•• •• • Holiday Issue story/ad deadline: Nov. 30 aCl lC Cl lZen November 21,1980 national publication of the Japanese American Citizens League .lSSN: 0030-1l579 / Whole No. 2, 11 -' Vol. 91 No. 16 2S¢ u.s. Postpaid/lS¢ per copy ! Demos in Hawaii prevail, bd. ofed new Strategy for coming year's HONOLULU-Attempts to unseat Hawaii's congressional dele­ comer Janie Nakamitsu finished within the top six for the at­ gation were quashed early in the Nov. -I elections as Sen Daniel large Oahu 5e<!ts. Hiroshi Yamashita, 55, incumbent, who recent­ redress hearings being aired Inouye, Reps. Cecil Heftel and Daniel Akaka, all Democrats, ly moved to Oahu had been a Neighbor Island representative SAN FRANCISCO-The full National JACL Conunittee on Re­ were returned by heavy margins. since 1965. Newcomer Sherwood Hara, -l3, of Waialua is director dress will meet this weekend, Nov. 21-23, at JACL Headquarters Inouye, who polled over 198,000 votes in the primary, had of the family court on Kauai. At 23, Randall Yoshida is the "to plan on strategy" for the coming public hearings of the almost a 80% majority in the finals. He is Hawaii's longest youngest board member, Phi Beta Kappa 1978 graduate from Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens, serving member, having been elected to the House upon State­ Univ. of Southern California and now a law student, selected it was annoW1Ced by John Tateisbi, chair. Expected to attend are: hood in 1959 and then to the Senate in 1962 Akaka was reelected from Leeward Oahu. Committee members: Chuck Kubokawa (No. CaL-W. Nev.-Pacific Dis­ with 104,147 (900/0) and Heftel with 89,-156 (79%). trict Council), Tom Shimasaki (Central CaL OC), Ron Wakabayashi (Paci­ Hawaii was one of the few states where President Carter • Nov. 4 Elections fic Southwest OC), John Tameno (Intermountain DC), George Ham prevailed with 110,502 (44.7%) over Ronald Reagan's 106,132 • IDcumbeot (Pacific Northwest OC), Minoru Yasui (Mountain Plains OC), Ross Ham­ (43%). Reagan barely carried populous Oahu while Carter had no (Midwest OC), George Sagakuchi (liaison to Southern region), Cherry 24lb--Kaoeobe-Ma (2) Tsutsumida (Eastern OC). Staff & consultants: Dr. Jim Tsujimura, na- big margins in the Neighbor Islands_ The independent Ander­ HAWAll USSENA1E Jimmy Kimo Wong (R) ..........7,3 i4 tionai president; J _D. Hokoyama, acting national director; Bill Yoshino, son-Lucey ticket polled 25,887 ( 10.5%). - Kaoru Marshallige (D) .......6,9..iO Midwest Regional Director; Washington JACL representative Ron K - Daniel K Inouye (D) . ... lill,9OIl 7Il · FaithEvans(R) ..............6 ,399 Ike]';"; and Kaz Oshiki,' Washington, D.C., administrative assistant to Some Democrat incumbents were defeated (l-Senate, Cooper Brown (R) ........ A3,68 I 19 3--House) in State Legislature races, but the margin remains in Bud Shasteen (Lib) .. ......8,407 3 ~ ~:~70~~ . ( . 1~ .~79 7 Rep~Robert Kasteruneier O;>-Wi). their favor: 17-8 in the Senate, 39-12 in the House. There were 10 SfA1E SENA1E (14) Leighton Kaonotu (R) ........... 1,9 12 The committee will also consider the redress issue in light of women winhing in the State Ho~the largest number ever ~ CounIy (2 seals) Z7tb-Kauai. Couoty (3) the new Reagan administration and CODgJ;eSSional changes. Ear- · Dante Carpenter (D) ... 14,1l77 · Richard Kawai<arru (D) .......9, 736 li e1ected-and two more in the State Senate. Richard Henderson (R) . .. .. 14,(}H · TonyTKunirnura(D) .........9,6!l9 er this month, Tateishi said ''the conservative mood of the Rep. Minoru Inaba CD-S. Kohala-8. Kona), the state's oldest Kats Yamada (D) .. ............ 13,029 · DermisR Yamada (D) .........9,629 country as evidenced by the elections and dramatic shift (in) office holder at age 76, lost a tough campaign' to Republican 2nd-Maui (4-yr term) roUNIY-WIDE Congress ... makes the educational ftmction of the redress · Mamoru Yamasaki (D) .... 10,081 Virginia Isbell an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant gover­ 2nd-Maui (2-yr term) HAWAIl-Mayor campaign all the more vital". Ikejiri, Oshiki and Tsutsumida's nor in 1978 who had challenged Inaba previously in 1974 and · Gerald K Machida (D) ........Il,7.H - Herbert ~atayostu (D) .......~ 1,603 • assessments will be expected to have considerable impact on the Abel J Ferreira St{R) .......... 11 ,774 trat T t . hi lained 1976_ Frank Molina (R) ... ...... .. .s,em County Council (9) s egy, a elS exp ~Wmdward 0abu(2) Wayne Nishiki finally gained a political seat, on the Maui · Maiy George (R) ............ 2.2,829 . Residenq reqwrements. for six of The campaign strategy will also determine JACL's basic role county council Two years ago he showed strong support as · R Kaniclu Ajifu (R) ......... 19,1l94 rune HaWaii County Counc~ seats, b~ in the coming year when the commission makes its swing across voters county-wide for all rune Council ' " candidate for lieutenant governor, siding with Honolulu Mayor Jack Morse (D) .... ... .........8.414 members. Because of no opposition for 4 the country to hear testImony on bow It was durmg World War II 4Ib-I.eeward Oabu-Nor1h ~ (2) Frank Fasi. Before that he lost to incumbent Maui Mayor Elmer • Patsy Kikue Young (D) ....... 29,023 seats, these were not on the ballot Con- in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066. The kind of testimony Cravalho for his seat. • Norman Mizuguchi (0) ....... 26,902 tested . ~ts were: and who might be expected to make the presentation are some of On the Big Island, incumbent mayor Herbert Matayoshi (0) 6tb-Manoa-Waikiki (2) Ra'u• Jan (1) Dahlberg (R) ............ 19, 10Il the questIons· f'acmg the JACL strategISts. ''t0 create public Clifford Uwaine (D) ........... 18,218 won his third term easily. On Kauai, incumbent Eduardo Malapit Ann Kobayashi (R) ......... .. 17,255 ThomasTTogudu(D) ......... 13,92 awareness of the Japanese American Evacuation experience CD), the first Filipino American mayor, was reelected to a se­ John Carroll (R) ............... 16,759 ~~ ~ii (0) ........... _. .D.99Il with the in~e~t ~dtfd~rstanding that what happened in 1942 cond term In Honolulu, Democrat Eileen Anderson, 52, became • Anson Chong (0) ............ 16,S·H Robert Reed (R) ................9,829 was wrong', a elS sat John Mills (Lib) . ..... ......... 1,990 its first woman mayor by a lopsided 70% margin She was HamaKua(l) Local JACL chapters are expected to share in the gigantic SfA1E HOUSE (51) budget director under Gov. George Ariyoshi for six years and 2nd-South HiIo (2) • Takashi Domingo (D) ....Unopposed program by raising the $240 000 budget to cover operations N ..s.KobaIa(l) taff 1, h ' ' . edia d . ' had upset three-term incumbent Frank Fasi (D) in the Septem­ Richard M Matsuura (D) ....... .5,~ • William Kawahara (D) ...Unopposed S .' trave eanngs preparatIons, m an comrmttee o~ ber primaries. · Herbert A Segawa (D) .. ......5.100 At-large (3) erations. Pillani Desha (R) .. ............ 2.,679 Helene Hale (D) ...............2 1,010 Board of FmK')lfjoo Joseph Sherrard (R) . ......... 1,002 Frank DeLuz ill (0) ........... 19,5.32 A younger, more diverse look emerged in the new 13-member 3rd-Nor1h HiJo..KobaI&-Hamakua (1) · Stephen K Yamashiro (D) ..... 18,897 Errata material distrt'buted State Board of Education-with 10 members from Oahu and - YoshitoTakamine ...... ... ...3,213 Bernard Akana (R) ............ 11,+19 4tb--S. KobaJa.S. Kooa (1) Tateishi added that JACL has distributed corrected copies of three from the Neighbor Islands. A field of 62 candidates ran Clarence Medeiros (R) ......... 10,477 Virginia Isbell (R) .. ...........3,886 MAlJl..-...Couoty Council (9) its statement before the Senat~ committee hearing on S1647 to - Minoru lnaba (D) . ......... ..3,676 non-partisan; three incumbents (Howard Takenaka, Marion Residency requirements for I of 9 some SOO on the list as having received the report which failed to Saunders and Hubert Minn) were ousted James Keefe (Lib) ....... .......354 Maui County Council seats but voters ~W-~(2) attribute descriptions of "camp life" were from Michi Weglyn's Meyer Uyeoka, 60, Wailuku attorney, served on the state island-wide vote for all 9 seats. - Anthony Takitani (D) ..... ....4, ISO At-large (2) book, ''Years of Infamy".JACL had apologized (Oct 10 PC) for , Herbert J Honda (D) ..... _.... J,827 board in the early 1960s when they served by appointment. The • Bob NakasOne (D) ........... I4,8Il9 "its oversight". Critics regarded the situation as ''plag:i.arism'' positions became elective in 1966. Noboru Yonamine, 45, a Steven Nicholas (R) ... .. ... ... 1,3'!> Chief Abe Nona (D) ........... t ~623 7tb-Aina HaiDa-Hawaii Kai (2) Dale M Johnson (R) ............ .6.9-JIl and an "insult" upon the author. church comnumity center executive director, was returned • Dorma R Ikeda (R) .. ......... .7,111 Maria Hustace (non-part) ...... A,I09Il In wake of the incident, the JACL has been pilloried by letters • Robert Dods (D) . ... .. .... ...S,78~ after a two-year absence and was board chairman in the 197478 Roi Royal (R) .................. ~i ll l appearing in the Pacific Citizen and other Japanese American term Incumbent Hatsuko Kawahara, 69, is a retired director of Daved Stegmaier (0) . ...... ...5,574 CeotraI.Maui (3) Beverly Endrizal (R) ........... 2.fJ87 Wayne K Nishilo (D) ........... 1.3.423 newspapers in recent weeks. special education for the state Dept. of Education, while new- 8Ih-Diamood ~Aioa Haioa (2) • Toshio Ansai (R) ............ 1~ J.> '9 Fred Rohifmg (R) ............ ..8,198 • Rick Medina (0) ............ " ,9-4 ~ Hawaii'mayor hit HUD rejects • BaroaraManunoto(R) ..... .. .7,610 Lee Uu (D) ................... 1 0,..iO~ George Mason (Lib) . .... .... 1.382 Muneo K Yamamoto (R) ........ .6,50 I Slim win at polls seen as by bias allegation EBIH loan request 9Ib--St I.ouis-MaunaIIm Hts. (2) Ron Barron (R) ................J, 66Il • Calvin K Y Say (0) .