Minidoka Irrigator: Volume 2 #11-15

Volume 2 #11: Feb. 6, 1943

Page 1: WRA registration ordered here; meetings set to inform public on induction plan; ex-Bainbridge residents coming here; start tin can conservation.

Page 2: 102 students released since September; heartbeat search reaches torrid pace; Bitterbrush exhibit set; another addition to teaching staff; four sectional dances tonight; 30 granted clearances.

Page 3: Relocation success depends on evacuees; opportunity assured all, to loyal Nisei and Issei alike; visitors; time's test on loyalty.

Page 4: Plan campaign to form volunteer fire crews; volunteer crew captain's duties; Sunday church program.

Interesting article.

Page 5: Letters to the editor; Co-op significance pointed out.

Page 6 (which, for some reason, is numbered page 8): Advantages of joining co-op given; Hunt to join in observance of national Scout week; Drama club note; G.R. postpone Tolo dance; funeral; outside jobs; co-op financial statement.

Page 7: Feminidoka column; pick winner in dining hall contest soon; induction meetings continues from page 1; Webster college makes $250 scholarship offer; ad for Saboteur movie.

Pages 8-10: In Japanese, with English article titles.

Volume 2 #12: Feb. 8, 1943

Page 1: Procedure given for registration.

Very interesting article.

Page 2 is entirely taken up by the article.

Page 3.

Page 4 is in Japanese.

Volume 2 #13: Feb. 10, 1943

Page 1: Co-op meet to draw Essene to Salt Lake; outside employment aids organized for evacuees; D.H. 30 places first in cleanliness race.

The evacuees cannot return to the Military Zone 1. They are not allowed to go back to their own homes, yet they were just, a day previously, expected to support the idea of their own sons going off to fight, and possibly die, in the war effort wile the family remains in the camps, prisoners behind barbed wire.

Page 2: More workers get December checks; weekly programs for hospitalized.

The stuff with Arnold continues.

Page 3: Section sweethearts picked for judging; sweethearts to appear at balls; section winners place on court; holder of M.O. receipt called; $3437 in co-op drive; block 36 pages co-op drive; lost & found.

Page 4: Routing of mail for internees explained; placement office issues call for survey forms; more granted clearances; stamp club meeting; court of honor to bring close to Scout week; record concert.

All sorts of interesting articles in this series.

Page 5: Nisei farm arid locale in war effort; engineer post vacated; blocks organize; residence unaffected; a marriage; list of visitors.

vThe kind of thinking of some politicians of the time.

Page 6: Jobs article from page 1 continued; adult education spurred as new classes form; seek those with interest in piano; classes in art, cartooning; item lost.

Arnold material continues.

Pages 7-9: In Japanese.

Page 10: Cartoon.

Volume 2 #14: Feb. 13, 1943

Page 1: Jerome session to moot ration problems here; future draft dependent on volunteer program success (few volunteers=no draft); January paychecks due here next week.

An editorial.

Page 2: Nisei places in government jobs, WRA announces; editorial; final army talks combined; sugar company rep. leaves today, will return; plan Glee Club; 5000 in Poston, Gila eligible for army; shortwave radios still banned, internal security warns residents.

Nisei girl beaten.

Page 3: Article on a bank; leaves granted more colonists; student relocation council reveals four more releases; geography class enrollment now; co-op receipts to be exchanged; record concert; list of visitors; piano, violin lessons to be taught.

Teaching of Japanese is not allowed. I can understand how people at the time had questions about volunteering. There's all this pressure to get the Nisei to volunteer, yet they can't move back to their homes, they can have short-wave radios, and they can't learn their own language, all this plus their living in barbed-wire camps. Why volunteer to fight for someone who has taken away your rights and treats you pretty much like dirt.

Page 4: 1661 eligible to volunteer; mass choir sings before huge crowed in Twin Falls; Jr. safety patrol proudly displays new equipment; Serviceer's Club; fox terrier lost; YWCA leader to visit; ad for First Love movie.

Hood River's up to no good.

Page 5: Minidoka sweetheart chosen (several articles).

Page 6: Prepsters pick Hunt High School as official name; JACL secretary and another man volunteer; three births; Sunday church schedule; more on the Sweetheart from page 5.

Violence at Poston.

Page 7: 36 families may move in next week; Nisei living outside WRA centers may volunteer; report officer here from Washington; student council office in Frisco closing; special Buddhist rites scheduled; person leaves to teach elsewhere; girls' reserve tolo dance rescheduled; each block now has flush toilets.

Pages 8-10: In Japanese.

Volume 2 #15: Feb. 17, 1943

Page 1: Stafford (project director) voices confidence; 3 brothers volunteer for service; 2466 interviewed so far, questionnaire clarified; no charge for subsistence; ration book unavailable; steward named.

Page 2: Evacuees sought for farm work; editorial: Our Two Immortals; goodbye Mr. Mimeo; brothers article continues from page 1; move to accept Nisei lauded.

Page 3: Evacuee role in saving of beet crop cited in booklet; call for 1500 answered by 7425 volunteers (in Hawaii); 128 granted indefinite leave here; residents advised to trade receipts for green stamps; another added to nursing staff; unclaimed mail; visitors; marriage.

Page 4: Talent revue contest; Brevities column.

More anti-Japanese material.

Page 5: Block 36 best co-op booster; Heart-Beats wow crowd; 225 witness awarding of merits at Scout meet; scoutmasters train all through week; sing top tunes at rec. 34; Tule classes make 440 service flags; 1 pairs of optics awaits owner.

Page 6: National YWCA leader coming; sports article; four more released to resume studies in outside schools; Green assumes engineer post; two births; outside job offers.

Page 7: Registrants required to carry their draft cards; more outside job offers listed; attorney's office offers aid; Sunday church services schedule.

Page 8: Hunt is Hunt; ratio books illegal here; Hawaii applicants top 1500 quota for combat team; ad for A Little Bit of Heaven movie.

Page 9: Cartoon.

Pages 10 through 12: In Japanese.



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