Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 39

              March 17, 1945.
PIONEER
Page 3
The remainder of Finance
Officer Ja.ck G.,. Bohon's
finance department pulled
up stakes and moved from
its quarters in the North
Ad. building into the Wroth
building last Thursday,
thus consolidating the various finance sections under one roof.
In t he shuffle, the e-
vacuee property office,under Herbert J.Vatcher,. and
the statistics department
under Joseph L. Buckley,
statistician, formerly located in the Wroth building,
transferred into the North
Ad. building.     ... .
Center residents having
evacuee property business
may contact Vatcher at his
new office in room 8.
Dr. Enoch Dumas, elementary school principal,
is in Los Angeles . on personal business, disclosed
Dr. Lloyd A. Garrison, superintendent of education.
Dr. Dumas, who is on leave,
is scheduled to return
Monday.
Pedestrians walking a-
cross elementary school
frounds are requested not
to disturb cultivated .areas
where the children have
planted rye to help hold
down the dust.
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The school co-op put on
a War Bonds and Stamps drive
yesterday. Proceeds will
be announced as soon as
possible, stated Mrs. Otto
Anderson,  advisor.
The junior class is
sponsoring a St. Patrick's
dance tonight at Terry Hall.
This stag and stagette affair is limited to juniors
only.
Toshiko Sakamoto, Shig
Hamaoka, Jim Yamasaki and
Tomio Jofuku participated
in yesterday afternoon's
Junior Town Meeting learue
program held in the school
auditorium. The topic was
"Shall Congress pass at
this time a bill which provides     for  universal mill-
A h a nyl y p o'c k'e t - s i z ed
guide to the City of Cleveland has been prepared by
a group of nisei in Cleveland for use by new arrivals
to acquaint them with the
city,stated Mario Vecchio,
relocation advisor.
The guide is a 16-page
pamphlet giving descriptions
of transportation lines,
eating places, amusement
centers, marketing areas,
service bureaus and church
facilities. It also contains two maps? one of the
downtown area showing spots'
ofspecial interest to evacuees and other of recreation showing outstanding
points of amusement. In
addition, there is other
material such as suggested
budgets for newcomers and
job   opportunities.
A number of these guides
are available at the local
relocation program office
for  examination.
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AUBURN, Calif.— District
Attorney C. E. Tindall ..of
Placer county declared
there Is no evidence to
indicate further acts of
terrorism against Japanese
in the burning of a house
belonging to.S. Kubo, who
recently returned to Pen-
ryn from Gila River relocation center, Tindall's
statement was based on report made " by W. F. Mann,
associate forest ranger,
who made the investigation
with H. R, Sinclair of
the state department of
justice.
The '"■ place is known as
the Hada ranch, and. some
property belonging to the
M, Hadta family was in the
dwelling, which was occupied by the Lonnie Postell
family when it burned last
week. The fire ^.vas said
to have probably started
from a defective chimney.
The total loss is estimated at $3,300, of whi-ch
$1,500 was covered b'y insurance ,
tary training for one year
during peacetime of" 18-year -
old boys?*'
C . If. P et t e g r ew, na t i ona 1
moderator from Columbus,
Ohi o,c ond ucted the me et ing.
Tom Uratsu, 14, former
Amache high school student,
became the first person of
Japanese descent to enroll
at the Placer Union high
school at Auburn, Calif.,
since evacuation, when he
registered as a high freshman early last week.
He .is the son of Mr.
and Mrs, Hango Uratsu;who
returned to their ranch
home near Loomis.
Due to the record of
older brothers in the service, the family had no
difficulty in returning to
the West Coast.
Masaji Uratsu, who has
been awarded the Bronze
Star, is in the Pacific
in the Army intelligence
service,while his brother,
Kiyoshi, is in the Army in
Texas,and another brother,
Marvin, is training for
intelligence service at
Fort Snelling, Minn, All
are Placer high graduates.
Miss Hobuko Uratsu,also
a Placer alumna, is studying to be a nurse at St.
Louis, Mo,
WAftf'. SURPLUS.
FARM  «EOyiPMFW!¥
TULE LAKE, Calif .—A resolution to make available
surplus tractors, trucks
and other farm equipment
now held at the Tule Lake
segregation center has been
drawn up by a group of farm
orranlzations of the Klamath and Tule Lake Basins.
Farmers pointed out that
a quantity of machinery
lies idle at the center,
which could be used to alleviate the existing shortage  of farm machinery in
Klamath county.
Fred Wuetzell of the WRA
motor transport and maintenance office in Washington,DC, arrived here yes-
terday to check all government equipments inthe center, stated Clyde H, Shra-
der, motor pool supervisor.
John Ter Borg, housing
superintendent, requests
all relocatees to check in
the WRA property issued to
them with their respective
block manager before leaving the center.