Volume 1 #6: Oct. 2 1942

Page 1: Men are needed for vital jobs, including 75 needed for maintenance, 25 for construction, and 90 for coal loading. 7 people will be picked to formulate plans for a self-government program. There's an announcement that each issue will now include a page in Japanese, consisting of announcements, for the Issei. Cold weather will probably start late in December. There's a warning not to bring back animals from the sagebrush that have been killed due to the danger of contracting tularemia.

Page 2: The paper's staff is listed. There's an editorial about 21 students being released for study elsewhere. The article from page 1 about choosing representatives to discuss a self-government is continued from page 1. School opening will be delayed. The jobs article from page 1 is continued.

Rumors can work both ways. Apparently a rumor hit Minidoka that Congress was going to take away the citizenship status of the Nisei.

Page 3: Five more students got releases to attend colleges elsewhere. A labor board selection has begun. There might be a bus line within the community. One birth, two deaths, and last rites. Inventory of cots and blankets begins; article on some visitors; clothing allowance plan is ready; some kind of forms are ready to fill out although I can't exactly figure out what they are from the contents of the article.

Page 4: A watch repair shop has opened; a laundry is now in operation; a speaker for a Protestant service; more fire wardens are needed; the head of the post office has been selected; barracks are being 'winterized'; a couple of people from Seattle got married at Tule Lake; list of community activities.

Apparently an entire block had an outbreak of food poisoning.

Page 5: Article on recreation at the center; the College of Idaho has offered to play football with the camp's team; a jail will be included in a new police headquarters; some horses are being obtained for a messenger service; fire prevention week.

The origin of the name Amache.

Page 6: There are offers for twelve domestic workers in Twin Falls. There are jobs for colonists in picking and packing apples at an orchard. Portland workers were paid.

The Japanese section.

Volume 1 #7: Oct. 7 1942

Page 1: Dillon Myer will be visiting the camp; three point program for labor cited; the planning board has been picked; two voted in labor board; ten people have left the camp for domestic jobs.

Page 2: A list of the paper's staff; 13 more students got permission to leave for other schools; a garage has moved into the project area; the canteen is doing very well; family transfer forms are ready.

A very interesting article about the Issei and the Nisei (which terms are never capitalized in the paper for some reason), and the Nisei not taking enough of a role in camp politics.

Page 3: 75 teachers held a meeting on the needs of the colony; co-op directors are in the process of being chosen; the manager of the census office has quit to take a job elsewhere; the mail order department moved; an article from those who are picking onions.

Page 4: The Seattle Progressive Citizen's League is going to hold a meeting; a report from the teacher's meeting; continuation of article on page 1 about board members being elected; sort of an ad from someone in Indiana who wants a couple to work on his farm; there's been one death; a boy scout meeting was held; continuation of article from page 1 on the labor program; continuation of article about dining hall workers from page 1.

Page 5: Articles on football; the hospital got 300 radiators; rye will be planted to help hold down the dust; special clinic hours set; co-op dry goods store has opened; center shift rules told, continuation of article from page 2.

A raid on a gambling hall.

A major problem with the flu.

Page 6: The promised page in Japanese, along with a listing of the articles in English.

Volume 1 #8: Oct. 10, 1942

Page 1: City planners will meet with Myer; conference will open on farm self-subsistence; a doctor has left to help the Jerome and Rohwer camps; five more students left for other schools; September pay is delayed; fire force seeks women as wardens; the camp needs 125 tons of coal each day.

Page 2: A listing of the paper's staff; a new column called Exchange which will be news from other camps; plan for fire prevention; plan for education.

An editorial.

Page 3: High school counseling to start; girls are taking some jobs normally done only by men; a co-op meeting is postponed; church notices and an article about a funeral; agricultural workers picked delegates; the Seattle JACL has donated $100 to the recreational department; a YWCA Fellowship Tea will be held at the camp; there has been one birth and one death.

This issue only had three pages.

Volume 1 #9: Oct. 14, 1942

Page 1: Myer's visit has been delayed; an article on job offers from other states, and how many people have left camp for various jobs; the first movies will be shown during the week; the WRA has sent people to Utah to find out why there is a delay in coal shipments to the camp.

Page 2: The paper's staff is listed; the Exchange column; co-op delegates will meet; bon odori planning is underway.

An important editorial showing that things are not as sunny as usually reported in present-day works as far as the off-camp agricultural work program went.

Page 3: The camp will have a Japanese library; the September paychecks came in; school tots must take clinic exams; grade schools open the following Monday; a Youth Fellowship Forum will be held; a marriage; a speed limit has been set; the fire sprinkler system at the hospital should be read in four days; a potato cellar will be constructed; there have been two births.

Page 4: Article on a student going elsewhere to school; Utah citizens have approved off-camp workers; an article on basketball; continuation of article from page 1 about other states needing workers; voters are urged to get petitions; a Shibai show is being planned; block 32 was moved to make way for schools.

Page 5: Public works gets two on labor board; the hospital gets steam; articles on football; the head of the canteen has been named; an assistant chief of police has arrived.

Page 6: The Japanese page with the English listing of articles.

Volume 1 #10: Oct. 17, 1942

Page 1: A new planning body to air co-op laws; report on Myer's speech about people being allowed to leave the center and relocate under certain conditions; several record concerts are set; nine women joined the fire brigade; the movie Citizen Kane will be shown.

Page 2: A list of the paper's staff; the hospital kitchen feeds 200 people daily; Nisei soldiers can visit the camp; a steady supply of coal is seen; there will be a marathon race on the Halloween festival; counters for the dry-goods store are ready; folk dancers plan a workshop.

Page 3: Block 23 is being moved; two elementary schools will open Monday; a WRA officer has left to get needed supplies; church notice; the census continues; a total of 44 students have left for other schools.

Something good is being done for people leaving camp to work at picking crops.

Page 4: The Japanese page with the English listing of topics.

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