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Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE In the 1940s, Topaz internment camp - . 140 miles southwest of !r 'r T~;~;~i~~'to .:i~"* : '~d~~~~::~:~i~J~"~~~~~~~;I,~~1 ,.;'" ' ':li1'n ' a':•.s ,It . .... 'qv'~d~~ad" e;w3sfrom'C1eve~d .~ hlo, ~ . I:; Rem . .,. ~ never _even~ ~ep) ~a~. , . ' .. .',,~ "1"" i-:-.UT. ow ulu'll vv~~~ ~~ A~T:! " ., I • Continued from D-l , .Ii" ,< "" n maiTied 52·years. - .. ',;," ·t·" ~nese person," ~h~ .Smiles ~ay. '. jl)ater We both fell m love W1~ th~ high desert and those beautiful oun- ...." ·f. ,'-i1A ;. ~. '" . ,.6:e:~~~or~~~:~rj~~ ; (~~:' r~.:' -"'!'.fv 1~ "'!"·· ~>·~:t·.~I!""··'f;··--· l tams on the horizon." . ~ };, . ,..,~ .man~ .lil ve 6ec;~e Ameri. · . '.' And ·~y.(tJtalins· fe'lt · , . . , canized, the racial strains are un· < dred spm. t .wf12 ~~ Topaz s~tt1e... ,dilut~d.:' . ., ':". ti ~~~t. w . }~.i;':, ,:; 'f1,! 0 ' . lFD greed an4/ilgned Execu· These mternees were ~ing ;9.:tiYe ~r 9066 oq)eb. 19,,,.942, "" .:' what the ancesto~ o~ the ),I~~~n ~!! ~ .til counter" people h!i9, beell'}i'ying to ~~-4!P' auth9 ')Jtlle .. ~Y.: .alien.;,.pxyblem. In- ;". ~ ~ reif~m \I,d~Ii lanl'!lS'pe ternm~nt camps wer,e built in Cal· '. mto. som~~h,:re :Ul~y ~oul~ ilUIke .. iforni~, Arizona, ' Idaho, Wyo· .. · a ,livingS ' ' ,,", saY.~...~0!J.l'lPie . 1&=~;r1i".ti~~~ru~' .).mmg/ Cot~rado·, ~Arkansas and '!;> Utah: tate Unn;enlny prof.~r . '~Utalf.J ,,~..."" H>"~ ' " '::'''''_' ,~. f .. ementty;.w~,o!le IIf.~2 le~on IFrnm1en,. ", A~L dirig " '~t0f" to'",. Y'" d Jl . ArTopaz moSt ~r LeOnar . . . was . ' file first . and , .....'de- f\P," says Rick! ' . be of Lake . rtngtbn's history or Topaz, The . flDltive hl,Stqry of t!t!;}:amp;. City, whose p nts were Intern· Price of Prejudice, Utah officials "There w~ a connection, some ees at another p. ' 'They tried . werlj not thrilled with the selec- symJ.lathy, some bonding between to make the bes( of a very bad sit· tion,· Gov. Herbert Maw vehe- the mternees and the people of uation. That's I:how they surme~ly opposed any facility on Utah," says Arrington. "When I vived." . L1 " " "";. '~ . ~':l!irennlallly the' populous Wasatch Front be- gave that ·lecture, ther\! ~ere six In 1988, P-l'~~id;~tReagan cause internees would be "dan- different professors in the audigerous." Others worried about ence who had some conn~~tion to signed a bill intj\law directing the sallotage or the 106S of limited Topaz. The university vice presi- "government to ISiue an apology to fartnland, while one rural county dent's mother was the librarian at \he 110,000 Japanese-American upternees and I1\1Y each survivor .->-lil3Jlla-.IIOI~e co!JlIllissioner declared, " If they Topaz. " . . . ' ._ thrust on us, we want them in Most of the Topaz internees had 120,000. The f~t payments were . . centration camps." lived in the San Francisco Bay issued in 1990 ah(l since that time, and edu· .. ~, n spite of such outside animos- area and many returned there af- the push for . ~ , relationships between the ter the camp closed on Hl\Pow- cation of the in':rrullleJlt ·tes who operated the Topaz een, 1945. For most of th~.nsu- "has grown. I"ManzID:ar: ""' p.4l1 th&Japanese;American ing years, the internees hav~ .)..ept but ternees lriiprisoned there were their experiences fo ~e iJ,Ves, rprisingly cordial. Eleanor Se- abiding by . a cultural prin~ple erak met her h~band Emil, a known as shikataganai, th ~'re- ,,I. ' E 9. ,~ , :.f~_.i· ~ ~~ ~ ~S· ,~ ~.Q." ',:' |
