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AH: And when did you and your husband leave Denver?

SH: We left in '53.

AH: And the paper limped along for another seven or eight years or something after that before...

SH: See, that, I really don't know how long. I remember when my husband was already going to the University of Denver, that my father asked him to come by and talk to him, and my father was in the newspaper then. And he asked him if he would come back and help him with the newspaper. And my husband said no, he couldn't do it because he was involved in school and he had to go on with his life. And I know my father felt really terrible about it.

AH: A couple of things. One, there's a tragedy of fairly large proportions with Jimmie losing his position and going through the court cases and stuff, but there's also a tragedy involved with your dad. And to some degree your husband-to-be, because he loses his source of income at that time. But in 1947, Jimmie gets back in as the editor of the Rocky Shimpo for a half a year. And then, of course, he has a major war with the JACL and he ends up resigning. Now, he has some grievances at times with the Toda family and the newspaper, he didn't feel like he got his salary that was promised him, but then Tetsuko said that the government said, "You can't pay him this salary."

SH: And there was a government... I remember a head that was taking over the newspaper, and I think she had to run a lot of things by him.

AH: Yeah, it was an Alien Property Control...

SH: Right, 'cause they were in control and I think she had to report or tell them what was going on. And so I think there was a lot to do with it. Now, I just remember the name and I remember this big guy that came, but other than that, I don't know what kind of relationship it was, but I knew that they were in charge, and she had to go by their rules.

AH: Did you stay in touch with the paper after you got married in '46?

SH: No, not much at all.

AH: So you wouldn't have remembered Omura coming back as an editor and that stormy kind of period then, okay.

SH: No, because I was in school full time.

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