Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 76

              Granada  P I O N E E R
Vol. I, No. 76                Amache, Colorado             June 23, 1943
SR     HIGH
174  GRADUATE
   Highlighting the sec-
ond Amache senior high
graduation exercises will
be speeches by Marion Ko-
nishi and Mitsuye Oshita.
Miss Konishi's topic will
be "America, Our Hope is
in You," while Miss Oshita
will speak on "America,
We Answer Your Challenge."
   Processional and reces-
sional will be played by
the orchestra under the
direction of Tad Hascall.
Other musical selections
will be rendered by the
glee club under the direc-
tion of Norreen Klein, and
by Yoshimi Yokohari and Mi-
yo Mizutani, violin duet,
accompanied by Dorothy Sato.
   Invocation will be given
by Rev. Lester Suzuki.
Project Director James G.
Lindley will give the wel-
come speech, S. Clay Coy,
senior high principal,will
present the class.   Grad-
uates will receive their
diplomas from Paul J.Terry,
superintendent of education.
   Joe Kamiya,senior class
president,will present the
class gift to Akira Sameshi-
ma,student body president,
to give to the school.
'BE STRONG'  IS
TOPIC OF ADDRESS
   Speaking on "Be Strong,"
Rev. Gabriel S. Upton of
the Lamar Methodist church
addressed the graduating
seniors at the first bac-
calaureate services at the
new high school auditorium
Sunday evening.
   This marked the first
time that the new auditor-
ium had been used.
4 TONS OF FAT SAVED
   The War Production board 's
appeal to save waste fat
which is urgently needed
in the war effort was an-
swered by the center this
week, when approximately
8000 pounds of waste fat
were sold to the Pueblo
By-Products company.
CONSTITUTIONALITY  OF
EVACUATION  IS  UPHELD
    WASHINGTON, June 21--Declaring that evacuation or-
ders "were defense measures for the avowed purpose of
safeguarding the military area in question," the su-
preme court held constitutional military regulations
imposing a West coast curfew on all persons of Japanese
ancestry and excluding them from specified areas.
   Asserted Chief Justice
Stone,"in a case of threat-
ened danger requiring prompt
action it is a choice be-
tween inflicting obviously
needless hardship on the
many or sitting passive and
unresisting in the presence
of the threat."
   The West coast curfew
and evacuation orders had
been challenged by two Am-
erican-born persons of Jap-
anese ancestry--Gordon Ki-
yoshi Hirabayashi of Seat-
tle, and Minoru Yasui of
Portland, 0re.--who contend-
ed they were US citizens
and that such restrictions
could not be constitutional-
ly applied to them.  It was
in answer to their challenge
that the supreme court de-
livered its decision.
   It was pointed out that
President Roosevelt had on
Feb. 19, 1942, issued an
executive order authorizing
the “secretary of war and
military commanders to ex-
clude "any and all persons"
from military zones if that
action should be deemed ne-
cessary.
   The curfew restrictions,
affecting all persons of
Japanese ancestry on the
West coast were imposed on
March 24, and the exclu-
sion orders came a few
weeks later.
BLOCKS  6H, 8K, 12K
ELECT  COUNCILMEN
   In run-off elections
held Saturday, S. Fukuhara
was elected 6H block rep-
resentative, and Jimmie Ya-
manaka, 8K representative.
George Nakamura was named
to represent 12K in yester-
day's  election.
SHORT-WAVE SETS
TO  BE TURNED IN
   Short-wave radio sets
were banned in all reloca-
tion centers to evacuees
recently by the Washington
WRA office and must be
turned in to the police de-
partment by July 1.
   No persons of Japanese
descent residing in  the
Western Defense command
may possess,use or operate
a short-wave radio,accord-
ing to a public proclama-
tion of the Western Defense
command.
   Under a presidential
proclamation, no enemy a-
lien may have possession
or use of such a set any-
where in the United States.
   Heretofore citizen evac-
uees in relocation centers
outside the Western Defense
command were allowed to have
them,  but since it is im-
possible to keep aliens from 
access to a short-wave ra-
dio where alien and citizen
alike live in one barrack,
said Director Dillon S.
Myer, short-wave was banned.
   The short-wave attach-
ments will be removed and
the radio returned to the
evacuee.    Any set or attach-
ment will be given back to
the evacuee when he leaves
the relocation center on
seasonal or indefinite
leave.
===CALENDAR===
   TODAY
7:00    p.m.--Junior    high
   commencement,    new high
   school auditorium.
   TOMORROW
7:30    p.m.-Senior    high
  Commencement,    new high
   school auditorium.
   FRIDAY
8:00 p.m.--Dance,  new high
   school auditorium.