazine, local media cov­ sympathetic to the jungle ries about the Evacuation, make the US. home for bigger than expected. It's Redress campaign ered the entire proceed­ colony, which stunned the where she describes her their parents, themselves, hard to describe." ings, starting at noon at Se­ Olympia, Wa world by murdering five their children and all Nik­ Hirabayashi couldn't be­ attle's Sick Stadium park­ Seattle chilc::llnod (her fath­ The State Commission Americans, iocluding Rep. • kei generations to come." lieve how gripping the ex­ ing lot wherethoseassemb­ er owned a hotel on the on Asian American Affairs Leon Ryan (DCalif.), Nov. waterfront in what is now Masuda s~nt time in perience born of the clam­ led were registered, given voted unanimously to sup­ 18 and then committing Pioneer Square), Camp Harmony andMin,idoka be­ or for redress was and said: a buff-colorErl name tag. port the JaJ:BIlese Ameri­ mass suicide the next day. Each carne with a tote bag Harmony and Minidoka fore seeing combat with ''We're on the threshold of a can redress efforts, it was or satchel. Under clear skies and in the all-Nisei 442nd Regt. new era." The Nisei is not announced Nov. 13 by Di­ Former Rep. Patsy T. • (11lirty-six years ago, the Anny crisp weather, the symbol­ Combat Team in Europe. afraid any more to mani­ ane Yen-Mei Wong, execu­ Mink (D-Hawaii) was ordered all persrnsof Japanese an­ ic trek to Camp Harmony The professorof psychiatry fest their emotions about tive director. among those mted as well cestry-alien ani citizen--on the was paced by two 21/2-ton at the Univ. of Washington Evacuation that have long The group was also ac­ as First Lady RoSalynn west coast to assemble at a desig­ revealed: "I've always had Carter, Vice President nated point to be evacuated from Army trucks from the Na­ been held in private, he said. tively involved in the Day the excluded areaby noon of a cer­ tional Guard, followed by a sense of injustice that the Born and raised in Seattle, of Remembrance program Mondale, the late Sen. • tain day. Evacuees were told to three buses and a caravan country I lovehas !lever ac­ he had refused to be evacu- held Nov. 2S at Puyallup Hubert Humphrey and bring their own hOOding, toilet art­ knowledged ror given re­ HEW Sec. Joseph Califano. icles, extra clothing, eating uten­ of some 250 cars-which Continued on Next Page fairgrounds. # sils, plates, bowls. cups and essen­ was stretched some 4 miles dress for the bsses, shame tial personal eff6:tS; but no pets. down Interstate 5 toward and stigma of Evacuation. " Each item was tied and plainly the Puyallup fairgrounds. Shosuke S~, born in marked with the nameof the owner ~arnaguchi-ken, • and family n~r provided by State patrol and local police Japan, the Anny.) escorted the Japanese grew up in Fbmeroy, Wa. The highly visible name tag American families and their Hedescribedhis bus ride to and bag of personal effects non-Nikkei friends to the Harmony in 1942, reading (participants last week site of the wartime assem­ from his diary. Now retired • were bringing a blanket, bly center. here from his profession as pillow or cushion, ground­ (Any person subject to Exclusion statistician and securities cloth and romething to Orders who failed to romply by not analyst in New York, he ex­ leaving the exchxied area at the pects evacuees will win re­ share for the potluck din­ posted time was liable to criminal ner) added a truch of Evac­ penalties, provided by PL 77-503 dress because "I believe in uation realism that shook of Mar. 21,l942,ernitled "An Act to the average American's provide a penalty for violation of sense of justice and fair loose pent-up anger a gen­ restrictions or orders with respect eration old. to persons ente~, remaining in, play." Monica Sone, nowof Can- leaving, or rommiting any act in Mako, artistic director of IMMIGRATION RED TAPE Mom wins right to stay with son Seattle, Wa newspeopJe and readers after the story Perhaps itwas the front-page treatment broke on the front pages earlier this that untanglErl the government red tape month. this past week (Nm . 15) permitting Kazu­ The immigration office reversed their • ko Hendrichs a Japanese citizen married previous decisions and issued her a per­ to a missing American fisherman, to re­ manent registration card, crediting all the main with her in-laws, the Tim FarreUs of time spent in the U.S. (over five years). Seattle. "All she w~ asking was for a chance to She had been refused alien residency stay here and raise her American son­ status because she had no American blood now she's got it," said Laura Farrell, Hen­ • relative of legal age to sign for her alien drich's sister. registration card. Her husband, Bill Hen­ richs, was reIX>rted mis ing at sea and "She was frightened half to death," Ms. pre urned dead a year ago while they Farrell said. "First she lost her husband. were visiting her family in Okinawa. In then her resrlency, for all these months RoseVlle Press· Tnbune ~ the she d been in limbo. September, Farrens managed to get ISSEI PIONEER MEETS 23rd CENTURY SPACE SHIP CREW MEMBER - Charles Nrt­ S-year~ld "Now she can settle down, live with us, Mrs. Hendrichs and her son ta, 92 (left), listens to George Takei, member of the Star Trek cast now involved In a full-length Andy. who was bom in alifornia. back to maybe go back to school, concenU<lte on learning more English and tarting a new motion picture version during the Placer Courty JACl's Golden Anniversary and Goodwill the U.
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