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Japanese-Americans remember incarceration
By CHEYENNE SCHOEN
Herald and News
KLAMATH FALLS — Forty-four
years after she was born behind bars,
Satsuki Ina visited an exhibition at the
Smithsonian about the Japanese-Amer-
ican incarceration.
It was there, in an exhibition room
across the country from her San Fran-
cisco Bay area home, that Ina came face-
to-face with a man in a photograph on
the wall. She recognized him instantly.
It was her father, and the photo showed
him in a prison camp in front of his jail
cell.
It was the irst time Ina had discov-
ered the extent of her parents’ four-year
incarceration.
“My parents never spoke about it,”
Ina said of the incarceration of 120,000
people of Japanese ancestry. “I had
never really understood or known about
what happened.”
Ina was born May 25, 1944, at
the Tule Lake maximum-security
segregation center, just south of the
Oregon-California border.
It was the largest of 10 detention
centers created by the U.S. government
in 1942, holding nearly 19,000 inmates
at its peak. The Tule Lake site was
reserved for those who posed a security
risk and were considered disloyal or
disruptive to the other camps’ opera-
tions.
The only recollection Ina has of the
camps is of leaving them on a train when
she was small enough to put her hands
on the arm rests and swing through the
aisles.
A seemingly innocent memory —
but Ina recalls a certain kind of freedom
she felt that day.
“What I felt about that memory
was it was not a jubilant time of being
freed,” Ina recalled. “It was a time of
great uncertainty.”
The uncertainty stemmed from the
fact that her parents, Itaru and Shizuko
Ina, had renounced their U.S. Citizen-
ship in 1941, hoping their detachment
would allow them to be sent to Japan.
Now freed from the camps, they did not
know what the world would look like
four years and an entire war later.
And like many survivors of the
camps, Ina’s parents made great efforts
to assimilate back into American
society. They kept their heads down.
They did not ask for raises. And they
rarely spoke about their experiences, so
as not to pass along the trauma to their
children. Instead, they strove to succeed.
But Ina said the pressures Japa-
nese-Americans put on themselves in
order to succeed in the post-war culture
caused great anxieties that trickled down
for generations.
“There is a signiicant amount of
anxiety,” Ina said. “(They must) get
a good job or a good education or
stay out of trouble in order to survive,
because they’ve been in this completely
depressed lifestyle for up to ive years. It
creates this sort of global response to the
world. Am I doing this right? Am I clean
enough? Am I honest enough?”
Since that day in the museum, Ina has
dedicated her life’s work to researching
the Japanese incarceration and coun-
seling generations of survivors, mainly
Japanese-Americans, who have suffered
trauma from their incarceration. She
was a psychotherapist in Sacramento
and Berkeley for 20 years, a professor
emeritus at Cal State Sacramento, and
has written, co-directed and produced
two ilms about the incarceration.
Now, Ina is one of hundreds of
Japanese-Americans who ventures back
to the site of their incarceration in the
desert highlands of Tule Lake every two
years.
Though she is now retired from
teaching, Ina’s work is not over. Every
BRIEFLY
State inds
undisclosed
pesticides in pot
growing products
“It is a place where
thousands of lives
were destroyed.”
SEATTLE (AP)
— Washington state’s
Department of Agriculture
says it has found traces of
undisclosed pesticides in
many of the marijuana-
growing fertilizers and
other products it tested
recently.
Inspectors tested 39
products. Spokesman
Hector Castro said
Thursday that of the 27
tests for which it has results
so far, 15 had residues of
pesticides that weren’t on
the product’s label. That
means growers could be
using certain pesticides
without knowing it.
Some of the ingredients
aren’t allowed in
Washington’s legal
marijuana system.
Oficials ordered a
statewide halt to sales of
the 15 products, which
include pesticides such as
Safergro Mildew Cure for
Powdery Mildew Control
as well as fertilizers sold
under the labels Humboldt
Roots, Olivia’s Cloning Gel
and Optic Foliar Overgrow.
The Agriculture
Department ordered
licensed growers to advise
customers who have used
the products to advise their
customers about it.
— Satsuki Ina,
On Tule Lake segregation center
pilgrimage, she leads a symposium that
invites survivors to discuss the impact
of their wartime incarceration.
This weekend will be her 11th
pilgrimage back to the place she was
born.
“Many people get very triggered
by what they’re hearing and it’s an
emotional experience,” Ina said. “We
want to give them time to talk about their
emotions surfacing. There will be some
people in their 90s, many in their 80s,
and they will be mostly grieving about
what their parents had to go through.”
Part of the pilgrimage is the visit to
the site of the former Tule Lake segre-
gation center.
Not much of the camp is left. Holes
exist where the toilets once stood. The
cemetery has since been mowed over,
and it is not clear what happened to the
bodies once buried there.
But the memories remain ingrained
in the minds of the survivors.
For this reason, Ina said the Japa-
nese-American community “feels very
strongly” about preserving the Tule
Lake camp site.
“It is a place where thousands of
lives were destroyed and descendants
and survivors return to honor and mourn
the losses that their ancestors suffered,”
Ina said. “The pilgrimage is this very
intense and powerful journey and part
of people’s healing.”
Hundreds of Japanese-Americans
from a number of states will make the
journey to Klamath Falls Friday, July 1,
through Monday, July 4 for the program.
Nike co-founder
Phil Knight
retires from board
Oregon minimum wage, hotel tax goes up today
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
PORTLAND — New laws kicking
in Friday will give a slight boost to
the paychecks of more than 100,000
low-income Oregonians while tourists
and vacationers will have a little less
spending money in their wallets.
Under the changes enacted by the
Legislature earlier this year, the current
1 percent tax on hotel stays in Oregon
will nearly double and the state’s $9.25
hourly minimum wage will climb by
50 cents in two of three newly-created
geographic regions — metro Portland
and smaller cities such as Eugene and
Salem — and 25 cents in the third area’s
rural communities located mostly east.
The lodging tax hike to 1.8 percent,
which will slip to 1.5 percent in four
years, will help create a $25 million-sub-
sidy for the 2021 World Track and Field
Championships in Eugene and provide
additional state tourism funds.
Friday’s wage increase is the irst
of seven happening annually through
2022, when metro Portland’s minimum
will top $14.75, smaller cities at $13.50
and rural areas at $12.50.
Employees who travel will either
earn the wage from whichever region
they spend more than half their time,
by hours worked in each region or the
highest rate of whichever region they
work.
With the federal $7.25 minimum
unchanged in seven years, unions and
labor groups have recently been pressing
states and localities nationwide to make
up the slack. A dozen state legislatures
did so in 2014 and 2015, and this year
California and New York became the
irst to adopt $15 hourly minimums,
higher than any other.
Oregon falls short of $15, but it’s
the irst state to toss the lat, statewide
minimum for a tiered approach by
region, where the differing wage rates
are based on each area’s unique costs of
living and other economic factors.
“In the past six years, the number of
people moving to Oregon has increased
by 10 percent while much of our state’s
job growth is happening in the low wage
sectors of the economy. Combine that
trend with housing costs skyrocketing
and we have a problem,” Tom Chamber-
lain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO
union, said in a statement. “Solving
that problem requires a multifaceted
approach, and raising wages is central
to that approach.”
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
Partly sunny
Partly sunny and
pleasant
90° 61°
87° 61°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Clearing
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
87° 56°
84° 56°
84° 55°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
94° 62°
92° 63°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
88°
84°
108° (1924)
60°
55°
36° (1898)
PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
Last year to date
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HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
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84°
102° (2013)
67°
56°
38° (1949)
PRECIPITATION
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
July 4
July 11
87° 57°
87° 55°
Seattle
74/60
ALMANAC
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92° 57°
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8:48 p.m.
3:03 a.m.
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Last
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July 26
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Wenatchee
85/62
90/66
Tacoma
Moses
76/58
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 92/62
84/53
67/57
76/56
93/64
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
76/59
90/66 Lewiston
95/62
Astoria
92/62
68/57
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
81/62
Pendleton 86/52
The Dalles 94/62
90/61
88/65
La Grande
Salem
87/52
84/59
Albany
Corvallis 84/57
85/57
John Day
91/52
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
98/60
86/55
86/49
Caldwell
Burns
95/56
90/46
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
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Newport
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WINDS
Medford
92/59
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
90/50
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today. Be-
coming cloudy tonight; a couple of showers
in central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; hot. Partly cloudy tonight. Hot in the
south tomorrow.
Western Washington: Partly sunny today.
Low clouds tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow
with a shower in places.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight; however, cloudy
toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Mostly sunny and pleasant
today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly sunny
tomorrow.
Northern California: Brilliant sunshine
today. Hot in central parts; pleasant at the
coast.
Today
Saturday
WSW 6-12
WSW 6-12
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PORTLAND (AP) —
The Oregon Supreme Court
has sided with a shoplifter
on the question of whether
restitution should be
based on the retail or
wholesale value of stolen
merchandise.
The defendant was
convicted of theft in 2013
after stealing 15 pairs of
jeans from a Macy’s store
in Portland.
The prosecutor who
sought restitution to cover
Macy’s loss asked for it to
be based on the retail value
of the jeans. The defendant
said it should be based on
what Macy’s would pay to
replace them.
Lower courts sided
with the prosecutor, but the
high court overruled those
judges Thursday.
The opinion written
by Justice Martha Walters
states the retailer would
recover more than its actual
losses if it gets retail value.
She says the seller
might be entitled to recover
other economic damages,
including lost proits, but
those must be proved and
they were not in this case.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
PORTLAND (AP) —
Nike said Thursday that its
co-founder and chairman
Phil Knight has retired
from its board and CEO
Mark Parker has been
named the new chairman.
The move completes
a transition plan that was
announced last year.
Knight, 78, started the
business selling shoes
out of the back of his
car and helped build it
into the world’s largest
athletic shoe and clothing
company. He will become
chairman emeritus, which
enables him to attend board
meetings as an observer.
“Phil’s impact on Nike
is immeasurable,” Parker
said in a statement. “His
entrepreneurial drive is and
always will be part of our
DNA.”
Parker, 60, has been
president and CEO of Nike
Inc. since 2006.
The Beaverton company
also announced that
Apple CEO Tim Cook,
on its board since 2005,
will become its lead
independent director.
Nike also said Thursday
that Knight sold his voting
interests in Swoosh LLC to
his son.
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and central Plains today. Drenching storms will affect coastal areas of the Southeast states.
Storms will dot the interior West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Daggett, Calif.
Low 33° in Boca Reservoir, Calif.
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Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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