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Show Myer Discloses End of Relocation Camps in 1 Year TOPAZ, UTAH, Feb. 28 Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Reloca-tion Authority, told 1300 evacuees here Friday night that public acceptance ac-ceptance of persons of Japanese ancestry is the best it has ever been and gave five reasons why relocation centers will be closed by January 1. 1. It is highly important that the 18,000 to 20,000 , young Japanese Americans attending center schools resume life in normal communities as soon as possible. 2. -It will be much easier to get reestablished now while so many jobs are available than it will be when reconversion starts and servicemen ser-vicemen come home. 3. Welfare agencies are less busy than ever before and more able to help in social adjustment problems I of evacuees. 4. -. We must keep our promise to Congress that the WRA program woul4 be liquidated within a reasonable rea-sonable time after the West Coast was reopened to evacuees. 5. Keeping the relocation centers open beyond this year would play directly into the hands of the small group that has been fighting for complete exclusion of all evacuees and which uses the centers as targets tar-gets for prejudicial attacks. Myer said the changed public attitude at-titude was due mainly to the records re-cords made by the 13,300 Nisei in the armed forces and the 36,000 evacuees who have relocated to almost al-most every state in the Union. |