Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 87

              July 31,   1943_________________PIONEER___________Page 3
'NEWS'   FEATURES
SAKURA   BROTHERS
   Featuring the Sakura
brothers, Chester, Howard,
Kenny, and Ted, from the
Minidoka (Hunt, Idaho)
center, who recently vol-
unteered for the Army Com-
bat team at Shelby, Miss.,
an article by Major Oland
D. Russell, 442nd Infantry,
US Army, Shelby, Miss.,
appeared in the July 25
issue of the Rocky Mt.
News.
   Remembering the dying
words of their father, who
passed on 25 years ago,
and who said, "...you are
citizens of the country
whole soil has blessed us.
After I have gone, it is my
wish that you conduct your-
selves with dignity and
that you honor and serve
this country of your birth."
   The brothers followed
their father's deathbed
bidding, the author wrote,
but there had never been
any doubt about their course
if opportunity came.
   About Nisei soldiers in
general, the writer said:
   "Their zeal for train-
ing and self - betterment
has become almost legendary
in Camp Shelby.    A re-
porter for the camp paper
was astounded when he came
upon a group of Japanese-
American soldiers prac-
ticing with hand grenades
on a Sunday afternoon when
100 nisei girls from an
Arkansas relocation center
were visiting the combat
team..."
WRA HEADS
ARE PICTURED
   Pictured in a recent
issue of the Rocky Mt.
News were Dillon S. Myer,
national WRA director,
James G, Lindley, Granada
project director, R. R.
Best, Tule Lake project di-
rector, R. B. Cozzens, WRA
field assistant director
at San Francisco, and Guy
Robertson, Heart Mt.  proj-
ect director.
   These men, with other
directors from all the re-
location centers, met for
a conference in Denver to
determine the policy for
the segregation program.
A complete story is carried
on page 1.
NISEI'S DIFFICULTIES TOLD
   Telling of the diffi-
culties the Japanese Amer-
icans in Hawaii had to sur-
mount before they were per-
mitted to enter the US
Army, an article by Cecil
Hengy Coggins, originally
published in  the June edi-
tion of Harpers magazine,
was reprinted recently in
booklet form by the Pacific
Coast Committee on Ameri-
can Principles and Fair
Play, Pasadena chapter.
   The booklet also car-
ried the Honor Roll of Pa-
sadena's 52 Japanese Amer-
icans in service.
   Said the Pasadena chap-
ter: " …we. . .honor…these
Americans whom we know
and respect as fellow ci-
tizens of Pasadena."
NEW SUPERINTENDENT
TO   ARRIVE   MONDAY
   Ed B. Eaklor, superin-
tendent of housing replacing
Paul H, Freier, is expected
to arrive in the center
Monday morning from Pueblo.
Mr. Eaklor formerly worked
at Camp Hale, Pando, Colo.
HOMEMAKING  ARTICLE
APPEARS  IN  MAGAZINE
   Titled "Homemaking in a
Relocation Center," an ar-
ticle authored by Lottie
E. More, homemaking teach-
er, and S. Clay Coy, prin-
cipal of the Amache senior
high school, appeared in
the July-August issue of
the Practical Home Economic
magazine.
   A complete picture of
the homemaking problems
met by  the  instructors
was presented, as was the
progress made by the various
departments.
   The story said in part:
    "Our aim was to train
these girls of Japanese
ancestry for homemaking in
Democracy; to help them
(evacuee students) become
adjusted to their present
environments by bringing
to it a spirit of creative-
ness and a background of
skill.    There was nothing
artificial about our prob-
lems; no need to "pretend"
any homemaking dilemnas.
There were more problems
here than could be dreamed
of in any text books."
   About the pupils, the
authors commented:
   "We studied our pupils.
We found them to be a typi-
cally American group of
girls, attractive and res-
ponsive.    They were in no
way different from any girls
we had ever taught in our
classes in more conventional
communities.
   "We are a community
training ground from which
emerge skillful, qualified,
capable homemakers, women
who will keep democracy
alive in their homes all
over America after we have
won the war and the resi-
dents of Amache have again
plunged into the full stream
of American life," the ar-
ticle concluded .
   Illustrations were also
carried.    Mentioned as Mrs.
More's assistants were Mrs.
Mary Takoyama, foods ex-
pert;  Yachiyo Kusunoki,
clothing  consultant; and
Mrs .  Yone Sugahara, in-
structor  in home nursing.
MOVIES
   TODAY
8:15 p.m..--11H mess hall.
   TOMORROW
8:15 p,m.--11F mess hall.
   MONDAY 
8:15 p.m.-9H mess hall.
   TUESDAY
8:15 p.m..-High school audi-
   torium.
   "The Amazing Mrs. Holli-
day," originally scheduled
to be shown in two mess halls
on Sunday, will be shown in
11F mess hall as Operator Sam
Morishita is expected to
leave for Denver tonight,
leaving Min Iwamura to run
the projector.
   This Universal hit, fea-
turing Deanna Durbin, Edmond
O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald,
and Arthur Treacher, will
conclude its five-day run
Monday.
   Starting a two-day showing
in the high school auditorium
Tuesday is "The Man In The
Trunk," starring Lynne Rob-
erts and George Holme.   It's
about a friendly ghost with
a sense of humor who returns
to help solve his own murder
in an amusing comedy mystery.
-Sueo Sako