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The Sacramento Room holds all ten issues of the mimeographed “Walerga Wasp,” the community newspaper for the Sacramento Assembly Center, located 14-miles northeast of Sacramento. Also referred to as Camp Walerga, the center was built in March/April 1942 as a staging center for Japanese American and Japanese aliens for their transfer to internment camps through the west, most to Tule Lake, Modoc County. Once constructed, the center could hold up to 5,000 people. The biweekly Wasp – running on Wednesdays and Saturdays – covered general camp news, social news, and sports, and was operated by a staff of 15, including Editor George “Jobo” Nakamura. The camp closed near the end of June 1942 and, by August, was converted into the United States Army’s new signal corps base, eventually named Camp Kohler.
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