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Vol. 49 No. 'S Los Angeles, Calif_ Published Every Week - lOe
Friday, Oct. 9,..J959
COLUMN LEFT:
Rewards of living
in a small town
San Francisco JACLers Decorate Top Prize Winner FIRST MASAOKA
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER I ADDS $100 TO ANNUAL MEMORIAL AWAR
Japanese community entry "Nisei Salutes S.F. Youths" took first
prize for floats in the San Francisco Pacific Festival youth
parade. Two girls standing are Alice Teranishi (under the toriil
and Linda Yatabe, Miss 1960 JACL. JACLers decorated the float
designed by Prof. Chiura Obata of Univ. of California.-Courtesy:
Nichibei Times
The penalty society
pays for bigness - for
booming, shifting popu-
lations and changing liv·
in g patterns - was pin-
pointed by Dr. Douglas
Brown of Princeton Uni-
ve rsity, when he recently
said that "there are no
longer true communities"
jn our cities. He feels we
are depending more and
m ore "on the profession·
al good neighbor (public
'welfare) taking the place
of the natural good neigh· ·b o r .·' . Natural neighbor·
liness is vanishing be·
cause of the drifting
urban population, he add-
JAPAN RELIEF ed Whether he meant to WEST LA. AUX'Y ~ I g:~~'
c~;~ ~:ro~h: ~~~~ SE'EKS CLOTHING CAMPAIGN OPENi town. The small
towner FOR lERA' .VICTIMS IN SOUTHLAND m ay feel pr0gress is pass-
I ing him by, but he has Old clothing will be collected by
Cancelling its plan for its forth-the great reward of "be. West Los
Angeles JACL Auxiliary comin,g golden jubilee banquet in
for the victims of Typhoon Vera November, the Japan America
So-lo nging," 0 f knowing this coming week, according to I ciety of
Los Angeles instead is th at the whole commun. Mrs. George Kanegai,
pro j e c t gearing its efforts to raise funds
chairman, who said the 'drive has for the victims of Typhoon
Vera, liy is his neighborhood- gained community-wide support. which
deluged the industrial city a mutual aid society bas. The vacated
premises of Baer's of Nagoya last Sept. 27. . Dept. Store, on the
southwest Over a million people were made
ed on friendship and as· corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and
homeless and the latest Japanese sociation. Corinth Ave ., will be
open from count of dead and missing was
W 9 a .m. to 2 p.m.. Oct. 12-16, to over the 5,000 mark . e ca~
see a parallel in receive contributions. Telepholle, Nago:>:a
was. recently affiliated
the Japanese community water and electricity lines are as a
sister city of Los Angeles
:l S h C· . being reopened without charge by and Mayor Poulson
here last week
o out ern aliforrua - the utility companies. City firemen had
suggested some civic organi-a problem that was indio! off duty will
pack and crate the , zation establish. a relief \",:ork . pro-cated
in "B · th B d" I clothing. Lumber for crating is gram .. The. City
CounCil m. a
y e oar being donated . Business, service resolution mtroduced
by Council· last week by PSWDC and church groups have volun- man.Ed
Roybal aoproved to send ch airman Kango Kunit. teered to assist. a
letter ?f condolence . to Nagoya , " With community papers support.
Mayor KI~en KobayashI. .
su gu. ConservatIve est!· ing the project, the prospect 01
International s port s lummary m ates place the Japanese sending
15.000 pounds seems like. Fe redd I.'. Wada starte? the .ltoh
ca1
ly Mrs Kg' gr d un -ralsmg cam p a I g n WI a population in Los
Ange. ' . a~e aJ a ee: $1,000 contribution. G eo r geL.
1 t 50 000 . . Transoortation of the gift cloth- Eastman
president of the Society
es a , - hvmg in~ to Nagoya is also being con· followed 'with
S500. Other individ~
SAN FRANCISCO. - A check of $300 (instead of $200) will be
pre-sented this weekend to Thomas Tadano of Glendale, Ariz., the
1959 Pvt. Ben Frank Masaoka memorial scholarship winner, it was
revealed by National JACL Director Masao Satow.
The presentation will be made by Fred Takata, So. Calif. JACL
regional director. at a special meeting with the Arizona J ACL.
The added $100 to the scholar· ship comes from Dr. James Mi·
mura of Royal Oak, Mich., who was co-recipient of the first
Pvt.
at Marquette University School of Medicine. .
Dr. Mimma is a sociated 'with Dr. Dieter Wendling. practicing in
oto-rhino, laryngology and bt'on-choesophagology .
CONTRIBUTIONS TG JACL BOY SCOUT PROJECT AT $225
Ben Frank Masaoka memorial (J ACL News Service I scholarship in
1946. SAN FRANCISCO. - A total of
An active member of the Detroit $225 has been qeceived for '.he
JACL, Dr. Mimura has indicated National JACL fund toward ron-he
wishes to make this an annual soring a Boy Scout from Japan
donation. In his letter expressing to tj)e 50th Anniver ' ary
JamOoree his desire to contribute to the of the Boy Scouts of
America. it memorial scholarship, he wrote. was reported this week
bv Na-"feeling deeply honored and grate· tional J ACL headquarters.
. ful as a co-recipient of the first Previously acknowledged
....... 5150 PvC Ben Frank Masaoka Me· $2!>-Joe Kadowak.,
Cleveland. morial Scholarship and being a $15-Gresham-Trouldale
JACLL. ( . d f th M La . $lO-Samuel rshikawa. New Yrk: nen 0 e
asaoka mily.] Placer County J ACL; Dixie Hunt (in have wanted to
contribute to this memory of parents)' S"n Francisco. worthy
endeavor for s eve l' a I $ !>-French Camp JACL. years." 1
Current ~otal . .. .... .. ......... 5225
In 1946. the scholarship was SUJ}-I The partIcular Boy.Scout to
be plemented with a $50 donation sponsored by JACL WIll be chosen
from Genevieve Russell of Pasa· by the National Boy Scout Com-dena
and the total sum of S250 I miUee of Japan. J.R. Bader. Di-was
divided between two ex- rector of the InternatiOnal Rela-combat
medics of the 442nd: To- tionships Service of the Boy Scouts shiaki
Mimura attending the Univ. of America, has just returned of Chicago
and Harry Abe, student from Japan where he received
NISEI AWARDED $2,000-
POLIO SCHOLARSHIP NEW YORK. - Pamela M. Mo-rikawa of Long Beach,
student at the Univ. of California and ChHdren's Hospital in
occupa-tional tberap~. is among 21
assurance from the National Doy Scout Committee that a
delegation would be sent to the Jamboree.
Berkeley Nisei on cily commission
Californians who have won The BERKELEY. _ Hachiro Yuasa. Nat ion
a 1 Foundation's 1959 leading East Bay Nisei arChitect, Health
Scholarships. it was an- was nominated to a new nine-nOl1nced last
week by Basil member Berkeley City RecreatIOn O'Co,?nor, presid~nt
.of the Mal'Ch Commission last week by the of Dimes orgamzatlOn. .
Berkeley City Council.
The new hea~th scholarships Yuasa, past president of the are
a.warded natlOnaJl.y t9 out- East Bay chapter of the American
~tanding yo~ng Amen b~st or a rmy days. Iw the American Buddhist ,
th e um.ts Jo.med Japanese rescu,: unJts of the NIChlbcl Times.
money-maker.
If BCA publica tion at 1710 Octavia f1ymg In food and supplIes
to
a sense of "belong- St. isolated areas and bringing out at
inc" can be cultivated-in The Nichi Bei Times started a least .
2,000 victims a day from 1,h fund drive la!> t wepk lor Ise Bay
tvphOid-threatened areas.
e Southland, it may t.'phoon victim s and acknowledged . elwell
in the young gene- over a ., 1.000 at the end of the Chicago JACL
joins
Estimate 7,500 Japanese residents in San Francisco; '100 low'
says Nichibei
talion now growing up in firs t week. f f J To m eet the needs
of those ete or apon envoy I SAN FRANCISCO.-The San Fran· 5,525.
the new neighborhoods. who suffered in the recent ty·
CHTCAGO.-Consul General Takeo cisco Dept. of Public Health has The
Nichibei Timc.- believes both T he Little League phoons in Japan,
relie f goods a re Oza wa and his family were wel- . totals are
"too low".
. pr~- being shipped from the Seventh. corned by the local
Japanese com. estimated 7.500 ~r~ons of Japa- Also included in the
e. tima1.e for ?-:ams are a step In. thIS Day .Adventist ~ es tern
Relief De- munity at a dinner la "t Saturday I nese ancestry
residing here last 1958 were 32,000 Chine~e and 55,000 direction.
Through them. I pot m Watsonville. The churches at the North Park
Hotel Co- year. The population report was Negroes.
. . a re also conducting clothes drives sponsoring the dinner
for the new I contained in a recent bulletin, The bulletin
explained that th~se I.he p arents WIll mmglejin this area with the
cooperation Japanese consul here were the l which showed Japanese
as 0.9 per estimates were made in recogn!-an d help boost commun.
of Friends Society. All types of IJACL. JASC, Japanese American I
cent of the estimated 688.000 resi- tion of special h"a1th problems
it S· -'t H H. clothing are being accepted except , Business Assn.
and the Chicago dents- in San FrancIsco. associated with . pecilic
racial
y pHI .- . women's shoes . Shimpo. ' The 1950 census had a total
of . groups.
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1-PACIFIC CITIZEN Friday, Octoller 9, 1959
orrlc1al ru.Ucaaoa: la..-. AJDencaa ClURa. r.-cu
PACIFI~I fK .tiL - Bu. Oretee: t51 B. 1st St .. Loe AD,., 1%,
Calif. - 1IMa-4t11
Nan JACL R~AdQu8pte",:.MBsao W. Sek/w, "'al'1 Director 16:14
Post St., Saa Francisco- IS, Calif. Will\. 1-6644
Mike M. Masaoka - Washtnlf1on' (D.C.) Repa&entOlU .. 919 -
18th- St., Washine'- 's. DOl
Except for Director's Report, opinions expressed b7 columnista
do not nec~rily reflut JACL polioy.
~acrlption Per Yr. (pgyab1e in advance.: $3.50 memb.; $4
non-memo
BARRY K. HONDA .... EdItor FRED TAKATA .... Bu.. Mer.
Official Notices (From National JACL Director Mas Satow)
tTo All JACL Chapters) _
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SMALL CARS-We're quite aware of the growing popularity of
imported small automobiles on our stl:eets and freeways. lA, the..
coming" weeks, the Big Three of America'·s auto industry are
introducing their compa.ct models ... A nLimber, of reasons bilve
been presented to explain the sudden boost in sa'les of small cars:
gasoline mile~ge, parking ease, need of a second cae in a l1egion
such as Los Angeles-which sadly lacks rapid transist system to
transport people to and from work.
Tli~ small car phenomenon is strongly suggested by reason of
·gas economy. When you cOmpare your present - car gets 13 to 15
miles per gallon of gas, the motorist who gets 25 to · 35 miles is
saving a sizeable sum over a year's time ... And. people are
getting allergic to the high price of gasoline.
President Eisenhower wanted to finance'the interstate high-way
program by tacking on another Ilh cents per gallon tax. But
Congress dickered for a pen~-pushing the average state and federal
taxes on gasoline; over the 10 cent- mark ... Obviously, the man
who drives a small car escapes a large part of this tax burden-a
satisfaction that only a taxpayer understands. We wonder whether
legislators have pushed gas taxes beyond the law of diminishing,
returns?· The popularity of small cars suggests so.
LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT-Reactions to advertising ad-dressed to the
Pacific Citizen usuaUy mean income to the coffers. It's either an
order for an "ad" or a payment ... But this past week, a Ieaction
reaching our desk might be labeled as "income" of another specie.
An old friend, Paul Eiusu
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3-PACIFRC CITIZI:N Friday, Odobe, 9, 1959 t
;J= ...... 'the
~~ing·P ...
By Bill HosoK(lwa
Denver, Colo. THE RElI URN OF T. JOHN-It was characteristic
of T. John Fujii that he should fly into town at 1:10 a.m. Re
never was one to do things the ordinary way. Fujii is not a
conventional person. He is a personality- ebul-lient, lusty, loving
all the sensa.tions of life-one of a bandful of rugged, ragged and
likable individualists who grew up in the Nisei world during the
hungry De-pression era.
The years had changed Fujii but little. Slightly rotund, he
waJked with a strut as he left the airliner, almost like an unkempt
Oriental potentate leaving his private ~ plane, not just another
guy coming in on a coach flight. He wore the same dark framed
glasses and small mustache. His bat was perched far back on a shock
of bail' just beginning to recede.
The accident of birth made Fujii a Japanese. His father, a
Methodist minister, brought John to t-he United States as a small
child and he was indistinguishable from other Nisei except in the
eyes of the law. The law was implaoable. ·T. John Fujii was an
alien and the law at that time said he could never become an
American.
. Perhaps that was one of the big reasons he did not hesitate to
qujt New York, which he loved, for 'a news-paper job in Sjngapore
in 1939. .
The war caught Fujii there. If his heart was still American,
Fujii had no choice then but to accept the fact that he was legally
a Japanese citizen. The British Shipped him to a concentration camp
in India, and even-tually he was sent to Japan in an exchange of
civilians.
STRAMGE ADVENTURES - The war - ,brought strange adventures to T.
John Fujii. Anxious to utilize
-bis knowledge of We English language, the Japanese . sent
Fujji. baclr to Southeast Asia-Singapore, Rangoon, Saigon. Fujii
has a. remarkable knack for landing, cat-like, on his feet in
adversity and misfortune. The knack saved him in Burma, saved him
in Malaya in adventures t-oo numerous to mention here, and landed
him broke and hungry in war-shattered Tokyo.
American news agencies were crying for men with bi-lingual
skills. Not only could Fujii speak both langu-ages well but he was
a trained, experienced, fast-working newspaperman. He got along
famously.
Last month, he returned to the United States on a brief trip. It
had been exactly 20 years since he had sailed from these shores in
search of fun, excitement and opportunity.
VIS iTOR'S VIEWPOINTS-Fujii's current mISSIOn took him from San
Francisco to New York and back. This was a route he had traveled
during the Depres-sion in a flivver. "Times haven't changed too
much," he quipped. "This time I'm bumililing my way around the
country by. airplane." I Fujii, a sl)rewd observer, had some·
pertinent com-ments about the Nisei with whom he is still allied by
an his na ~:ural instincts. Among other things, he found:
1. The Nisei have broadened their horizons im-mensely in 20
years. They are hemmed in no longer by the limitations of the Li'l
Tokyos. They are citizens of the world, and their interests are as
broad as the world, In short, they have reached maturity.
2. One of the few things Nisei have in common any more is their
ancestry and background. "Back in the old days," he says, Ilwe were
all poor together. Now some Nisei are rich, really rich, and some
are as poor as their parents were. There's the same wide variation
jn the so-cial circles in, which they move, .their recreational
in-terests, their jobs, their home lives."
3. But a surprising number of Nisei insist on self-segregation.
It js an astonishing thing to find so many Nisei have not taken
advantage of the opportunity to become integrated into American
life n~w that the bar-riers have disappeared. The self-segregated,
relatively speaking, haven't moved out of their tracks ·in 20
years.
I hope Johnny will come back again before an-other two decades
have slipped by, to tell amusing stories and show LIS the fun side
of things.
TYPHOON VERA- OAMM7ES KEEP FARM BUILDINGS
TOHYO. - The KiY06~i¢ · ational Exper-imental Pro j ~ t (KEEP)
in Yamanashi prefeCo' ture sustained damages 10taling some
Y.4.-million (about 511,111) from Typhoon Vera.
The big storm destroyed two cabins. a stable, garage and barn at
the agricultural training site on Mt, Yatsugatake.
It was also learned that the roofs were ripped off St.Luk~·s
Rural Hospital, a staff house and a wing of the Seisen Ryo lodge,
while the roof at St. Andrew's Church at the missionary project was
damaged.
Oregon aUy.-gen. appointed member of U. S. K,EEP group
SALEM, Ore. - Atj;prney General Robert Y. Thornton last week
acoepted appointment as a memo oer of the American Committee for
KEEP, Inc.
KEEP is. the Kiyosato Educa· tional Experiment Froject helping
marginal Japanese farmers make better use of their land, through an
agricultural education program , and working to establish
demo-:ratic ideals among the Japanese p~ple.
Dairy cattle from Oregon and pasture seed sent by the Oregon
Seed Improvement Assn_ have helped the KEEP project become one of
the most successful experi-ments in international good will,
·Thoriiton said.
" It is this type of program thai helps to contradict the
unfavorabl e impression given to people in many foreign countries
by the sort of situation portrayed in the recent bbok, 'The Ugly
Ameri· cap: " he said.
The attorney g en era I , who speaks Japanese as a result 01 his
training in U.S. Army intel-ligence schools, visited the KEEP
farms, schools and churches in Japan this summer.
Two goodwill ambassadors .from KEEP td the United States, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Ryo Natori, were guests of the Thorrrtons in Salem
last week. Natod, a former Kami-kaze pilot and now an assistant
director of KEEP in Japan , and his wife, an expert in rural
so-ciology and for mer Fulbrigh t scholar, are making. a three·
months cross-country vis i t to
~alL
SOUTHERN CA IFORNIA GROWIN6 The tremendous growth in the ly in
the cause of good lNmllll
number of people involved in com- relations. They bave "nome- to
the munity Human Relations Commit- defense of pelISOns who !'have
tees reflects a very healthy rise I moved into new communities. in
public interest in promoting sometimes at very great PM'IIODIil
harmonious intergroup relations, expense and energy. They ;.have
according to John A. Buggs, exe-j stood up to the bigots, and
lDI*le cutive secretary of the Los Angeles 'them back down. So far
as.e County Commission on Human Re- know, this type of widE9~I!.a
lations: community structure is peculiar to
The commission staff has re- the Los Angeles area. When you
cently completed a survey to com- add to these figures of the
people pare its community contacts five with whom we have been
work-years ago with its current ones. ing the many hundreds of
others Five years ago, its staff was I who have been working with
sucb workiJlg with six community hu- ifine private agencies as the
' Com· man relations committees. num· munity Relations Conference
81 bering fewer than a hundred per· Southern California and its 62
sons . I member agencies, you can see
Today it is actively working that there is really a tremendous
with 21- such committees, involving reservoir of good wUl that Is
being duriJIg the past year over a thou- tapped. True. there are
some sand persons, of all races. creeds, I people who are so far
gone that colors, and national heritage. I they can never be
reached, but
Active human relations com mit- there fare also many who are
tees can today be found in the I being reached. and who are doing
communities of A\tadena, Bassett, I an effective job." Burbank,
Crenshaw, Culver City, -El Monte, E~position, Long Beach, Rep.
Chester A. Bowles of Con-Monrovia, North Hollywood, North necticutt
will address the annual' Valley, Pacoima, Pomona, San I breakfast
meeting of the commis-Fernando, San Pedro, Southwest, sion Oct. 15,
8:30 a.m. at · the Tri-Parks, West Los Angeles, Whit-IStauer
Hilton. tier, and WHshire. The commission, a group ot 25
Bigots Challenged persons appointed by the board · "T h e s e
are not committees lof supervisors, is an official Body
which merely sit around and talk · of county government. Frank
F. vaguely of . brotherhood' ," Buggs . Churnan, nat ion a I JACL
legal commented. "Many of these people I counsel, is the lone Nisei
member. have become actively involved in It is charged with
promoting good various tension Situations, and intercultural and
interracial rela-have worked hard and aggressive- tions.
Issei produce worker of 49 ,ears relires,.slill wants 10 wOlk
parl-lim'e Namiichi Sen~aki, 'l~ has spent, "I'll have to take some
part-time
the last 49 years as a produce. work in another field because 1
man at Grand Central Market L"ll just can 't see sitting at home.
downtown Los Angeles. This past I have been working ever since week
he became the first person I cam~ to America in 1900," he of
Japanese ancestry to retire said, " and my wife and I wouldn't
under the Southern California Re- know wbat to do if I were around
tail Clerks Union · and Food Em- the house." ployers joint pension
tFust fund. Senzaki has three sons , two
Since Senzaki, has worked more daughters and fourteen
/!randchil-than the 30 years necessary for dren. He lives with his
wife, iV[rs. a full pension, he receives ·$100 Yasu Senzaki, at
2729 H,jrcoilrt a month, plus his regular Social Ave. His son,
Takashi, has fol-SecurIty benefits. lowed in his father's footsteps
and
There are now 3,500 .Japanese is a produce clerk in Von's Market
Americans in Southern California in Van Nuys. Another son is a
markets eligible under this plan, civil service 'engineer, and the
it was revealed by Art Takei, third a press man. board m ember of
Local 770.
friends of KEEP. . Senzakl was away from the K.T.
----------*----------NOTICES The KEEP project, financed b~ I
Produce Co. during the war years some 6,000 Americans and spon~
when persons of Japanese . ances-
sored in part by E pis cop a 1 try were evacuated. Senzakl spent
churches, is termed by its founder, the war years at .Rohwer, Ark.
Paul Rusch , as "practical Chris- Reoently . the . pension board.
of tianity'" at work in ' Japan. " Rusch trustees liberallzed the
regulatIOns asked Thornton to serve on the for Japanese clerks who
were American Committee for KEEP evacuat~d. The new rule extends
'which helps direct the project. the p~nod for these cle~ks to
re-
turn to work and still protect
----------*--------HELP WANTED-MALE
Learn trade whlle working. Mtt;t speak English. Please contact
San Gabriel Nursery, 632 S. San Gab-riel Blvd., San Gabriel, Calif.
Tel-ephone or write. AT 6-3782. Imazeki heads S. F. \.
Asian American -press club RENO_ - Howard. M. Imazeki, English
editor of the Hokubei Mainichi of Sa n Francisco , was eleoted
president of the Asian American Press Club here recent-ly. .
The group is oomposed of edi-tors and writers of the Japanese,
Chinese and Filipino vernacular press of San Francisco. The group
.was hosted by Harra.h's Club for its fifth a nnual election.
New Disney film Sessue Ha:vakawa is heading for
the British West Indies island of Tobago to play a role in a
forth-coming Walt Disney production of "Swiss Family Robinson" . He
will play a pirate captain.
One of the Largest Selecttona East: 2438 E. 1st St. AN 9-2117
Wesll: 2421 W. Jefferson BE 1-2121
JOHN TY SAITO Fredl Kajikawa Kathryn Tarutani Verna Deckard Emma
Ramos
Ed Ueno Philip Lyou
Tek Takasugt Salem Yagawa
Sho DoiwchJ
Fugetsu-Do Confectioner-ll
315 E. First St., Los An:-eles 12 MA 5-8595
their prewar credited service. Sen-zaki was the' first clerk to
receive credit for all of his years of service under this rule.
Senzaki, who was presented with his retirement check. says tha
t,
JACLers take active roles in Nisei Legion
CHICAGO. - At .the 11th annual installation of officers for
Chicago Nisei Post 1183 of American Legior\
. Btocks and Bonds OD
ALL EXCHANGES
Fred Funakoshi Report and Studies
Available on Request
held at Chicago Buddhist Church , ·WALSTON & COMPANY Sept.
26. Hiro Mayeda, Chicago Members New York JACL Board ' Chairman,
was in- Stoek Exchange stalled as sr. vice commander. 550 S. Spring
St., Los Angeles
Other JACLers installed were Res. Phone: AN 1-4422 Dr. Bill
Onoda , jr. vice command- _ er; William Okumura , finance of·
ficer,. who was recently elected to 1-----. ---------1960 Chicago
JACL Board; the Look for thIS brand I " Rev. George Ald, chaplain;
and for Japanese Noodles .... .iII Richard Hikawa, judge advocate.
.
Joe Sagami, JACL membership
I chairman, acted as master 01 ceremonies and is post asst.
ad-jutant. Hank Tanabe, a not h e I JACL Board member. was
ap-pointed as Child Welfare and Public Relations Officer.
George Oka is post commander. k Among notables in attendance Dan
'111 Sel-mell
were National JACL President. 01.. . Shig Wakamatsu; newly
elected MDC 1st vice-chairman Dr. Frank Sakamoto and Abe
Hagiwara.
When in Elko
Los Angeles
~----------- .. -Stop at the Friendly Stockmen's
CAfE - BAR - CASINO
Stockmen:s, Elko Hey
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4-PAChC IC CITIZEN Friday, October 9, 1959
ThfJlJSfloel
CllIb Notes By Bill Matsumoto
IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK-With the Yuletide spirit' laH
approaching, it is time again to check and see if all of our 1000
Clubbers are in good standing t6 be mentioned in the annual Pacific
Citizen Holiday Issue "honor roll". I hav been notified that the
deadlioe for names appearing in the "honor roll" is Dec. 1, 1959 .
. . I understand some of thl lOOOers were hurt because they rod not
receive the recogni-tIOn that tl)ey so well deserve. Hence, all
chapter 1000 Club e chairmen are urged to make sure that none of
their members are missed this year. The 1959 Honor Roll will
include those in good standing as of Dec. 1. To the lOooers whose
renewals ar due in the next few weeks are urged to settle that
matter as qvi ckly as possible.
(}:-IE OF THE FINEST-According to reports from the recent
EDC-;v1DC convention in New York, it was one of the finest
-conventions enjoyed by those who attended. Our l\ats go off to
chairman Akira Hayashi and his hard-working crew. I also learned
that the whing ding was really a whing ding and orchids go to Tom
Hayashi on toe swell job putting that over. It seems that the new
MDC chairman Joe Kadowaki is quite a showman. We on the west coast
are looking forward to see your new !lct, Joe. Let's make it a date
in June of next year.
WITH CAPPy HARADA~Had the pleasure of meeting and chaUing with
Cl.PPY Harada in Sacramento 'recently . . . As you all know, he is
president of the Japanese American Travel Bureau-and most of all-a
good 1000 Clubber (of Washington, D.C. JACL). He's assured us that
he will make the trip from Japan to be with us for the 16th
biennial national JACL con-vention here in June. If all works out,
he will be accompanied by his lovely wife-a radio and TV star in
Japan. Please m ake this all possible, Cappy, as it'll be a treat
for all the CODV ntioners.
SHOOTING FOR TWo-THOUSAND-The renewals for 1000 Club memberships
have been coming in rather well, but I think we all need a little
push if we are going to break through the goal of 2,000. I'd like
to hear from anyone having a li11. e difficulty. Maybe we can help
in our small way ... In tc: . king with Toko Fujii of Sacramento,
the chapter 1000 Club chairman, he has assured me that Sacramento
is gOOd for a t least 100 in 1960-which is most encouraging. We
have nine more months to go-so let's go-go-go for 2,000.
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• 5-PACIFIC CITIZEN Frid.y, Octo ... 9, 1959
POINTING
Southwestward BV Fred Takata
The World Series has fina lly come to an end for us in Los
Angeles an'i things will star t getting back to normaL The phone
will begin ringing a nd people will be coming in and o ut of the of
ike , which was just to the contrary earlier this week. Yes, Los
Angeles certainly became baseball crazy and fast becoming cne of
the leading sports capitals of the world. We were fortuna te to see
one of the World Series games t h rough courtesy of our buddy Joe
Komuro, who had a couple of those priceless ducats. Our firs t time
at a World Series game. it's leaI:y been a long time since we've
seen the old
, Coliseum packeri to capacity. As we glanced around we noticed
that almost every fifth sea t was occupied by a Nisei. It makes y
ou wonder about some of these people who kick about member-s hip
dues, but think nothing about spending seven bucks to watch a ba11
game. Now tba t it's over we can get our minds back on our
work.
FRIENDSIDP DAY CAl\tP-The Friendship Day Camp. a non-profit
community sponsored camp for youngsters, is plan-ning a benefit
show a t Moulin Rouge to raise funds for their
. c a mp. The show minus the dinner will be held on Monday, ,.
Oct. 19, with tickets going for $3.50 per person. Tickets are
available at the J ACL Regional Office or from
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tftlleriansm cOllapses, says (aliforniNo", lIissioner .',
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By JEAN K'MURA
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CHICAGO-What is so rare as a day in June and as
• scaife as hen's teeth ·than an runerican League base· ball r
ennant for our Chicago White Sox!? Well ... it's been 2 long, long
time but all things come to those who wah, :md though it was a
40·year wait, the excitement and f "ror of the World Series battle
was worth every bit ('1 it between Senor Lopez's warriots amI the
Ellay Dodgers. If we can barely concentrate on the/work at band, if
we agree with absolute~y everything you say, if State Street that
"Great Street" where they're supposed to Iezlly really do things
seem strangely quiescent, you can bet your bottom dollar that the
Ump just signaled the start of another segment of the series in
Comiskey Par),-,PLAY BALL!! It was all we could do to get out those
important contracts (never made so many mis· takes 5.ince "Typing
I" at Hyde Fark High).
Office manners and protocol were completely dis-pensed with, and
the usual musical strains to soothe the savage worker we hear from
9 to 5 through the court-esy of "Muzak" was quickly by-passed these
past few days in favor of the nerve-wJlacking, but nonetheless
thrilHng game of that great All-American pastime-baseball. Every
time we heard the announcer say, " ... Ba . , ck, ba .. ck, and
it's a Home Run!", we TORE out cf our chairs before he ever had a
chance to finish his fint ba .. ck to jam our ears to the P. A.
system ..
After completely devouring the Impressions of the World Series
by famed author Nelson Algren in our lo-cal vernacular so
dramatically opening Mth "There was an October 40 Octobers gone ..
. ," we ,sit here wonder-ing ,"here we even have the gall to
mention, much less put in print, our 2-cents worth in our (by
comparison) mundane and humdrum ma~mer, Bold as we are, how-
ever .. , Yesterday the bands were striking up "Slaughter
on 35'h Street" as the hitless-wonders utterly demolish-ed and
really made "Bums" out of thDse Ellay Dodgers (Go-Ge.Sox!!). Our
favorite headline blurted out "L. A. FALLS APART!!" The song for
the day, however, af-ter the conclusion of the .second 'game is
appropriately enough. "What a Difference a Day Makes!" as the Los
Angeles fans (also known as the Black Soxers) twirl down tile
streets to the tune of the "Dodger'S Fan
Dan frigerators, washing machines is ~Clrcus. to them a supreme
happiness, an 'S I Coqnteracting Materialism end in itself.
tatement I As for possible methods of pene-
(3) Lack of spIritual tradition: I trating the materialism
engulfing Japanese economic edifice has no Required by the Act of
Aug. 24, 1912, Japan today, Father Takahashi spiritual tradition,
Shintoism and as amended by the Acts of Mar, 3, 1933 -offers the
following:
th t h 1· tl ff and July 2, 1946 I M C th l' d ti 1 .
o er s.ec s. ave very It e ~ ecl (Title 39, ti:S. Code, Section
233) I . o:e a OIC e uca ona ~-on theIr l.l\~es. ~he? qu.estioned
Showing the Ownership, Manage- I stItutlOns on. all .levels from
pn-about a spIrItual life m thIS world ment and Circulation of the
. mary to university. they shrug their shoulders. PA(3lF1C CITIZEN
I Medical and social work, to
(4,) ~a~anese are cynic~l abo~t Published Weekly at Los Angeles,
Icoun.teract .the big lie about CO!ll-ChnstIamty as they see It
mam-I Calif, for Sept. 22 1959. mumsts ~emg the only group m-______
* ~ ____ ._ ' , terested ill poor.
1. The names and addresses of the Special trade schools
featuring
M th KOt h pub.lisher, editor, mana~ing edJtor and the manual
.and domestic' arts. for
a n e I C e n busmess manag~r are: , Pubhsher - young workmg men
and women. Japanese American C.ttzens League, . 258 E. 1st St., Los
Angeles 12, Calif.; ExtenSIve use of mass commu-
BY FRANK KAMlMURA --------- * ---------WUN TON (CRISPY)
lh lb. port chopped fine 3 Tbsp, water chestnuts lh tsp.
salt
WUll Ton Pattie 2 eggs H2 cup flour lh tsl'. salt Wun Ton
Pattie: Put flour and
salt in deep bowl. Break eggs into flour and mix, Work in as
much flour as eggs will take, If too dry, add 1 tsp. water or milk,
Smear top of table with cornstarch and roll out dough as thin as
possible using rolling pin. Cut patties 3 inch square . .
Hold a pattie in left hand with one corner toward you . Put %
tsp. of filling in center of pattie. Fold pattie diagonally so that
cen-ter pointing to comes to the cen-ter of square, Fold left hand
corner and then right corner to center, Center edges of both
cor-
I
ners may be put together with a drop of water. Press with
I thumb and fingers, , Cooking Process: Drop filled pat-ties in
very hot deep fat. Cook until golden brown on both sides , Remove
from pan and drain on absorbent paper.
SP ARE RIBS WITH PICKLED CUCUMBER
Ilh lb. spare ribs 2 tbsp. soyu 1 tbsp. brown sugar 1 tsp, salt
llh tbsp. cornstarch Ginge r juice 3 tbsp. vinegar 1 ~ cup water S
tbsp. 'brown sugar Add to the Chinese soyu lh tsp,
rea ·soyu· , , . Brown ribs in deep fat until
brown. Remove excess oil and add vinegar, sugar and water. Cover
Bnd simmer slowly until tender. Serve over pickled cucumber.
PICKLED CUCUMBER 1 lb. cucumber 3 tbs p. vinegar 3 tbsp. brown
sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. ginger, .crushed and chop-
ped fine Pare cucumbers leaving a few
small strips unpared. Cut in halves, · lengthwis~. Scrape out
pulp if seeds are old, Slice diagonally across, ' Mix j.n handful
of Hawai-ian salt and let stand for 10-15 minutes. Wash and drain.
Mix in vinegar, salt, sugar and ginger and let stand for an hour.
Dnain and serve.
• • • (By special arrangement with FranII
Karnimura. caterer speCializing in Da-waiian luaus, Cantonese
cuisine · and sukiyaki parties. 2927 Rodeo Rd., Loa Angeles, AX
2-1803I-Editor.)
Editor - Harry Honda. 258 E. 1st St .. nicalion media, such.as
radio pro-Los Angeles 12, .Calif.; General Mana- grams magazines
and newspapers gel' - Saburo Kido. 305 E. 2nd St,. Lo~' , , Angeles
12, Calif,; Business Managel and eventually teleVISion. -Fred
Takata, 258/E. 1st St .. Los An-geles 12, Calif, ORIENT TOURS,
INC.
DOP.,lesUc ,. Foreign ... ravel By Ab orlSea - La.
Vegas~Meldco-Ba.aU
ortent
Far East Travel Seme.
2. The owner is the Japanese Ameri-can Citizens League I ~
porporation~, headquarters. 1759 Sutter St., San Fran-cisco 15,
Calif,: national president, Shi-geo Wakamatsu. 6231 So. Ellis ~"e'
J Chicago 37. Illinois; 1st Vlce-Preslden!., Akiji Yoshimura. 120
Tenth St., cOlu-1 258 E. 1st St., Los Angeles sa Calif.; 2nd
Vice-President. Toru b Sakahara, 316 Maynard. Seattle, Wash- MA
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2-PACtFfC· CITIZEN Friday, October 9, 1959 --______ ..... _.~M
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... TomDlY ROOD Wills WeipWftin~ Crown at Warsaw
Tommy Kono of Hooolulu last week raised a total of 425 kilograms
t937 pounds) in three lifts to win his third world usiddleweigbt
weigbtlifting championship in Warsaw. The 29-year-
The jurist held that nuptial ban between races was uneons~
itution a1. The old law eventuaLly was wiped out when the Nevada
~OVeFnor repealed the 98-year old act.'
Senior class head SEA TTL E. - President f tfte 6enior class at
Seattle Pacific College this year is George Ko-moriya. who is
majoring in chem-istry. The son of Mr. ap'j Mr.S. Mitsuo Komoriya
of 1265 Main St.. he was graduated from Carfleld High in 1956.
Friendship Day camp' Stars from the entert3 :"1.me.t
world will help build the ?riend-ship Day Camp scholarshio fund
at a benefit Oct. 19. 9 j,).m. at Moulin Rouge. Reservati·)r.s at
53.50 may be made by calling NO 3·9801.
HAVE YOU Tt:RNED D.
YOUR PC RENEWAL'? -Otsuki. Craig (Florence Takemul'B)-boy David
Koo Seot. 5, Salinas. SAN lIIATEO
Hananouchi. Isaac (Lily Sonoda) boy Harry. Sept. 14.
SAN FRANCISCO Ito, Howard M.-Aug. 30.
. . !m~ e r;ar Gardens
.' Suit; uki~ Restaurant Kobara" Rev. Seiji (Kazuko Takemura)
-girl Rumi. Sept. 4.
Narasaki. George-boy, Sept. It. Takatsuno. Joseph-boy. Sept. 6.
Tp~ugawa, George-girl. Sept. 2. Yamamoto, Ray~.boy. Aug, 17.
OAKLAND & EASTB'I\ Y 'Doi, Kiyo-boy, Aug. 31, Berkeley.
PORTLAND, ORE. Kagawa, Henry-girl, Aug. 26.
ONTARIO, ORE. rchida. Tommy-boy. Sept. 12. Nyssa . Shigeta.
Shozo-girl. Sept. 14, Fruit-
land. SEATTLE
Akizuki. Jimmie-boy. Aug. 11. "'uku yama. Walter-girl. Sept. 13.
Hama. Raymond-boy. Aug. 31. Hamada. Toku-girl. Aug. H . Hamasaki
,Tomio-girl. Aug.. 11. Qirabayashi. Richard-boy, Sept. 17. Iwata,
Tom-girl. Aug. 9. Kyono. Noboru-girl, Sept. 13. ~orisaki, Leo-girl.
Sept. f>: 'Jakamichi. ¥oshio-boy. Aug. 30. 3egimoto. Arthur K
.-boy. Sept. ~ rerattishi. Spencer-boy. Sept. J. l'iatanabe. Toby T
.-boy. Sept. 6. Yaguchi, Makoto-girl, Sept. 13.
ENGAGEMENTS Kawamura-Kasuyama - Jean S . to
Henry S., both Los Angeles. Kawamura-Okuda - Barbara S.. Los
Angeles, to Harry S.. Altadena. Kishi-Naritomi - Nancy to
William,
both Los Angeles. Kosobayashi-Uchida-Mae to Robert.
both Pasadena . Oto-Tahara-Natsuye. Sacramento. to
Goro, Florin. 5aiki-Tsuno-Sumi to Ken. both Los
Angeles. Sasak,-Rol'i-Helen, San Francisco. (0
Lester , San Mateo. Shintani-Mivahara-Etsuko I. to Eu-
gene F., both Los Angel .. s. Takei-Miura-Irene, Santa Cruz
to
Neal, Lodi.
WEDDINGS Fujii-Kubota-AUg. 16. Juhn and Doris
both' Seattle. H .. 1.a:ihila-Thomason - Sept. 20. Isso
anq Yukiko. both Los Angeles. Hayashi· Iwamoto - Sept. 1:1.
Harold,
'BerkeleY': Kiyo Virgllna, Sacramento. Rorlkawa-Yoshikawa-Aug 2.
Edy H
and Nongiku. both Seattle. Imamoto-Ono-Aug. 22. Jim and
Pbyl-
lis A., both Gardena. Inadomi-Noda-Aug. 2!1, Minoru. Mon·
tebello; Tayeko. ""Test Los Angeles. ltano-Sh;mozono-Aug_ :so,
Dr. Sadao,
Pasadena; IDdeko. LOs Ang~les. Kumasaka->1a(,suoka - Sept. 6,
Henry
;md Janice. both Seattle . KWlI!\Iti-Ono--JuJy •• Tsutomu,
Fa-
pa'Js:o. Hawa~. Amy. SeatUe.
8225. · SuJl$et Blvd. - OL 6-1750 Welcome JACler$Your Host:
George Furuta, 1000.,
AJI·no~moTo
~-~ . And you will too, when you bring out
all their fresh, delicate flavor
by llsing this famous super sea OIung.
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. ' O-PACIFIC CITIZEN FricMy. October 9. 1959
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BY MIKE MASAOKA ~
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JACL and First Session Washington D.C.
REGARDLESS OF HOW one looks at it. as a nonpartisan independent
or as a partisan Democrat or Republican, JACL's legislative
objectives fared very well at the hands of th~ re--cntly adjourned
First Session of the 86th Congress,
Three major bills, two of which were more or less spon-s(JI ed
by the JACL, were enacted, together with a number of
minor bills and private legislation,
THE BILL EXTENDING Statehood to the long deserving T eIl'itory
of Hawaii was, of course, the major accomplishment in which the
JACL was happy to join with many other or-g anizations and
individuals. .
Washington's JACL representative testified before the House and
Sena te Interior and Insular Affairs Subcommittees on Ter-d1 0ries
a s the last or "wind-up" witness. JACL chapters were urged to
write their senators and congressmen, and to urge their friends
also to write , requesting support for the StatehooJ.
lUl::a sure. In the Senate debate which concluded congressional
action
'On this long delayed act of justice and equality, the
statements of Washington's JACL represenative were read on the
floor to indicate that Hawaii's Asian population was a significant
~eason for-and -not against-the grant of full Statehood for
this Pacific Crossroads. Two of the three who comprise the new
Aloha State's first
Domestic airlines require no : also walked through Harlem with
ability to speak foreign languages. ; the aim of mobilizing
Negroes, iII
The Pacific Airlines, which in- partic~l~r, to exert pressure on
ititated its service to Lake Tahoe, the aIrlines. Seattle. Santa
Barbara, Monterey I ~assersby were" ~iven _leaflels and other
short-stop points only which called upon t.i.e flymg pub-a week ago
has a Nisei stewardess lic to demand that ALL airJjnES on its
service staff-Jane Maeda I break the color barrier NOW. of
Honolulu. She speaks no Japa- TWA recently became the first nese.'
major airline to hire a Negro
Central Airlines. in far -away I ste~ardess. Mohawk, a sma~
feed-Texas, recently carried advertise- erlme. has h~red one
prevlOu~lY. ments in 10cllI papers seeking Only Negro pIlot.s aloft
are ~"mg "stewardesses of 0 r i e n tal de- for New york Airways. a
helicol> scent." tel' service, ~nd Seaboard and
Texas Firm Interested Western, a freight lme.
Desiring to know, -why, of all places, in Texas, they want
Ori-ental girls for stey.oardesses, The Hokubei Mainichi was
informed b.v
'!Members of our management
$10,000 added 10 JACL endowment Central Airlines that: I
staff have, from time to time, C.lACL News Service) ~ad occasion
to trave.l with air- SAN FRANCISCO. _ National lines ~ho employ
Oriental .st~~v-I JACL Director Ma- ao Satow an-ardesses. Fro~ that
asso.clatlOn nounced last week that contribu-w,e have been
Impressed With the I tions totaling SI0,365.54 had been girls
natural POIS~ and. charm received the past Quarter for the and th~
manner In whl~h .. s.he National JACL Endowment Filnd accomplished
her responSibIlIties \ r rom recipients of evacuation and the
courtesy she extended to claims awards. her passengers.
Consequently, we . . feel that this type of. individuals In makmg
publl~ ll;cknowledg-would be an asset to our own ment of these
contl'lb'!-tl,?ns, Satow organization and are very inter- ex~ressed
the .ap~reclatlon o~ th~
Ex-premier Yoshida to head centennial group from Japan
WASHINGTON. - Former Jana-nese premier Shigeru Yoshida probably
will come to the United States next May, heading a dele-gation
commemorating the 100th anniversary of formal U.S.-Japan relations,
Japanese Finance Min-ister Eisaku Sato said here last week.
national orgamzatlOn for thlS fI-nancial support.
ARIZONA: Tolleson-T. Comp Ku-ramoto $100.
CALIFORNIA: Atherton-Jlro H a ~'akawa Sn2.50; Mrs. Arthur T. Ito
~IOO. Mrs. }(jyo Kuromi S100: Los Angeles --T. Kataoka $5. Ayako
Nagahisa $20. Oakland-Mary Ikeda. Mrs. Kazu Jiji-ma, and Mrs. Nori
Lafferty $50; San Francisco-Yasuo W . Abiko S370. Mi-tsushige
Hosaka $65. Anonymous ~. San Mateo-Imiko Itayama $25; Sier-ra
Madre-Terumi and Kiyo Takasha-shi $75. . • ILLINOIS:
Chicag,>-Mrs. Kunlno
Hibino ~5. Mitsuru Imada :S300. MARYLAND: Sil\'er
Spring-5amuel
M. Takahashi $120. NE\V YORK; Deer ParI
