Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 77

              Page 2            PIONEER                  June 26, 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.
Let’s  Be  Normal
   Newspaper reporters will be visiting Amache on July
1 and 2 to observe conditions existing in a relocation
center.
   For most of the visitors this will be their first
visit to a center and their first contact with the
evacuees.    Despite newspaper and magazine articles
their conception of evacuees and relocation centers
are on the hazy side. They will be corning here with
an open mind anxious to obtain first hand information.
   Their reactions and the subsequent publicity Amache
will receive will depend on each and every one of us.
The chances are we will encounter them at our jobs or
in our blocks.   Be natural, help them get a true pic-
ture of the center life.
Letter  TO   THE   EDITOR
TO THE  EDITOR:
   Thank you very much for
sending me a copy of the
PIONEER for the past half
year. Being a former mem-
ber of the staff the paper
interests me especially,
   I have noticed the turn-
over of the staff is  very
rapid.  Practically all of
the  old staff members are
out now.   Never-the-less
with your swell bunch of
new employees the paper is
a great success.
                 FRED MIYAMOTO
P.S. Tsuruta's sports col-
umn is a wow plus Ito’s
Neebo and also not to for-
get    MISS     S u-yeo     Sako’s
Thumbnail  Sketche s.
    VISITING
===SOLDIERS===
   Technicians,fifth grade,
Misuo Fujikawa,Hiroo Fuku-
yama, Eugene Hattori, Ray
Nimura, and Cpl. Koe Hino-
ki, Camp Savage, Minn,;
Staff Sgt. Bob Morimoto,
Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.;
Technician, fifth grade,
Yoshiaki Tobara,Camp Barke-
ley, Tex.; Pvt. Keiji Ya-
tagai,   Camp  Shelby,  Miss.
      Vital
===statistics===
BIRTH:
   To Mr.and Mrs. Dick Ha-
maoka, 11G-12F, a girl,
June   23.
===lost  &  found===
FOUND:
   Key case    with
key in it.  See Sam Kurihara
at post office.
HOLIDAY  PROGRAM
IS  POSTPONED
   The Fourth of July cele-
bration, which was sched-
uled for-July 3,4, and 5,
has been postponed for a
week, the recreation de-
partment announced yester-
day.
   Included in the events
are a parade, a carnival,
a hardball tournament, ex-
hibition softball games
between the block teams,
a track meet, a bazaar,
sumo tournament,  and a
dance.
   Prizes will be awarded
for each event.
   Harvey Turk is general
chairman.   Assisting him
are Byko Umeza a, program;
Cyrus Fujii, finance; Mrs.
Masao Hoshino, secretary;
Byko Umezawa, prizes; John
Kimura, Setsuo Ogawa, and
r e c r e ation d e partment,
clean up;Mitch Hashiguchi,
concessions; Ed Tokunaga
and Boy Scouts, parade;
Harry Shironaka,athletics;
Roy Uragami,shibai; George
Ninomiya and Sam Uyemura,
dance.
===TRANSFER===
   Tokichi Harada, from
Poston; James S. and Ruby
K,   Kirita,   from Gila.
    TOWN  HALL
           TALK 
   The recent election re-
sults were surprising in
the number of nisei voted
into office.   Only four of
the 29 blocks expressed
preference for issei coun-
cilmen.
   The recent Washington
ruling giving issei the
right to hold elective of-
fices and the subsequent
overwhelming vote approv-
ing the action in the char-
te  amendment election,
might have been interpreted
as a desire to have the
first generation hold po-
sitions in the self-govern-
ment set-up, but apparent-
ly this was not so.
   The election was decided
strictly on the basis of
personal qualifications and
no issue was made of the
fact that the candidate
was issei or nisei.
   In Poston I, however,
the result of the new rul-
ing was evident when 20
issei representatives were
elected against 12 nisei.
   The harmony that has
prevailed between the issei
and nisei in this center
is apparently the reason
no desire for a change was
shown.
*   *   *   *
   The new shoe ration cou-
pons will not receive ex-
tensions this time, says
Willis J. Hanson, leave
officer.   On the outside,
the only limit on the use
of the coupons is the ex-
piration date of Oct. 16,
but 30 days are all  the
evacuees are allowed. This
should be more than enough
time to buy a pair of shoes
--if we   get the  30 days.
   Two things necessitated
the extensions of the last
sh oe coupons: p e o ple
weren’t told to apply for
the tickets as the need
arose, nor were they made
aware   of the  time   limit.
   The p r i mary r e a s on,
however, was the ineffi-
ciency with which the ap-
plications were handled.
Two-thirds of the allotted
period was gone before the
applicants re ceived the
coupon leaving them a lit-
tle more than a week in
which to purchase  shoes.
   Give them the full 30
days from the time the cou-
pons   are   in their hands.