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THE NEW CANADIAN
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SPOTTING

Organization tor

THE NEWS

Construction

Brewin and State Secretary
up of proper methods of

TORONTO. Ont.—n
if yo‘

m a ci t
out hern
iinn in the 1946 beet conLethbridge
the
i truly consisted ot
ix adult children and

two l

nese Canadians in Montreal
who are con ne cted with the
construction industry are
planning- to ior.m an organizanon to stuciv

connectea
Signs of the Times in Japan:

or
Mitsui
bulouslv wealthy house or

o
once

new
(-ontided to
; he wanted to become an
American citizen. The reason, he
torof hi
i he lo
stated
the
recent
liquidation
ot
t lie
hiui
left
tin Zaibatsu. which

wo

than ’1 ojo.
p oil
ginning in April, ballroom

will become a part, ot the
high school cii rriculum.
flaiicini

in

handled by relativ e
or communities.
this system
no longer possible, and govern­
ment is now giving direct relief
to J.oOu.ftOO Japanese.
Payment
for a family of five is 30 yen per
iki
month, which in inflated currency
is less than subsistence.
• Prince Takamatsu. 42-year-old
Hirohito.
of
Emperor
5£S brother
showed up recently in a taxi dance
3 a oil ti

hall

i A

Ginza

on

with

and
Occa ion

cabaret, queen.

a.

repatriates.
Etivi-i on the Japanese people was
benefit,

charity

for

as expected.


Reported

Times last week
of Tokyo who

were afraid

lest, they meet
■punts
who hold them
Ui> am rob them of their clothing
noir have a. new problem.
It. is
presented by the ’Kamikaze boys’
who do not want, to steal clothing,
but only to destroy the remnants
of Tokyo’s well-dressed
class.
Japanese women do not dare io
home

r K

York
the
“Simple citizens

.night.

at

ft? teiuure into such

spots

department stores
wearing luxury clothing, like fur
coats, lest the furs be slashed by
as trains

»&■

crowded

and

razor blades.”

Com nut tee

t olm

nibson

of this

ills

cu ini ion by

prob-

w 11 h

t he
not i in m ed ia t el y k now n.

their
al

Of Restrictions

announeed
however. by Mrs.

ronto.
M a c M 111 a n.

am

ot

Also Protest Keeping

committee.

ploymen t
cor respondent.

organization

Reconciliation Group

meet in

A large percentage ot evacuees
in Montreal have found employ­
ment in some phage of the con­
struction industry. Among them
are architects, carpenters, plumb­
ers. brick-layers, plasterers, stone
masons, electricians, cement, work­
ers. metal workers, painters, etc.

ing

To Saskatchewan's

Dr.

edited and revised the new edition
of Philip Frank s •Einstein—His

reports

conciliation sent a letter to the

Kusaka was born

Dr.

and came to Vancouver, B.C., as a
child. He received his education

at

school,

Bri­

High School and the

Uni­

Strathcona

tannia

public

toration of free

the

movement

right to acquire fishing licenses

etter

The

tn Japan

Minister urging

Prime

to Canadians of Japanese origin.

t nue

N ew

a

York Nisei publication.

reveal the
which t
number and extent of the claims,
is now being conducted by the
Japanese
Committee
for
Uemocracy.

ernment to “take immediate
io
el up a comm ission

QJ

••We feel that the government

had

or moral

legal

no

to

right

property

of per­

sons who had not been

proved

versity of British Columbia, where
the
Governor-General’s
he
won

dispose of the

medal.

guilty of any act of disloyalty,

the

to

moving

United

States, he was the center of a
controversy that raged abou t his
the
faculty
of
appointment to

College

in

Northampton,

Mass., in the fall of 1943.

lege

behind

stood

The col­

Kusaka's

ap­

pointment and the protest subsided

watt's Indians may be offered the
tight of a provincial vote soon, it
a loophole can he found in the
British North .America Act section
that states Indian affairs are
strictly a federal matter.

council of the Fellowship ot

w 11 h
Problems
establishment of the claims commission has been under study lor

has

31.

Kusaka.

Shuichi

5,

March

On

re-

the

Smith

1L000 Indians

as

ot

Piiniu urns.

their claims for compensa-

tion for losses suffered
suit of evacuation.

After

Vote May Be Offered

non

to
assistance
give
to
posed
Japanese Canadians in present­

evacuees to tind suitable employmem and that the periodic meet­
will be mutualiv beneficial.
meeting
organization
An
ome time nea r
planned tot
end of March. Eurther details are
Lo be published in the Montreal
Bui etui.

irotesting the

pro­

Committee

ioineu

has

anization

he

secretary,

Co-operative

Ont.

Hugh

to reason.
After working at the Advanced
Institute at Princeton as assistant
to Dr. Albert Einstein. Dr. Kusaka

was

accepted

an

for

service

States Army,

United

and

in

the

is

now

American citizen.

Premier T. C. Douglas. head of
the C’CE provincial government,
revealed last week that the possi­
bility of offering the right to vote
to the province's 11.000 Indians
was being studied.
They would
be the first Canadian redmeu io
lie offered such a blanket invita­

T O K Y O.—The fa m i 1 i a r "Maile
in Japan” label will no longer ap­
pear on Japanese export products.
To overcome sales resistance, t he
goods will be marked "Made in

tion.

Allied HQ announcement

Made in Japan' Out

O-tera Becomes
Movie House
STEVESTON. B.C.—The former
Japanese Buddhist hall in this
fishing villas
into a movie
a theatre

Thorne by the Richmond MuniThorne
cipal Council last week
said he would operate a n
pendent house in Steve ton
re mod el 1 i ng the old temp
He
comply with all regulations.
would
be
changed
i.id programs
vice a week. and as many per>n as attendance
torm a nee

that therefore

and

govern­

the

ment owes it to these people to
make

effort

every

recom­

to

pense them for the losses,” the

letter said.
VICTORIA.

B.C.— Removal

of

all

traces

of

tion

from

the

Columbia

was

urged

in

the

last

week

by

John

McInnis. CCF member for

Fort

Legislature

discrimina-

racial
laws

of

B

George.

W c w I I 1 be
"If we
i
In
11 ion,” he
mak ing
said in
i old the
past, capitalists had bciieiitied
because of discrimination against
Orientals in British Columbia.
4

America-Mura-Little Bit of America
Found in Southern Wakayama-Ken

1t

• Because of strict, regulations

against entry of children not regis-

teied as living in Tokyo into the

of Japan’s capital, an esti­
3 schools
mated

ai.i
’iO > school-aged children
S

the

are roaming in

¥
ft nowhere to

streets, with

An

increase in
juvenile delino.uency is feared by
go.

1 okyo uewspapers.

sS'
balls

ba i 1 s
quari

ba 11.-

ita ristic "kendo” sticks
!>'placed by 312,000 baseidler, tennis, and soccer
Japan’s school children,
g to a recent Allied headannouncement..
Basket olieybulis and footballs
supplied pending manu-

faci i-i._
- -

g

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| Vote for Indians
(B

Vl,-.-.-.........

A s m a. 11 mintI ber
• Indians will be offered
n ihe Legislature ’s Elec}
A,'r 'Ommitr.ee proposal that
i
am! East Indians be given
[
1'he qualiricat.ions are
I
di~ native Indians must have
I S**rv»m
i
|
'• •-■ th" armed forces or dos tier
„„ ..
i
.e—rvKtions or are not
| -■•Ltim-ms'-p. by Dominion law.
boui

VAN'COl’VER. B.C’. -Three hundred University ol B.C. st tident
who attended a meeting sponsored by the campus branch ot
spontaneous res
Liberties Union on March
live Indians in
ing that Japanese Canadians and

citizenship and voting rights, re­
ported the Vancouver Province.

The resolution asked the B.C.
Elections Act Special Committee
to recommend the franchise lot
Japanese Canadians since “nation a Is. of other former enemy
countries, have not
right to vote.”

Robin Andrews of the Student
Christian Move:) ?ni introduced
the resolution a
ctions Act Special Committee
recommend the I ram Rise tor

an interest in the preservation of
the liberties of Canadians of all
races "to counteract the dema­
gogues and charlatans who st.ii up
more hatred in hall an hour than
can be cured in half-a-dozen years."

t-

of

a

cited

an

ex­

Japanese

Canadian
permitted to join

the army here so went to Engown expense a
land at
joined the British Army,

He

decried

justice”

the ’ •monstrous

comtmi'ed

hv

plain they miss, American
and the children want to
eball team in

ship will be robbed of any pro­
found meaning if the rights and

privileges

of

such

citizenship

are denied to some on the basis

of

race

or color." the SCM

of­

srudents that

must

of

America-

ada,

and

has

returned

either

voluntarily or as a repatriate.

the stmienrs

know the law. and ba

rob
VOll i

judgment thereon.

will

us MiisuoM io-mnra- its Ameiiloquirin
som- s

subscription

become

e ff ecti ve

<

will

rates
the

months.

and S5 for c
rate has been re ta i n ed
convenience of those
to

their subscriptions

sendin

rency.)
Unexpired subscriptions will
be adjusted according to the

ti 11 it*-

th''

in­

$2.50

20

he

sons

form

an

rates
for

but. in th­

t in­

mean

N ew

Th«-

\Vp|)I

will

lish section and two pages in>

ing

told

This

larly.

etn i-

of

Canadian

the Japanese section.

A meri< a-miira.
ma ps
on
Japan

of subversive activities.

io

New

The

22).

crease of two pages in the Eng­

the

Dr.

rhe

on

either the United States or Can­

MIU.

tomorrow

He

(Please See “America-mura" P. 2)

appear as a 12-page issue regu-.

n-

"If abnormal legal ;.'roi-esscs <-an
be employe'! in the case of these
orisons, it could also be done

A
i

brought some- riches ol t he
world, as evidenced in the smartly

or at least one of his relaAmerica.
has
been

t-

ficial declared.

marrnient.

lighting Japan.

Beginning next week (March
resident

••Democratic Canadian citizen­

ior service win also
in

Sedgwick

Dr.

ample

Dr
■lyin'

TOKYO (Associated Press).-On the extreme southern tip of
Wakayama
Peninsula
is
the
Americanized
Japanese
fishing
America-mura.
villa
tin dr
fishermen shout
idents comorders in Englisl

Votes for B.C. Japanese Asked
By UBC Civil Liberties Union

tiiteleiis
with disirusr
t Inthe

new rates.

In no case will un­

expired subscriptions be short­
ened by more than one-fifth of
he

ota! unexpired period.

st

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WIN XI PEC

LOOKING UP

MARCH 15.

Chinese Canadians
Do you like Chinese?

Most of us will say No, whether

we are Niseis or the older genera­
tion. And then, most of us who
will say we do not, will be stuck
for good reasons for our dislike.

3

It’s easy to understand why we

Canada Needs a Bill of Rights
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A high regard for individual freedoms has been one of
the prized possessions of the British people. Canadians have
assumed that it was theirs too, by inheritance, but lecently
a serious doubt has been cast on that assumption. The
reason is that there have been violations of individual
freedoms in Canada which could hardly have taken place
in Britain.-These violations have been of two types—those which
took place under the federal government, and others which
Anti-Chinese
prejudice among
look place under the provincial governments.
Examples of the former have been widely publicized. the Japanese is so high that when
marries a person of
Thev are the questionable handling of the spy trials and a
Chinese
origin,
the whole com­
the wartime treatment of Japanese Canadians. Examples
of the latter, though less known, have been no less marked. munity used to ostracize the mis­
These, unlike the former, did not arise from wartime emer­ creant. Now, things are a little
gency’and for that reason may be regarded as more deeply better, but if you are contemplat­
ing inter-marriage, it’s going to
entrenched in local prejudice or race hatred.
be hard enough to buck paternal
British Columbia’s denial of franchise to Japanese and community opposition any­
Canadians and Quebec’s padlock law are examples of civil way, so pick an Occidental, friend,
rights violations in the provincial field. More recently, unless you want to do it the hard
there has been Quebec’s persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses, way.
and now Alberta (which has passed a bill of rights of sorts)
But why must this be so?
is reported to be considering the extension of a law which
prohibits Rutterites from acquiring land.
Walking into a local Nisei canThese violations, especially the more spectacular ones
teen the other day, there seemed
in the federal field, have resulted in a movement for the
to be a few youngsters present
establishment of a Canadian Bill of Rig'hts.
But it is important to realize that a Bill of Rights, to I’d never noticed before. So I
be worth anything, must not be a half-hearted measure. asked whether there had been
It is better, probably, to go back to our shaken dependence some newcomers in town from
.on British tradition than to establish a Bill of Rights which the B.C. ghost towns or from Al­
fails to deal with anomalies which we have mentioned. berta’s beets. Nope, says my in­
Obviously, the problem of establishing a Bill of Rights is formant, naturally a charming
not easy when it requires certain provinces to revise some young lass, those boys are Chinese
of its existing statutes. But the difficulties are multiplied boys who were invited to this
canteen.
when we consider the technical problems.
It was quite a surprise to me,
There are some informed people who believe that the
the
idea, I mean, but a veryfederal government may make laws on such fundamental
questions as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom pleasant one. And looking at
of assembly, etc., and enforce them in the individual prov­ them carefully, I did notice that
inces. This view comes into conflict with a clause in the 1 had seen one of the fellows
British North America Act which very clearly states that waiting on tables at a local chop
property and civil rights are matters for provincial juris­ suey house. But it was darned
hard to distinguish them comdiction.
The only way to get around that clause is to write the pletely; because 1 don’t know all
Bill of Rights into the BNA Act. Unfortunately, apart from the local fellows, and besides if
the difficulty of getting general consent to amend that basic you can give me someone who can
Act, no one seems to be certain just how the BNA Act can distinguish a Chinese from a
Japanese everytime, I'll scrape my
be amended.
One thing, however, is certain, and that is whatever the head on the ground in awe. Espeprocedure, if we are to have an effective Canadian Bill of cially where Chinese Nisei and
are concerned;
Rights, there must be a general agreement between the Japanese
federal and provincial governments to respect certain funda­ they usually wear the same kind
and style of clothes, comb their
mental freedoms.
The problem of - establishing a Bill of Rights, though hair the same Canadian way and
beset with many difficulties, is nevertheless not without its talk similarly in strictly Canadianencouraging features. Civil liberties associations in all American vernacular. It's impos­
parts of the country have been reactivated. Many members sible to tell the difference.
Why
And that is the point.
of parliament are vitally interested in promoting a national
Bill of Rights. The final responsibility for its establishment must we have to tell the differrests with the great body of Canadian citizens who must be ence ?
We are just beginning to find
determined on having the bill, and their voices must be
especially strong in those provinces which have been guilty out that the Chinese Canadian
of infringements against those principles which a Bill of and the Japanese Canadians have
a heck of a lot in common; and in
Rig'hts is designed to protect.

Starting Next Week
When next week's issue of The
New Canadian reaches you. it will
be an enlarged issue. To be exact.
it will have twelve pages instead
of eight as at present, and it will
provide you with 50% more read­
ing matter.

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think we should dislike Chinese.
Our parents and other older folk
have taught us, just as their
parents taught them, that Japanese and Chinese were bornenemies, and that Chinese are a
race to despise and distrust, but
patronize.
And with this, how
many of us have genuine friend­
ship with Chinese people, Cana­
dian-born or older folk? Mightyfew of us, unfortunately.

It was originally our intention
to make The New Canadian a
twice weekly publication, but due
to
mechanical
difficulties
we
found that was impossible—for
the present anyway. So instead,
to answer our growing need for
space and in response to several
suggestions, we decided to in? our pages.
We would like, in the extra
pages, to give you more news of
Canadians
are
what Japanese
doiifg in other parts of the counWe would like to start a
r “calendar" in which - you

can find a list of coining social
events, special church meetings.
concerts, dances, etc.. We hope to
encourage a new columnist or
two. And. of course, we will have
for your essays,
more space
rs. poems, or anything else which you may wish to

you can see. we must depend
on you a great deal to make these
pages interesting, and we hope
you will help us out.

We would like to ask all Japanese Canadian organizations, large
or small, to send us regular re­
ports. and to make use of our
“calendar" to announce your meet­
ings and coming events. You will
note that these notices must be in
our hands for publication well be­
fore the event.
Perhaps your
corresponding secretary or pub­
licity director can be asked ; to
drop us a line in advance;

most cases this has given them a
Thi
similar outlook on thin
is because, our fellow Canucks of
Chinese descent have gone through
the same sort of attitude as we
have.
There have been many cases of

Chinese Nisei and Japanese Nisei
getting together lately. Montreal
had a sleighing party held by a
Chinese students' group to which
some
groups were invited.

Finally^we would like to ask
our regular reporters and con­
tributors to keep sending them in.
If editorial comments are re­
quested, our editors will do our
best to comply. And we would
like to drop a hint to any dark
horse contributors or anyone who
has never contributed before (like
one capable writer whom we have
been following in the Raymond
Recorder) that we are always
glad to hear from them too.

THE FAR HORIZON
Across the country, readers of
The New Canadian will be glad To"
know that the wartime tide of
anti-Japanese feeling on the Pa­
cific Coast is steadily dying away.
This, at least, is the impression
gained from a trip to Vancouver.
It is bolstered by some happy, if
curious, signs that democratic
forces have not been completely
throttled in the great betrayal of
Canadian democracy for which
history will judge the west coast.
We spent some time in Vancou­
ver just shortly after the atomic
bomb had wrung unconditional
surrender from Japan. In those
months feeling was still high, for
emotionally-induced racism is not
turned on and off by political
armistice or decree. A Canadian
Army uniform itself was not necessarily protection against rabid
hate, nor a guarantee of demo­
cratic rights. Former students of
the Army Language School will
wryly agree — recalling the atti­
tude of the Liberal MP from Van­
couver North and their exclusion
from a West Vancouver theatre
owned by the secretary of the Jap­
anese Repatriation League.
In eighteen months the air has
LESS HATE IN
VANCOUVER

Talking with friends out there
recently, they agree unanimously
that public opinion has altered
noticeably for the good. The west
coast, they feel, is going through
a period of levelling-off in wartime
hysteria. As wartime conditions
are replaced by normalcy, so too,
if more slowly, are wartime hates
and fears replaced by truer democratic instincts.
We walked the streets and
stores of Vancouver for a week,
without the slightest concern as
to our reception. A shoeshiner, a
hat blocker, a pants presser, and
waiters in cafes and parlors asked
if we had come back to live.
They were surprised to hear it
was still “STRENG VERBOTEN!”
Were it not for that hard core
of narrow greed, ignorant preju­
dice and self-seeking opportunism,
the -wartime clouds would be al­
most gone.
ELECTIONS ACT MOVE
AN

INDICATION

opposed are four or’
erals, R. H. Carson
King; two Conservative,
Brown and A. T. Love
is almost certain
debate in the LegisIatUrP ‘
division in voting to
reco
by history, that nor
sentatives in a demo cracy xr
like to avoid.
Disinally. ju the fae,
Federal Government
posing to placate its
members with a mons;trou;
ation of its own vaunted c
ship Act. At their demand th;
sacred, holier-than-thou protec
area be preserved, th. Libera’
ministration is nUsh
d into
proposal to restrict the iibenv ■
freedom of a specifieaUv n
nated group of Canadian - 10 Ety
about
thev need or de;
These are the
mie members
passing, whose prejudice and c-portunism has more recently be-n
exhibited again in the House ci
Commons debates on the Chire«
Immigration Act.
SIGNS OF

ENCOURAGEMENT

But despite evidence of reacuet,
the ‘'Oriental problem" is surelv
and inevitably on its way out
the whipping boy ' for deniasodc
politicians. Wartime feeling has
subsided. An awareness of citizen-W
ship, and of the broad principles
of equality and security which a-e
fundamental to it, is increasing;
evident in this postwar period.
And there is no longer an eco­
nomic concentration of a racial
group in restricted, circumscribe
areas and occupations at which
the Canadian brand of Bilbo u:
blast and rant, of threat to while
supremacy.

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The Oriental groups on the Picific Coast have still a long, lot?
road ahead before complete atceptance and equality. But wartime tension is on the wane, as
before long it will be possible oes
again to take up the program i!
effort and action needed-to trar-i
that road.

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tiled roofs of small houses whid
cluster in the village and are th:
pride of their owners. Their a?:
few fishermen elsewhere in
sufficiently wealthy to afford any-Bg
thing but ■ a straw thatch for iproof.

The move to wipe out the racist
stain on the Provincial Elections
Act—as far as two groups at least
are concerned—is a sign of the
times. It has been widely support­
Mo.st of the villagers woik
ed by the daily press. And the
the Sano Fishing Company,
same press has asked, with vary­
„ was founded during the war
ing degrees of conscience, as to
those who returned to Japan
how the remaining blot on B.C.’s
fore hostilities opened.
escutcheon can be so lightly gloss­
were revered elders whose ordtnfc
ed over. One of the government
in clattering Japanese were obeyed®!
members of the Elections Act
implicitly by youths. But
Committee—W. T. Straith, K.C..
jokes, songs, and shouts
'“’Bl
of Victoria, it was reported recentyoungsters in English are eiidtt-vBg
ly by CBC radio from Vancouver
that America had left its
—has voted with two CCF mem­
with them.
H
hers to wipe out that blot. Still
Half of the youngsters at­
tending

In Toronto, Chinese and Japanese
have been getting together through
badminton connections. In schools,
there are many cases of ChineseJapanese friendships. And so on
here and there.
Don’t you agree that is how it
should 'be? It shouldn't be long
before seeing young Chinese and
Japanese together will have no
element of surprise in it at all.
And it all goes to prove that interracial amity, like charity, always
begins at home. If we Japanese
want other Canadians to
treat us as equals, and the major­
ity of them are not only willing,
but do treat us like fellow Canadians. then we should be willing
to live out the idea ourselves.
For if we show that we mean

what we say about being Cana­
dians, it's a cinch that Billy Lee
and Vivian Wong are agoing to
co-operate.

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the

elementary schcd

were born on the North Afri­
can continent.
i heir Englub*
Japanese jargon.sounds str^ngely out of place in a !ana w^r-

English is the exception.

Living in Japan, ro which
•ant to rec®
of them did not
iOSt
they talk lovingly or'
movies and candy.
As long as the small fry
moihSed.
baseball they ?,
good.
“We are pr
they say.
“We

are

waiting r’°r “
any team in Japr'

I

lenge from
no matter how strong.

Letters

,,

Letters for the tone*
have arrived in T^d:ey Ac:
dian offices: Miss Ta-hme:
337 Third Ave..
Second
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Page Seven

March 15, 1Q47
TAK always read The New Cana1 dian from the back page; the

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fl was a beautiful day.
that spring was
s.
we walked in
zost upon u
unday,
and would
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■ you a short, and very
Liort of how the park is
f ail. we would like you
that the park still holds
for young A7 an­
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from the very little
fehousand
their teddy-bear suits,
fetoddlers
the equilibrium of
Bhreateni
iroller with their errant
ifevery
Isshe to the very grey and slowmes whose hearts are still
pacing <
ftnuned sufficiently to nature to
fcswer her call in the adolescence
fcr the year.
must report that there are
fisns.
yet. that spring is upon
Bkew
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sides i? still dormant and the weep|n£ willows are still golden-brown
tfc the sunshine. There is no lazy,
Ituzzing disturbance^ of the long
feshi-shafts that slant through the
Ijrs. and only a few impudent

engagements, marriages and other
personal note;s interested him
more
than
the
"high - toned"
articles
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every issue someone he knew was
getting engaged or married. Even
in this week's issue. Teiko, the
girl they used to call
pan
face,” got married to some Nisei.
A big reason why Tak was so
interested in other people's en­
gagements and marriages was
that he himself was thinking
about that sort of thing. And a
conflict was raging within him
for though he looked and looked
it seemed that Niseis were all
marrying Niseis.
He had been going with Helen
for the past year and a half. He’d
met her at the cleaning plant of
the Ace Service Stores where he
worked as a presser.
He just
couldn't remember when he first
became conscious of her .
. it
was one of those things .
she
was one of dozens of
who
worked in the plant.
Perhaps he had met her at the
timeclock when they went to
punch in . . . btiDone day as he

U’-ht the waking soon to come.

| Near Brockton Point, a small
J crowd watched a number of
Ifhoys competing their model
The small, bright craft,

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pilots

lengths of wire, whipped the
?.ir to leave long vaporing trails,

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their

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mountains

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^«iicouver converge, and those
out adventurers who
njoy a seven-mile task
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hifting.
spurting
and
indulge in a cacophony of
,|---'*i.Mng aS they battle their way
^"-t tht sates

got on a street car for home, he
noticed her and sat down beside
her.
(How long they had been
going home on the same street
car he had no idea.)
They had
chatted, mostlv shop talk, and
soon it was time for her to trans­
fer.

suspenders which held up a baggy
pair of trousers, were over his
underwear.
Helen’s father had
vigorously shaken hands with Tak
and in his Polish-accented English
offered him a bottle of beer,
Helen’s ’ mother was a big hardolder
working
woman.
Her
pt
one
brothers
we
After that though they didn’t
and
a
truck
driver.
who was a
deliberately
arrange
it.
they
seemed to be going home to- sister still went to high school.
that preThis
the. :
gether everv day.
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They asked
and
gener­
industrious
a
each other about some vital statis­ duced the
ous Helen . . . and thiis too was
tics and things in general. Then
a
family of the kind that people
one night he looked for her. but
usually
mean when they say
she wasn't around . . he remem“Polacks."
bered seeing her at work that
day. too. After he got home, the
One day Tak’s mother told him
more he thought about it. the
people were talking and he should
more he missed her.
He1 made
stop running around with a cheap
up his mind that as soon as he
Hakujin girl. After all what other
aw her he would ask her for a
kind would go out with a Jap?
date. That had been the start of
Tak deduced that busybody old
it all ...
Airs. Tomii must be going around
Helen lived in the working talking. She was the carrier of
class peoples’ district in an un­
all tales in this city.
heated flat. When he first met
AVhy don't you meet some nice
Helen's father, a core maker in a
foundry, the old man had been
Nisei girls at the Fellowship? he
heard his mother say.
He had
shirtless, and wide, sweat-stained

considered
society.

Toronto
You are invited to send in ;
personal notes.
No charge for ■
announcements of marriages, |
engagements,
uaries.

births

obit- ■
i

of

Marriage
NISHI — HASEGAWA

LILLOOET, B.C. (From the
Bridge River-Lillooet News). —
Lillooet United Church was the
setting Feb. 15, at' 3 p.m.. for the
beautiful wedding of Aliss Lily
Yuriko Hasegawa, only daughter
of Air. and Airs. C. Hasegawa of
Lillooet, and Air. Hiroshi Nishi,
eldest son of Air. and Airs. S. Nishi
of Alagna Bay, B.C. Rev. J. AI.
Alexander of Bralorne. officiated.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father.
She wore a floor-length white
fashioned
brocade satin
with a high wide neckline, long
sleeves, and a. skirt smoothly
fitted with a peplum effect. Fairy
lengths of white veil were held by
sprigs of orange blossoms on
She carried a
scalloped halo,
bouquet of white calla lilies and
pink and white carnations tied
Her
with pale green ribbon.
jewelry consisted of a three-strand
pearl necklace and matching ear­
rings.
Airs. Dily Yoshizawa was mat­
ron of honour.
Alisses Nora
Koyanagi and Natsuko Okino atTak
bride.
Air.
tended
the
best
man,
and
Air.
Tsuyuki was
Mas Kosaka and Air. AI. Kato
David Kato was
were ushers,
Alariko
Tateishi the
page boy and
flower girl.
A reception for? ninety people
was held in the Community Hall
after the ceremony. The couple
spent their honeymoon in the
Okanagan.
The bride’s goingaway costume was a powder blue
dressmaker
suit,
white
sheer
blouse and a muskrat fur coat
draped over shoulders, topped bj
a tiny hat of turquoise and clouds
of veil. Her shoes and handbag
were of matching brown alligator;
her gloves were also brown. Her
ever it may be, juts out where
the old pier used to stand, and the
waves wash limply on the dark

sand.
But back through those gates,
that makes Stanley Park
what it is, is once again in the

all

process

of

evolution.

That

what we wanted to assure you
of, just in case you wondered.

^inviting, desebted. The
& *-s :o,k pile, or groyne, or what-

yourself, when

That is what you will find for

there.

MIZUGUCHI—TAHARA

Kazuko
ASHCROFT. B.C.
fourth daughter of Air. and Airs.
Rinzo Tahara of Kamloops, B.C.,
became the bride of Mr. Yukio
Alizuguchi. first son of Air. and
Alizuguchi
of
Airs.
Denkichi
B.C.,
at
Ashcroft
Spences Bridge,
After
United Church, Feb. IS.
the ceremony a reception was held
at the Alizuguchi home.
Baishakunins were Air. and Airs.
Shigetaka Sasaki and Air. and
Airs. Denta.ro Isobe.
*

*

*

M I YAZAKI — MURAKAMI

Mitsue
COALDALE. Alta.
second daughter of Mr. and Mr
Asamatsu Alurakami of Taber,
Alta., became the bride of Air.
Eiji Aliyazaki, eldest son of Air.
and Airs. Jirobei Aliyazaki of CoalUnited
dale, at the Coaldale
Church, Alarch 3. Rev. G. Naka­
yama officiated.
The couple spent their honey­
moon in Calgary.
*

FORT WILLIAAI, Ont.- - The
engagement of Aliss Marie Abe,
third, daughter of Airs. and the
Abe, to Air. Kats
late Air.
Fukakusa, second son of Mr. and
anFukakusa.
AI rs.
Feb.
nounced St. Valentine’s Day,
14.
A supper was held at the Abe
home to celebrate the occasion.
*

The enHAAIILTON. Ont.
gagement is announced of Aliss
Tamae Koyanagi, secgpd daugh­
ter of Air. and Airs. Alatashiro
Koyanagi of Taber. Alta, to Air.
Alasato Ishibashi. son of Airs,
Takeno Ishibashi of Hamilton.
Ont.
Baishakunins ari Air. and Airs.
Iwao Koyanagi of Hamilton.
*

*

Birth

TURIN, Alta.—Born, a son,
Douglas Hirofumi, to Mr. and
Airs. Hiroshi Tabata of Turin, at
St. Alichael’s Hospital. Feb. 24.

Obituary
IWAO

DOM AE

stroll

TORONTO.—Air. Iwao Domae,
son of Air. and Airs. Toyokichi
Domae of Taber, Alta., died in
Toronto General Hospital. Feb. 16.
were held in
Funeral

Rev.

in

Tsuji

T.

ROBERT

SUGA

ALAN

WINNIPEG.—Robert Alan Suga,
seven-months-old son of Air. and
Airs. Harry Tatsuo Suga, 571
Anderson Ave., Winnipeg, died

Alarch 6, at the SC Boniface Hoy
pital after a two-and-a-ha.lt month
stay in hospital. Funeral service
were held at Alordue Bros.’ Pai
lour, Alarch 8.
LUCY CHIZUKO MATSUSHITA

PICTURE BUTTE. Alta- Miss
Lucy Chizuko Matsushita, second.
daughter of Air. ;and Airs. Jinof
Picture.
matsu
Matsushita
Butte, died Alarch 5,. at Lethbridge
Funeral serGeneral Hospital.
held Alarch 7 at the
e Buddhist Church.
rieture

Democracy Comes to Japan
By D.S.O.

occupaGeneral
MacArthur
tion policies in Japan have come
under some criticisms, but these
criticisms should not be permitted
that great
to obscure the
tress has been made in bringdemocracy to Japan.

into the control of any cliques.

{

This fact seems to be realized
by

the

who

are

occupation

engaged

authorities

in

bringing

broad and fundamental reforms

economic,

social

educational spheres as well as in the
in

and

government.

Democratization

of

Japan

is

a tremendous job.

It cannot be

completed

ten

in

five,

or even

view

twenty years.
In
bigness of the job,

been

accomplished

in

of

the

what

has

the year

and a half of occupation is en­

couraging and may be taken as
pretty

the

Engagement

with

in

cream

Tak thought about Helen who
had gone to a Catholic High school
where she had rubbed elbows with
the rich “society" kids of the city,
but had been a definite misfit with
her low economic and social status.
Would her friends all desert her?
They had already started to drift
ince she li
teady with him.
And what about himself, would
' and Helen be accepted by other
And what about
he wouldn’t have
his mother
anything io do with Helen. Would
they be left out on all sides?

Alemorial services were held in
Taber, Alar. 1. with Rev.
K a w a m u ra off i ci a t i n g.

a

*

is

$:;/.-rQai Lhere. of course, there is
-xcept the dreary exS-E??56 01 English Bay beach, log-

next you

Air. and Airs. Hiroshi Nishi will
reside at Alagna Bay, B.C.

the

's Nisei acquaintances said,
date her. have fun. play
around: but marry a Even Reverend Smith, Anglican
minister, hinted that after all
Helen was a Catholic and re­
minded Tak that he win baptized
in the Church of England. Mixed
faiths are poor risks in marriage,
he was reminded.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM FAR AND NEAR

Bparrows rustled the hedges.
I But the cold has come out of

foe zround now. and left it solt
^nd moist to walk upon, and the
fgray and black squirrels are chasSag across the paths, hesitating,
■scampering as they see you, comsi Near
the Malkin
memorial
shell,
fejns
to rest
a. few feet
up one
of
Another
crowd
watched
the
trunks to peer uncer|y.he nio;
^checker-players,
shook is
or anodded
good
ifiainlv
at you. There
SSTS-.
fetheir heads,
their
SWthv
smell,drifted
not away
the as
strong,
gmute
opinion
failed
to
penetrate
Ujirgent odor of new growth, but
feo intangible
the players.
breath, the promise

one of those things

known some of those Fellowship
girls, cold and so goodie goodie.
Those self-styled intellectuals with
UBC pins in their lapels were

good

policies

indication

adopted

by

that

Mac-

Arthur are on the right path.

A great change is taking place
in Japan where less than 100 years
accepted
a so feudalism
yrder, where ideas like democracy
and individual liberties were never
really known or appreciated.
In the year and a half of occupation. the emperor has been
brought down to the human les el
and the government has been

placed in the hands of elected
representatives.
1 rue, the Japa­
nese people were not politically
developed enough last year to
make the best use of their new
rights which gave them the power
to choose their own government.
For the most part they voted back
into power the old-time leaders
because the people . didn't know
who represented their interests.
But the social-democratic party,
which may be called a more truly
representative people’s party, is
gaining strength rapidly and will
probably gain new prominence
after the general elections next
month.

Although a democratic form of
government has been adopted in
Japan, there is no guarantee that
it will outlast the occupation, un­
less the Japanese people come to
believe in it and are determined
not to Jet the government fall back

The educational system has
been drastically revised to eliro<
inate the fanatic nationalismi and
to foster liberal thinking,
brarfeh of Shintoism which e iicouraged emperor worship li as
been abolished. Alost important
of all, the Japanese, people are
now being given a personal stake
in the new way of life.

Labor, through strong Hade
union development, has been given
a new power to influence wages
and working conditions. Farmers
are being given the opportunity to
buy lands and thus escape foimer
exploitation under the landlords.
Women have been given the franre being encouraged
chise, and
a
sense ot equality
to develop
with men. These—the workers,
the farmers and the women—who
make up the great masses of the
Japanese nation are consolidating
their new gains under the system
brought by American occupation.
The process is far from com­

pleted, but as it progresses, the
people, jealous of their new
rights, may be expected to re­
sist with increasing determination any attempts to bring back
the old order which would take
away those rights.

But the success or failure of
democracy in Japan is tied in
closely with how well Japan can
recover from her present economic
crisis. Thus the occupation policies. the details of the reparation
plans, and the extent oi outside
assistance to restore Japanese
economy may
assume increasing importance in.
the next few years. '

Page 8

N E VZ

Page Eight

C A N A D IA N

ckist

Bombers' Saints Tangle in Cage Final
.By “LONGSHOT

Basketball
seems
to agree
With the Nisei almost as much
as baseball does.
In Toronto,
Montreal, Winnipeg, Hamilton
and
other
southern
Ontario
points, Nisei teams and leagues
vie in the game of hitting the
hoop.
And in the beet district
of southern Alberta, in the in­
terior
of
8.C.,
many
school
teams
have
Nisei
members
sparking them.
IN

NEW

WESTMINSTER

New Westminster. B.C.. hosted
a B.C. high school cage tourney
last week and two Niseis were
among the SO-odd players from all
over the province who mixed it in
the eight-team competition. The
Niseis. Frank Wakida and Bud
Iwasaki, were members of the
Kamloops High entry which bowed
tn the first round to a high-flying
Prince Rupert squad. Canadians
01 Chinese and East Indian origin
were key players on the top
favorite Victoria team.
AT

REVELSTOKE

Niseis figured prominently in a
brace of games in Revelstoke.
B.C., recently, when the local high
s< hoolers whipped a Salmon Arm
team. 25-17, anti the Junior Boys
team downed the High School
girls in an exhibition.
Among
those taking part were Wakita
and Saimoto of the RHS quintet.
Amano and Saimoto of the Junior
Boys and Niseiette Fukuyama on
the High School girls’ team.
SOUTHERN

ALBERTA

SCENE

Johnny Yamabe is the most
highly-routed Nisei hooper in the
Alberta, beet country. A member
ot the Taber Intermedia.tes and
only Nisei on his team. Yamabe
is a consistent high scorer and a.
strong factor in the Taber string
01 victories.
Other Niseis who
figure in the Alberta sports news
aie Oshiro and Saito of Coaldale
High. School "Gophers." Yama­
moto and Koyanagi of Taber High
School "Globe-trotters.” Kanas hi ro
and the 'foyama brothers of the
Readymade High School "Com­
ets." S. Mikado of Mfigrath. K.
Kanashiro who tops the Ready­
made Juniors scoring. Katayama,
who leads Coaldale Juniors, and
others. Most, of the Southern Al-

TORONTO.—Last year’s champs
and this year’s league leaders are
mixing it in rhe Toronto Nisei
Basketball League finals this year.
And the veteran Bombers got their
first punch in with a 50-31 win
over the much-favoured Saint
Christophers in the first of a twoout-of-three final playoff. Friday.
March 7.
BOMBERS 50, SAINTS 31

Bombers’ win over the classy
Sainis was a surprise to many of
the "experts." The veterans out­
played and outshot the league
leaders practically' throughout the
game, while the Sainis were at
their worst.
Good defensive play by Bomb­
ers kept high scorer Ken Miyasaki
to only 11 points.
Hide loi and
Sockeye Tsukamoto were top men
lor the winners, with loi showing
his best form this season.
BOMBEKS: loi 13, Ashikawa 9, Tsu­
kamoto 11, Akiyama 6. Idenouye 6,
Inamoto 5, Wakabayashi.—50.
SAINTS: H. Miyasaki 3. K. Miyasaki
11. Makimoto 10. Koyanagi 1. Mori 1.
Sumi 3. B. Miyasaki *2—31.

R.M.

CHATHAM. Ont.—Jack Nishi­
zaki was elected president in the
1947 Kent Nisei Fellowship Group
executive
recently.
Supporting
him will be a committee of:

SAINTS 74, EAST ENDERS 44

At half time the game looked
close with Saints ahead only 27-23.
but deadly shooting by Maka
Makimoto. Kenny Miyasaki and
Aki Koyanagi spelled the East­
erners’ defeat.
Makimoto was
high man for the game with 22
points. Ken Miyasaki had 16,
while Koch Mitsui was high man
for the losers with 19 points.

Aces were handicapped-by being
without their deadly-shooting cap­
tain Yon Shimizu, while Bombers

Relief for Japan and the Eco­
nomic Loss Survey were the main
topics of discussion at the second
general meeting held recently, it
was hoped that all would aid in
these two important drives.
Nisei basketball has been or­
ganized in Chatham, but owing to
not being able to obtain a gym
regularly, practises have been few,
although there is a lot of en­
thusiasm.
On Feb. .15, a Chiltharn team
was invited to London for a
friendly game.
For their first
game, the local hoopsters did well
considering that they had only
started
recently.
Ten
players
visited London and were defeated
40-28.

Miss Clark and Mrs. English
gave talks of encouragement to
the group at the election general
meeting.

A practise game, Wednesday,
Feb. 26, between the Park Street
Church quintet and the KNFG,
found the Nisei.squad on the top
end of the score.

PLAYOFFS

Championship of the Winnipeg
Nisei Basketball League will be
decided Monday, March 17, when
the Kilroys meet Streaks for a.
sudden death decider ar. 9:30 p.m.
in the YWCA gym. From all in­
dications. it looks, like anybody’s
game since Kilroys easily topped
the league schedule, while Streaks,
who limped badly at the early
part of the schedule, have won
their last four games handily.
COLLEGE

AMERICAN

CAGING

Richard Mamiya, alternate on
the University of Hawaii’s basket­
ball team, became the second
Nisei to play basketball in Madi­
son Square Garden when Hawaii
lost to St. John’s recently, reports
Pacific Citizen.
The first Nisei
was Wat Misaka, star forward on
the University of Utah’s national
champions of 1944. who played
with the Utes in three games in
the huge New York sports palace,
including a victory over St. John’s
to win the national title. Misaka
is a starting forward on the Utah
team, finalist this year in the Big
Seven conference playoffs.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our thanks
to

son

late

our

and

brother

Iwao’s friends for all their kind­
nesses and sympathy during his

KNFG put on a Valentine Dance
Feb. 14. The hall was uniquely
decorated in red and white, and a
good time was had by all.
Two families from this area
have recently moved to Toronto,
namely the Nakamuras and the
Gotos. A few new families have
arrived in this district.
It Is
being hoped that the recent ar­
rivals will be able to attend the
meetings of the Kent Nisei Fel­
lowship Group.

Taber Druggist
Branches Out

our bereavement.

SOCIAL CALENDAR
All organizations are invited to
send in notices of their meetings,
dances, games, etc., to be listed in
this calendar, which will be a
regular New Canadian feature.
Notices should reach the New
Canadian offices, by Wednesday
for insertion in that weeks issue.
'
MARCH
17—Winnipeg, Nisei Basketball Leagjie
Pinal Playoff games, 8:30 p.m.
19—Winnipeg, Niseiettes’ Novelty Whist
and Dance, YWCA auditorium. 8
p;m.
20—Toronto, Girls’ Hobby Club meeting-,
81 Wellesley St., 8 p.m.
20—Winnipeg. Baseball League meet­
ing, YWCA auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
21—Hamilton. Sophy-Ed Issei-Nisei So­
cial, YMCA.
23—-Iron Springs, Alta., Anglican serv­
ices, Rev. G. G. Nakayama, 2 ajid
2:30 p.m.
29—Picture Butte, Alta., YWBA Con­
cert, 2:30 p.m.
28. 29—Winnipeg. Nisei Baseball League
Concert, St. Stephen’s Hall, Higgins
Ave.. 8 p.m.
APRIL
3—Toronto, Tashine Reunion Dance.. 10
Lansdowne Ave., 8 p.m.

Alta.

We wish to extend our sincere

thanks
for the

representing

QUEEN CITY
JEWELLERS

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our

and

Butte

on

stay

extended to

in

Picture
to

our departure

Onta rio.

It

was

known

swell

really

you.

We

wish

to

have

you

all

the very best of luck and health.

7S Queen Street West
<6 doors West of S;iy)

TORONTO. ONT.

kindnesses

during

us

friends

Butte and elsewhere

in Picture

S. Nakamura

dearest

our

to

Haruko

Don
c o

W.

Yokota.

Yokota

and

R. Sifton.

R.R. No. 1. Ridgetown, Ont.

Wind to
erner score
men. Mas
Kinoshita.

In a n;r.te School 1

wen o;n
er$‘

goal; Tosh Na iullO

Kobavsense;
Kino­
*L Ko'
wings; Tom N aga
A centre. r
Hayami. Harr.
akaga-,va *

General I

p:

BILL TAKEDA
86 Gamble Ave.. Tor:.rs
Automobile

t;.,

T.

Rev.

parents,

W1NN1 PEG.— Wednesday. M a r.
19. is the date of the Novelty
Whist Drive and Dance sponsored
by the Niseiettes at the YWCA
Auditorium. Prizes and refresh­
ments tyre in store, and the cards
will start shuffling at S p.m.

Komiyama,

have

moved

and

_

:: & Sick;

BARRISTER. solicitor
Sun Life Building

42 Jam.

Telephone 2-2501

A PROVEN PRIEXD .

Experienced.

Dependable

MORRIS BLUMFALD
Office: EL 5207

Bes.: KI Oj;

NORTH AMERICAN LIFE
2 King St. West

Toronto, Or;

Just Arrived

WINNIPEG. — Manitoba Japa­
nese Baseball League’s gala con­
cert to be held Friday and Satur­
day. March 28-29. is gradually
whipping into shape. Tickets are
selling very rapidly for the lengthy
program which will include drama,
comedy skits, vocal and instru­
mental solos, odoris, katsuben and
manzai.
A meeting is to be held at. the
YWCA auditorium, on Thursday.
March 20. from 7:30 p.m.. for
planning
and
preliminary
re­
hearsals. All league members are
asked to attend. Tickets may still
be obtained from any league mem­
ber or from F. Moritsugu, c/o The
New Canadian. 504 Talbot Avenue.
Win nipeg.

SPRING & SUMMER
ORDER NOW WHILE THE

Harry Miyasaki
WA. 5342

178 Beverley

Toronto. Ont.

A ttention

Try us for
RECORDS

Musicraft. Cosmo.
Davis, Capitol.
Sonora. Apollo.
Savoy, etc.

his

temporar­

ily to 1040 Brault Ave., Verdun,

P.Q., from Farnham Hostel.
#

Radio Appliance Co.

sjr

sfr

Mr. T. Kameoka, agent for The
New Canadian and Far East Photo
Review, who recently changed ad­
dresses in Toronto to 113 McCaul
St., wishes to inform his friends
that his phone number is the same
as previously. WAverly 9934.

NISEIETTES HOLD
NOVELTY WHIST DANCE

1180 Queen Si. E.
TORONTO. Ont.

GE 5CHS

Propr ietors:
B. McTAGGART
HAROLD MAEDA

ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF

A N D

1

NEW SODA BAR
by

Ken

Shimada.

Mosey

Shimaaa. snci

i

Operated

CLASSIFIED

:

Sab Nishida—formerly of ''Sumiyoshi” in Vancouver

Help Wanted

I

294 College St. W., Toronto-Phone KI-3365

or

woman

to

assist in home. Good wages, pleas­
ant surroundings. Write or apply
10 Leeds. 25J Dundas St.. London.
Ont.
WANTED—Girl

or

woman

for

housework. live in. 3 adults, no
cooking. Excellent home, with own
room. Have had Japanese girls
before. Evenings free. Fare ar­
ranged. Write: Mrs. B. 'Finkel­
stein. 282 Dufferin Ave.. Brant­
ford. Ont.
EXPERIENCED

Dad.

r rid:

AMERICAN

TABER. Alta.—T. Hirasawa and
Co.. PO Box 85. Taber, formerly
dealing
mainly
with
druggist
goods, has recently obtained a
license from the provincial govern­
ment to handle 22 types of goods
and services.
Among these are
automotive accessories and equip­
ment. tires and tubes, beverages,
clothing and footwear, furs, mil­
linery. groceries, coffee, tea. and
spices, fish and other food pro­
ducts.

WANTED—Girl

To the people of Picture Butte:

the F;

LOCAL BALL LEAGUE
MEETING THURSDAY

T. D o m a e and Family.

Taber.

Pts.
1S2
149
124
120
106
103
in 2
99
96
S9

W

Change of Address

illness and at the time of

tong

FIRST TEN SCORERS
Player
GP
K. Miyasaki (Saints)______
12
R. Kurita (Nomads).. _____
12
J. Miike (Hellcats)_____ ... 12
M. Mitsui (East Enders).... 12
K. Maikawa (Arrows) _____
12
H. Miyasaki (Saints)______
12
P. Hirano (Aces) __________
12
K. Mitsui (East Enders)....
12
G. Hirano (East Enders)....
1»2
Y. Shimizu (Aces)....______
10

SAINTS: H. Miyasaki 6. K. Miyasaki
16, Makimoto 22. Koyanagi 13. Mori 9,
Sumi 2. B. Miyasaki 6—74.
EAST ENDERS: Oye 9. M. Mitsui 8.
K. Mitsui 19. Nikaido 3. Kameoka 5.
Hikichi. Hirano. Isezaki—44.
Second Game:
BOMBERS 62, ACES 46

Naomi Tanaka, honorary presi­
dent; Mark Ito, vice-president;
Ruby Morita, secretary;
Mits
Tanaka (replacing Gordon Naka­
mura who recently left for To­
ronto), treasurer; Harry Baba,
George
Nishizaki
(replacing
George
Nakamura),
auditors;
Toku
Sugiyama, Frank
Uchi­
yama,
Herby
Morita,
social
conveners;
Ryuko Sato,
Bibo
Nagao,
devotional
conveners;
Miss Lola Clark, Mrs. H. Eng­
lish, advisors.

berta high school league games
finds Niseis on both teams.

BOMBERS: Takeda 5, loi S. Ashikawa
10, Tsukamoto 11. Akiyama 6. Idenquve
10. Inamoto 11. Wakabayashi—62.
ACES: Naruse S. Onishi 6, Matsui 5.
C. Oda 6. S. Takata 6, G. Takata. Hirapo
S, K. Oda 7—46.

Game:

Nishizaki New Chatham Prexy

WINNIPEG

VALUES
UNSURPASSED

First

Kent News Boundup
By

were really "on"
that
night.
Sockeye Tsukamoto and Jeep Ina­
moto shared scoring honours with
11 points each for the winners,
while Aces Paul Hirano and Dave
Naruse picked up 8 points each.

Both finalists found it easy oust­
ing the'ir opponents in the semis.
The second games of the two-outof-three series were played Friday.
Feb. 2$. at All Nations gym with
Saints
sweeping East
Enders
74-44: and Bombers eliminating
Aces 62-46.

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