Poston Press Bulletin Volume 5 #6-10

Bulletin #6, Oct. 13, 1942

Page 1: Soda water contaminated; WRA to help evacuees in property problems; tofu equipment arrives.

Page 2: Joint staff party is a success; property problems cont.; unsigned ballots to be rejected; labor plans cont.; sports.

Page 3: Poston I; Nursery dept. makes report; 5 Aces Club elects cabinet members; birth notice; what's buzzin for today; engagement; outfit for the policemen; letter.

Page 4: Poston II: Small pox inoculation; library news; office workers meeting; mothers turn down kitchen 210 proposal to feed children; block party at 209; name it; singspiration; block 213 honors championship girls' softball team.

Page 5: Poston III: Baseball grounds on temporary basis; industry employs part-time workers; functions of employment office explained; training course required; Junior Girls club meeting; officers installed by Morgans; Girls' meeting scheduled; medical clinic; notice.

Page 6: Sports.

Page 7: The case of revenging two; editorial.

Page 1: Chance for year-round employment in Arizona; soldiers of Japanese ancestry may visit in Poston; new WRA policy offers residents greater possibilities for economic self-support; voters urged to apply for absentee ballots.

Page 2: Editorial; food for victory.

Page 3: Coronation ball bids on sale; civic leaders meet in unit 2; radio tubes, aerial wires; reading lamps confiscated by Army P.O. inspectors; jobs cont.; industrial enterprise cont.

Page 4: Issei advisors on 10 committees; what's buzzin for today; luau to be held; Starlight Symphony this Thursday; chapels get more chairs; block 6 ironing room used for rubber experimenting laboratory.

Page 5: 'Outside' workers for harvest report favorable conditions; Red Cross classes planned; blue coats for adobe workers; music students please report.

Page 6: 130 mothers volunteer at PTA meeting; fire dept. states strict regulations; 22 new best sellers on shelves at library; back-to-school singspiration; girl leaders needed; Christian church news; block 328 girls hold election; movie.

Page 7: Sports.

Page 8: Coronation ball tickets on sale; evacuees permitted to eat in personal kitchens; coolers on display; 'I Cover the Waterfront' movie; employment office rings last call for beet workers; two hundred blankets arrive today; no inter-unit change of address; Nisei faculty member resigns to attend college in Pennsylvania.

Page 9: Queen contest and County Fair news.

Page 10: Ad.

Bulletin #8, Oct. 15, 1942

Page 1: Construction firm reports loss of lumber; representatives take cotton-field tour; paychecks arrive in Poston III; unexpected visitors inspect press; county fair issue.

Page 2: Sports; ticket booths to be set up at county fair; unit 2 express office head.

Page 3: Barrack room conga; editorial; re: recreation department.

Page 4: Plot turns into onion patch; what's buzzin' for today; agri. exhibitors attention; 3-act comedy soon to be at drama guild; Western Sugar Co. rep. speaks on beet works project; knitting and crocheting clinic.

Page 5: Poston 2 ag. dept. preparing for exhibit at county fair; an open letter; circulating library section installed by the novel hut; police warning; singspiration features entertainment program.

Page 6: Fire regulations clarified; Queen candidate fete; pride of 318; additional nominations made at YBA night; beet workers to meet; notice; girls meeting postponed; election today; wanted; Jr. Girls meeting.

Page 7: Sports.

Page 8: Queen contest.

Page 9: Extra: Poston fair to be held as scheduled despite change in fairground site; coronation balls tonight in 3 units.

Bulletin #9 is Missing

Bulletin #10, Oct. 16, 1942

Page 1: Coronation ball set for tonight in 3 units; packaged electrical appliances, radio goods released by Army officials; Poston employment dept. offers various types of outside work; trucks for fair visit available.

Page 2: Editorials; industry contributes to Poston county fair.

Page 3: Unit 2 residents county fair exhibits assured safe return; movie projector, books, games, magazines received; industry contributes cont.; industrial enterprises to be discussed in Unit 2; express offices in units II, III; trucks available cont.; service & managerial group to meet today; new leveling plan for Poston III undertaken.

Page 4: Elaborate exhibit by art dept.; what's buzzin' for today; all packages at express office for new Army inspection; girls' club changes name; shoe repair shop; funeral services; sad is the case; entertainment at fair; chief of consumer enterprise here to inspect centers; brief beats; show for teachers postponed.

Page 5: YBA elects temporary board; get your tickets ready; harvest ball planned by Tri-S; county fair talent preview canceled for Poston 2; junior singspiration; teaching vacancies open in St. Mary's School, So. Dakota; block secretaries hold meeting.

Page 6: Gala coronation ball slated; site for Poston III school considered; at last-a stove; new boys' club meet; Schick tests to be given today; lost & found; meeting; Girl Scouts meet.

Page 7: Sports.

Page 8: Sports; leveling plan cont.; luau postponed.

The issue then goes into a special section for the county fair.

Page 9

Page 10: Fair log; poem.

Page 11: The chairman speaks.

Page 12: Messages.

Page 13: Messages.

Page 14: The Program.

Page 15: Poston agrarians; Poston project.

Page 16: Vegetable crown for consumption; calvacade of tools in equipment dept.; egg a day per person is goal.

Page 17: Fish culture encouraged; agr. dept. makes report on project; bee & honey; subjugation.

Page 18: Bacon, ham, pork in swine project; seed division works in research; fish farm cont.; poultry exhibit.

Page 19: These men help to build community: architects, painters, carpenters.

Page 20: Manufacturing possibilities seen; noddle news; mud facts; Pressman outlines health program; slippers on the sand.

Page 21: Zubo zigns have colorful trade names; Mickey Mouse here, Minnie is missing; time is spent profitable at knitting clinic; Buddhists list 425 members.

Page 22: Nursery perks up landscape; artists consider post-war needs; grounds beautified.

Page 23: Sumo has grip-hold on Poston residents; boxing match at fair.

Page 24: Ball clubs are a big attraction; self-defense school boasts 410 students; major & minor sports on tab.

Page 25: 500 learn 'goh'; life guards man pools; Postonotes.

Page 26: Ad.

Page 27: Center's government formed; it's historical facts; Poston 2 & 3; law department contributes to the county fair.

Page 28: Members of legal committee announced; aid clinics give evacuees law advice; our project attorney.

Page 29: Synthetic rubber sought; 'aggies' on parade; things practical for everyone.

Page 30: Ad.



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