Granada Pioner, Vol. I, No. 67

              Page 2___________PIONEER______________May 22,   1943
G R A N A D A     P I O N E E R
   Published Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed  free  to each apartment.       Editorial of-
fice:  PIONEER building, Amache, Colorado.
Telephone:  63.                                   Editor:  Khan Komai.
Letter TO  THE  EDITOR
    (All letters written to
the editor must be no more
than 250 words. )
TO THE EDITOR:
   There is now an urgent
drive to collect flocks of
creatures known as evacuees
of Amache to putter about
on the farm.    But the so-
called drivers who manipu-
late these creatures do
not seem to know that even
evacuees have stomachs and
feelings,    just as much as
they...Not even a tractor
will  run on an empty stom-
ach and how can an evacuee
do any sort of farm field
work...with meals that are
actually two pancakes, a
cup of coffee and a small
half of a canned peach...
Also, these creatures, the
Japs...are too good to be
put to work on the farm
for such tremendous wages
as $16 a month.   Only a
baby's handful of the total
Amache evacuee population
receive $19 a month,  the
top salary for any Jap e-
vacuee.
   The most puzzling thing
is how can these chair pol-
ishers who sit behind their
glistening  desks  and try
to figure ways and means
to present their motives so
they sound sky high, ultra
beautiful and strike the
very nucleus of the listen-
er or reader--one, cannot
help but wonder if they
know that the evacuee is
one like them with a stom-
ach and feelings....
   All the trumpeting now
done cannot convince any
evacuee that "farmers" can-
not work heartily with such
existing wages and with
such food; especially with
grand-scale strikes... by
highly paid workers outside
...wartime camps.   Something
really ought to be done to
improve the food and salary.
                         AN EVACUEE
   Ed note--Evacuees  are
being  urged to work on the
farm so that we will not
have to go hungry.    Our
food is being purchased as
a domestic consumer--we do
not have an Army rating on
priority.   In the face of
existing shortages, this
means that  we will have to
produce in order to insure our-
selves of eating.   More than
40  per cent of the center
workers held  $19   jobs.
RECREATION  INCOME
EXPENSES  STATEMENT
INCOME:
   Movies 			$1,186.30
   Ping pong balls, softball
     bats, balls & shuttlecock sales	       43.20
   Donation of Merced Center
     Assembly 			       77.00
   Donation of Naniwabushi Kai                 26.94
   Softball league entry fee	                       20.00
Total  income				$1,353.44
EXPENSES:
   Office				        6.31
   *Movies			    574.58
   Organized athletics                               284.21
   Play center                                             350.51
   P. A. system                                             14.14
   Equipment-maintenance                      20.05
   Y.W.C.A.                                                    5.19
   Misc.   expenses                                      14.20
        Total  expenses				  1,269.19
        Net   Income   for  April			$     84.25
*Movie expenses include film rental and Federal luxury
tax.
©Short  TAKES
   More than 340 evacuees
have left Amache since May
1, bringing the center 's
total number of leaves is-
sued to 1,225.    The local
population is now 6,509,
according to Project Di-
rector James G. Lindley.
             ©
   If any girl would like
to correspond with soldiers
from Hawaii who are now
stationed at Camp Shelby,
Miss., she is asked to
leave her name at the PIO-
NEER  office.
	©
   Santa Fe railroad of-
ficials have taken steps
to make their workers’ liv-
ing quarters more sanitary,
according to George Miyama
and Eugene Gondo of this
center who recently made
an inspection tour of rail-
road working conditions.
	©
   The building now under
construction across from
the fire department is to
be the new motor pool of-
fice.    Robert W. Smith,
motor pool and garage su-
pervisor, and C.H. Shrader,
senior mechanic, are super-
vising the work.
	©
   "What's Cookin'?"   star-
ring Gloria Jean,  will be
shown from Monday night.
Tonight and tomorrow eve-
ning will be the last times
Academy Award, winner, Gin-
Ger  Rogers' "Kitty Foyle,"
will be screened.
	©
   The purchase of 117
head of beef cattle and
199 head of hogs was an-
nounced by Jack Noda, chief
clerk of the agricultural
division.   More will be
purchased.
	©
   Assistant Fire Chief
Jerry Sullivan is the first
member of the appointed
personnel to move into the
new administrative apart-
ments.    He and his wife have
been residing in Unit A7
since last Friday.
      VISITING
===SOLDERS===
   Pvt. Yoshio Toyota and
Pvt.Thomas Shiratsuki, en-
route to Camp SheIby,Miss.;
Pvt.   David S. Hara, Fort
Thomas,   Ky.