Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 56

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WASHINGTON—L a s t week
the Army announced its
point system for the release
of ground, air and service
force enlisted personnel,,
temporarily setting a minimum count of 85 points as
a requisite for such discharges.
The points will be based
on service credit, overseas
duty,participation in combat, and parenthood.
Servicemen with this
total will be considered
•eligible for release and
will start moving this week
for separation centers, it
was reported. Separate
critical scores for each of
the services will be set
.up in about six weeks.
In the next 12 months,
about 1,300,000 men will
•be discharged under the
point system.
The points for each of
the four factors for release
are:
Service Credit—Onepoint
for each month of Army service since Sept.. 16* 1940.
(More than 15 days will be
counted as a full month.)
Overseas Credit--One
point for each month served
overseas since Sept, 16,
1940.
Combat Credit—-Five
points for each award of
combat .decorations -.since
Sept. 16, 1940..
Par'enth ob d C r e d 11- -1E
points for each child' under
18 years up, to a limit of
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Blessed with a perfectly
warn and beautiful weather
reminiscent of sunny California, over 3000 Amache
residents turned out to enjoy and participate in the
festivities of the grand
Field Day program at the
10F athletic field last
Saturday.
A colorful array of
festooned pennants and flags
decorating the. .field and
pavilion, and' music ably
provided by the high school
band-and-the drum and bugle
corps of Boy Scout troop
179 enlivened the atmosphere.
A variety, of ry^es and
contests and t     luerade
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Amache, Colo.
SV. CROCK C!L«
- Blocks 71*
the axe In
and' 9L are the first two blocks to feel
tho first schedule of tho mess hall and
block closing program as announced by Project Director James G. Lindley ..	
hall wi 11 discontinue ©per*
•ation, while June 4 has
.been set for the closing of
9L mess hall. Residents of
these blocks may continue
to reside there until actual
closing- of the blocks, but
last Monday.
On May' 21 the 7 K me si
imiiSEi
a.
WITH IHB FOURTEENTH ARK
CORPS, &0UTHHRH LUZON—Joe and blocks
J. Yoshiwara, 2 7, son of spoctively.
.Shigoru Yoshiwara, 9E-BB,
Amach e, C o 1 o.., ha s. be en c om-
missioned directly as a
2nd lieutenant for Ids part
.they will have their meals
-served in blocks 7H and 8H
8R and 9K re»
Since Jan*- 1, 194-5, re»
location movement has greatly accelerated, and to dp,te
1,053 evacuees ■ have taken
in the liberation of Manila, terminal leaves, thus leav-
Coming overseas as an ing many vac ancles through-
enlisted man two years ago, out the center, declared
he was made warrant -officer :L i n d 1 e y. 'Therefore, he
after the Bougainville-and continued,  it has become
feasible to start the block
closing program.
■UPKEEP   DIFFICULT
Guadalcanal operations in
which lie participated.
Lieutenant Yoshiwara
wears the bronze .Star, medal,
two campaign ribbons and
the bronze arrowhead for
assault land in gs,under>fire.
His two brothers are also
in the service. . Andrew is
In addition, during the
recent months the problem
of maintenance and. "water
supply has become increasingly difficult, due pri*:
in the European Theater, of marily to purchase re'stric-
Operations,' while .Grove is tions on plumbing, electri-
at Ft,,Snelling, Minn,
imi
%Y   HE
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jCal and refrigeration parts,
the project director added,
. "It. the remaining res!**
.dents of block 7H have no
immediate relocation, plans,
parade which induced inter- they are encouraged to move
block competition arou.sed now into one of the follow-
interes.t and attention ing"openarea"blocks where
a number of vacancies dxist:
6E, 6F, GG,, 6H* 7S, 7"F, 7G,
throughout the day.
Keieabu.ro Koda was,.the
general chairman of the
event-, while Project Director James G, Lindley was
the honorary chairman.
An' unofficial 5-3-1 tabulation, for the first .'hree
places showed than 7 11
.amassed 42 points to lead
in the athletic events.
Block 10E took the runner-
up spot with
•while HJi and
OUT.
7R,,«E,   0-F-wxnH   OG.
11  i s c on t emp 1 a t e d tha t
i.11 o s e  a f ^n omenti o ned   bio cl<s
va
remain    in     operation
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vAtufrALS cntiej*
coasi ciiiiMCii
SAH JOSE--Forcing  open
_,the . temple door with a
8 digit s, fvcrowbar, vandal s br oke int o i
12H were the local Buddhist church
•right behind
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damaged clothes and
Results of the various destroyed other property,
events will He found on. page it was reported by the
5 and 6:of this Issue.     nolice.