Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 49

              43  AMACHEANS   FLORIDA   BOUND
   Forty-three local draf-
tees left early yesterday
morning to report for Army
service at Fort Logan,Colo.,
from where they will en-
train for the Infantry Re-
placement  Training Center,
camp Blanding,Fla., accord-
ing to the center Selective
Service office. Majority
of the inductees called
were in the enlisted reserve
corps.
   Surprise and sudden orders
to report into the Army
were issued by the Army
Service Forces,Headquarters
Seventh Service Command,
Omaha, Nebr., and were re-
ceived by the Amacheans
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    Granada   PIONEER
Vol.   II,   No. 49			Saturday, April 22, 1944        Amache, Colorado
SEGREGATION
TO  BE  DISCUSSED
   In order to discuss and
obtain the latest informa-
tion concerning the third
segregation movement to
Tule Lake in May, James G.
Lindley, project director,
and Willis J. Hanson, as-
sistant relocation program
officer, left for Denver
yesterday morning for a two-
day period.
   Lindley and Hanson will
confer with Malcolm E.Pitts,
assistant WRA field direc-
tor, who recently returned
from Capitol Hill.
APPLICATION   FORMS
FOR  VOTERS  ISSUED
   Application forms for "affidavit of registration"
form have been distributed to every block by the Com-
munity Council and will be duly passed out to nisei
voters by the block councilman, stated Shiro Abe, Com-
munity Council chairman,   Thursday.
   This form should be filled out immediately and dis-
patched to your county clerk or registrar of voters
by registered mail requesting a RETURN RECEIPT at
the time  of registering the  letter.
   Upon, receiving the "affidavit of registration"
form, you are required to follow instructions given
therein and return  same to proper  official  indicated.
   ABSENTEE VOTING: In regards to absentee voting, a
registered voter must make a request for an "applica-
tion for absentee    voter's
ballot" form. This form-
must be filled out and re-
turned within the specified
time limitation set by your
respective state of "resi-
dence."
   California voters must
return their "application
for absentee voter’s ballot"
form not more than 20 days
nor not less than five days
before the date of election.
   Primary    election    date
in California is May 16.
   Former residents of Ore-
gon must send their "ap-
plication for absentee
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DRAFT  PRESENTS  EMPLOYMENT
OFFICE  “TERRIFIC  HEADACHE”
   It was only yesterday when employable supply was
giving employment demand a terrific bouncing but to-
day relocation and army induction have changed all
that and demand is knocking
the stuffings out of supply.
And the man who is feeling
the heat is none other
than Edmund Eaklor, our
hard-pressed personnel
technician.
   Eaklor's  immediate    and    
critical headache is a pre-
sent from Ralph J.Mitchell,
property and warehouse of-
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INDUCTEES  MAY
RELOCATE  FAMILIES
IN  NORTHERN  UTAH
   The current relocation
restrictions in the six
Northern Utah counties have
been relaxed to evacuees
entering military service
who wish to relocate their
families, according to in-
formation received from
Ottis Peterson, Salt Lake
City relocation supervisor.
   Any evacuee who has
passed his pre-induction
physical may relocate his
family if he or his wife
has immediate relatives
within the district with
whom the wife intends to
live.
   Prior approval would
be required on individual
cases. And once relocated
the wife and family are
not expected "to return to
the center when the husband
enters military service,"
MACHINERY  STARTS  ROLLING
TO  SOLVE  HOUSING PROBLEM
   Machinery for the hous-
ing of tentatively 500
Jeromites in mid-June was
started Wednesday by Jacob
Gerrild, counselor, as his
"master committee" convened
in the Reception Hall to
discuss ways and means of
handling the transfer with
minimum of friction and
displeasure.
   The "master committee"
is a representative group
composed of various center
leaders and  officials.
   Heading the  space    com-
mittee will be John Ter Borg,
housing superintendent,
with Edmund B.Eaklor, per-
sonnel technician and for-
mer housing chief, serving
in advisory capacity.
   Dr. Enoch Dumas,elemen-
tary, school principal, was
designated as chairman of
the  hospitality committee.
   Essentially the com-
mittee is charge of space,
as its name implies, must
find sufficient housing
facilities to care for the
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