Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 24

              Page 2       PIONEER     January 14, 1943	
TOWN HALL
      TALK
   The committee on social
welfare in cooperation with
the block managers sent o-
mochi to those confined in
institutions in California.
   The educational program
and the promotion of share
buying for the Amache com-
munity enterprises, inc.
was approved by the council.
This was submitied by the
committee on enterprises.
This group will continue
its work until a board of
directors has been duly e-
lected by the shareholders.
       -Tsugime Akaki
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SKETCHES
   Rev. Kosaburo Baba first
set foot on United States
soil in San Francisco in
1886.   Grover Cleveland was
serving his first term that
year, and: on the other side
of the continent, Barthol-
di's  Statue of Liberty was
unveiled.
   To go back over the Rev-
erend's 57 years in  this
country is to review a life
of pioneering and sharing
in the development of t he
West.   
   He first helped intro-
duce Japanese labor on Cal-
ifornia farms  and fruit
ranches and campaigned vig-
orously to  improve wages
and working conditions.
   His decision to turn to
the ministry came in the
early 1900's, when he waged
a bitter fight to wipe out
early gambling dens in Ox-
nard, Calif., that claimed
many of his friends for
victims.
   After  establishing Ox-
nardrs original .Japanese.
Methodist church, he spent
several years trave1ing.
He was in Colorado in 1928
and spent three years in
Denver as an evangelist.
   Today at 89, white-
bearded and still in good
health, Rev. Baba is the
oldest living minister of
Japanese ancestry in the
United States.
   He attends church reg-
ulary,  studies and  exer-
cises  daily,  and gives
advice  readily  to  those
desiring  it.
-Suyeo Sako
G R A N A D A    P I O N E E R
   Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays by
the WRA and distributed free to each department.  Ed-
ditorial office:   PIONEER building, Amache, Colorado.
Telephone:  63.
Oski Taniwaki, director                     Bob Hirano, editor
   Staff:   Taxie Kusunoki, Jack Ito, Robert Asamoto,
Tomoko Yatabe, Alice Taketa, Joseph Ide, Choji Nakano
Elmer Ioka, Hiromichi Morimoto, Tsugime Akaki, Jim
Yamaguchi, Sab Okamura, George Hamamoto, Masaji Murai,
John Tsuruta, Hiroshi Ito, Harry Ioka, Edith Kodama,
Jun Taketa, Makoto Morita, Yutaka Kubota, Ernest Uno,
Roy Hamaji, Suyeo Sako, Jiro Sumita, Frank Yoshida.
THE CHARTER
   Next week residents of Amache over 18 years of age
will have an opportunity to express their feelings
about the center charter drawn up by a special commit-
tee of the temporary council.
   The  entire English text of the charter was printed
in  the Dec. 30 edition of the PIONEER.   A full trans-
lation  in Japanese appeared with the Jan. 6 edition.
   Its importance to each and every person in the cen-
ter cannot be overstressed.  We urge everyone to read
it, study it, and  vote on it on Wednesday.
Letters  TO THE EDITOR
TO THE EDITOR:
   We wish to publicly
thank  Ed Newman, proprietor
of the Newman Drug store,
Granada, for  his donation
of basketball  suits  to our
club.
   Originally,  Mr. Newman
planned to sponsor the club
for which we were to use
name of his store.   The
plan, however, was contrary
to the WRA administration's
policy,  so  in  the   spirit
of good will,  Mr.  Newman
generously donated the suits
to us.
	KAU KAU LANE AC
Rustlings FROM THE OTHER CENTERS
   Camouflage net workers
will be paid their wages
semi-monthly in accordance
with the Arizona state law.
   The barber shop was
opened with 10 operators
on the staff.    Price of a
haircut is 15 cents.
TULE LAKE…
  Mah-jongg and pinochle
tournaments were conducted.
   A letter in the Dispatch
by B. H. (someone who found
work on the outside) states,
"I strongly urge the loyal
nisei to get out of camp…
The feeling of being an
integral part of this Amer-
ican  nation is  something
you    people  in camp  do  not
fully realize."
   Classes will be open to
residents in fox trot, waltz,
rhumba, tango, conga, jit-
terbug, and tap dancing.
JEROME	
   Approximately 443 evac-
uees  arrived    from Hawaii.
Previously,  107  persons
entered the center.
   Mess hall workers were
the first to receive their
December pay checks.
   A girl baby was the first
born on New Year's  day.
   The US Navy department
in cooperation with the
WRA will allow nisei to
help in the war effort by
making ship models and silk
screen posters.  These will
be used for visual training
work by the Navy.
ROHWER...
   Movies made their debut
here.    "The audience is ask-
ed temporarily to bring
own chairs and blankets."
   A Junior Red Cross drive
will be conducted  for one
week in the center schools.
TOPAZ... 
   Jankee, their mascot,
came out in three colored,
print, red, yellow, and
black in the New Year's e-
dition of the Topaz Times.