Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 17 2003 — All Ooawss (®s&qg'(SgQ pcSscDmi ©aroDcs foaselbalO ©ooti of the camp’s eight guard passed time Japanese-American- s playing pastime during internment LOS ANGELES (AP) — Locked away from the world by the US government the prisoners of the Manzanar internment camp passed the hours with the most American of games ? -‘ r ' - ' ' 'J :"?&' r: -- ? h: f: 'n v 'V ?Vv I ± - ir A Kunitomi now a retired teacher living in Monterey Park said a restored diamond would help children visiting Manzanar understand die boredom of life in the camp as well as internee determine-- ' tion to keep active 7: It would also underscore how mud) they continued to embrace the United States and its traditions even as the country lockol them away for fear they would aid Japan in The 10000 taken to the Owens Valley camp had no privacy and lived in cramped Wracks in a single square mile fenced in The fireby barbed-wir- e breaks between buildings provided enough room for Japanese-America- 9 that played each other and 7V even teams from high schools near die camp -- ns baseball diamonds “That was the major sport" said Jack Kunitomi 88 a member of an older team called the Has Beau during his first summer of intern- World 4- Warn tow-e- nf and restoring a mess hall Hays said officials also hope to eventually restore part of one of the 36 blocks of barracks' and preserve apple pear and peach orchards near the site The park has a staff of nine but no federal money has been allocated for new restorations Manzanar recently formed a group to seek money from private donors Both sides agree the other means well and are devoted to the site but that hasn’t prevented each from pushing hard for their version of the diamond KlUger went this week to Washington DC where he said he found two members of the House of Representatives willing to override the Park Service and build the diamond He said it’s too early to name them “Right now it’s the shell of the park” Kluger said “It has conscience it nas good inten-tioWhat it doesn't have is heart Heart is something you put in when you don't have to Going the extra mile for some- thing you don’t have to do” But for some other memories should he restored before those of baseball games Bo Sakaguchi a retired Los Angeles dentist wlio came to the camp wlien he was 16 said the camp should first rebuild a guard tower He said a tower more than a diamond would show what die internees went throiigh “They said the gun towers were there to protect us but they were pointed toward the inside” Sakaguchi said “It was very important to the young people because they needed something to boost ment “Before the evacuation their morale " said Kunitomi’s there were leagues all over sister Sue Kunitomi Embrey 80 of Los Angeles “There California It was very impor-tawas nothing else There were for the young people ' AP photo no telephone or cars there What else could they do n internees watch and play baseball in 1943 at the Manzanar War Relocation Center were no movies you could go besides work?” in eastern California north of Lone Pine For the forced to live at the World War II to except later they had 7 The National Park Service internment camp baseball was one of the few ways to fight boredom and was a major source of pride is restoring the main auditori- weekly movies Whenever 77 Despite the work to restore the site which is expected to open to the public Id April 2004 the baseball : they had a um built by the internees to game we went” diamond was excluded from the rebuilding plan be unveiled in April 2004 as Embrey now leads the Man' an interpretive center with zanar Committee a group that But Manzanar site superinwritten about baseball in novsites” Hays said “You go to the exhibits and theaters But a for pushed see pieces of the real thing the els including “Last Days of tendent Frank Hays said the preserving rebuilt baseball diamond Park Service can’t take money real remnants the real history Summer” said he had been a camp and organizes an annual won’t be part of the celebra-rather than some trip to die site Tucked gay rights activist for years 7!' 7 from everyone who wants a between the Sierra Nevada and when he began pushing for tion — a decision that some historic monument changed He said he too would like to t former internees say Death Valley Manzanar was He agrees that baseball was an see children playing baseball the diamond one of the mainstays of one of 10 camps nationwide essential part of life at the to celebrate the games at “If you’re a discriminated-againlife in the camp where 120000 Japanese- Manzanar but they can play at minority you’ve got to camp but said a memorial is : Kunitomi’s team Americans were detained dur-diamonds outside die camp no place for games Remnants played softfight for each other” he said ball for lack of baseball equipthe war because they were k “You’ve got to be able to laid He has asked Kluger to work me original diamond 7 of ing with the Park Service’s process ' remain he said including the ment He was allowed to leave V ' considered security risks v? 7 your efforts to whoever ' 7 ' in the winter first to pick sugar The most vocal advocate of whether it’s your group or not” pieces of clay used to hold the for deciding what to restore '7 in bases includes which and beets in Idaho then to serve as that diamond shouldn’t at the main of Kluger hopes restoring years public someday place n comment and evaluating what' teams will be disturbed the camp was never an a US Army translator Over “When you can actually see the next three years players v: internee and isn’t Japanese- projects to focus on first again play local high schools at On the Net: the real history that’s what’s 7 Manzanar and has helped raise The agency’s top priorities ordered equipment and formed American Author and play- http:wwwnpsgovmanzindex 1 so attractive about historic now include reconstructing one Mm more than 80 baseball teams wright Steve Kluger who has '7 $23000 to rebuild the diamond -- nt as Japanese-America- Japanese-America- ns i : - - over-loo- ks ’ st - - ' 7-- Japanese-America- - : Calif island residents must cross ocean or picket lines AVALON Calif (AP) — years” she said “And they like me well enough” Residents of tiny Santa Catalina Island have a tough choice About 70000 workers from to make during die strike by V three chains — Safeway Inc’s thousands of grocery store i Vons Kroger Co’s Ralphs V : clerks in California and Albertsons Inc — went " strike or were locked out in can on either a cross They contract' friends line a dispute about the picket staged by cost of healm care coverage and neighbors at the dnly’1' supermarket in town or cross V and other issues die ocean to shop on tire main- :7 The island’s Vons has stayed land 26 miles away 7 open despite the steady pres- The situation has strained - ence of picketers on the side- relations in tire close-kn- it walk and problems such as and forced 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