Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 95

              Granada PIONEER
Vol.   1,   No.   95___________Amache, Colorado___________August 28, 1943
30  VOCATIONAL  AG  BOYS
LEAVE  FOR  MANCOS  CAMP
   Approximately 30 to 35
Vocational agriculture boys,
accompanied by Lorenzo
Burgert, secondary-school
agriculture teacher, and
Frank Watanabe, left the
center yesterday morning
for a ten-day stay at the
CCC camp at Mancos, Colo.,
the camp at which 80 Amache
Boy Scouts are now working.
The scouts are scheduled to
return to the center tonight.
   This group of the voca-
tional agriculture boys
will do work similar to
that which the scouts have
been doing--helping to dis-
mantle an old CCC camp 30
miles west of Durango.
   Declared John N. Spencer,
chief of agriculture,"These
boys have well earned this
trip.    For they have been
of great help in farming
500 acres of  Koen ranch."
Further Plans
Made For Fair
   The coming  Amache Ag-
ricultural fair of Sept. 11
and 12 will feature, in ad-
dition to its exhibit of 
many farm products, a reg-
ular country square dance,
soft-drinks concessions and
a baseball game between the
local nine and a yet unan-
nounced team from the out-
side, it was revealed yes-
terday by Joe McClelland,
publicity chairman of the
fair committee.   It will be
held in the new co-op build-
ing.
   Plans are being made to
invite some outside talent,
familiar with square dances,
to do the "calling" and
"fiddling” and also to in-
struct the evacuees in the
intricacies of this dance,
McClelland added.  The mem-
bers of the administrative
personnel will also take
part in "swinging the part-
ners around."
   Donald Harbison,assist-
ant project director, has
been named as the temporary
chairman of the Fair com-
mittee, with the following
persons in charge of the
respective sub-committees:
Joe McClelland, publicity;
John Spencer, rules; and
Enoch Dumas, prizes.
   Residents of the center
are urged by the committee
to enter into the compete-
tion for prizes products
grown in their victory gar-
dens.
GRANADA  CRIES
FOR  GUNGA  DIN
   The Public Works Section
played the Gunga  Din role
Thursday afternoon.
   About 2 p.m., a frantic
call from the city of Gra-
nada rattled the phone in
the division’s office. The
town water pump had broken
down and no drinking water
was available for the towns-
people.
   Within 20 minutes,three
evacuee workers were on
their way on water trucks
and made door to door visits
delivering the much-needed
water to every house.   Grate-
ful Granadans came out with
every kind of container--
buckets, bottles, tin cans
--and kept the workers busy
until  after  8  p.m.
WAC  OFFICERS
RECALLED   TO
HEADQUARTERS
   Lieut. Peggy Davies and
2nd Lieut. Thelma Thompson,
WAC recruiters from Denver,
were called back to Denver
headquarters Thursday, but
revealed before they left
that local enlistment in
the WAC will remain open
indefinitely to girls who
wish to apply at a later
date.
   Those who enlisted this
week will go to Denver for
their physical examinations
within two weeks, with ex-
penses paid, according to
the recruiters.   Girls who
enlist later will go to
Denver to take their mental
alertness and physical ex-
aminations.
   Said Lieutenant Davies,
following this week's en-
listment: '"Those who have
enlisted so far are very
fine girls, and we will be
happy to have them in the
WAC.   We are very sorry we
must leave Amache at this
time, but we will be able
to return at a later date
if there is a sufficient
number of girls interested
to warrant it."
   Girls who wish to apply
for enlistment in the WAC
now or later may apply with
Lewi s Fanslan, assistant
placement officer who will
forward  the applications
to  the Denver recruiting
headquarters.
NEW  GRANT  RULES  ISSUED
   New instructions were
recently issued by the WRA
concerning the payment of
grants for traveling and
initial living expenses to
evacuees leaving the center
on indefinite   leaves:
   "Fare to the point of
destination will be fur-
nished...in the form of...
a ticket or government re-
quest .....
   "Three dollars a day for
meals and expenses while en-
route will be paid in cash
before     the   evacuee   leaves
the center.
   "The grant far the ini-
tial living expenses. . .will
be sent to the...evacuee
by mail in care of the re-
location officer.... The
evacuee may call for the
check in person or write the
relocation officer asking
to have it forwarded to
him.   Any checks not called
for within thirty days will
be returned to the project."
   Neither the amount of the
grants or the eligibility
requirements are changed.