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TODAY
Today is Wednesday, June 16, the
167th day of 2021. There are 198
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1858, accepting the Illinois Re-
publican Party’s nomination for the
U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said
the slavery issue had to be resolved,
declaring, “A house divided against
itself cannot stand.”
In 1897, the government signed a
treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
In 1903, Ford Motor Co. was incor-
porated.
In 1911, IBM had its beginnings as
the Computing-Tabulating-Record-
ing Co. which was incorporated in
New York State.
In 1959, actor George Reeves, TV’s
“Superman,” was found dead of an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound in the bedroom of his Bever-
ly Hills, California, home; he was 45.
In 1963, the world’s first female
space traveler, Valentina Tereshko-
va, 26, was launched into orbit by
the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6;
Tereshkova spent 71 hours in flight,
circling the Earth 48 times before
returning safely.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter and
Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos
signed the instruments of ratifica-
tion for the Panama Canal treaties
during a ceremony in Panama City.
In 1999, Kathleen Ann Soliah, a
fugitive member of the Symbionese
Liberation Army, was captured in
St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had
made a new life under the name
Sara Jane Olson.
In 2015, real estate mogul Donald
Trump launched his successful
campaign to become president of
the United States with a speech at
Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Ten years ago: U.S. Rep. Anthony
Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resig-
nation from Congress, bowing to the
furor caused by his sexually charged
online dalliances with a former porn
performer and other women.
Five years ago: President Barack
Obama traveled to Orlando, Florida,
the scene of a deadly nightclub
shooting that claimed 49 victims;
the president embraced grieving
families and cheered on Democrats’
push for new gun control measures.
One year ago: Federal authorities
announced murder and attempted
murder charges against an Air Force
sergeant, Steven Carrillo, in the
fatal shooting of a federal security
officer outside a U.S. courthouse in
Oakland. (Carrillo also faces charges
in the ambush killing of a California
sheriff’s deputy and has pleaded
not guilty in both cases. Authorities
said Carrillo had ties to the far-right,
anti-government “boogaloo” move-
ment.) President Donald Trump
signed an executive order that he
said would encourage better police
practices; it would establish a da-
tabase to track police officers with
excessive use-of-force complaints in
their records.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Eileen
Atkins is 87. Actor Bill Cobbs is 87.
Author Joyce Carol Oates is 83.
Songwriter Lamont Dozier is 80.
Actor Joan Van Ark is 78. Boxing Hall
of Famer Roberto Duran is 70. Actor
Laurie Metcalf is 66. Actor Danny
Burstein is 57. Model-actor Jenny
Shimizu is 54. Actor James Patrick
Stuart is 53. Rapper MC Ren is 52.
Golfer Phil Mickelson is 51. Actor
John Cho is 49. Actor China Shavers
is 44. Actor Daniel Bruhl is 43. Blue-
grass musician Caleb Smith (Balsam
Range) is 43. Actor Sibel Kekilli is 41.
Actor Missy Peregrym is 39. Singer
Diana DeGarmo (TV: “American
Idol”) is 34. Actor Ali Stroker is 34.
Tennis player Bianca Andreescu is 21.
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Japanese American soldiers
honore d for service in WWII
BY DANA HAYNES
Pamplin Media Group
T
hey fought for a country that
didn’t trust them. Back home,
or in internment camps, they
fought to bring that injustice to light.
It’s believed that only 10 of the
“nisei” Japanese American soldiers
of World War II remain alive in the
greater Portland area. Of those 10,
four were invited and one was able
to attend a Monday ceremony at the
Oregon Historical Society in cele-
bration of the release of a U.S. Postal
Service stamp honoring their sac-
rifice.
The ceremony — “Go For Broke
Soldiers: Japanese American Sol-
diers of WWII” — was recorded and
can be watched at StampOurStory.
org. Among the honorees were for-
mer Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski
and four generations of the descen-
dants of the soldiers.
Among the speakers was Mia Ka-
zuko Ballinger, 11, from Bend. Her
great-grandfather, Harry Morioka,
was incarcerated at an American
concentration camp before he vol-
unteered for the U.S. Army, where
he served as a linguist with the Mili-
tary Intelligence Service.
“They asked me if I’d speak here
because my great-grandpa was a Ni-
sei soldier,” she said before the pre-
sentation. “I feel really proud that I
have a famous Japanese relative, and
that I’m Japanese.”
Hillsboro native Arthur Iwasaki,
who died in 2017 at the age of 97,
was another of the people honored
Monday at the event.
As part of the ceremony, actor
Ken Yoshikawa read a letter that
Iwasaki, who served in the 442nd
Regimental Combat Team wrote to
the Hillsboro Argus newspaper after
the war.
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LEFT: Honoring the stamp that commemorates the “Go For Broke” nisei soldiers was, from left, former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski,
Linda Tamura, chair of the committee organizing the event, and Yoshiro Tokiwa, one of the few surviving nisei soldiers in the Portland
metro area and a veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
RIGHT: Mia Kazuko Ballinger, a fifth grader from Bend whose great-grandfather served in World War II, was one of the presenters Mon-
day in Portland. “I’m really proud that I have a relative who did this, and that I’m Japanese,” she said before the presentation.
“It was long overdue,” said Christi
Iwasaki, Art Iwasaki’s daughter. “It was
really frustrating because it’s an import-
ant piece of history. They had to over-
come a lot of hurdles. I’m glad they got
this. It’s really nice that they’re being
honored.”
Iwasaki’s nephew, Ron Iwasaki of
Hillsboro and himself a Vietnam vet-
eran of the U.S. Air Force, said he was
sad so few of the Nisei survived to see
this moment. Of the 10 nisei veterans
known to be living in the Portland/Van-
couver area, only Yoshiro Tokiwa, vet-
eran of the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team, was able to attend.
“Uncle Art’s family established a
Baker City man used COVID
loan for personal expenses
BY JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
A 32-year-old Baker
City man pleaded guilty
this month to receiving a
$145,200 federal COVID-19
relief loan on behalf of a fic-
titious company and then
using the money for per-
sonal purposes, including
buying a $49,000 car, federal
officials said.
Jeremy Michael Clawson
pleaded guilty June 8 to
one count of theft of public
money, according to a press
release from the U.S. Attor-
ney’s Office in Portland.
The U.S. Attorney’s Of-
fice will recommend a
24-month prison sentence
followed by three years’ super-
vised release, according to the
press release. Clawson is sched-
uled to be sentenced Sept. 13.
As part of the plea agree-
ment, Clawson has agreed to
pay $125,200 in restitution to
the U.S. Treasury.
Clawson is serving a
19-month sentence at the
Snake River Correctional Insti-
tution in Ontario after plead-
ing guilty Sept. 29 in Baker
County Circuit Court to at-
tempting to elude a police of-
ficer and driving under the in-
fluence of intoxicants on Aug.
21, 2020. Baker City Police
officer Justin Prevo arrested
Clawson Aug. 21, according to
court records.
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to honor the Nisei,” Ron Iwasaki said.
“This is a pretty special moment.”
The U.S. Postal Service released the
new stamp earlier this month. Ceremo-
nies have taken place, or are planned,
across the country.
At Oregon’s event, Kulongoski said,
“Our Japanese American World War
II veterans fought for democracy while
their own families were incarcerated in
concentration camps on American soil.
They believed in America. We salute
them. And we will not forget.”
Asian American actors portrayed
stories of military service. Beyond
Yoshikawa’s reading of the Hillsboro
Argus letter, actor David Loftus read
an excerpt from the diary of Harold
Okimoto of the 522nd Field Artillery
Battalion; and Alton Chung presented
former U.S. Rep. Al Ullman’s tribute to
Frank Hachiya of the Military Intelli-
gence Service.
“This unique commemoration rec-
ognizes and reminds us of the legacy
achieved by Nisei veterans of WWII,”
said Doug Katagiri, son of linguist
George Katagiri, veteran of the Military
Intelligence Service. “It’s impossible to
overstate their sacrifices in building this
legacy, fighting a war abroad while en-
during racism and an extraordinary ep-
isode of national injustice at home.”