Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 30

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Council chainnan Sakae
Kawashiri,Shinichi Furuya,
council treasurer,and councilman Roy Uragami left
this morning for Salt Lake
City to attend the 6-day
All-Center Conference as
representatives of the Ama-
che Community Council.
Conference program will
deal primarily with problems and questions "brought
by -various delegates in
connection with the eventual-
closing of the relocation
centers. Some of the problems will deal with welfare, financial aid, protection, legal aid,, housing
and education.
National 7JRA Director
Dillon 3. l.Iyer and other
high VfRA officials will
attend the meeting, which
is expected to set some
far-reaching resettlement
policies.
Topaz (Utah) relocation
center will be the host
for the conference which
will be held on Feb. 16-22
inclusive.
"Vbl_.IIi_No.30_ Wednesday, Feb. 14,1945
Armache, Colo.
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SMUfSSIFS 5 POIAfFS
rrat closure
Enumerating five points why, in the best interest
of all concerned,the relocation centers must be closed
by Jan. 1, 1946, National ".TELA Director Dillon S. l.Iyer
delivered a stirring address before a capacity audience
of center residents in the high school auditorium Sunday night.
The Director said he
since becoming  the Y/ItA
there were so many ill-   r !—_
willed people.  However, more than since evacuation
he added, there are many nor has the public accept-
was
head
surprised to learn,
in June, 1942,  that
more people with good will,
who are slow in getting
started but once started
are "more tenacious and
intelligent" in following
their convictions.
Myer declared that never
in the history of this
country has the American
people got to know the
Japanese in , the. United
States and their problems
isei Gikjl Refused
ospiyjml admiy yance
CHICAGO— Toyoko Hura-
yama, 19-year-old nisei
girl evacuee from Gila
River (Ariz.) relocation,
center, last week was refused admittance to Chicago's Jackson Park hospital
as a patient, it was revealed,because of her race.
Four Amache selectees
will depart" this Saturday
morning for Army induction
in Denver, according to
the center internal security
office. Three former center residents are also
listed on the call.
Amacheans listed are Hi-,
chio Ivitahara, '8H-9S; Ma-
satoshi Sugihara, 12II-3D;
T o sh i yuki Yo siiimura, 8 K- 4C,
and William Etsuo Yamagu-
chi, 6F-2F.
Following are 'on the
outside: David Tsutomu Yo-
kozeki,Shigeru- Shitara and
Shizuo Seto Idorioka.
Local selectees -will.
leave from the police sta-.
tion'at 5:30 o'clock.
Her doctor,Selig A.Shevin,
resigned his post at the
hospital in protest,
.Dr. Shevin appealed.for
a reversal of the dec5 sion
at a staff meeting, but an
unanimous vote upheld the
action of Supt. L. Hr, Hilton. The physician then
submitted his resignation,
ending 17 years as a staff
doctor, stating the decision was "un-American, unpatriotic and inhuman."
The decision was made,
declared Niiton, because
he was afraid that "some
of our patients might object to such close bed
contact to a Japanese."
Dr. Shevin, although
not disclosing the nature
of her ailment,stated that
she does not require immediate hospitalization.
He had contacted other hos~-
pitals and had been promised a bed for the girl in
a few days*
"People have been nice
to mo since I came here,"
said the girl, who is a
domestic in a Chicago home,.
"This is the first trouble
I've had,"
ance of Japanese in America
been so good as at present,
all reports to the contrary.
And the time is ripe now
to go out and find a place
in the normal outside
stream of life. To be
sure, discrimination is
still ggpith us, it cannot
be wiped out completely,
he continued, adding that
it is not as bad as before.
LISTS FIVE POINTS
■ l.Iyer's five points for
stressing center closure
were:
1—There are still about
20,000 youngsters in centers who should ,tefe . 1 i v-
ing ..a normal outside life
as soon as possible. Center life, from now on,
will get worse as time goes
on.
2—Present manpower
shortage makes it easy to
get jobs and lay a firm
resettlement foundation.
After the war, the returning servicemen and vanishing wartime boom will create unemployment which
will make resettlement
difficult.
3—Vielfare agencies are
better able now to help indigent evacuees get started,
since they have very little
welfare p.roblems on their
hand s•
4--Plausible reasons
cannot be given Congress
for appropriations to keep
the centers operating too
long after the lifting of
the Vfest Coast exclusion
orders*.
5--A group (racists) is
striving assiduously to
keep the centers open so
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