Manazanar Free Press, Volume 3 #61-65

Volume 3 #61: July 31, 1943

Page 1: Population decrease; Ondo rehearsals; Tule Lake will be segregation location; collect rumors at registration; three important points clarified; Myer's message on segregation; Merritt States peace committee will dissolve; evacuees's warned about explosives; Savage interview scheduled Monday; Helen Ely back from vacation.

Page 2: Return visit by Holland expected; letters from the public; editorials; report increase of farm wage rates; meet Manzanar's 'first lady;' fiscal receives clothing checks; Myer's message cont; associate counselor announced.

Page 3: Gates-let's relocate; wind destroys farm products; Shooting the Breeze; Around the Blocks; railroad company to recruit workers; Fem-n-on; farmer with son wanted on farm; former Manzanite claims Omaha okay; Facism topic of Opler's next talk; hospitality group formed in Boston; parcel posts; vital statistics.

Page 4: Sports.

Volume 3 #62: Aug. 4, 1943

Page 1: Tentative plans for segregation revealed; new income tax ruling; Japanese concert acclaimed success; start picking of local cantaloupes; manufacturing of tofu commences; Best named new director of Tule Lake; release list of prohibited items; Odori practice; employment division gives June figures; Brown involved in train crash; duplex picnic passes printed; insurance policies change announced; priority ratings.

Page 2: Colorado counties closed to resettlers; former assistant coach at Shelby; baton twirling; legal aid renders numerous services; editorial; segregation cont; principal at Lone Pine High; newspaper devotes page to Japanese; YMCA fetes Nerrie; Savage recruiting; found; pickled turnips; talents revealed at Knight's show; plan to recruit 500 Nisei WACs.

Page 3: Letters from the public; Tule Lake description given in 'Irrigator;' From Other Centers; train meal prices stabilized by OPA; students accepted in beauty schools; comparison of Germany, Japan given by Grew; Marry M. Young; Manzanar receives new entrance sign.

Page 4: Sports.

Volume 3 #63: Aug. 7, 1943

Page 1: Hospital staff augmented as doctor arrives; call to colors answered; residents taste home-made tofu; project director given authority to impose fines; execution of forms urged of evacuees; Merritt speaks on segregation plans; new project attorney; 1,340 pupils in summer school; Bit o' News; movie menu for August released; Quincy college to enroll 50 Nisei.

Anti-Japanese law.

Page 2: Editorials; WRA policies given in Myer's broadcast; new formed cooperatives association reveals aims; travel exhibit; urge resettlement in rural districts; Chinese blood bank receives Nisei blood; Merritt speaks cont; introducing.

Page 3: Letters from the Public; Around the Blocks; Imoris represent typical Japanese family ancestry; Fem-n-on; Smith featured in events meeting; Nationals' exchange site agreed upon; shoe shop reports crowded shelves; movies attract 4000 fans weekly; Obon dance.

Page 4: Sports.

Volume 3 #64: Aug. 11, 1943

Page 1: Carter reveals school program for next year; leave dates for Tule Lake given; Odori highlights Obon festival; finger print course; thousand chicks slated to arrive; remind relocatees about draft boards; stage requisition; Minnesota post against Nisei deportation; our officials back from conference; July pay sheet lists 3200 names; editorial; pictorial edition reaches printer; temporary milk shortage revealed; seniors to re-vote on sample sweaters; no water worries reports surveyor; over-taxed hospital staff augmented; Yogore dance.

Five arrested.

Page 2: Mickey Finn does disappearing act; editorials; 32 judo students promoted in rank; YMCA leader's arrival expected; Yasuda back from ten-week's visit; local lad returns for brief vacation; enrollment limited in business classes; judo tournament pictures available; Barons receive Disney emblem; hike enjoyed by Boy Scout troop; introducing.

Page 3: Visual education to sponsor world science exhibit; Off the Cob; orchestra featured at Sunday concert; recreational classes has 1446 students; economies of farm life told in study; wedding; business club to form; arrivals; companions wanted; scenery paintings of Japan furnished.

Page 4: Sports.

Volume 3 #65: Aug. 14, 1943

Page 1: Yasuda to succeed Akiyama; Camp Shelby Nisei offers attend training schools; co-op delegates to be elected; 'taxation on installment plan' explained by finance officer; canteen negotiates for Japanese foods; distribute leaflets about segregation; Leupp director chosen; chem lecture; 'patience, me lads;' Opler to speak on race problems; legal aid; policy on clothing allowance altered; asahi shoes sold; PTA sponsors installment party.

Relocated family.

Page 2: Red Cross gives various activities; outside situation reveled by former town hall secretary; arrivals; manpower shortage hits motor pools; editorial; Y.P. fellowship; Bishop Reifsnider to arrive Sunday.

Page 3: Letters from the Public; Myer talks to club on leave plan; Columbus paper writes of Nisei; Fem-n'-on; vital statistics.

Page 4: Sports.




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