Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 12

              Vol. I, No. 12        Amache, Colorado   December 2, 1942
ARMY   BOARD   TO   COME   HERE
SEPTEMBER
CHECKS  HERE
  September wages will be
paid in cash to approxima-
tely 1140 mess hall workers
on Friday, Saturday, and
Monday by a representative
who will visit each mess
hall, announced Principal
Fiscal Accountant T. Read
Hanson, today.  ID badges
or work assignment slips
will be necessary for iden-
tification.
  All others who worked
in September will be paid
at the PIONEER building
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
starting Tuesday.   Evening
payoffs will be announced
later for the benefit of
those who work late.
The deadline for cash
payments to August workers
is Saturday noon et the
PIONEER building.
Service Time
Change Made
  Special Buddhist service
for adults will be held
Saturday at 2 p.m. instead
of on Sunday for this week
only, according to Rev. T.
Shirakawa.
BUILDING
UNDER WAY
Construction of the cen-
ter school buildings is
expected to get under way
today, Ralph J. O'Rourke,
chief engineer, revealed
Monday.
  Representatives of the
R. E. Rippe Construction
company of South Pasadena,
Calif., were on the pro-
spective school grounds,
making arrangements and
surveys.
PROBLEMS
TACKLED
  To cope with the prob-
lem of delinquency among
the young people of the
center, representatives
of various project organi-
zations met last week and
formed a co-ordinating
council.
  Organizations represented
were the boy scouts, police
force, recreation depart-
ment, women's federation,
Christian church group,
Buddhist church, community
council, the school, and
the Y.
RECRUITS
SOUGHT
  To interview prospective
students for the Army lang-
uage school in Savage,
Minn., a technical selec-
tion board will arrive here
soon from the central Utah
relocation center, it was
learned in a wire received
by Project Director James
G. Lindley from Colonel
Rasmussen, head of the
language school, this week.
  Recruits must be Ameri-
can citizens of draft age
who are physically fit for
service.
  They must have a fair
speaking fluency of the
Japanese language and a
perfect knowledge of kata-
kana and hiragana, plus a
knowledge of a minimum of
300 basic kanji.
  The Granada center showed
the greatest response of all
the projects in answering
the Navy's call for teachers
and an even greater Army
sign up is expected.
  The administration has
expressed its willingness
to cooperate with the Army
in every way to recruit
eligible signees.
MYER OUTLINES NEW WRA POLICY
   That eventual resettle-
ment of evacuees into com-
munities outside restricted
military zones is the new
WRA policy was revealed by
the National WRA Chief Dil-
lon S. Myer in an address
at the JACL convention in
Salt Lake City last week.
This was the word brought
here by Masao Satow and
Henry Shimizu, who comprised
the Granada delegation.
  Said Myer, the welfare
of the project will be sec-
ondary to that of reset-
tlement. However, this
does not necessarily indi-
cate future mass movement
from relocation centers,
as a job or other source
of income, approval of the
community, and FBI clearance
must be obtained before resettlement of any indivi-
dual can take place.
  To facilitate the new
plan, a program will be
launched whereby the Amer-
ican public may be educa-
ted as to the loyalty of
the majority of evacuees.
In addition, contacts will
be made with prospective
employers to obtain posi-
tions for evacuees, declared
the WRA chief.
  Myer revealed that there
are yet more than 200 or-
ganizations striving to in-
tern all the Japanese in
the country, and to send
them to Japan after the
war.  And although these
groups will oppose the new
WRA policy, the WRA is de-
termined to bring the plan
to a successful conclusion,
he said.
  Other items discussed
by Myer included the news
that non-productive Japa-
nese in Hawaii will be in-
terned in centers on the
mainland.  He explained
that the WRA has made no
appropriations for recrea-
tion purposes because of
possibly unfavorable public
reaction.