Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 41

              Page 2___________________PIONEER_________________March 25, 1944
   Just
Incidentally
     By Sueo  Sako
   Just a couple of days
ago. Henry F. Halliday,
assistant project director,
and I had a little "pow-
wow" on new changes occur-
ring throughout this nation.
Halliday, who just return-
ed from a recent Denver
trip, mentioned a number
of significant and insig-
nificant items that he no-
ticed or heard. And there
was one tip-off on a new
trend that may gather mo-
mentum as time elapses
which will vitally concern
those who are hesitant in
relocating.
  There seems to be a
noticeable indication that
many employed Denverites
are now "job shopping,”
which fact has caught the
eyes of competent persons
connected with the employ-
ment bureaus in the Mile
High City area. Another
outstanding factor in this
slight movement is that
these job hunters are no
longer classing high wages
or salaries as number one
requirement on any offer.
In addition,  many workers
offered  better jobs with
high pay in other states
and areas are showing an
increasing tendency to ig-
nore them; others employed
in war industries are con-
stantly on the "beat" for
another bread-and butter
or meal  ticket.
   What does all this mean?
It may be that the rank
and  file of the American
public is expecting the
global struggle to end
shortl.; on the other hand,
it may be  that   far-sighted
individuals are seeking
permanent    positions     a nd     
are not   going  to be caught     
with     their    pants   down"
when  the men on the fighti ng
fronts  begin  to return.
   Regardless  of what  this 
new trend may be,it brings 
another immediate and grow-
ing problem that evacuees
within the relocation cen-
ters will encounter as each
day passes. It means that
Caucasians who rushed into
the war factories and plants
are flocking elsewhere to
more secure jobs--jobs with 
less     pay,     but    with more     
security.  And jobs with
less pay were the ones
available to Nisei and their
parents which means greater 
competition in those fields.
   If this movement make
any headway, it will make 
tough “road back,” a
 tougher one.  At least 
those who first started on
the long trek back will
have the consolation that
they are ahead of those
who embarked belatedly.
But don’t forget the old 
saying, “better late than
never.”
    GRANADA   PIONEER
  Published  Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed free to each apartment.  Editorial of-
fice:  PIONEER  building, Amache, Colo.   Telephone 63.
Reports officer: Joe McClelland           Editor:Sueo Sako
Staff: Allan Asakawa, John Tsuruta, Roy Yoshida,
George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki, Amy Minabe,
Ailene Hamamoto, Jack Kimura, Yayeko Morita, George
Morita, Yonemi Ono, Jack Ito, Toshiharu Matsumoto,Roy
Murakami, Junior Nakagawa, Esther Takei.
JAPANESE AMERICANS AID WAR
EFFORT   IN  CLINTON   PLANTS
   Seven American-born Japanese are braving the wrath
expressed toward their race on the streets of Clinton,
la.,wrote J. W. McCormick, staff writer of the Clinton
Herald, recently.  They are doing their best to prove
the falsity of the snap judgement that “a Jap is a Jpa.”
   Among the seven Nisei here there is Hasegawa Shi-
rokichi, wrote licCormick, who is a US verteran of World
War I, born in Hawaiian Islands and later moved with
his parents to the United States. Shirokichi attended
American schools and worked on American Arms and in
American industries up and down the west coast prior
to evacuation. Now after a short interruption, he has
returned to work for an American firm, the Clinton
Bridge Works. Since his name is cumbersome for the
American tongue, Shirokichi has changed his name to “Ben.”
   Shirokichi and five other Nisei youths are employed
at  Clinton Bridge Works  as welders.  Several of the
boys  told  staff writer McCormick, “Tell the people
of Clinton we are doing everything we know how to
help win this war for the United States.  We are 100
per  cent  for America and are giving 10 per cent for
war bonds."
    And the only Nisei girl in Clinton is 18 year old
Sally Okura who has joined a French family at the in-
vitiation of their daughter, a ‘pen-pal’ of Sally’s for
before Pearl Harbor and
continued unabated during
Sally’s internment.
   She is now working at
the Burpee Seed company
packing seed orders for
American victory gardens,
truck farms and lend-lease
shipments.
FORMER AMACHE
TEACHER  VISITS
   Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Har-
old     Provancha  paid Amache
a visit Wednesday en route
to Memphis, Tenn, where
he is stationed, according
to  the   education  office.
   Lt. Provancha was in-
dustrial Arts instructor
on the senior high school
faculty until his enlist-
ment in the US navy in De-
ember   of  1942.
===RELOCATION===
   Florence Kiyoko Abe, New
York,   NY,   Mar.   23.
   Nao Clara Okuda, Yellow
Spring,   Ohio,   Mar.   24.
   Zennosuke Matsuda, Day-
ton,   Ohio,   Mar.  22.
  Shigeo Nakamura, Aurora,
Ill.,  April   1.
   Tom Nakashima, Des  Moines,
Lowa,   Mar.   26.
    May    Tomike    Tomie, New
York,   NY,   Mar.   28.
   Horace Hamada, New York,
NY, Mar.   28,
   Mieko  Sotomura,Chicago,
Ill.  Mar. 28.
   Kojiro Tanioka,   Engle-
wood,   Colo.,  Mar.   23.
   Miyo  Nitta,     New York,
NY,   Mar.   28.
   Nizo Okamoto, Englewood,
Colo.,   Mar. 23.