Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 43

              INDEFINITE   LEAVES  ON  SIX-MONTH  TRIAL
BASIS  NOW  AVAILABLE  FOR  RELOCATEES
   Residents of relocation centers will be eligible to go out on indefinite leave
for a trial period of from four to six months and may secure permission to return
to the center at the end of that period if they find it necessary, according to
new regulations of the War Relocation Authority received today by Project Director
James G. Lindley,
   Explaining the new regulations, Leland Barrows, Acting Director of WRA in Wash-
ington, said:
    "The adoption of this program permitting indefinite leave on a trial basis is
an effort on the part of WRA to meet the needs of those evacuees who have been un-
certain of their ability to make a success of relocation, and those who have hesi-
tated to leave the centers
without assurance that they
could come back in the event
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     Granada  PIONEER
VoI.II.No 43 Saturday April  1,1944        Amache,Colo.
EVACUEE PERSONAL  PROPERTY
WRA  TO  MEET  FULL SHIPPING
COSTS  TO  RELOCATION POINT
   All personal properties of evacuees may now be ship-
ped to relocation points at government expense even
though shipment to the
center  was also made by
WRA expense,  according to
revised instructions received,
by Ralph J. Mitchell, pro-
perty officer.  The weight
limit is also removed on
household and personal ef-
fects.
   Shipment of commercial
property of an evacuee's
trade, business or profess-
sion, including farm ma-
chinery and equipment,suf-
ficient only for a family-
size venture and not more
than 5000 pounds in weight
to the point of the evacuee
owner's relocation, will
be paid by the WRA. This
procedure may be followed
only when the relocation
officer of the community
certifies that the use of
such equipment is essential
to the evacuee's successful
relocation and that they
cannot be replaced at the
time. Such shipment must
also receive the approval
of the project director.
FIRST  INDUCTEES
PLACED  ON  RESERVE
    Twenty Amacheans, who
left Monday for induction
at Fort  Logan, were re-
turned to the center and
placed on the inactive list
Tuesday by the army until
a larger group is formed,
according to Walter Knodel,
Selective Service officer.
The boys will remain on the
reserve list until called
by the commanding general
of the Seventh Service Com-
mand.
DELEGATES  FROM
CENTERS  ARRIVE
FOR  CO-OP  CONFAB
   Representatives from
Poston, Tule Lake, Gila a
River,Heart Mountain, Rho-
wer,Manzanar and Minidoka,
began arriving this morning
to attend the second all-
center enterprises confer-
ence to be held Monday thru
Wednesday, according to
Tokuyoshi Kawasaki, execu-
tive secretary.
   An interesting program
has been scheduled for the
three-day confab by the lo-
cal chapter, host for the
event.
   Featuring on Monday's
program are registration,
words of greeting by Kawa-
saki; reports from George
Morey of the New York of-
fice; remarks by Otto Ross-
man; and a welcome banquet
at the workers' mess hall.
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PROPOSED  CREDIT  UNION
IN  AMACHE  AWAITS  CHARTER
   With more than thirty
signatures of the repre-
sentative applicants, the
establishing of the Federal
Credit's Union in Amache
awaits only the granting
of the charter, announces
E.  H. Runcorn, supervisor
of enterprises.  The local
chapter will have safety
feature which are practical-
ly uniform with the 10,000
credit unions in the United
States.
   The Amache Federal Cre-
dit Union,when established,
will be open to every cen-
ter  resident.
CENTER-WIDE CENSUS TAKEN TOMORROW
   All residents are required to remain
in their apartments tomorrow morning im-
mediately after breakfast as a census of
the center will be taken beginning at 8
o'clock, announced Henry F. Halliday,
assistant project director, Thursday
afternoon.
   Aside from these persons on duty--
policemen,water pump operators,hospital
personnel,  including the boilermen and
firemen-no person will be allowed to
leave his apartment until the entire  cen-
sus has been completed,stated Halliday.
Mess hall employees must remain in their
apartments until they have been registered
by the  census takers. 
   Heads of the family should recheek
their family and alien registration num-
bers so that correct numbers can be given
the census  takers.
   The sounding of mess hall gongs unde r
the direction of the internal security
section will signify the completion of
the census,   concluded Halliday.