Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 95

              Page 2_________________PIONEER_____________August 28, 1943
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   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.
On   Our  Birthday
   A year ago yesterday the first contingent of evacuee
workers numbering 212 arrived from the Merced Assembly
center to help transform the wind-blown sagebrush hills
into a living, thriving community. 
   From its meager beginning,Amache,still unchristened,
quickly grew into a community of 7,107 persons by the
end of September.   Amache of today with trees planted
by the evacuees in every block, flower and victory
gardens between the rows of barracks, a highly public-
cized high school building standing on the hill, lawn
covered administrative area, a spacious hospital to
care for the ailing is in its physical aspects a far
cry from the groups of incomplete blocks without lights,
without water and without feeding facilities that
greeted the evacuees a year ago.
   But the change in Amache is not only physical.   Most
of the evacuees entered the center with a belief that
this was to be home for the duration, that the aim of
the WRA and the community was to attain self-sufficiency
and set up industries contributing to the war effort.
  This was not so-this is home,but only until enough
courage can be summoned to leave Amache.   The aim of
the WRA is to help readjust the evacuees in new commu-
nities throughout the land.
   Nearly 1,900 people left the center during the year,
1,100 on indefinite leaves.
   More and more the evacuees will find a place in a
bigger America than they have ever known.    Relocation
this year is a must for nearly all.
   But for some, Amache is home. There is no overlook-
ing the fact that a few will remain.   For these few,
efforts should be made to make the community more com-
fortable, more cheerful.
   The center's first birthday was taken in stride
without a break in the normal community activities
which in itself is a sign of growing up.   But if Amache
is to continue to grow it will depend on every resident
for a measure of a community is not only in its physi-
cal aspects but in the head and heart of its people.
  Letter
	TO  THE  EDITOR
TO THE  EDITOR:
   I wonder if it will be
possible to print a plea
for pen pals in your paper.
   I am enthusiastic to
exchange news with girls
between 17 and 19 years of
age from the USA.    I am a
Japanese Canadian, born on
the western coast of Canada,
and am now working in Ham-
ilton, Ontario.    I am fond
of writing letters and will
answer every letter....
   I am five  feet six and
a half inches tall and am
19 years  old.    Will  ex-
Change snaps.  Thank you.
          --TOMMY UCHIYAMA
   MOUNTAIN SANATORIUM
       MORELAND RESIDENCE
          HAMILTON, ONTARIO
SOCIAL   SCHEDULED
   The center hospital is
scheduling a dinner-dance
on Saturday, Sept. 4, at
the hospital and the high
school auditorium, accord-
ing to the hospital office.
   The dinner will be held
in the hospital mess hall
at 5 p.m., and the dance
in the auditorium from
8:30 p.m.
   Admittance to both events
is by invitation only, al-
though from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. there will be enter-
tainment open to the public
at the auditorium and the
11G playground.
CLASS   TO REOPEN
   The  11G sewing school
will reopen Monday, with
Instructor Arakawa in charge.
Day and night classes will
bo held as usual.
====RELOCATION===
   George Yoshitomi Kara-
tsu, New York City, N. Y.,
Aug. 27.
   George  Katsumi Yuzawa,
New York City, N.Y., Aug.
30.
   Mi chi Mary Haratani,
N. Y.,  Rochester  General
Hospital School of Nursing,
Aug. 25.
   Sizuto Ikuta, Hatsuko
Ikuta and children Tomie,
George,and Junichi, Pella,
Iowa., Aug. 30.
   Shigeru Hashii, US Army,
Aug. 25.
   Haruko Hakano with chil-
dren, Florence, Ruby, Geo-
rge Jr.,and Frank, to Den-
ver, Aug. 30, to join hus-
band.
   Chiyono Miyoshi and son,
Kaneo, Denver, Aug. 30.
   Amy Emiko Bomi, Denver,
Aug. 28, Western Seed Co.
   Masae Charlotte Iwata,
Boulder, Colo., Aug. 25.
   Isamu Arita, Rockford,
Ill., Aug. 30.
   Hana Tsuii,Minneapolis,
Minn., Sept. 7, to join
daughter.
   Hatsuyo Shimozawa, Lewis-
town, Penn., Aug. 31.
   Grace Yuki Noda, with
son Eric Jack, to Denver,
Aug. 28, to join husband.
   Taro George Uriyu, to
Chicago, Aug. 30.
   Yoshio Muranaga,to Chi-
cago, Aug. 30.
===WANTED===
   Full-time mess cooks,
attendants, etc.     Report
to mess-division office
immediately.
   Tray girls in the diet
department in the center
hospital, applicants apply
at Chief Nurse Folda's of-
fice .
CENTER   SENDS EIRST
CARLOAD OE SPUDS
   One carload of potatoes
raised on the center farm---
the first potatoes ever to
be sent from the town of
Granada,according to Agri-
cultural  Supervisor John
D. Spencer,--were shipped
to Heart Mountain Wednesday,
under the supervision of
Unit Supervisor Takeshi
Mayeda.