Evacuation Fails to Stop Cupid At Camp Manzanar
By PAUL OHTAKI
Review Staff Correspondent

CAMP MANZANAR, Calif., Wednesday, April 15--Bainbridge Island's evacuated Japanese aliens and American citizens began to settle down to routine life in this community this week.

Indicative was the announcement of the engagement of Miss Fujiko Koba, only daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. K. Koba, Winslow, to Tadashi Sakuma, Seattle. Miss Koba was graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1934 and was employed at Bainbridge Gardens, Fletcher Bay.

Wedding plans were not announced. Both are living with Miss Koba's father here.

Mr. Sakuma was recently employed by the Huber family at Crystal Springs and was a music student of Miss Maybelle Brannen.

Another indication of a return to somewhat normal life was the employment of many Islanders on jobs at the camp.

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Easter Sunday here brought a thrilling surprise for Islanders. Miss Florence M. Rumsey, Baptist missionary from Seattle who helped organize the Winslow Baptist Church, arrived and helped the Rev. and Mrs. Gordon Chapman, Los Angeles, conduct Easter morning worship. Islanders who aided in this service were Harry Yamashita, Robert Koba and Peter Ohtaki, all of Winslow, and K. Hayashi, Manzanita.

In the afternoon, the Winslow Baptist Young People's Union celebrated Christ's resurrection. Robert Koba led the devotional ceremony, featured by hymns, prayer and a short talk on "Meaning of Easter to a Christian During Troubled Times."

In the evening, the Union met with the North Hollywood Japanese Christian Endeavor.

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Subscribers to The Review were overjoyed when the first copies of the newspaper after the evacuation arrived here. Some had been concerned whether the paper would be sent them. Islanders really "went" for the news from home, especially since the Owen Valley Progress-Citizen, published at Lone Pine, a town near here, was about the only paper seen during the first few weeks.

The Progress-Citizen, incidentally, carries the unusual front-page claim that the highest and lowest points in the United States are in Owen Valley: Mt. Whitney, 14,496 feet, and Badwater, 279 feet below sea level.