Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 15

              RECRUIT  SOCIAL  WORKERS  FOR  RELOCATION  PROGRAM
   In order to speed up the relocation tempo, James G. Lindley, project director,
and John J. O. Moore, counselor, left for Denver yesterday noon, to recruit compe-
tent social workers.   Social workers are vital in analyzing problems giving advice
and encountering prospective relocatees.
   "Killing two birds with one stone," Lindley and Moore will also interview ap-
plicants for the various vacancies in the appointed personnel staff.________________
  Granada  PIONEER
Vol. II, No. 15	Amache, Colo.	December 18, 1943___________________________
CURTISS   RETURNS
TO ROHWER  CENTER
   Jack  Curtiss, acting
project attorney during
Donald Horn’s absence, re-
turned to Rohwer,Ark. Mon-
day evening, according to
James G, Lindley, project
director.
   Meanwhile, Mrs. T. Taka-
hashi, a visitor and one
of the two nisei women at-
torneys in the United States,
is assisting with legal
matters until Project At-
torney Horn's return Mon-
day.
CAMP  SAVAGE  RECRUITING
TEAM  TO  BE  HERE  MONDAY
   An Army team is sched-
uled be arrive here Monday
to recruit qualified nisei
and kibei for the coming
semester at  Camp Savage
Military Intelligence Service
Language School.  Lieut.
Claire E.Armstrong and Sgts.
James Tanizawa and David
Watanabe are the members
of this visiting team.
   All interested candidates
will have an opportunity
to talk over Army Language
school problems and other
pertinent information dur-
ing their purported two-day
stay,announced Walter Kno-
del, selective service of-
ficer, yesterday.
FARM  DIVISION  PURCHASES
900  SACKS  OF POTATO  SEEDS
   Nine hundred sacks of
potato seeds, enough to
produce a 9-month supply
of spuds for the center,
were purchased for early
and mid-season planting by
the farm division, a c cor d-
ing to Ernest Tigges,assist-
ant farm superintendent.
These seeds are expected
to arrive during the latter
part of February and March.
   The varieties of seeds pur-
chased were 50 sacks of
"Early Strain B liss Tri-
umph" for early planting,
400 sacks of "Irish Cob-
blers”for mid-season plant-
ing,  and  450  sacks  for
storage  use.
   Tigges  expressed the
opinion that Amache was
very fortunate in procuring
her quota of quality seeds
at a reasonable price.
CONSUL  SCHEDULES 
PERIODIC  CHECK-UP
   A Spanish Consul with
H. M. Benninghoff of the
state department will visit
this center for a periodic
check-up on or about Dec.
27 and 28, according to a
teletype  received  from
Dillon S. Myers, national
WRA director. Specific
time of arrival will be
announced later.
   The primary purpose of
the consul's corning here
will be to consult with
t h e Japanese national s
and to report to the Ja-
panese government the con-
ditions existing within
the relocation centers,
stated W. Ray Johnson,
chief of community manage-
ment .
   The consul will confer
with the block managers
and with members of the
appointed personnel.
    During the course of
the consul's stay he will
be escorted on an inspec-
tion tour through the hos-
pital,mess halls and to
other divisions of the cen-
ter.
   This marks the third
visit of a Spanish Consul
to Amache.
   Benninghoff will be ac-
companied by Miss Augusta
Wagner, former university
teacher at Peiping,who re-
turned on the Gripsholm
after internment in Weishi-
en, China.
PAUL  TERRY  PAYS  SURPRISE
VISIT  TO  AMACHE  SCHOOLS
   Students of the Amache
schools received an un-
expected but happy Christ-
mas gift Thursday morning
when their former superin-
tendent of education,Lieut.
(jg) Paul J. Terry, paid
them a surprise visit.
   With only a few hours
to spend here, Terry de-
livered a hurried talk be-
fore the high school stu-
dent body and declared, "I
am indeed very happy to
see the familiar faces
once again.   Your new su-
perintendent:, Dr. Lloyd
Garrison is certainly per-
forming a wonderful job in
operating the school sys-
tem.  I hope to see all the
students relocated and per-
haps  may have the privi-
lege of seeing the boys in
the navy.”
   Lieut. Terry graduated
Dec.10,from the Navy Basic
Training school at the Uni-
versity of Arizona in Tucson,
Ariz. His great ability
and leadership stood out
as he graduated in the up-
per 10 percent of the class.
He was selected as one of
the 25 men, among the 400
trainees, for special as-
signment at an undisclosed
location.
   The junior high school
choir paid him a tribute
when he dropped in their
classroom by singing "An-
chors Aweigh."
   Lieut. Terry was accom-
panied by Mrs. Terry and
daughter.