Manazanar Free Press, Volume 4 #1-5
Volume 4 #1: Sept. 10 1943
This is a special Pictorial edition. There are fairly numerous photographs, but it's not a photo-only issue.
First page.
Page 2: Difficult problems met by administrative staff; reports office; Manzanar steeped in legends now home of 8500; the spirit of Manzanar; fiscal department; legal services; memories of Manzanar.
Project Director Merritt.
Another photo.
Page 3: Range of light; what is Manzanar?; fourth estate; in appreciation; an idea is born; metamorphsis of Manzanar; evening in Manzanar.
Two more photos.
Page 4: Administrative officer is efficiency personified; telephone operator; garage mechanics; evacuee property; mail and files; records office; park regulations; transportation; employment; procurement; unsung hero.
Three more photos.
Page 5: Manzanar goes shopping; Marry M. Young; cooperative enterprises serve resident's needs; general store salegirls relate their daily woes.
Page 6: Manzanar's Government; work of managers requires patience; job of assistant manager tough!; town hall links administration with residents; night checkers; responsibilities of block managers heavy burden; town hall chairmen.
Page 7: Manzanar's Police, Firemen; Manzanar's four horsemen; police department; fire department.
Page 8: Manzanar at eating time. Camp food quality comparable to average standards; mess division controls feeding of 9,000 people; new year greeted by mochi-tsuki.
Page 9: Manzanar gets sick: idle gossip nucleus budded in ward room; fine health service rendered by small medical staff; dental clinic; hospital boiler; public health; hospital laundry.
Page 10: Manzanar's housing, welfare: Children's village; welfare groups invaluable; community management division co-ordinates.
Page 11: Manzanar at work: public works; industrial division attends to many tasks; farming; efficient cabinet shop.
Page 12: Manzanar goes to school: nursery schools teach cooperation; education set-up meets California requirements; Red Cross.
Page 13: Manzanar holds graduation exercises: graduation; graduates.
Page 14: Manzanar on Furlough: Sugar land lures news presshound; not all hard work for furlough in Idaho; biography of a Manzanar carrot; leisure time farmers grow for fun.
Page 15: Manzanar relocates: 33,000 miles traveled; relocation department.
Page 16: Manzanar day by day: Hanging my hat in Manzanar.
Page 17: Manzanar Day by Day: Dear Diary.
Page 18: Manzanar Goes to Church: Churches help keep up evacuee faith in wartime.
Page 19: Manzanar at Play: Community activities.
Page 20: Ads.
Volume 4 #2: Sept. 11 1943
Page 1: Instructions on segregation released here; sports; school opening date; junior college to resume; WFA clarifies new furlough contracts; special meeting of Congress; rumor quelled; Rev. Fujimori to conduct service; Merritt speaks at Y's mens' meeting.
Page 2: Membership administration needed; Opler to discuss current events; 'Japanese episode' features Superman; report stray dogs, cats to police; comin'-goin'; movie by adult education slated; Yamaguchi arrives to teach nursing; Alaska Neiseis join Shelby team; classified ads.
Page 3: Fifth Column; urges family basis resettlement; From Other Centers; Around the Blocks; victory dance held by Modernaires; second Caucasian baby born here; announce date for Buddhist election; vital statistics; lecture series.
Page 4: Sports.
Volume 4 #3: Sept. 15, 1943
Page 1: 1850 students enroll for fall semester this week; co-op to maintain buyers in New York; junior college registration starts; DeWitt relieved of West command; center invites Inyo residents to attend fair; handiwork displayed in visual exhibit; queen candidates chosen by blocks; 149 furlough workers slated for beet fields; Yamaghchi conducts home nursing class; 12 straps missing from extinguishers; production resumed; slated this week; student nurses needed; music lectures.
Page 2: Worth fighting for?; call to studies; On the Other Hand; start distribution of August checks; Purely Personal; receive new books for local libraries; junior college cont; furlough workers cont.
Page 3: Fem n On; assimilation of Nisei analyzed in WRA report; From Other Centers; Around the Blocks; 80 men wanted by concrete company; Barons hold dinner dance; local population dwindles to 8665; orderlies wanted; classified ads.
Page 4: Sports.
Volume 4 #4: Sept. 18, 1943
Page 1: Exhibits hi-lite camp fall fair; Manzanar products to be given away; priority rating; furlough workers leave Thursday; queen contest ends with finals tonight; special anthropology to replace events; 986 enroll in local secondary school; government's intention to speed relocation affirmed by F.D.R.; Scouts participate in flag ceremony; Maritime union has 200 Nisei seamen; Knights to sponsor movie tonight; rebate distribution to start; living costs not as high as persons led to believe.
Page 2: Welcome visitors; police record two disturbances; letters from the public; Purple Heart award given Nisei soldier; new budget voted by Red Cross unit; On the Other Hand; Misturine council holds election; furlough workers cont; fall fair cont; chefs to meet; August pay checks coming in steadily.
Tule Lake.
Page 3: Fifth Column; warrrant office junior grade at Shelby promoted; committee formed to assist evacuees; job opportunities in Toledo, Ohio; Nisei accepted by nursing corps eligible for U.S. cadet nurse corps; comin'-goin'; From Other Centers; relocation officer Clapp interviewed; local kendo club to conduct tournament; burger bake held; church services; births.
Page 4: Sports.
Volume 4 #5: Sept. 22, 1943
Page 1: Brown returns from Tulelake project; private enterprise elimination asked; attempted suicide by man disclosed; Inyo residents visit Manzanar fair; display products of local gardens; course expansion plan announced; manufacturing tells industrial progress; Manzanar queen title given Tani; scenery painted; junior college to open door Monday; farm division gives away food products; group coordinates internal security; clothings altered.
Gripsholm sails.
Page 2: Editorial; Free Press staff act as guides; letters from the public; two reverends in lecture; announce winners of garden contest; meet queenie; two fires reported here last month; comin'-goin'; vital statistics; not making excuses, but-.
Page 3: Purely Personal; under age 'buck' bids farewell to Shelby soldiers; weekly accomodations for five local residents in Chicago told; From Other Centers; dehydration plant begins operation; YBA president elected; Funsters elect; 150 pupils enroll in nursing class; local service flag numbers 272 stars.
Page 4: Sports.
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