Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 72

              Page  2____________PIONEER___________June  9,   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.
FARM
Some   Progress   Is  Seen
   Hundreds of evacuees
volunteered their time to
work on the farm during the
week end to aid in harvest-
ing the spinach, thinning
the lettuce, and weeding
the onions.
   Jitsumi Abe, supervisor
of Unit 2, declared that
he would estimate a yield
of 400 bushels an acre in
the patch they were cutting
and,  according to John
Spencer, the yield from
the rest of the 14 acres
in spinach will average
about 250 bushels an acre.
   Eleven acres of his
peas will be ready for pick-
ing this week.    In all,
Abe has 60 acres under
cultivation and, except
for help in harvesting,all
the work has been done by
four workers.
   Irish potatoes,77 acres
of the finest potatoes in
the Arkansas river, valley
according to Spencer,under
the supervision of Takeshi
Mayeda, are budding.   Red
radishes will be ready for
the mess tables soon.
   The remarkable progress
made  by the farm must be
attributed to the efforts
of the unit supervisors
and the farm workers, who
numbered only about 120
for the better part of
spring, but who have been
cultivating land that was
operated by 330 workers last
year and cultivating it
more intensely.
   In the vast pasture
land of the old XY ranch,
218 heads of cattle graze.
Plans have been made to
increase this number to
600,but if help were plen-
tiful the land would be
able to feed a far greater
number.   With a great per-
centage of the domestic
production of beef being
sent out of the country
under the lend-lease pro-
gram, and huge quantities
going to our armed forces,
if the cattle is not raised
on the farm for center con-
sumption, meat will not be
on the tables this winter.
   The hog project under
Ena Nakamura has come a
long ways from the 24 hogs
they started, with last
September.   Working with
only six men, they now
have 70 acres of corn
planted to feed the hogs
as well as caring for 943
hogs.
   Nakamura started by
hiring three boys ex-
perienced with hogs, prom-
ising them $19 a month,
and when a "C" rating giv-
ing them the $19 was re-
fused, he paid the differ-
ence out of his own pocket
until the matter was
straightened out months
later.    He was a retired
man previous to evacuation,
but now he is giving the
center and all the resi-
dents the benefit of his
years of experience by
making a success of this
project.
   The poultry project at
the  old Koen ranch, under
Henry Shimizu, has almost
10,000 birds now, but this
is only half of the 20,000
birds that he plans to
keep.    Included in the
flock will be 16,000 laying
hens which will produce
2,400,000 eggs a year or
an egg a day for each evac-
uee.
   Work is progressing on
the  increased  facilities
needed for the larger flock.
But facilities for cleaning
and picking the birds are
needed before the center
can be supplied with birds.
   Aside  from these vege-
table  and livestock units
are the garage  and black-
smith shop,  also located
by the Koen ranch, to re-
pair  and rebuild the old
equipment  inherited  from
other  government agencies.
   The blacksmith shop has
taken horse equipment and
converted them over  to
tractor equipment.    Certain
types  of cultivators not
available  on the market
have been built by the
shop.  The  sweet-potato
planter  is also another
handiwork of the shop,born
of the ingenuity of Yoshio
Asai. 
   The Koen hotel is being
repaired and at present
the dining hall takes care
of the farm workers for
their noon meal.   Showers
have been repaired, and
with a little effort the
rooms should be more than
adequate to house some of
the farm workers.
   The school house on the
Koen place will be con-
verted into a cannery--to
preserve the surplus pro-
duced on the farm.---K. K.
©Short
TAKES
   Hitting the peak over
the week end,200 residents
volunteered their help on
the project farm Saturday,
and 100 on Sunday,announced
the farm section.   On Mon-
day, the volunteers num-
bered 20 while 30 worked
Tuesday. Radishes and peas
will be harvested some time
this week.
	©
   All new applications
for service from the pub-
lic welfare section will
be received between 9 and
11 a.m.  Mondays through
Saturdays.   This ruling
applies to persons who
have never before gone to
the welfare section for
service,according to Coun-
selor John J. 0. Moore.
	©
   Jerry Sullivan, assist-
ant fire chief, and his
wife left the center Sunday
to visit his grandson at
his mountain home in Pueblo.
	©
   The police department
announces that small pack-
ages and suitcases will be
taken care of by them for
persons leaving the center,
but that freight must be
cared for by the property
division.
           Vital
===statistics===
BIRTHS:    
   To Mr. and Mrs. James
D. Otani, 11F-10C, a boy,
June 5.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Kanichi
Uyemoto, 7G-5E, a girl,
June  6.
====TRANSFERS====
    Harry Hamasaki from Ta-If
handre Canyon, Calif.