NEW CANAMAN
An Independent Organ For Canctfani OUapcm*** Origto
VOL. .17 � NO, 95.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1,, 1954;
TORONTO, OUT.
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by GENICHI OHASHI
in Vancouver
Leaves 25 Homeless .-H".was among twenty-five >:<- ;.-ft-temporarily homeless
a spectacular-rooming house >;�; Vancouver's west end last '-sday. Almost a total loss o, Crosby- Rooms, 1.054 West ; i; St., 'where 'Mrs, Harold r, a Japanese Canadian, re-
� TnV fire, believed to have stavt-,-,i'in a container--of tar being
'-heated, on. a ^kitchen stoye for lout repairs, -engulfed the .old three-story frame' building in. a ni'ntter <>f minutes. '. �:..�' �'
JGCA Prexy Achieves Aims
Prosiiiont Robert M. Miyasaka of the Yancouyer JCCA has
.'. achieved''his 1954 objectives. The first \v;is the inauguration of English classes for the Kika Nisei and -others wishing to learn; the second was the first memorial service before, the Japanese Memorial in Stanley Par1< ort Re-
. membnmce Day in thirteen years, and the third was the first postwar oratorical contest in En'glish. Hats'.:fiff to Robert for his fine
' achievements! .-"�',� ,'[. ��;-.' '.
To \Vrite R.N� Exqms '
On January 10, three .student nurse;; will end their days of sruciy at St."Paul's Hospital/The .trio are Tomi :NTiwatsukino, fav-o.rUeVof the" Steveston Community; Jean Kobayashi of New Donven- and Jane .'Otah'i of Van-tStuyc-r. To them, the writer, extend? very best- wishes and .success in their Registered Nurse Examinations. ' -. �
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Briefly: Noted : :-'-. /Joe Miyazawa, who re.preie.nt-"ed the Canadian- Congress of labor at the Calcutta convention of th<>. IiHernational Federation /�' Free Trade Unions,- will re--n- ;r, Vancouver on Dec. 18 . .'.' i>- spending his final three .-� 'in Japan . . . An indication c-hristmas is just around the rwas the arrival last Thurs-'* I'M /OOO boxes of. mikah �^-pan as the first shipment �: >ason. , . , So, with, this !;. .he, writer will call it '�y" for/1054.
TORONTO JCCA TO SPONSOR COMMUNITY CENTRE
Budd. S.?. teachers Hold Conference at Steveston
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STKVKSTON, n.c;/- Tlu: voston Buddhist Half, was Con t re. Of a'c t i v i t ios N" i > v.' 'jo- 2 the annual' B.C\ l>ud Ihist Sunuay School Teachers l.easrno -confer-; once and training- session. . Opening service at 0 a.m.. Nov. 2(1, was c'onduVU-d by Kev. V's. Ikuta -with 'league prosidont Betty Mori shitu 'of Stev'eston givjiVg tlv. welconie address to ivne tea'cher,: from Kelowna, four ..from Van-' couver, and :Ju leac'hers and. assistants, of. Steveston. Kt
ami/ liiuiilhisin as religion.. wer-� .oVfirie'd.' by Key. Ikuta in h\s nioViiing" lecture.-.
.The 'rft'evn'tVon league confer-". >m;e was .chaired by. Alice Sa'ki-. yam a of. Steveston. .Official .dole- � i^ates of the' visiting- chapters wero Yosh Te'rada and Nori Ikuta (Kelowna); aiVd >tiy;vko KoyanagS | ami -(I'e-'tr-ijde Okano (Vancou-' ; ver). Representing the host chap-\ tor .were'.-Nancy' Kobayashi and-'� :Ro\- � AkuiH-; Attentive; interest ; was shown by the teachers -to-the lecture "Sho Shin (ie'J given -t in the eyoiiiiighy Hideo Mimoto. i Sunday morning, all teachers | attended the regular Steveston Sunday School service conducted" by Rev: Y. Okano arid Rev. S. Ikuta. Kaiuko. Inouye of Vancouver and Yosh Terada of Kelowna spoke to the students on behalf of their chapters^ both ex-enormous
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New Executive Slate; YoshTefada Prexy
KELOWNA, B.C. � The third annual ; General Meeting arid Election - of Officers of the KV-lo'w'na YBA was held on Nov. H, with the. fo]lowing slate elected: . Yosh Terada, president; .Nori Ikuta, vice-president: Ki Tamaki, general secretary;: Jim Kitaura. corresp. sec;; Tosh Suzuki, treasurer; Kay Ikuta,;religious chairman; Tom Tanemura, Mas Ter rada, Joan "Hikida,.Carol Terada, social convenors; Bob Koyanagi and Suzan T.erai, sports convert,! ors; Barney Kitaura.-membership | chAirmnn. ".".-' '.-.'- . �':".[
A; very ambitious project is to i
be launched in "the near: future. t. \\"innipeg; � Frexi Press con -More information will be relea'sed...i (iemns action of Toronto I'olice as the plans are finalized.High-.' Commission refusing grant of Becomes School Trustee lighting the "coming yearns .acti- ^ trade licence because of racial j . . . .
vities will be the third annual i.ancestry of applicant. - .'.; IT�RT T>OVER, Ont; ~ Kiku/o
Celebration of the:KYBA; andvin ': Grand Forks, B.C..'� Gazette ,Kobayashi, a inember of the local
'""", Club, and- active;1 in-., the
pressing awe at;the Sunday School attendance. Class activities were also o.b.s'erye<l by visiting teachers. The session concluded at -lunch .with the ^re-; sideijt expressing thanks to all teacher.?. Special, thanks were conveyed to the Steveston Buddhist Fujinkai who prepared deli-. cious nieais under the supervision Of president Mrs^ S. Mukai. --,
Nature of Standing Committee Defined; Ed Ide Elected Chairman of Executive
The sta .riding committee on tho Toronto Japanese Canadian Con. munity''Centre clearly defined its nature and its status at tho last meeting- held last Thursday. -Naming of committee members and-election of officers wore also held.
Members are as follows: (frorn^-" the isseO Kmt D. Kondo, T. ! Utnezuki. T. Kameoka, V. Iwa- | saki, T. Kadonaga, �(�'. Kurukawa, j /. Shin, A. Kamino, T. Suini;
(from the Nisei) Mat
Matsiii, Koy Shin, Kd. Ide, Tosh
Moriyama. Koei Mitsui, (loorge
Tamura, Mikio , Nakannirai Luko
Tannbe. Lucien Kiirata, M^s
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Kimi Takhnoto, and Miss Yoshi-. ko Sugimoto.
Further pe-rsons who wish to servo on the conimitlee wilt be added from'.-time-:t.o time. � . �'..
The nature of (he committee Was discussed^ and defined as follows:
1. Name:"JCCA Committee for Community Centre" (i.e., the project, which originated with the Toronto JCCA, will be sponsored by the local chapter).
2. Bank account Will be registered under ''JCCA Community Centre Eund''. ^
3. Officers \\-ere elected as fol^ lows: Edward Ide, chairman; Fred D. Kondo, vice-chairman; Miss Kimi Takimoto (English), and C. Fiirukawa (Japanese), recording secretaries; T.
naga, tre.asuVer.
Next meeting was set at Jan- , uary 13, 1055. All committee members were askrd to study the .project"; and bring,their ideas on '%��:� [plans' and financing for ��discus/. 1 sion at the January meeting.
K AMBLINGS
CLUB CLICKING?
By y.-.'E.'T.'
GRAXTKI) that "on time" will mftko a club tick; and an opulent treasury will made it slick.-I know that pretty igirls make any club' chic, and poor attendance, makes a club sick. The question is," what makes a club click?
Many a Nisei cilubV executive has', .wrestled with this problem :uid none '; ;can claim .an .unequivocal triumph. We hear that club successes run in cycles or in spurts; that every club has its and downs, its ambitious
programme waxes and wanes; Indeed, Nisei clubs do not seem to grow :with the years -T- their initial, success is follawed by slow, sickening decay, Old clubs die, and new ones replace them and re peat the same mistakes. '.Kloct.ions'. are undramntic �. no-wants a second-hand posi-
Issei in Port Dover
conjunction with this event, a denies that new civic .election concert i.s being planned. -nominees running for purpose of
Delegates appointed to at- ; giving J�Ttpanese free reirt in city; tend the inaugural meeting of the I charges Nelson Daily News cor-:; School Trusteeship at-the nomi-.proposed BX',.-Y.nmg Buddhist respondent .with ."street-gossip nation meeting last Thursday. He
community in several/other fields, gained one of three scats, for
League ave Messrs. Y'osh. Torada. Barney Kitaura., and '. Miss Ki Tamaki. . " . � J. K.
Internationcd Extensibh for Air Meal Service
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Kelowna Headquarters Of B.C. Bussei League
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Toronto. �'Macleans magazine reports roa.d chrnps manned by ir.ore than:'1.5'>0' evacuee?. put �pionet-r r^ad through from Ja^-oer'to Blue River.
will occupy the position for a two-year term.
Kobayashi is believed to b�; tho ?rcond Issei to. obtain air office with the Board of Education in Ontario. -
.STEVKSTO'N. I Yanc'�uv�-r. Kel'.vwn: ton: YBA chapters local Buddhist H.u! to f->rp. th./ B.C.
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A word tosse�i into this chaotic condition may come to nought. But you may ..'be interd.sted in vyhat one individual :belicyes a clui) should do and sliould not do.
bONT'S
Don't let a few get control of. a club. A clique within a club is fatal. A few gangsters can hold , .up and rob all. the passengers on a train sih'vply because the gangsters are organ i zed while the passengers an- not. Similarly, a few chummy characters, can wreck a \vho!e club because of a lac:k -of- united opposition to. thorn.';- ; ..-�;. .".- ' .-
. Don't tnb'-rat.e .members who cannot uphold lhe\club's constitution. If thre<v rept-atod inexcusable absences -mr;ii> expulsion, let it mea'ii that."
DO'S
with 'exquisite discretion. Keep the executive body down to a minimum..Sfltct :. chairman and committee for each event. Nobody should hav*_- t<�o much to do, and ar�!B4>lut*�ly nob<xly should be ne-^1*^1*^ from on*"- committee or ari'it^^r. N�-V'T !��?-. th�- same p�T-^or, do the s-;iry,�- thing twice simply bfr;tus*- h- has don^ it ': th�- fir-T tirr:�-. (ii'.e th*- next
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