SS Castlegar News _febrvory 27. 1905 cs__Castlegar News c OF GOODWILL . . . A sign for Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre created by local craftsman Gordie Hill on a cedar board donated by Dave Miner of Rob- son was erected Feb. 18 by Hill and Ron Mcintyre of Blueberry. The routered, painted and varnished sign was given as a public service to the day-care centre. CosNews Photo by John Charters Medals lost meaning HAMILTON (CP) — Masumi Mitsui fought for Canada in the First World War but learned the medals he won were meaningless when a fellow military man told him his Japanese-Canadian family had to be interned. The year was 1942, said Matsui’s daughter, as she recalled the painful and humiliating story of a family evacuated from their Port Coquitlam home and sent to an internment camp during the Second World War. Lucy Ishii remembers clinging to her mother, sobbing with terror as she and her brother watched their father’s rage sometime after he learned of the internment. “We knew he had a gun at home and we thought he was holding it in his pocket,” said Ishii of nearby Ancaster, Ont. The children followed their father into the office of Capt. Harnett of the British Columbia Security Commission, she said. The captain got up and came around his plate-glass topped desk, smiling. “What can I do for you, Sarge?’ “Ishii remembers him saying. “My father said: ‘There's nothing you can do for me now. What are you doing to me? I served my country. You've taken everything away from me. Told us we have to leave with only 150 pounds of luggage. What are the good of my medals?’ ” GRASPS MEDALS Ishii's father’s hand came out of his pocket. It was not a gun he was grasping but the medals, including the Military Medal he had won leading his men up Vimy Ridge, Canada's most famous victory of the First World War. After Mitsui hurled the medals down on the desk, Harnett crawled around picking them up. “I don’t know exact words but he said: ‘Sarge, it is not my doing. I got orders from Ottawa. There is nothing I can do for you.’ ” Mitsui and his family were taken from their chicken farm and interned at a stockyard in British Columbia where pinned-up blankets made makeshift rooms out of cattle and sheep pens. Now in 1 his 98th year, Mitsui, whose name is on a war monument in Vancounver's Stanley Park, still lays a wreath on Remembrance Day. Mitsui, who lives with another daughter, Amy PLEASE PAY ON TIME phy 4 bobbin and the boss says to come back on Wednesday, how do you feel? The same way o carrier feels if he is not paid on time Your Castiegar News carrier is runnirig his own business, and he deserves to be paid promptly If you're late with your payment, your carrier will have to dig into his own pocket to pay for your paper until you do. Keep him in business and he'll keep you in papers. Remember your Castlegar News carrier likes that secure payday feeling as well as you do. Please pay him when he comes to collect. CASTLEGAR NEWS For Your Carrier DEA WVITH A NEW CHOICE OF OMPETITIVE PLANS Kuwabara in Hamilton, is alert but unable to speak clearly, with a memory that fades in and out. He is content to let Ishii tell the story of the family's part in the internment. Three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dee. 7, 1942, the RCMP came for Mitsui. They were taking veterans first. WON'T BE HOME “All my mother told us was that Dad wouldn't be home,” Ishii said. “Naturally we cried. Then when we went to school we were spat at, kids wouldn't talk to us, threw things at us ... We didn't know what was going on. We thought of ourselves as Canadian citizens.” For a time, Mitsui worked at the stockyard as an interpreter, but soon the camp emptied and her father was no longer useful. “They gave us a choice,” she said go east.” Instead they were sent to the mining ghost town of Greenwood in the interior of British Columbia. Ishii recalls arriving by train and seeing an incredulous group af local people. “The people that lived there had never seen Japanese before,” she said. “They had axes, they had hatchets, baseball bats, you name it. They were so scared. “After we got to know them and became friends and worked with them, they said; ‘How come they told us you had fangs and horns?’ ” The Ci “Go back to Japan or worked as for the dozen or so white families still living there. With another family, the Mitsuis shared a tiny house. But the threat of deportation to Japan for all those who refused to move east of the British Columbia border still existed and as the end of the war loomed, so did the threat. The Mitsui family, realizing their father's heroism in the First World War meant nothing in the Second World War, sent the eldest son George to Toronto to scout for jobs. In eastern Canada, the Canadian Army was recruiting Ci i for the Corps. George sent a telegram back to Gr d that he was enili: “My father sent a telegram right back saying: ‘If you enlist after what they have done to me, you are disowned,” said Ishii. AT THE OMMERCE THE RRSP LEADERS AKE IT EASY FOR YOU DLINE-MARCH 1. —— Public Westcoast Seafoods located at keeps watch over Castlegar Mohawk FRIDAY, MARCH 1 Florida coast 10.4.m, to7 p.m. By MAUD S. BELLMAN MIAMI (AP) — They're called Condo Commandos — high-rise dwellers who make up the U.S. coast guard's front line in Florida. Loung- ing on their balconies on the coast or gazing out to sea, they often are the first to spot a ship in distress or signs of drug-smuggling. “They do good and bad things — they're eyes,” said Lieut. Gordon Garrett, senior duty officer at Miami’ 'S coast centre. cently, a mam managed to send up a flare just as his boat went down in Tampa Bay, Garrett said. For a half-hour, every one of the coast guard’s phones were tied up with “at least 25, independent reports, many of which came from a condom- inium complex there,” he said. The coast guard admits condo commandos phone in a good share of false reports, like a ship fire when it’s only FAST CASH REFUNDS NOW OPEN Quality Tax Preparations NELSON — No. 1-609 Baker St. 354-4515 TRAIL — 1300 Cedar Ave. 368-3333 guard “Obviously, there are a lot more eyes out there in the public than we have working directly for us.” So the coast guard dili gently listeps to the many calls it receives each day from those in high places, and it pays off. The coast guard received a call Jan. 21 that a boat had sent up an emergency flare, but no signs of trouble could be found. The next day, a condo commando on Pompano Beach reported “a possible boat fire” seven or eight nau tical miles offshore, said Pet ty Officer Larry Sohl. “This (was) the guy who shot the flares off Miami Beach.” The boat had drifted for more than 24 hours north from Key Biscayne, but all five on board were rescued safely, he said. REPORT ACTIVITY In another instance, a Fort Pierce resident called to report what he thought was suspicious activity, said Bill Conrad, who recently retired from the coast guard. “The guy called and said “People are out here flashing lights at each other,” Conrad recalled. No one was found on the beach but the Florida Marine Patrol boarded a ship and found it laden with mari- juana. \ The most common reports the coast guard received from it condo commandos are emergency flare sight- ings. 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Classified Ads 365-2212 = ss: Castlegar News 4 through vhs esegpope:» me berchipin this newspaper's mem he Be 8 & Yukon , Agen. a DEO MOVIES SAVE 30%. x sell pa he Dred are wqust, December ticul write Box 687, Locombe, TOC 180. aa Wile $i Satmw, Society is sortiovt of an or- e-bed ‘ond drug treat- ment centre to be in the British ee inverested ime tone wean r time location of wah otic Revomse who Sel be available for the Previous Saeco the native alcohol pe bares LS 9 WEBSTER LOG HOMES 1965 Book of Plans: send $13.50 to Webster mae Log Cone itd., Box 307 as 2 ars oes sy ey ry 150 Mile House, B.C. VOK 2G0. Brahensive ond cont etticiont No C.0.Ds. Ay vg whe ertising program For 1975 GRADALL G660