Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 84

              Page 2__________________PIONEER___________July 21, 1943
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    Published Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
Distributed  free to each apartement.  Editorial of-
fice:     PIONEER building, Amache, Colorado.
Telephone:  63.		              Editor:  Khan  Komai.
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  Short       TAKES
   Dr. Joseph Samler, vo-
cational retraining super-
visor from the Washington
WRA office, arrived Tues-
day to confer with Paul J.
Terry, superintendent of
education.   Dr. Samler will
remain in the center until
Friday.
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   Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis,
state superintendent of
public instruction from
the state department of
education, arrived in this
center Tuesday to visit
the Amache schools.
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   Toki Tanaka of the Blue
Circles and Michiko Nomura
of the Rockettes left the
center Sunday morning for
outside employment.   Miss
Tanaka will work in New
York while Miss Nomura ac-
cepted a position in Cleve-
land.
   A new schedule for the
woodcarving classes at 8H-
5A  have been announced by
Instructor Yutaka Suzuki
as follows: 8 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., and 6:30 to
10 p.m.
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   Chicken served to resi-
dents Sundav was raised on
the center farm, and "dress-
ed" by block managers, ac-
cording to Ted Tanaka, as-
sistant project steward.
20 VOLUNTEERS
AWAIT   CALL
  Of the Amache residents
that volunteered for the 
Army, 20 still remain to
be cleared and given their
physical examination.    The
20 are Tamatsu Miya, Bill
Saburo Ozaki, Kay Sugahara,
Nobuo Nagaoka, Paul Shiba-
Ta,  Leo Kikuchi, Gilbert
Tanji,  George Hironaka,
 Fred H. Ogawa, Mack Toshi-
ragi, Hideo Ihara, Yoshio
Abe, James Tanaka, Joe Ka-
miya , Hiroshi Kanda, Yoshi-
nobu Taniguchi, Sherman
Kishi, Henry Inano, Smile
Kamiya, and Tom Bkamoto.
SCHOOL   PUPILS
MAKE DONATIONS
   Nine boxes of Swiss
chard and one and a half
bones of Italian squash
have been donated to the
mess division by elementary
school pupils, who recently
harvested their first Vic-
tory garden crop.
   William Wells, chief
Steward, expressed his ap-
preciation of the children' s
efforts.
CHURCH GROUPS
HEAR   TALK   ON
DISCRIMINATION
   Margaret Rohrer, region-
al secretary of the Fellow-
ship Reconciliation of Den-
ver, spoke on "Fighting
Racial Discrimination" to
the high school and col-
lege-age group of the Gra-
nada Christian church at
Terry hall Sunday.   Rev.
Paul Nagano and Sadao Na-
kashima of  Poston said a
few words on preparing for
relocation.
   Sam  Fujita was in charge
of games and  Mitsuke Naka-
mura, refreshments. As-
sisting were Mika and Ikue
Kuzuhara,  Miyeko Masuda,
Rose Tani, and Blanche Ni-
mura.
AMACHE FFA MEMBERS
LEARN   FARM METHODS
   Thirty-two members of
the Future Farmers of Amer-
ica,  Amache chapter, visit-
ed a farm near Rocky Ford
Friday to learn about corn 
grading, potato digging,
green onion plants, and the
protein value of red table
beets.
   The group also visited
the American Crystal Sugar
company's experiment sta-
tion where they were taught
the value, fertilizer uses
and grading of sugar beets,
and about overhead irriga-
tion.
   Gerald Griffith and Lor-
enzo Burgert accompanied
the boys.   Donald E.  Har-
bison, assistant project
director, arranged the
trip.
Letter
    TO THE EDITOR
TO   THE EDITOR:
   Wellsville is a small
town in Kansas with a pop-
ulation of about 500.   One
hundred Japanese have re-
located there, working at
railway  tracks. They are
all industrious and cour-
teous to the Caucasians,
and so they are liked by
them all.   Even when the
news of the execution of
American flyers in Tokyo
was announced in May, the
townspeople did not show a
sign of prejudice against
us   Japanese.
   However,   a   very deplor-
able  event happened, when
one of the workers was
stabbed critically by an-
other on July 7th.    This
matter was investigated by
the city authorities, and
it was found that besides
these two, there were a
number of undesirable ele-
ments glaring at each other,
and they had been ordered
to return to this camp.
While the WRA is helping
us in every way to resettle,
and since the peace-loving
Japanese are trying to re-
locate, a few trouble ma-
kers hinder the program and
give the American public
the impression that all
the evacuees are gangsters,
disturbing peace and order.
I hope by writing this let-
ter to you, some measure
may be taken by the WRA to
prevent undesirable ones
from relocating.
    VISITING
===SOLDIERS===
   Sgt. Ken Okumura, Cpl.
Yoshio Hirooka, Camp Grant,
Ill.;  Cpl. Sam Tsuruta,
Camp Carson, Colo.; T/5
William Otani, Camp Crowd-
er, Mo.; Pvt. Seitoku Ha-
mashiro, Cpl.  Kiyoshi Maeda,
Camp Shelby, Miss,; Pvt.
Hiro Nakamura, Ft. Sill,
Okla.
      VITAL
===STATISTICS===
  To Br. and Mrs. Weedie
Matsuda, 7F-2F, a boy, July
17.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Yoshio Okubo, 10E-8C, a
girl, July 18.