Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 43

              Page 8________________________PIONEER________________________April 1, 1944
COUNCIL   ADDS  HAPPY  ENDING
TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE  TALE
   Last  month an  urgent
plea for slaughterhouse
workers appeared in the
PIONEER, bulletin boards
and block managers made ap-
peals in the mess halls.
As no one would accept the
"B" rating position, the
block managers and council
body assured any slaughter
workers of a "C" rating.
Several days later, a body
of 11 men appeared for the
critical job.
   The monthly WRA checks
were issued to workers in
the early stages of this
month and the block mana-
gers and council body liv-
ing up to their word,
"shelled"out the difference
of $20.92 to the slaughter
workers from their own
pocket.   At present, all
slaughterhouse  workers are
receiving  ”C” rating but
the little things that are
being done by farm repre-
sentatives and block mana-
gers to assure residents of
a plentiful supply of meat
and vegetable should be
greatly appreciated by all.
   The farm division also
extends its deepest appre-
ciation to the block mana-
gers and council body for
their great contribution
to  the center as well as
to  the slaughter workers.
===WANTED===
   Male cook and waitress
for hospital mess. See
Miss Cornman at hospital
office.
   Ten workers for hog farm
immediately. Apply at em-
ployment   office.
JOB
===OPPORTUNITIES===
   Two men and one woman
for employment in green-
house at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
exp. required, men $125
a month,  woman 50 cents
per hr or domestic work at
$10 per week, good furnished
house.
   Eight gardeners in Boston,
Mass.,  $.60 an hour with
housing furnished. 
   Farm employment for two
Familles near Greeley, 50- 
65 acres beets,  90 acres
potatoes  and 250  acres
grain 15-20 acres for  ten-
nants use, two houses.
   840 acre farm for sale
in Montrose,  Colo., 314 
acres cultivated and ir-
rigated, good water rights,
4 houses,sufficient equip- 
ment.
   For more details see
Mario Vecchio at the relo-
cation office.
TRIAL  INDEFINITES
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they were unable to make a
satisfactory adjustment on
the outside."
   "They will now be able
to take employment on a
trial basis and to find
out for themselves what
conditions are like on the
outside,with the provision
that they may secure per-
mission to return to the
center, at the end of four
months if they find it
necessary. Applicants must
show that indefinite leave
for the trial period is a
definite step toward per-
manent relocation."
   Individuals and families
to whom this new type leave
is granted must accept cer-
tain responsibilities and
meet certain conditions.
They must have a specific
offer  of employment or a
community invitation,  and
meet the requirements for
regular indefinite leave.
   The new type leave will
be issued only to applicants
whose destination is a state
east of the Mississippi
River or in the states of
Minnesota,Iowa or Missouri.
Applicants must agree
not to change employment
nor to travel, outside a
prescribed travel district
without approval of the Re-
location Officer in that
district. Applicants must
be at least 21 years of age
or accompanied by an imme-
diate member of his family
of  at   least that age.
   An evacuee getting trial
period leave must finance
his own transportation. He
may,  however, decide to
convert to indefinite leave
and apply for an assistance
grant  and receive such a
grant on the same basis as
persons going out on regular
indefinite leave. Appli-
cation for such a grant may
be made at the center or
at any time after departure,
but within 30 days of the
final date of the trial
period. Receipt of such
an assistance grant will
automatically convert the
trial period leave to regu-
lar  indefinite  leave.
   Persons  going   out    on
trial period indefinite
leave will not be permitted
to visit the center during
the period except in the
case of emergencies such
as death or serious  illness
in the family. 
   Holders of this type
leave may secure permission
to return to the center at
the end of the four-month
trial period but not more
than six months after the
issuance date of the leave.
After  six months  the  trial
period leave will convert
to regular indefinite leave.
   Center residents may ob-
tain further information
on this new type leave from
Walter J. Knodel, reloca-
tion  program officer.
THE   FARM   FRONT
   For the first time in the center farm, planting of
vegetables for seed will be experimente.  The varieties
to be planted for seeds are daicon shipped from the
Gila center, turnips, onion and carrot. If this ex-
periment succeeds, the harvested seed will be used for
the coming season and also be shipped to other cen-
ters.
   The farm division is making another urgent appeal
for more farm workers, either male or female, as pre-
paration  for planting the seasons’ crop is busily under-
way.   At present, about 20 women are hired on the cen-
ter farm doing similar work as the men folks-weeding,
transplanting,' hoeing and' irrigating. The problem of
drafting farm workers will arise soon, warns Roy Naka-
tani, farm office manager, if the shortage of labor is
not filled. Also, a great satisfaction to farm hands
will be the re-opening of the Koen mess hall which
should vastly  speed  up farm activities.        -Jim Otsuka