Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 95

              Page 4__________________PIONEER__________________August 28, 1943
Terry Returns  From  Denver
After Recruiting  13  Teachers
   Paul J. Terry, superin-
tendent of schools,returned
from Denver Thursday,after
recruiting six elementary
school teachers,seven sec-
ondary school teachers and
one librarian.   According
to Terry, there are a few
vacancies yet to be filled.
   According to Dr. Enoch
Dumas, Helen Chase, first
grade teacher,Geneva Marie
Sparkman,second grade tea-
cher, and Madeline Elling-
son, fourth grade teacher,
will report for work Mond-
ay; while Patricia Sand,
elementary school art tea-
cher, will report for work
on Wednesday.
   0. P. Stillinger, sec-
ondary school industrial
arts teacher, is expected
to arrive in the center on
Sept., 7, while Eula Marie
Loesch and Margaret Hop-
craft, both secondary
school English-social-
studies teachers,  are to
arrive on Monday. Muriel
Groves, also an English-
social- studies, teachers,
will report for work on
Wednesday.
   Roxene Everetts,English-
social-studies teacher in
the secondary school, re-
ported for work last Mon-
day. Miss Everetts is for-
merly of Julesburg, Colo.
ADMINSISTRATORS
VISIT  CCC  CAMP
   Project Director James
G. Lindley, Assistant Pro-
ject Director Henry Halli-
day, and William Wroth,
construction and maintenance
supervisor, returned from
a three-day tour of the
Mancos and Gardner CCC camps,
yesterday morning.
   Wroth comments favorably
on the splendid work that
the Amache Boy Scouts were
doing at Mancos.
LOCO COW HELPS AMACHE
RESIDENT SET NEW RECORD
   With a locoed cow help-
ing him along, Amache-ite
Art Sugiyama, understand-
ably enough, ran a hundred
yards in less than nine
seconds flat,and went fly-
ing through a hay stack
with the greatest of ease.
   All this happened at the
XY ranch several days ago,
and it came about thusly:
   In the recent shipment
here of some 498 heads of
cattle,it seems that there
were a couple of them that
had enjoyed some loco weed,
which,explains Agricultural
Supervisor John D.Spencer,
affects the optic nerves.
Which means that locoed,
cows can't see too well,
and so if they become sep-
arated from the herd, they
get mighty irritable and
scared of anything that
moves, and anything that
scares them they don t like,
and anything they don't
like they try to do away
with...(do not worry if
you cannot follow that
last train of thought...
the writer himself cannot
follow it).
   Well, Art was sitting
on his cow pony, minding
his own business, when one
of the locoed babies gets
the idea that Art is mov-
ing when he shouldn't be,
and, therefore, she (the
locoed baby,we mean)starts
after Art with the grand
idea of making a gory mess
of Art.
   0n her first rush, the
cow-knocked over the horse
that Ant was seated on.
Well, Art, who is a firm
believer of "discretion is
the better part of valor,"
picked himseIf up and ran
like h--toward a nearby
haystack.   And he was mak-
ing , as  observed previously,
record-breaking time, only
the "scared" animal was
making better time.   This
resulted in Art and the
cow arriving at the hay-
stack at the same time.
However, only Art kept on
going...right on through
the stack.
   The frustrated cow, af-
ter losing sight of Art,
spied two of Art’s co-work-
ers  who  were rolling around
in the dust holding their
stomachs and laughing like
the dickens some distance
away, "Well, well, well,"
the cow thought(naturally,
this writer  is only sup-
posing that the cow did
think that), and then, af-
ter snorting a couple of
times in true cow style,
she aimed herself at the
two creatures and started
toddling, very fast-like.
   These boys, acting un-
der the laws of self-preser-
vation, dashed up to and
up a very convenient tele-
phone pole, an act which,
just about broke the heart
of the locoed cow.
  It was complete frus-
tration, and so it was an
easy matter  for Art Toyama,
another cowpuncher,to rope
her and lead her into a
quiet barn where there are
no irritating movements to
get sore about.
   As is to be expected,
Art Sugiyama,the haystack-
plunger-throughor,and hol-
der of the hundred-yard-
dash, title, can now be
found working with hoes
and shovels that don’t be-
come  irritated at his moving.
--vito-v. ito
 to  the  boss
     by patrick
dear boss:
   it's been one year since
the first contingent moved
into the granada center,
a friend of mine came in
with that bunch.   the first
night,the water supply gave
out, the electricity went
out. inconveniences were
many.   things were still in
the construction stage.
  a year.   that's a long
time, but within that span
-a period of suffering,
hardships, and readjustments
--a new spirit sprang up in
the hearts of many of the
people.    a pioneer spirit.
and with it welled a deep-
er appreciation of life,
of living,and most of all,
FREEDOM.
   now relocation is fore-
most.   the lessons learned
after a year's confinement
will no doubt prove bene-
ficial when we once again
move out into, the "free
world.  "we  will be stronger
of it--and more determined
than ever to make a definite
place for ourselves in this
democracy.   yours for hap-
piness,
                patrick