Tule Lake Information Bulletin #6-9
#6, June 4, 1942
Page 1: More mess halls have opened; farm work will begin soon; message from the project director; notice asking colonists to stay away from construction areas; a scrap wood pile has been set up; the camp's water comes from four wells; recreational, newspaper, and band participants are needed.
Page 2: An equipment room has been started; wardens are available all day; an article on the community store; there are two taxis available.
Page 3: A list of people on the paper's staff; Exchanges, an article on news from other camps, which takes up the rest of the page.
#7, June 6, 1942
Page 1: Inoculations are under way; there will be a dance that night; a message from the acting project director; adult classes will be started; a movie was shown; formula bottles need to be returned after use; a thanks to those who decorated the mess hall for the dance.
Page 2: A list of the paper's staff; a welcome from the paper's staff; news from other camps; a sort-of editorial.
Page 3: Block managers have been chosen; classes in woodwork will start; recreation notes; hospital regulations.
Page 4: Sports programs are planned; books have been donated to the library; an article on the head of the hospital; various music classes will be held; an article on the camp's post office.
#8, June 9, 1942
A different masthead.
Page 1: 1962 is the current population of the camp; note from the acting project director; hospital layout is explained; housing superintendent hours are given; dance practice; people needed to teach dance; recreational notices are on a bulletin board.
Page 2: The paper's staff; letter's to the editor will be accepted; events going on at other camps; personal article on one of the residents; cartoon and hours of the Bank Day; humorous definitions.
Page 3: Power tools will be used in classes; an article on Rohwer; more colonists are due; a cartoon.
Page 4: A request to eat in one's own block; nursery schools; dance practice; classes in knitting and crocheting; there were some minor fires in a kitchen, but no real damage was done; an article on Saturday's dance, and a note on bank hours.
#9, June 11, 1942
Page 1: Home-made furniture to be exhibited; plans for local government to be discussed; message from the acting project director; article on person running the magazine and periodical department.
Page 2: A contest for renaming the newsletter; new block managers; list of bulletin staff; a cartoon, plus the below.
Page 3: An article about the paper's reporters; information from other camps; a letter; an article about wood delivery.
Page 4: Article on the maintenance department; one on lost articles; the fire chief has left to go to another camp; 82 attend class on woodwork; 4-H club; article on the Tule Lake sawmill.
Page 5: Articles on the dining hall food quota; hospital visiting hours; nursery school hours; article on students pursuing education outside the camp; new doctors have arrived; calendar of events; all events have been canceled for that night so all adults can go to the meeting noted on page 1.
Page 6: Sports page with articles on regulation of equipment use; need for volunteer supervisors; men's and women's baseball; volleyball; ping-pong, and a cartoon.
#9, June 11, 1942
The reason this is also #9 is that it's an Extra bulletin.
The next issue that I have starts volume 2, so the above is probably the last issue in the first volume set.
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