Tulean Dispatch Volume 2 #1-5

#1, June 15, 1942

The new name and the new masthead.

Page 1:The paper's staff had trouble with the mimeograph machine and the issue is a little bit late.; homemade furniture is on display; 9 councilmen have been elected; the name Tulean Dispatch came from the paper's naming contest; Tule Lake will be spelled as two words; keep away from all construction areas; the Regional Director for the Pacific Coast Relocation Authority Project is visiting.

Page 2: Some Mid-Western universities are willing to accept students from the camp; baseball results; change-of-address cards for aliens need to be filled out; this includes ones for draft boards.

#2, June 18, 1942

Page 1: A new project director has arrived; farm laborers are needed; results of the homemade furniture contest; a meeting of the block delegates.

Page 2: An odd housing mystery with a cartoon; a letter; listing of paper's staff; Boy Scouts will organize; list of events.

Page 3: Letters to the editor; what to do if you're bitten by a snake; a superintendent of schools for the camp has been appointed; there are 55 children in the nursery school.

Page 4: Sports articles on sumo, judo, wrestling, baseball, tennis and boxing, and a schedule of games.

Extra, June 19, 1942

There was a desperate need for farm workers. The people in the various camps make a major contribution to the war effort in their work on harvesting crops, ranging from cotton, beans, sugar beets, and onward. In many cases they were able to make more money then they would have in the camp.

#3, June 20, 1942

Page 1: A note from the project director; a recreational meeting; article on head of block managers; legal aid service, and a dance.

Page 2: Editorial, a welcome to new arrivals; plans for self-government were formulated at a meeting the previous night; listing of paper staff; schedule of activities.

Page 3: Articles on a quilting class; a dance band; another canteen will open; location of firemen's barracks and a nursery.

Notice that people are needed to plant potatoes.

Page 4: Landscape gardening is under way; a survey is being taken of recreational equipment; classes in stenography, office machines and sewing, and English classes will open; schedule for Sunday services and breakfast.

Page 5: Recreation page with articles on baseball and tennis, and a schedule of games.

Page 6: A page of cartoons.

#4, June 24, 1942

Page 1: A new post office has been created in the camp; 4200 people have arrived from the Sacramento Assembly Center; article on the Work Corps and on Wages, plus an article denying a rumor that everyone will be moved inland with a couple of months.

Page 2: The work article from page 1 continues; article on clinics; listing of paper's staff; activities schedule.

Page 3: Ward representatives will be elected; a special diet kitchen might be set up; the project director has left for another position; a man was charged $20 for refusing to work; the wages and job articles from page 1 continue; colonists need to use as little water as possible.

Page 4: 2000 acres will be raised; aliens and draftees must register; 4-H club meetings are held.

Page 5: Recreation body is formed; list of lost objects; a meeting was held for women interested in the Red Cross; the library got some more books; a furniture factory is going to be built.

Page 6: The Recreation page with articles on baseball, sumo, vaudeville, and a schedule of games.

#5, June 27, 1942

Page 1: A report on the community store; 300 are expected to register for the draft; students can go elsewhere to colleges; screens and lumber are being stolen from building contractors.

Page 2: Two editorials, a listing of the paper's staff, and a schedule of activities.

Page 3: Block heads to cooperate; police force on 24-hr. duty; policy set for recreation; 11 more block managers have been selected; a warden caught three women trying to take lumber.

Page 4: A town forum will be organized; Buddhists will start having services; two more doctors have arrived; a shoe repair shop will open; sociologists will study the colony; return any baggage that is not your own; schedule of church services, and a lost & found column.

Page 5: Firemen are well organized; bonds purchased at the bank; Senryu and hokku have been organized; mixer leaders for tonight; a help wanted notice; a new farm head has been chosen; a sympathy thank-you; plans for softening water are in place; a club might start for students who had attended the University of California.

Page 6: Sanitation issues will determine if there will be a pool or not; articles on baseball, golf, sumo and tennis.



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