Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 52

              March 31, 1945_________PIONEER______ Page 3
Evacuees   Leave
For   Beet   Work
   LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March
27--Twenty-five evacuees
left the Japanese reloca-
tion centers in Arkansas
for Belle Fourche, SD, to
work in the sugar beet
fields, the WRA reported.
   "They are going with
the intention of staying,"
said E.B. Whitaker, Arkan-
sas WRA director.   "We are
trying to get these evacu-
ees back into circulation
on a regular basis--not
just as seasonal workers.
Families of these 25 men
will follow....
HAWAIIAN  ENLISTMENT
CARRIED   BY  MAGAZINE
   Captioned "There Are
Good Japs," a quarter-page
picture appeared in the
March 29 issue of the Time
magazine showing a group
of Hawaiian nisei enlisting
in the US Army.
   The story under the pic-
ture read in part:
   "The faces of Japan are
in this picture but these
Hawaiian nisei are enlist-
ing in the US Army to war
against the empire of their
ancestors.   In liberalizing
its attitude toward Ameri-
can-born Japanese, the Army
has recently inducted 1,500
nisei….”______________________
CHOCOLATE EGGS,
BUNNIES   BANNED
    WASHINGTON, DC, March
28--There will be no choc-
olate  eggs or bunnies
when faster rolls around,
the WPB announced.   Sugar
eggs will also be scarce.
   However, the board
disclosed that regular
candies can be sold in
regular boxes, and none
of the textile orders
limits the output of plush
rabbits or downy chicks.
ZINC  COATED 
PENNIES   APPEAR
   DENVER, March 24--The
new zinc-coated steel pen-
nies appeared for the first
time in Denver.
   Rowland K. Goddard, head
of the secret service here,
answered phone calls all
day from people who thought
they had some bad money.
He states that the new pen-
ny is every bit as good as
the old copper one cent
piece, but it won't do
in place of a dime.
   This change was made by
the government to save cop-
per.
KANSAS  WILL   NOT   USE
EVACUEE   FARM   LABOR
   TOPEKA, Kan., March 27--
Kansas is not likely to be
able to use much Japanese
labor on the farms and
particularly in the sugar
beet growing area covering
five counties in western
Kansas.
   The first requirement
of the WRA is that the em-
ployment be steady.   Then
it was discovered that the
bathing facilities on the
average sugar beet farm is
inadequate for both the Jap-
anese and officials.
   The result is that the
sugar beet growers have
determined not to use Jap-
anese this year but will
seek sufficient labor else-
where.
MATERNITY CARE
MAY  BE   OBTAINED
   WASHINGTON, DC, March 26
--Wives of servicemen will
be able to get maternity
care for themselves and
their babies under a pro-
gram to start in three
weeks, announced Katherine
F. Lenroot, children's bu-
reau chief of the depart-
ment of labor.
   Wives and infants of
servicemen up to the rank
of sergeant in the Army
will be eligible.
MASAKO   KlTAGAWA
IS CONTENT WINNER
   BOULDER, March 22--Ma-
sako Kitagawa, Boulder high
school student, placed
twice in the National For-
ensic league's annual dis-
trict tournament held on
the  campus   last week.
   After winning first
place in the after-dinner
speaking contest, she went
on to place third in the
poetry-reading competition.
She was the only Boulder
entrant to place in the
tournament.
JAPANESE  WANTED
FOR RAILROAD WORK
   TOPEKA, Kan., March 25--
The Santa Fe railroad to-
day asked directly for the
use of from 400 to 500
Japanese laborers for extra
gangs this year. The com-
pany will use the men in
laying new rails and re-
surfacing of its tracks.
   Governor Schoeppel has
given his official approval
to the use of Japanese la-
borers in Kansas under spe-
cific conditions.
BUS
====SCHEDULES====
   The following bus sched-
ules through Granada were
announced yesterday.
   EASTBOUND:
   Santa Fe--To Wichita,
Kan., 5:04 p.m. and 11:32
p.m.   To Oklahoma City,
Okla.,   11:32  p.m.
   Greyhound--To Dodge City,
Kan.;  Salina, Kan.; Kansas
City, Mo.; Chicago, Ill.,
1:09 p.m., 6:39 p.m., and
2:09  a.m.
   WESTBOUND:
   Santa Fe--To La Junta,
Pueblo, and Denver, 11:19
a.m. and 7:11 p.m.
   Greyhound--To La Junta,
Trinidad, Albuquerque, and
Los Angeles, 1:45 p.m.,
8:30 p.m., and 3:50 a.m.
ACQUISITION   OF   FARM
MACHINERY  IS   LIKELY
   LOS ANGELES, March 26--
Vigorous, speedy action
was promised toward cutting
government red tape which
has been preventing the ac-
quisition of Japanese-owned
farm machinery, rusting
for the past year in Cali-
fornia  fields  and barns.
   Said Burdette J. Daniels,
regional counsel  for the
War Production board, "If
the government can take
the farmer's sixth auto-
mobile tire, it should be
able to take this unused
Japanese-owned farm ma-
chinery.''