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Page 2________________PIONEER________________September 29, 1943 KNODEL RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON Walter J. Knodel, se- lective service officer, returned Saturday from Washington DC, where he spent a month on special detail work,the employment office revealed. Said Knodel, "I visited the various relocation of- fices enroute back to Amache , and jobs are plentiful along the eastern seaboard. And during my stay at the Cap- itol, I met a number of girls from this center who are enjoying their work there, but were a little homesick at first." ======RELOCATION===== Masao Wesley Hoshino, Cleveland, Sept, 26. Mary H iroko Yasumura and Tomoe Yasumura,Denver, to join their father. Yoshiaki Sugita, Omaha, Oct. 1, for employment at the University of Nebraska. Yasuyuki John Nakagawa, Philadelphia, Sept. 30. Kiyo Nakagawa, Cleve- land, Sept. 30. Sumiko Washino,St.Paul, Minn., Sept. 28. Tetsushi Uratsu, Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 27. Hiroshi Ito, New York, Sept. 25, to attend New York university. Ben Kenneth Suzuki, Cleveland, Oct. 6. The following have been granted indefinite leaves to work in Kimball, Neb. on Sept. 24; Yashiro Nishi- mura,Suske Takesako, Kiyo- shi Fukamizu, Seiza Matsu- shita, Tamiteru Nishi and Hyohachi Dyeda. AGENT TSUKAMOTO SEEKS WORKERS Frank S.Tsukamoto, rep- resentative of the Edgewatar Beach hotel in Chicago, is in the center to recruit workers for the hotel, and has made his headquarters in the office of Mario Vec- chio, assistant placement officer. He will remain through Saturday. All persons interested the jobs offered by the hotel may apply with Tsuka- moto in Vecchio’s office. FUJIMOTO- FUKUNAGA TROTH REVEALED The engagement of Kiku Fukunaga to Dr. Tadashi Fujimoto was revealed at a party attended by relatives and a few close friends at the former's home Friday evening. Baishakunin are Drs. and Mesdames Kuroiwa andTashiro, and Mr. and Mrs. S. Okuno. VITAL ===STATISTICS==== BIRTH: To Mr.and Mrs. Saburo Narita, 10E-1E, a boy, Sept. 25. SEMI-MILITARY FUNERAL HELD FOR PFC. INOUYE A semi-military funeral was held for the first time in the rather incongruous setting of a relocation center when final rites were administered Saturday at the 12G Buddhist church to Pfc. Henry Inouye who died at the center hospi- tal Sept. 20 after a pro- longed illness. At the extreme southern portion of the center, ad- jacent to the barbed wire fences which marked its boundary, the body of Pfc. Inouye, draped with the flag under which he served, rested for a moment after the service, while two Scouts sounded taps and eight men from the 335th Escort Guards fired three volleys in tribute to their fellow soldier, who had passed away. Attending the service were Cpt. Reuben Jackson, commanding officer of the 335th Escort Guards, who delivered a brief address, and Lt. John Kellogg and Lt. George Simony. Pfc. Inouye came to visit his parents in the center in November while on a furlough and contacted a col d which, later, de- ve1oped i n to pneumonia. After convalescing for al- most a year in the center hospital, hiscondition grew suddenly worse, read he died on Sunday. He was 26 and is sur- vived by both parents, two brothers and two sisters. -Tosh Ninomiya to the boss by patrick dear boss: first set eyes on this chick in the old pioneer office at -8F--that was back in october. she was quiet, too danged quiet for me, but she got her work done without any fuss or bother, couldn't figure out how i should, approach someone like this who huddled in a corner and paid no mind to anything or anybody, but, gradually the invigorating atmosphere of the pioneer office and the queer people therein, thawed her out and she took on new life. . . she broke out with an easy-reading colyum "between us girls," and actually started to talk. . .now, you can't stop her. but ain't that just like a woman? she's taken, in stride (for almost a year now), along with the rest of the gang, the knocks and bumps that come the way of all newspaper offices. . .and she's wormed her way into the hearts of the entire pioneer c r ew, including that marble heart of yours, huh, boss? her case history reads briefly,; born in colusa, california, age about 21, height 5'2", weight, (she won't tell),high grad--CSF student, and hired-hand on the hometown paper (re- porter, re-w rite) before evacuation. on the pioneer, she's handled practically every assignment there is to be handled. . .the word "in- dispensable" fits her to a "t." why all the hullabaloo about her? well, this en- igmatic creature who has frequent "moody" spells, who believes powder-blue looks good on pharmicists, who thinks frank sinatra is the nuts, and who can't resist buying jump platters is leaving the pioneer-- relocating. and i'm just wondering, boss,what the hell are you going to do without her? her? takako kusunoki, or more informally, taxie or "true-blue." --patrick
Object Description
Title | Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 104 |
Date | 1943-09-29 |
Physical Collection | Japanese Americans in World War II collection |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number or date | 104 |
Page count | 10 |
Object type | Newsletter |
Donor | Shitara, George |
Description
Title | page 2 |
Item number | HMLSC_Granada_Pioneer_V01_N104_P02 |
Page number | page 2 |
Physical description | 35.6 cm x 21.6 cm |
Full Text Search | Page 2________________PIONEER________________September 29, 1943 KNODEL RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON Walter J. Knodel, se- lective service officer, returned Saturday from Washington DC, where he spent a month on special detail work,the employment office revealed. Said Knodel, "I visited the various relocation of- fices enroute back to Amache , and jobs are plentiful along the eastern seaboard. And during my stay at the Cap- itol, I met a number of girls from this center who are enjoying their work there, but were a little homesick at first." ======RELOCATION===== Masao Wesley Hoshino, Cleveland, Sept, 26. Mary H iroko Yasumura and Tomoe Yasumura,Denver, to join their father. Yoshiaki Sugita, Omaha, Oct. 1, for employment at the University of Nebraska. Yasuyuki John Nakagawa, Philadelphia, Sept. 30. Kiyo Nakagawa, Cleve- land, Sept. 30. Sumiko Washino,St.Paul, Minn., Sept. 28. Tetsushi Uratsu, Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 27. Hiroshi Ito, New York, Sept. 25, to attend New York university. Ben Kenneth Suzuki, Cleveland, Oct. 6. The following have been granted indefinite leaves to work in Kimball, Neb. on Sept. 24; Yashiro Nishi- mura,Suske Takesako, Kiyo- shi Fukamizu, Seiza Matsu- shita, Tamiteru Nishi and Hyohachi Dyeda. AGENT TSUKAMOTO SEEKS WORKERS Frank S.Tsukamoto, rep- resentative of the Edgewatar Beach hotel in Chicago, is in the center to recruit workers for the hotel, and has made his headquarters in the office of Mario Vec- chio, assistant placement officer. He will remain through Saturday. All persons interested the jobs offered by the hotel may apply with Tsuka- moto in Vecchio’s office. FUJIMOTO- FUKUNAGA TROTH REVEALED The engagement of Kiku Fukunaga to Dr. Tadashi Fujimoto was revealed at a party attended by relatives and a few close friends at the former's home Friday evening. Baishakunin are Drs. and Mesdames Kuroiwa andTashiro, and Mr. and Mrs. S. Okuno. VITAL ===STATISTICS==== BIRTH: To Mr.and Mrs. Saburo Narita, 10E-1E, a boy, Sept. 25. SEMI-MILITARY FUNERAL HELD FOR PFC. INOUYE A semi-military funeral was held for the first time in the rather incongruous setting of a relocation center when final rites were administered Saturday at the 12G Buddhist church to Pfc. Henry Inouye who died at the center hospi- tal Sept. 20 after a pro- longed illness. At the extreme southern portion of the center, ad- jacent to the barbed wire fences which marked its boundary, the body of Pfc. Inouye, draped with the flag under which he served, rested for a moment after the service, while two Scouts sounded taps and eight men from the 335th Escort Guards fired three volleys in tribute to their fellow soldier, who had passed away. Attending the service were Cpt. Reuben Jackson, commanding officer of the 335th Escort Guards, who delivered a brief address, and Lt. John Kellogg and Lt. George Simony. Pfc. Inouye came to visit his parents in the center in November while on a furlough and contacted a col d which, later, de- ve1oped i n to pneumonia. After convalescing for al- most a year in the center hospital, hiscondition grew suddenly worse, read he died on Sunday. He was 26 and is sur- vived by both parents, two brothers and two sisters. -Tosh Ninomiya to the boss by patrick dear boss: first set eyes on this chick in the old pioneer office at -8F--that was back in october. she was quiet, too danged quiet for me, but she got her work done without any fuss or bother, couldn't figure out how i should, approach someone like this who huddled in a corner and paid no mind to anything or anybody, but, gradually the invigorating atmosphere of the pioneer office and the queer people therein, thawed her out and she took on new life. . . she broke out with an easy-reading colyum "between us girls," and actually started to talk. . .now, you can't stop her. but ain't that just like a woman? she's taken, in stride (for almost a year now), along with the rest of the gang, the knocks and bumps that come the way of all newspaper offices. . .and she's wormed her way into the hearts of the entire pioneer c r ew, including that marble heart of yours, huh, boss? her case history reads briefly,; born in colusa, california, age about 21, height 5'2", weight, (she won't tell),high grad--CSF student, and hired-hand on the hometown paper (re- porter, re-w rite) before evacuation. on the pioneer, she's handled practically every assignment there is to be handled. . .the word "in- dispensable" fits her to a "t." why all the hullabaloo about her? well, this en- igmatic creature who has frequent "moody" spells, who believes powder-blue looks good on pharmicists, who thinks frank sinatra is the nuts, and who can't resist buying jump platters is leaving the pioneer-- relocating. and i'm just wondering, boss,what the hell are you going to do without her? her? takako kusunoki, or more informally, taxie or "true-blue." --patrick |