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denies he他re at棚ad lives ftfCarter
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A Fresno
Nikkeimdnわas pleadsinnocent to charges th。t he threqtened theュIves of then-
Pr;esident   Carter   and the president-e;ぉct the day before Reagah'sInauguration. :A federal grand juryIn-
dlctment alleged that farrell fsamuHo[id。i28imaiぉd a threatening ](etter to Carter Jan.1g^Lきjgls0 cointaine(;1
remarries a bout Reqgan.
Thbformet postqlworker was ord扭ed recさnt!y tosぉncJ trialIn U.S, (District Court here
July16.;
The如tt針was "not meant t6 be a threat,,': sひld Steve Moxon. the attorney oppojnt-ed101るぉぽ!"{01[^<:1(1.He sold it was sent for other reasons.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Br CI in   L eight on    told U.S.
Magistrate Alan Chrlstensen that Honc^ admitted: the 。ffensein ale"er to the Secret Service.ヽ
iHonda，s〗etter was Uさd to friction Witiv, supervisor, Noxon said.おon da Was fired recently from his postalser-
vice lob after 3% y的rv ,
fie aUo faces trtoj on17 counts of mdUfraud. Hoiid^ allegedly ordered magailn争s qnd bopfeIf it he ndmふ，of a no t herやo "a ]I worker as an annoyance.
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Bにfisherm柳，s训ion honors late Nisei，s name intitleof翻ir挑vi,me,^
VANCOUVER.
A non-
profit society to prev，nt the destruction of the 'B.C. hsh habitat byIncreased environ-rnentalthreatもparned the Suzuki Founddtk)n，hds been set up by the Unはed Fisheries cmci Allied Workers Union.:
it is named after a pioneer J印anese Canadian uni。n gillnetter from the Deltcrai^ea, thelate Mr. T. "Buck" Suzuki.
Thさdecision to name the
foundatipn bfter Buck Suzuki, was reached unanimously during a rec:ent; unionexecu-tlyelboard meeting. In fact， the sodety COuljj not hope for a more appropriate name, Nicholsaid, "Suzuki was a foremost conseiv。tionisti recognized as cm authority on the Fr。ser River estuary.
Suzひ'ld died in1977 aftゃr a lengthy illness whichconftned himすo a wheelchair for thゃ last years of hislife. He was
Sansei a rtist-teach e I "Tim K amino shows work atOrunwald Oallery
TORONTO. — Sansei artist teaとher, Tipn K^amino [raき of)さiiecla show of hi$ v/orks at怖eGrunw。ld Gqllery, 3321.A Yonge Street in Toronto.It will'continue until Mc^y麵.
-Tim ;Kaminc!， son of AAr. &
Mrs. RoyKamino {and grdnd-son Qfthe〗at，3en Karniho, f(;^VhcJer of Judo in pastern CanacJd) Js a graduate of York Univers^ydncT is pre德 senth^ cr tedd^er of art at HumiDerCc!nゃgiate.
Japanese nucl的rlゅlc hushed up
TOKYO.
A radl6activさ
leak, hushe4 Up for 40 days by the operators of a trouble-plaguもd nuclear power stQtト on, exposed 56 workers td highradidtiorvdQsesIn the worst nudedr pliant decIclent irv Japan's hUtory， the company revealed recently.、
The Japanese government lifted thelid on the cover-リp and ordered a complete review of the Tsuruga plant and all 21other nuclear complexes.
An estimated 45 tons of highly radioactive waste spilled from the storage tanks March 8 ar the Japan Atomic Power Co. plant,located in a sparsely populated area on the Sea of Japan 225 miles
west of TiD^feyo. It has a record of 30 iother accidents.
.A statementぉy the domp-crny admはted 56r worleers were contaminate durlna a three• hour dedri-up operptionIn wトich they hauled radioactive water fromかe plantIn buckets then mopped the floor.
The COmpqny insisted that the employees' health wasn't jeopardizecJ by the clean-up, but nuclear power experts said some willsufferlong-term effects.
Fish markets are refusing to take fish caught in Tsuruga Bay untilH is confirmed they are sms.
acknowlぉged as 。n o"* standing authority on the estuary and iU tidal movements, まhoi said, andw。s one of the fir" to raise the question of industriqlpollution of the river in the1950s and19さ0s.
Tatsuro "Buck" Suzuki was bom in1916 —In a float ho use onりoriIsland in the Frasbr Rive「. Theきldest of ninechild-renIn the family, hきfoliow-ecj his fatherInto the salmon fishery. iHe obtained his first comnierckiljiicきnce at the 。g台 of nine.'
Suzuki wqs14, workingIn 。cannery for 25 cents an hour, when he,became a foundina member of theJひpanese-Canadian Citizens AssociCJt，on， a groひp designed to fiさht i"acist disc;rimination dnd to 々btain t he f fane bis e for Jひpa-nes，Canadians， ci goalultinv qteiy fulfilledさhortlyofter thb Second Wor)d War.
BuckSuzl/ld was one of the ftrさt Japanese tana(;ikin$ —to recognize the need for (jnity among the y\^cirldng class in order to comtatitrcialvisions, p art icリlarly rarrvjpdnt the fishing industry during and dfterthe waトyear多，
"As aworldrig fisherman, Suziild was alw6ys active in tF|e union. He was aleader omong Japanese fisheimen and a fighter after— the war to have the Japanese CcmacJians readmUted to the fishing industry"
A merrier of the UFAWU since May 4,1949, Suzuki was grantedlife membership during the 28th annualcorwerv tion of the union fn February 1973.
Suzukl，an   acting union
ゃresldent in ，967 {during iHomer St evens and Steve Stavenes, incarceration) served no fewr them1トterms ds vice—president, two terms ds a menrvber of the executive board, acouplさof years ds welfare director and a general orgcinizer cmd many years as a field organi;er andleading member of Uf^AV^IJ committees dealing with issues as disparate as price negotiaUons and pollution control.
"Ihle first was involved in fisheries management questions and . then ^rhoved on to ' pollution problems on the Fraser :Rivさr，',sqid hisw)fe Jean. during arecentinterviさw with the .union's newspaper, The Fisherm叫'
fkading the :execリtlve posts of the Suzuki Foundation wUlbe union president Jack Nli:hol，business dgent Bill Pro COp a t ionicnlcl secretary-tr—surer Geo rささHe^AdS6n wHh ql-lnnきnnber多oftheもx， ecutlve boqrcl serving as members of the foimdation.
Assigned to the positloi^ of the coordir^atorjof the Si/zviM foundation, willbe Arne ThQmllns6r> — q (Cdpilano College geology instruct or— theUFAWU's formerenviron-me丰T co-circiinator.
The officers of the'union wlilremain inplace untilthe membership of the Suzuki Foundation elects its officers In future elections.
Suzuki was deeplyInvolved in mgny envlronmentolIssues.
A founding member of SPEC, he served as a member of the Padffc Salmon Society, the North Deltalocal's antト
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J*Ct. Centre to holtlArtnualレ Qen，rやにMeeting
TO RON TO .なTVAn咖l 6eneralMeeting of the Jopd*^ neseCanadkm CluturalC^rttna Is to behe，d:ih the West Room of. the CリiturolCentee on Monday, June 8， conn m enひ
IncludedIn Uie agenda willbe the electkm of the Directors of the Board. The Nominations CommitteeIs seeldng prospective cancHcf-ates and if you ccm suggest anyone whom you consider ccipable of serving the Centre and the Comnnimtty， please submit his or her name to Mr.にAbe (78レ02131.— 丄CCC
TORONTO, ONT,
匿s即urqに,.
MEDICINE HAT. 一 Steve Tsi>ilura， fhesm^illest player in ti^e^A/estem Hockey League, is a big manIn th阜eyes of theleague's " coaches and generalmanagers.
The diniinijtlve〗さ，5") centre of theMedidne Hat Tigers has beens elected 。s the V^HL's nnost vakiable and most gentlemanly pioyer for the1980-Siseason.
Tsuiii;a scored 55さoqls and 84 assists Witfr60 minutes in penaltiぉWhilさleadina the Tigers to cit"irdpl—ftnUh in the Easitem Division.