Gila News-Courier, Volume 3 #16-20

Volume 3 #16: Sept. 28, 1943

Page 1: Rivers awaits rice shipment; Butte residents vote for community councilmen; bond plugger; not all are anti-Japanese; councilmen to elect officers; flood waters sweep Gila.

Page 2: Editorial; chivalry dead? sez who, sister?; ephemeral are time, smoke; cartoon; gift overseas.

Page 3: Emmons backs DeWitt's stand on West Coast; Girl Scouts to present 'Margie'; co-op calls for sales receipts; photo schedule released; hospital fetes Tule bound; handle new checks carefully; Dr. Ichioka Iowa bound; attention all co-op employees; Leis, corsages given at dance; marriages.

Page 4: Trade Winds; canal changes movie date; storm cont; medical field open to girls; soldiers back bond drive cont; block managers plan consolidation; library notes.

Page 5: Job offers; Wells calls meeting of Butte-canal Scout heads; coming-going; resettlement shifts away from Chicago; new shorthand courses begin; YBA schedule get-together; canal gidayu kai set for tonight.

Page 6: Sports.

Pages 7, 8: In Japanese.

Volume 3 #17: Sept. 30, 1943

Page 1: Net fund to be mailed to Tule; Butte elects thirty men to council with light vote; WRA discloses fire damages; Ando elected council chairman; President asks for racial unity.

Page 2: Editorial; bandwagon representative; cartoon.

Page 3: No bitterness in Hiraoka; hospital hard hit by staff reductions; labor relaxes during holiday; seasonal job offers arrive; Nisei guard war prisoners; fire loss at Gila equals $30; war loan drive chairman picked; chef wanted.

Page 4: Check and Pick; Omaha school admits Nisei to job courses; Canalites get medical supply; adult ed offers varied subjects; 'Above Suspicion' added to library.

Page 5: Coming and Going; Stockman would dissolve War Relocation Authority; bend and grunt class to open; fire prevention week; handle checks with care; postscript on rainstorm.

Page 6: Sports.

Pages 7, 8: In Japanese.

Volume 3 #18: Oct. 2, 1943

Page 1: Gilans bid farewell to 986 segregants; special permission allows war work for resettlers; 16 mm. projector needed at school; Thunder will work in canal; leave score; one-man bond drive; appointed staff exceeds quota.

Page 2: Editorial; staff scatter to four winds; cartoon.

Page 3: Gila pastures outside cattle; Kato explains computation of refund; 6 inch rainfall recorded here; co-op corrects misunderstanding; diet classes open to public; Gila policemen to see FBI film; censors reject only 10 letters.

Page 4: Check and Pick; canal YP will hear Osaki; Christian church makes changes; two chicken for nickel-maybe; church services.

Page 5: Coming and Going; Collier replaced by McSparren; Wards D and E volunteers cited; 'conditions ok' said of Denver; Knit? Crochet? You're wanted; anthropology; Granada sends Rivers spuds; Nisei active in Madison; honor badges.

Page 6: Sports.

Pages 7, 8: In Japanese.

Volume 3 #19: Oct. 5, 1943

Page 1: Fire prevention week; job response discouraging; Butte council sworn in; segregation hearings continue; first Nisei unit enters Salerno combat zone; joint meet for Y, Phalanx.

Page 2: Americans go to Tule; editorial; fire prevention week cont; cartoon.

Page 3: Hilla or Gila, Gila is still Gila to sleuth; urgent call sent for milkers; Wolter praises cooperation; third war loan drive in canal goes into full swing; OPA notes; cotton picking going well; first Gila group reaches Tule; vital statistics.

Page 4: Check and Pick; workers urgently needed for 170 jobs; first Nisei in Salerno cont; Nisei 'topflight' says Army leaders; Butte GR officers chosen; review postponed; classified ads; typing open.

Page 5: Sports.

Page 6: Coming-Going; registration; carnival slated; Gila holds a good fire record cont; Axis propagandists exploit U.S. racial discrimination; new books in Butte library; adult education.

Pages 7, 8: In Japanese.

Volume 3 #20: Oct. 7, 1943

Page 1: Councils create board to coordinate activities; housing mass movement held; booming business done by co-op; 18,000 squeezed into Tule Lake; sugar beet toppers sought.

Provo violence.

Page 2: Gila has its necessary casualty list; editorial; cartoon.

Page 3: Rubbish piles condemned; last Tule group leaves; initial meet of Canal PTA set; carnivals offers games, food, fun; welfare irons personal woes; 'Son of Fury' showing next week; Rivers Scouts plan jamboree; Tule baggage checked, sent.

Page 4: Hail and Farewell; twenty children bid adieu with mouths wide open; Tule described by Goodman; Lawson on leave in Los Angeles; shoeless soldier swings neatly; Journal Club to meet; Slate heads canal Cub Scouts; store to miss fruit this week; vital statistics.

Page 5: More needed at hospital; drive for 70,000 WAC volunteers opens; visual program inaugurated; 10 minute fire costs $50; check stoves warns Mauser; new books; classifieds; culprits found guilty of charges.

Page 6: Sports.

Pages 7, 8: In Japanese.



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