Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 18A

              Page 2___________________PIONEER_________________January 5, 1944
G R A N A D A       P I O N E E  R	
Published Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed free     to each apartment.   Editorial  of-
fice:  PIONEER  building, Amache, Colo.  Telephone 63.
Reports  office:  Joe McClelland         Editor: Sueo Sako
   Staff: Allan Asakawa, John Tsuruta, Henry Kusaba ,
Roy Yoshida,George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki,
Dick Kurihara, Amy Minabe, Ailene Hamamoto, Jack Ki-
mura, Ted Fujii, Roy Murakami, James Sakamoto, Yayeko
Morita,  George Morita, Bob Miyoshi, Harry Ioka, Jack
Ito, Russell Yamaga, Tomoko Yatabe.
1 9 4 4 -  Whither   Nisei
   The young but  sober-thinking Waster 1944 has seen
five sunrises since you welcomed him across the thres-
hold of your life.  For you who have “celebrated” your
second New Year  in  a relocation  center many   thought,
must be milling  around     in  your  mind.    And the most
important of them should be “What has 1944 in store
for me?”
    You have had the dark clouds of life hover over you
and as yet no "silver lining" has appeared since that
fateful day when the east "met" the west-the hard
way.  Your life has been toyed with and made into a
politicians’ "football"and race baiters' "red herring."
You have suffered the ill-fortunes that are usually
aimed at the  hapless  minority of  the  moment.
   But  your  position is much stronger   today than during
the   hectic   first-months after  that  memorable  Dec.   7.
   People are wiser--war-wiser--and   taking more  realis-
tic     view of  the  situation.  They will no longer    ride
on  "any" bandwagon of over-enthusiasm.  Yet you must
not forget that you are up against the age-old problem
of economic self-preservation.You cannot accept every-
thing with  stoical   indifference.
   So     in     this  year  of   1944   let   us  be  alert  and  ever-
watchful   of  our  rights,   lest  we be  a  martyr  of  our  own
infidelity.     Your  vigilance will   mean  nisei   salvation.
					Roy Yoshida
GENERAL CLARK  PROMOTES TWO
NISEI  TO  RANK  OF CAPTAIN
   THE FIFTH ARMY  FRONT  IN
ITALY, --Two Americans of
Japanese descent, A. Fuku-
da, Honolulu, and H. Kawa
no of PearI City,Oahu,were
made Captains recently when
Lieutenant General Mark W.
Clark acting as a military
Santa Claus presented over
100 decorations,promotions
and battlefield appoint-
ments.
   Clark told them the  100th
Infantry Battalion had done
a     fine  job  and   the US Army
was   proud  of  the   unit.
DENTAL TRAINING
COURSE OFFERED
   One  single  man about 20
years old with high school
education wanted immediately
by Davenport, Iowa, dental
laboratory.  No experience
needed but must be ambitious
and anxious to learn. Must
be on  job Jan. 8 to take
training course.  50 cents
hr for 40 hrs. time and
half  for  overtime.  Con-
tact employment office.
OKUNO  HEADS
STUDENT COUNCIL
   Chizuko Okuno was elected
president     of     the    newly
formed junior high school
student council recently.
Miss Muriel Groves is the
advisor     of this   group.
   Other officers are Yo-
shiye Yamaga,secretary,and
Arthur Miyashima, treasurer.
Other representatives were
Marguerite Iida, Raymond
Kado, Nori Tatara,  Martin
Shimizu, Irene Doi, Naomi
Tanikawa,   Bob   Leibel,   Ruby
Yamamoto,Kaz Yamamoto, Kaz
Kaihara, May Yonemura, and
Yutaka  Tonai.
STAFF   STEWARD
   Harry Yonemura replaced
Kiechiro Saito, who relo-
cated to Boston, Mass., as
chief steward of the staff
mess,according to the mess
division.
	Just
  Incidentally
	By Sueo Sako
   "Please look in my trunk
and send the one gallon jug
that has two rattlesnakes
in it.I am sending you the
trunk  key."
   How would you like to be
the recipient of the above
request? Well, Constable
William Sweetland of Colusa,
Calif.,received the unusual
privilege from Amachean
Tomizo Sankai of 9E-11C.
  Bewildered Sweetland
complied with the request
and went to the former Jap-
anese school,where tons of
belongings of evacuated
Colusa Japanese are stored.
After poking around the
piles of stored goods, Sweet-
land located the  s t r an g e
article--a jug filled with
brownish 1iquid (alcohol)
and containing two dead
rattlesnakes.
"I want it for medicine
to cure asthma and many
other ills,"replied Sankai
when questioned.  He also
revealed  that the two rat-
tlesnakes were put into the
jug alive three years ago,
and  since  then they have
spit  out the poison which
makes it an ideal cure for
asthma."
   Boyj  it sure sounds as
if  though he might be an-
other witch doctor.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A WRA census of all per-
sons of Japanese ancestry
is to be taken in the Den-
ver area in the near future.
This survey will enable the
WRA to appraise the results
of the relocation program
to the Mile High City area.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
   Whoopee!  Oh, shucks!
The OPA announced last Wed-
nesday that shoe dealers may
sell part of their stocks
of women’s footwear ration-
free, at $3 or less a pair,
during the two-week period 
from Jan. 17 through Jan.
29.
   The quantity of footwear
released is 15 per cent of
retailers' stocks of women's
shoes listed in September
inventory report to OPA.
   Ladies, better stock up
on those "dawg houses."