Minidoka Irrigator: Vol. 4 #16-20

Volume 4 #16: June 10, 1944

Page 1: 108 men report June 21 for induction; 47 Hunt men receive June draft calls; senior high honor roll lists 63 graduates; big summer project set; farm report made for May; family interview survey schedule; alien registration office to arrive; refund checks being prepared; four student commencement speakers voice hope for a brighter future; leave regulations effective June 1; fifteen to arrive from Jerome; Urakawa named executive secretary; statistician resigns; postal savings may be opened here; Myer backs return of evacuees to West Coast; to the '44 graduates.

Very interesting.

Page 2: Editorials; United Nations facts; all Nisei entitled to fair judgment based on facts; St. Louis paper asks for fair treatment of Nisei; job summary issued for older evacuees; yank corporal suggests those anti-Nisei change places with 100th battalion; last year about this time; vital statistics.

Page 3: Feminidoka; The Ten Thousand; Evacu-ways; weddings and engagements; six to attend GR conference; Girl Scout leaders asked to submit names for frolic; Kennedy spikes rumors on Chicago saturation; more relocation opportunities; church social set; booklet contains information for Cleveland settlers.

Page 4: Sports; church schedule.

Volume 4 #17: June 17, 1944

Page 1: Induction ceremonies slated here; ASTRP now open to Nisei candidates; council sets up hospital benefit fund; rules to visit other centers released; travelers aid service; New York district relocation office expands; post office gives dates on overseas Christmas mailings; camp high schools graduate 2000 seniors in 1944; new short term leave regulations; new gate procedure now put into effect; Akiyama receives word from counsel on visit; Topaz soldier's family returns to San Francisco; job opportunities in East plentiful; rain decreases irrigation need; hospital area, gate, benefit from hot bed; WRA to operate European refugee camp in New York; work training courses offered to all residents; committee chosen for appointed staff activities; family interview schedule listed.

Page 2: Editorials; United Nations facts; Random Whirlgig; The Readers' Rostrum; sgt. praises JA soldiers as one of best; WRA will continue efforts to obtain recognition of citizens rights; sgt. writes on fertile, sticky, beautiful Florida; Sprague likens prejudice acts to tragedy of Lidice; last year about this time.

Page 3: Feminidoka; Evacu-ways; weddings and engagments; songfest; Jerome service mothers receive star lapel pin; July fourth merry-making mapped out; student teachers hear Elmer Smith; C.A. clearance needed for picnickers; G.R. delegates leave for parlay.

Page 4: Sports; church schedule.

Volume 4 #18: June 24, 1944

Page 1: Farm program for 1944-45 set; 66 sworn in to service; treasurer of hospital fund; quarterly census set; Gen. Emmons transferred; many jobs available for 'over 40's' in Chicago; evacuee land owners warned of campaign; labor shortage hinders gym work; West of the Cascades; worker must report injury; seven inductees go to Camp Savage; training courses open to adults.

Page 2: Editorials; Evac-ways; minority groups make contributions to communities in which they live; Nisei 'GI' in Britain writes of impressions; WRA expert appointed in mid-Atlantic area; 2 wounded Nisei guests of LA club; 'Nisei speak' in summer issue of Common Ground; 'Nebraskan' criticizes L.C. Douglas; vital statistics; Cascades cont.; pvt. writes from Italy.

Page 3: Feminidoka; weddings and engagements; co-op president elected; evacuees may obtain pamphlets on wartime civilian living at library; Central College open to Nisei; church delegates leave for parlay; The Ten Thousand; 5 new additions to ad personnel; library takes inventory; 2 represent Hunt at Jackson Hole.

Page 4: Sports; church activities.

Volume 4 #19: July 1, 1944

Page 1: Army induction set for July 19; gala fourth program announced; four freedoms of 1776 still the same today; 30 draftees go to Shelby; 631 Hunt men now serving in Army; Calif. group backs return; Beeson appointed to new position; three internees released; 22,000 evacuees now relocated from centers; Catholic chapel suffers $193 damage in fire; engineering dept. suffers labor shortage; Nisei soldiers visit center; property must be removed from L.A.; fire dept. requests aid of residents; 7 draft evaders taken to Boise.

Heart Mountain men sent to prison.

Page 2: Editorials; Pipe Dreamin'; Milwaukee Journal takes stand on loyal Japanese; relocation possibilities in New England; relocatees settle in many parts of U.S., Idaho leads; last year about this time; Penn U reverses decision on Nisei enrollment there.

Page 3: Evacu-ways; weddings and engagements; improvements now being made on wild life preserve; The Ten Thousand; preparation for Scout camps made; clarification to currency to Crystal City made; relocation opportunities; USO works under many handicaps; current jobs, housing status in mid-Atlantic states good; ASTP candidates waiting Army call.

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Nisei attacked.

Page 4: Sports; church services.

Number 20 is missing.



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