Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 33

              Page   6_____________________PIONEER_________________February 26, 1944
DEFENDS  BIG  TEN
SWIMMING  TITLES
   Keo Nakama, Ohio State
university’S speedy water-
churner, successfully de-
fended his 220 and 440 yard
free style titles last week
in the Big Ten swimming
championship held at Chi-
cago. Although his team
finished in fifth place,
Nakama starred as the meet's
only double winner, being
clocked at 2:13 in the 220
and 4:52.6   in the  440.
LOCAL  FAMILY  COUNSELING  UNIT  
TO  AID  PROSPECTIVE  RELOCATORS
   In order to assist fam-
ilies and individuals in
working out their future
plans, the newly organized
family counseling unit has
been set up in the former
leave office, announced
Joseph R, McFarling, as-
sociate counselor,Thursday.
Mrs.   Leona    Lillejeberg,
Louis Oki, and J. TerBorg
will aid McFarling as as-
sistant counselors. They
will be glad to talk over
any problem an evacuee may
have without obligating
himself  in any way.
   These experienced coun-
selors are ready to assist
people with their reloca-
tion problems,which involves
more than just outside em-
ployment and business op-
portunities. It has been
recognized that the facil-
ities in regards to educa-
tion, housing, health, so-
cial,and religion are also
important toward successful
resettlement, and a true
picture must be drawn be-
fore one can make a decision
for  his   best   interest.
   The counselors realize,
stated McFarling,that most
people  need  help  in bridg-
the gap between the
center and outside life.
But, he added, the uncer-
tainties involved may be
reduced greatly by careful
thinking after securing all
the   information available.
6H  YPC SOCIAL
TABBED A SUCCESS
   The 6H YPC sponsored
a successful, "Caught in
the Draft" social last
Saturday night. Young peo-
ple of Blocks 9H and 9E
were among the guests. Re-
freshments were served.
PVT.  IRIS  WATANABE  URGES  MORE
EVACUEE  GIRLS  TO  JOIN  WACs
   DENVER, Feb.16--Private
Iris A. Watanabe, first
nisei evacuee to be induc-
ted into the WACs ,expressed
the hope that more nisei
girls in relocation centers
would enlist in the armed
forces and give themselves
a chance to lead "a normal,
happy life once again in
American society."
   Miss Watanabe, who re-
cently was transferred to
Fort Devens, Mass., after
completing her basic train-
ing at Fort Des Moines, la.,
declared in a letter to
Harry F.Tarvin, relocation
reports office at Denver,
that evacuees "by caging
themselves in these relo-
cation centers .... don’t
give themselves a chance
to succeed in life, just
because of one rather un-
happy and bitter experience,"
   "I wonder," she went on,
"if  it might be a good
Idea to    make  another  at-
tempt at recruiting Japanese-
American girls into the
WACs.  Now that some of us
are in,and just loving It,
it might take effect a wee
bit."
   Miss Watanabe, a former
resident of Amache, said
she likes Fort Devens much
better "than when I first
came. It's beautiful here
in the New England states,
just  as   people describe it."
   "You ask me," she added,
"if I still like the army;
how I'm getting along, etc.
The way I feel now, I never
want to be out of it, I
don't think I need to say
another word."
   She declared that Japa-
nese Americans in the United
States armed forces have
"had success all along, in
this respect, that we have
proven to the American
people  that  people of  Japa-
nese ancestry are or can
be loyal if given the chance
to prove it. We must have
made the Impression, judg-
ing by the swell treatment
we've been getting."
30 BOY SCOUTS
TAKE 3-DAY  HIKE
   Thirty Boy Scouts of
Troop 162 hiked out to the
Arkansas river Sunday morn-
ing for a three-day winter
camping trip.
   Pioneering, tracking, and
cooking as well as Scout and
campcrafts were practiced.
FIVE  AMACHEANS
---continued  from page   1
pre-induction call.
   Those indicted were Mi-
tsuye Oshita, Susumu Weno-
keia,George Satoshi Maru-
moto, Chikara Kunisaki and
Kazuo Kunitake. Four of
them are 18 years of age
and  the   other     is   25.
====RELOCATION====
   Yutaka     Kinoshita,     Des
Moines, Ia., March 1.
   Mary    Tsuneko     Imamoto,
Davenport,   la.,   March  1.
  Susumu  Imamoto,     Daven-
port,   la.,   March.  1.
    Albert  Hideo  Ohama,Phi-
ladelphia,   Pa.,   March   1.
   Tadao Murai,Las Animas,
Colo.,   Feb.   24.
   Tsuyoshi  Sato,   Las  Ani-
mas,   Colo.,   Feb.   24.
   Toshiko  Fukuda,Chicago,
Ill.,   Feb.   29.
    Toyo Kanemaki,   Chicago,
Ill.,   Feb.   29.
   Shigeru Kanemaki,     Chi-
cago,   Ill.,   Feb.   29.
   Nobu  Ogata,Pueblo,Colo.,
Feb.   23.
   George  Matsushita,   Pue-
blo,   Colo.,   Feb.   23.
   Frank Nakatani,   Pueblo,
Colo.,   Feb.   23.
   Charles  Soichi Nakatani,
Pueblo,   Colo.,   Feb.   23.
   Mary M. Ogawa, Boulder,
Colo., Feb.   24.
   Shigeto Onoye, Cleve-
land,   Ohio,   Feb.   23.
   Hisako Kajioka, with
daughter, Junko June, Col-
umbus,   Ohio,   Feb.   28.
   Chiyeko Sugiura, Colum-
bus,   Ohio,   March  1.
   James Terujo Nakagawa,
Chicago,  Ill.,   March 3.
   Emma Emiko Nishita, Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin,March  1.
   Alice Yamaoka, Cleve-
land,   Ohio,   March 11.
   Shinichi Mukai, lone,
Colo.,   Feb.   28.
   Leo Tatara, New York,
NY,   March 14.
   Juichi Ikuta, Chicago,
Ill.,   March 3.
   Toyojiro Ted Tanaka,
Rocky Ford, Colo., March
4.