Full title:Ted Eikichi Miyamura, Issei from the Gila River Relocation Center, is harvesting tomatoes on the farm of Herman S. Heston, Newtown, Bucks County, Pa. Mr. Miyamura is one of the five Issei who were obliged by neighbors' protests to leave another farm at Great Meadows, N.J., shortly after arriving there in April 1944 from Gila River. A few days later the men were employed by Mr. Heston through the WRA relocation office in Philadelphia. Mr. Miyamura's young Nisei wife, the former Chieko Fukumori of Los Angeles, came from Gila River to join him in August. She is employed as a domestic in the nearby home of Mr. Heston's sister. Her mother, Mrs. Tamiko Fukumori, still resides at Gila River. Prior to evacuation in April, 1942, Mr. Miyamura was a farmer at Stockton, Calif. His present employer, Mr. Heston, speaks highly of the Issei. I have found them loyal, hard-working, clean and pleasant to work with, he said. We like them a lot and have a high regard for them.<lb /> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb /> Newtown, Pennsylvania. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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