Civil service retirement credit bill heard in Senate WASHINGTON- The U.S. Muts Furiya of the Com­ Senate last week (May 17) mittee for Internment Cred­ heard testimony on a bill, S it, who was accompanied by PACIFIC CITIZEN 244. to give credit service re­ his associate, Toshi Yoshida. tirement credit to federal both of San Francisco and in­ Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League employees for time spent in terim Washington JACL rep­ Japanese American intern­ resentative Harry Takagi al­ Vol. 86 No. 20 Friday. May 26, 1978 20e Postpaid U.S. 15 Cents ment camps during WW2. so testified in support of the '-=- S 224, introduced by Sen. bill. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaiil, is Both Furiya and Takagi SPECIAL ELECTION - CHICAGO 48TH WARD a counterpart of HR 9471. hoped the subcommittee . authored by Rep. Norman would report favorably to Mineta (D-calif.), and which the full Committee on Go - was passed by the House last ern mental Affairs and they Harano leads, now faces June 13 runoff Jan. 23 by a vote of 366-12 were encouraged by the fact Special to.The Pacific Citizen were refused. Volini was en­ The special election was Speaking on behalf of S that the Civil Service Com­ CmCAGO-Ross Masao dorsed by the Republican called to fill a vacancy after 244 before the Senate sulr mission has withdrawn its Harano, 35, finished in the Party. Harano led through­ Dennis Block (R) moved to committee on civil servie:e former objections. lead in a special 48th ward out the night as the tallies run for the mayor's office in and general services, Takagi afterwards said in­ election for alderman here were being made. suburban Glenview. chaired by Sen. Jim Sasser di vidual letters of support to May 16 with 45.91 of the Harano, a IIlst Chicago CD-Tenn.), were Sens. Ino­ members of the full commit­ votes cast and now faces The 48th Ward, which cov­ JACL president and Mid­ uye, Spark Matsunaga (D­ tee and to individual sena­ Marian Kennedy Volini in a ers the Uptown-Northside west District Cauncil gover­ Hawaii) and Rep. Mineta. An tors should be continued. June 13 run-off. She had district, has the largest con­ nor, is president of a graph­ interesting sidelight of Ino­ "This legislation hold. 43.61 Ck while the third candi­ centration of Asian Ameri­ ics art company and has uye's testimony was a sug­ special significance for me date Terry Brauer culled cans in the city of Chicago been president of the U~ gestion that his bill be for it would restore sorr.c:: 1O.48Ck of the total 10,509 with pockets of Irish Catho­ town Chicago Commission. amended by the subcommit­ measure of justice to fl<' c;e votes tallied. lics and Jews. The Midwest Married to the former ,. tee to eliminate the over age- Japanese Arr.ericans who A Fresno Assembly Cen­ JACL Office, Japanese busi­ Cheryl Endo of Washington., 18 eligibility requirement. suffered personal hU"1ilia­ ter-born Sansei, he secured ness and professional people D.C., the Harams have three The House bill would cred­ tion, severe financial lo ::= s. endorsement of the Demo­ and residents are clustered children, Michelle, 11, Mi­ it any federal worker con­ and emotional trauma at th~ . Ross M. Harano cratic Party after two others here. chael, 9, and Mark, 7. 0 tributing to the civil service hands of their own govern­ retirement system for time ment," Mineta said. spent after the age of 18 in Similar provisions have al­ BETWEEN U.S. AND CANADA ready been passed inte law the camps in the period Dec. 7, 1941, through Dec. 31., for contributors to the Social 1946. Security system. 0 Evacuation experiences compared The history of Japanese By CLIFFORD I. UYEDA What they were not pre­ towns. Canadians, "Images of the Census plans block data on (SPt:c1al to the Pacific Citizen) pared for was the magnitude Gordon Nakayama was a First 100 Years," was pre­ BELLINGHAM, Wash.-It and the harshness of the Christian minister, and the major Pacific/ Asian ·groups must be considered a bold treatment meted out to Japa­ only Nikkei allowed to keep sented by Canadian Sansei mOT,'e when the Western nese Canadians. a camera. He documented from Vancouver. Made in the summer of it is be- PALO ALTO, Calif.-Asian Manual D Plotkin. DIrector. Bu· Washington University here In 1941 there were 22,000, the exodus on fllms. Slocan 19n, . ing used in ethnic study Americans for Community reau of the Census. U.S. Dept. of in co-sponsorship with the or 950/( of all persons of City was an abandoned min­ Commerce. Washington. D.C. 20233, courses in British Columbia. Involvement (AACI), a San with copies to: National Archives and Rec­ Japanese ancestry in Cana­ ing town, surrounded by in­ Francisco Peninsula organi­ ords Service put together a da, living on the West Coast Slides and narrative ,copies Tani Awres, AsianlPacific Census credibly beautiful mountain will become available later zation, has announced its en­ Advisory Group for the 1980 Census, two-day conference on this near Vancouver, B.C. Al­ ranges. There was no need dorsement of the Census Bu­ c/o Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. subject: "Americans and Ca­ though Asians in Canada for guard towers or fences. this year from the Powell of Commerce. Street Revue, 425 Powell St., reau's plan to make 1980 • nadians of Japanese Ances­ could become naturalized ci­ Should one attempt to es­ data available on major Paci­ try: a Comparative Experi­ tizens, voting rights were cape, a person with a Japa­ Vancouver, B.C . In other action, the AACI An American detention fic/Asian ethnic groups. has registered complaints ence during World War II." Provincial matters. Japa­ nese face could not get far. The availability of such What was unveiled May 4-5 nese Canadians in British Armed guards were strate­ camp life was featured in an­ with Penny Paper Plate, other slide presentation, data would have made was a part of North Ameri­ p>lumbia were not allowed gically located at the per­ Inc. in Pennsylvania over "This was Minidoka," by AACI's recent attempt to can history so little known to to vote. iphery of the town. The 2,300 the use of the name "Takee Jack and Dorothy Yamagu­ assist mental health needs of the public, and even to most 'In the United States, as Ja­ children of school age and Outee" for a fast-food res­ chi. Asian/Pacific Islander com­ taurant chain. Asians. panese immigrants in­ two Nisei teachers started murutles easier, AACI Attempts to expel persons creased during the early One presentation centered AACI was infonned of the instructions without a school on the responses and views spokesperson Cheryl Fong of Japanese ance~try from years of this century, Gover­ building. use of the "offensive" and of the Christian churches in said in a letter to Manuel D. "racist" name by the Asian the West Coast of North nor Hiram Johnson of Cali­ Winter in interior Canada Plotkin, director of the Cen­ Seattle area during World American Council of Great­ America had been going on fornia proposed a 'constitu­ is long and harsh. Windows War II. Their IQyaity to fel­ sus Bureau. er Philadelphia. "We are out­ for half a century before tional amendment to re­ on shacks were only open­ move voting rights from low Christians in the Ja.,. "Our organization has raged at your indiscriminate World War II. Pearl Harbor ings without glasses. Many nese Empire was greater been and is currently in­ use of 'Takee Outee' and are was the opportunity, not the descendents of "aliens ineli­ had to endure the first win­ gible for citizenship." His at­ than their loyalty to fellow volved in the advocating and furthermore insulted by the reason, for the expulsion and ter in tents. Suffering was Americans who were non­ planning of social and hum­ obvious insensitivity you incarceration of Japanese tempts, fortwlately, failed. severe. Canada's plan for seizing Christian. The Christian an services delivery to Asian have displayed by choosing Americans and Canadians. Back on the West Coast ministers did not protest the and Pacific Islander Ameri­ Japanese Americans at­ fishing boats owned by Japa­ the Canadian government li­ to ignore the objections treatment of Buddhist and can people in Santa Clara tending the conference were nese Canadians was planned quidated all their property, raised by the Pennsylvania Shinto priests because to well aware of their own his­ in conjunction with the Unit­ both real and personal, with­ County," Fong continued. State Human Relations Com­ them good Americans meant ed States in May 1941. On out consulting the owners. "Census block data on the mission," AACI officials tory, and had some vague good Christian Americans. Nov. 10, 1941, United States Mter four years of deten­ diverse Asian and Pacific Is­ wrote. knowledge that Japanese The church itself did not dis­ and Canada agreed to co­ tion, the embittered and lander populations residing The restaurant also has Canadians were also forci- tinguish between citizens in Santa Clara County would outlets in New Orleans. 0 ~y removed from their ordinate policies concerning despaired Japanese Ca­ Japanese Americans and Ja­ and Japanese nationals. facilitate the effective plan­ homes and moved inland. nadians faced a second They looked upon every ning of these services." panese Canadians. forced migration in April 50 Years Japanese Canadians oper­ Japanese face as a foreigner, The 1980 data will be pro­ 1945. Refusal to resettle . it was reported. The Seattle ated 1,200 fishing boats in vided for Chinese, Japanese again, this time East of the Council of Churches even British Columbia.