Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 7

              Page 6          PIONEER        November 18, 1942
Granada PIONEER
Published Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed free to every apartment. Editorial of-
fice:  PIONEER building, Amache, Colo.
Joe McClelland, adviser              Oski Taniwaki, director
Bob Hirano, editor               Toshio Ninomiya, manager
Staff:   Jiro Sumita, Takako Kusunoki, Jack Ito,
Tomoko Yatabe, Jaine Oi, Alice Taketa, Joseph Ido,
David Sugimoto, Tsugime Akaki, George Hamamoto, John
Tsuruta, Masaji Murai, Chris Ishii, Harry Ioka, Edith
Eodama, Kyo Hirano, Roy Hamaji, Suyeo Sako, Walter
Puchigami.
WE DON'T LIKE HIM
One of the most annoying persons in the Granada cen-
ter is the person who orders the magazines which are on
sale at the store.  He's either illiterate or insulting.
Pulp magazines and comic books take up most of the
space on the racks.  The rest of the display is made
up of astrology, sex, and humor magazines, and the usual
stand-bys--Life, Saturday Evening Poet, and Collier's.
If the purchaser has ordered these periodicals be-
cause they suit his own taste, he is illiterate; if he
has ordered them because he thinks we enjoy them, he is
insulting our intelligence.
A   CLOSE   CALL
An American Japanese soldier who formerly lived at
Sacramento escaped unharmed yesterday when a man whose
two sons also are in the army took a pot-shot at him
in a cafe at Dermott, Ark., and as a result landed in
jail.
Associated Press reported that the soldier is Pvt.
Louis Furushiro, 22, a member of the eighth ordnance
service company at Camp Robinson, Ark., who had stopped
at the cafe to eat while on his way to a nearly Japanese
relocation colony of Jerome to visit friends.
City Marshall Thad Hawkins arrested the civilian,
whose name was not given, and was holding him without
formal charge pending further investigation.
"Somebody told this fellow there was a Japanese in
the cafe," Hawkins said. "He went home, got his shot-
gun, came back to the cafe and opened the door.  He
asked the soldier if he was Japanese.  The soldier said
‘Yes’ and this guy fired.
"The soldier jumped off the stool and the load of
squirrel shot missed, scattering through a lattice work
in the rear of the cafe and damaging nothing except a
domino table."
The city marshal said it was the first such distur-
bance since establishment of the Japanese colony, hous-
ing l0,000 evacuees. --Sacramento Union
TWO   NOTICES
The PIONEER wishes to contact evacuees who have at
one time or another farmed on the present site of the
Granada relocation center.
The purpose of this request is to obtain a feature
story covering the Japanese angle in connection with
the "Our Second Frontier" series now being carried in
the paper.
Every occupied apartment in the center is entitled
to one copy of the PIONEER without charge on publica-
tion dates.  Please contact your block representative
when you do not receive a copy.
A limited number of extra copies are available at
the PIONEER office, west of the post office.
Letters TO THE EDITOR.
TO THE EDITOR:
In an issue of the PIO-
NEER dated Nov. 11, there
appeared in the column,
Letters to the Editor, an
article concerning the good
will banquet sponsored sole-
ly by myself.
This banquet, contrary
to the newspaper was an
idea resulting from a series
of meetings held by the
Granada Sumo association
and the League of Nisei
Pioneers.
The statement in the
column that I tried to in-
veigle center residents
into providing food and en-
tertainment for the offi-
cials of nearby communities
was utterly untrue, there-
fore, this statement stands
corrected.
SHUSUI  MATSUI
TO THE EDITOR:
Thank you for your let-
ter of Oct. 29. We compli-
ment you on the copies of
your center newspaper which
you enclosed. The edito-
rial matter is excellent
and the neat justified
column arrangement and let-
tering guide headings in-
vite reading.
There is unusual vital-
ity in the cartoon signed
"Chris" in the last issue.
A. B. DICK COMPANY
TO THE EDITOR:
Why can't something be
done about the clothes-line
hung from barrack to bar-
rack? It is not only an
ugly sight but is dangerous
to the public as well.
There has been a case of
a boy injuring himself se-
riously just because he did
not see the clothes-line.
True, the people should
watch where they are going
but it is quite impossible
to see the lines at night,
especially if one is in an-
other block.
In the interest of the
people's behalf, I remain,
MARGARET